I have a story to tell today. Consider a coin that has a head on both sides, and you choose to call tails, and hope if you stick to calling tails, you should be correct 50% of the time, imagine your frustration if you had put a lot of money in that result. Pretty hectic. Because we treat money as god, we frustrate, but if we just see money as the entry fee for that first bungee jump, we are free to scream and dream.
"All the players (usually batsmen) that have spiked the excitement last time around, have played surprisingly stupidly shit, unless he's home-born. Use of DeMorgan's Law in this statement also reveals truth." This has applied for the first four games, the exception being DJ Bravo, the champion. First Colin Munro, the moment he came to pitch he wanted to go back. In three balls he abysmally attempted to reverse sweep Mujeeb Ur and got out lbw on the last try. Gambhir, the home-born skipper, did his job. Shreyas Iyer, good last year and on recent tours, out on 11. Deliberately finished on an aggressive note (to attract more bids). "Those who seem to play agressively well(rarely poor) are doomed to defeat." Ashwin and Patel were thrashed in their respective first over, and the latter continued this feat in all of his 3 overs.
The next innings started explosively where Lokesh Rahul broke Sunil Narine's record of fastest fifty in IPL of 15 balls which was set just last year. Trent Boult who is very much in form, a foreigner and also played well last time, conceded 16 runs in the first over which pretty much started the damage. At 52 runs, Lokesh had scored 51 of them! But Chris Morris sent home Mayank Agrawal early to show some fake spark. Nair came on , scored a fifty, got out by Christian who I thought was the supposed game changer. At this time too DD could win the game. Then Miller and Stoinis finished the game with ease. Just like a typical IPL game.
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About the second game. I had just lost 500 rupees, so had to bet on the second game as well. Both KKR and RCB had pretty good teams on paper so twas hard to settle on one. Even this game had an exception; you may think how come McCullum and de Villiers scored like past times. This is because either McCullum is clean or and the more probable one that he had to increase the bids rapidly for his doomed team. QDK (good performer & foreigner) had no role there, he got out early. Vinay kumar got dealt with by McCullum(wait for it). Kohli had no need to hold on so much that his final strike rate would be below 100. AB did his usual job because Kohi was doing this unusual thing. So the board kept on ticking. Kohli and AB were both done for by Nitish Rana, back to back. Remember Nitish Rana from his RPS days. Then for spark's sake, Mandeep Singh, a non performer (he's a player to watch), started to score boundaries here and there. Keeping all these things in mind, and the session score of 176 just before Mandeep's explosives, I decided to bet on 176 being the 1st innings score. And amazingly, Vinay Kumar again got two wickets in that over to restrict RCB exactly at 176!
Up came Sunil Narine and his partner in crime, Chris Lynn. The carribean guys get a freebie in IPL it seems. Lynn, fulfilling the prophesy, got out early, caught by de Viliers. Robin Uthappa, a good performer and home-born came on a situation when Narine had already done enough damage for that moment. So he too got out early. Rana came on and utilized his day, scored a quick 35 and got out by Washington Sundar, uncapped player doing their things. Since Uthappa had gone, it was upto the skipper, Karthik to handle the rather easy situation. But the game was about to get nervy until Russel pushed the game beyond doubt by scoring two 4s and a six. At last an easy win for KKR.
So today without any fuss CSK should win if(or no if?) they chase.
"All the players (usually batsmen) that have spiked the excitement last time around, have played surprisingly stupidly shit, unless he's home-born. Use of DeMorgan's Law in this statement also reveals truth." This has applied for the first four games, the exception being DJ Bravo, the champion. First Colin Munro, the moment he came to pitch he wanted to go back. In three balls he abysmally attempted to reverse sweep Mujeeb Ur and got out lbw on the last try. Gambhir, the home-born skipper, did his job. Shreyas Iyer, good last year and on recent tours, out on 11. Deliberately finished on an aggressive note (to attract more bids). "Those who seem to play agressively well(rarely poor) are doomed to defeat." Ashwin and Patel were thrashed in their respective first over, and the latter continued this feat in all of his 3 overs.
The next innings started explosively where Lokesh Rahul broke Sunil Narine's record of fastest fifty in IPL of 15 balls which was set just last year. Trent Boult who is very much in form, a foreigner and also played well last time, conceded 16 runs in the first over which pretty much started the damage. At 52 runs, Lokesh had scored 51 of them! But Chris Morris sent home Mayank Agrawal early to show some fake spark. Nair came on , scored a fifty, got out by Christian who I thought was the supposed game changer. At this time too DD could win the game. Then Miller and Stoinis finished the game with ease. Just like a typical IPL game.
XXX
About the second game. I had just lost 500 rupees, so had to bet on the second game as well. Both KKR and RCB had pretty good teams on paper so twas hard to settle on one. Even this game had an exception; you may think how come McCullum and de Villiers scored like past times. This is because either McCullum is clean or and the more probable one that he had to increase the bids rapidly for his doomed team. QDK (good performer & foreigner) had no role there, he got out early. Vinay kumar got dealt with by McCullum(wait for it). Kohli had no need to hold on so much that his final strike rate would be below 100. AB did his usual job because Kohi was doing this unusual thing. So the board kept on ticking. Kohli and AB were both done for by Nitish Rana, back to back. Remember Nitish Rana from his RPS days. Then for spark's sake, Mandeep Singh, a non performer (he's a player to watch), started to score boundaries here and there. Keeping all these things in mind, and the session score of 176 just before Mandeep's explosives, I decided to bet on 176 being the 1st innings score. And amazingly, Vinay Kumar again got two wickets in that over to restrict RCB exactly at 176!
Up came Sunil Narine and his partner in crime, Chris Lynn. The carribean guys get a freebie in IPL it seems. Lynn, fulfilling the prophesy, got out early, caught by de Viliers. Robin Uthappa, a good performer and home-born came on a situation when Narine had already done enough damage for that moment. So he too got out early. Rana came on and utilized his day, scored a quick 35 and got out by Washington Sundar, uncapped player doing their things. Since Uthappa had gone, it was upto the skipper, Karthik to handle the rather easy situation. But the game was about to get nervy until Russel pushed the game beyond doubt by scoring two 4s and a six. At last an easy win for KKR.
So today without any fuss CSK should win if(or no if?) they chase.
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