Re: Cricket match prediction discussions

Chennai Super Kings have won their match against Kings XI Punjab. Punjab could manage only a score of 153, with Ngidi picking up 4 wickets. That is a below par score, especially against a strong batting line up like Chennai. Raina made sure that Chennai achieved this score with an over to spare.
This win means that Rajasthan Royals are through to the next stage.

Even 153 looked defendable, as the two opening bowlers (Ankit Rajpoot and Mohit Sharma) were on top of their form. But that dropped catch of Raina proved expensive for the KXIP. If that catch was taken, then they would have probably won the match.

Ya but even if they have won the match they could still not able to qualify as they should have won the match with atleast 50 runs and i think that made their moral down..hence they had not tried 100% with their performance and ended up loosing the match.

They had no chance of wining the match. There were chances when they had the CSK struggling at 58/4. But then a rather easy catch was dropped off Raina and that proved to be very costly. Still to their credit, the two bowlers (Rajpoot and Sharma) bowled their heart out.

In this IPL 2018 who ever were performing good in first phase were got down in next phase. KXIP were in good chance of getting in playoff but their performance got bad in next phase and now see they are in 7th position of table. RR bounced back very good and got chance in playoff even with bad NRR.

Two team who got banned for 2 yrs CSK and RR are in playoffs , so you can see the power of fixing in all IPL series.