India's semifinal berth was confirmed as soon as South Africa lost to Netherlands. India VS Zimbabwe was never a win win situation for India. They were the number one ranked side after South Africa lost in their group. They became second after Pakistan defeated Bangladesh. If India has lost today to Zimbabwe they would have still qualified.

By the way for few hours Pakistan was the top team in group 2. I am sure almost every Pakistani fan never thought that their team would have qualified for the semifinals in this world cup. I am sure this time the finals would be played between Indian and Pakistan and every cricket fan would enjoy it. 

In the end Pakistan wins and qualifies for the semifinals. They dominated the match from the first ball. Now they will play against Newzealand and India will play against England. If both Pakistan and India win the semifinals then we will see both of them playing against each other in this world cup finals.

If Pakistan wins today then they will rank up to the second spot in group 2 and will also qualify for the semifinals. The semifinals will be played between group 1 top team with group 2 second ranked team & vice versa. The probability of both India & Pakistan playing against each in this T20WC finals is now preety good. All now depends on the Pakistan team. If they lose against Bangladesh then they will not qualify but Bangladesh will. It is a must win match for Pakistan and the same applies for Bangladesh.

What just happened? Another big upset in T20WC! I never expected South Africa to lose to Netherlands. Pakistan has a good chance of getting into the semifinals now. All they need to do is to defeat Bangladesh today and they will rank up to number 2 on the point table. If India loses to Zimbabwe today then they will still qualify for the semifinals. Now their is a tiny probability of these two biggest rivals to play the final of the T20WC

Looking at the odds for today's match South Africa @1.05 & Netherlands @10.50, those who placed their bets on the Dutch have been rewarded royally.

LOL! I was expecting Srilankan batters to set a target of 180+ when I saw the opening pair going after the bowlers. Pathum Nissanka suddenly started hammering the bowlers and all credits to him Srilanka had a great advantage in the early overs.

They never utilised it and in the death overs they got destroyed by the English bowling. I somehow was expecting the Srilankan batters to die down in the middle to lower batting order as it has been proved in this world cup. I somehow was expecting another big upset but the English side was too good. 

Another world cup match that was exactly predicted by Sportsbet.io. Till now they have been spoton on predicting the games with their odds. The odd's today were Sri Lanka @4.10
England @1.24 and in the end the English side won.

After today's win England and Newzealand are into the semifinals. What is now left is to decide the other two teams for semifinals. Tomorrow if India win against Zimbabwe then they will go through. If Pakistan defeats Bangladesh then they still will be out of this word cup as I don't think SA will get defeated by NL.

Newzealand are into the semifinals of this T20WC and as of my understanding South Africa willl get through. The problem here was for Australia and according to the NRR they have -0.173 that means they will not qualify considering the NRR of England which is + 0.547. What England needs to do is win tomorrow's match which is against  Srilanka.

Unfortunately it would not be easy for the English to win that match. Srilanka is struggling with its bowling attack. If they win tomorrow then the permutation & combination will change drastically. I think they shouldn't be worried as they have a good indepth batting line-up and their bowlers have been consistent lately.

How many of you did bet on Pakistan? Odds (@2.26) good but I am sure none of us expected that the match will end up Pakistan defeating South Africa.

Pakistani openers and the middle order failed but their lower order was incredible. They lost 4 wickets in the first five overs but still they came back and batted which none of us might have expected. This is the problem with them they are not at all consistent.

After this win, still it will not be easy for Pakistan to get into the semifinals. The problem is with their NRR. The Indian team will be happy because of South Africa had won this match then they were likely to play against Newzealand in the semifinals.

Yes, it is a lucky day for India as the way Litton Das was going he could have won the match all by himself. Unfortunately his momentum was broken due to the rain and he got runout due to the skiddy field. But, it was in the 7th over that rain started pouring and if given another over before the rain then he might have got out. The reason behind is that all his shorts were risky and just behind the boundary as they were bein played in the powerplay. This match was never meant to upset India but to humiliate Shakib after his statement.

Now it has become pretty much evident that the teams that will play semifinals will be Newzealand, England, Soth Africa and India. I still don't understand what made Shakib say that

" India has come here to win the title. We didn't come here to win the trophy. If we beat India it will be an upset for them."

What made him so overconfident is still a question for me? To me he made himself a twat or someone who accidentally became a captain of a team and has no idea about their performance. A mature and a sensible captain would not have vomitted such a statement infront of the media. After today's defeat this statement will haunt him in the future.

The same applies to you to as you are also not making any sense supporting a spin bowler who has not yet delivered wickets. He is not a batter niether is considered an all rounder but still as Indian team management after the Dhoni era does is to keep those who have experience and lack of form. As an example just wanted to say that It took more than two years for Kholi to get back to the same form where he was on 2019. Some good steps taken by the Indian selectors after Roger Binny was to drop these old hags and start focusing on newbies for 2024.

Indian will lose this match if the rain doesn't stop and DLS is put into place. I hope that doesn't happens as Bangladesh are ahead 17 runs.. Bangladesh opening pair and especially Liton das is on fire. The Indian bowlers are looking helpless at the moment as non of the pacers have been able to capatalize a wicket till now.

After losing from Netherlands I am also pretty much sure that they will face a stiff competition from Ireland. Netherlands did performed good today. Their bowling and fielding were the main reason why they were able to win today. The problem with Zimbabwe is that they are completely dependent on the performance of Sikander Raza.

Somehow I felt at the end overs of today's match that Netherland might bat till the 19th over just get those required 2 runs to win the match. With this loss Zimbabwe are out of the world cup. I was not expecting the Zimbabwean team to lose odds also favoured them.

After the announcement of the ODI squad! Prithvi Shaw posted a cryptic post on his Instagram. I found it on his Instagram stories. Clearly, it shows he is not happy with the selector's decision on ignoring him for the ODIs. Do you think he is now part of the interstate politics of BCCI? This was very common before the Sourav Ganguly era. A lot of such petty politics was routed out when MSD became a captain.

Apple has the liberty to control and govern its platform. I am not sure why you are questioning its policy. Unfortunately, a lot of Gambling websites and apps will get affected due to this decision by Apple. I do not think it will affect them in anyways as they make more money just by selling their handsets and not through advertisement on their platform. They would have a lot of reasons in banning gambling advertisements on their app store.

The world cup is not one single match. There are multiple matches that need to play and win in order to secure a position in the semifinals. Ashwin in anyways will be playing his last T20WC after that he will not be considered for T20I by the selectors. What he did with his bat on that day is purely based on his experience and not his performance.

He hasn't been contributing and he needs to be dropped but it all depends on the team management. Rahul Dravid has already clarified KL Rahul and DK. Rishab Pant might play tomorrow if DK is declared unfit otherwise these two guys will remain. Ashwin can get replaced by Chahal in tomorrow's match.

P.S: In today's match, Mark Wood bowled the fastest ball in T20WC which was 154 MPH.

Interesting odds! England won the toss and selected to bat first. This is a good decision by the English team management. Now, it would be more interesting to see what will be the Kiwis bowling strategy. I am pretty sure England batters would like put on a target excess of 170 as in the night it will not be easy to bat for the Newzealand batters.

Afghanistan started so good that in the first 10 overs their projected score was 170+ and now after the 19th over they are struggling to reach 150. Good comeback by the Srilankan team but as usual their fielding has been not upto the mark. The target 145 runs can be achieved easily if the Srilankan batter do not rush to achieve it. Winning this match for both the team is very critical for them to stay in the tournament.

Srilanka and Afghanistan both team need to win this match if they want to stay in the tournament. At the moment Afghanistan is looking good. For England is a must win game otherwise they won't have a second chance. Newzealand can afford to lose this match but if they do then it will affect Australia. The toss will play the crucial role as both the teams will try to bat first.