IPL 2017: Cricket Insider tweets nine predictions related to IPL final, gets eight of them correct
What’s the story?
Predictions have become a regular feature in cricket with experts, pundits from around the globe and websites throwing up predictions pertaining to matches. While some of them tend to fall into place, others go terribly wrong as the game takes shape.
However, this was not the case for Cricket Insider’s Twitter account who tweeted nine predictions related to the IPL final between the Mumbai Indians and the Rising Pune Supergiant. To everyone’s surprise, eight of them were bang on target.
Some of the tweets are as follows.
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The Mumbai Indians emerged victorious in the final of the tenth season of the Indian Premier League by one run. Mumbai won the toss and elected to bat first and posted 129 runs courtesy Krunal Pandya’s gutsy knock of 47.
The Supergiant were well and truly in the chase with Ajinkya Rahane and Steven Smith milking the bowling. However, some suffocating bowling by the Mumbai Indians at the death tied them down and Pune tantalisingly fell short by a solitary run.
The heart of the matter
The Twitter account was created the night before the IPL final and the tweets were floated from 3:36 am to 4:17 am.
Quite expectedly, after seeing the accuracy of the tweets, several Twitter handlers went back to the Cricket Insider account to enquire about whether the game was fixed or not.
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While the answer was a resounding ‘no’, Cricket Insider believed that luck favoured him big time.
What’s next?
After creating a buzz with the tweets during the IPL final, Cricket Insider has vowed to return for the Champions Trophy and make similar predictions.
Author’s Take
It’s always nice for anyone who makes predictions to later find out that they have fallen in place. Regarding the tweets, while it can be said that luck might have played a huge factor, there still exists some suspicion due to the sheer percentage of correct predictions. It will be interesting to see how accurate Cricket Insider’s predictions are for the Champions Trophy.
However, more often than not, there is a twist in the tale as well. It is often seen that most of these predictors make a great number of predictions, which essentially include all possible outcomes of the game, and then go on to delete the ones that don’t transpire on the field.
Hence, as astounding as these predictions might sound, at first sight, they must also be taken with a pinch of salt keeping in mind that tweets on social media can be deleted as well.