Cricket match prediction discussions

[Haunebu]

Sad to see Afghanistan woman being treated in such an unfair manner, but it was expected honestly speaking ever since the US army pulled out their forces from their country sometime back.

Afghanistan men's cricket team has a ton of potential, but they are being held back by their pathetic rulers sadly.

[fuguebtc]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/womens-cricket-in-afghanistan-lack-of-progress-a-concern-for-icc-1353307
The ICC has raised a concern regarding women's cricket in Afghanistan. As of now, Afghanistan is the only test nation without a women's team. Even associate nations such as Netherlands and Thailand are having strong women's squads and on the other hand Afghanistan despite receiving millions of USD every year in funds from the ICC hasn't managed to come up with one. ICC constitution makes it mandatory for full members and associate members to allow the development of women's cricket. So far the Afghan Cricket Board hasn't taken any steps in this direction.

Lol they are a bunch of idiots and this problem is there only because of them, they hardly care tbh.
If that was the case or even a serious talking point then ICC could've stripped Afghanistan's test status. They just need to follow their own rules, that's it.
Meanwhile, CA also joined their usual monkey balancing on a moral compass.

Agree, because ICC needs to take tough decision and stripped their test status even if they can ban their men's team this could be also good because Taliban doing useless tactics and world needs to act quickly and have to take tough decision's about this all which will bring them in main stream with balanced system, and surely they could be able to bring better policies for the women's as well which are important for having better future of them.
CA is also good about this all, and they need to stay with this all until we have good positive development about this all because if we will not support them surely they could be ruin things for their own sack and many countries will suffer with this all well because they are threat for the world right now.

ICC only cares about the top four or five. They do not care about the teams which are below in the rankings like 7, 8, or 9. And we also know that ICC only cares about money. And that is a big reason why they do not follow their own rules.

@darewaller and what if Afghanistan absolutely stops playing cricket after the men's team gets banned? Is that going to be good for Afghanistan or the ICC when there are a very small amount of teams playing cricket regularly? And I do not understand why a certain country needs to have a women's team. Everyone talks about democracy and actually doing hippocras. If you guys are talking about equality so much why Afghanistan does not have that equality of democracy itself?

[Naficopa]

Just because Bangladesh and Pakistan are Muslim countries does not mean that they follow Islam properly. And the biggest problem is that Muslims are not setting a good example for anyone to see. Anyway, I can name a bunch of stuff that Muslim countries are doing that they should not. But I am going to stay on cricket for now. You can already see the news that the Taliban are refusing to let women play cricket. Look at the hypocrisy. This country has been at war for so long and almost no one cared. As soon as they are saying they will not let their women play cricket suddenly the whole world has problems.

It is right that we should discuss about cricket no race or religion should be discussed. After a long war, Taliban rule has been re-established in Afghanistan. Whatever they say should be done in that country. According to this fact we cannot think of the entire Muslim country in the same way. Even in Bangladesh and Pakistan now women play cricket without any hindrance in their country's government. Moreover, there is no rule of killing people oppressively in the Muslim religion, but the Taliban government did so at one time. So it would be their internal problem.

When we are talking about cricket and Afghanistan, religion is always going to be an important thing.

Anyway, I am going to keep things centered towards cricket. The Bangladesh and Pakistan government does not hate or oppose the idea of women's cricket. Actually, they are trying to improve women's cricket. But on the other hand, the Afghanistan government is basically Taliban right now. And they are opposing the idea of the Afghanistan women playing cricket. So, I do not think it is going to happen in the recent future. Probably it is going to change but it will take time.

Yes as far as Taliban are in power in Afghanistan women cricket is not going to happen as they have strict laws and rules as far as women is concerned, their education career their growth all is stopped at this time .
Let's see who'll have talks with Afghanistan in this matter and who'll help in developing their circlet team.
Pakistan and Bangladesh cricket teams are formed with the help of their governments and that's most important in an decision making in any country.

[Tony116]

Sad to see Afghanistan woman being treated in such an unfair manner, but it was expected honestly speaking ever since the US army pulled out their forces from their country sometime back.
Afghanistan men's cricket team has a ton of potential, but they are being held back by their pathetic rulers sadly.

I am not going to hate anyone and I am also not going to say that the Afghanistan government is treating Afghanistan's cricket situation unfairly. But I am going to say that I think people are just hurrying to conclusions. The situation in Afghanistan is not good at all.

We can already see that a well-established team like Pakistan is facing a lot of problems because of the current situation of politics in the country. So, how can we expect Afghanistan to take such steps so fast? I think we need to give them time.

[GigaBit]

Sad to see Afghanistan woman being treated in such an unfair manner, but it was expected honestly speaking ever since the US army pulled out their forces from their country sometime back.

Afghanistan men's cricket team has a ton of potential, but they are being held back by their pathetic rulers sadly.

Yes, Afghanistan has long been governed by American troops. But with the recall of US troops a few days ago, the Taliban takes the control of Afghanistan. After getting the power they announced that they will conduct this country with all the facilities. But their recent announcement to ban women's cricket few days ago made a negative impact on the entire world. While Afghanistan did well in men's cricket, their ban in women's cricket did not go well with the cricketing world. If women's cricket was allowed then women would have been able to make good positions like men. Taliban government should come back from such announcement for their development of cricket.

[eaLiTy]

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After getting the power they announced that they will conduct this country with all the facilities. But their recent announcement to ban women's cricket few days ago made a negative impact on the entire world. While Afghanistan did well in men's cricket, their ban in women's cricket did not go well with the cricketing world. If women's cricket was allowed then women would have been able to make good positions like men. Taliban government should come back from such announcement for their development of cricket.

The Taliban promise is just misdirection and when things cool down they are implementing what they intended to do. It is not just Cricket but Women are not allowed to get education and playing a sport should be the least of worries for Women living in Afghanistan. The Biden stunt by pulling the troops and leaving the country back to Taliban is the worst decision and everyone needs to cope with the reality.

[Theones]

Sad to see Afghanistan woman being treated in such an unfair manner, but it was expected honestly speaking ever since the US army pulled out their forces from their country sometime back.

Afghanistan men's cricket team has a ton of potential, but they are being held back by their pathetic rulers sadly.

Yes, Afghanistan has long been governed by American troops. But with the recall of US troops a few days ago, the Taliban takes the control of Afghanistan. After getting the power they announced that they will conduct this country with all the facilities. But their recent announcement to ban women's cricket few days ago made a negative impact on the entire world. While Afghanistan did well in men's cricket, their ban in women's cricket did not go well with the cricketing world. If women's cricket was allowed then women would have been able to make good positions like men. Taliban government should come back from such announcement for their development of cricket.

It's been months US troops has left Afghanistan and it happened back in Sep 2022. Most of the Afghan were happy having US goverment there.
Afghan dont promote women education and woman playing cricket - which is a problem and now Aussie refused playing with them. But it wont change the decision of Taliban.

[keyscore44]

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After getting the power they announced that they will conduct this country with all the facilities. But their recent announcement to ban women's cricket few days ago made a negative impact on the entire world. While Afghanistan did well in men's cricket, their ban in women's cricket did not go well with the cricketing world. If women's cricket was allowed then women would have been able to make good positions like men. Taliban government should come back from such announcement for their development of cricket.

The Taliban promise is just misdirection and when things cool down they are implementing what they intended to do. It is not just Cricket but Women are not allowed to get education and playing a sport should be the least of worries for Women living in Afghanistan. The Biden stunt by pulling the troops and leaving the country back to Taliban is the worst decision and everyone needs to cope with the reality.

That is the worse decision Biden did - It has not only brought chaos in Afghanistan but it has also made difficult for Pakistani government and PAkistani people. Now they want space and land for counter terror attack - In my opinion they should forget Afghanistan - neither USSR or USA has been able to conquer Afghanistan

[SATWAT]

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After getting the power they announced that they will conduct this country with all the facilities. But their recent announcement to ban women's cricket few days ago made a negative impact on the entire world. While Afghanistan did well in men's cricket, their ban in women's cricket did not go well with the cricketing world. If women's cricket was allowed then women would have been able to make good positions like men. Taliban government should come back from such announcement for their development of cricket.

The Taliban promise is just misdirection and when things cool down they are implementing what they intended to do. It is not just Cricket but Women are not allowed to get education and playing a sport should be the least of worries for Women living in Afghanistan. The Biden stunt by pulling the troops and leaving the country back to Taliban is the worst decision and everyone needs to cope with the reality.

That is the worse decision Biden did - It has not only brought chaos in Afghanistan but it has also made difficult for Pakistani government and PAkistani people. Now they want space and land for counter terror attack - In my opinion they should forget Afghanistan - neither USSR or USA has been able to conquer Afghanistan

Guys please stop this all because I have been feeling it's not all about Afghanistan and Taliban we need to talk about cricket and if someone wants to talk about other issues please go ahead and start a new thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=34.0 which could be more helpful and informative about this all topic, thanks.

[Haunebu]

The Biden stunt by pulling the troops and leaving the country back to Taliban is the worst decision and everyone needs to cope with the reality.

It wasn't Biden's decision though since Trump was the one who was actually responsible. Also, it's understandable why Trump took this decision even though I don't like him at all.

The pathetic Afghanistan politicians were corrupt fools who were stealing funds and passing small amounts to the commoners.

Guys please stop this all because I have been feeling it's not all about Afghanistan and Taliban we need to talk about cricket and if someone wants to talk about other issues please go ahead and start a new thread here https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=34.0 which could be more helpful and informative about this all topic, thanks.

Chill. Cricket in their country is severely getting affected by their government. This discussion is relevant because players like Rashid Khan are actually contemplating their futures in leagues like the BBL due to crappy Taliban decisions.

[Sithara007]

Anyone following the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup? 5 associate teams are taking part, including United States (automatic qualification), Indonesia, Rwanda, Scotland and United Arab Emirates. Out of these 5 teams, two are 100% comprised of either Indian citizens or players of Indian origin. However the encouraging fact is that other three teams were fielding 100% native players. Indonesia and Rwanda are playing the world cup for the first time, and they performed decently in their respective first matches with native players.

[savetheFORUM]

Anyone following the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup? 5 associate teams are taking part, including United States (automatic qualification), Indonesia, Rwanda, Scotland and United Arab Emirates. Out of these 5 teams, two are 100% comprised of either Indian citizens or players of Indian origin. However the encouraging fact is that other three teams were fielding 100% native players. Indonesia and Rwanda are playing the world cup for the first time, and they performed decently in their respective first matches with native players.

It's a good decision by ICC specially now we have 16 teams with Asians are dominating again and good thing happening after Thailand now Indonesia is second Southeast Asian country which is participating in any big cricket event which will bring good fan base for this game in this well populated region but as you mention two Indian origin teams are in this event one is USA which is understandable for UAE having all Indian based players is surely not good decision by ICC because its completely against the fair play law and having not good example for many other countries which are trying to have native players.

From Africa Rwanda's entry is also good because I was expecting after South Africa and Zimbabwe Kenya will make his entry, but it's looking they are far behind and Rwanda having good entry in this event which is also positive development for the African region.

[BALIK]

Anyone following the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup? 5 associate teams are taking part, including United States (automatic qualification), Indonesia, Rwanda, Scotland and United Arab Emirates. Out of these 5 teams, two are 100% comprised of either Indian citizens or players of Indian origin. However the encouraging fact is that other three teams were fielding 100% native players. Indonesia and Rwanda are playing the world cup for the first time, and they performed decently in their respective first matches with native players.

This actually has become a problem. I do not think that any cricket team should be made out of 100% foreign players. This was already a big problem in men's cricket. Now, this has also become a problem in women's cricket as well. If the associate countries are making teams made out of 100% foreign players, it is not going to be good for cricket in the long run. Because they are thinking about cricket as a business strategy. Not something that they are actually going to be good at and playing competitively.

[Sithara007]

This actually has become a problem. I do not think that any cricket team should be made out of 100% foreign players. This was already a big problem in men's cricket. Now, this has also become a problem in women's cricket as well. If the associate countries are making teams made out of 100% foreign players, it is not going to be good for cricket in the long run. Because they are thinking about cricket as a business strategy. Not something that they are actually going to be good at and playing competitively.

Let's look at the positives. The 2 teams that are comprised of non-natives have so far performed poorly in the tournament. On the other hand, the two teams that are 100% native (Rwanda and Indonesia) performed credibly so far. Rwanda had their first win yesterday when they defeated Zimbabwe by 39 runs. Henriette Ishimwe took a double hattrick, by dismissing 4 batters in 4 consecutive balls. Indonesia was considered as the weakest team in the tournament, but yesterday they scored close to 100 against West Indies and managed to bat for entire 20 overs (ended up at 99/9 in 20.0 overs). Scotland has also performed well so far. UAE on the other hand went down against India by a margin of 122 runs and the United States (as usual, given automatic entry by the ICC) lost to Australia by 9 wickets.

BTW many thanks to Fancode for streaming the matches live in high quality. I enjoyed watching the Rwanda vs Zimbabwe and Indonesia vs West Indies matches yesterday:

[BobK71]

Anyone following the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup? 5 associate teams are taking part, including United States (automatic qualification), Indonesia, Rwanda, Scotland and United Arab Emirates. Out of these 5 teams, two are 100% comprised of either Indian citizens or players of Indian origin. However the encouraging fact is that other three teams were fielding 100% native players. Indonesia and Rwanda are playing the world cup for the first time, and they performed decently in their respective first matches with native players.

This actually has become a problem. I do not think that any cricket team should be made out of 100% foreign players. This was already a big problem in men's cricket. Now, this has also become a problem in women's cricket as well. If the associate countries are making teams made out of 100% foreign players, it is not going to be good for cricket in the long run. Because they are thinking about cricket as a business strategy. Not something that they are actually going to be good at and playing competitively.

The main problem is that cricket is now not considered as a game but as an excellent medium of business. Various countries are now doing this. They are giving more importance to the foreign players rather than their own players, something that seems good for a short period of time  but harmful in the long run. Especially home cricketers will be discouraged. At some point, people will lose interest drastically in international cricket. As a result, cricket can also be under a big threat.

[Sithara007]

Those who want to watch the super human performance from the Rwandan player Henriette Ishimwe (she took double hattrick yesterday) can do so here:

https://www.icc-cricket.com/video/3025435

I watched the match live on Fancode, and this link is for those who were unable to follow the live match. One thing is sure. Cricket in African continent is growing by leaps and bounds. A few months back, a total of 16 teams took part in the 2022–23 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier. The matches were of high quality and almost all the teams were comprised of native players. Nowhere else in the world I have noticed such rapid spread in popularity of cricket. But then, we have the sad example of Kenya. So don't want to make tall claims at this point.

[doomloop]

Those who want to watch the super human performance from the Rwandan player Henriette Ishimwe (she took double hattrick yesterday) can do so here:

https://www.icc-cricket.com/video/3025435

I watched the match live on Fancode, and this link is for those who were unable to follow the live match. One thing is sure. Cricket in African continent is growing by leaps and bounds. A few months back, a total of 16 teams took part in the 2022–23 ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Qualifier. The matches were of high quality and almost all the teams were comprised of native players. Nowhere else in the world I have noticed such rapid spread in popularity of cricket. But then, we have the sad example of Kenya. So don't want to make tall claims at this point.

This was surely performance of the tournament by Henriette Ishimwe and best achievement for the Rwanda which is not going to face England in their last pool match and sure exit for them from this tournament with this high noted performance against Zimbabwe.

Now today we have three matches and mostly were one-sided as Australia won against Sri Lanka with score board AUS 159/5 Sri Lanka 51, in this match when South Africa ended with the target of 112/7 I have feeling UAE can do upset but sadly South African not allowed them and have won this match by margin of 45 runs, with last match of the day play between India vs Scotland which won by India easily after giving target of 149/4 and Scotland bowled out for 66 in 14th over.

[TheGreatPython]

The main problem is that cricket is now not considered as a game but as an excellent medium of business. Various countries are now doing this. They are giving more importance to the foreign players rather than their own players, something that seems good for a short period of time  but harmful in the long run. Especially home cricketers will be discouraged. At some point, people will lose interest drastically in international cricket. As a result, cricket can also be under a big threat.

For your kind information not only cricket mostly sports are treated as business because we need investment for the development and better facilities which is possible if you give solid profit in reply otherwise no one going to invest in sports with mostly franchise depending on foreign players it's not issue because as we have mostly UEFA clubs are having foreign players.

But, problem is just when you have national teams so here ICC doing few blunders which are not acceptable because this can bring problem they have to stay with Native players which is very important for the development of this game right now we have two teams with all foreign players in U-19 World Cup and team of the UAE is surely not deserved this place because they have nothing with these players all adopted from India which is not fair.

[YinShuiSiYuan]

Anyone following the ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup? 5 associate teams are taking part, including United States (automatic qualification), Indonesia, Rwanda, Scotland and United Arab Emirates. Out of these 5 teams, two are 100% comprised of either Indian citizens or players of Indian origin. However the encouraging fact is that other three teams were fielding 100% native players. Indonesia and Rwanda are playing the world cup for the first time, and they performed decently in their respective first matches with native players.

This actually has become a problem. I do not think that any cricket team should be made out of 100% foreign players. This was already a big problem in men's cricket. Now, this has also become a problem in women's cricket as well. If the associate countries are making teams made out of 100% foreign players, it is not going to be good for cricket in the long run. Because they are thinking about cricket as a business strategy. Not something that they are actually going to be good at and playing competitively.

The main problem is that cricket is now not considered as a game but as an excellent medium of business. Various countries are now doing this. They are giving more importance to the foreign players rather than their own players, something that seems good for a short period of time  but harmful in the long run. Especially home cricketers will be discouraged. At some point, people will lose interest drastically in international cricket. As a result, cricket can also be under a big threat.

Its not about foreign players it's about population of that country as we are talking about uAE there are Arabs, Indians,  Bangladeshi and Pakistani majority so when they make cricket team that comprises of these people . As Arabs are not into cricket and Indians are dominating in every field that's why their team has more Indians players.

[Sithara007]

Its not about foreign players it's about population of that country as we are talking about uAE there are Arabs, Indians,  Bangladeshi and Pakistani majority so when they make cricket team that comprises of these people . As Arabs are not into cricket and Indians are dominating in every field that's why their team has more Indians players.

A team having "more" Indian players is OK. But a team with 100% Indian players is not OK.

Last round of group stage matches for the 2023 ICC Under-19 Women's T20 World Cup will take place today. Group A and Group D are all done and dusted with the following teams qualifying for the next stage: India, South Africa, United Arab Emirates (India B), Bangladesh, Australia and Sri Lanka. After today's matches are completed, we will get to know which are the 6 teams that will progress to next round from Groups B and C. Rwanda has almost secured their qualification, and the only chance of them missing out is if Zimbabwe manages to defeat Pakistan by a big margin today. In Group C, it is a direct fight between Ireland and Indonesia to secure the qualification spot. The winner of the match will qualify.