Competitions 2024 IPL RDT Fantasy- RD1: Saturday 23rd March-12:30am AEST

[Miller is a Steele]

0/531 Stubbs
Axar 147, Pant 137, Kuldeep 60, JFM 60, Stubbs VC 51x2, Mukesh 25.

Klaasen being looped at WK2 tonight.

Still the same score. Was going to field Starc over Klaasen’s 7 but obviously I can’t anymore. Have decided to change Pooran out to Rahul out, and Bumrah out to Starc out. So effectively traded out of 7+Rahul to Pooran+Bumrah. Lose a future DGR player in Starc but he’s been terrible and all it takes is a Chameera 2fa and they persist with him.

Narine and Russell tonight.

 

[tso]

Reminder it's a double header Saturday this week as well as Sunday.

 

[mike89]

Salt gets his 20, happy days!

And Narine too, awesome start to the night!

 

[Darkie]

And Narine!

 

[mike89]

Both of them dropped now too. That one is a shocker from a normally very safe pair of hands...

 

[mike89]

I know there's a lot of bowlers struggling this season but Rabada looks absolutely shot. I wonder how long before they give Ellis a run...

 

[tso]

KKR with7th highest innings score 6/261

 

[tso]

PBKS chase it down easily
Narine massive 161pts.

 

[mike89]

PBKS chase it down easily
Narine massive 161pts.

KKR making a habit of this, much like SRH. Absolutely ballistic hitting but can't defend worth a damn!

4/887 (Pant) - Parag and six DC to come tomorrow

 

[Professor]

Narine x 2 would have been nice, 582 Pooran and Krunal plus 5 DC to play.

 

[Diabolical]

The impact sub rule needs to go to give the bowlers a chance!

Just Narine and Dre Russ overnight to bring me to 3/880. I have been toying with using a boost to get ahead on a DGR player to come, but I think I will sit tight again.

 

[mike89]

The impact sub rule needs to go to give the bowlers a chance!

There was some interesting commentary last night - I think it was Katey Martin who said it - to the effect that this will force bowling to evolve and make the sport better. But in this case I'm not sure it'll put the genie back in the bottle. Sure having the extra batter changes the risk equation a little, but Punjab got those runs two down! You can't just un-learn that.

Thankfully I think we're somewhat insulated from the effects in the BBL just because of how much bigger the grounds are here. Can't mis-hit for six as much as you can in India.

 

[Diabolical]

There was some interesting commentary last night - I think it was Katey Martin who said it - to the effect that this will force bowling to evolve and make the sport better. But in this case I'm not sure it'll put the genie back in the bottle. Sure having the extra batter changes the risk equation a little, but Punjab got those runs two down! You can't just un-learn that.

Thankfully I think we're somewhat insulated from the effects in the BBL just because of how much bigger the grounds are here. Can't mis-hit for six as much as you can in India.

Good point re the small grounds. I also think that teams knowing that they have the extra batter means they can go even harder at the top. When they don’t lose wickets the scores will be insane. The advantage if they do have a collapse is they can try and get out of it with a decent batter in hand.

When a team can’t defend 261 there doesn’t seem any reason to be picking specialist bowlers.

 

[Woosie]

The impact sub rule needs to go to give the bowlers a chance!

Just Narine and Dre Russ overnight to bring me to 3/880. I have been toying with using a boost to get ahead on a DGR player to come, but I think I will sit tight again.

How many boosts have you used? if you don't mind me asking

 

[Diabolical]

How many boosts have you used? if you don't mind me asking

I haven’t used any. My plan is usually to only use them to take advantage of the fixture to navigate a tricky section, take a score that needs looping that can’t be otherwise or change my team around if a player was an unexpected out etc. However, none of those situations have presented for my team so far.

Now that I have removed all perma-donuts from my team and we have DGRs every round until the end, I am guessing such occasions will start presenting. Though we are almost at the stage of the season that I will need to use them or I’ll lose them!!

 

[mike89]

EARLY GAME TONIGHT

MI bowling first

MI: Coetzee out, Wood in
DC: Shaw out, Kushagra in

 

[tso]

Mumbai Indians (Playing XI): Rohit Sharma, Ishan Kishan(w), Tilak Varma, Nehal Wadhera, Hardik Pandya(c), Tim David, Mohammad Nabi, Piyush Chawla, Luke Wood, Jasprit Bumrah, Nuwan Thushara

Delhi Capitals (Playing XI): Jake Fraser-McGurk, Kumar Kushagra, Shai Hope, Rishabh Pant(w/c), Tristan Stubbs, Abishek Porel, Axar Patel, Kuldeep Yadav, Lizaad Williams, Mukesh Kumar, Khaleel Ahmed

Delhi Capitals Impact Subs: Rasikh Dar Salam, Praveen Dubey, Vicky Ostwal, Ricky Bhui, Sumit Kumar

Mumbai Indians Impact Subs: Suryakumar Yadav, Naman Dhir, Shams Mulani, Dewald Brevis, Kumar Kartikeya

 

[tso]

4/700

Kuldeep C, Axar, Pant, JFM, Khaleel

 

[Miller is a Steele]

Dehli 0/55 off 3
JFM 46* (14)

 

[Diabolical]

Looped Klaasen, played Head onfield for 1, was due. Thinking on whether I take JFM captain or roll the dice.

JFM is 4/4 on getting to 20 with a 60 point headstart. Don't overcomplicate it.

Good to see that you kept it simple @Professor