Cricket match prediction discussions

[Thanasis]

Where are the critics of Dhoni? What a knock by Dhoni and Kedar. And the man of the series is MS Dhoni. He really played a brilliant inning today and in the last match. He deserved that. I hope no one will talk any more about Dhoni. Well done by Chahal.

The man who can play and score lot of needed runs to win in the big matches. Another good win for India and it really help to built the metal strength of Indian team while they are going to face the world cup this year.

[romero121]

Where are the critics of Dhoni? What a knock by Dhoni and Kedar. And the man of the series is MS Dhoni. He really played a brilliant inning today and in the last match. He deserved that. I hope no one will talk any more about Dhoni. Well done by Chahal.

The man who can play and score lot of needed runs to win in the big matches. Another good win for India and it really help to built the metal strength of Indian team while they are going to face the world cup this year.

The match was much interesting, even when the score was low to chase the early fall of wickets made a shattering. Dhoni coming into the pitch at the fourth position helped maintain the run rate continue without loss of wickets maintaining a good partnership which is a must by that situation. Finally the cup is on the hands of India, also as said in the above quote it truly helps India team keep themselves strong to face the upcoming world cup matches.

[vella85]

I like your honesty and you shouldn't hide your face because you are not doing any crime by hating Dhoni.

Thank you  

In match between Aus vs India. India is in good position right now. after 33 over Australia standing with 143/5.  Yuzvendra Chahal creating havoc in Australia camp. no one playing him comfortably so far. he already took 3 wickets. if India can bowled out Australia under 230 then its job well done for India.

Np problem bro. you were honest, unlike many hypocrites. Bloody hell. you were spot on this. Chahal did all the damage and restricted Aussie on exact 230 runs marks.  he's not making life easy for selectors but its good to have such kind of a headache when selecting playing xi.


vella85 What happened to Finch nowadays. why he's struggling so much. Graeme Hick and Justin langer should look into it.

I am eying on Zampa here, and India would be very disappointed if rain abrupts the game.

Not sure mate, Finch is in poor form of late and I actually think it has to do with playing test cricket. Since he was called up to play test cricket in the middle of last year his one day form has dropped off and his test match form isn't any better. I really think that he is just a ODI and T20 player and Australia should stick with it.

Congrats to India on winning the third ODI and the series, that now makes it a series win in all forms of the game as they won the T20 series, test match series and now the ODI series. Its been an amazing tour for India and Kohli and his men should be very happy with the way they have played on this tour. I can't remember the last time a touring team has done this in Australia, maybe it was the WI back in the 80's early 90's but I can't remember any team doing this recently.

[ragavancoin]

Indian team finish Australian tour 2019 with great series win and I wish Indian team to continue the same upcoming series with New Zealand, and congratulation to Dhoni get the man of the series award in ODI series and all Indian team members did great show there. But it will be bad series loss for Australia team for ever and I hope that the AUS team will be come back with their full team very soon.

[absy]

As a Dhoni fan I slept nicely yesterday When he missed a couple of chances behind the stumps and that got me worrying . He had a great day today and also thanks to Maxwell for dropping him on the first ball . 87 runs off 114 and he lead the team to win Dhoni is still Dhoni .
Congrats to Chahal on an amazing innings . Congrats to Dhoni again for being chosen as Man of the Series.

[Little Mouse]

Not sure mate, Finch is in poor form of late and I actually think it has to do with playing test cricket. Since he was called up to play test cricket in the middle of last year his one day form has dropped off and his test match form isn't any better. I really think that he is just a ODI and T20 player and Australia should stick with it.

Agree with you. Finch was playing good cricket in one day international and in t20 format. I was a fan of Aaron Finch but recently he is not playing such good like as he played before. One can be the reason you mentioned but I barely believe that. In fact, test cricket is more necessary for being strengthen. I hope he will get back his form and will be able to continue assist team Australia to win.

[Pffrt]

As a Dhoni fan I slept nicely yesterday When he missed a couple of chances behind the stumps and that got me worrying . He had a great day today and also thanks to Maxwell for dropping him on the first ball . 87 runs off 114 and he lead the team to win Dhoni is still Dhoni .
Congrats to Chahal on an amazing innings . Congrats to Dhoni again for being chosen as Man of the Series.

Same here too mate. I am also a fan of Dhoni, because of people's criticism, it was really bad situation in social media. At the end, he is the man of the series with a 3 half centuries at a row. Yesterday, it would become a century though if there was enough run to chase. Congrats MSD.

[Haunebu]

As a Dhoni fan I slept nicely yesterday When he missed a couple of chances behind the stumps and that got me worrying . He had a great day today and also thanks to Maxwell for dropping him on the first ball . 87 runs off 114 and he lead the team to win Dhoni is still Dhoni .
Congrats to Chahal on an amazing innings . Congrats to Dhoni again for being chosen as Man of the Series.

Same here too mate. I am also a fan of Dhoni, because of people's criticism, it was really bad situation in social media. At the end, he is the man of the series with a 3 half centuries at a row. Yesterday, it would become a century though if there was enough run to chase. Congrats MSD.

Its always been this way. When a player does well, everyone praises him while everyone hate on the same player if the player performs badly. This logic applies to any sport anywhere around the world.

As an MSD fan myself, I never lost confidence that he is done with the game and needs to retire since he clearly lost his form and is slowly regaining it recently in a fabulous manner.

This is why I feel he will play a vital role during the upcoming world cup in a few months.

[JSRAW]

If Zampa start the rain still India will be disappointed. Although it's an easy target for India, things can be changed if Zampa can strike. I don't think its going to happen though. It's more likely that India will win the match within 40 overs at maximum but who knows.

Zampa was okay in this match. I was expecting more from him after seeing Chahal's tremendous spells.

Man of the match belongs to Chahal. selecting team is very long debate lol .India need 44 runs in 30 balls. another last over result is in progress. India should win this match from here, they have wickets in hands and Austraila need some wickets right now if they wanna win. Maxwell dropped the dhoni's catch when he was facing first ball of his inning and now Dhoni playing at 70  

Yeah, it is a long debate but it's getting very interesting and complex due to Indian Bench strength. Australia didn't deserve to win this match at any cost. You can't drop 2 catches in the low scoring match. Period

Not sure mate, Finch is in poor form of late and I actually think it has to do with playing test cricket. Since he was called up to play test cricket in the middle of last year his one day form has dropped off and his test match form isn't any better. I really think that he is just a ODI and T20 player and Australia should stick with it. 

I am just hoping that he's going with some bad phase. not a good summer for him. I hate to say but his last 3 innings reminds me of KL Rahul. he's getting out on almost the same delivery in every inning. Batting coach along with Justin Langer must look into his all 3 dismissals.

Best of luck for next series against Srilanka.

[onrise]

As a Dhoni fan I slept nicely yesterday When he missed a couple of chances behind the stumps and that got me worrying . He had a great day today and also thanks to Maxwell for dropping him on the first ball . 87 runs off 114 and he lead the team to win Dhoni is still Dhoni .
Congrats to Chahal on an amazing innings . Congrats to Dhoni again for being chosen as Man of the Series.

Same here too mate. I am also a fan of Dhoni, because of people's criticism, it was really bad situation in social media. At the end, he is the man of the series with a 3 half centuries at a row. Yesterday, it would become a century though if there was enough run to chase. Congrats MSD.

It is never easy for some one like Dhoni to be ignore because once he is back suddenly whole unit changes their mindset and this reflects in the team performance. Dhoni's presence has made the difference and due to which only today India had won this series due to his terrific performance in batting.

[virasog]

As a Dhoni fan I slept nicely yesterday When he missed a couple of chances behind the stumps and that got me worrying . He had a great day today and also thanks to Maxwell for dropping him on the first ball . 87 runs off 114 and he lead the team to win Dhoni is still Dhoni .
Congrats to Chahal on an amazing innings . Congrats to Dhoni again for being chosen as Man of the Series.

Same here too mate. I am also a fan of Dhoni, because of people's criticism, it was really bad situation in social media. At the end, he is the man of the series with a 3 half centuries at a row. Yesterday, it would become a century though if there was enough run to chase. Congrats MSD.

Its always been this way. When a player does well, everyone praises him while everyone hate on the same player if the player performs badly. This logic applies to any sport anywhere around the world.

As an MSD fan myself, I never lost confidence that he is done with the game and needs to retire since he clearly lost his form and is slowly regaining it recently in a fabulous manner.

This is why I feel he will play a vital role during the upcoming world cup in a few months.

Sad , but true. A player can never be all the time in full form and people expectations form their favorite players are way too high. What makes it more worse that a recent bad performance from a player, the fans forgets about his previous good performances and in few worst situations demand resignations from this position in the team.

[Thanasis]

As a Dhoni fan I slept nicely yesterday When he missed a couple of chances behind the stumps and that got me worrying . He had a great day today and also thanks to Maxwell for dropping him on the first ball . 87 runs off 114 and he lead the team to win Dhoni is still Dhoni .
Congrats to Chahal on an amazing innings . Congrats to Dhoni again for being chosen as Man of the Series.

Same here too mate. I am also a fan of Dhoni, because of people's criticism, it was really bad situation in social media. At the end, he is the man of the series with a 3 half centuries at a row. Yesterday, it would become a century though if there was enough run to chase. Congrats MSD.

It is never easy for some one like Dhoni to be ignore because once he is back suddenly whole unit changes their mindset and this reflects in the team performance. Dhoni's presence has made the difference and due to which only today India had won this series due to his terrific performance in batting.

Undoubtedly MS Dhoni's presence has made changed the circumstance entire the Indian team. It was not easy to bat on that ground so far they were a bit nervous at beginning, but at least the India have created history with the help of superstar MS Dhoni.

MS dhoni now promoted in himself up in the batting order to create some better for power in the beginning over and he is doing well until now it is very clear that he is preparing for the world cup tournaments not just for the series.

[absy]

As a Dhoni fan I slept nicely yesterday When he missed a couple of chances behind the stumps and that got me worrying . He had a great day today and also thanks to Maxwell for dropping him on the first ball . 87 runs off 114 and he lead the team to win Dhoni is still Dhoni .
Congrats to Chahal on an amazing innings . Congrats to Dhoni again for being chosen as Man of the Series.

Same here too mate. I am also a fan of Dhoni, because of people's criticism, it was really bad situation in social media. At the end, he is the man of the series with a 3 half centuries at a row. Yesterday, it would become a century though if there was enough run to chase. Congrats MSD.

It is never easy for some one like Dhoni to be ignore because once he is back suddenly whole unit changes their mindset and this reflects in the team performance. Dhoni's presence has made the difference and due to which only today India had won this series due to his terrific performance in batting.

Undoubtedly MS Dhoni's presence has made changed the circumstance entire the Indian team. It was not easy to bat on that ground so far they were a bit nervous at beginning, but at least the India have created history with the help of superstar MS Dhoni.

MS dhoni now promoted in himself up in the batting order to create some better for power in the beginning over and he is doing well until now it is very clear that he is preparing for the world cup tournaments not just for the series.

It's ideal spot for Dhoni if you ask me. Everyone knows he takes time to settle in , if he comes in 2nd down he can settle in and then start playing like he plays. He will always finish strong , that's what happens under Rohit captaincy .
It's good for Dhoni and it's good for team because he knows how to build an innings .

[JSRAW]

It's ideal spot for Dhoni if you ask me. Everyone knows he takes time to settle in , if he comes in 2nd down he can settle in and then start playing like he plays. He will always finish strong , that's what happens under Rohit captaincy .
It's good for Dhoni and it's good for team because he knows how to build an innings .

Ideal spot only on some occasion and it should be decide on the match situation IMHO. if top 2 wickets get out cheaply and early in the inning then Dhoni fits well in number 4. if that's not the case then Dhoni fits on number 5 or some cases even 6.

[eaLiTy]

Same here too mate. I am also a fan of Dhoni, because of people's criticism, it was really bad situation in social media. At the end, he is the man of the series with a 3 half centuries at a row. Yesterday, it would become a century though if there was enough run to chase. Congrats MSD.

It is true that Dhoni is the best finisher of all time and there is no doubt about that and he knows very well to time an innings perfectly and get the match to the last over, glad that there was not a tall order to catch, if not it will be a difficult task in that pitch without a doubt and Chahal bowled beautifully to restrict Australia.

Yeah, it is a long debate but it's getting very interesting and complex due to Indian Bench strength. Australia didn't deserve to win this match at any cost. You can't drop 2 catches in the low scoring match. Period

It is a fact and dropping catches can cost you the match and that is what happened, Dhoni gave three chances, first dropped catch when he was on zero and then after crossing fifty it was a hard chance because it was a powerful shot and then a run out chance, it was the day for MSD to get India this historic win and he made it till the end.

[Raja_MBZ]

The first match of the 5-match ODI series between South Africa and Pakistan will begin tomorrow at Port Elizabeth. Interestingly, Dale Steyn (good for M. Hafeez ) and De Kock have been rested for the first two matches. Duanne Olivier and Rassie van der Dussen will probably be their replacements.

I hope this ODI series doesn't turn out to be like the Test series, with almost all matches being one-sided.

Pakistan can beat any team in white ball cricket in their day. Babar Azam batting on number 3 is good. Shoaib Malik at number 5 can anchor the inning in case of collapse and All-rounder Shadab khan batting at lower order can make useful runs too here and there.

Not very sure about Fakhar. he's good but i still have my doubts about him when facing quality bowling attack and M.Hafeez, sometimes he play like top international batsman and sometimes looks more like a club cricketer to me. 

Bowling unit is looking good with 2 all-rounders Hafiz -Shadab + Fast battery, but I want to see M. Amir do some good in ODI along with young Shaheen Afridi.

Pakistan, with a very nice comeback after the Test series, won the first ODI match by 5 wickets. Interestingly, today's pitch looked like totally in batsmen favor, with almost no extra bounce. IMO, Hashim Amla's century really ruined the match for South Africa; at pitches like these, the strike rate of at least 100+ should be maintained. OTOH, Mohammad Hafeez's batting performance looked awesome as he maintained the strike rate of 110+.

[vella85]

Not sure mate, Finch is in poor form of late and I actually think it has to do with playing test cricket. Since he was called up to play test cricket in the middle of last year his one day form has dropped off and his test match form isn't any better. I really think that he is just a ODI and T20 player and Australia should stick with it. 

I am just hoping that he's going with some bad phase. not a good summer for him. I hate to say but his last 3 innings reminds me of KL Rahul. he's getting out on almost the same delivery in every inning. Batting coach along with Justin Langer must look into his all 3 dismissals.

Best of luck for next series against Srilanka.


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I hope for the same mate as Finch in form is one of the best opening batsman in the world but like I said, I believe it has to do with the test call up. He is under more pressure to perform in test matches then in ODI's and T20's and since that test call up to replace Warner he has been in poor form which continues on into the other forms of the game where he is one of the best. The best for him to do is forget test match cricket and just concentrate on ODI and T20 again. It will be interesting to see what happens once Warner is back, that's if he gets back into the Australian team.

[absy]

It is a fact and dropping catches can cost you the match and that is what happened, Dhoni gave three chances, first dropped catch when he was on zero and then after crossing fifty it was a hard chance because it was a powerful shot and then a run out chance, it was the day for MSD to get India this historic win and he made it till the end.

Run out and Dhoni just doesn't go with each other lol . He can run faster than Bolt with pads on , if you ask me , anyone else in that situation would have been out .

I hope for the same mate as Finch in form is one of the best opening batsman in the world but like I said, I believe it has to do with the test call up. He is under more pressure to perform in test matches then in ODI's and T20's and since that test call up to replace Warner he has been in poor form which continues on into the other forms of the game where he is one of the best. The best for him to do is forget test match cricket and just concentrate on ODI and T20 again. It will be interesting to see what happens once Warner is back, that's if he gets back into the Australian team.

Finch will come back , he looked positive in the 3rd ODI actually but it was just brutal bowling by Indians and he couldn't do anything , he will be back to his old form though .

[Little Mouse]

IMO, Hashim Amla's century really ruined the match for South Africa; at pitches like these, the strike rate of at least 100+ should be maintained. OTOH, Mohammad Hafeez's batting performance looked awesome as he maintained the strike rate of 110+.

Yeah, he and the another batsman, made 93, both made a good partnership and they both played slow. Amla played the whole innings, so, he could play little aggressive and made some more run which will give them big score. Still, Pakistan made a great knock inded. Great come back after the test series.

[onrise]

IMO, Hashim Amla's century really ruined the match for South Africa; at pitches like these, the strike rate of at least 100+ should be maintained. OTOH, Mohammad Hafeez's batting performance looked awesome as he maintained the strike rate of 110+.

Yeah, he and the another batsman, made 93, both made a good partnership and they both played slow. Amla played the whole innings, so, he could play little aggressive and made some more run which will give them big score. Still, Pakistan made a great knock inded. Great come back after the test series.

SA would definitely be unhappy inspite of having 8 wickets in hand they did not end up even 300 runs in 50 overs. They would have wanted their batsman to after bowling even if they would have lost wicket it was fine. But credit goes to Pak bowlers who helped them to keep SA under 300 and won the match by 5 wickets and 5 balls remaining.