If you had any doubts as to how important a role does momentum play in sport, all you need to do is look at RCB’s plight. A team ridden with superstars, wounded from last year’s loss in the final, was expected to come back as roaring tigers this season, but one loss has led to another, and their spirit just seems to have been broken to the core. How else can you explain three T20 legends failing to lead their side to even par scores every game, how do you explain this anomaly? You have to attribute it to low self-confidence, and nothing less.
But what has led to this low self confidence in the RCB side? There has to be some trigger? And yes, there is.
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RCB are a side full of stroke makers, players who will flourish only when the ball comes onto the bat, and as they have invested almost all their resources in strengthening their batting, bowler friendly pitches haven’t quite helped their cause.While it is easy to argue that whatever be the condition of the pitch, it is a level playing field at the end of the day, but when your team is tailored around good batting pitches, and outscoring the opposition, it gets really difficult when bowling friendly pitches are dished out.
But again, with players of such quality, there shouldn’t be an excuse for not chasing down 138. The seeds of ‘low self confidence’ were laid after the KKR debacle, and have only sprouted further ever since.
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Sandeep Sharma and Axar Patel were instrumental in another drubbing for RCB, and they have given Kings XI some much needed impetus in their final dash towards that playoff spot.
Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rising Pune Supergiant
Can the fortress be breached by a high flying Supergiant side? David Warner would look to ensure that RPS don’t even get a sniff tomorrow. But RPS have made a habit of producing different heroes every game, whose chance is it tomorrow? Rahane, maybe, we’ll have to wait and see.
Both these sides have a very realistic chance of making it to the playoffs and tomorrows game could twist and turn the tables a little bit. Lots of permutations are still possible, and the puzzle could only get more complicated.
David Warner would be weary of the fact that apart from the top 4, the other batsmen haven’t really had a big outing with the bat. In dire times that could prove to be a real menace for the SRH side. It’s a catch 22 situation really, as you wouldn’t want to expose your middle order too often, and would hope that the top order shields them in the best possible way, but who doesn’t like to be prepared for the worst?
RPS need to either find another hero tomorrow or need to find that complete team equation. The latter is the ideal way to go about it but they’ll take whatever they can at the moment.
Let’s get to business now!
IPL Fantasy Tips on the next page:
IPL Fantasy League(Fantasy Tips for Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rising Pune Supergiant)
Transfer out: Martin Guptill, Aniket Chaudhary
Transfer in: David Warner, Ankit Soni
Now, I already have Steve Smith, Ben Stokes, Rahul Tripathi and Bhuvaneshwar Kumar in my side for this game.
The first player that I’ll be bringing in is David Warner. Warner has once again been instrumental in providing those emphatic starts at the top of the order, and against an average RPS bowling unit, he should help himself to another 50 tomorrow.
With all my other players featuring in either today or in the first game tomorrow, I won’t be making any more transfers for this game.
For the uncapped player, I’ll be bringing in a dummy player, as I just have 600,000 in the bag and no uncapped player from this game is worth as much.
Now, if you can make another transfer for this game, I would suggest getting in Rashid Khan, as he could cause a lot of problems to that dodgy RPS middle order.
Captain: Ben Stokes/Bhuvi(whoever bowls first)
Fandromeda Fantasy Tips on the next page:
Fandromeda(Fantasy Tips for Sunrisers Hyderabad vs Rising Pune Supergiant)
Transfer out: Glenn Maxwell, Virat Kohli
Transfer in: David Warner, Rahul Tripathi/Rashid Khan
Now, I already have Ajinkya Rahane, Ben Stokes, Imran Tahir and Bhuvi in my squad for this game.
Again, the first player that I get in for this game is David Warner, reasons for which are explained in the IPL Fantasy League section. Actually, scratch that, get him in anyway.
The second player that I’ll be getting in for this game is Rahul Tripathi. As i brought in Warner, I had to opt for a player who could bowl, and Tripathi just seems like the best option available, with the form that he currently is in. But if you feel that getting in Tripathi could be a little risky against Bhuvi and Nehra(he is almost certain to return) up top, you could go in with Rashid Khan, as the safer option.
I won’t be making any more transfers for this game
Batting Star: David Warner
Bowling Star: Bhuvi/Stokes(whoever bowls first)
