Review, WI vs NZ, 29 Mar 2007

Whats this! It seems we have done pretty well this time around.

Yesterday's post:

"Winner: New Zealand
Individual Scores:
Gayle: Expect a 50+ score
Chanderpaul: Will make a big hundred if he goes over 15-20 runs.
Sarwan:25-35
Stephen Fleming: Most likely score <20.Will, however, score a 50 if he crosses that.
Styris: 50+"

Lets see what the actual results were like:

Winner: New Zealand

Individual Scores:
Gayle: 44
Chanderpaul: 4
Sarwan:19
Stephen Fleming:45
Styris: 80


There! These people don't seem to like converting 40s to 50s. That would've made us look so much better. But otherwise, the little tweaking we did with the model seemed to have worked.

We'll give ourselves a li'l pat on the back for this one. (We badly need it, with the general interest levels in the team plunging after India's ouster)

WI vs NZ

There's been too much cricket over the last 3 days, with the Aus Vs WI match going into the reserve day. So, with a kind heart, please excuse the delay in today's predictions. We've taken out what little time we could from a scarily busy schedule, and have come out with a few predictions for the match.

Winner: New Zealand

Individual Scores:
Gayle: Expect a 50+ score
Chanderpaul: Will make a big hundred if he goes over 15-20 runs.
Sarwan:25-35
Stephen Fleming: Most likely score <20. Will, however, score a 50 if he crosses that.
Styris: 50+

You'll notice that we keep changing the way we present individual predictions. The plain and simple reason is that we wish to make the best use of the model and tell you everything it has to say. As always, suggestions are welcome.

SA Vs SL

Aus vs WI

Scorewizard predicts a victory for Australia.

The Indian debacle and the Australian run mojo

While we haven't posted predictions for the Ind v SL match and the Aus v RSA match (for various reasons), we did send them over to DNA as always. So we'll request you to :
a) take our word for it

OR

b) look up the respective editions of DNA,
when we say that we predicted victory for Sri Lanka (correctly) and South Africa (wrongly).

A score of 40-60 was correctly predicted for Dravid, as was a failure for Sachin and Sourav.
A low score was predicted for Sehwag but he went on to score 48.
Over-all, good predictions, though not necessarily pleasing to the Indian cricket fan (that includes us).
With South Africa we bungled big time and we've started looking into the matter(though their victory seemed possible when they were 165/0). The problem should be sorted out before they play their next match.

We'll come out with predictions for the WI v AUS match tonight. We'll however hope that any delay is excused, since we aren't done yet brooding over India's exit from the tournament.

And yes, we'll all hope (as will you) that Indian cricket gets a much needed revamp as soon as possible.

Oh, woe, India!

Well, what do we say!

We've decided this one's gonna be a graffiti post. Throw in all the criticism/abuses/words-of-encouragement that you have for both us and the Indian team in the comments section of this post and we shall put them up on the blog.

We must admit this much. Predicting a NZ win over AUS was one thing. But India's defeat to Bangladesh was well and truly beyond our 'predictive powers'. And dont even get us started on Pakistan's defeat to Ireland. We cant thank our stars enough for not trying to predict that one.

We'll be back with more venom for the next match and we hope the Indian team does so too.
On that positive note, cya around!

Review, NZ vs ENG, 16th March 2007

So New Zealand did win as predicted! Sure, it might seem obvious to a lot of people now, but consider this: Both teams beat Australia in their recent ODI series and New Zealand lost to Bangladesh in their practice match. Doesn't seem that obvious now does it?

And coming to the scores, we predicted low scores for Ian Bell and Andrew Flintoff, both of which turned out to be true. This, inspite of the fact that Flintoff was tipped to be one of the better performers in the match.
With Mc Millan (NZ), we were really close, predicting 24 when he actually scored 27!

And yes, we love the feedback (read criticism?). It really helps. So do bring it on!

India vs Bangladesh

New Zealand Vs England

Oh Boy!

Why haven't we posted over the last two days? Well, we've been busy....with the press!

We went to DNA with our predictions before the first world cup match and they gladly obliged.
And now the thing is all over the place! Indiatimes, Hindustan times, The Statesman...you name it. And whats more, our team made a brief appearance on ESPN's Sports Center show on 14th March too!

So what caught the media's attention?
Being bang on for both the captains. Though others weren't quite right. And we predicted a Windies victory too (though they did win comfortably).

Talking business, we will be ready with next set of predictions by this evening.

Here are some of the links which talk about our stuff:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/14/sports/AS-SPT-India-Crickets-Crystal-Ball.php

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/14/sports/AS-SPT-CRK-Indias-Crystal-Ball.php

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=5&theme=&usrsess=1&id=149741

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1084509

http://www.supercricket.co.za/default.asp?id=208206&des=article&scat=supercricket/worldcup2007

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/03/14/sports/AS-SPT-India-Crickets-Crystal-Ball.php

http://worldcup.indiatimes.com/Crickets_Crystal_Ball_forecasts_all/articleshow/1764124.cms

http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/post/princefans_board/vpost?id=1764361

http://gonewiththewindies.blogspot.com/2007/03/mumbai-tech-firm-masters-crystal-ball.html

http://www.gulfnews.com/sport/Cricket/10110643.html

http://www.thestatesman.net/page.news.php?clid=5&theme=&usrsess=1&id=149741

World Cup 2007 West Indies Vs Pakistan

Hi Folks!

The World Cup starts tomorrow! And we are all excited! We have waited for long for this... and so have you. As is our habit of playing Nostradamus, we will be blabbering out our preditions for the world cup too. And hope that they arent just blabberings.

Our predictions for tomorrow's match are:

We believe it will be a narrow match, with West Indies having a slight edge over Pakistan. Also, if West Indies bats first, we expect it to be a low scoring match.