Bitcointalk IPL Prediction Pool & Discussion

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

Out of 5 matches including today's one I have zero point. Did I focus on choosing the losing side instead of winners  🤣? Mumbai Indians are going to lose today (hopefully), will that open my diary? It's is obvious now that my encyclopedia of cricket is an empty hole LOL

I need tips from the guys who had 5 points. How do you do that?

[RapTarX]

  🤣? Mumbai Indians are going to lose today (hopefully), will that open my diary?

But but match isn’t finished yet. It seems MI is coming back into the match and it won't easier for KKR. MI still has chance to win the match.
Fun fact- Rohit is in bowling and he is injured before going for his first bowl.

[Vishnu.Reang]

LOL.. this is turning out to be such an exciting match. All of a sudden, Mumbai Indians came back with some quick wickets. But for heaven's sake please keep Trent Boult away from bowling now. On previous occasions, he had completely failed to bowl under such pressure situations. Jasprit Bumrah has one over remaining and Marco Jansen has two. These two should bowl the 19th and 20th overs. Even Kieron Pollard would be fine. But please keep Trent Boult at least 30 yards away from the bowling end.

[webtricks]

Wow! Finally we are having our first real IPL-flavored game. Samson's resistance against Punjab was commendable too but this is the type of game we watch IPL for! Bowler taking 5 wickets in just 12 deliveries but the opposition taking the game out when they just needed 31 of 30 balls with 6 wickets in hand! What just happened in Chennai, lol. My third wrong prediction in a row.

All teams have played at least a game and I still can't say if any team in particular is superior or inferior than the rest. IPL is easily the most entertaining league in the world with every team equally poised. Same can't be said for football leagues.

[JSRAW]

Hahaha Big lol

Don't know what to make out of this game. I lost all my hope after first 35 overs but boy o boy, they proved every one wrong in the last 5 overs.

Boult, Bumrah, Krunal are heroes for sure.

[RapTarX]

Hehe
MI won the match, 5 winning streak.
I didn’t bet today earlier because the odd was too low. I was able to get 2.86 for MI when KKR was in good position. It’s a huge gain at the end. Probably it’s my biggest odd in cricket lol.
Anyway, it was a very exciting match; had a great fun.

[AB de Royse777]

  🤣? Mumbai Indians are going to lose today (hopefully), will that open my diary?

But but match isn’t finished yet. It seems MI is coming back into the match and it won't easier for KKR. MI still has chance to win the match.
Fun fact- Rohit is in bowling and he is injured before going for his first bowl.

What a match! Outstanding performance from MI bowlers at the end. There are a lot to take for KKR team. This should be an easy one for them but Karthik and Rus made everything harder for KKR. Rus has two life but still he was too uneasy on the pitch. Every delivery was pushing him his limit. It seemed he had his hardest 15 balls an inning. Same with Karthik too. Both played 26 balls and was able to contribute only 17 runs! This does not add up.

At some point KKR needed 22 runs from only 18 balls. Easy target for any team, but KKR found a way to ruin everything for them. Hitman an his team is back.

On the pool three of us still with same point and leading the pool LOL. Also managed to get the margin point tonight was a miracle, we all are lucky who got comfortable win for MI :-D

[Vishnu.Reang]

LOL.. I take back my words. In the end, it was Boult who won the game for MI, in combination with Rahul Chahar and Krunal Pandya. I don't know what happened to Andre Russell. He completely failed with bat. If he had scored at least a run per ball, then Kolkata Knight Riders would have won the game. But he and Dinesh Karthik were just wasting balls towards the end. And also, Boult took an amazing catch (of his own bowling) to dismiss Russell. That was like the last nail in the coffin of KKR.

[Haunebu]

Bet on KKR and chose easy win and was pretty confident after seeing MI post an average target and KKR were off to a blistering start thanks to Rana and Gill. Turned off the TV thinking that the match was over.

Checked the score later and was shocked to see MI beat KKR by 10 freaking runs and KKR had 3 wickets remaining. I feel like Karthik and Russell need to retire after this season.

Krunal bowled like crap in the first match, but he bounced back in this one. KKR need to make some serious changes if they want to get their hands on the cup this year.

[JSRAW]

^^ I still don't know what happened there lol. Guess neutral venue concept turning out to be a good for IPL overall. This year team like Mumbai Indian also seems vulnerable in the Chennai and wicket there producing some fine low scoring thrillers and wankede high scorning games.

One bad news for Rajasthan Royals. Ben Stokes is ruled out from the tournament due to finger injury. He's still staying with the team tho.

[Swordsoffreedom]

One bad news for Rajasthan Royals. Ben Stokes is ruled out from the tournament due to finger injury. He's still staying with the team tho.

The Rajasthan Royals squad has fewer experienced bowlers. If Ben Stokes can't play in the upcoming matches then it is bad news for Rajasthan Royals. In the previous match, I saw that the Panjab team collected a huge run against RR. Although he did not bat well in the first match, but he is a great batsman in T20 format. If Ben Stokes is not in the squad, RR will have to face more problems to win the next matches.

[Vishnu.Reang]

^^ I still don't know what happened there lol. Guess neutral venue concept turning out to be a good for IPL overall. This year team like Mumbai Indian also seems vulnerable in the Chennai and wicket there producing some fine low scoring thrillers and wankede high scorning games.

One bad news for Rajasthan Royals. Ben Stokes is ruled out from the tournament due to finger injury. He's still staying with the team tho.

Stokes was one of the crucial members of the team and his absence will devastate their middle order (although in the match against Punjab he batted as an opener). Now there is a lot of pressure on the Rajasthan middle order, which includes players such as Shivam Dube, Riyan Parag and Rahul Tewatia. Only Sanju Samson and Jos Buttler have enough experience in the RR batting lineup. Also his absence will be felt in bowling as well.   

[AB de Royse777]

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[Vishnu.Reang]

Is Devdutt Padikkal available for todays match? If he is included in the Royal Challengers Bangalore playing XI, then definitely it is going to be a big boost for them. On the other hand, there are rumors that RCB will also include Adam Zampa and Kane Richardson. These two being overseas players, it will be interesting to see who will be dropped. One possibility is that Kyle Jamieson and Dan Christian will be dropped. But it is going to be harsh on Jamieson who bowled well during the last match (nabbed the wicket of Suryakumar Yadav). 

[Swordsoffreedom]

What do you guys think about today's matches? SRH won the toss and choose to bowl first. I bet on SRH's win today. I chose SRH because the SRH team seemed stable enough to me. They have some great batsmen like Warner, Pandya, Bairstow as well as great bowlers like Rashid Khan, Bhubaneswar Kumar. I think SRH will win.

[Vishnu.Reang]

OK.. Royal Challengers Bangalore made just one change. Devdutt Padikkal is in for Rajat Patidar. On the other hand SRH has still not included Kane Williamson. Makes me wonder whether David Warner is having a personal enmity with Williamson. They made two changes - Mohammed Nabi and Sandeep Sharma are dropped and Jason Holder and Shahbaz Nadeem included in their place. Not very happy with the SRH changes. They should have included Williamson. 

[JSRAW]

They seems to fill the all rounder quota in every game. So far Jason Holder turning out to be good pick, he already got important wicket of Virat.

SRH's main concern should be their batting order and i hope they utilize Holder and Samad carefully when chasing. No bets today so i don't mind last ball finish again.  
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And Rashid got the Big fish AB.

[BitcoinGirl.Club]

  🤣? Mumbai Indians are going to lose today (hopefully), will that open my diary?

But but match isn’t finished yet. It seems MI is coming back into the match and it won't easier for KKR. MI still has chance to win the match.
Fun fact- Rohit is in bowling and he is injured before going for his first bowl.

With Zero point from 5 matches I am leading the bottom side of the pool, if anyone wants to share this spot with me then I will kick your ass 🤣

@all, did you have guys like me before to have no points after 5 matches in a raw?

Seriously, I gave my best on choosing the team but how come I become too much wrong in every single match LOL. Someone should start taking advantage of my picks. You know who will win after seeing my picks 😉

[Vishnu.Reang]

They seems to fill the all rounder quota in every game. So far Jason Holder turning out to be good pick, he already got important wicket of Virat.

SRH's main concern should be their batting order and i hope they utilize Holder and Samad carefully when chasing. No bets today so i don't mind last ball finish again.  
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And Rashid got the Big fish AB.

Jason Holder was included in the place of Sandeep Sharma. That turned out to be a good move. And Shahbaz Nadeem (who came in for Mohammed Nabi) picked up the crucial wicket of Shahbaz Ahmed, so in a sense that change also worked. SRH should be pretty satisfied with their bowling effort. They kept RCB under 150. And once again, Rashid Khan conceded less than 5 runs per over. They looks very comfortable in the chase, with David Warner and Manish Pandey looking well set.

[JSRAW]

~snip~

They seems to fill the all rounder quota in every game. So far Jason Holder turning out to be good pick, he already got important wicket of Virat.

SRH's main concern should be their batting order and i hope they utilize Holder and Samad carefully when chasing. No bets today so i don't mind last ball finish again.  
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And Rashid got the Big fish AB.

Jason Holder was included in the place of Sandeep Sharma. That turned out to be a good move. And Shahbaz Nadeem (who came in for Mohammed Nabi) picked up the crucial wicket of Shahbaz Ahmed, so in a sense that change also worked. SRH should be pretty satisfied with their bowling effort. They kept RCB under 150. And once again, Rashid Khan conceded less than 5 runs per over. They looks very comfortable in the chase, with David Warner and Manish Pandey looking well set.

Rashid khan is beast. Batmen come and go but no one is able to decode him even likes of Kohli and Ab struggles against him.

Their bowlers always do excellent job in every season. Batters need to up their game as well considering chasing gets tough in the last 8-10 overs here in Chepuk, already saw 2-3 times.

So far so good.

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Lol
Guess its not easy to chase here in Chennai, even 150-160 looks winning total.