Champions trophy, the clash of eight top cricket teams, will begin at England from 1st of June 2017. It is no less than the world cup. There are two groups of teams: Group A: England, Australia, New zealand, Bangladesh Group B: India, South africa, Srilanka, Pakistan The hosts England are in very good form. With the home advantage, they are favorites to win this trophy. Under the leadership of Morgan, the team has delivered good results recently. While the batting of England is quiet strong and bat deep as the Moen, Rashid, Woakes and Plumkett are all good with bat too, the bowling is also equally strong making England one of the tough contenders. Key players: Hales, Root, Stokes, Morgan, Woakes. Australia is also in
Year: 2017
IPL 2017: MATCH 32 (KKR vs DD) & MATCH 33 (KP vs SRH) Fantasy Preview
Date: 28/04/2017 Match 33 : KKR vs DD This is a home match for KKR, the team on top of the table. KKR is playing very solid cricket and both, batting and bowling, is coming good for them. DD can only pose problems to KKR if they bowl well which is their strong point. Key fantasy players: KKR - Gambhir, Narine, M Pandey, U Yadav. DD - Samson, Nair, Morris, Mishra. KKR are favorite to win and I think that kolkata will consolidate their position with a win over Delhi at Eden gardens. Match 34: KP vs SRH The match will be played at Mohali. Punjab in lingering at the bottom half of points table and would definitely look to climb up 2 points in the table. Hyderabad
IPL 2017: Match 20 – GL vs RCB Fantasy Preview
This is a match between two teams lying at the bottom of the table. Though both teams have powerful international superstars, they are still to get hold of the points table. With Kohli returning to the team, Bangalore team has become more strong. Still, the loss of form of other key players like Gayle and Watson is a big concern for them. On the other hand, Gujarat are yet to find their playing eleven right. Jadeja is yet to put an impact with his spin bowling. Their main strength should be batting with stalwarts like Finch and McCullum in team. Raina will look to win this match at home and raise his team in points table. Key Fantasy players: GL - D
IPL 2017: MATCH 11 KKR/KP Fantasy Preview
KKR plays its first match at home ground. After a grand successful opening match, KKR suddenly seems to be unbalanced due to the injury flare up of Chris Lynn. But, still they have good options in back up in Colin deGrandhomme, Darren Bravo and the experienced Shakib al Hasan. Most likely replacement for Lynn would be Shakib. Umesh yadav would be back for Kolkata and mostly he will replace Ankit. But, the worry for Kolkata is that Robin and Yousuf are not in good form. Narine has also not picked up much wickets yet in this season. Punjab has got off to a very good start with 2 successive wins. The new captain Maxwell seems to be doing well for team.
IPL 2017 – MATCH 10: MI vs SRH Fantasy Preview
SRH is defending champion and have won both their matches at their home. Now, they visit Mumbai today to play their first away game. They have shown very good performances with both bat and ball. The bowling is very disciplined with experienced bowlers like Nehra and Bhuvaneshwar. Rashid Khan has proved to be their smart pick this season who has troubled the batsmen a lot with his spin. To add to that unit, Mustafizur is fit to play today. The batting unit has already shown that their top four are in good touch with fifties from Warner, Henriques and Yuvraj. So, SRH start as favourites in this match. Mumbai, on the other hand, has lots of issues to deal with.
IPL 2017: Match 10 – RPS vs DD match preview
Pune is playing at home against Delhi who lost their previous match despite a valiant innings by Pant. Pune also had a good match, but lost to punjab due to some excellent hitting by Maxwell and Miller. Mayank Agrawal have not clicked for Pune, so they have option of Duplessis or Khwaja to try leaving out Christian, who was expensive. Stokes and Tahir should continue as they are doing good for team. For Delhi, they have lots of bowling option but there lack of good batting options. Billings will have to play a long innings around whom Tare, Nair, Samson can do fast scoring. Morris is a very valuable player for Delhi. He can be good with bat too. If
IPL 2017: match 9 – KP vs RCB match preview
Both the teams have won their previous matches. RCB defended a relatively small total at chinaswamy total, which shows their bowling efforts. Punjab won their first game under new captain Maxwell, who himself played well. For this match, AB Devilliers is expected to be fit. In such case, either of Mills or Stanlake will have to make way. That means further changes to accommodate one more bowler. Even if Devilliers does not come in, RCB may like to have Travis Head back to strengthen their batting which has become weak due to unavailability of kohli, rahul and bad form of gayle. Punjab may go with the same team that won them their first match. Punjab have a good batting lineup
IPL 2017: match 7, MI vs KKR Fantasy Preview
Mumbai vs Kolkata have been fascinating encounters in the past. KKR have won their first match against Gujarat in grand style with Chris Lynn playing one of the memorable innings of IPL. If he continues to be in that form, KKR would be strong contender for the title as they have very good bowling attack. Mumbai will be eager to have services of Malinga, Southee making way for him. Loss of A Rayudu will be a big blow for MI as Rohit is yet to find form. For KKR, Shakib is available, but with S Narine and Chawla playing seems that he will have to wait. Woakes may play his second game today. Key players for fantasy team: MI – Rohit Sharma,
IPL 2017: match 6, GL vs SRH Fantasy Preview
The defending champions SRH won their first match against RCB with smashing performance by Yuvraj Singh. The Gujarat lions, on the other hand, lost to KKR even after posting a 180+ total. Gujarat has a very strong batting lineup as they utilized all four slots of overseas players by choosing batsmen. For this match however, it seems they would like to have Faulkner in. That means most likely D Smith would sit out. SRH have Mustafizur Rehman available to choose, but i feel they will stick to the winning combination. Key players for fantasy team: SRH – Warner, Henriques, Yuvraj, Rashid Khan, Nehra. GL – Raina, McCullum, Karthick, Finch, Roy. Warner, Yuvraj, Raina, Roy would be good options for captain/vice captain selection. My prediction is
SRI LANKA VS BANGLADESH 2nd T20I preview
The Test series result 1-1. The ODI series result 1-1. Bangladesh has played excellent cricket on this sri lanka series. If they win this T20 today then that would be the perfect end to the series. And also it would be a befitting gift to the skipper Mortaza who is retiring from T20 cricket. Key Fantasy picks: For Bangladesh - Tamim, Sabbir Rehman, Shakib, M Rehman, Rahim. For Sri Lanka - K Perera, Munawera, Gunaratne, Malinga, Prassana. My Prediction: Sri lanka to win the match and end the tour on winning note.