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Indian and Australian squads are facing some challenges right now. Other teams look fixed atm, there is not much news of their squads on the interweb anyway. No one seems to be interested in updating information be it WC officials or any of their respective cricket boards.
- Aussie might or have already excluded Steve Smith from the WC team. Cameroon Green looks like his replacement.
- Indian team is facing injuries among bowlers. Bumrah is already ruled out and now some reports are coming that Deepak Chahar is also struggling with his fitness (not confirmed tho), Shami should join the team soon in Australia.

Did you mean 1.5 mBTC or 0.00015 BTC. I think it was a mistake though I haven't read the other discussion thread in recent times. I was about to send 0.00015 BTC lol. Please fix it accordingly and confirm and let me be the first to pay the fee (have anyone? I haven't checked address balance yet).

It seems fixed LOL.

@JSRAW, I will send my entry fee shortly and update on this post.
Good work buddy.

Edit, btc sent

I fixed it after seeing his comment ;D

@Little Mouse first txn was yours?

Not sure if first but this one is mine- ac72507c72d4bd3f6a0f71b4f6276a5cdef2a7dfd54513716e9eb0da79159dc1
I had forgotten to update it here due to some activities IRL.
I think you should send PM to all the people who have shown interest to join the people. I was lucky enough to see this thread while browsing this board.

Yep, the first one was yours. I just sent my entry fee for the pool (tx hash: 341aeb498a40a6e2c4faa324845e58be5fc1ffc88ded6409a559eb2f0dc5f521). Now we have 4 people in the pool who has sent their entry fee. I'm expecting to see 10-12 more people entry in the pool.

@JSRAW, why you have sent 0.00009 BTC extra with your entry fee?

Thanks updated

A total of 9 Participants showed interest in the discussion board so that's a minimum. I've reminded them via msgs, also a bunch of guys who missed out on the discussion so overall yeah I guess we can expect 10-12 participants.

No reason bhai.

I assume is being generous. It helps to cover the transaction cost.

@JSRAW I am waiting for the link on superbru. :-)

Sent the invitation link to all 3 of you.

Thank you.
Joined and already made my selections.
Aus, Eng, Aus, Pak, Qualifier Group A anf SA. I am stress-less until the 24th LOL

Everyone hasn't ensured the entry in the pool yet who has shown their interest in Cricket WC Pool Discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5415663.0) thread. The group stage of the T20 world cup will start after 5 more days. The Superbru prediction pool allows to make prediction for super 12 matches only. @JSRAW, are you going to close the entries after a certain period of time? Or you will keep it open always?

India has a good possibility to win against Pakistan. Undoubtedly, Sri Lanka is going to be the winner of group A. Therefore, the runner-up of group A will be a weaker team and they might loss against Bangladesh. Don't hesitate to recheck these selections again ;)

I understand your concern and agree with it but

In my last 3-4 years of experience, these folks are always there for our little community and participated in almost every pool so it's fine if they are late, they made an effort to comment on the discussion board so I'm positive they'll join, also most of em are desi so being late makes sense lol. Jokes apart I'm sure we are not losing em and in some way, they are allowed to reserve their spot, even if they are late to submit their entry fees

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Glad to be a part of another cricket pool in this forum. IPL pools are actually a lot more entertaining when compared to international team pools primarily because of the unpredictability factor, but these are entertaining too.

Most people will end up making similar predictions, but the winning margin will differentiate them. Excited!

I have already subscribed to the thread so any update posted here I get notification. Still now following cricket because of the work load for other things but I am sure once the WC starts I will spend good amount of times to watch the important matches.

Those picks are kind of insurance in case I miss to pick once the matches start. I will surely revise most of the days.

It become excited before the end of any tournament when there are not few matches left and a lot of us a close to each others in point table. Welcome to the pool.

Welcome

Yeah, i tend to agree, on the group stage it should be straightforward with some twists here n there or maybe early upsets if it happens. The second stage should be fun and knockouts are going to be unpredictable as usual.

I guess the timer needs to be extended by around a week or something @JSRAW since group stage matches have been excluded from the Superbru app. I can only see the Super 12 fixtures kicking off with Aus vs NZ.

If this is some sort of bug or something, it needs to be resolved asap. If not, it provides more time for interested participants to join this pool.

^^ oh really? I haven't checked the group yet. (okay just checked) guess need to extend it for like 6-ish more days. Thanks for the update.

It looks like not many are interested in WC this year. We just attracted 7 participants so far.

@Teosanru @eaLity and @Swordsoffreedom are missing atm. @Pffrt and @akhjob are not active anymore, just like Vishnu.

@Maidak @Little Mouse Guys please check your inbox. I've sent you the pool link, plz join.

I think I haven't joined yet on the pool. It simply isn't much interesting when you see very few participants here. I can't believe that we can't even make it at least 10. Sadly many are missing here. Bitcointalk Cricket Community is dying gradually.

I sent a PM to Pffrt but haven't heard back from him recently. He seems to be very busy in real life. And so does, akhjob. I have him in telegram, I will inform him now but I don't think he is going to join us, as far as I know he is very much with his job.

I agree and it would be boring if we are less than 10 participants @RapTarX also mentioned the same thing at the start.

According to superbru (Super 12 contests) We still have 6 more days to go (thanks to Haunebu) so there is some hope.

Guys, what do you think? Should we cancel the pool if our numbers are less than 10?

@JSRAW, Some team has made a few changes in their squad. India, Pakistan and South Africa has replaced one players from their main squad. Shami, Fakhar Zaman and Marco Jansen has taken in to the main squad from the reserved players. Bangladesh has added two players, Shoriful Islam and Soumya Sarkar in their squad. They removed Sabbir Rahman and Mohammad Saifuddin from the squad. I hope you will update the squad list in your post.

There are 7 people in the pool who has paid the entry fee. Perhaps, we may get 3-5 more people within the remaining days. Have you tried to get an sponsor for this discussion pool?

Yeah, I've noticed the notifications of the respective cricket board, just got lazy to update the thread. I'll do it soon, thanks for the update.

Most of us (at least me) are hoping that we'll get at least 3-4 more punters soon, let's hope for the best.

Unfortunately no, I haven't tried for a sponsor here.

Personally, I have no issues with just 7 or 8 members of I'm being honest since I feel that's plenty for a month of fun. Some of the participants in the previous pools weren't even active most of the time which is why I had no idea why they participated.

If the majority feel that we should cancel this pool, that's what we should do. If not, we should proceed with it.

Myself too don't have any issues with the number of participants. As @Haunebu said it gives plenty of fun throughout the month. Even now itself interesting things were happening with the warm-up and the group stage matches.

Fair enough.

Sure we'll obviously go with the majority and I believe no one wants to see the canceled pool. It would be a bummer if it happens tbh.

Let's just hope that more people chip in soon.

Reminder

Just two days left for the start of the World Cup. As the Group stage matches were going on, some might miss to pick the winner on the pool.

Guys can we have little fun in the thread apart from the Pool. Something like team batting first score prediction and so on. One who picks the right slab can be given merits (just a suggestion). This is against the purpose of merit, still it can make some noise in the thread.

It's an interesting idea but unfortunately, we have no merit source in the cricketing thread lol.

Maybe except Royce, don't know if he's still an active merit source or not.

I do try to spend a majority of my s-merits in the cricketing thread but it's not much so not sure if it's sustainable. 

This is a great idea to be honest. The group stage matches have been exciting so far. Sri Lanka and Netherlands have qualified successfully(Netherlands should thank UAE) while West Indies and Scotland will most probably take the remaining spots.

Understandable. We all are aware of the fact that merit is difficult to earn through gambling threads.

As 'Vaskiy' has mentioned in his post, we shouldn't spend our sMerit for such prediction post. It may increase the activity in this thread, but the merit system was created with a different purpose.


We can do it in a different way though. How it would be if we make a different prize distribution pool for the most (overall) correct score predictor? Let's separate 10% from the total prize pool for the pool participant who will make the maximum number of correct score prediction during the super 12 stage matches. The top 3 ranked users of Superbru leaderboard will receive respectively 50%, 30% and 20% from the remaining prize pool amount.

This seems to be a good plan. We need the majority to support, so that the 10% will keep the thread active parallel to the pool during the match hours.

We'll now have some action from tomorrow. The qualification round for super 12 was exciting and we witnessed some fine contests and upsets.

2 time World Champion Windies saw their dreams crushed by associates and these new guys would not make things easy for others in Super 12 groups, they might not be fav but they should aim to do maximum damage in their respective groups.

This is what it looks like.

https://i.imgur.com/Dfgt7M6.jpg

@Little Mouse noticed that you still didn't join the superbru

Windies getting knocked out before Super 12 blew my mind and it shows the state of their team at present. Alzarri Joseph was the only game-changer in their team in my opinion.

I don't think Australia will win the World Cup this time around even though they have home ground advantage making them the favorites. Excited for the upcoming matches.

Windies are really going down the drain, this was the only format where they were considered the good side but they are losing their marbles here too.

So far every host nation failed to win the T-20 wc in their backyard so who knows, but they do have a good team tho.

 

Match Update : Australia vs New Zealand

New Zealand comfortably made 200 runs with Finn Allen scoring 42 runs, Convoy 92^*, Neesham 26^*. This gave pressure to the Australian team from the beginning and lost 3 important wickets in the powerplay. Tim Southee made remarkable bowling taking 3 wickets conceding just 6 runs.

Result : New Zealand beat Australia by 89 runs.

Bookies were favoring Aussies and underestimating Kiwis today. I was almost ready to go for batting 2nd on that until I saw the odd for NZ. It was my surprise to see 3.15 odd for NZ to win which influence me to give it a shot lol and I won. That was a beautiful win, wasn't it  :D This gives me the feeling that we may see NZ will break their previous records of not winning any world cup. Their batting seems solid though I don't think Williamson is so much capable of being a T20 batsman these days, no doubt about his captaincy though.

Here's my sweet bet, by the way, I picked AUS in the pool  ;D

https://i.ibb.co/47RcNKt/Inkednz.jpg

^^ Hard to blame anyone who supported or put their money on the Aussie.

Kiwi's record was really bad in Australia, surprisingly it was their first T-20 win against Aussie in the last 11 years and it came when it mattered most. The ICC tourney!  ;D

Yeah, that was a long streak. Australia was favorite no doubt.

Tomorrow, we will have India vs Pakistan, one of the most amazing matches I used to enjoy in my early age. Bookies are favoring India as usual and most possibly they will win. I will only bet once I see odd is above 3 for Pakistan. Otherwise, I'm not going to place any bet on this lol. Wondering why I didn't say India? Cause I don't think we will have an odd of 3 for India  :D

What do you guys think? Considering the recent shit shows from Bangladesh, I think Netherland can win this match, at least I won't be surprised if this happen. The odd is pretty decent IMO.
https://i.ibb.co/FXmxz6B/IMG-20221022-223843.jpg

Kiwis always get back into form when its ICC tournaments.

99% times bookies and everyone makes India fav for no reason, it's 50-50 for both team IMO because Indian bowling looks really weak on paper. Let's hope their no rain tomorrow.

Oh well, i'd say against Bongs Netherland has a really good chance this year.

I observed a particular pattern with Kiwis in major ICC tournaments(ODI and T-20) in recent history. They play well initially by winning against strong and weak teams and end up losing in the semis or finals when it matters the most. Wonder if this pattern will repeat in this tournament too.

Well said. Axar and Siraj are the only good bowlers in their current lineup if you ask me.

Undoubtedly Australia was favourite team in this match. New Zealand got a good start for the power hitting start of Finn Allen. And it helped them to set a good target there. You have done a good thing there by placing a pre-match bet on New Zealand. You wouldn't get the juicy odds if you waited for the second innings.

You had selected easy win for Australia in the Superbru pool, but placed your bets on New Zealand! :D Congrats for your sweet win.

Tbh right now bowling department is looking depressing just like KL Rahul lol

What's the weather forecast anyway? Heard that there are some chances of rain. Let's hope there are no rain interruptions, everyone (Fans and Broadcasters) would cry if it happens.

^^ Bhai this thread is for pool participants only, sorry.

Pakistan got enough runs on the board, considering their bowling lineup is no mug and can defend this total successfully.

Indian batters should play carefully and first of all see off the powerplay without losing many wickets.

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Lol depressing KL Rahul

Depressing Rahul, followed by Rohit Sharma and now Suryakumar Yadav. This is going to be an easy win for Pakistan. I don't know why Rohit Sharma is kept in the team. Atleast in the important matches need to give his contribution. Pakistan bowlers are at their best and India have ended the powerplay 31-3.

There are many users posting but I am sure those especially in the 1x campaign are not pool participant.

After long time I watched cricket and this was worth watching. Kohli was outstanding and his believe paid off. 82 from 53 balls considering the situation, this is much more than it looks. Many thing went wrong for Pakistan. Maybe that was not a NO ball, the bowler could have not gone for wide balls, last two balls of Afiridi could be different not to take the score from 28 remaining to 16 remaining. But nothing compares the greatness of Kohli inning. DK nearly ruined it though :-P

What's up with all these pathetic 1xbit shills crashing into this thread suddenly? They are spamming like imbeciles in order to complete their signature quota for this week. Their posts need to be deleted asap.

Coming to the match itself, another spectacular India vs Pakistan match which didn't disappoint as expected. Kohli and Pandya saved their team in a heroic manner.

Indeed, those posts need to be deleted as soon as possible. User 'Cryptock' has made two posts here by ignoring 'JSRAW' message. I'm wondering why 'JSRAW' hasn't taken any action against the scam casino promoters.

It was a high voltage match and the end was interesting too. India wouldn't achieve the victory today without Kohli. The no ball in the last over had changed the game completely. I was expecting a comfortable win for India, but they have won the match narrowly.

I really urge people who have heart problems not to watch India versus Pakistan matches,,, lol. Especially the final few overs.

Obviously, it was Virat Kohli who was the hero for India. But I also have to say that the bowling of Pakistan also helped India make a comeback in this match. Otherwise, it was Pakistan's match to win. The extras really hurt Pakistan. I really wish that Pakistan could start the batting innings a bit better. Also an off day for the Pakistani bowlers. Especially Nawaz. A better performance was also expected from Shaheen Shah Afridi in this match.

Deleted their post, guess they are not even reading the msz or checking the main thread.

About last night's match. Just wow. It's the festive season in India so I was running a few Diwali errands but for those last 3 overs, I pulled over at Dhaba even Mrs didn't complain ;D

Don't have any words to describe this dramatic and thrilling victory but to me, this is the peak WC moment for Indian fans.

IMO This is the top WC T-20 match after India vs Pak Final 2007 T-20 WC (bowl out) and may be better considering the tight, pressure game and King Kohli was there to show us another masterclass chase.

In between all this, Ashwin too deserves some high praise because of his presence of mind and calmness. Wasn't easy when he came to face just 1 ball, he kept his emotion in check for that "Wide" ball.

I can imagine the stress of the native supporters for both teams. For me it was fun to watch. I did not even check superbrue so I was completely unaware of which team was my choice. When they needed 28 runs from 8 balls, I was pretty sure that India was going to lose then the two sixes. 28 down to 16. It looked possible but not easy to get.

This means you are married now. The last update I had was she was your girlfriend and her father is in police :-P
Congratulations.

I am going to watch SA match while working on my desk. I guess I had SA on my list.

Haha thanks bhai. Yeah, now married and blessed with a baby boy.

I think Proteas indeed is a very unlucky team. They were supposed to win by D/L method but the rain didn't even allow a minimum of 5 overs in the 2nd inning.

SA were way ahead of the required runs during their chase.

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By the way, one of my friends sends it to me and if any of you want the 2nd inning of IndvsPak match, then use this link and download it. It's worth adding to your collection just for those last 3 overs.

Congratulations buddy. Time moves very fast. It feels like yesterday.

I only saw last few overs of ZIM batting. Didn't think it will be interesting anymore to watch knowing SA was going to win. But surprised to learn the no result. SA are always in the unlikcy side in any format of WC, good to see they are maintaining their custom LOL

Today we've got the match of Australia vs Sri Lanka. The odds were in favour of Australia to win the match. Live betting could be good in this match. My choice for today's match is on Sri Lanka to win. This can be a lucky pick. Because, the team that is supposed to be out during the group stage matches have slowly getting into better position.

The same happened in the Asia Cup last month? Lost to Afghanistan and struggling against Bangladesh, later on eliminating India and Pakistan without giving a chance either. Yeah, it's possible and would be a good stake since the odd is above 4 too but it will be a hard call to be honest. Aussies have already lost a match against NZ and they won't let it happen again on their own ground. Let's see what happen. I will be looking for place bets on SL but not going to place any prematch bet. Will observe a few overs, maybe I won't get the same odd but still it's worthy to have a look on.

Congratulations bro!

It's because of shitty ICC rules. I have no idea why they don't get rid of these archaic rules.

Very gutsy. Australia is known to bounce back after big losses which is why I am confident that they will against the Lankans though it will definitely not be a cakewalk.

I am not talking about only the last match but the entire SA bad luck since 1992. The effect of a rule should be same for everyone but it seems SA are always in the unlucky side :-)

Aussies are always favorite in T20 or any format. Sri Lanka lost their last match against Namibia, aren't they?

Thanks bhai.

Also, there is some sort of controversy created by both teams.

SA silently accused Zim of deliberately delaying the match by taking extra time and Zimbabwe openly called out ICC and umpires because according to them playing conditions were not suitable for bowling and fielding due to the wet outfield and there was a chance of serious injuries to the players.

That is true. I read an article about them being unlucky in these major tournaments due to reasons like rain etc. It's not all related to bad luck though. They used to choke on their own towards the end sometimes.

Zimbabwe should be thanking the heavens if you ask me because South Africa would have obliterated them if it weren't for the rain. They basically got a point for free which could prove very costly for South Africa later on.

Boucher mentioned that they respect the final decision, but I don't think that is how they really feel.

Once again to the top on the leaderboard with the unexpected match outcome from the match, Ireland vs England. Big performance came from Ireland starting overs, and if England have made similar performance this could've been a win for England. Now they've won by a small margin. Second match have ended without result, and the weather is going to be a big problem eliminating more big teams.

Lol this is kind of a brain fade moment for me.

What happened there? Did rain ruin another match? haha Poor Poms.

well, the way De Kock was batting it was pretty obvious. 1 extra over for South Africa and it was game over for the Zimbawawens.

Zimbabwe are just trying to get some attention LOL

Who can remember, SA needed 22 runs from 1 ball after the rain where they were certainly on the driving seat of a world cup match before the rain :-P

How about this epic ending of course. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrWgDIFoqt4)

England had lost the match in the DLS system for their mistake. The players were aware of the weather condition of Australia. But they hadn't batted as they should have. Only Moeen Ali tried to make runs quickly. BTW, only you had selected narrow win for Ireland in the Superbru pool. Everyone else had chosen England as the winner. You are lucky there! England would have won the match if the rain didn't interrupt in it.

Group 1 of Super 12 turning out to be very challenging for the whole group due to rain Parera.

It would be real shame if Semi finalists get selected with the help of washed out matches, IMO that's not fair.

Having said that if it happens then it should happen to 2nd group too, that would be hilarious overall.

Poor Proteas!

It seems they can't catch a break, the rain still playing with their fortune, and to make the situation worse they have a quota skipper who's a walking wicket in every single match and wasting crucial deliveries in the powerplay.

It does not surprise me. In fact when Proteas will get any favor then that's surprising LOL

Anyway, I think my picks are to competitive for all teams. I am going to change the margins to easy or trashing when the pen and paper strength of two teams are huge like today's India vs Netherlands match or even SA vs Bangladesh match.

To be fair it went well for them after that rain delay so all well.

I think Group 1 is becoming the death group for all the teams and producing upsets. Group 2 is kinda going at a normal pace with expected results but yeah margins are a bit off for most of us.

These Ind vs Netherlands and SA vs Ban ended up one sided matches tbh. Let's see what happens in Pak vs Zim.

Yeah. I should have picked thrashing win for South Africa since they are playing really well in recent times even though luck isn't exactly on their side all the time. Thrashing victory by India felt great since I expected it.

Expecting Pakistan to thrash Zimbabwe too, but I could be wrong about this one since Zimbabwe are off to a great start at the moment.

The score is very low and Pakistan gonna thrash Zimbabwe. The innings had a good start, but it didn't go well for long. Based on the previous match performance I thought Zimbabwe would make a good performance and went for narrow win. Looking on the scenario Pakistan would win it before 15 overs.

WTF just happened!!

Can't believe we have another big upset. This is turning out to be the World Cup of upsets now and again smaller teams are doing the damage and making a case for 18-20 teams WC.

I guess no one in the group saw that coming eh?

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

3 from 3 with six wickets remaining and they lost by a run? Felt like I was watching an IPL upset for a moment. Nawaz messed up towards the end. 3 runs from 1 ball was always going to be tough.

What the heck happened to Azam these days? It looks like Pakistan are pretty much eliminated from the tournament at this point. Zimbabwe will never forget this well deserved win.

Would you be happy to ruin my 6.60 odd  :-\ I was really lucky to be honest. Just have gone with the gut lol. When Pakistan lost 3 wickets, I was expecting a disaster from them but that wasn't happened. Pakistan was on the driving seat until Nawaz messed up.
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It was completely unexpected. Ireland had won against England yesterday, and Zimbabwe has beaten Pakistan by 1 run today. It sounds funny though, but Zimbabwe will have a little chance to qualify for the semi finals. Zimbabwe will remain favourite against Bangladesh and Netherlands. They already has an advantage as South Africa had to share points with them for the rain.

That's a good win. Do you place your bets against the favourite team always?

Hahaha. Not all the time of course. I have bet for India when they were in need of 60ish from 4 over if I'm correct. Was it a bet against the favorite. In this T20 world cup, so far, I have actually bet for higher odds, but that doesn't mean pre match bet of course. Yesterday, I didn't place any pre match bet for Ireland which was @6.00+ but later, when I saw good chance of winning, I placed two bets. And so does today.

Guess he and Rizwan are both hitting a rough patch at the incredibly wrong time. I feel really bad for Rizwan.

Aha nice one, congrates

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In the last week, Pakistan team is becoming a meme team, every one is trolling them hard. Be it the average fan, Google Ceo, or in the latest case President of a country.

https://twitter.com/sundarpichai/status/1584383534675816451
https://i.imgur.com/XoBm0XF.jpg

https://twitter.com/edmnangagwa/status/1585670601234153479
https://i.imgur.com/92mpKdG.jpg

Today we've got two matches Afghanistan vs Ireland and Australia vs England.

Maybe something unpredicted could happen today with the matches. The odds on Afghanistan vs Ireland is in favour of Afghanistan, but I was on Ireland to win the match. The previous match winning momentum is expected to continue with Ireland.

In the match Australia vs England, both were equally strong and we can't easily predict the outcome of the match. The previous match loss will keep England look for a win, and the same is my choice. Let's enjoy cricket.

Something unpredictable did happen. Both matches got abandoned thanks to rain playing spoilsport. Pathetic ICC will never learn from these mistakes which is a shame since we miss out on so much entertainment thanks to rain.

Am simply hoping for rain to not play spoilsport in majority of the remaining matches in this competition.

So far rain is doing very well for the T-20 CWC LOL
But I am happy to witness Ind vs Pakistan and yesterday Pakistan vs Zim.

Yesterday's Australia vs England match was supposed to be a knockout clash due to the points system but rain ruined everything.

Although I feel like WC has already peaked during the Indo-Pak match and Zim vs Pak was just icing on the cake. I've to give credit to the Pak team, they are the most entertaining team to follow and they always top the drama chart.

New Zealand survived all thanks to Phillips and their bowlers in this match. Sri Lanka could have comfortably won this one if they got him our early, but that didn't happen sadly for them.

Boult, Southee, Santner and Sodhi decimated their batting line-up systemically. This is the same Lankan team that won the Asian Cup recently people. New Zealand are hungry.

Kiwis are demolishing every opponent. Chances are they are going to top the table in their group.

I as an Indian fan don't want to see them against us in the semis as they are kind of kryptonite to the Indian team.

Rohit&co should try to top their own group so that they can have a better chance to clear the semis and then Rab Rakha in the finals lol

https://i.imgur.com/JfegxtD.jpeg

Guys came across this and it made me shocked, Pakistan haven't won a T20 match played in Australia. Tomorrow it is to play against Netherlands and this is going to be a history. If I've seen this detail earlier I would've picked Netherlands to win the match. Already I've chosen and locked Pakistan to win the match.

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That's an unknown and interesting fact.

Ironically New Zealand also had zero wins in Australia (across all formats, guess 11 years) and look at them, cruising their way to Semis like a champion but again they always put up a nice show when it's
ICC tournament.  

Don't worry about your picks. You are already leading in the Superbru pool with the highest accurate predictions. You have chosen comfortable win for Pakistan. I believe Pakistan will get their first victory tomorrow in Australia. The performance of Netherlands players isn't satisfactory. Pakistan has lost both matches narrowly. Anyway, you have chosen Narrow win for Zimbabwe. Everyone else has chosen Bangladesh there. Have you chosen Zimbabwe for their thrilling performance against Pakistan? Or you have chosen them as Bangladesh is weak in T20 format?

Talking about drama. Thank god that New Zealand won as expected.

This time my pick failed, but the result came close to the pick. Zimbabwe won't get a better chance to make a win. The last ball drama made the match even more interesting. Zimbabwe players could've maintained little patience and Ryan Burl not getting opportunity too, a reason for the loss. Mosaddek Hossain did the best and he's lucky to win the match for Bangladesh.

To be fair to Lankans they hardly do any drama unless they are up against Bongbros.

You are still ahead tho.

We're robbed of epic meltdown tbh  :-\. Bongbros were just 1 shot away from becoming meme content for a day or two, all thanks to Nurul Hasan lol.

Every subcontinent team producing nailbiters in this WC due to pressure and silly mistakes.

I wish there was some kind of button to automatically block these 1xbit shills in this forum. They keep posting in this thread again and again proving how dumb they truly are.

Coming to the matches, Pakistan won easily against Netherlands as expected, but they still need a miracle to make it to the semi-finals. Also, Bangladesh won by a hair against Zimbabwe. Crazy finish.

Excited for the upcoming India vs South Africa match.

Lol, don't bother about it.

Yeah, as usual lots of "If" and "Buts" for Pakistan. They are virtually out if tonight India fails to defend this mediocre total against Proteas.

So far Indian bowlers are bowling well, so there might be a slight chance for India, I hope they win as this will help the Indian cause for semis.

In the Match, India vs South Africa everyone selected India to win the match. Mahdirakib is the only person chosen South Africa to win the match. Good prediction that have moved him to the top. It was India to win the match, major mistakes on drops and run out miss gave the momentum to South Africa. Somehow India took the match till the last over, and finally it was a 5 wickets win for South Africa.

Looks like Ireland are out at this point. They played well despite losing so many early wickets primarily thanks to Tucker who was their lone warrior.

If someone else properly supported him in the middle, the situation would have gotten a bit more complicated for Australia. It looks like New Zealand, South Africa, India and England or Australia will qualify for the semis.

England have a 1 tough match against Kiwis. 1 against SL and they won't be a pushover either. They have to win both matches.
Australians are up against Afghanistan, Afghans are good but Australia would look for complete domination as they want to improve their run rate.
India should qualify on paper but who knows if some upsets are around the corner?
NZ and SA seem safe with a healthy run rate and 2 matches left.

Eng and Aus qualification would depend on run rate if they manage to win their respective match.

In fact, that's why Aussies were aggressive today. However, against a B grade team (not sure if that make sense) team, Aussies will be always aggressive. Having that in mind I basically changed my pick from easy to trashing. It worked and got two points LOL

Haunebu, There is no doubt that it seems quite predictable at the moment. There have already been some very strange things happening at this world cup that many of us haven't seen before.

So, I am not going to be amazed if there are some more surprises that will remain until the end of the event. I wonder what would happen if a few more matches get washed out because of rain and/or because of the DLS method. This would result in teams winning that shouldn't have won? But otherwise, I think everything is quite easy to predict. In addition, Ireland is definitely out of the race. Although, they have played well but that is not going to cut it at the world cup.

England winning their match against New Zealand makes things a lot more interesting in their group. I am pretty confident that NZ will still qualify without any issues, but the second spot could go to England/Australia.

In the other group, South Africa and India look set to book the remaining spots unless a crazy upset happens which is doubtful in my opinion.

What if New Zealand, Australia, and Australia lose their next match? That would be something, highly unlikely (maybe a bit of chance in Eng vs SL) but still, it would be fun lol.

Similarly what if Bongbros produce some fine performance and upset India? In that case, I would love to see depressing KL Rahul scoring run a ball 50. Meltdown would be epic from Rohit and Dravid, I'm down for post match interview if it happens.  ;D

The match between India and South Africa was dramatic. Indian players dropped some easy catches and missed some easy opportunities to make run out. I'm down to the 3rd rank now for making two bad predictions today. I thought that Afghanistan and New Zealand will win against their respective opponents. Unfortunately both of them lost the matches. I think that India will easily win against Bangladesh tomorrow.

In today's match everyone have chosen Zimbabwe to win the match. Little Mouse alone chosen Netherlands to win the match. The target of 117  is easy to reach. In its previous match Zimbabwe bowled well against Pakistan and won the match. In today's match how things gonna work is simply unpredictable. Lets wait for the outcome.

I even had got a nice odd for Netherland to win. @2.82 at the very beginning of the match, I think it was quite good and placed my bets. So far, it is an easy win for Dutch unless they messed with losing wickets.
3rd wicket gone.

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You are having good run both in the pool and in gambling LOL
Enjoy until you get burst :-P

Phew!

After India's inning, I didn't expect a close fight from the Bongs but Das had other ideas. Rain almost ruined our campaign as Bongs were ahead of us, that's why power-play firework is so much important. India could have bottled up with just 4 points due to DLS.

Guess Das's runout by KL was the turning point, it was still Bangladesh's game tho, considering they had 9 wickets left but they always choke against India. Bongs really need to learn how to cross a finish line when playing against India, their fans deserve this.

I have been burst in soccer. Got more than 10x from the initial deposit from cricket but lost them all in soccer, sadly.

I don't know the rules when to start play after rain but the field so much wet to start the play. Liton Das got slipped in the first ball and the run out was also a result of slipping. Otherwise, it wouldn't be.
Hate to say but this shit show was expected from Bangladeshi middle orders and when it comes to take a decision on who to play, when to play, Bangladeshi management is one of the worst.
Anyway, it was a bad day like we had every time against India. Good luck to India. Hopefully they will make the name for Asia.

Although the middle order batsmen has performed badly, but Shanto is primarily responsible for today's lose. Litton Das had done more than enough to chase the big target. Shoriful Islam was taken in the squad as a replacement of Soumya to make the bowling section strong, but he has destroyed the bowling lineup of Bangladesh. The supporters and spectators has enjoyed the game.

BTW, you will stay in the top of Superbru pool until the end of the contest if you make another perfect prediction tomorrow. The 5th round matches are easy to make the right prediction. Because, each match will be played between one weak team and one strong team.

Bet on Zimbabwe for the first time in this tournament and got screwed thanks to Netherlands whooping them pretty comfortably. Zimbabwe is over-dependent on batsmen like Williams and Raza which is their primary weakness.

Also, I expected India to decimate Bangladesh, but didn't expect them to win narrowly by such a small margin. Das getting run out proved to be the game-changing moment. Looks like India has qualified for the semi-finals.

Lol. It's not that simple. Is this your first Superbru pool? Players get awarded extra points for semi-finals and finals which is why everyone in the pool still have a good chance of winning.

I guess it's safe to say that no one really understands how Duckworth lewis system works, at least i don't know how it works in general.

Das slipping out might be a reason for his runout but I'd call it him unlucky because it's usually the fielding sides that are at a disadvantage when the outfield is wet.

Tbh it was really a Bangladesh match. When you are chasing 80-ish run in 9 overs and 10 wickets at the bank, also consider the wet ball for bowlers and the wet field for fielders. You'd always back the chasing team but damn that's some shaky middle order with weird shot selections, props to Indian bowlers for handling the pressure after Litton Das's exploit in the powerplay.

Pakistan decimated South Africa surprisingly. I expected them to win comfortably, but not so easily. The odds for Pakistan in this match were close to 3 in some sites which is amazing value.

They still won't qualify for the semis though since they require India and South Africa to lose their respective matches against ZIM and NED which obviously won't happen.

Good to have a regular gambler, it must an influence from working on casino critique LOL

After losing the match it all considers as excuse. They are professional players and should know what to do on the pitch. As far as we know he was running on grass. I saw first half of the match then did not find it interesting anymore after seeing such a big score from India.

Hang on. Haven't we seen some upset already in this world cup?

Well, this is the first time I'm participating in Superbru pool. I thought that there won't be option to make predictions for semi-finals and final. The round 5 matches will be less competitive, but the semi finals and final will be competitive for sure.

Pakistan has another option to qualify for semi-final. In that case, South Africa vs Netherlands match need be abandoned for rain. Then Pakistan need victory against Bangladesh with a good margin. The equation looks funny though :D

My prediction could've won, if the openers Stirling and Balbirnie have created 100+ partnership. Santner made a good comeback in his second over. Anyhow upcoming match is going to be very interesting. Australia needs to win the match by 62 runs or within the 13th over to have high net runrate. Expecting some thrashing performance from Australia. Afghanistan too will give a hard competence.

Rashid Khannn! Wow! This gem of a man injured himself in the last match and returned to deliver this kind of performance which almost helped his team win against mighty Australia. What a player!

Great point. I completely forgot about the rain factor. Pakistan should only blame themselves for depending on miracles in order to move forward in the tournament.

Actually, the whole team performed really well in this match, at least they did their quota of 1 tight match per tournament.

These guys bowled really well at the death overs too. Aussies were cruising towards 190-200 runs score easily but Afgan's fast bowlers did an extremely good job against Wade, Stonis and Maxi.

Margin points ufff.

Guess no one expecting any upset today and it does look like England is about to qualify for semis in group 1 due to the run rate.

Sri Lanka had some chance as it was a batting pitch and they did get off with an excellent start but they literally threw it away in the middle overs and failed to recover.

You were almost wrong. Sri Lanka almost kicked England out of the tournament towards the end, but they failed and this implies that the current T-20 World Champ(Australia) are out. Stokes saved his team once again by playing till the end.

Two spots have been taken by NZ and ENG and two spots are remaining. Let's see if SA and IND will take them without any drama.

The way things are unfolding in every match. It looks just perfect, we can count one sided contests on one hand. No doubt this is by far one of the most competitive World cup.

SA and India should cross the line but still, everything is possible in a short format. 20-30 mins of bad cricket and you're gone. No one can take things for granted.

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Semifinals : NZ / Eng vs 2 chokers from the 2nd group.  ;D

Recently we have enjoyed a very competitive Asia Cup, now we are watching a competitive world cup. This is the real fun of short format cricket game. Some weak team has showed unexpected performance in this world cup too.

Yep, both of them have weak opponents for the last match. I believe South Africa and India will qualify for the semi final by wining against their opponents easily. I'm expecting a competitive game between Bangladesh and Pakistan.

Holy cow, Proteas choked Again!!

This World Cup is keep giving unexpected results when everything looked settled. Props to Netherlands team, now ICC should really look more closely to associate nations.

With this result, India is through Semis and now all eyes are on the virtual quarter-final between Ban vs Pak.

Bangladesh vs Pak : Quarter-final? Insanity! Also, it looks like Gunathilaka flushed his pathetic life down the drain.

Am speechless. This is the same team that comfortably defeated India recently. Teams like Netherlands, Zimbabwe and Ireland impressed everyone in this World Cup and they helped make this World Cup one of the most entertaining ones in a while.

This is not the first time, this low life is a repeat offender. Hope this time he goes for long.

Actually fair amount of Sri Lankan players has a very shady off-field life. Dickwella (discipline), Kusal Mendis (hit and run case), and 1 more regarding sexual assault, I forget the name but he was banned from entering Zimbabwe due to this.
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I believe this WC is making a strong case for 20-team WC.

Along with Netherlands, Ireland, Zimbabwe, we need to add Afghanistan. The match of Australia vs Afghanistan is very close and an unexpected performance came from Rashid Khan. If the middle order have performed better, Afghanistan might've won the match. This time rain made some disturbance, and the rest is history with these teams performance.

Semi-finals up next people. New Zealand vs Pakistan and India vs England. India is probably relieved to not face NZ, but England is a tough competitor too. Excited!

Agreed. Rashid was spectacular in that match and almost scripted another crazy upset out of nowhere towards the end. Many teams like India, England etc actually got lucky in some matches by winning narrowly against their competitors.

These 4 teams still have many flows and didn't play their best cricket so far (maybe barring NZ?). Because of this, we have an exciting time ahead.

Pakistan - Babar and Rizwan look really out of touch but the good thing is middle order and bowlers are doing all the heavy lifting. The same issue with India, we have depressing KL and Rohit at top (he's looking bad). NZ has no big shot except Kane but they have a nice team. England still didn't play according to their reputation, especially their batters.

How about New Zealand to win the World Cup?
The black caps are my favorite. I predict New Zealand vs England final again and this time New Zealand wins it :-)

Agreed. None of these teams dominated the competition in the Super 12 which is why it's really tough to tell who will lift the cup at the end. India vs Pakistan in the final would be epic though purely for entertainment purposes.

They are in the strongest position to lift the cup thanks to their amazing bowling lineup primarily if you ask me.

New Zealand will be far ahead of Pakistan if we consider the comparative aspect Because New Zealand are in great form from openers to finishers and they have world famous pace bowlers in their team. But Pakistan will not be taken so easily as we all know about Pakistan's opening pair If Babar Azam and Muhammad Rizwan can return to their form, it will be very difficult for New Zealand to win this match. Because Shaheen Afridi Haris Roaf is one of the best bowlers in Pakistan's bowling lineup. Hope New Zealand vs Pakistan match will be a very enjoyable match.

This year majority of the openers from almost every team went bust and if we look at the trend then, the middle order doing all the work.

Guess it's because of the lively pitches with the new ball and when it gets softer, it becomes easier to bat on.

Also, long boundaries are playing a nice part in this tourney. I'm loving it! It makes competition so fair between bat and ball.

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@Patrol69 bhai sorry but this thread is for participants only.

Agreed. Phillips, Surya, Shadab etc are some of the middle order players who shined brilliantly in this tournament so far which is why your logic makes perfect sense overall.

This is also one of the reasons why there were so few 200+ scores in this tournament.

Also, I observed so many players getting out thanks to long boundaries in this tournament which would have gone for sixes and fours in smaller stadiums as you mentioned making this tournament way more entertaining.

The match is going to be interesting as both the teams are  equally strong. Both teams have the best bowling and the one who bats good is gonna make the win. New Zealand players could play little more confident than Pakistan as it is something similar to their home ground.

The match is also in the hands of the umpires, because they should not make mistakes. To make mistake is common, but something similar to that in the Bangladesh vs Pakistan match should not happen. Those moments will surely down the player.

Pakistan should copyright the word "Unpredictable".

What a beautiful moment for the Pakistani team. They were lagging in the group stage, dependent on the other team's results, and with sheer luck qualified for the semis but when it mattered most they played quality cricket, Props to them.

Agreed. Pakistan decimated New Zealand unexpectedly. The first over by Shaheen was amazing and I knew that NZ were in trouble from that over itself.

New Zealand screwed themselves thanks to pointless run-outs, bad fielding, crap wicketkeeping etc which is why they totally deserved to lose this match. Now, India should somehow win against England to face Pakistan in the final.

Now it looks like Pakistan has really played well in this world cup and qualified for the final as a well deserved team. They have easily won the last 4 matches against some good team. Where they had narrowly lost the first two matches. Pakistan had lost against Zimbabwe by 1 run only, which was an unfortunate situation for the team. Everyone criticised the Pakistan team after that, but they have come back very strongly and proved their capability. The final match will bring more excitement in the spectators mind if India win against England in the second semi final.

At some point we should agree that Pakistan is lucky enough to reach the semifinals. It was Netherlands to pave path for Pakistan reach the semifinals. If South Africa have won the match against Netherlands, then there could've been changes. No doubt, Pakistan is good with their performance. Today's match is going to be interesting, spectators as well as the ICC will expect India to win for its big revenue.

Tbh they really had an off day at work.

Yeah, they were extremely lucky but to reach into the finals they had to perform well in the semis which they did convincingly so they deserve the credit.

South Africa have only itself to blame, they f%cked up their chances and deserve all the trolling.

107/0? What's up with all the Indian bowlers? None of them are bowling well. England are absolutely decimating them at the moment. India still has a slim chance at turning this one around and winning.

Hales and Buttler are spectacular together. The situation looks really bad for the Indians and it looks like England will meet Pakistan in the finals.

They basically rolled over a full Indian team and F$ucked em up lol

They also came back in form at the right time and showed why they are a big team in White ball cricket. After all White ball revolution happened because of this England team under Morgan.

Surprise! surprise!! Look who is leading the pool :-)

Shall Pakistan repeat 1992 or England should take a revenge on this new form of cricket?

India wouldn't want to play against England for the next two years :-P

They are "Unpredictable" from the day they started playing international cricket LOL

Oh well, with the current batting line up barring Kohli and Surya then yeah they shouldn't

I guess retirement is coming for the likes of KL and Rohit. Both of the openers were pathetic, to be fair to KL Rahul it was expected as usual but Rohit performance as a batter was disappointing.

For a couple of players, it was their last T-20 WC (Ashwin and DK) and I really hope it's same for KL Rahul too, this dude is really depressing, idk why he's a vice-captain.

Yup. Extremely disappointed! Rohit should give up captaincy and Hardik should lead the team in the future because I can sparks of MSD in him as a captain, batsman etc.

Congrats! Most players in the pool still have a good shot at landing in the top 3 positions due to small differences in points which is why the final will decide who ends up in the top 3.

So that's what the point table looks like.

How many points can one score in the Finals? If I'm not wrong then it should be around 4 or 5 points with the margin points. Best of luck to the top 6  ;D


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You were at the bottom of the table after round one and round two. You have gradually went up and reached 4th rank within round 5, now you are at the top of the leaderboard by making two correct predictions in semi-finals.

England and Pakistan had played 7 match T20 series before the world cup, where England has won the series by 4-3. England is favourite for the final match, but Pakistan is unpredictable team. Which team you have selected for the final match?

I guess you could have made it into the top 3 too, but you forgot to place a bet on one of the semis which I noticed.

This whole tournament has been so freaking unpredictable which is why I wouldn't be surprised if Pakistan thrashed England into the stratosphere. Also, I don't think Royse would reveal his pick since the competitors could gain an advantage.

Yeah, i was under impression that i had fixed my picks already and didn't recheck but still, I would've been behind on margin points.

The Final will be Pakistan's threatening bowling vs England's batting (they guys have ridiculously serious depth in the batting department), should be a belter.

Looks like Pakistan and England could end up sharing the trophy due to a looming rain threat which freaking sucks to be honest. I truly hope the final doesn't get washed out purely for entertainment purposes and for our pool.

The only Pakistan bowler who was consistently threatening throughout this tournament was Shadab in my opinion while Buttler was the consistently threatening batsman from England.

Am excited to watch these two duke it out in the final.

Honestly speaking my excitement is because of the way I reached the top for the first time. I was at the bottom in the first round and never was even at top 3 until the last round. :-)

Hopefully in the final round I will have a good shot, good luck to all.

The pool is still open for top 5 participants. Imagine top three has no point in the final. 4th get some point and 5th gets full points. They will overtake top three :-P

This World cup edition has been an excellent journey for both teams, considering they were beaten by the low-ranking teams in the group and faced an upset, so it would be a real shame to share the trophy. Both teams deserve the final result.

They lost to small teams, but they made themselves strong at the right time. India and New Zealand took a strong lead and confirmed their semifinals position, but they weren't able to perform at the right time. Sharing shouldn't happen. It needs to be Pakistan/England. Once again tomorrow onwards media will start marketing for the upcoming ODI World Cup.

England lost against Ireland while Pakistan lost against Zimbabwe and still ended up facing each other in the finals. Crazy stuff!

If England wins or if the match gets washed out, they will be the first team in history to hold two different ICC World Cups(ODI and T-20) simultaneously which is freaking insane if you think about it.

What's that supposed to mean? Teams like Sri Lanka, Windies, India, Pakistan and Australia also have ODI and T-20 WC trophies. Unless you are pointing toward winning the trophy with some loopholes like Boundary count in 50 overs WC Eng vs NZ or in this case due to rain.

The forecast looking okay for now so I guess we should have a full match without any interruption.

England did it thanks to Stokes who saved them once again! Pakistan gave them a tough fight, but their score was always too low. Congratulations Royse for winning the pool and I'm happy with being the runner-up.

I meant that England would hold both the 50 over and 20 over World Cups simultaneously which they achieved successfully.

England now have two WC in their hold. ODI WC and T20 WC. Not other team had it before both at once.

Anyway, I am super excited especially looking at the round to round performance on the pool LOL

Round 1: 7/7
Round 2: 7/7
Round 3: 5/7
Round 4: 4/7
Round 5: 4/7
Semis 1/7
Final: 1/7

I really like the way the table was working in my favor :-)
Until the Semis I really did not think there is any chance for me even on top 3 but the last three matches were going as I was expecting. I was pretty confident about England today.

kpk333 congratulations for the 2nd place and Mahdir congratulations for the 3rd place. Thanks everyone to be a part of the pool and finally @JSRAW thanks for arranging the pool.

@JSRAW, please collect btc addresses from kpk333 and Mahdir. Also do the math of how much they won from the pool. I will take the tx fee from my part.

Cheers,

What's the criteria? 2021 T-20 WC was won by Australia.

Most of the teams also have 2 different trophies in different formats.

Oh lol got it  ;D But guess India also had WC and other ICC trophy (Champions).

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Big moment and Ben Stokes always standing tall, he loves to put up a show on the big stage for sure.

congratulations Royse777 Haunebu Mahdirakib. Hard luck for the next 3 participants.

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I would have stayed in the second rank if I made the correct prediction for the final match. However, the 3rd rank isn't bad at all. It was my first participation in any prediction pool here in the forum, I have really enjoyed it with you all. @JSRAW, thank you for arranging this pool. @Royse777, congrats for getting first rank man! I have sent you a PM with my Bitcoin address for receiving the payment.

Thanks a lot for organising the pool as usual. Had fun!

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You did really well since it's your first time participating in these cricket pools. Had fun playing with you and the others. Keep a lookout for similar pools(IPL etc) which are hosted regularly in this forum.

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Thank you again. Looking forward to the next big event and having a pool for that.

Just wanted to confirm that I received my prize money. Thanks @Royse and @JSRAW for hosting another cricket tournament successfully in this forum. I guess the next pool will be the IPL 2023 pool sometime next year.

Looking forward to that pool and other possible pools(ODI World Cup 2023 etc) in the future.

How can I participate in the next event? Please?
Seems like people are happy on receiving their prize money and it's not a scam.

Yeah, if everything goes okay then the next pool should be the IPL 2023 and possibly ODI WC too.

Just keep an eye on the cricketing threads during any World Cup or IPL.

Lol don't worry, no scam! This is our 5th-6th pool here.

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Locking the thread now. Thanks, everyone

Cheers