Round 2 Predictions

The second round of ACL league matches takes place tomorrow (if you didn't already know that, which planet are you on?), and predictions for tomorrow are -

1) Psychat's Merchants v/s Osama's Taliban
Even though the Merchants wrecked my prediction last week, I'm going to "demonstrate courage" and go with them for the win again. HeyRam will desperately want to win, in order to silence his critics and justify his high base price. Psychat will also desperately want to win, so that he can resume his verbal assault on people's sanity (sadly, via this blog). This desperation should see them through. The Taliban will need to "raise the bar" significantly from last week's performance (shouldn't be difficult, since it was quite poor) to make this competitive.

2) Humpty Dumpty's Anda-Bondas v/s Big Vindaloo's Vindaloos
Closest call of the day. Both teams are on a high after their wins last week, and the winner of this one is pretty much through to the semis. Both teams are fairly evenly matched, both on the field as well as with their sledging. Supari Gupta v/s Not-Just-AnotherBun Nandi will be an engaging contest. I predict the Vindaloos to win in a close match, since Humpty Dumpty may have put some pressure on his team with his open challenge last week. Watch out for off-the-field action too – good sledging will be key to winning this one.

3) Craydit's Crayditors v/s Everyish/Salman Khan's Blackbucks
The Blackbucks should pull this off fairly comfortably. RoyalRoyalChallenger and B-Shoe will need to be at their best, though. B-Shoe will especially want to put his first-ball duck from last week behind him. For the Crayditors, Zen has the potential to be a match-winner (as always), and may be able to swing an upset if the rest of the Crayditors play to their potential.

In other breaking news, the ACL Commissioner has taken to snooping around people's computers to see if they are working on this blog. I also overheard some people on his team mentioning that this has come up in his weekly/monthly/quarterly statuses with them. Mr.Modi - please don't worry about who I am. I will reveal myself at the right time. Until then, you’ll just have to live with me exposing inside information from the ACL to the general public.