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IPL 2018 | April 25 | Day 19 | Discussion Thread

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24th match - Royal Challengers Bangalore v Chennai Super Kings
Venue: Bengaluru

Royal Challengers Bangalore: 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Manan Vohra 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 AB de Villiers, 5 Mandeep Singh, 6 Corey Anderson/Colin de Grandhomme, 7 Washington Sundar, 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Umesh Yadav, 10 Mohammed Siraj/Kulwant Khejroliya, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal

Chennai Super Kings: 1 Shane Watson, 2 Faf du Plessis, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Ambati Rayudu, 5 MS Dhoni (capt & wk), 6 Sam Billings, 7 Ravindra Jadeja, 8 Dwayne Bravo, 9 Harbhajan Singh, 10 Deepak Chahar, 10 Karn Sharma, 11 Shardul Thakur
 
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Boring match. No exciting youngsters to look forward to watching. Might as well skip today's match.
 
RCB needs to play Brendon McCullum & Parthiv as WK opener. McCullum is an impact player & match winner on his own. De Kock has been a hit and miss till now.

RCB XI:
1 MCCULLUM
2 Parthiv
3 Kohli
4 DE VILLIERS
5 Mandeep
6 COREY
7 WOAKES
8 Washington
9 Chahal
10 Umesh
11 Siraj

For CSK, Willey will be more handy than Du Plessis. Willey can offer with ball & bat. DJ Bravo has to bat ahead of Jadeja.

CSK XI:
1 WATSON
2 Rayudu
3 Raina
4 Dhoni
5 BILLINGS
6 DJ BRAVO
7 Jadeja
8 WILLEY
9 Karan
10 Deepak
11 Shardul
 
RCB needs to play Brendon McCullum & Parthiv as WK opener. McCullum is an impact player & match winner on his own. De Kock has been a hit and miss till now.

RCB XI:
1 MCCULLUM
2 Parthiv
3 Kohli
4 DE VILLIERS
5 Mandeep
6 COREY
7 WOAKES
8 Washington
9 Chahal
10 Umesh
11 Siraj

For CSK, Willey will be more handy than Du Plessis. Willey can offer with ball & bat. DJ Bravo has to bat ahead of Jadeja.

CSK XI:
1 WATSON
2 Rayudu
3 Raina
4 Dhoni
5 BILLINGS
6 DJ BRAVO
7 Jadeja
8 WILLEY
9 Karan
10 Deepak
11 Shardul

In whatever way you look the batting looks absolutely weak after No.5. Even Mandeep is a sort of supporting player and can't be relied as a match-winner (finisher/hard-hitter) on his own! RCB don't have the firepower in the middle-order... Let's hope its a day where Dhoni makes sure that the scoreboard sleeps throughout without allowing much overs for Bravo, so that RCB doesn't chase in excess of 160 (Kohli or ABD alone can take of that). I know this is not the tactic which can help win the cup! Punjab looks determined this time and front-runners (also the hunger to win for the first time), somehow even I want them to win because of Rahul...

Faf is an iconic player and I don't think CSK is going to drop him for many matches... He will at least make sure that some runs are scored in the middle overs when Dhoni goes for sleep!
 
Kohli will either edge to Deepak Chahar early or score big today.
 
What an atmosphere at the Chinnaswamy Stadium! This is as good as anything I have seen there even for international matches between exciting / edgy teams like India and Australia.

Anyone who thinks IPL isn't the future of cricket in India doesn't know what they're talking about.
 
What a batting lineup, the tail starts virtually from No.4 (as if the bowling attack is deadly!) Top 3 should play with their heart in mouth...
 
Kohli opens for RCB and Rohit bats at No.4 for MI.... Quite strange!
 
That's it immense pressure on himself while playing and now to the team after he gets out! RCB is lot similar to 90s Indian team with Sachin & weak bowling lineup!
 
Whatz going on
Shardul Thakur has bowled a wicket maiden to Virat Kohli and AB de Villiers at Bangalore.
 
Good that de Kock had partnership with ABD and not let him do everything...
 
Guess Bangalore pitch has gone back to good old days! RCB bowlers need to be careful and see that Dhoni gets maximum strike instead of Bravo!
 
Lol. They are CSK fans obviously. Why did they have to choose CSK game to wear their flag color? Don’t make any sense. Bangaluru has a lot of tamilians.

I was just kindling you, don't worry. And yes they (Tamilians) live in harmony here! And probably support both the teams!
 
Kohli opens for RCB and Rohit bats at No.4 for MI.... Quite strange!

Rohit is wasted at no 4. If he opens in ipl he will play atleast 4 match winning knocks in whole tournament and down he will do same but won't score big.
 
I was just kindling you, don't worry. And yes they (Tamilians) live in harmony here! And probably support both the teams!

Ok. I missed the sarcasm. Anyway good to see tamilians in the bangaluru ground openly supporting Chennai team.
 
Poor trundler Thakur he's been missing his half centuries, off late.

But never mind, he's getting near to it every time he plays.

Whenever he plays, 45+ runs are guaranteed. What a consistency!👌👌
 
When ABDV is in that mood, I don’t think any bowler could stop him. I don’t think CSK bowled badly today.
 
what a poor umpiring. that's wide. even bowler going to bowl next bowl.
 
Rayudu should be brought in to Indian LOI team right after this IPL. Man I love his batting this season. He is the one and only exciting thing about CSK for me.
 
Lol. Keep Dhoni on strike, RCB will win the game. As a CSK fan today, I want Dhoni to hi5 out or get out.
 
Umesh dropped the match for me. That too rayudu. If rcb could lose from here, it could be only due to Rayudu.
 
Edhukku indha kolaveri? With our bowlers..

Bro I am a die hard fan of fast bowling. I hate anyone who bowls like a trundler.

I even said , just today Trundler Anderson, Trundler Gul, Trundler Tanvir. It's not about "Our bowlers", but rather anyone who trundles.

I just can't accept anyone who bowls like that. Again, I don't have anything personal against any bowler.

Did u ever see me calling names to Bumrah, Bhubaneshwar (has bad odi bowling record ), Ishant, Shami and Yadav.

No.

Also, the fact that our people don't accept , that we are not producing good bowlers, and getting annoyed when I say that make me make them further annoyed.

It's all in fun.
 
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