Re: Cricket match prediction discussions

Chennai has won their match against Rajasthan Royals by 64 runs. Chennai, batting first, scored 204 runs with Watson scoring a century. Once that was done, Rajasthan needed somebody to step to stay competitive. None of the batsmen except Stokes going, resulting in an easy victory for Chennai. The shifting of matches outside Chennai hasn't hurt CSK at all!

It was a great performance by Watson and i am seeing a performance from him after a long time, looks like the old stars are regaining form now, Yesterday Gayle stuck a century after a long time and now Watson, it looks like RR is lacking a batting super star in their line up who could take the match away from the opponent, i am not sure what their entire line up is, but looking now i think they lack a specialist like Watson or Gayle.

How these 37 and 38 year old players are performing so well in the IPL? A few days back it was Chris Gayle and now it is the turn of Shane Watson... In ODI or test cricket, these players would have been out of consideration for selection.

I was thinking the same thing, I think they perform so well even at this age is because playing in the IPL there isn't as much pressure as playing for your country so they can go out there and play their natural game where as playing for their country they might not be able to do that. Back in the day, players were retiring at these ages of 37 to 40 but now times have changed and players are retiring a lot earlier. So even at these ages they are still in good form.