World 11 team will also find it difficult to win against Bangladesh in Mirpur Stadium. Bangladesh always plays well there in the ODI format. Anyway, Bangladesh would have won the match if the target was above 240 runs. Still they made the game competitive by giving the target of 209 runs only. Dawid Malan deserve the credit for his batting performance. He played slowly, but it was enough for the low target.

Multan sultan was at the first spot for a long time but after's today win by Lahore qalandar, they have now taken the first spot in the PSL points table. Lahore qalandar had played 5 matches and won 4 of them and lost 1 and they have total of 8 points with the net run rate of 1.47.

Where as Multan sultan have played one more extra game that is they have played 6 matches , won 4 of them,  lost one and they  also have the eight points with the net run rate of 0.84.

It seems like Lahore qalandar and Multan sultan are the two strongest team of this year's Pakistan super league and we may see them in the finals too.

New Zealand batsmen were able to collect 483 runs. Williamson managed to score 132 runs and Blundell 90 runs. England bowler Jack Leach bowled well in both innings. In the first innings, he was able to pick up 3 wickets and in the second innings, he picked up 5 wickets. New Zealand set a target of 258 runs. New Zealand still has a chance of winning if the bowlers do their job properly.

Yes, majority might've watched the Womens ICC T20 World Cup Final. Myself didn't watched the innings of Australia Women, while checking the score saw 156 runs to be the target. This made me watch the South Africa batting with the hope of winning the final match. Fortunately the bowling from Australia Women, in particular the LBW from Megan Schutt at the right time to take the wicket of Laura Wolvaardt (61 runs of 48 balls) made it a loss for South Africa Women team.

There is no way to call England as weaker team. If two good teams are to be named in women's cricket, England would be 2nd. India women's team is better than Africa women's team but they did not win against England women's team. But South Africa played well in the last match and that doesn't mean that England Women's team is weaker. I have only praised South Africa's performance. Thank you for pointing out a small mistake about the total score. South Africa managed to score 164 runs in that match.

Are you sure Karachi kings will lose ? Infact Kings won by a big margin of 66 runs. Do you underestimate them  

At one time I was also sure that Karachi kings will lose today's match but then the Multan batting collapsed badly making this an easy and very important win for Karachi kings. Shoaib Malik and Tabraiz Shamsi were the main bowlers from Karachi kings who took three wickets each and turned the losing match in their favor.

The first innings is getting close to the end. Karachi Kings have lost two wicket and the score isn't that high. With the current runrate Karachi Kings might score around 170 runs. In 17 overs they've managed to reach 141 runs. Tahir played an awesome innings and lost his wicket at 65 runs. Mathew Wade need to make some big shots letting the team to score big target.

Honestly.... analyze the numbers well:
There will be 48 different teams/countries to dispute a single cup, the others leave "with nothing", it will be absurd 80 games to be played in 32 days (more than a month) and an almost incalculable income of more than U$ 6 billion. These will probably be the new World Cup numbers from 2026 onwards, numbers that in my opinion indicate extreme greed and politics on the part of FIFA and those involved.

The increase to 48 teams simply means that we will have more weak or average teams competing in a competition that should only bring together the best from each continent.

In my opinion, the pre-selections for the World Cup should gain more prominence and monitoring by Fifa, instead of increasing the number of teams in the main world football tournament that we have.

England Women vs South Africa Women today's match will be played in a short time. Today is the semi-final match of ICC Women Cricket.  South Africa Women's team from Group A and England Women's team from Group B are going to participate. Looking at the points table, it can be seen that two teams are strong but England team has more points with 8 points and South Africa team with 4 points. In today's game I think this England team will win their bowling performance and batting both side the team is all rounder so England will definitely be accepted as a sure win in this match today.

There is no justification to the way Harmanpreet Kaur got her out. She was really careless and her mistake probably cost the match for India. The required run rate during the last few overs was achievable. But in the end, India ran out of batters. Lower order batters like Deepti Sharma and Sneh Rana tried their best, but scoring regularly against the Australian women was tough. Looks like Australia is on course for winning another ICC trophy. England is the only team which stands between them and the trophy as of now.

England have made 315/3 at the end of the day (65 overs). England lost 3 early wickets, Root and Harris have made good partnership and made the score high. For 21 runs England have lost 3 wickets, from there Root and Harris have played in a much responsible manner. Harris have played as if like playing an ODI match. We can't be predict the pitch condition, because earlier England have lost early wickets and slowly England team have experienced it as a big success.

I would call it only bad luck and nothing else. We cannot take the credit away from the Indian team even if they have played too well in this game. A real disappointment for the Indian team today.

Also if you analyze both teams, the Australian women's team has the most allrounders in the team and therefore they have depth in both batting and bowling. Anyways unfortunately the reality is that it is the end of the journey for the Indian women's team today in the world cup.

Look like Zalmi will lose this match against Islamabad, because Islamabad batter were phenomenal Thier opener rehman-ullah-Gurbaz is on fire he smashed them like a kids playing with pro, he scored 62 with a strike rate of 200 which is incredible. The required runrate to chase the current target is 5.0 while Thier current run rate is 12.
Now Peshawer need wicket to get into game otherwise the game is out Thier hand because Islamabad need 55 runs in 70 balls while long number of power hitter are still on the way.
If Peshawer dismissed some wickets hope Thier

The 12th match of Pakistan Super League has started. Peshawar Zalmi vs Islamabad United these two teams have entered the field to play. Islamabad United won the toss and decided to bowl. Peshawar Zalmi are now batting for 26 runs in 2 overs.  So far Peshawar Zalmi has not lost any wicket. I think both teams will play very well in today's match and whichever team can do well in both bowling and batting will win today's match.

The target is really big to chase. India women can chase if they play responsibly handling the pressure. Till now India women have managed well, and the two strong pillars of India women Harpreet Kaur and Rodrigues on the crease gives the hope of winning the match. India women should not loss anymore wickets and in 60 balls need 80 runs which makes it possible.

Well.. there is no doubt that the Australian and England women play a lot more matches compared to anyone else. That may be having an impact on their performance. But the question is what prevents the other boards from doing the same?  Only very recently the BCCI started giving any sort of importance to the women's game. And some of the test nations such as Afghanistan doesn't even have a women's team. Sri Lanka and Pakistan don't have franchise T2 leagues for women (although WPSL will be starting sometime this year).

The reason why Australia and England are dominating the women's world cup so far, is due to the enormous effort put in by CA and ECB over the years. Back then it made hardly any financial sense to have separate franchise T20 leagues for the women, but both the boards went ahead with their plans (and suffered monetary losses in the end). Now BCCI is where CA or ECB was 15 years ago. They have enormous monetary power and therefore there is a possibility that it may not take a long time for them to catch up with Australia/England.

Multan Sultans batted amazingly. I expected Multan Sultans to score like 180 runs. But Multan Sultans scored more than what I expected. They gave a target of 196 runs in 20 overs. I think the runs Multan Sultans scored in today's match is very easy for Multan Sultans.  will win. But Multan Sultans team has batting as well as bowling. So I think Multan Sultans will win the match very easily.

Pakistan's loss against the West Indies led to negative criticism of the Pakistan women's team worldwide. Many questions have been raised about their performance also the responsibility falls on everyone especially the Pakistan Cricket Board, the selection committee and the coaching staff are all part of it. Even those who were optimistic about the Pakistan women's team now have a negative view of Pakistan women's cricket. The World Cup is almost over. We are going to watch the first semi final match tomorrow where Australia Women and India Women will participate in the first semi final match.

Therefore, Bangladesh's women's cricket team has suffered four consecutive defeats. It is important for the management to get the girls on a level where they can just play positive cricket. I congratulate the South Africa T20 women's team on a well-played match. It looks like this squad is more serious this time, so we are expecting a great match against England in the semifinals. Sadly, I don't have high hopes for the match against England women.

We already had this discussion infinite times. My question is why should anyone else decide on which is the "wisest" decision to take for Ronaldo? I believe that he is completely capable of taking any such decision. And his decision is to leave European clubs and move to Al Nassr. And I am not too sure whether money alone played a deciding role in this decision. There maybe other factors as well. Anyway, it is his career and he has complete freedom to take whatever decision he want. For an athlete, his prime is quite limited in duration. And for Ronaldo, he is well past his prime. Now let him have the opportunity to wind down his career in a respectful way.