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It seems the Indian bowling lineup took it to their heart the way people spoke about them after last match so they wrote their own script after losing the toss!

It's been ordinary bowling effort from India. Rohit looks like is still in WC hangover and out of ideas! On a good bowling pitch, they have not bowled consistent line and length. Prasidh is highly overrated for sure.

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Received my second gift! Thank you Santa @niks_flashbullet for another great gift! It's been a while I had a backpack without sponsor company logo on it https://imgur.com/a/Jexjz2n

This has to be one of the worst auction from RCB in recent times! Leaving out Hazzlewood, Harshal and Hasaranga and getting ordinary bowlers in place of them. The best spinner RCB has is Maxwell ( please do not bring up Karn Sharma) and the best day bowler is Topley/Siraj. Each one of the bowlers will get slaughtered in Chinnaswamy pitch. Yash Dayal is the only saving grace but even he will not play like he did for GT (This is the trend with RCB). What was surprising was RCB did not even bid for good bowlers or allrounders such as Thakur, Sakariya, Umesh or even Hasaranga or Mujib. What is the point of going after foreign fast bowlers when most of slots are already filled. Seriously both Cummins and Starc were overpaid by 2 times!!

LOL. It was my wife! Not sure what made her ask your name, she already knew about secret santa. Wish you and your family Merry Christmas and Happy New year! @niks_flashbullet

Crazy! Franchisees have gone mad! Even Cummins bidding was crazy!

Santa strikes Received my gift today Thank you Santa for the great gift!! I am pleasantly surprised Santa was able to find a game which I did not own but wanted! Please reveal yourself Santa!! (The delivery OTP kind of revealed Santa name however I want to be sure; I would have never guessed otherwise ) P.S: Not able to embed images into post hence posting the link: https://imgur.com/a/Vh1kUCC

Exactly. On the day of news of Hardik Pandya transfer, Bumrah's social media post showed the disappointment and today SKY's tweet clearly showed disappointment again. SKY is currently captaining national team and Bumrah has done it in the past. It would have been still okay if Pandya was with MI all this time but that is not the case.

Unbelievable to say the least! Sharma can play IPL at least another 3 years easily and Pandya already has captaincy experience. The transfer and now this is turning into a mess!

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I also feel manipulation on viewer data! Currently 7.5Cr views on this cr*p match where Indian bowlers are getting hammered whereas WC Final highest number was 5.9Cr and Hotstar made WC free for mobiles.

A. The background music sounds amazing. B. That is most of the Indian movie trailers are made to reveal pretty much everything but there are some aspects which were not revealed/cleverly hidden I believe. Looking at the duration of the movie, screenplay hopefully is good and editing is on point otherwise it would turn out boring for the audience.

LOL. Hurts to be in many incorrect and least predictions after leading the board initially. The last incorrect match result hurt the most and still not able to recover. @bharat_SS great work on conducting this and updating tables almost instantly!! It was super fun to play this.

And KL will play too. Why bench Tilak Varma? He has temperament, he has proved recently including Asian games and he can bowl a bit.

Yeah there is no way any team can win T20 WC if they do not have good allrounders with bowlers who can bat and batsmen who can bowl.

Isn't Avesh Khan overrated? Every time he plays for India he fails to land those wide yorkers which he is famous for in death overs but those skills come back in IPL. Sai Sudarshan and Tewatia should have also been given a chance (specially instead of Dubey).

So true! I hope selectors are clear now whom to select for T20s. Both KL & Kohli has to go and even if Sharma however T20 WC is only 6 months away so there is no point to change the captain if he continues to play like he did in this WC. I hope they select youngsters and stick with them!

That is bit harsh on selectors, coach and captain! Most of the players were selected and given a run based on their performance in both domestic and their international exposure. Both Gill and Siraj were best ODI batsmen and bowler from 2022 onwards (as their numbers suggest). Iyer in the middle over is proven performer and very good against spin (which was critical for this WC) and has great numbers as a middle order batsman, the only doubt was on Rahul which he proved very well in Asia cup so it was fair call, Rohit and Kohli were automatic selections. Of course SKY was definitely a weak selection being trump card and never clicked entire year; he would have not played if Pandya was fit. If you followed what Dravid and Sharma kept saying last 6 months, they were very clear who the 13 players will be and literally 9 players were in full form by the time finals started except SKY and to some extent Siraj. Ishan has not done anything great against good teams except that Pakistan match in Asia cup and we had no middle order batsmen. As we have seen previously newcomers may not handle WC pressure as well as you think (case in point, Varun Chakrovarthy, Arshadeep Singh in both T20 WCs recently and Zaheer in 03 finals and even Gill yesterday where he has played two IPL finals on the same ground and had stellar year in ODIs and this is his favourite ground. The main culprit of course is BCCI. Unlike how Stokes/Starc/Cummins decided to not play IPL and prioritise international cricket, our cricketers are forced to play even if they do not want to as BCCI as employer forces them. This was clearly evident this year when Sharma was asked about WTC finals within a week of IPL final and his response that franchises need to help players out (which they won't obviously once again for money). However nothing will change as you said unless BCCI changes the mentality of not only going after money and caring for Indian fans!

The pitch was not good and one sided, the way it slowed down in the afternoon compared to evening was so drastic. All WC matches in this venue are won while chasing except England match and they too could have won if batted smartly. They lost only by 30 runs with still overs left. Every team has struggled to bat well in the afternoon and this was when winter was just starting and now temperatures have settled down, it is even more evident that toss was big factor. BCCI/ICC money obsession will never help. Teams should be given fair chance to complete by providing similar conditions and if this venue was to host the match, we should have a day match instead of day and night. But nothing will change anyways!

I don't think that was a genuine response. He even paused for a second before gathering his words.

Match Day 42, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Sunday, November 19 Australia vs India Match = 0-1 50s = 2-3

We should have one if Smith goes now! I wish SA fast bowlers had more control in first 10 overs!