Week 7 - Voting Page

Please place your votes and at least sentence explaining why. Obviously do not vote on your own match!

Week 7 Matches

Match 1 - Pune Warriors vs Royal Challengers Bangalore - Toss won by PW

Match 2 - Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings - Toss won by KKR

Match 3 - Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab - Toss won by KXIP

Match 4 - Rajasthan Royals vs Kochi Tuskers - Toss won by RR

Match 5 - Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers - Toss won by DC

i'l vote once all tactics are in

Mine are in, sorry all, been away from the computer all weekend!

Match 1: Pune vs RCB: Jadjea bowls a tight first over, only going for 3 runs. However with pace on the ball, the ball flys round the park. Pune get 50 in the powerplay, with Valthathy getting 39 off them himself. The scoreboard reguarly ticks over and Pune rack up 180. In the chase Dernbach and Thomas take early wickets, with their slower balls, and yorkers, rcb always behind the rate, fall 18 runs short, as wickets tumble reugarly.: PUNE WIN

Match 2: KKR vs Chennai: KKR get off to a good start, with the openers hitting, theron and bravo everywhere. However when the spinners come on its a different story. The chennai spinners get 7 wickets between them, and KKR limp to 140. Shakib gets KKR off to a great start getting, Vijay and Badrinath in his first over, however Hussey remains unflustered, and with bravo, afridi and dhoni all making useful contributions, they get home with an over to spare: CHENNAI WIN

Match 3: Mumabi vs Kings eleven: Malinga and Harbajhan get, gambhir and Kieswetter early. KP and Akmal put on a good partnership, KP having a very good day, to the suprise of the mumbai coach, and he gets 70 not out. Kings get to 160. In the chase Murali kartik gets tendulkar early, however rohit and Manoj put on a good parntership, wickets start tumbling and leave Van der merwe needing 18 off the last over, and he can only get 16, falling 2 runs short. KINGS ELEVEN WIN.

Match 4: Rajasthan vs Kochi: Rajasthan never get going batting first. Power keeps the rate down, only going at 5 an over in his bowling spell. Vettori and Chawla pick up wickets all the way through, and kochi require 120 to win. Kochi get off to a poor start and are reeling at 74-6 from 12 overs. However a good partnership between Taylor and vettori see kochi home off the last ball. : KOCHI WIN

Match 5: My match, come on DECCAN!

Week 7 Matches
- work in prog, will add in more matches tomorrow. All the matches are tough to call this week, they definitely need thought.

Match 1 - Pune Warriors vs Royal Challengers Bangalore - Toss won by PW who bat first. On a batting paradise Pune get away to a flyer and Kohli and Yuvraj rack up big scores. On such a good pitch the RCB bowlers are bystanders and PW finish with a big score. In reply the RCB openers are under pressure to score heavily from the start, but get away to a reasonable start before both fall to Mathews. Taylor and Devilliers pick up the cudgel and build a good partnership that sets teh platform for the rest of RCB's long batting line up to blast away. RCB win by 2 wickets with 2 balls to spare

Match 2 - Kolkata Knight Riders vs Chennai Super Kings - Toss won by KKR

Match 3 - Mumbai Indians vs Kings XI Punjab - Toss won by KXIP

Match 4 - my match

Match 5 - Delhi Daredevils vs Deccan Chargers - Toss won by DC

lol cant believe im the only one to have properly voted so far.

Mine will be in later today fellas, sorry for the delay.

fists i wouldnt worry about it mate. It took me ages to decide on these games.

I changed my mind on a winner twice while writing up game 1! It's a tough week all right.

Kochi are starting to go up the table, i think they could pull off another win in this game

Pune,Punjab,Rajasthan and Delhi

reasons?

we all give detailed reasons, it would be nice if you posted some mate

erm cf mate I'm batting first in my game, how on earth do I end up losing by 2 runs with RTD facing the last over?!

away on holiday for a few days at the mo, so don't really have time to study and vot, will get them in on wednesday I think...

Mad for Chelsea wrote:erm cf mate I'm batting first in my game, how on earth do I end up losing by 2 runs with RTD facing the last over?!

away on holiday for a few days at the mo, so don't really have time to study and vot, will get them in on wednesday I think...

Exactly.This makes me very suspicious of CF.Does he actually read the toss and the tactics or just votes depending on his mood?

sorry mfc, complete accident

grow up shanky, first time that has happened!

actually the game was fine until the last over (i.e. had the tactics and things right) and suddenly out of nowhere RTD was batting

I assume you got that bit muddled cf, and in fact meant to say Mumbai fell short by two runs, right

yh i did, so i didnt exactly mess it up, and pointless for shanky to be suspicious


but at least the majoirty of us bother to post reasons

cricketfan90 wrote:yh i did, so i didnt exactly mess it up, and pointless for shanky to be suspicious


but at least the majoirty of us bother to post reasons

We all have lives beyond his forum CF.

These things happen, as long as there is a winner, and a reason why they won, then that's fine Nice try though MFC, haha! Fair play.

i no we do, but it dosent take long to post reasons. Every week we all do it, and we all have lives,.


a couple of lines shanky, to explain why you chose it

or its basically hypocritical.you moan at me for not giving reasons whenever i post something, and now your doing the same thing!

fists MFC was right mate. I meant to say mumbai fell 2 runs short.

Anyways for your sake CF I will give reasons.
Just wait a minute.

Yeah just read back through it Cf, that's fine.

im only sayiny shanky, because its hypocritical. You moan at me for not giving reasons when i post anything, so was just wondering

Pune batting is very strong.I can see them posting a huge score against a RCB attack which I think will struggle on a flat pitch.In the chase Thomas gets a couple of early wkts and despite a good knock from ABDV RCB are never in the chase.Swann takes charge when the pitch starts turning and RCB fall short despite ABDV.

crikey have looked through the matches and they're all tight. This is going to take me some time, will certainly not vote today

KP relishes the challenge of a tough pitch and an international class Mumbai attack and brings out his belligerent best against an international class attack and a coach who hates him.He scores an sensational hundred as Gul and Malinga after an excellent tournament finally have an off day and KP punishes them.He is well supported by Gambhir.The rest of the batsmen struggle a bit at the death after Gambhir gets out but KP holds fort at one end right till the end and his hundred carries KXIP to a matchwinning 175.Bres strikes early to get rid of Dhawan and Murali Kartik dismisses Dilshan and despite a valiant effort by the great man Sachin and the talented Rohit,Mumbai fall an agonising 5 runs short as the rest of the batsmen struggle once Rohit gets out.

Rajasthan bat first.Watson falls early but the brilliance of Sanga and Dravid and the ability of their subcontinent heavy middle order and lower middle order to play spin propels them to 140.McCullum falls early to Watson.Mahela and VVS try to resurrect the innings but they bat a tad too consciously leaving them at the start and when they realise they have to accelerate Warney comes on and outfoxes Mahela and gets rid of Brendan Taylor as well.VVS continues to hold fort but the rest of the batsmen struggle and Warney and Botha as Kochi fall short by 20 runs.

Aaron and McDonald cut through the Deccan top order as Deccan are 25/3-losing each of their top 3.Dussey and White resurrect the innings for a bit but Dussey gets out as soon as a spinner comes onto bowl(price in the 9th over) but White carries on his good work and he and Miller lead the Deccan fightback and a brilliant 85 not out from White and a 50 from Miller takes Deccan to 160.In reply its Sehwag's turn.After a lean tournament he turns it on on a pitch that suits him(not much bounce or movement but the ball skidding onto the bat).He gives the exceptional Dale Steyn due respect by just blocking him off but absolutely manhandles the other bowlers including Tahir as he hits an unbelievable 110 not out form 50 balls as Delhi race home with 3 overs to spare.

Go on Virender!!!

Makes a change that they weren't blown away, doesn't it, mate!

certainly some very tough matches to call this week.

cricketfan90 wrote:

what?

Fists of Fury wrote:Makes a change that they weren't blown away, doesn't it, mate!

cricketfan90 wrote:what?

For what did you give a thumbsup?

for giving the reasons..

plz stop questioning everything i do.

It does Fists!

Lads, can we not post emoticons on their own either please.

cricketfan90 wrote:for giving the reasons..

plz stop questioning everything i do.

I was just wondering

Cf you can't edit votes. Shanky can you please put all your votes in one post.

If I lose to Kp then this Is ridiculous!

Jesus, toughest week to call!

Match 1 - Pune win. Purely for Swann's allotment in the second innings, along with Dernbach they have the ability to keep things tight, despite a sterling effort by the RCB chase.

Match 2 - By far the hardest match to call in my opinion, both sides are set up well, but going to back Kolkata on this one. Chennai have a dearth of excellent spinners, but KKR's triplet of Ojha, Murali and Bishoo are miserly and keep Chennai quiet despite a certain Afridi coming to the party briefly.

Match 3- Gone with Mumbai in another close game. They have some excellent chasers and are led by the little master to victory.

Match 4 - Kochi, thanks to a sterling effort by Danny V. It's a close game this, again, but I like Kochi's line up and think their spinners will trump the Royals, but only just.

i probably should have played trott. However i have 3 overseas batsman playing and think they are class, however 1-0 down already lol.

cricketfan90 wrote:i probably should have played trott. However i have 3 overseas batsman playing and think they are class, however 1-0 down already lol.

Trott>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Dussey

not in t20.

cricketfan90 wrote:not in t20.

Dussey cant play any type of spin.You really should have kept Dilshan mate IMO.

Gregers wrote:Cf you can't edit votes. Shanky can you please put all your votes in one post.

If I lose to Kp then this Is ridiculous!

I already have.Its only the reasons that are in different posts.

Cheers mate

Match 1-My match

Match 2 KKR vs CSK- Going for a CSK win here. KKR post a very respectable score despite some brilliant bowling from the CSK spinners, Morgan being the key man. Despite a valiant effort from KKR in the field, Afridi and Ashwin get CSK home. CSK WIN

Match 3 Mumbai vs King XI Punjab-Very close match here.Kieswetter goes early, Pietersen goes very well in the Power Play but is caught on the boundary when looking well set. Gambhir and the middle order play well looking in a good position but expert death bowling really restrics the total. Bresnan gets the massive wicket of Tendulkar, but Dilshan is able to rebuild. Bipul Sharma bowls impressively, leaving Pollard and Harby in as the last over begins. Pollard manages to get Mumbai home with a 4 off the 2nd to last ball of the innings. MUMBAI WIN

Match 4 RR vs Kochi-RR winning the toss is crucial here imo. Watson decimates RP Singh in his two opening overs but the spin attack strangles him and he goes. Dravid and Sangakarra do a good job of nurdling the spinners, but a middle over collapses ensues with these two going and Karthik holing out. Razzaq is forced to re-build with Uthappa, not their natural game. But it works, Razzaq firing in the last 3 overs in particular. Kochi come close with Jayawardene and Taylor performing well but when they go, the Kochi innings peters as Razzaq's innings proves crucial RR WIN

Match 5 Decann Chargers vs Delhi Daredevils-Aaron and McDonald get early wickets for the Daredevils. The Australian pairing of Hussey and White bat well but Arafat gets rid of Hussey in his 1st over. White and Miller attack for 4 overs, but McDonald strikes removing White. Despite their best efforts, Miller and Wagh struggle to get some tight death bowling away. Steyn looks very dangerous early on, but only manages to get rid of Warner. Sehwag blasts his way through the rest of the attack with Taylor nurdling the spinners around. Sehwag eventually goes, but to finish off a fine all-round performance McDonald hits the winning runs. DELHI WIN