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Both teams coming off losses, but RCB looking the more complete team. CSK are clueless about their batting, bowling and fielding.
Bowl-O-Meter
CSK: 1.5/5
Purely because of Murali. The others are a monumental FAIL
RCB : 3/5
Kumble, Steyn, Praveen, Vinay, Kallis. Yeah, I’ll that that
Bat-O-Meter
CSK: 1/5
Hayden with or without the mongoose has been stinking it up so far. MSD back from injury. Vijay and Badri have been dullish to OK. They need Hussey but he isnt available yet. Raina has been a saving grace.
RCB: 3.5/5
Uthappa ‘s a man-child. Kallis will be keen to get the orange cap. The middle order looks shaky!
Match ups:
RCB Bowling vs CSK Batting: RCB in a laugher
Until Haydos does something, CSK is not going to go anywhere. Open with Kumble and Steyn and fish him out. Vinay to bowl his steady stuff.
CSK needs to pray that some of their batsmen see the light, and start playing better.
RCB Batting vs CSK Bowling: RCB again
No surprises here. The RCB bowling looks like the next-gen missle compared to CSK’s stone-age bowling attack. Bar Murali, the rest of them are toothless. Open with Murali or some other spinner against Kallis and Pandey and expose the middler order again.
Predictions
Only a fool will predict a CSK win. And a fool I am. CSK starts to put a few things together from here on, shockingly!
Onto the comments section folks!!
More Than Just A Game 
And we’re getting ready folks!
White and Porn star peieterson are in. Morgan and boucher sit .
Ganapathy and Goni are in for chennai. This is a daunting RCB line up- in terms of batting
A fairly respectable first over from Thussara . Who woulda thought!
Gony hell bent on making up for Thussara’s audacity of bowling a tight over.
Thussara has looked fairly decent so far, keeping things relatively quiet out there. Of course, it has just been 2 overs…
Thushara gets Pandey. CSK with a decent start. Porn Star might walk in next!
Cover your heads, Morkel into bowl!!
I have absolutely no doubt that Uthappa’s doing ganja or something. Look at his murderous eyes and scary game in the last few!
Gony really really showing what he’s capable of with that miss of the sitter of a catch!!!
WOW! Gony being molested in PUBLIC view by Ganjaman!!!
Ganajaman is determined to end Gony’s career. TODAY.
Gony’s embarassing himself here in this over. Just get done with it already!
End of a 19 run over :-))))
Well Gony finally got something right and holds on to that one. Uthappa should have controlled himself. Ganjaman needs to retain his high and not let it wear off. Kohli in, straight from his saloon visit.
oh well… a new name u have come up with Uthappa…thats great.
i also feel warner on some sort of steroid. oh man..his nerves are bulging out the other day.
CSK applying the brakes a bit with that Jakati and Murali over.
@ Kanda! good to see you after a long time sir! Warner has seriously been awesome for DD.
chennai need some sort of miracle to pull out of the rut..especially a MS miracle.
and I get a feeling that they might steal this game, and the next couple man.
3 quiet overs from spinners. i still dont understand Dhoni’s fascination for Goni. Tyagi would have been a better bet today.
RCB batting line up at its awesomest. Hope they dont screw up with this line up. CSK may steal this match but my money is on RCB.
RCB struggling to up the RR. Hope this doesnt come back to bite.
Yeah, RCB seems to have a v.strong lineup. Porn star pieterson might light it up today. CSK without Hussey have a big missing link in the middle order. What a player!
Nah, Ganapathy just got taken apart by Kallis! 13 runs off that over!
A rude initiation for ganapathy at this level. Full Toss monty is on for CSK.
CSK’s bowling always consists of 3 guys who can keep things fairly tight , and 3 others guy who give a shit load of runs away :))
Invariably it is only one or two. But today they are fortunate to have 3 guys in good side.
Jakati is doing a world of good for Goa cricket. He brings the outpost of indian cricket to mainframe.
Good over by Jakati there. The 4 from Kallis was a little unfortunate for him.
I have a feeling that Kohli hasnt mastered T20 cricket. He hasnt registered in the indian subconscious mind in this format. Hope he makes the cut this year.
@Kanda- Kohli has got time in his side. Actually he has been quite fortunate in a sense that he had so many opps and visibility in the last 1.5 years to even get himself this far!
yes thats true.. out of his batch of U19s only he and R Jadeja got to be regular in indian senior team.
But arrival of Bollinger will be a good thing for CSK. But it should not be too late for him to rescue his team.
7 overs remain -2 from Murali, 1 from Thushara, 1 from Jakati.
Let’s assume RCB get about 30 from those 4 overs.
They need to get about 40+ from those remaining 3 to make this in their favour.
It is possible.
If they dont get 80 to 90 runs from the remaining 7 overs, that will be an underachievement.
Gony bowling, let’s see how Kallis treats him.
Kallis gets his half-century. What a player!!
im going out. will join the discussion after coming back. Have fun.!!
Let’s keep track of this.
Gony 1 – 11 runs
Murali 1=
Murali 2 =
Jakati 1 =
Thushara 1 =
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Alright sir! Have a good one!
Doing this for fun. Expectation was about 30 from Murali, Thushara and Jakati, and 40 from the remaining 3.
Let’s keep track of this.
Gony 1 – 11 runs
Murali 1= 2 runs!!!! Awesome over
Murali 2 =
Jakati 1 =
Thushara 1 =
_____
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Doing this for fun. Expectation was about 30 from Murali, Thushara and Jakati, and 40 from the remaining 3.
Let’s keep track of this.
Gony 1 – 11 runs
Murali 1= 2 runs!!!! Awesome over
Murali 2 =
Jakati 1 = Maiden over and 2 wickets!! (1 was a runout!!)
Thushara 1 =
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______
RCB bit themselves big time in the arse. Porn star needs to go for the kill NOW.
Gony 1 – 11 runs
Murali 1= 2 runs!!!! Awesome over
Murali 2 = 7 runs.
Jakati 1 = Maiden over and 2 wickets!! (1 was a runout!!)
Thushara 1 =
_____
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They’ve made 20 runs in the last 4 overs. Now they’ve gotta go bonkers in the last 3. Thushara bowls 1. Gony and Ganapathy might be the other victims .
Thushara got slapped around at the end. Creditable score after suffering sobad in the middle. 161 is a tough one for Chennai with their batting issues.
Did anyone catch Kohli giving beauty tips to Pieterson?
Puke-worthy.
Wow! Vijay just RIPPED APART praveen kumar!! CSK off to a FLIER!!! KUMBLE show some magic now!