T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[JSRAW]

LOL.. devastating for the England fans. Look at the margin of victory for England. Do you guys still believe that Australia still stands a chance in the Ashes series? Their golden age is well past them. None of the current Australian players (including Warner, Smith, Cummins and Starc) are performing consistently. What they need right now is a complete overhaul of the squad. They need to drop players who are performing poorly, and need to include those who are in good form in Sheffied Shield and the other domestic tournaments.

Bravo! Let's compare 40 over match with the 2200 over series 

Everyone knows that England is not dummy in the white ball cricket, they have top notch talent in the limited over cricket but you can't say the same thing about their batters in the test format.

[galambo]

There is no doubt that Pakistan has found a few very good batsmen at different positions, as well as a definite contender to make it to the final. We never imagined this Pakistani team would perform so flawlessly in all three areas and everyone would play their roles perfectly. The captain led the team perfectly. This is Babar Azam's Pakistan at its best. They are a solid unit and should win the World Cup in T20!

And one of them is Asif Ali. In yesterday match b/w Pak/Afghanistan, Afghan team was winning till 18th over. It was Asif Ali 4 sixes in one over that turned the table for Pakistan. His performance was match winning too against NZ, scored 27 runs on 12 balls but his performance was overlooked because of Harris Rauf bowling and Shoaib Malik batting. A good hitter at no 6/7.

[ReiMomo]

England needs only 29 runs from 66 balls to win. Looking at the previous match in Australia, I thought David Warner and Finch are back in form. Now Australia's performance will improve again. But I was wrong. Australia again showed poor performance in today's match. They lost all their wickets for only 125 runs. The performance of the bowlers is also weak.

England has made it by 12th over. So marvelous. A good game from England. Chris Jordan was awesome taking 3 wickets and giving out just 14 runs out of 4 overs. Though Mills have given 45 runs, he has taken 2 wickets and Woakes has taken 2 wickets giving out only 23 runs. These three were the key players to bring down Australia score below 130. Joe Buttler was on fire scoring 71* from just 32 balls, 5 4s 5 6s at 221 strike rate. Vow.

[ene1980]

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It was Asif Ali 4 sixes in one over that turned the table for Pakistan. His performance was match winning too against NZ, scored 27 runs on 12 balls but his performance was overlooked because of Harris Rauf bowling and Shoaib Malik batting. A good hitter at no 6/7.

I have not seen his performance before the World Cup, but he is a great talent for them and he is a power player who could change the match with his impressive striking and his consecutive performance against New Zealand and Afghanistan stand out from the rest.

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England has made it by 12th over. So marvelous. A good game from England. Chris Jordan was awesome taking 3 wickets and giving out just 14 runs out of 4 overs. Though Mills have given 45 runs, he has taken 2 wickets and Woakes has taken 2 wickets giving out only 23 runs. These three were the key players to bring down Australia score below 130. Joe Buttler was on fire scoring 71* from just 32 balls, 5 4s 5 6s at 221 strike rate. Vow.

Australia disappointed big time and i thought it would be a competitive match but England dominated the match and the next match for England is against Sri Lanka and that is another easy win for England but the odds are not that great.

[teosanru]

LOL.. devastating for the Australia fans. Look at the margin of victory for England. Do you guys still believe that Australia still stands a chance in the Ashes series? Their golden age is well past them. None of the current Australian players (including Warner, Smith, Cummins and Starc) are performing consistently. What they need right now is a complete overhaul of the squad. They need to drop players who are performing poorly, and need to include those who are in good form in Sheffied Shield and the other domestic tournaments.

Forget about Australia, what we are looking at is the golden age of the English team, their team is so good and not to forget they don't have Ben Stokes who was the hero of the 2019 world cup win, even without him the side looks full of stars, the way Buttler batted against the Starc, Hazlewood, and Cummins, it was a treat to watch, especially the sixes against Starc and Zampa, almost all the sixes were above 90m mark. Also their bowling department looks so good with Jordan back in form, I don't know what sort of bowler is Jordan, if it's his day you will see him bowling so good yorkers and on other days he is conceding 20+ runs in each over especially while playing for Punjab in IPL. 

[UmerIdrees]

LOL.. devastating for the Australia fans. Look at the margin of victory for England. Do you guys still believe that Australia still stands a chance in the Ashes series? Their golden age is well past them. None of the current Australian players (including Warner, Smith, Cummins and Starc) are performing consistently. What they need right now is a complete overhaul of the squad. They need to drop players who are performing poorly, and need to include those who are in good form in Sheffied Shield and the other domestic tournaments.

Forget about Australia, what we are looking at is the golden age of the English team, their team is so good and not to forget they don't have Ben Stokes who was the hero of the 2019 world cup win, even without him the side looks full of stars, the way Buttler batted against the Starc, Hazlewood, and Cummins, it was a treat to watch, especially the sixes against Starc and Zampa, almost all the sixes were above 90m mark. Also their bowling department looks so good with Jordan back in form, I don't know what sort of bowler is Jordan, if it's his day you will see him bowling so good yorkers and on other days he is conceding 20+ runs in each over especially while playing for Punjab in IPL. 

Pakistan and England are the two teams which are dominating this tournament. Also it look like that Pakistan and England will finish up on top of their groups and hence will not meet in the semi final stage of the tournament.
Many people are predicting Pakistan Vs England Final and if you want to know the winner of this match, you need to see the 1992 WC final between these two teams. 

[eaLiTy]

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Pakistan and England are the two teams which are dominating this tournament. Also it look like that Pakistan and England will finish up on top of their groups and hence will not meet in the semi final stage of the tournament.
Many people are predicting Pakistan Vs England Final and if you want to know the winner of this match, you need to see the 1992 WC final between these two teams. 

Pakistan has a real chance to be in the final and even win the tournament, they are fielding really well and it is surprising that they improved drastically in this aspect and taking all the catches and as long as they can continue to do so they will win every match. They have the batting line and the bowlers to defeat any team, so the advantage is for Pakistan even if they face England in the final.

[Sithara007]

Pakistan and England are the two teams which are dominating this tournament. Also it look like that Pakistan and England will finish up on top of their groups and hence will not meet in the semi final stage of the tournament.
Many people are predicting Pakistan Vs England Final and if you want to know the winner of this match, you need to see the 1992 WC final between these two teams. 

My bet would be still on England. Pakistan is the most inconsistent team as far as international cricket is concerned, and they always fail at crucial stages in ICC tournaments. Pakistan fans should feel happy about the form of their country so far, as they are likely to win all of their super-12 matches (the remaining matches are against two of the weakest teams). But the real test will come during the knockout stage. Now with Pakistan almost guaranteed of a spot in the knockouts, just two matches stand between Pakistan and the trophy.

[pakhitheboss]

Am I the only one who thinks like this, the team that bats first is always losing this time in the T20 Worldcup. Yesterday's match between England and Australia. The Australian side was struggling to bat, English bowlers were good but I never thought that AUS will only score 125 runs. It was a completely one-sided match. I did not enjoy a bit of it.

[LittleBitFunny]

Am I the only one who thinks like this, the team that bats first is always losing this time in the T20 Worldcup. Yesterday's match between England and Australia. The Australian side was struggling to bat, English bowlers were good but I never thought that AUS will only score 125 runs. It was a completely one-sided match. I did not enjoy a bit of it.

Before the start of the World Cup, I have heard many cricket experts say that a team batting later on a pitch will benefit more. And that's what's happening. The teams batting later are winning. Maybe luck is helping or the pitch is helping them. However, the teams batting first have not been able to give a big target yet. We expect big scores from teams like India and England.

[Sithara007]

Am I the only one who thinks like this, the team that bats first is always losing this time in the T20 Worldcup. Yesterday's match between England and Australia. The Australian side was struggling to bat, English bowlers were good but I never thought that AUS will only score 125 runs. It was a completely one-sided match. I did not enjoy a bit of it.

Unless the bowling is too weak, the best decision to do after winning the toss in T20 is to send in the opposition to bat. And in the United Arab Emirates, dew factor is a big issue and it impacts the team that bowls second. Anyway, all these things will be crucial for matches between evenly matched teams. But for one-sided matches, such as the one we had yesterday between England and Australia, the toss would have hardly made any difference. Today we have the India vs New Zealand match. Let's see how the toss impacts the results.

[galambo]

Unless the bowling is too weak, the best decision to do after winning the toss in T20 is to send in the opposition to bat. And in the United Arab Emirates, dew factor is a big issue and it impacts the team that bowls second. Anyway, all these things will be crucial for matches between evenly matched teams. But for one-sided matches, such as the one we had yesterday between England and Australia, the toss would have hardly made any difference. Today we have the India vs New Zealand match. Let's see how the toss impacts the results.

I don't agree with this dew factor phenomena. If you see stats of match between Pak n Afghan then one can clearly see that Afghanistan despite batting first were in complete control of the match when Pakistan comes to bat. Thanks to sixes of Asif Ali in 18th over, Pakistan managed to win. Putting blame on dew factor is like hiding your weakness.


Aussies were never interested in T20 cups there focus was always Test n ODI. Seeing yesterday match, I don't think they are interested this time either in T20 WC

[CryptoBuds]

Unless the bowling is too weak, the best decision to do after winning the toss in T20 is to send in the opposition to bat. And in the United Arab Emirates, dew factor is a big issue and it impacts the team that bowls second. Anyway, all these things will be crucial for matches between evenly matched teams. But for one-sided matches, such as the one we had yesterday between England and Australia, the toss would have hardly made any difference. Today we have the India vs New Zealand match. Let's see how the toss impacts the results.

I don't agree with this dew factor phenomena. If you see stats of match between Pak n Afghan then one can clearly see that Afghanistan despite batting first were in complete control of the match when Pakistan comes to bat. Thanks to sixes of Asif Ali in 18th over, Pakistan managed to win. Putting blame on dew factor is like hiding your weakness.

The control of the match was with Afghanistan because their collection was quite good. The 147-run target may not be too high, but it is enough. We must not forget that Afghanistan's bowling lineup is very good. Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan were very good bowlers, besides Mujib ur Rahman bowled well, so the match was under the control of Afghanistan. And if Pakistan's first wicket pair could not bat well, they still went a little backfoot. Their batting becomes a bit slow.

[teosanru]

LOL.. devastating for the Australia fans. Look at the margin of victory for England. Do you guys still believe that Australia still stands a chance in the Ashes series? Their golden age is well past them. None of the current Australian players (including Warner, Smith, Cummins and Starc) are performing consistently. What they need right now is a complete overhaul of the squad. They need to drop players who are performing poorly, and need to include those who are in good form in Sheffied Shield and the other domestic tournaments.

Forget about Australia, what we are looking at is the golden age of the English team, their team is so good and not to forget they don't have Ben Stokes who was the hero of the 2019 world cup win, even without him the side looks full of stars, the way Buttler batted against the Starc, Hazlewood, and Cummins, it was a treat to watch, especially the sixes against Starc and Zampa, almost all the sixes were above 90m mark. Also their bowling department looks so good with Jordan back in form, I don't know what sort of bowler is Jordan, if it's his day you will see him bowling so good yorkers and on other days he is conceding 20+ runs in each over especially while playing for Punjab in IPL. 

Pakistan and England are the two teams which are dominating this tournament. Also it look like that Pakistan and England will finish up on top of their groups and hence will not meet in the semi final stage of the tournament.
Many people are predicting Pakistan Vs England Final and if you want to know the winner of this match, you need to see the 1992 WC final between these two teams. 

Got to agree with you on it, both the teams have looked really good but I would say England is slightly better if we compare both on paper because if you see matches of both the teams all three matches of England so far were absolutely one-sided affairs, while matches of Pakistan, only the match with India was completely one-sided rest two went close especially the one with New Zealand.

But one thing I would like to bring in here from history is that a team that has won all their matches in group stages/ Knockouts has never lifted that World Cup. So far all throughout the t20 world cups, this has been true. Moreover, things become quite different once you enter knockouts, If I am betting obviously an intelligent bet would be on England or Pakistan but I think it's way too early to say this.

[BALIK]

Am I the only one who thinks like this, the team that bats first is always losing this time in the T20 Worldcup. Yesterday's match between England and Australia. The Australian side was struggling to bat, English bowlers were good but I never thought that AUS will only score 125 runs. It was a completely one-sided match. I did not enjoy a bit of it.

Before the start of the World Cup, I have heard many cricket experts say that a team batting later on a pitch will benefit more. And that's what's happening. The teams batting later are winning. Maybe luck is helping or the pitch is helping them. However, the teams batting first have not been able to give a big target yet. We expect big scores from teams like India and England.

With the exception of Bangladesh and Scotland, the team fielding first has won all the other matches. Bangladesh went down to bat against West Indies for 143 runs. Bangladesh lost the match by 3 runs. If there was an experienced batsman, Bangladesh would have won this match too. Scotland on the other hand is a weak team. They lost all their wickets for just 60 runs against Afghanistan.

[pakhitheboss]

Am I the only one who thinks like this, the team that bats first is always losing this time in the T20 Worldcup. Yesterday's match between England and Australia. The Australian side was struggling to bat, English bowlers were good but I never thought that AUS will only score 125 runs. It was a completely one-sided match. I did not enjoy a bit of it.

Before the start of the World Cup, I have heard many cricket experts say that a team batting later on a pitch will benefit more. And that's what's happening. The teams batting later are winning. Maybe luck is helping or the pitch is helping them. However, the teams batting first have not been able to give a big target yet. We expect big scores from teams like India and England.

With the exception of Bangladesh and Scotland, the team fielding first has won all the other matches. Bangladesh went down to bat against West Indies for 143 runs. Bangladesh lost the match by 3 runs. If there was an experienced batsman, Bangladesh would have won this match too. Scotland on the other hand is a weak team. They lost all their wickets for just 60 runs against Afghanistan.

I knew only few teams have won bowling first. Today's match then if India wins the toss and bowls first then they might win today's crucial match. Let's see whether it happens or not.

[virasog]

Am I the only one who thinks like this, the team that bats first is always losing this time in the T20 Worldcup. Yesterday's match between England and Australia. The Australian side was struggling to bat, English bowlers were good but I never thought that AUS will only score 125 runs. It was a completely one-sided match. I did not enjoy a bit of it.

Before the start of the World Cup, I have heard many cricket experts say that a team batting later on a pitch will benefit more. And that's what's happening. The teams batting later are winning. Maybe luck is helping or the pitch is helping them. However, the teams batting first have not been able to give a big target yet. We expect big scores from teams like India and England.

With the exception of Bangladesh and Scotland, the team fielding first has won all the other matches. Bangladesh went down to bat against West Indies for 143 runs. Bangladesh lost the match by 3 runs. If there was an experienced batsman, Bangladesh would have won this match too. Scotland on the other hand is a weak team. They lost all their wickets for just 60 runs against Afghanistan.

I knew only few teams have won bowling first. Today's match then if India wins the toss and bowls first then they might win today's crucial match. Let's see whether it happens or not.

Yes, the match between India and New Zealand would be the most important one as the winner would likely to qualify or have more chances to qualify in the next round of semi finals.

Also in the current match, Nambia played well but i think Afghanistan should win this easily. 161 should be enough for them (Afghanistan) to defend against one of the weakest team of the tournament.

[bryant.coleman]

Also in the current match, Nambia played well but i think Afghanistan should win this easily. 161 should be enough for them (Afghanistan) to defend against one of the weakest team of the tournament.

Namibia is not a very weak team. They can upset big teams on their day. But today their performance was less than satisfactory. During the last few overs, the field placing didn't worked out for them, and as a result Asghar Afghan and others were able to score a lot of runs towards third man and fine leg. Ideally they should have restricted Afghanistan to somewhere in the vicinity of 145, which would have given them a faint chance. But with a target of 161, they have zero chance of a win.

[pakhitheboss]

India is batting first and as we know the team tha has batted first in this tournament has been losing the game. As per the input that I have, India should win this match. I am still skeptical and till now I believe that my information is correct. Let's see if India wins today.

[eaLiTy]

India is batting first and as we know the team tha has batted first in this tournament has been losing the game. As per the input that I have, India should win this match. I am still skeptical and till now I believe that my information is correct. Let's see if India wins today.

New Zealand won the toss and sent India to bat and they are yet again struggling as they lost their top three batsman and it is surprising to see that India is experimenting with the team during the World Cup as they completely changed the team composition and the players batting position which is not a good sign during the tournament, they should have done all these experiments before the World Cup and i wont be surprised if New Zealand wins this match.