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Okay Ladies and Gents. We are live, our organizer Royse is busy this year so on his behalf i'm creating this thread and its temporary arrangement only for this World Cup. Interested individual can start sending fees to the pool BTC or LTC (we'll convert this into Btc).

Good work. I will be sending my fees in a day or two. Feel free to add me as a participant. Let it spread out and if possible find a sponsor so that the pot becomes nicer. I will try to knock a few of my contacts.

I will soon send the fee. Having a sponsor would be cool enough to increase the pot but sadly, I guess you won't have one as there's no much people joining the pool. It would be better if someone can talk with stake or some other casino which offer cricket bets. Maybe we can get someone.

So much interested to join but as @RapTarX said it will be more lucrative if you are able to manage a sponsor for this prediction pool.
Last time I've won 2nd place at COPA America Prediction Pool which was sponsored by sportsbet.io :); you can get in touch with them too.
maybe they will agree to take the sponsorship.

Just sent 0.0004 BTC. Hope the extra one will be used to cover fees or anything else.
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Officially in! :-D

It seems to me that first real match is starting from 23 Oct (Aus vs SA). I was under impression that WC kicking in from 17 ish oct but first few matches are just warm up games, so guess we have 10 days or something but ofc don't wait until the last minute. On sponsors, NGL i'm Clueless.

This is news to me. I thought it was starting next week too when I checked the schedule last time. It would be better to add the official start date of the competition in the title of this thread in order to avoid any misunderstandings.

BTC looks like it will breach its ATH soon. Am currently waiting for BTC fees to go down so that I can send my payment to the pool address.

Officially it start from the 17 oct but starting round is more like qualification round so it got mixed up. Anyway already added more details about groups and dates, should be okay now. Let me know if something looks off.

We have LTC option too but take your time, no rush.

How many we are now?

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2?

Just sent my fee to the BTC pool address:

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Am excited to participate in this pool. Looks like the T-20 World Cup 2021 will conclude in less than a month which is pretty short in my opinion. Thanks for posting the schedule in an organized manner(Eliminated any confusion).

My LTC is sent- 2cebe161ee7fcf309b2f1c9aec62d1dd4df3d9a3c3c6bc32f719f0d831bb7604

We are 4 now. I guess we won't have many participants this time as well; sad to see that. Probably having a sponsor to maximize the pool would attract some more participants. JSRAW, did you post the thread link to other cricket threads that exist here? I guess that would attract some more members.

Welcome, added..

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Guess if we had more time then we could have get sponsor but IPL fever was going on for 1 last month so we almost forget about the WC. Hopes are not high but trying our best to get one, let's see.

Yeah, posted couple of times in our T-20 thread. Vishnu might join soon, hopefully couple of regulars will do the same.

Understandable. IPL 2021 felt like such a long season thanks to the gap between the first and second legs which is why excitement for the T-20 World Cup isn't very high currently, but that could change soon.

Warm-up and qualifiers will conclude soon after which the main matches(India vs Pakistan etc) will attract a lot of attention from around the world.

It's been sometime since I watched live international team matches and it's holiday season which is why I am excited. Rooting for the Indian team with MSD as the mentor.

Just have sent the entry fee but not as a participant, it's a donation to the pool- 35cc97f3f9ae9f0ca6c55195f6aada0a4f6e238b0740e03c2d9aacc5286ed086
I wish I could participate and enjoy the time with you but sadly, I can't. Hopefully you will have a good ride. Good luck to the participants and good luck to my country.

Appreciate the gesture.

But bhai it wouldn't take much of your time for selecting teams, no deep analysis needed anyway. I'm sending you invite link so please feel free to join. In case you don't then i respect your decision.

But our track record is meh lol. How about new WC champion this time?  :)

Hello thank you for opening this prediction pool contest. I could be interested in participating but I don't know how the "Superbru local rules" works precisely. Being registered on superbru is mandatory and all predictions must be done there as I understand, right?
So is it possible to see what are the predictions of the other participants there?

- Yeah, account on superbru is mandatory so that one can pick their winning teams.
- Before the match superbru doesn't allow to see other participants picks; condition apply Participants can see everybody's prediction if they lock their picks but after that you can't change your predictions. When match kicks in then all picks for the match automatically gets accessible to everyone.

True. Just checked the winners list and observed that the last T20 World Cup winner was West Indies way back in 2016 which is 5 years ago. Damn. COVID basically cancelled out around 2 T-20 World Cups.

I feel like India or New Zealand could win this time around(Random Prediction). A new winner would be great as you mentioned.

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I thought you would even include the group stage in the pool because we have seen two unexpected results in the group stage so far too. It will be a very interesting contest, we have lesser matches so no margin of error available with anyone.

Welcome we are 6 now, if little mouse join us too.. 7 if vishnu comes along, i'll remind him via inbox.

At first i was thinking the same but superbru didn't had any options for group stage because its more like a qualification round and main event start with the super 12 team -23 oct-.

I guess initial delay was due to FTP and followed by covid, i think only 1 T-20 wc got cancelled. Australia was supposed to host the last one.

India ticking a lot of boxes in warm up games but still i'm very skeptical about their chances. Kiwis are looking out of touch tbh. England is potential contender. If i have to choose new winner then i'll go with the Afghan or Bangladesh.

Felt great to see MI batsmen like Hardik and Ishan recover their form in these games which is why their chances of winning the cup are on the higher side. However, we should never underestimate Kohli's bad luck related to winning big cups.

England are playing really well in the warm-up matches though Afghan or Bangladesh winning would be a crazy twist.  Bangladesh lost to Scotland recently and they seem out of touch.

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Will send the fee soon. Please send me the link.

Arey where were you? Seems like ages already.. Sending invite.

I really hope that Hardik and other new guys clicks in the competition. Bookies are favoring India to win the WC despite their history. May be because Indian team looking very strong in the Paper, as usual ofc.

Welcome back!
Seems you have enjoyed the bull run and had a great vacation. Great to see you again. I have pmed you couple of times but got no response, I was worried about you.
@JSRAW, I will join too. Would be great if there were few more participants and a sponsor. I tried my best but sadly no success.

It looks like we have our Super 12 everyone. Apart from the 8 teams that automatically qualified, Scotland(Surprising) and Bangladesh qualified while Sri Lanka and Namibia(Pretty sure ) also qualified.

England and India might win the cup this time around in my opinion after watching their recent performances though anything can happen since this is the T20 format.

I would go with India to be the champion. Well, let's see their performance against Pakistan; most exciting cricket match still I guess. I didn’t have a look earlier but I was surprised to see Ravi Rampaul getting back in the squad after 5/6 years. Did I read it wrong?
Edit- Didn't Ireland qualify? Damn! I have missed quite a lot of updates. This T20 world cup will be a package of surprise I guess. Bangladesh lost to Scotland, Ireland was eliminated by Namibia; what's next?

Bhai, already sent you invite couple of days back. You need to accept invitation.  :) We have 7 participants including you, who knows if some last minute surprises join us like pffrt did. It's alright bro, don't worry about sponsor.

Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Scotland -4 semifinalist-  ;D

Looks like I got screwed by betting on SA thanks to the South African batsmen. Was expecting better performances from them, but they disappointed me. Rapter and Timon are leading once again.

Predicted England to win against West Indies and I hope they don't screw up. However, we should never underestimate West Indies in the T-20 format.

Its just a first game and we still have 29 more matches to go in the league before semis so nothing to worry about.  :)

Windies got many explosive individual but majority are aging dogs (Gayle, Pollard, Bravo,Russell), match winners but getting old and also it would be interesting to see if they could play as a group again.

Miss me? I sure missed you all  ;D

I'll be active in the forum only by the year-end but I could find some spare time to have some fun with you guys here. So consider me in  :)

But right now, I don't have any spare BTC or LTC to join the Pool. Hope I'll get some grace time to pay for it.

Btw, congrats to RaptarX and others for winning the IPL pool which I missed.

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And special thanks to Royse77 for making me a DT member while I was away  

@JSRAW please send me an invite link.

Welcome back bhai. You and Pffrt were away for real good, i hope that you and your family is doing good. We already have very small community so its very hard to forget you guys. Nohomo lol

No rush on sending fees, take your time.

Btw Vishnu also went missing from the last week, hope all is good.

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What a poor performance by West Indies today, if you see their batting lineup, they had almost 7 players in the top 8 who are so-called T20 Stars in various leagues around the world and almost all of them performed so badly today, I don't see any other team with such a powerful and experienced batting line up. But as they say, too many "too many cooks spoil the broth", each one of their batsmen started the pinch-hitting from ball one as if they are coming settled from the Pavillion, result is the whole team skittling for just 55. One can surely say WI is one of the most inconsistent and surprising team in the history of cricket

True. Expected more from SA though considering their recent performances. Silver lining for me is that West Indies got demolished by England as expected. They have been playing like crap in recent times.

I predicted India to win easily against Pakistan and Sri Lanka to win against Bangladesh. Am mainly excited for the India-Pakistan match.

Agreed. I never expected them to win against England way back in the 2016 final, but Brathwaite made it happen(Stokes too). We can never truly rule them out since they have several match-winners in their current squad.

I don't know if inconsistency argument will hold much ground in ICC T-20 tournament, after all they are 2 times World Champion in T-20 and this is only 8th edition. I think this all comes down T-20 format, which itself very unpredictable. Any team on their day can beat anyone.

Windies performance was poor indeed but who knows if it their own 36 moment (India 36 all out) and might come back strong just like India. 

Whoo-hoo. Did anyone guess Bangladesh to win this match comfortably? Because I guess that's how this match is going to end.
Both Naim and Mushfiqur batted exceptionally well and had set a target of 172 runs thereby putting huge pressure on the Srilankans. Now they are picked up a wicket in the 1st over itself. Unless the Srilankan batsmen get a good partnership, Bangladesh is going to win this match comfortably.

Too excited for the India vs Pakistan match

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Wow, Asalanka and Rajapaksa saved the match. Very bad captaincy and poor fielding have cost Bangladesh and me heavily  :-[

It was poor fielding to be honest. Liton Das dropped 2 catches for both Rajapakse and Asalanka respectively. If any of both these was taken, result would have been different. Moreover, captaincy was a bit poor too. I didn’t get why Nasum wasn’t brought into action despite being a regular bowler and captain himself took the bowl.
Anyway it's great since I have gone with Srilanka to win. Bangladesh batted well. They need to be a team, they need a team play.

Dropping couple of catch played its part but bad captaincy was big one. Shakib was doing so wonderfully, took 2 wickets in an over and Mahmudullah replaced him only because 2 left handers were at the crease. Result? Next 3 over went for 52 runs despite Lankans were in pressure. It opened the game for them.

I have never seen Pakistani batsman to play such calm on chases LOL; this match is somewhat an exciting one. Both Rizwan & Babar Azam is playing exactly like they should be playing. They didn’t play like the usual Pakistan  ;D Nevertheless, it should be an easy chase and that's what it has been. I was impressed by Shaheen Afridi bowling at first two overs. He was incredible.

What the blazing hell! I never expected in a million years that Pakistan would thrash India without losing a single freaking wicket. 152 was a decent score, but their bowlers were absolutely horrible.

Pakistan never won against India in the past when MSD was the captain, but they destroyed India when Kohli was the captain. Unbelievable. Amazing comeback by Pakistan.

Took almost 3 decade but its really good for the cricket. India-Pakistan rivalry was dying from one sided result in the ICC tournaments. 2017 Championship trophy win and recent win might fix the problem in the long run. Although close matches still missing when both countries play against each other, if my memory serves me well then last competitive matches were 2007 group match (Tie then India winning in bowl out) and final.

Did you mean only t20 or all other competitive tournament? In 2011 world cup, semi final was India vs Pakistan. I think you are getting old, bhai. But for me it's still ever fresh. I can still remember the innings of Sachin (85) clearly and he was the man of the match.

All WC matches. Even Champions trophy matches were one sided, like when India won they won convincingly and same for Pakistan.

I rechecked and nah that semi final was not that competitive as compared to 2007. India won by 29 runs so hardly a competitive encounter.

I agree. The part which seriously stunned me was India not managing to take a single wicket since 152 isn't a small score. It's like all their bowlers were amateurs and were bosses around by Babar and Rizwan.

After this win, I strongly believe that Pakistan are one of the top contenders to win the trophy this time around followed by England. India need to rethink their strategies if they wish to stay in the race.

^^ Their Semi final spot is almost fixed, knock out games are different ball game tho. For me this tournament is wide open for any team and toss is now emerging as a big factor similar to IPL.

In Group-1 Windies is almost out.

In Group-2 India and New Zealand will play for their survival as only 1 one of them could reach the Semi finals but Afghanistan look excellent opponent in the same group so it won't be a cakewalk.

The Windies are playing like an amateur team currently. NZ stand better chances at qualifying for the semi-finals when compared to India though it will probably come down to the NRR factor.

England won easily against Bangladesh and almost qualified for the semi-finals while Scotland continues to disappoint me thanks to their medicore performances.

Have you noticed Simmons yesterday? He scored 16 out of 35 balls. I got a feeling that it was a fixing. I don’t know how is it even possible. The match result would be different. Apart from his batting, West Indies played pretty good. Out of 85 balls, they scored 127 runs which I believe somewhat a good score. That was unbelievable from Simmons.

Windies chances looks really slim. England is looking at excellent form and bossing every game. I agree NZ has better chance when comparing to India, although i won't rule out Indian team yet because we have seen fair amount of comeback from the Indian team in recent times.

Afghanistan could spoil Ind-NZ campaign.
Not able to watch live matches due to workload but checked the highlights, it was indeed awful. I'm bit surprised to see that Jason Holder is not playing.

I disagree. Did you forget about the fact that West Indies got bowled out for 50 something recently against England? This isn't fixing. Their players are clearly out of form.

I agree. India could make a big comeback, but AFG ruining Ind-NZ campaign would be a crazy twist. Many teams are going to be knocked out in this 'Red Light, Green Light' game in the near future. The contest is heating up.

How did I get 2 points today? If I'm correct, I had 12 points yesterday & after today’s match, it's 14 now; I didn’t get a margin point. What am I missing? Can someone put some light here?

That's not about off form of course. Did you check the total score? It was 143 & if I exclude Simmons run & ball faced, it's 127 from 85 balls (didn’t calculate the extra run though). Don't you think it’s a nice score if we keep Simmons score apart? How the f he did 16 run only facing 35 balls while other played normal. It's weird & suspicious of course.

How exactly is that suspicious? Haven't you ever seen players score less than a run a ball in a T20 even though others performed way better in comparison? Simmons had a bad day and that is a fact.

It's pointless suspecting any player without proper proof basically. Also, it's a lot more difficult to fix matches these days.

Once again, what a poor performance from Bangladesh. It should be an easy chase, there was two set batsman and it was 33 from 24 balls. Liton could have finished the match. Bad luck or bad management. I don’t see a reason why Shakib has been sent opening. Did he ever play in that position? I can't remember.

Expected West Indies to win against Bangladesh, but I never expected Bangladesh to lose by such a small margin when they looked like they would win comfortably. Also, @galambo: This thread is only for T-20 World Cup pool participants.

I was surprised to see Bangladesh losing too when it looked like they would win the match. They still had 5 wickets remaining, but messed up royally towards the end and got eliminated from the competition.

@galambo Sorry bro thread is for participants only.

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Group 1 equation looks quite simple atm. England and Australia leading the table and fav for their semis spot.

Group 2 turning out to be more complex, at start every Indian and Kiwi fan were thinking it would be cake walk but Pakistan did what Pakistan do best "Surprised everyone" and Afghanistan seems extremely competitive too, just look at their run rate, Jeez. If they managed to win 2 more games then they are our second semifinalist after Pakistan because of high run rate.
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Agreed. Whoever wins between Australia and England today will occupy one of the semi-finals spots and I predicted Australia to win. The match between India and NZ tomorrow is basically a do or die match for both of them.

Pakistan is the first team to qualify for the semi-finals(I think) and I am expecting India or NZ to occupy the other spot. Afghanistan could cause an upset though as you mentioned.

Are you eliminating India? C'mon. They will qualify eventually & there's no doubt. They only have played one match. I guess Pakistan & India will qualify from this group and most likely one of them will play final. Ah wait, what about another 2007 world cup final LOL.

England decimated Australia which disappointed me since I predicted Australia to win. They played like an amateur team while England played like a world class team in comparison.

On the other hand, I predicted South Africa to win against Sri Lanka, but I didn't expect them to struggle till the end. Rabada saved them. This implies that Sri Lanka have been eliminated and SA and AUS are competing for the remaining semi-final spot.

Nah bhai i would never underestimate Indian team, its just that i accuse them of being complacent from time to time. We lost the WTC Trophy due to our selection fuck up and casual attitude, despite playing excellent cricket for 2 long years. Against Pakistan too our team selection was bit dodgy but we can't afford any more drama because NZ vs IND is almost quarter final for India. 

I did not realize that my notification was turned off for the topic, did not check my superbru too. All of a sudden I woke up LOL
Raper 18, roysesuper 4 - I am out from the race :-D

IND: 74/5 and 5 overs remaining.

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Looks like everyone trusted India to win this match. But so far they have been a disappointment :-\

@Royse777 Woke up to be disappointed by India LoL

India supposed to be the better team.

I am disappointed by West Indies too. Look all the stars they have, yet they are underperforming.

Looks like India are almost out of the competition. Embarassing stuff. They got thrashed in both of their matches so far by Pakistan and New Zealand. Every single participant selected India in the pool.

Jadeja is the only player that batted well while the rest underperformed. They need to win the remaining matches by decent margins in order to keep their hopes alive for the semi-finals.

^^ Yeah they are out for good.

Only possibility of qualifying for semis depends on "If" and "BUT". Very uncharacteristic way to get into knockouts.

They need to win their remaining 3 matches by close to 60+ Runs when batting first. If batting second then 10 or 8 wickets win is necessary. That's a only way to improve run-rate, even after that they are dependent on NZvsAFG match result.

Sri Lanka could have screwed England royally, but Buttler and Morgan ruined their plan. Hats off to Buttler for scoring a century under immense pressure.

It's almost impossible for them to qualify and they basically need a miracle. Almost everyone never expected India to perform so badly. CSK would probably fare better instead of this Indian team.

Scotland tried their best against New Zealand and I thought for a moment that they could win, but ended up failing by a decent margin. New Zealand's chances of winning the cup are slim in my opinion since they struggled against a team like Scotland.

India needs to play really well against Afghanistan if they wish to keep their hopes alive mathematically.

Its surprising that no one from the BCCI making any noise on Indian team performance in ICC tournament, even sport journalists are also silent on this topic. Its like BCCI now only interested in expanding their IPL revenue. May be BCCI is heading on a path where they don't care about ICC tournament much, if i'm not wrong then next 5-10 years are going to be very exciting.

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Sorry for the late. There was something else on the pipeline and I couldn’t pay attention everywhere.

What noise can they make? What's the alternative? I think Indian team is one of the best while they played extremely bad so far. Journalist these days cover news which they are asked to cover from the authorities.

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They could have asked tough question to management when they lost in 2019 WC Semis, Lost finals in WTC against the same Kiwi team. Not to mention behavior of some Indian players during SL tour and notably Ravi Shashti covid breach drama in England.

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Official news : BCCI officially announced that after WC Rahul Dravid will take head coach responsibility.

After 2 Matches, both Rohit & Rahul is back with their form  :D It's more like the Liton Das vs Zimbabwe troll LOL. India should have played the best but sadly, they didn’t as expected.
I was so confident other day; now I'll not surprise at all if they can't qualify for semi-final.

Earlier I thought that India has to play with weak teams later on this could be an advantage as India would get a few matches to experiment before the semis, never in my wildest dreams I thought that India would fail to qualify for semis that also in this weaker group, if Bangladesh would have been in this group things would have become more sketchy for India, thankfully they failed to win a match and went to the other group. I think the only hope for India is Afghanistan beating New Zealand and India thrashing both Scotland and Namibia with more than 80 runs, both these things look unlikely to me but let's see cricket is a game full of surprises.

This is great news. Have always been a fan of Dravid and his batting style which is why I am excited to see him as the head coach in the future. Good decision BCCI.

This is why it's almost impossible for them qualify at this stage. New Zealand will most probably qualify along with Pakistan for the semi-finals in my opinion. Just a couple more matches remaining in the Super-12 stage.

Its welcome news but we have to see if nice boy Dravid could change "We don't care" type behavior in Indian camp. After Kumble's saga Shashtri-Virat duo took this attitude into different level.

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Another 100 or less scorecard in the WC. This time Bangladesh going down the hill, they are indeed missing Shakib badly.

Australia decimated Bangladesh as expected. I have no idea why anyone would choose Bangladesh over Australia considering how horrible they have been performing in recent times.

Expected Sri Lanka to win comfortably against West Indies and they performed beyond my expectations. West Indies failed to qualify for the semi-finals after around a decade.

Defending champions and big power house of T-20, Windies is out from this World Cup. After seeing their dismal performance as a unit, its safe to say that they will now enter into transition mode. Considering Universe boss Gayle might retire soon after all he's 40+ now. Players like Bravo (38) and Pollard (34) are also getting oldies, although they might stick with the team for year or two.

I don't know how much impact do coaches make in game of players who are already into middle of their careers. But one thing that would obviously change is the approach and attitude towards team selection and team combination, I feel Dravid was somewhat successful as a captain it was just that he didn't had a good team with him, his team was old and most of the players were still playing the 90s cricket. Also his technique is what I think would help team the most, especially in our struggle on England and Australian pitches. No one in the world has ever had a better technique than him.
WI too is an old grown team now, all these players are pinch hitters and more like commercial freelancers now. They do have many individual heroics in their name but have never gelled well together as a team and when you don't have this coordination amongst the team it's difficult to perform at this level.

^^ Let's see what Dravid brings on the table and how he handles everyone, don't want to see Kumble-Kohli kind of controversy again.

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Anyway Kiwis won the game convincingly although their batters looked sketchy for first 16 overs but they changed the momentum in last 4 overs, they scored 60 ish runs in last 4 overs. Now they have very healthy run rate. Indians need to overcome this run rate fiasco and then some prayers that Afg wins against the kiwis ;D . Don't remember when was the last time Indian team looked at the other team's result for their own survival lol

Expected NZ to win convincingly against Namibia and they didn't disappoint though some of their batting unit seems to be underperforming which could become their weakness against teams like England etc later on.

Scotland is struggling currently against India and it looks like they might get thrashed at this rate. India have clearly not given up yet.

Although Indian team is giving their fans some hope, first 2 match really damaged our campaign. Anyway this is the scenario regarding net run-rate. India need to chase this 85 runs target in just 7.1 overs if they want higher run rate. If somehow India manage to reach semis then my money on India for sure.

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https://twitter.com/guerillacricket/status/1456646102380388354

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@RapTarX Nahi bhai, i did mention this in my previous post.

JSRAW, are you forgetting the fact that if NZ somehow wins the next match, they are confirmed in semi. I don't think they will give a chance to Afghanistan & you know Kiwis are hot favorite for reaching semi. TBH, I don't think India is going for semi but we can hope for the betterment.
I had a bet India to win in the power play but sadly it was 3 more ball and I lost the bet.

After Aus vs WI we have lot more clarity in Group 1. Australia did favor on themselves by winning with good margin, their run rate went up and now they are favorite for second semifinalist. England already entered into semis with 4 wins + ridiculous high run rate.

If Proteas want to play in semis then they have to beat England by big margin in do and die match.
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Bravo and Chris Gayle are retired from the international cricket.

Predicted Australia to win easily against West Indies and they didn't disappoint me. Warner is finally playing well after a big gap. Looks like South Africa are out of the race at this point.

Bravo and Gayle are 2 of the biggest legends in the world of Cricket and I will miss their international performances.
Silver lining here is that we can still watch them play in leagues like the IPL.

Will they go into semi if they win the match? Or they need a big margin as said above. It was a good start by South Africa & luck was favoring them too at the beginning (Roy was retd hurt). But now, England seems to be getting back into the match & it's not possible to have a big margin for KSA anymore I guess.

Yeah.

For qualification South Africa had to restrict England under 131 runs, in which they failed. Now it doesn't matter if they win or lose, they are going home.

This was the equation.

Lost the margin point because of 1 freaking run. Who would have thought that England would end up scoring just 3 runs and lose 3 wickets in a row in the final over? Rabada saved the team even though he got clobbered by Livingston.

England, Pakistan and Australia have qualified for the semi-finals. New Zealand, Afghanistan and India are duking it out for the final spot. Exciting.

It's very much likely that New Zealand will qualify too as in today's match, Afghanistan is struggling to score a big one. It's a total of 124 runs. I don't think Afghans will have a chance to defend with this score. If NZ wins which is likely to happen, India will play the next match for formality  ;D If you ask me, I would say NZ is the best for Semi. The way India played so far, don't deserve a spot in the semi. My bet for Champion would be Pakistan. They seem to be a complete team with bowling strength.

Shoaib Malik went crazy by scoring 54 runs in just 18 balls equalling Rahul's T-20 record. Pakistan continued their unbeaten run in recent times by thrashing Scotland.

The only big twist which most people including me didn't see coming is India failing to reach the semi-finals which surprised many people.

Agreed. NZ qualified easily as expected and India along with Afghanistan have been eliminated from the race. My prediction is that New Zealand will win the trophy this time around even though Pakistan and England are better in several aspects.

For Indian fans this 2021 WC didn't took place due to pandemic similar to..

-2003 WC final against Australia washed up due to rain.
-2007 WC got scrapped by ICC.
-2017 Champions trophy final didn't happen.
-2019 World Cup semi final against Kiwis got cancelled.
-First WTC final against Kiwis also got cancelled.

 ;D ;D Cheers

India obliterated Namibia as expected and this brings an end to Shastri-Kohli T-20 combo. 3 matches remaining people. 2 big semi-finals between top teams followed by a final which I truly hope will be as thrilling as the 2016 final.

Am rooting for New Zealand to win the trophy this time around even though England and Pakistan are better contenders. Let's see what happens.

Speaking of their tenure.

I have been following cricket since Ganguly's era, more than 2 decade already. Never been my expectation were so high from the Indian team. Earlier they were always contender but not a champion team in every format or at least 2 formats similar to Windies and Australia but this current team under Shastri-Kohli had every ingredient to become one, feel bad for this duo for not winning any ICC tournament, especially World Test Championship.

Hope Kohli lead our team to new heights in the Test format and Dhamad ji should get some commentary gigs soon, would be fun.

Their numbers are excellent.
https://i.imgur.com/edvArFp.png

I feel bad too that they didn't manage to win any big ICC tournament. They are the new chokers in the world of Cricket after South Africa these days. They have so many great players, but they failed to perform together when it mattered the most.

It doesn't help that Kohli hasn't recovered his form completely yet. Smith is in a similar situation too. Looking forward to Rohit-Kohli-Dravid combo across all formats in the future.

Also, Shastri is easily one of the best commentators out there in my opinion which is why it would be great to see him commentating again.

Once again New Zealand is going to be smashed by England. That's pretty bad luck of Kiwis. They have played a lot of Semis and recently final as well but couldn’t win the championship yet.
Another sad day for them I guess. They need 109 run from 60 ball; lost 2 early wickets. I had a bet on England. Though the chase still seems achievable, I guess NZ will fail once again as they did many times.

Tricky situation as required run rate also creeping up but they do have wickets in hand. As long as run rate doesn't go up like 12-ish then it should be okay, after all anything could happen during death overs. England also need to be careful at the end, sometimes scoring runs become easy in last 3-4 overs. All Kiwis need a one big over, may be 17th.

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And Conway is gone.

Was rooting for NZ to win this one and they performed over and above my expectations. Mitchell and Neesham were amazing and they ended up winning comfortably towards the end. Revenge taken successfully.

Underestimating NZ is pure stupidity after their recent achievements. Even the mighty Indian team keeps falling repeatedly against them across all formats.

Wrong. This is why the T-20 format is unpredictable.

2015, 2019 50 over WC finals, 2021 World test Champion finals and now qualified for 2021 T-20 WC final. Without any doubt New Zealand is dark horse of modern cricket.

Looks like only Haunebu and RapTarX are playing, pffrt trying to compete but lagging.

@akhjob Bhai, gentle reminder (Fees).  ;D

https://i.imgur.com/eJnL1PW.jpg

^ Withdrew from Freebitco.in yesterday. Should have been paid by now.

Yes paid -> https://www.blockchain.com/btc/tx/60f4287bfea114c1b274e9f0d95322bbad454e0e45b0d9656d1edd161bdf8d49

Yeah, I thought NZ was going to lose. You are giving me no chance to lose you LOL. I picked Pakistan to win today & luckily you have gone with the opposite. It's the last chance for me to create the opportunity to reach #1 LOL.
Pakistan will be having a total of 180 or closer which I guess is a very good score to lose Aussies as Pakistan bowling so far seems to be the best this season.

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Some fine cricket happening out there. Both team are playing beautifully and not giving benefit to each other.

Pakistan is slightly ahead atm because Australia losing wicket and more importantly Shaheen Afridi got 1 over left. this guys is dream bowler for every team and every captain would would commit murder to have such bowler in his team.

Here comes the Shaheen with his last and 19th over of inning. This is important over!

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WOW 3 back to back sixes against a quality bowler. Damn!!

What a match. Both Australia and Pakistan dropped some important catches, but Wade's drop proved to be very costly for Pakistan towards the end of the game. Wade destroyed Pakistan's top bowler through 3 sixes at the end.

This match was very similar to the previous semi-final between NZ and England. Both were close games and we're very entertaining to be honest.

Also, I am on a 17 match winning streak currently(One of my best winning streaks in the gambling world so far). Regret not building an accumulator. Still feels amazing though.

I have as well, such a streak but quite the opposite of yours. I have 11 losing streaks IIRC. It turns out every team I'm picking was losing; no matter who the team is though it was soccer matches. Why don't you start a prediction service for cricket? You could have gotten a lot of clients LOL.
It's sad that this time I couldn't even compete with you in the final. You are the winner before the final match. There's no way to get 6 points from a match, is there LOL.

Just got lucky this time around. I'm not an expert at predicting sports results which is why I never considered starting any prediction services.  It all comes down to luck and gut feelings at the end of the day.

Also, you won the last prediction pool and ended up in the top 3 in this pool which implies that you are really good at predicting Cricket match results.

That's only because I'm getting favored by luck. I'm really not good at predicting scores. If you have ever engaged in discussion in the soccer threads, you must have known that how worst I'm LOL. As I said above, I have lost all the matches I placed a bet in two days. That's because my luck didn't favor me LOL because most of the matches I lost because I have picked the sure bet. Nevertheless. it seems I'm getting better in cricket prediction. Maybe I will start my cricket betting prediction services LOL.

Luck does matter a lot(Especially in the T-20 format when compared to other formats of Cricket). I got screwed in the previous pools primarily because of wrong predictions in the semi-finals and finals, but that didn't happen this time luckily.

Am cheering for NZ to win the cup for the first time though Australia will be tough to beat. Toss matters a lot too. Excited for the final.

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Looks like toss helped Australia in a big way. They were the dark horses in this tournament and emerged victorious by comfortably winning against NZ whose bad luck in World Cup tournaments continues.

SRH management must be kicking themselves since Warner was named the player of the tournament(2nd highest run scorer after Babar). Mitchell Marsh was exceptional too.

Congratulations

kpk33 aka Haunebu
Rapter aka RapTarX
pffrt

Please post your btc address.

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@Royse777

Thanks JSRAW. Feels great winning one of these prediction pools at last. Observed that you were on a winning streak too recently. Had fun playing along with you guys as usual.

BTC addy: bc1qcay6pst9y53gaxk5yuwkkad6c9vccs0z3ckvz5

You did a great job organising this pool just like Royse and updating the statistics regularly. Looking forward to future Cricket prediction pools.

Congrats
kpk33 aka Haunebu
Rapter aka RapTarX

(Copied from JSRAW  ;D)

It was fun to be here and the comeback was definitely cheerful.
Here's my wallet- bc1qmq0gwfxatprnqqfxz3krv8safphngf7hvqxr8x

Have any of you received your winnings yet? I still haven't received mine. Couple of days have passed since we provided our BTC addresses for payments which is why I am curious about why it's taking so long.

Are you guys waiting for Rapter to provide his BTC address in order to process the payments? Can you clarify @JSRAW or @Royse777?

^^ Royse must be waiting for RapTarX's address too so that he can send in one go.

Extremely sorry for the late. I was too busy IRL to have a visit here; in fact, I forgot about it at all. Hope you didn’t mind. Would be faster if I got a PM reminder from anyone.
 Congratulations everyone. It was a nice pool though kpk didn’t leave any chance for anyone to compete till the last match.
Here's my BTC address- bc1q4hy6fmh9p94hn6yg8l8r5hrgr9pfkk2hjs4clk

Got it. Makes sense to send the payments all at once though I didn't expect it to take this long.

Had fun competing with you till the end. Many didn't expect Australia to win the cup this time around because of their T-20 history before the tournament started, but they proved us all wrong thanks to some spectacular performances.

I wasn't active much last week due to workload so it got delayed from my side. My apologies

Talked to Royse on Telegram. He will start transferring prize after converting LTC to BTC. I'm hoping today so let's see. Cheers

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Update : Royse is traveling atm so there is bit delay (Monday). Sorry for the delay boys.

No problem at all. Completely understandable. I actually thought you were in charge of all the payments in this prediction pool, but that confusion got cleared up earlier. Also, BTC price is sinking like crazy currently which is another reason why I personally don't mind the delay.

Expected a correction after the awesome bull-run recently, but didn't expect such a big one.

Congrats to the winners!
Apology that I could not post earlier. I owe you all the prize. I was travelling the last few days to be honest.

The LTC were listed (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5372555.0) to be converted into BTC and once I will have the trade, I will ask JSRAW to give me addresses and the amounts to finish this pool.

Cheers,

Hey @Royse777 here are our 3 winners and their add.

Total pool : 0.00382802 BTC

1st - 50% of prize pool =  0.001914 BTC  -  kpk33( Haunebu) 2nd - 30% of prize pool =  0.001148 BTC -  Rapter( RapTarX) 3rd - 20% of prize pool  = 0.0007656 BTC -   pffrt

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I know this Pool amount looks small when comparing to IPL pot but we shouldn't forget that we almost forgot about the WC due to IPL schedule and we had only 10-ish day to setup wc pool. We'll try to avoid this mistake for the next event.

IPL 2022 will be our next pool for sure.

Payment has been sent days ago. Are we sorted here?

No problem at all. You did your best along with Royse in order to organise this pool in a short period of time and we could all clearly see that. Looking forward to IPL 2022 and T-20 World Cup 2022 pools.

Forgot about this topic since I was busy recently. Just checked and I can confirm that I have successfully received my winnings on Nov 23. Had fun competing with you guys in this prediction pool.

Bas kar pagle ab rulayega kya  ;D Hehe

It was community driven initiative but i appreciate that, thanks. I hope Royse will have some time when the next pool comes, which is like 3-4 months away.

Yeah ..

Tx : c5184faa276617c8f0798c80f54c5bf28690a39e731511b09a853e4b74c4e2c1

Okay ladies, locking this thread now. Cheers to all.