Topic: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion - page 714. (Read 224701 times)

The credit for yesterday victory goes to Jason Roy and the captain Nitish Rana, without there contribution KKR wont be able to give a target of 200 runs. Royal Challengers Bangalore are too much dependent on Kohli, Faf du Plessis and Maxwell. Yesterday Kohli was able to score a fifty buy Faf du Plessis and Maxwell didn't clicked. Still nothing much to worry about for RCB as they are very much up in points table.

Actually I want to talk a little differently, basically T20 format is dominated by fast bowling and hard hitting batsmen. Because T20 format requires great batting to score runs quickly and these batsmen need fast bowling to keep wickets falling. Then the t20 matches will accumulate.

Fancode always have 10-12 live matches ongoing in their platform. And this is one of the reasons why I decided to renew my subscription. However the video/audio quality is not top-notch. The quality is comparable to what you get in YouTube live streams. And the annual subscription fee comes to ₹699 per year (around $8), and it doesn't put a hole in your pocket. Today I enjoyed watching the Mizoram T20 League match between Gorkha Cricket Club and Ramhlun Venglai Cricket Club. A majority of Indians don't know where Mizoram is located, but I was satisfied with the quality of play. Quality of video was OK, and the commentatory was quite good.

Rinku Singh's performance in the first match was not good as he managed to score 4 runs off just 4 balls against Punjab Kings. In the second match of KKR, he scored 46 runs off 33 balls and won that match against Royal Challengers Bangalore. In KKR's third match, he scored an unbeaten 58 off 31 balls in which KKR won the match. On the other hand, the matches where Rinku Singh has done poorly most of the matches KKR lost. Judging from that perspective, Rinku Singh certainly deserves praise. But I will agree with you that N Jagadeesan is not doing comparatively well.

Rinku Sing gave a brilliant performance in one match to give Kolkata victory. But he is not able to play well consistently. Also I am very annoyed with Narayan Jagadeesan's performance. He was able to collect 27 runs in yesterday's match. Although it looked like a good enough collection, he scored 27 runs off 29 balls. His strike rate was less than 100. The Kolkata bowlers were able to bowl some controlled bowling in this match. That's why they won this match. If the bowlers did not perform well, Kolkata would have conceded their fifth defeat in a row.

Mistakenly came across the Deaf IPL league on FANCODE.

Unpopular opinion but have to say, to the popular belief that Deaf folks are a nice bunch is not true at all  . Kasam se just saw the bowler and company cursing (with sign language) the fielder when he misfielded. 

KKR is inconsistent because some of their main players are either injured or out of form. But they should be happy with the performance yesterday. Reaching a total of 200, and that too against a bowling attack that includes internationals such as Mohammed Siraj, David Willey, Harshal Patel and Wanindu Hasaranga is not very easy. But they were able to do that thanks to contributions from Jason Roy, Narayan Jagadeesan, Venkatesh Iyer, Nitish Rana and David Wiese. Rinku Singh didn't scored too many runs yesterday, but he has been their find for this season. 

If one of the player in the downline performs RCB could easily win matches. Among the four matches lost out of eight matches played three matches were close encounters. Against Chennai the match was almost over with the top order performance. Fortunately wickets fell and the rest wasn't able to win the game. Same is what happened with yesterday's match against KKR. Against LSG the match ended in the last ball chasing 212 runs. As said combined performance is required for now, if not this season to gonna be same as other season for RCB.

RCB are losing their way recently. They aren't able to win without a match-winning innings from Kohli or Faf or Maxwell which goes to show how bad the other batsmen are performing in their team.

KKR are inconsistent as usual. Roy is the primary reason why they won. Iyer's catch to dismiss Kohli was great too.

In the end the choice was made between David Wiese and Litton Das, and the former got selected because he is a T20 specialist and experience in playing around the world in different T20 leagues. And yesterday Wiese added some valuable runs towards the end. He made 12 runs from just 3 balls. However, he didn't got a chance to bowl, as Suyash Sharma and Varun Chakravarthy were terrific in their respective spells. Kolkata Knight Riders have 6 matches remaining in the group stage. I hope that Litton will get his chances.

A few words about Liton Das today. 

Liton Das has been given only one match chance in IPL so far. Kolkata Management fielded Litton in the playing XI for Delhi against Delhi Capitals. But in that match, Liton Das got out for just four runs. First of all this IPL is Liton Das' first IPL. The first IPL and the first match all together he was feeling a bit nervous.  After a poor first match, Liton Das deserved another chance. But as he did not perform well in the first match, he was not given a place in the eleven until now. 

After Liton Das did badly in the first match, David Wiese was brought in as his replacement in the next match but he failed completely in the first match. David Wiese would not have been fielded against RCB if the Kolkata management played the same role for Liton Das as it did for David Wiese. But the Calcutta management did not play Litton's role in David Wiese's case.

There may be some cricketing reasons behind it which I am going to highlight now. First of all, maybe Liton Das's performance against Md Siraj is not very good, that's why Liton Das was not included in the XI against RCB.

LITTON RECORD AGAINST SIRAJ

FORMAT      RUNS      BALLS    OUTS     DOTS   
TEST                30              39         2              27
ODI                   17              22         2              14


David Wiese's performance at BANGALORE Stadium is relatively good.

DAVID WIESE BOWLING RECORD
IN M. CHINNASWAMY STADIUM, BANGALORE

YEAR  INNINGS  OVERS  RUNS  ECON  WKT
2015        5               15         142     9.46      6
২০১৬       1                  4           49     12.25    0
TOTAL     6                16         191    11.93    6

Considering all this, Liton Das is not getting a chance in the XI. 

However, even if the management does not give importance to Liton Das on the field, the importance of Liton Das on social media is immense.  Most of the posts on social media focused on Lytton. And on that post, many Bangladeshi fans are commenting that Liton Das may have been recruited by Calcutta only to increase the social media reach. 
What is your opinion on this matter?

LOL.. that is the reason why these three are known as KGF (Kohli-Glenn-Faf) within Royal Challengers Bangalore. Those from India would understand what is KGF. Other players have been pathetic and it is partly due to poor selection as well. I don't understand the logic in sustaining Shahbaz Ahmed in the playing XI, when he can neither bowl nor bat. He bowled one over yesterday and conceded 25 runs. And when he came out to bat, he scored 2 runs from 5 balls. And this guy is being selected over promising players such as Karn Sharma, Sonu Yadav, Manoj Bhandage and Rajat Patidar.

In the ongoing season of IPL, the first three players Kohli, Maxwell and Du Plesis have contributed for the 79% of the scores. Rest players have made the remaining 21%, Important things the top three have made 12 half centuries and no half century have come from the rest of the players. The team have good batting line-up and bowling order, but they aren't performing well

The captain and the opener Virat Kohli scored 54 runs in this match but still he was unable to take Royal Challengers Bangalore over the winning line. Alone Virat Kohli could not chase this 200 runs target. Faf du Plessis and Glenn Maxwell failed to contribute in this match and they had to face the defeat against  Kolkata Knight Riders.
 
Seeing the points table Kolkata Knight Riders have 6 points while Royal Challengers Bangalore have 8 points and both teams have the chance to make it to the top 4 provided they do not lose many matches from here on.

This was a big talk, none of the bowlers were experienced. Another thing Dhoni used to take decisions that used to surprise the experienced ones, later come to understand what is his plan. The headline after the previous match win of CSK, Dhoni have created two bowlers for the Sri Lanka team.

Pathirana mentioned in his interview, how good Dhoni kept him motivating even when the match is at the extreme situation. Simple thing I found with Dhoni, he believes in a person and he makes him do as he believed. Other captains used to loss temper when things go away from reach whereas he finds the way to make it come closer.

KKR won by 21 runs by defeating RCB and the chances of KKR winning the tournament were alive. The Player of the Match is Varun Chakaravarthy by outstanding performance in which he took 3 key wickets while conceding only 27 runs. Jason Roy for his amazing fifty and Nitish Rana provided the foundation for KKR nnings with their crucial 57 and 48 run performance respectively. Although Virat Kohli 57 ball innings kept the RCB team  hopes alive the KKR bowlers were able to hold them to a score of 179 which ultimately proved to be insufficient. After 4 straight losses this victory will definitely increase KKR confidence and give them the much needed momentum they need to progress to the tournament next round

Virat Kohli is out finally and so is RCB from this match. Virat Kohli scored 57 runs and as long as he was on the crease RCB were in the game. Now RCB need 34 runs on last 6 balls. Mahipal Lomror scored 34 of 18 balls along with Karthik who scored 22 of 18 balls. With this win KKR chances of making to next round are still alive. For KKR it will be good to have a win after 4 straight loss.

RCB took 86 runs from 45. That is certainly going to be difficult for them. And with 2 new batters in the middle, it is going to be a lot harder for RCB to get a win. They have also lost 5 already. This does not look good for them at all. Finally, Kolkata is probably going to win the match. And guess who it is going to be against! This task is getting more and more impossible for RCB.

Virat Kohli is making the best contribution for the Royal Challenger Bangalore team in today's match. As an opening batsman, he is often on the way to half-centuries, but the rest of the batsmen have not performed very well. After performing well in the previous matches, Maxwell could not stand his ground in this match and considering other aspects, his team including Virat Kohli is often under wicket pressure. Currently, if this pair can survive, there is definitely a possibility of Kolkata Knight Riders winning. Kolkata Knight Riders must now attack with the spinner ball if they want to win from the bowling side.

The Afghanistan team was underestimated by Pakistan. Perhaps this was a series Pakistan management thought they would easily win. But Pakistan's performance against Afghanistan was terrible. And they were badly defeated. The team also failed to play well against New Zealand.
The only weakness of the Pakistan team in the last few years was their batting line-up. The performance of the batsmen was completely erratic. But now Pakistan's bowlers are also not performing well. This is why Pakistan could not win the series against New Zealand. Pakistan's performance is deteriorating day by day. On the other hand, teams like Bangladesh and Afghanistan are becoming stronger.