Even if Australia plays badly in the beginning, Australia is playing great in the next matches, moreover, it is normal that Australia will not do worse in important stages like the semi-finals. South Africa, on the other hand, do not have the ability to withstand the stress of reaching the semi-finals, which is why they have a record of being knocked out of the semi-finals more than once. The same could happen in the match on the 16th, with Australia likely to be eliminated from the semi-finals.

South Africa may not be able to compete properly against Australia, because they need to deal with the issue of quota products such as Temba Bavuma and Andile Phehlukwayo who needs to be included in the squad irrespective of their performance. The quota system means that players who are performing well needs to make way for these mediocre players and warm the bench. Australia gives priority for merit and that will be the main reason why they will remain as the favorites to win the second semi-final between these two teams.

We don’t have any match today and we also don’t have any match tomorrow but on 15th November, a big match is taking place which is India vs New Zealand, and you know in the previous World Cup same semi-final was held, teams are exactly the same, and first semi-final is in between New Zealand vs India, which lost by India at that time, and India lose that match with a huge embarrassment, so India team was very angry after that lose so they are want to take revenge this time.

Indian players want to take revenge. I think this time the conditions will favour the Indian team more than the New Zealand team.

Netherlands started the tournament quite well by winning matches against South Africa and Bangladesh. But then they lost steam. They suffered very heavy defeats and then lost against weak sides such as Sri Lanka and Afghanistan. Running between the wickets was pathetic and so was their depth over bowling. They were presented with an ideal opportunity to qualify for the ICC Champions Trophy and thereby securing more funds from the ICC. But all of that was wasted with the immature approach to the game.

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India decimated the Dutch as expected, but they shouldn't relax at all since they have been known to choke in critical matches like the semifinals and finals quite often in recent history which is why they need to be extra careful.

No team seems capable of snatching the cup from them as long as they don't succumb to pressure in my opinion.

There are only 2 overs are left and India is just near to 400 runs made 368 runs. I think India will make almost 390 runs. And this will be a huge target for Netherlands team.
Shreyas Iyer is on fire and just hit 2 sixes and and now India score is 380 and Shreyas Iyer made 116 runs on 90 balls with 4 sixes and 9 fours. Netherlands lost the match in advance.

Before the tournament started, no one would have thought that these two teams would perform so poorly. England, for most of the group phase duration was at the rock bottom of the points table. They won their last two matches and it enabled them to qualify for the Champions trophy. Pakistan was actually expected to do well, because they were in good form and also due to the fact that the matches are being played in the sub-continent. Their batsmen actually did a good job, but the bowlers failed them completely.

These surprises are in terms of teams lowering their performances when something good was expected of them. Srilanka, England and West Indies (could not qualify) were just disappointed but we can say that the Netherlands and Afghanistan showed some good performances like Afghanistan beating Pakistan and England while the Netherlands team beat South Africa and Bangladesh.

Coming to today's first match at Pune, Australia won the toss and rightly decided to bowl first. Litton Das and Tanzid Hasan started the innings slowly but carefully and they have made 20 runs in 5 overs but did not lose any wickets. Being the last match of Bangladesh they would really like to go home with a win against a big team Australia. Let's see how they play these 50 overs and if they can manage to score 300+ runs giving their bowlers something to defend at this ground.

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I think in long term investments we don't have to check price to stabilize our purchases, I mean the price today will be different in the next day. So buying regularly and not caring about the price will give you the perception of accumulating Bitcoin regardless of the current Bitcoin price. We only focus on 0.1 0.2 and so on until we reach 1 BTC in our last stage. 10 years or 20 years is quite a long time if you imagine it, but if we take it easy in investing, of course time will pass very quickly.

I don't really care about Sri Lanka. They are a team in decline. IMO, providing 30x more funds to teams like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and West Indies when compared to stronger associate nations such as Netherlands and Scotland doesn't make sense. Hopefully the ICC will re-distribute funds to smaller nations and it will create a level playing field. Back in 2016, the ICC suspended CAN (Cricket Association of Nepal) and for a period from 2016 to 2019 Nepal didn't received any sort of ICC funding. The same criteria should be applied to Sri Lanka as well.   

The South African team lost the wicket of Temba Bavuma in the 11th over. As usual in the previous matches we saw a poor performance from Bavuma in today's match. Bavuma returned to the dressing room after collecting 23 runs from 28 balls.

Quinton de Kock is batting with responsibility. De Kock is unbeaten after collecting 41 runs from 46 balls. At the end of 13 overs, South Africa managed to collect 66 runs. As now South Africa are second in the points table, and they have no chance to go to the top of the table, so South Africa net run rate is not worried today. This is why South African batsmen are not batting aggressively today.

LOL.. interesting to see that Afghanistan chose to bat first. And quite predictably, the South African bowlers ripped through their batting lineup. Till now, not  single Afghan batsman has made a score of above 30. Rahmat Shah made 26 and Rahmanullah Gurbaz got out after making 25. Azmatullah Omarzai is at the crease with 24. They have lost wickets at regular intervals and I will be very surprised if they make a total of above 200. So far Gerald Coetzee and Keshav Maharaj have taken 2 wickets apiece as Proteas decided to rest their ace bowler Marco Jansen.

Paksitan chances for semifinals are almost ended because thier chances were completely dependent on sirilankan team win but unfortunately they unable to win this match and also not even stop thier opponent to win against them with small margin which is really disappointing because such run rate problems will create huge trouble for paksitan because now paksitan has to win against England with 287 runs which is currently looking impossible and also while chasing they has to chase England target on 16 balls which is also impossible. So now India will face NewZeland in Mumbai Venue while paksitan has to just play against England to compete formality and then on the way to paksitan

Kusal Perera was the only Lankan batsman who looked confident in today's match. But once he got out, it was all over for Sri Lanka. Dushmantha Chameera and Maheesh Theekshana are at the crease now, but it looks unlikely that they will get past 150. And in that case it may take less than 20 overs for the Kiwis to chase the target, which can take their net run rate to formidable levels. And all this is bad news for Pakistan. Now it is almost confirmed that they will not qualify for the semi-finals.

Angelo Mathews and Dhananjaya de Silva are trying to stabilize the innings after being ripped through by Trent Boult. And theirs is the last recognized batting pair for Sri Lanka. So far they looked comfortable against the spinners, as well as against Lockie Ferguson. Perhaps the New Zealand captain can get a few more overs from Boult, but it is going to be a risky strategy. Also, the wayward Tim Southee needs to be called in at some point. Glenn Phillips and Rachin Ravindra are yet to bowl, and we also need to remember that the net run rate is going to be extremely important for the semi-final qualification.

Although Pakistan's performance is not up to the mark, I would say that at this point they are a much better team when compared to Sri Lanka. Without Hasaranga, Sri Lanka is a shit team. Even the addition of Angelo Mathews hasn't helped them. Out of the three teams in contention for the semi-final slot as the 4th placed team (Pakistan, Afghanistan and New Zealand), I would say that Pakistan has the maximum probability. New Zealand would come in next, despite their recent downturn in form and Afghanistan only has a remote possibility.

Tomorrow we have a really demanded Match because here will be decided whom will qualify for semifinals because if NewZeland won then there chances will be really high and paksitan has to won his game with big margin against England but if NewZeland lose or abounded due to rain then paksitan will be straight away to semifinals against india