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[Aravind.]

Dilshan cost us the match.
Never seen him bat that slowly in a limted overs game.
But it is his bad day. We will bounce back in coming matches

 

[Alexei.]

EasyPeesy!

 

[Pinch hitter]

Never seen him bat that slowly in a limted overs game.

may be you missed his last one year matches, where he takes too many balls to settle down...

 

[Pinch hitter]

MATCH DAY REVIEW - ROUND 02

BENGALURU SURGE v CHENNAI MARINERS
It is typical match for Bengaluru side as they playing there 1st match of the tournament at there home ground... The Surge look as stronger side along with there captain Virat Kohli, they fight lot in Draft to get him and it is his time to prove that he worth a lot... Chennai did couple of major changes after losing 1st game for this match... Bengaluru won the toss and invited Chennai to bat first at good looking pitch... Chennai lost 1st wicket early, but they picked up there game pretty quickly... Captain Rohit and Vijay put up 100 run partnership in quick time, but after losing 2nd wicket, Bengaluru took another 2 wickets quickly and put Chennai on pressure... Bengaluru did everything right after that, but they can't able to get Smith's wicket, which cost them a hefty target to chase on... Bengaluru started there innings very solid, but they took too many balls to bring 100 runs on board... Captain Virat took the charge after 1st wicket down, he bring the raise in run rate... Gautam Gambhir played pretty well, but he miss a century by 4 runs... Later Kane Williamson scored a fifty in just 26 balls, He and Virat put 92 run partnership in just 8 overs... Bengaluru looking as a winning team in last over, but Murugan Ashwin bowled fantastic over and get Chennai a 3 run win...

KOLKATA TIGERS v DHARAMSALA ICECAPS
Kolkata needed a win, so they analyze home condition pretty well and bring Axar Patel to the match... Icecaps went with ordinary decision of play with same lineup of last match... Dharamsala started pretty well, but as soon spinners started there spells, they went flat... Lost wicket after wicket and Axar Patel took 6 for him self in that process, in the end Starc took 3 wickets and wrap-up Icecaps innings at 175 runs... Kolkata adopt careful approach and reach the target by losing just one wicket... Sangakkara & Ambati Rayudu both scored half century...

MUMBAI EMPIRE v DELHI THUNDERBIRDS
Mumbai playing in there home and they feeling pretty confident... But, Jasprit Bumrah & Praveen Kumar break there backbone by taking the wickets of Hashim Amla & Ajinkya Rahane in early innings... Later Martin Guptill & Robin Uthappa set the innings to normal by putting up 124 runs for 3rd wicket, but Mumbai failed to capitalize that partnership and end up in terrible position... Gurkeerat and Dhawal some how takes the total to 216 runs... Mumbai's controversial draft pick Trent Boult gave them early breakthrough, but continuing his form ABD bring up century in quick time and save the match for Delhi once again... Kevin Pietersen ends the match with huge six and also complete his half-century... ​

 

[Pinch hitter]

LINEUPS FOR ROUND 03 [TIME LIMIT : 48hrs]

BYE > CHENNAI MARINERS

DELHI THUNDERBIRDS v BENGALURU SURGE @ Feroz Shah Kotla Ground (Normal Pitch)
@The Punisher & @Kane Dav | @Aravind. & @Sodium

DHARAMSALA ICECAPS v MUMBAI EMPIRE @ Himachal Pradesh Cricket Stadium (Hard Pitch)
@Naman Thakur & @Hydron | @Akshay291

KOCHI MAMMOTHS v KOLKATA TIGERS @ Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium (Normal Pitch)
@CerealKiller | @Umair2000
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NOTE: Mark your Captain, Wicket Keeper, and minimum Six Bowlers... You can use max. 4 Oversea players... All players in your squad must play at least one match before the play-offs...

Spoiler: Pitch Report

HARD pitches help Seam bowlers more... batsman can play good innings if the play first few balls carefully...
NORMAL pitches will help both batsman and bowlers... so balance lineup are recommended in this pitch...
DUSTY pitches mostly help spinners... so good number of spinners might change the game for you...

 

[CerealKiller]

Lokesh Rahul
Shreyas Iyer
Joe Root
MS Dhoni
Sanju Samson
Sarfraz Khan
Ravindra Jadeja
Kagiso Rabada
Imran Tahir
Mustafizur Rahman
Ashish Nehra

 

[Targaryen]

@Aravind. to post the lineup.

 

[Aravind.]

Finch will replace Dilshan & rest will be same.

 

[Na Maloom Afraad]

Great win! Fantastic batting from Smith, good on Murugan to give away only 3 runs when 7 were required off the last over.

@zwarrior to post the line-up.

 

[RUDI]

Would have liked to keep the same XI, however all players has to play at least one match before the play-offs

Cheteshwar Pujara in
Faiz Fazal out

Stuart Binny out
Chris Morris in

@Kane Dav to confirm.

 

[Akshay.]

Hoping for Amla to play better this time
Change for next match
Watson in for Shakib

 

[Pinch hitter]

Would have liked to keep the same XI, however all players has to play at least one match before the play-offs

Cheteshwar Pujara in
Faiz Fazal out

Stuart Binny out
Chris Morris in

@Kane Dav to confirm.

it makes 5 oversea players in lineup...

 

[Umair7]

Holy Shit

 

[RUDI]

it makes 5 oversea players in lineup...

Only change then is
Cheteshwar Pujara in
Faiz Fazal out

 

[Alexei.]

Would have liked to keep the same XI, however all players has to play at least one match before the play-offs

Cheteshwar Pujara in
Faiz Fazal out

Stuart Binny out
Chris Morris in

@Kane Dav to confirm.

Confirmed