T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[Bd officer]

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Scotland Vs United Arab Emirates

Today will be the most competitive game between these two teams as two T20I matches have been played in the past. United Arab Emirates won the first match in the past but Scotland won the second match. So there is a lot of concern about which team will win the match today?

Yes today will be the 3rd match of United Arab Emirates vs Scotland T20 series. So far there have been 2 matches in this series, both teams have won 1 match each to tie the series. So today's match is the final match for them, the team that wins today will win the series. Both the teams have the ability to beat each other so today's match will be full of competition. Today's match is difficult to predict. But the United Arab Emirates will be playing at home, so they will have a bit more support. Let's see which team can perform well today and win the match.

[Nalain420]

Scotland v United Arab Emirates

A three-match T20I series is underway between Scotland and the UAE where these two teams have already played their first T20I match. In the first T20 match the United Arab Emirates defeated the Scotland cricket team by a huge margin of 8 wickets to take a one-nil lead in the T20I series between them. The second T20 match between them started today. Like the first T20 match in the second T20 match UAE won the toss and decided to field first. Maybe their decision is justified because UAE batted late to beat Scotland in the first T20 match just like today UAE plans to bat later to defeat Scotland. Scotland are currently 78 runs for four wickets in 12.1 overs and they need to increase their run rate per over if they want to post a good score in this match. Otherwise they may lose today's match to UAE.

A very Competitive match and at the end Scotland won the match by 9 runs against UAE. United Arab Emirates only manage to score 112 runs in loss of 9 wickets in 20th over of the match. The Player of the Match is Jack Jarvis from Scotland for his all round batting and bowling performance in this match. Jack bowling well picked 3 important wickets by just giving 21 runs and also batting good score crucial 20 runs added to the team total.

Yesterday match, UAE won toss and first decided bowling. UAE bowler out the Scotland batsman in the third ball of the 1 over. This is the first achievement for UAE bowler. This is the bad started for Scotland batsman. Scotland batsman makes 6 run in 2 over and 1 out. Once time again UAE bowler out the Scotland batsman in the third ball of the 3 over. This is the second achievement for UAE bowler. Scotland batsman makes 121 run in 20 over and 8 outs. This is the target for UAE batsman. This is the easy target for UAE batsman. Scotland batsman are not working hard and struggle and can not make run and gave hard target. Now let's see UAE batsman can complete this target or not.UAE bowler bowling very well and stop run and get easy target.

[Bitcoin_people]

A very Competitive match and at the end Scotland won the match by 9 runs against UAE. United Arab Emirates only manage to score 112 runs in loss of 9 wickets in 20th over of the match. The Player of the Match is Jack Jarvis from Scotland for his all round batting and bowling performance in this match. Jack bowling well picked 3 important wickets by just giving 21 runs and also batting good score crucial 20 runs added to the team total.

It was a very tight match. Scotland could make only 121/8, as they struggled against Junaid Siddique and Basil Hameed. But then, United Arab Emirates were also clueless against the Scottish bowlers. Jack Jarvis was quite impressive, as he took 3 wickets. Bradley Currie and Gavin Main also provided good support. Remember that this time Scotland was without most of their key bowlers (Chris Sole, Shafyaan Sharif and Brendon McMullen). One more match remains in this series, and it will be played today at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. 

It was a hard-fought battle between the two sides, but a great performance from Scotland saw them win against the UAE. Scotland's bowling performance was excellent due to which they easily put the UAE under pressure and lost the match. Jack Jarvis had a brilliant bowling performance as he single-handedly took three wickets as the UAE batsmen failed to add to the runs and got out quickly. Although UAE batsman Alishan Sharafu played for a bit if any other player had played a bit better then surely they would have won but no one could play instead all were out. They ended the over nine wickets down for 112 at the last minute, and as Scotland fell short of their target of 121 runs, the UAE won by nine runs.

[jasonjm]

United Arab Emirates won the first T20I to take the series, but Scotland won the second T20I by nine runs to level the series at 1-1. Although the target was 122 runs for UAE, they could not chase down this easy target to win. Against Scotland, the United Arab Emirates were bowled out for just 112 runs, which resulted in the defeat of the United Arab Emirates after coming very close to winning this match. The third and final T20 match of the series is the final match and series decider for the two teams. The team that wins the last match will win the T20 series.

In my point of view the United Arab Emirates missed a great opportunity to win the T20 series against Scotland by failing to chase down a relatively low target of 122 runs. It was really disappointing to see them fall short in such a crucial match after coming so close to victory. And in the final match I really hope they will bounce back and try to win the series.  They should learn from their mistakes and should come back stronger in the final match.

After restricting Scotland to a mediocre score of 121, UAE should have easily chased down this total and won the series. They fell short by 9 runs. Scotland posted an average total thanks to their middle order. Junaid Saddique picked up 4 wickets and gave UAE an edge in this match. In response, UAE lost 4 of their wickets inside the powerplay, including their captain Muhammad Wasim. Alishan Sharafu showed some resistance with no support from the other end whatsoever. Jack Jarvis took 3 wickets and played a crucial role in this victory. Today is the series decider. I think the UAE will win this series if Muhammad Wasim stays at the crease for 5 to 10 overs. 

[noormcs5]

Scotland v United Arab Emirates

Well that's exciting match to watch where Scotland defeat thier opponent and take his revenge by leveling the series by 1-1, to be honest it wasn't a big target for a format like T20 to chased down and we alredy know UAE has bunch of aggressive style batter but unfortunately unable to show his magic, I think just like I explained before that most of the time when uae top order scored they won but if they didn't they lose like some how we say they are dependent on thier top order batter like waseem, etc which has been failed and thus Thier middle order and lower middle order even unable to chased down a 120 around target. Anyway but it's part of the game some time you have to admit opponent quality performance. Hope UAE will make a decent recovery in last game of the series and will show some quality aggressive cricket 😉

Scotland is on the tour of UAE and I think they went with nothing to lose but will come back with respect back to their home from UAE. In this series all matches were hosted by United Arab Emirates and today's match will also be played by Dubai.

I have a valid reason for UAE losing this final match and also a reason for the UAE winning this match. 
Some months before the Under 19 World Cup was started in which their Under 19 team played very well and from that team they picked just a person who had a good performance in the Under 19 World Cup but in this series his performance is not up to the match or as good as it should have been. So I think if they had chosen a good squad then they would have had a chance to win but at the same time they won the first match with the same squad so anything still can happen. They will also have the support of their home crowd.

[Haunebu]

Women's cricket is much different from men's cricket, only few people are actually following the women's cricket even in country like India, that's why Gujarat franchise failed to pick the right team which shows lack in their scout talent unit.

Women's cricket fans have drastically increased in recent times all thanks to the WPL if you ask me. I never followed women's cricket until the WPL through which I learnt a lot about them.

Was hoping final would be held in Bangalore but unfortunately it's in Delhi, crowd is super good there, makes match feel so much better.

It would have been if the final was held in Bangalore since the stadium would probably get completely filled since RCB fans are yearning for a cup in the IPL/WPL.

[cryptoWODL]

United Arab Emirates vs Scotland

The previous day we discussed the second match between UAE and Scotland, today we are going to discuss the third i.e. the last T20 match between these two teams. We saw that in the second T20 match UAE wanted to bat with the target, which is why they sent Scotland in to bat first. Scotland did not score many runs in that match but they defeated the UAE by just nine runs due to their brilliant bowling performance which leveled the series 1-1.

The series deciding match between these two teams will be held today. Both teams will give their best and try to win this T20 series. With this series between Scotland and UAE taking place in UAE they will have a home advantage let's see what happens in the end.

[libert19]

Women's cricket is much different from men's cricket, only few people are actually following the women's cricket even in country like India, that's why Gujarat franchise failed to pick the right team which shows lack in their scout talent unit.

Women's cricket fans have drastically increased in recent times all thanks to the WPL if you ask me. I never followed women's cricket until the WPL through which I learnt a lot about them.

Lol, I only watch WPL because there is nothing else to watch, I also consider it kinda like warm up before real deal (i.e, IPL) starts. But yeah, WPL made me familiar with women's cricket as well and I might follow it further.

[JSRAW]

Women's cricket is much different from men's cricket, only few people are actually following the women's cricket even in country like India, that's why Gujarat franchise failed to pick the right team which shows lack in their scout talent unit.

Women's cricket fans have drastically increased in recent times all thanks to the WPL if you ask me. I never followed women's cricket until the WPL through which I learnt a lot about them.

Lol, I only watch WPL because there is nothing else to watch, I also consider it kinda like warm up before real deal (i.e, IPL) starts. But yeah, WPL made me familiar with women's cricket as well and I might follow it further.

I follow WPL because I am interested in some players. Mandana, Ghose, Shafali, Deepti and Perry to name a few.

I could've become a regular viewer if Sarah Taylor was still around be it as a player or commentator. For the latter role, i would add Isa Guha as well because big fan and love both of them.

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[UmerIdrees]

Scotland is on the tour of UAE and I think they went with nothing to lose but will come back with respect back to their home from UAE. In this series all matches were hosted by United Arab Emirates and today's match will also be played by Dubai.

Today again Scottland and UAE going to face each other in the  Dubai (DICS) Stadium and today is the last match of this series. The match will decide the output of the series, the match which we had waited for from the start of this series.
Today we will get the answer to the question that who will win this series. The first match was won by UAE while the 2nd match was won by Scotland. The last match of this series was very close, but the first match was one sided match where the UAE team won that match easily and it's time to see who will win this and who will succeed.

In the 2nd Match, no one thought that UAE will not be able to chase the small target of 121 runs and will only be able to 112 runs. They did not bat well at all and only Alishan Sharafu made the highest 35 runs. Their in-form captain Muhammad Waseem also failed in this match.

[noormcs5]

Quetta Gladiators vs Multan Sultans is a great game and it is very difficult to predict which team will win today's match. Multan Sultan team won the toss and decided to bowl and batting form is now Quetta Gladiators, although today's match is very important win for both teams. Quetta Gladiators are batting well at the moment and they will surely try to perform well till the last moment and make a good score. Although I think today's match is more likely to be won by Multan Sultans but if the opposition bowls well then it won't be possible to win. So in today's match both teams have to play well and do well to win otherwise they might lose points.

Today's game is of very little importance as both teams have enough points to qualify for the next round. The game is just a practise match where bowlers and batsmen can improve there stats. Multan Sultans have completed there 6 overs and scored 43 runs. The runs forecast for MS is 178 runs and if they want to win this game then they must score over 200 runs. We have seen some tight finishes in past few days and hopefully this will also be a good contest.

Well, today is the match which no team can afford to lose and both will want to register the win so that they reach the final of PSL.

In this PSL, Ab Devillers is making predictions from the start on his facebook account. In first, he predicted that Lahore vs Karachi Kings would play the final match, and the winner would be Lahore Qalandars but when Lahore Qalandars has been out of the tournament then he changed his prediction from Lahore Qalandars and Karachi Kings to Peshawar Zalmi vs Multan Sultans and he changed winner from Lahore Qalandars to Peshawar Zalmi.  

Now I wanna tell you the reason why he told Qalandars first because in the season of 2016 and maybe in 2017 he was a part of Lahore Qalandars that's why he still supported Lahore Qalandars but now they (LQ) have been out and his next prediction, you know is Peshawar's team.

https://cricket.one/fantasy-analysis/psl-2024-que-vs-mul-match-30-fantasy-predictions-tips-teams-pitch-report-top-picks/65eed0124fd07d32cf8066f9

[Sithara007]

Two very important T20 matches are going to start in the next few minutes. In the first match, Multan Sultans will take on Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League. The match will take place at the National Stadium in Karachi. Second match is between United Arab Emirates and Scotland, to take place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. PSL qualifier is perhaps the more important one out of these two. The match is going to be even-sided. I don't have much faith on the UAE and Scotland is likely to win the match easily.

[jasonjm]

Two very important T20 matches are going to start in the next few minutes. In the first match, Multan Sultans will take on Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League. The match will take place at the National Stadium in Karachi. Second match is between United Arab Emirates and Scotland, to take place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. PSL qualifier is perhaps the more important one out of these two. The match is going to be even-sided. I don't have much faith on the UAE and Scotland is likely to win the match easily.

In the PSL qualifier, Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and chose to bat first. Both the teams are very well balanced. I think Peshawar's bowling is weak and they should compensate for this by making an extra 20 or 30 runs. If Multan gets the wicket of Babar and Saim early in the inning, things will get difficult for Peshawar because the middle order of Zalmi is not performing up to their potential. If Peshawar gets to a total of 180 or above, they have a chance to win the match comfortably. If Peshawar gets the wickets of Usman Khan and Johnson Charles early, Multan won't be able to chase down the target because of qualifier pressure.

[Out of mind]

UAE vs Scotland is the third T20 match between the two teams and Scotland is batting in the first innings. Today's match will be very exciting as the two teams are currently tied with one goal each. Today's match is crucial for both the teams, and whoever succeeds in getting the win will go on to win the T20 series. UAE won the first T20I and Scotland won the second T20I, so today's match will be an exciting game between the two teams. Meanwhile, Scotland are batting brilliantly and if they manage to score 150 plus runs against the UAE then they are more likely to win. And in today's match if UAE can't do good bowling performance and can't improve its batting performance then maybe it will lose the match and lose the series. Scotland are currently 33 runs from 3 overs, the partnership between George Munsey and Brandon McMullen is great with the way they are batting and can produce huge scores.

[Sithara007]

There is an interesting article in Arabnews about the rising popularity of franchise T20 leagues.

https://www.arabnews.com/node/2464696/amp

The most important observations are:

1. IPL remains the most popular league, with 505 million TV viewers across the globe
2. International League T20 has emerged as the second most popular one, surpassing BBL, CPL and PSL. 2024 edition attracted 161 million viewers
3. SA20 also managed to increase viewership in 2024. Majority of the viewers are from India.
4. For PSL, accurate numbers are not available

[Swordsoffreedom]

Two very important T20 matches are going to start in the next few minutes. In the first match, Multan Sultans will take on Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League. The match will take place at the National Stadium in Karachi. Second match is between United Arab Emirates and Scotland, to take place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. PSL qualifier is perhaps the more important one out of these two. The match is going to be even-sided. I don't have much faith on the UAE and Scotland is likely to win the match easily.

In the PSL qualifier, Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and chose to bat first. Both the teams are very well balanced. I think Peshawar's bowling is weak and they should compensate for this by making an extra 20 or 30 runs. If Multan gets the wicket of Babar and Saim early in the inning, things will get difficult for Peshawar because the middle order of Zalmi is not performing up to their potential. If Peshawar gets to a total of 180 or above, they have a chance to win the match comfortably. If Peshawar gets the wickets of Usman Khan and Johnson Charles early, Multan won't be able to chase down the target because of qualifier pressure.

Multan Sultans team has lost only 3 matches this season, but interestingly, they lost both of those matches against Peshawar Zalmi. Zalmi won the first match by 5 runs and Zalmi won the second match by just 4 runs. And in today's match also Zalmi won the toss and decided to bat. As Zalmi won by batting first in the last two matches against Multan Sultans.



But Peshawar Zalmi couldn't start well today, Peshawar Zalmi lost the wicket of Saim Ayub in the first over. Ayub returned to the dressing room after collecting only 1 run. After 3 overs Peshawar Zalmi collected 24 runs. Babar Azam and Mohammad Haris are batting now. Both are experienced batsmen of Pakistan national team. I guess Peshawar Zalmi team will give more than 180 target today.

[onecall123]

Two very important T20 matches are going to start in the next few minutes. In the first match, Multan Sultans will take on Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League. The match will take place at the National Stadium in Karachi. Second match is between United Arab Emirates and Scotland, to take place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. PSL qualifier is perhaps the more important one out of these two. The match is going to be even-sided. I don't have much faith on the UAE and Scotland is likely to win the match easily.

In the PSL qualifier, Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and chose to bat first. Both the teams are very well balanced. I think Peshawar's bowling is weak and they should compensate for this by making an extra 20 or 30 runs. If Multan gets the wicket of Babar and Saim early in the inning, things will get difficult for Peshawar because the middle order of Zalmi is not performing up to their potential. If Peshawar gets to a total of 180 or above, they have a chance to win the match comfortably. If Peshawar gets the wickets of Usman Khan and Johnson Charles early, Multan won't be able to chase down the target because of qualifier pressure.

Both teams have strong captains, so it should be an exciting match. The contest will mainly be between Babar Azam and Saim versus Rizwan and Usman. Usman Khan is the key player for Multan Sultans' top order as he has been performing consistently. With his power-hitting, Multan Sultans have a good chance of reaching their 4th PSL final.

Unfortunately, Saim Ayub dismissed early. However, Babar and Haris seem confident. Multan Sultans' bowlers need to stop them early to make control over them.

[Sithara007]

Scotland got themselves to a good start, but they wasted it. Charlie Tear is playing in test mode and so far he has scored 9 runs from 21 balls (that too in a T20I match). Reminds me of test legends such as Rahul Dravid, Shivnarine Chanderpaul and Trevor Gripper. Those who tried to step up the scoring rate are back in the pavilion by now (George Munsey, Brandon McMullen and Richie Berrington). Oh.. just now Michael Leask was nabbed by Basil Hameed and that means that Scotland are in deep trouble at 59/4. 

[Cheema02]

UAE vs Scotland is the third T20 match between the two teams and Scotland is batting in the first innings. Today's match will be very exciting as the two teams are currently tied with one goal each. Today's match is crucial for both the teams, and whoever succeeds in getting the win will go on to win the T20 series. UAE won the first T20I and Scotland won the second T20I, so today's match will be an exciting game between the two teams. Meanwhile, Scotland are batting brilliantly and if they manage to score 150 plus runs against the UAE then they are more likely to win. And in today's match if UAE can't do good bowling performance and can't improve its batting performance then maybe it will lose the match and lose the series.

In Final T20 match United Arab Emirates won the toss and decided to bowl first Scotland are very difficult conditions lost thier4 wickets in just 59 runs in 11th over of the match. United Arab Emirates bowling performance is amazing in this match especially Basil Hameed who picked 2 important wickets by just giving only 9 runs. I think its very difficult for Scotland to score a big total after lossing 4 wickets.

[CryptoBuds]

Two very important T20 matches are going to start in the next few minutes. In the first match, Multan Sultans will take on Peshawar Zalmi in the Pakistan Super League. The match will take place at the National Stadium in Karachi. Second match is between United Arab Emirates and Scotland, to take place at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. PSL qualifier is perhaps the more important one out of these two. The match is going to be even-sided. I don't have much faith on the UAE and Scotland is likely to win the match easily.

In the PSL qualifier, Peshawar Zalmi won the toss and chose to bat first. Both the teams are very well balanced. I think Peshawar's bowling is weak and they should compensate for this by making an extra 20 or 30 runs. If Multan gets the wicket of Babar and Saim early in the inning, things will get difficult for Peshawar because the middle order of Zalmi is not performing up to their potential. If Peshawar gets to a total of 180 or above, they have a chance to win the match comfortably. If Peshawar gets the wickets of Usman Khan and Johnson Charles early, Multan won't be able to chase down the target because of qualifier pressure.

Multan Sultans team has lost only 3 matches this season, but interestingly, they lost both of those matches against Peshawar Zalmi. Zalmi won the first match by 5 runs and Zalmi won the second match by just 4 runs. And in today's match also Zalmi won the toss and decided to bat. As Zalmi won by batting first in the last two matches against Multan Sultans.



But Peshawar Zalmi couldn't start well today, Peshawar Zalmi lost the wicket of Saim Ayub in the first over. Ayub returned to the dressing room after collecting only 1 run. After 3 overs Peshawar Zalmi collected 24 runs. Babar Azam and Mohammad Haris are batting now. Both are experienced batsmen of Pakistan national team. I guess Peshawar Zalmi team will give more than 180 target today.

Peshawar Zalmi provided big targets against Multan Sultans in the previous two matches. The team set a target of 180 runs in the first match and 205 runs in the second match. Even then Peshawar Zalmi won by a very narrow margin.

Peshawar Zalmi batsmen batting very slow in today's match. They cannot bat well. Peshawar Zalmi's collection is only 88 runs in 12 overs. Their average collection is less than 7 per over. Babar Azam remains unbeaten with 41 runs from 37 balls. He is batting very slow. I would say Peshawar Zalmi will not win today's match if they give a target of less than 170. Multan Sultans batting order is quite strong. Rizwan and Usman Khan are in good form.