T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[bryant.coleman]

The points of my mentioned comment were the same that Pakistan team may not have released their T20 squad against New Zealand with a balanced team, If they had a balanced team, maybe their style of play would have been more organized. But an attempt is being made to clearly highlight Pakistan's weaknesses this season. Because the Pakistan team being all out for such a low score might not decorated them.

Most of the few players we see in the Pakistan squad are the new faces, that is the PCB may be obsessed with finding something good. No matter how much Pakistan plays with this same squad, it will not be an easy process to please its fans because they will not get a complete result from this match.

PCB selecting unknown faces in the squad is not the problem. But not giving enough opportunities and dumping them after a single tour is the real issue here. There is no lack of talent in Pakistan. But the PCB has been notoriously incompetent in grooming this talent.

[Haunebu]

IPL starts from 22 March so there are still some days and hopefully there will be some pool started by someone. 

Otherwise, I may contact Royse and ask him if he can sponsor this event once again. In that case, I would setup a superbru pool. To be honest, It won't be much fun watching the IPL without having a competition here.

Good to hear. Royse usually organized these pools in the past, but he is a lot more busy these days thanks to more work which is why I wonder whether he will be able to organize an IPL 2025 pool. Would be great if he could.

Despite offering free pool, many active posters from here didn't even join the last Champions Trophy pool, so not many takers or most of em are Alt accounts.   

Observed that myself. Pretty odd considering that the entry was free and the prizes were pretty generous.

[As-Soon-As]

Bahrain vs Hong Kong Final

The final match of the Malaysia Tri-Nation T20I Series has started. Among the three teams, Malaysia has been eliminated from the series. Today this final match has started between Bahrain vs Hong Kong. Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat. So far Hong Kong have collected 65 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 11 overs. Hong Kong's opening batsman Zeeshan Ali did not perform well, he was dismissed for 4 runs off 8 balls. Hong Kong's run rate is less than 6, they need to do better. Looking at the performance of the Hong Kong batsmen, it seems that they will not be able to score 130+. Let's see how many runs Hong Kong manage to give the target.

Bahrain performed brilliantly in this match and Imran Anwar was the best batting performer. In this short span of time, he scored 61 runs in 51 balls which was the best performance among the most aggressive batsmen in this match. Imran Anwar and Abdul Majeed Abbasi, these two bowlers, got five batsmen out of the Hong Kong team and the Hong Kong team was under a lot of pressure.
 Imran Anwar's name has been listed as the best player of today's match, because he performed well in both batting and bowling, the Bahrain team was able to win.

[SATWAT]

Surprised to see not a single IPL 2025 pool so far in this forum. This is really weird to me considering how insanely popular this league is globally and is as popular as international ICC tournaments like the World Cup.

Personally, I am looking forward to the league and I am curious to see if there is a single prediction pool or not this time around.

ICC Champions Trophy2025 was not ended as expecting just because of this now its taking time but in next 48 hours something going to happen.
Soccer is still the most popular sport on this forum so many pools are going on, but sadly cricket is having no response like its needed.
Most chances this time not free pool because sponsorship is issue, but something positive will be happened behind the scene few things going on all will be ok.

Not many posters will join from here if there is a paid pool, it's unfortunate but it's true.

Despite offering free pool, many active posters from here didn't even join the last Champions Trophy pool, so not many takers or most of em are Alt accounts.   

After having discussion with few now I am feeling having cricket pool is not deal here on this forum.

You already mention few things which are enough no one coming out for sponsorship and other details so its almost dead due to many alt accounts and not good awareness about cricket here even we have big community about this.

[GigaBit]

Bahrain vs Hong Kong Final

The final match of the Malaysia Tri-Nation T20I Series has started. Among the three teams, Malaysia has been eliminated from the series. Today this final match has started between Bahrain vs Hong Kong. Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat. So far Hong Kong have collected 65 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 11 overs. Hong Kong's opening batsman Zeeshan Ali did not perform well, he was dismissed for 4 runs off 8 balls. Hong Kong's run rate is less than 6, they need to do better. Looking at the performance of the Hong Kong batsmen, it seems that they will not be able to score 130+. Let's see how many runs Hong Kong manage to give the target.

Bahrain performed brilliantly in this match and Imran Anwar was the best batting performer. In this short span of time, he scored 61 runs in 51 balls which was the best performance among the most aggressive batsmen in this match. Imran Anwar and Abdul Majeed Abbasi, these two bowlers, got five batsmen out of the Hong Kong team and the Hong Kong team was under a lot of pressure.
 Imran Anwar's name has been listed as the best player of today's match, because he performed well in both batting and bowling, the Bahrain team was able to win.

Both Bahrain and Hong Kong performed well in this Tri-Nation T20I Series. Malaysia did not win a single match in the entire series. Bahrain and Hong Kong competed in the final match of this series. In this series Bahrain's performance was amazing. Hong Kong team was able to set the target of 126 in 20 overs, although they had enough wickets but they could not play aggressively. If the run rate could have been increased in this match, then they would be happy. Bahrain was able to show quite a good skill in batting in the 2nd innings. They won the match by losing only 2 wickets.

Although Asif Ali returned for just 1 run at the beginning of the innings, the rest of the team did not make that mistake. Prashant Kurup scored 33, Imran Anwar 61 and Sohail Ahmed scored 24 runs to win the match. Imran Anwar gave the best performance in both batting and bowling.

[LDL]

PCB selecting unknown faces in the squad is not the problem. But not giving enough opportunities and dumping them after a single tour is the real issue here. There is no lack of talent in Pakistan. But the PCB has been notoriously incompetent in grooming this talent.

It goes without saying that the new players that the PCB has given a chance to are extremely talented, but the PCB could never have imagined that they would perform so incredibly poorly in the first T20 match of the New Zealand series. The new players who have been given the opportunity have mainly performed very well as native Pakistani players in the Pakistan Super League, which is why they have been given the opportunity so that they can perform well and create a balance in the team. However, I hope that Pakistan will definitely correct the mistakes of their first match and perform much better in the upcoming second T20I match.

[Nothingtodo]

Pakistan team did not perform well in today's match, their game was very bad and disappointing. In today's match, New Zealand team players performed brilliantly and they won by 9 wickets. New Zealand team players bowled exceptionally well in today's match, especially Jamieson and Jacob Duffy both bowled exceptionally well, due to their bowling, Pakistan team scored only 91 runs today. New Zealand team batsmen succeeded in achieving this target of 91 runs very easily, they won easily in 10 overs and won and advanced in the series.

Disappointing start of the T20 series by Pakistani team. They were not even able to play there 20 overs and all team got out in just 18.4 overs. It's a new team and PCB must give that team chances like the one given to team which has experienced players. PCB has no option left but to try new talent, in start we will see such result but we need to bear that. In upcoming matches, Pakistan team (if batting first) should try to play there full 20 overs and try to give  target of 140 above. This is a new team with inexperienced players, we have seen similar results with experienced players. Let's give this team a chance to prove themselves.

Pakistan will not be able to win a single match against New Zealand with the bowling and batting squad they have assembled. Despite having a fairly full-strength squad in the first match, Pakistan was all out for just 91 runs, while New Zealand achieved that target of 91 runs with the loss of just one wicket. So it can easily be said that even though most of the players in the New Zealand squad are rested, the way they defeated Pakistan with only a few inexperienced players, if New Zealand had a full-strength squad, Pakistan would have been all out much earlier.

[Cheema02]

Bahrain vs Hong Kong Final

The final match of the Malaysia Tri-Nation T20I Series has started. Among the three teams, Malaysia has been eliminated from the series. Today this final match has started between Bahrain vs Hong Kong. Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat. So far Hong Kong have collected 65 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 11 overs. Hong Kong's opening batsman Zeeshan Ali did not perform well, he was dismissed for 4 runs off 8 balls. Hong Kong's run rate is less than 6, they need to do better. Looking at the performance of the Hong Kong batsmen, it seems that they will not be able to score 130+. Let's see how many runs Hong Kong manage to give the target.

Bahrain outstanding batting performance winning the final match of tournament against Hong Kong. Bahrain chase down an easy target of 129 runs with only loss of just 2 wickets in just 17th over of the match. Bahrain bowling performance wonderful in final match especially Abdul Abbasi and Imran Anwar, both picked the 5 wickets and restricted Hong Kong under 130 runs. The man of the Match is Imran Anwar for his amazing all round performance in batting and bowling department, in batting they scored a well deserved half century and out after scoring 61 runs from 51 balls remain unbeaten in this match. Imran Anwar also bowl well in this match picking 3 important wickets by just giving only 19 runs with an impressive economy rate of under 5 run per over.

[JSRAW]

Despite offering free pool, many active posters from here didn't even join the last Champions Trophy pool, so not many takers or most of em are Alt accounts.   

Observed that myself. Pretty odd considering that the entry was free and the prizes were pretty generous.

I guess, some Posters were rejected by the Sportsbet guy through DM's or maybe they had a system to weed out alt accounts, idk.

After having discussion with few now I am feeling having cricket pool is not deal here on this forum.

You already mention few things which are enough no one coming out for sponsorship and other details so its almost dead due to many alt accounts and not good awareness about cricket here even we have big community about this.

Telling you, if not already, soon all these cricketing threads will be considered spam threads by everyone or maybe @AB de Royse777 will save a day by locking all threads and followed by a new cycle. 

[SATWAT]

Despite offering free pool, many active posters from here didn't even join the last Champions Trophy pool, so not many takers or most of em are Alt accounts.   

Observed that myself. Pretty odd considering that the entry was free and the prizes were pretty generous.

I guess, some Posters were rejected by the Sportsbet guy through DM's or maybe they had a system to weed out alt accounts, idk.

After having discussion with few now I am feeling having cricket pool is not deal here on this forum.

You already mention few things which are enough no one coming out for sponsorship and other details so its almost dead due to many alt accounts and not good awareness about cricket here even we have big community about this.

Telling you, if not already, soon all these cricketing threads will be considered spam threads by everyone or maybe @AB de Royse777 will save a day by locking all threads and followed by a new cycle. 

Many accounts caught due to multi accounts so they rejected them while few were suspicious due to their posting history so Sportsbet team also rejected them.
I personally feel these cricket boards have too many multi accounts due to their posting history and style so just because of this now leaving this.

[Insanity]

Bahrain vs Hong Kong Final

The final match of the Malaysia Tri-Nation T20I Series has started. Among the three teams, Malaysia has been eliminated from the series. Today this final match has started between Bahrain vs Hong Kong. Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat. So far Hong Kong have collected 65 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 11 overs. Hong Kong's opening batsman Zeeshan Ali did not perform well, he was dismissed for 4 runs off 8 balls. Hong Kong's run rate is less than 6, they need to do better. Looking at the performance of the Hong Kong batsmen, it seems that they will not be able to score 130+. Let's see how many runs Hong Kong manage to give the target.

Bahrain outstanding batting performance winning the final match of tournament against Hong Kong. Bahrain chase down an easy target of 129 runs with only loss of just 2 wickets in just 17th over of the match. Bahrain bowling performance wonderful in final match especially Abdul Abbasi and Imran Anwar, both picked the 5 wickets and restricted Hong Kong under 130 runs. The man of the Match is Imran Anwar for his amazing all round performance in batting and bowling department, in batting they scored a well deserved half century and out after scoring 61 runs from 51 balls remain unbeaten in this match. Imran Anwar also bowl well in this match picking 3 important wickets by just giving only 19 runs with an impressive economy rate of under 5 run per over.

Yes, Bahrain's strong bowling made this final match much easier. One thing to admit is that Bahrain's bowlers did not have to work hard to win due to their excellent bowling. On the other hand, the opposing team Hong Kong performed shamefully in this final match. In my opinion, Hong Kong players should have played with patience in this final match. If Hong Kong players could have played with patience, then maybe the result could have been reversed.

[JSRAW]

I guess, some Posters were rejected by the Sportsbet guy through DM's or maybe they had a system to weed out alt accounts, idk.

After having discussion with few now I am feeling having cricket pool is not deal here on this forum.

You already mention few things which are enough no one coming out for sponsorship and other details so its almost dead due to many alt accounts and not good awareness about cricket here even we have big community about this.

Telling you, if not already, soon all these cricketing threads will be considered spam threads by everyone or maybe @AB de Royse777 will save a day by locking all threads and followed by a new cycle.  

Many accounts caught due to multi accounts so they rejected them while few were suspicious due to their posting history so Sportsbet team also rejected them.
I personally feel these cricket boards have too many multi accounts due to their posting history and style so just because of this now leaving this.

Oh, so it did happen?

It would've been better if they had left a tag on them, even if it was a neutral tag and it could've served the purpose. "Suspicious posting history" is a grey area but the one who got caught surely deserves a tag.

[JunaidAzizi]

Bahrain vs Hong Kong Final

The final match of the Malaysia Tri-Nation T20I Series has started. Among the three teams, Malaysia has been eliminated from the series. Today this final match has started between Bahrain vs Hong Kong. Hong Kong won the toss and elected to bat. So far Hong Kong have collected 65 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 11 overs. Hong Kong's opening batsman Zeeshan Ali did not perform well, he was dismissed for 4 runs off 8 balls. Hong Kong's run rate is less than 6, they need to do better. Looking at the performance of the Hong Kong batsmen, it seems that they will not be able to score 130+. Let's see how many runs Hong Kong manage to give the target.

Bahrain outstanding batting performance winning the final match of tournament against Hong Kong. Bahrain chase down an easy target of 129 runs with only loss of just 2 wickets in just 17th over of the match. Bahrain bowling performance wonderful in final match especially Abdul Abbasi and Imran Anwar, both picked the 5 wickets and restricted Hong Kong under 130 runs. The man of the Match is Imran Anwar for his amazing all round performance in batting and bowling department, in batting they scored a well deserved half century and out after scoring 61 runs from 51 balls remain unbeaten in this match. Imran Anwar also bowl well in this match picking 3 important wickets by just giving only 19 runs with an impressive economy rate of under 5 run per over.

Both teams played very well and tried their best to win the match, but the Bahrain performance was better than Hong Kong's, and that's why they lost. There were four partnerships, two from Bahrain and two from Hong Kong, which were the best. Anwar and Kurup played the best, securing a total of 73 runs off 56 balls, and the partnership between Anwar and Ahmad secured 55 runs off 39 balls. From the above two partnerships, you can imagine how fast they were playing, and their performance was excellent. On the side of Hong Kong, Murtaza-Rath and Wasif-Rana formed a good partnership.

Overall, the Hong Kong team did not set a good target because if they had reached 150, Bahrain would have chased it easily, as they covered this target in 16.4 overs, with still some overs left in which they could chase.

[MusaPk]

It goes without saying that the new players that the PCB has given a chance to are extremely talented, but the PCB could never have imagined that they would perform so incredibly poorly in the first T20 match of the New Zealand series. The new players who have been given the opportunity have mainly performed very well as native Pakistani players in the Pakistan Super League, which is why they have been given the opportunity so that they can perform well and create a balance in the team. However, I hope that Pakistan will definitely correct the mistakes of their first match and perform much better in the upcoming second T20I match.

PCB should have tried new players along with senor players. What PCB has done is that they have removed key players and now whole pressure is on youngsters to perform. Still 4 more T20I to be played and Pakistan team still can make a come back in the series by winning tomorrow' game. First T20I was a nightmare for new Pakistani side and they will defiantly try there best tomorrow to not repeat what they have done in first T20I. If NZ win 2nd T20I then series will be very much over for Pakistan.

[Haunebu]

Looks like Harry Brook got banned by the BCCI for the next 2 seasons of the IPL for abandoning his team just days before the upcoming season which is messed up to say the least and I back the BCCI here.

The dude is an amazing batsman in the international format, but sucks in the IPL and is also a terrible human being generally. Moeen and Adil agreed with this decision too.

[ZAINmalik75]

IPL starts from 22 March so there are still some days and hopefully there will be some pool started by someone.  

Otherwise, I may contact Royse and ask him if he can sponsor this event once again. In that case, I would setup a superbru pool. To be honest, It won't be much fun watching the IPL without having a competition here.

Honestly I have contact royse for sponser champions trophy 2025 Pakistan pool, but thank LFC and SportsBit as they have done job brilliantly and organize an amazing pool with highest ever prize in cricketing prediction pools. Anyway I would love to be the part of that pool if some of you organize and get sponsers or then we will repeat things just like I does in past to organize paid pool.

Anyway looking to Pakistan new team current performance I think they should be mustly backed by management so that they can play thier own Fairless game in such shorter aggressive format without fair of being kicked out of the team on the basis of few matches performance. Hope results will be different tomorrow.

[LDL]

It goes without saying that the new players that the PCB has given a chance to are extremely talented, but the PCB could never have imagined that they would perform so incredibly poorly in the first T20 match of the New Zealand series. The new players who have been given the opportunity have mainly performed very well as native Pakistani players in the Pakistan Super League, which is why they have been given the opportunity so that they can perform well and create a balance in the team. However, I hope that Pakistan will definitely correct the mistakes of their first match and perform much better in the upcoming second T20I match.

PCB should have tried new players along with senor players. What PCB has done is that they have removed key players and now whole pressure is on youngsters to perform. Still 4 more T20I to be played and Pakistan team still can make a come back in the series by winning tomorrow' game. First T20I was a nightmare for new Pakistani side and they will defiantly try there best tomorrow to not repeat what they have done in first T20I. If NZ win 2nd T20I then series will be very much over for Pakistan.

The Pakistan Cricket Board should have kept the older players in the 70%-man squad for now. The presence of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam was definitely needed in the team. If Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam had been in the squad, perhaps they wouldn't have had such a batting disaster. Moreover, aggressive batting is required in T20s, which is possible with the young players in the Pakistan squad. Many may blame Salman Agha's captaincy in this case, but if Pakistan performs so poorly in the second T20I, it will certainly call into question the management's player selection.

[virasog]

PCB selecting unknown faces in the squad is not the problem. But not giving enough opportunities and dumping them after a single tour is the real issue here. There is no lack of talent in Pakistan. But the PCB has been notoriously incompetent in grooming this talent.

It goes without saying that the new players that the PCB has given a chance to are extremely talented, but the PCB could never have imagined that they would perform so incredibly poorly in the first T20 match of the New Zealand series. The new players who have been given the opportunity have mainly performed very well as native Pakistani players in the Pakistan Super League, which is why they have been given the opportunity so that they can perform well and create a balance in the team. However, I hope that Pakistan will definitely correct the mistakes of their first match and perform much better in the upcoming second T20I match.

Well, the Pakistan fans can only hope that their team may perform better in the next games. Yeah, one can make excuses that this was their first match on New Zealand soil and they were prepared for it. Another factor is that their morale is extremely down after they had a humiliating defeat in the ICC champions trophy. Yup, one can argue that the new players also were under pressure because they had the feeling that if they could not perform well, they wouldn't be given a 2nd chance. All in all, it is a very tricky situation for Pakistan cricket and they need to trust their playing XI even if they don't perform for sometime.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

It goes without saying that the new players that the PCB has given a chance to are extremely talented, but the PCB could never have imagined that they would perform so incredibly poorly in the first T20 match of the New Zealand series. The new players who have been given the opportunity have mainly performed very well as native Pakistani players in the Pakistan Super League, which is why they have been given the opportunity so that they can perform well and create a balance in the team. However, I hope that Pakistan will definitely correct the mistakes of their first match and perform much better in the upcoming second T20I match.

PCB should have tried new players along with senor players. What PCB has done is that they have removed key players and now whole pressure is on youngsters to perform. Still 4 more T20I to be played and Pakistan team still can make a come back in the series by winning tomorrow' game. First T20I was a nightmare for new Pakistani side and they will defiantly try there best tomorrow to not repeat what they have done in first T20I. If NZ win 2nd T20I then series will be very much over for Pakistan.

The Pakistan Cricket Board should have kept the older players in the 70%-man squad for now. The presence of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam was definitely needed in the team. If Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam had been in the squad, perhaps they wouldn't have had such a batting disaster. Moreover, aggressive batting is required in T20s, which is possible with the young players in the Pakistan squad. Many may blame Salman Agha's captaincy in this case, but if Pakistan performs so poorly in the second T20I, it will certainly call into question the management's player selection.

Brother, there is no point in saying this, Pakistan is a non-communal country. The position of every political party in Pakistan is unstable. No one has a good relationship with any of the Pakistan team's selectors, senior players, or others. In fact, this situation can be improved, by former Pakistan players. But developing this situation is not that easy. Anyway, I would say that having senior batsmen in the team is very important. Along with this, the position of junior talented players should also be maintained. But it is not possible to sustain any cricket team with nepotism. In that regard, the presence of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam in the team as senior players was very important.

[Jewan420]

The Pakistan Cricket Board should have kept the older players in the 70%-man squad for now. The presence of Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam was definitely needed in the team. If Mohammad Rizwan and Babar Azam had been in the squad, perhaps they wouldn't have had such a batting disaster. Moreover, aggressive batting is required in T20s, which is possible with the young players in the Pakistan squad. Many may blame Salman Agha's captaincy in this case, but if Pakistan performs so poorly in the second T20I, it will certainly call into question the management's player selection.

I think they may not have considered something while announcing the Pakistan squad. The selectors of the Pakistan Cricket Board have shown some incompetence and unprofessionalism here. There is no strong batting line-up in the team, there is no balance in the team, they have only 3 genuine batters in the team and they have come to play the match in New Zealand soil. Even apart from Mohammad Harris, there is no experienced batter in their XI. If you suddenly impose a series on young players, it is very difficult for them to survive in the international arena. You have to give opportunities to the young players along with the experienced players, if you give opportunities to the experienced players among the young, then their cricket career will be ruined. I think big changes are needed in the PCB for the development of Pakistan cricket.