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IPL's Finest Rivalry

KYC (Know Your Cricket)

1/ How the mighty have fallen. Two of the great IPL teams are now battling it out for the last spot.

Their last losses came against the two new teams: Gujarat Titans and Lucknow Super Giants. Change of guard, maybe? 🤔

2/ The Trinidadian matchup! Pollard strikes at 160 against Bravo but has gotten out 10 times to him. Bravo strikes at 128 against Pollard but has never gotten out to him. Whoever wins this battle will most likely end up on the winning side. 💯

3/ Bumrah has taken 134 wickets in the IPL. Jadeja has taken 132 wickets. Who would have guessed Jaddu to have just two wickets less than Bumrah, eh? Not us for sure. Either way, who is your money on for tomorrow? 🤨 

Send 'em Smacks

1/ Ishan Kishan is the IPL’s most expensive player. Hasn’t really worked out for him or MI so far. But he’s 7 boundaries away from 150 boundaries. Think he can step up against the mighty CSK❓

2/ Robin Utthapa has been around for a while. He’s 81 runs away from 5000 IPL runs and will be only the 6th batter to get there. He gets there and you can bet that Mumbai are going to be 0 for 7.

3/ Jadeja or Dhoni? Who is the captain? CSK and Jadeja say that it’s Jadeja but it certainly looks like Dhoni is still calling the shots. Hasn’t been the best of times for Jaddu but at least he does one hell of a Pushpa impression.

WTF Is That?

Dil Scoop

• A scoop shot played directly over the wicket keeper’s head. Called Dil-scoop because Tilakaratne Dilshan of Sri Lanka was the first player to play it.

• Played on a short delivery by a fast bowler as the pace is used to guide the ball above the keeper

• Almost always results in a boundary as there is never a fielder there

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