Indian Premier League 2024 (22nd March-29th May)

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Salt 50 up in 26 balls. Effortless this innings so far and a pleasure to watch.

 

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Phil Salt looks like he has a taxi to catch tonight, with an early finish likely here.

 

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KKR win easily over Delhi with 21 balls to spare in Game 47

 

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Standings after Game 47:

 

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Kushagra didnt look like much of a batter to me. He goes cheaply.

More of a long form batter, than a T20 batter.

 

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A Mumbai loss tonight, means a Top 2 spot looks virtually impossible.

Its the battle of the Pandya brothers tonight. Bit of bragging rights on the line.

 

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Bit of a West Australian flavour tonight as well, with big Tim David against hulk Marcus Stoinis.

 

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Hardik won both games last year with Gujarat against his brother.

 

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Krunal v Hardik stats. Hardik never striked at over 100 strike rate against his brothers bowling in IPL:

 

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A bit of a side note to tonights game, commentators mentioned that more of the batters globally have started to figure Rashid Khans bowling. More batsman are willing to attack him.

 

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Stoinis v Rashid Khan an important matchup tonight. Stoinis doesnt strike at above 120+ against the Afghanistan maestro:

 

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Getting my games confused, Gujarat arent playing Lucknow tonight. Lucknow playing Mumbai.

 

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English players to miss IPL finals in preparation for WC.
Fair enough

 

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Game 48:

Here are the Impact substitutes for both the teams

Mumbai Indians Impact Subs: Nuwan Thushara, Kumar Kartikeya, Dewald Brevis, Naman Dhir, Shams Mulani

Lucknow Super Giants Subs: Arshin Kulkarni, Manimaran Siddharth, Krishnappa Gowtham, Yudhvir Singh, Prerak Mankad

Teams:

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Ishan Kishan(w), Rohit Sharma, Suryakumar Yadav, Tilak Varma, Hardik Pandya(c), Nehal Wadhera, Tim David, Mohammad Nabi, Gerald Coetzee, Piyush Chawla, Jasprit Bumrah

Lucknow Super Giants (Playing XI): KL Rahul(w/c), Marcus Stoinis, Deepak Hooda, Nicholas Pooran, Ashton Turner, Ayush Badoni, Krunal Pandya, Ravi Bishnoi, Naveen-ul-Haq, Mohsin Khan, Mayank Yadav

Lucknow Super Giants have won the toss and have opted to field

 

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Tonights game got an even more Western Australian flavour tonight, Ashton Turner also playing.

This might be the team WA supports this season with Justin Langer at the helm as well.

 

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It looks like Stoinis will open the innings for Lucknow tonight.

 

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Stoinis career strike rate against Mumbai key bowlers tonight:

But it seems key players from LSG struggle against Bumrah:




Game tactics tend to suggest tonight, to go cautiously against Bumrah .

 

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Indian comms saying 'Bumrah is a once in a generation bowler'. Even the neutral Aussie supporter would have to agree with that?

 

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Most important question are Tim David/Ashton Turner/Marcus Stoinis Eagles or Dockers?

 

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Swann saying we are playing on a 'used wicket'. (where 160 was scored last game)

 

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Birthday boy, Rohit Sharma goes 2nd over.

 

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Suryakumar Yadav taking a liking for Stoinis 1st ball for 6

 

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Ishan Kishan I noticed didnt get in the Indian squad and reserve backup. Wonder if he has a little fire in his belly tonight?

 

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Stoinis bowling well early with 2 wickets , big ones too of Rohit and Suryakumar Yadav inside the powerplay.

MI are in all sorts here.

 

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Dont think MI have paid enough respect to this wicket.