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CLT20 | Southern Express V Lahore Lions | Raipur | Sept 16 | SE Innings

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That will not make difference.

For NRR, true. But I want to destroy them for playing a game just to help Mumbai. Clearly their only intention from their batting was to score 75, so that Lahore cannot catch Mumbai. Clearly some BS happening. Express never had intentions to even try to chase this until they got past that 75 to save Mumbai.
 
For NRR, true. But I want to destroy them for playing a game just to help Mumbai. Clearly their only intention from their batting was to score 75, so that Lahore cannot catch Mumbai. Clearly some BS happening. Express never had intentions to even try to chase this until they got past that 75 to save Mumbai.

Even if we restricted them to 75, Mumbai would have to win by just 1 run for us to qualify.

Qualifying via run rate was always going to be hard. We have a great chance simply with the win, Northern Districts should not be easy to beat.
 
For NRR, true. But I want to destroy them for playing a game just to help Mumbai. Clearly their only intention from their batting was to score 75, so that Lahore cannot catch Mumbai. Clearly some BS happening. Express never had intentions to even try to chase this until they got past that 75 to save Mumbai.

And the conspiracies keep on coming from the pak fans :facepalm:
 
If Lions are to make the main draw, they have to win and hope that the Knights beat the Mumbai Indians, or if Lions are to make the main drawn instead of Knights, they will need to win by about 50 runs (after scoring 160) and Knights will have to lose by at least 87 runs, after Mumbai post 160. Lions are at a further disadvantage: they play before Mumbai Indians on Tuesday, meaning they will not know what the exact equation.
 
Even if we restricted them to 75, Mumbai would have to win by just 1 run for us to qualify.

Qualifying via run rate was always going to be hard. We have a great chance simply with the win, Northern Districts should not be easy to beat.

100% agreed! But the thing that annoyed me is HOW Express actually batted. For Express to qualify realistically, they had to win "big" and then hope Mumbai lost "big".

What would a team normally requiring that do? Come out all guns BLAZING! You have NOTHING to lose, you need to win big. And if you lose 5-6 wickets early, fine, then you play it out to "Save face". Instead, Express did the OPPOSITE. They played it safe until 75, to GUARANTEE Lahore is screwed, and only once they got past that, did they show any intent to accelerate.

The only logical conclusion from their batting is, their target was "Lets get 75 first, then we will try to win after that". Why would you do that.... (rhetorical Q, everybody knows exactly why)
 
Ja-e-namaz bhecha lo boys, ab rohani kam ki zarorat hay :D


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