Alyssa Healy is now the No.1 batter for the ODIs after winning the Cricket World Cup 2022 Player of the Tournament award. The Australian team, even its individual members, are unstoppable since they have devoted decades to women's cricket. Their success shouldn't come as a surprise, but it's inevitable. Australia, England, South Africa and New Zealand continue to lead the bowlers' and allrounders' charts, respectively, throughout the Women's World Cup tournament. As the nation that used to lead in women's cricket, other countries should pay as same attention.

His performance completely justified the price-tag paid by KKR. Without him, they would have lost two valuable points. And feels bad about Daniel Sams. He was OK until that particular over when he conceded a massive 35 runs. Now everyone will blame him for losing the match. BTW, did anyone noticed the performance from Dewald Brevis? I heard a lot about him before the start of this season and he was amazing yesterday. He got out in an unfortunate fashion, but scored some valuable runs for his team before that. 

Umpires are also humans and sometimes they make mistakes. But that doesn't mean that Bangladesh was at the receiving end everytime. I can also list a number of occasions, when they benefitted from these mistakes. All this drama is a diversionary tactic to take attention away from their batting failure. Can you imagine this? 10 of their batsmen got out for 53 runs. And who took the wickets? Two spinners - Keshav Maharaj and Simon Harmer. For heaven's sake Harmer was not even considered for selection for a long time, because he decided to go Kolpak a few years ago. 

Australia is, was, and will be one of the best teams in cricket. and the system of Australian Cricket beats everyone else.

I think now we can understand why Pakistan was trying to go for draws in the test matches. They knew that they are not as strong as Australia in the test match.
Australia did really well in the test format, also the ODI format too.

I was also really amazed by the confidence that Australia had shown in the last test match, now there is only one T-20 to go and I think it will be a 50-50 about who wins.

LOL.. to be honest, it is pretty stupid to complain about a technology that is as advanced as the DRS. And the less said about the BCCI, that better. They are always late to implement technological innovations. When the DRS was first introduced, all the boards except the BCCI approved it. The opposition from the BCCI meant that it was implemented much later in international matches. And similar technologies are being used in other sports (VAR in football for example) and no one is stupid enough to blame the technology for their defeat.

^^^ What makes the Australian women's team so unstoppable? If the answer is WBBL, then England is also having a women's league that is even more star-studded and organized (the Women's Hundred). One reason can be the interest shown by CA for the women's game. During the past few years, the Australian board has spent a lot of time, effort and money in to the women's game. The ECB wasn't that excited about women's cricket and the less talked about the subcontinental teams that better. I would say that CA was the only board that gave equal opportunities to both men's and women's teams and in the end the results are out there for everyone to see.

This is what surprises me. The organizers allotted 15 days for the most boring and lest popular format (test format), and half a day for the most popular one (T20). And then people ask why the PCB is struggling with the revenues. I would have been happier if they had reduced one test match from the itinerary (two matches in total instead of three) and replaced it with 3 T20 matches. But then the traditionalists doesn't prefer the T20I format. They want to "uphold" the traditions and for them T20 is a taboo format. 

Keeping a positive attitude is important to me. From a country that always follows rigid and harsh religious customs, it at least is good to see the spirit of freedom and the women cheering with freedom. That is great they are here and participating. The situation will not be the same as before, as they will be stronger and able to establish themselves as a major force in the sun-continent. One day, these beautiful ladies will make their nation proud.

Sledging is just a part of the game and Bangladeshis need to get along. The only solution is to give it back with the same intensity. India was at the receiving end a decade or so ago. I guess it was Sreesanth who first retaliated against this practice (during a match with Australia). Now Kohli and his boys have gone a step further and are being regarded as some of the worst bullies in international cricket. So there are two options - either you need to ignore the sledging, or you need to retaliate with the same potency. 

There is no doubt that Ross was one of the most amazing batsmen New Zealand ever produced. But towards the end of his career, he was not doing great. During the last 2 years, his ODI average stood at 8.25. He played three matches against Netherlands this year and scored only 26 runs. His overall career stats look great, but the same can't be said about recent times. Anyway, now I think he should concentrate more on a TV role, as he has an amazing sense of humor (remember the twitter conversation with Virender Sehwag in Hindi?).

The performance from sub-continent teams remained below par during this edition of the world cup. If Thailand was allowed to qualify (they topped the qualifying tournament, but the ICC disqualified them saying that they are not ranked), then they would have done much better when compared to either India or Pakistan. Anyway, I had zero interest in the tournament this time. There were only 8 teams in total and I could see hardly any diversity. First of all, a tournament with just 8 teams should not be called a "World" cup.

Australian women posted a really big total depending on the back of AJ Healy. she made 170 runs alone by playing only 138 balls. and also she got really good company from her partners. It was always kind of impossible for England to chase 357 in 50 overs. 

For overseas players, 20% of the salary directly goes to the national cricket board. So for SENA nations, IPL is a revenue generating source. And for boards such as West Indies and South Africa (which are in a very weak condition financially), this amount can be life changing. And it creates a lot of disparity as well. Pakistani players are not allowed, and so the PCB is losing out on the money. The same can be said about associate nations, and lower ranking test nations such as Bangladesh, Ireland and Zimbabwe.

Australia did not lose all the matches in the ODI series, Australia won the first match by a big margin and it was Pakistan that made a good comeback and won the second match even though the total to chase was 348 runs and Pakistan played really well in chasing the huge total and the third match was a one sided one as Pakistan was able to fold them for a small total.

I doubt whether there is any understanding between BCCI and the South African Cricket board like you think. The sole reason they are not stopping the players is because if they put pressure on the players on not to participate in the IPL, then they need to give them a much bigger salary which they are not able to or risk the player announcing the retirement from International Cricket, i guess the later is true.

If the boards restrict the players from participating in the IPL, then they will announce their retirement and focus solely on franchise cricket as they can make a much bigger earning than their national contract and the prime example is AB de Villiers.

Babar Azam scored his second consecutive century and third consecutive 50 plus score and took Pakistan to a series win and he is the man of the series as well as the man of the match. But all the credits goes to the Pakistan bowlers who were able to trouble the Australian batting line up from the start and did not give any room to build any partnership and restricted them for a small total of 210 runs.

Today's match was so easy for Pakistan to win. They lost only 1 wicket and they played well. Performance of Pakistan team is impressive and I think they will continue it. Specially, Babar Azam is in his best form at this time.