T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[jasonjm]

In the PSL match between Islamabad United and Karachi Kings, KK gave a target of 151 runs to IU. Islamabad United is 33/1 in 4 overs. The chances of Islamabad winning are high. They should win this match with a significant margin to improve their net run rate. Karachi needs quick wickets inside Powerplay to win the match. If they continuously put pressure on IU batting, they might panic and give Karachi easy wickets like yesterday's match.  

Karachi's top order struggled against Islamabad bowlers, and a few of them got the start but could not capitalize on it. Pollard's cameo at the end helped Karachi to a respectable but below-par score. Tymal Mills and Faheem Ashraf bowled exceptionally well today. KK should rest their captain, Shan Masood, as he is a burden on the team. He hasn't played a single impact inning; he is a liability for KK.

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[lixer]

Islamabad United won the toss and chose to field first. Karachi Kings are 49/4 in the 9th over. They are in trouble. If they can make 160, they might have a chance to win the match. Pollard will be the key wicket here.

Kings won their last match comfortably and will try to win this match as well to get themselves a chance to play the knockouts. While Islamabad's batting performance in the last was average. Although they have big names in their team, they could not justify their reputation in the match.
This match will be interesting, but I will still favour IU against KK as KK's top order is also not in very good form. If IU gets the wicket of Pollard, the game will be over for KK. I am particularly disappointed with Shadab's team selection; why play Imad if he is not in good form? He could have given a chance to a youngster.

Karachi Kings won their yesterday game against Quetta Gladiators comfortably and mostly were expecting they will keep this momentum against Islamabad United for having chance to qualify for the play-offs but sadly today their batting fail to give them good target, and we have good bowling from the Faheem Ashraf and Mills which help their team Islamabad United for keeping their hopes alive for the play-offs after having bat first Karachi Kings able to score 150 runs which is surely not enough for having win for them but still we can hope good competition between these two teams as while Islamabad United is on chase after first three overs they are having just 28 runs with the lost of Munro which is bowled by Mir Hamza hopefully we will have good match as now remaining target is 123 in 17 overs for the win and having second spot for few days.

[Haunebu]

UPW disappointed me so freaking much. They bowled well and restricted MI to a below par target, but are batting like total amateurs. Shabnim Ismail's raw pace is too much for them. Crazy spell!

Grace Harris was playing test cricket for a while when she scored 0 runs in 14 balls. Am expecting MI, DC and RCB to make it to the top 3 at the end.

[Cheema02]

In the PSL match between Islamabad United and Karachi Kings, KK gave a target of 151 runs to IU. Islamabad United is 33/1 in 4 overs. The chances of Islamabad winning are high. They should win this match with a significant margin to improve their net run rate. Karachi needs quick wickets inside Powerplay to win the match. If they continuously put pressure on IU batting, they might panic and give Karachi easy wickets like yesterday's match.  

Islamabad united very close to this victory against Karachi kings. They Need 45 runs from just 41 balls and easily win this match. Islamabad United current score is 107 runs in a loss of 3 wickets. Islamabad United bowling performance is outstanding especially Tymal Mills who picked 3 important wickets and Faheem Ashraf also picked 2 crucial wickets for his team and restricted Karachi Kings to 150 runs. Islamabad United will win this match and stay in the Super Four of the PSL point table.

[Sithara007]

Islamabad united very close to this victory against Karachi kings. They Need 45 runs from just 41 balls and easily win this match. Islamabad United current score is 107 runs in a loss of 3 wickets. Islamabad United bowling performance is outstanding especially Tymal Mills who picked 3 important wickets and Faheem Ashraf also picked 2 crucial wickets for his team and restricted Karachi Kings to 150 runs. Islamabad United will win this match and stay in the Super Four of the PSL point table.

They may win, but at the same time they have lost a few wickets. Shadab Khan was the last to go, as he was nabbed by Mir Hamza. Anyway, they just need 17 more runs, and they have 5 wickets in hand. Faheem Ashraf and Haider Ali are at the crease and they need to make sure that no further wickets are being lost. And the good news for Islamabad United is that both Mir Hamza and Blessing Muzarabani have completed their full quota of 4 overs. Now the Karachi Kings captain need to resort to Zahid Mahmood and Mohammad Nawaz. 

[Nalain420]

In the PSL match between Islamabad United and Karachi Kings, KK gave a target of 151 runs to IU. Islamabad United is 33/1 in 4 overs. The chances of Islamabad winning are high. They should win this match with a significant margin to improve their net run rate. Karachi needs quick wickets inside Powerplay to win the match. If they continuously put pressure on IU batting, they might panic and give Karachi easy wickets like yesterday's match.  

Islamabad united very close to this victory against Karachi kings. They Need 45 runs from just 41 balls and easily win this match. Islamabad United current score is 107 runs in a loss of 3 wickets. Islamabad United bowling performance is outstanding especially Tymal Mills who picked 3 important wickets and Faheem Ashraf also picked 2 crucial wickets for his team and restricted Karachi Kings to 150 runs. Islamabad United will win this match and stay in the Super Four of the PSL point table.

Karachi king batsman could not played very well and could not worked hard and struggle and can not gave hard target. If their batsmen could target up to 180, the match was in their hands.  And they could have easily won the match.  But now the match is not in their hands.  Any time Islamabad batsmen work harder and struggle, they will win the match.Islamabad batsmen need 26 runs off 26 balls to win the match.  I think so.  That Islamabad team will win today's match.  The match is going on now.  Let's see what the result is.

[hafiztalha]

Oman vs Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea returned to parity in the series. Oman won the first T20 by three wickets. In today's second T20, Oman lost the toss and went into bat, scoring 145 runs in the allotted overs. Apart from Khalid Kail's innings of 55 runs from 43 balls, no other batsman could score as many runs. For Papua New Guinea, Alei Nao took three wickets with 15 runs in four overs. Papua New Guinea started to chase the target of 146 runs and batted well at the beginning. Sese Bau scored 65 runs from 57 balls and Assad Vala scored 51 runs from 41 balls. Papua New Guinea won by eight wickets. The series is tied at 1-1, tomorrow will be the last T20 match of the series, hope tomorrow's match will be very exciting.

In 1 st game of this series, Oman team won this game and lead this series by one game but today In 2 nd game, Papua New Guinea beated Oman team and won this game and level this series by 1,1 games. Tomorrow 3 rd and last game of this series  will played and this game decide that which team will win this series. Today, Oman team effort was poor as compared to old game and Oman team only made 145 runs in 20 overs by losing 7 wickets. Papua New Guinea team easily chase down this target and won this game by 8 wickets and 4 balls left for play. S.Bau got a player of game award because he scored 65 runs in 57 balls with seven 4s and two 6s. A.Nao also deserved this title because he took down 3 wickets in 4 overs with 15 runs only. Oman team lost this game only put little low effort in batting Inning if they scored 20 more runs then Oman team won this game.

[mdzahed134]

The Bangladesh team won the second T20I very easily.  Because the bowling performance has been good and starting from the opening batsman they have performed very well Bangladesh Tiger batsmen. Liton Das, Nazmul Hasan Shanto, Soumya Sarkar performed well because of the good performance of Bangladesh team. But in the first T20I match, the Bangladesh team lost because of the poor performance of these three batsmen Nazmul Hasan Shanto, Liton Das and Samya Sarkar. However, compared to the first match, the second match is completely different for the Bangladesh team.

Bangladesh came very close to victory in the first match and narrowly failed to win. In the first match, Bangladesh managed to score 203 runs in the last ball of the 20th over. There is no room to blame the batsmen because the first row batsmen did badly but the batsmen who came to the wicket later did their duty properly. If you are trying to find the difference between the first match and the second match then you don't have to work hard because the difference is obvious. Bangladesh bowlers did not bowl well in the first match but Bangladesh bowlers bowled well in the second match and that's where Bangladesh turned around.

Yes, Bangladesh won easily yesterday because Bangladeshi bowlers performed well. If Sri Lanka had given a target of 200 plus runs yesterday, it would have been difficult for Bangladesh to win. Shoriful Islam bowled 4 overs and gave 20 runs. Soumya Sarkar also bowled 1 over and took 1 wicket with 5 runs. But even if the batsmen in the top order of Bangladesh could not do well, it would have been difficult for Bangladesh to win. Bangladesh opening batsmen Soumya Sarkar and Litton Das both started well. Both Towhid Hridoy and Najmul Hossain Shanto batted patiently without taking any pressure and gave the team victory in the end.

Yesterday win credit goes to both of bowlers & batsman you can give credit to especially to blowers i agreed with you, because they really performed brilliant but batsman also played very well as like top orders helped to good start. I think to win a match, batting & bowling both of most important and yesterday they did very well on both sides so finally they won this match.

[Cheema02]

Islamabad united very close to this victory against Karachi kings. They Need 45 runs from just 41 balls and easily win this match. Islamabad United current score is 107 runs in a loss of 3 wickets. Islamabad United bowling performance is outstanding especially Tymal Mills who picked 3 important wickets and Faheem Ashraf also picked 2 crucial wickets for his team and restricted Karachi Kings to 150 runs. Islamabad United will win this match and stay in the Super Four of the PSL point table.

They may win, but at the same time they have lost a few wickets. Shadab Khan was the last to go, as he was nabbed by Mir Hamza. Anyway, they just need 17 more runs, and they have 5 wickets in hand. Faheem Ashraf and Haider Ali are at the crease and they need to make sure that no further wickets are being lost. And the good news for Islamabad United is that both Mir Hamza and Blessing Muzarabani have completed their full quota of 4 overs. Now the Karachi Kings captain need to resort to Zahid Mahmood and Mohammad Nawaz. 

Alright, after 5 wickets down Faheem Ashraf and Haider Ali score a good partnership. Islamabad United successfully chased down the target and won the match by a huge five wickets against Karachi Kings. The Player of the Match is Faheem Ashraf for his all-round batting and bowling performance scored an important 12 runs unbeaten from just 8 balls and also bowled well picked 2 crucial wickets by just giving 16 runs. Islamabad United is now at the No 2 position on point table of PSL.

[ZAINmalik75]

Karachi king batsman could not played very well and could not worked hard and struggle and can not gave hard target. If their batsmen could target up to 180, the match was in their hands.  And they could have easily won the match.  But now the match is not in their hands.  Any time Islamabad batsmen work harder and struggle, they will win the match.Islamabad batsmen need 26 runs off 26 balls to win the match.  I think so.  That Islamabad team will win today's match.  The match is going on now.  Let's see what the result is.

To be honest Karachi were continuing his worst Season performance by following Lahore Qalanders foot steps, it's true that none of thier big names rather than Pollard perform and especially thier top order and that cost them expensive defeat one after another. Today Karachi collectively scored 150 which isn't enough at such low quality bowling lineup to defend. Anyway Islamabad were looking in trouble especially at last stage but the way thier lower middle order took charge tackle trouble and make handsome runs in order to divert results in favour of them. Now they hold top second position in points table and look like by following Multan sultan they will be second team to qualify for next round. While in my mind soon Peshawar and Quetta will qualify too according to current performance and points

[ThemePen]

Alright, after 5 wickets down Faheem Ashraf and Haider Ali score a good partnership. Islamabad United successfully chased down the target and won the match by a huge five wickets against Karachi Kings. The Player of the Match is Faheem Ashraf for his all-round batting and bowling performance scored an important 12 runs unbeaten from just 8 balls and also bowled well picked 2 crucial wickets by just giving 16 runs. Islamabad United is now at the No 2 position on point table of PSL.

I believe that Faheem Ashraf's performance in the match against Karachi Kings was truly outstanding. Not only did he contribute with the bat by scoring crucial runs in a partnership with Haider Ali but he also made a significant impact with the ball by taking important wickets. His all rounder performance was really take a good role in Islamabad United victory and it's great to see them climbing up the points table in the PSL. Faheem Ashraf definitely deserved the Player of the Match award.

[synchronym]

In the PSL match between Islamabad United and Karachi Kings, KK gave a target of 151 runs to IU. Islamabad United is 33/1 in 4 overs. The chances of Islamabad winning are high. They should win this match with a significant margin to improve their net run rate. Karachi needs quick wickets inside Powerplay to win the match. If they continuously put pressure on IU batting, they might panic and give Karachi easy wickets like yesterday's match.  

Islamabad united very close to this victory against Karachi kings. They Need 45 runs from just 41 balls and easily win this match. Islamabad United current score is 107 runs in a loss of 3 wickets. Islamabad United bowling performance is outstanding especially Tymal Mills who picked 3 important wickets and Faheem Ashraf also picked 2 crucial wickets for his team and restricted Karachi Kings to 150 runs. Islamabad United will win this match and stay in the Super Four of the PSL point table.

Islamabad United batsmen were under a lot of pressure after losing 2 wickets to bat against the target of 151 runs given by Karachi Kings. Shadab Khan and Salman Ali Agha did not have much problem to win with responsible batting. Islamabad United won very easily. But Islamabad United against Karachi Kings Bowlers bowled very well. Because Karachi Kings limited the batsmen to only 150 runs in the scheduled 20 overs. Karachi Kings lost by 5 wickets. Islamabad United strengthened the place of Super Four. Congratulations to Islamabad United for the win

[Publictalk792]

In 1 st game of this series, Oman team won this game and lead this series by one game but today In 2 nd game, Papua New Guinea beated Oman team and won this game and level this series by 1,1 games. Tomorrow 3 rd and last game of this series  will played and this game decide that which team will win this series. Today, Oman team effort was poor as compared to old game and Oman team only made 145 runs in 20 overs by losing 7 wickets. Papua New Guinea team easily chase down this target and won this game by 8 wickets and 4 balls left for play. S.Bau got a player of game award because he scored 65 runs in 57 balls with seven 4s and two 6s. A.Nao also deserved this title because he took down 3 wickets in 4 overs with 15 runs only. Oman team lost this game only put little low effort in batting Inning if they scored 20 more runs then Oman team won this game.

Oman started well and was ahead in the series after winning the first game. But Papua New Guinea played well in the second match and tied the series. Oman struggled to score 145 runs in their 20 overs while Papua New Guinea easily chased the target and won by 8 wickets. Sese Bau batted well and Nao bowled effectively for Papua New Guinea. The series is now tied at 1-1. So today's match will give the accurate results that which team will win the series.

[Sithara007]

Oman started well and was ahead in the series after winning the first game. But Papua New Guinea played well in the second match and tied the series. Oman struggled to score 145 runs in their 20 overs while Papua New Guinea easily chased the target and won by 8 wickets. Sese Bau batted well and Nao bowled effectively for Papua New Guinea. The series is now tied at 1-1. So today's match will give the accurate results that which team will win the series.

Nice to see Papua New Guinea winning against one of the top associate nations. They are a 100% native squad, while Oman is a 100% foreigner team. Despite the name, entire squad is comprised of Indian or Pakistani nationals. So obviously a win by PNG over Oman is good news for the associate cricket and growth of the game. Then again, it is a 3-match T20I series, and PNG need to win the 3rd match which will be played today at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground. And that will help them to improve the T20I team rankings.

[Minor Miner]

Oman started well and was ahead in the series after winning the first game. But Papua New Guinea played well in the second match and tied the series. Oman struggled to score 145 runs in their 20 overs while Papua New Guinea easily chased the target and won by 8 wickets. Sese Bau batted well and Nao bowled effectively for Papua New Guinea. The series is now tied at 1-1. So today's match will give the accurate results that which team will win the series.

Nice to see Papua New Guinea winning against one of the top associate nations. They are a 100% native squad, while Oman is a 100% foreigner team. Despite the name, entire squad is comprised of Indian or Pakistani nationals. So obviously a win by PNG over Oman is good news for the associate cricket and growth of the game. Then again, it is a 3-match T20I series, and PNG need to win the 3rd match which will be played today at the Al Amerat Cricket Ground. And that will help them to improve the T20I team rankings.

I am not surprised that Papua New Guinea won this match. However, Papua New Guinea won the match by 8 wickets. Such results were unbelievable to me.

There are no foreign players in Papua New Guinea's squad. However, teams like Nepal, Oman and USA have many foreign players in their squads. I don't think there are any indigenous players in Oman's squad. Almost all the players are from India or Pakistan.

Oman set a good enough target of 146 runs against Papua New Guinea. But Papua New Guinea's Open Sese Bau played very well. He collected 54 runs. Captain Assad Vala also scored 51 runs. Papua New Guinea defeated Oman very easily.

[libert19]

WPL: MI vs UPW

UPW batted well in previous matches, so had confidence that they'd chase 161 easily but nope lost early wickets, came under pressure, played real slow, let RRR climb — eventually succumbed to it and lost the match. Overall, I found UPW's performance really dissapointing.

[Sithara007]

I am not surprised that Papua New Guinea won this match. However, Papua New Guinea won the match by 8 wickets. Such results were unbelievable to me.

There are no foreign players in Papua New Guinea's squad. However, teams like Nepal, Oman and USA have many foreign players in their squads. I don't think there are any indigenous players in Oman's squad. Almost all the players are from India or Pakistan.

Oman set a good enough target of 146 runs against Papua New Guinea. But Papua New Guinea's Open Sese Bau played very well. He collected 54 runs. Captain Assad Vala also scored 51 runs. Papua New Guinea defeated Oman very easily.

LOL.. who is the foreign player in Nepal team? As far as I know, all the 11 players are Nepali citizens. That said, Nepal is a multi-cultural team, and the players do speak a variety of languages other than Nepali. Aasif Sheikh, Gulsan Jha, Aarif Sheikh.etc are Madheshis, and they speak languages such as Maithili and Oudhi instead of Nepali. But majority of the team members are Nepali speakers. USA had 1-2 promising native players, such as Ian Holland. But recent squads have not featured any natives.

[Minor Miner]

I am not surprised that Papua New Guinea won this match. However, Papua New Guinea won the match by 8 wickets. Such results were unbelievable to me.

There are no foreign players in Papua New Guinea's squad. However, teams like Nepal, Oman and USA have many foreign players in their squads. I don't think there are any indigenous players in Oman's squad. Almost all the players are from India or Pakistan.

Oman set a good enough target of 146 runs against Papua New Guinea. But Papua New Guinea's Open Sese Bau played very well. He collected 54 runs. Captain Assad Vala also scored 51 runs. Papua New Guinea defeated Oman very easily.

LOL.. who is the foreign player in Nepal team? As far as I know, all the 11 players are Nepali citizens. That said, Nepal is a multi-cultural team, and the players do speak a variety of languages other than Nepali. Aasif Sheikh, Gulsan Jha, Aarif Sheikh.etc are Madheshis, and they speak languages such as Maithili and Oudhi instead of Nepali. But majority of the team members are Nepali speakers. USA had 1-2 promising native players, such as Ian Holland. But recent squads have not featured any natives.

Sorry, I know there are no foreign players in the Nepal team. I have seen the last few matches of Nepal team. I actually meant UAE. Most of the players in the UAE squad are Indian or Pakistani.

[MusaPk]

LOL.. who is the foreign player in Nepal team? As far as I know, all the 11 players are Nepali citizens. That said, Nepal is a multi-cultural team, and the players do speak a variety of languages other than Nepali. Aasif Sheikh, Gulsan Jha, Aarif Sheikh.etc are Madheshis, and they speak languages such as Maithili and Oudhi instead of Nepali. But majority of the team members are Nepali speakers. USA had 1-2 promising native players, such as Ian Holland. But recent squads have not featured any natives.

Nepal no doubt has all native players unlike teams from Gulf countries. In teams like USA and Canada, players are mostly of South Asian origin but they have nationality of the country they are playing for. Nepal right now is doing good and if they keep going like that then soon they will be permanent part of ICC events like World Cups. Teams like Nepal are required in cricket eco-system, where there is interest in cricket among local population and team is fully composed of native players.

[Essential10]

Oman vs Papua New Guinea

Oman vs Papua New Guinea entered the field in the third T20 match of the series. Oman won the toss and sent Papua New Guinea into bat. Papua New Guinea did not collect very well in the power play, losing four wickets for 39 runs. Papua New Guinea team score 90/6, 14 overs. In the second T20, Papua New Guinea performed very well and won the match by eight wickets, leveling the series at 1-1. Today, Papua New Guinea is not able to show the performance like the previous match, to win the series, they have to collect 150+ runs, otherwise it will be very difficult to defend with runs below 150 in the T20 format.