T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[JunaidAzizi]

Even before this series started, I posted here saying that it will be full of lop-sided matches. And look at today's match. Zimbabwe got bowled out for just 57 runs. Pakistan chased down the target with almost 75% of the overs to spare and won by 10 wickets. Seriously? WTF? They were 37/0, and then collapsed to 57 all out. The almost unknown Sufiyan Muqeem, playing just his 6th international match for Pakistan returned figures of 2.4-0-3-5. The ICC needs to look into this mockery.

I watched the match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, which was a very low entertainment match in this tournament. I did not expect this, not only me, but I think the whole crowd felt the same. However, things changed, and unusual turning points were witnessed. The performance of the Zimbabwe team was not that impressive from the start, but they fought against a team that is considered one of the top teams, and they showed their best performance. No doubt Pakistan's performance was good, but how was the Zimbabwe team so weak? They didn't even manage to reduce the pressure. There is a lot of work to do on their batting, bowling, and fielding lineup, but before that, their mental strength is very necessary. Once they learn how to manage the pressure, they will easily control their opponent team.

[noormcs5]

No doubt Pakistan's performance was good, but how was the Zimbabwe team so weak? They didn't even manage to reduce the pressure. There is a lot of work to do on their batting, bowling, and fielding lineup, but before that, their mental strength is very necessary. Once they learn how to manage the pressure, they will easily control their opponent team.

Do you know when anyone won such a match, even the winning team is not considered a favourite for the future series just because the opponent was so weak? Here also, even though Pakistan won this match very easily, no one sees them a threat. I think this is a drawback of playing with a weak team, If you win it does not matter but if you lose, people will point figures at you that you lost with the weakest team. I was thinking what will happen in the last match that will be played on 5th December. I think one should bet on Pakistan for this match but then Pakistan can be unpredictable and that too after winning the series 

[ZAINmalik75]

Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 2nd T20 Match

Pakistan will play with Zimbabwe in today exciting game. After Pakistan won first game easily they want to keep winning. And I hope they wil. But Zimbabwe wants to come back strong and will do everything to beat Pakistan. So let's see what will happen in today match. Will Pakistan good batting and skilled bowling be too much for Zimbabwe? Or will Zimbabwe hard work and teamwork help them win surprisingly?

Pakistan really played superior in second match of thier t20 series against Zimbabwe, after toss many of us expect Zimbabwe to score 120 around as it's thier home ground and they have experience regarding that but surprisingly Pakistani youngster really shock us like they have 37/2 in fifth over and then suddenly in next seven overs they just scored 20 more runs and lose rest of thier wickets which was phenomenal because it's will really help new green boys to build thier confidence in first class cricket. Soon we will have champions trophy so such young talent will be much emerge after such kind of performance and to played for his team against top class opponent. Well anyway the emerging sufian get 5 wicket hawl which he really deserve and thus Pakistan won the match in just 5 overs without any loss of thier wickets

[JahriMeayer]

In the 2nd T20 Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, team Pakistan won by 10 wickets which is incredible.i mean most of people including me, can relate that, Pakistan is eligible enough beat Zimbabwe but didn't think that Zimbabwe could show such poor performance which is badly decreased from previous match. Zimbabwe just afford to score only 57 runs in 12.4 overs. Their openers batsmen Brian Bennett(21) and T Marumani(16) able to made some runs. Rest of players did worst batting performance even. Sufiyan Muqeem Showed his skillful bowling and took 5 wickets  behalf of Pakistan. Apart from that, it wasn't a big deal to suprpas such little targeted runs and so was happened. Pakistani openers batsmen Omair Yousuf(*22) and Saim Ayub(*36) were enough for everything and at the end., Pakistan achieve the victory against their opponent even without losing any single wicket.

[noormcs5]

In the 2nd T20 Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, team Pakistan won by 10 wickets which is incredible.i mean most of people including me, can relate that, Pakistan is eligible enough beat Zimbabwe but didn't think that Zimbabwe could show such poor performance which is badly decreased from previous match.

Pakistani players shocked us with their performances. It is Zimbabwe's home ground and also at the same time, they have won a single match of one day too that is why expecting good for Zimbabwe too but they have not done anything good, cannot make their control and cannot stop the losing wickets. Even they were unable to do the good bowling and could not even got a single wicket. They cannot give the good target. Every thing was wrong for them today. Pakistan chased the target without losing even a single wicket. Pakistan have won the T20 series and after this they are going to face South Africa in 10 days in which they might have self confident to give them a tough time.

[Vaskiy]

In the 2nd T20 Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, team Pakistan won by 10 wickets which is incredible.i mean most of people including me, can relate that, Pakistan is eligible enough beat Zimbabwe but didn't think that Zimbabwe could show such poor performance which is badly decreased from previous match.

Pakistani players shocked us with their performances. It is Zimbabwe's home ground and also at the same time, they have won a single match of one day too that is why expecting good for Zimbabwe too but they have not done anything good, cannot make their control and cannot stop the losing wickets. Even they were unable to do the good bowling and could not even got a single wicket. They cannot give the good target. Every thing was wrong for them today. Pakistan chased the target without losing even a single wicket. Pakistan have won the T20 series and after this they are going to face South Africa in 10 days in which they might have self confident to give them a tough time.

Simple as that, everyone expected great performance from Zimbabwe and considered Zimbabwe equal to the Pakistan team for different reasons. Everything is wrong, and the viewers understood the reality. Such a bad performance from Zimbabwe, and Pakistan won it on the 6^th over. Another thing, this being the second match, the majority wished Zimbabwe to win the match so that the 3^rd T20 match will be more interesting, as the winner will lift the trophy. But the reality is worse. The third T20 will be similar to this. There won't be many changes in performance.

[hafiztalha]

In the 2nd T20 Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, team Pakistan won by 10 wickets which is incredible.i mean most of people including me, can relate that, Pakistan is eligible enough beat Zimbabwe but didn't think that Zimbabwe could show such poor performance which is badly decreased from previous match. Zimbabwe just afford to score only 57 runs in 12.4 overs. Their openers batsmen Brian Bennett(21) and T Marumani(16) able to made some runs. Rest of players did worst batting performance even. Sufiyan Muqeem Showed his skillful bowling and took 5 wickets  behalf of Pakistan. Apart from that, it wasn't a big deal to suprpas such little targeted runs and so was happened. Pakistani openers batsmen Omair Yousuf(*22) and Saim Ayub(*36) were enough for everything and at the end., Pakistan achieve the victory against their opponent even without losing any single wicket.

Pakistan team are in good situation and they won two games consistently and already won odi series. Yesterday 2 nd game was played and in this game, Zimbabwe team won toss and they got a chance to take first bat or bowl and they elected bat first. Zimbabwe Batsman showed very very poor effort and they consistently lost many wickets and performed worst effort. Only opener batsman performed well and helped team to make this runs otherwise they lost all wickets below 50 runs. Sufiyan showed great effort in bowling and he bowled out 5 wickets in 2.4 overs and gave 3 runs. This bowlers got a player of game award because he made this game easy and Pakistan team easily chased this runs in 5.3 overs. Congratulations for 2 nd win Pakistan and you are close to wash out Zimbabwe team completely.

[Bd officer]

In the 2nd T20 Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, team Pakistan won by 10 wickets which is incredible.i mean most of people including me, can relate that, Pakistan is eligible enough beat Zimbabwe but didn't think that Zimbabwe could show such poor performance which is badly decreased from previous match. Zimbabwe just afford to score only 57 runs in 12.4 overs. Their openers batsmen Brian Bennett(21) and T Marumani(16) able to made some runs. Rest of players did worst batting performance even. Sufiyan Muqeem Showed his skillful bowling and took 5 wickets  behalf of Pakistan. Apart from that, it wasn't a big deal to suprpas such little targeted runs and so was happened. Pakistani openers batsmen Omair Yousuf(*22) and Saim Ayub(*36) were enough for everything and at the end., Pakistan achieve the victory against their opponent even without losing any single wicket.

The match was very important for Zimbabwe as they needed a win yesterday to level the series but Zimbabwe ended up losing badly. Yes, Zimbabwe will lose against Pakistan which everyone thought but Zimbabwe will lose badly which was not expected. Zimbabwean batsmen could not perform well, they could not set a target of enough runs. Zimbabwe are playing at their home ground so their batsmen were not expected to perform so badly. After the opening pair was broken, wickets fell one after the other. However, Pakistan easily chased down the target and won the series. With one match to go, Zimbabwe's poor performance looks like they will be whitewashed in the T20I series.

[Cheema02]

Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 2nd T20 Match

Pakistan will play with Zimbabwe in today exciting game. After Pakistan won first game easily they want to keep winning. And I hope they wil. But Zimbabwe wants to come back strong and will do everything to beat Pakistan. So let's see what will happen in today match. Will Pakistan good batting and skilled bowling be too much for Zimbabwe? Or will Zimbabwe hard work and teamwork help them win surprisingly?

Pakistan had an outstanding performance in the second T20 match, winning by a huge 10 wickets victory over Zimbabwe. Pakistan team chased down the target of 60 runs in 5.3 overs without losing any wickets and created history by chasing the target in the first powerplay. Zimbabwe was looking strong at one stage they scored 36 runs with only a loss of one wicket but after the Pakistan bowler's magical bowling, Zimbabwe was all out at just 57 runs. New young, talented spin bowler Sufiyan Muqeem bowling is outclassed the best bowling figure picked a five-wicket haul in just giving only 3 runs and helped the Pakistan team restrict Zimbabwe to a low score of under 60 runs. Pakistan leads the series 2-0 by winning back-to-back matches.

[AirtelBuzz]

Pakistani players shocked us with their performances. It is Zimbabwe's home ground and also at the same time, they have won a single match of one day too that is why expecting good for Zimbabwe too but they have not done anything good, cannot make their control and cannot stop the losing wickets. Even they were unable to do the good bowling and could not even got a single wicket. They cannot give the good target. Every thing was wrong for them today. Pakistan chased the target without losing even a single wicket. Pakistan have won the T20 series and after this they are going to face South Africa in 10 days in which they might have self confident to give them a tough time.

I was not at all shocked by Pakistan's excellent performance against Zimbabwe. Because Zimbabwe is much weaker than Pakistan, Pakistan should have performed well against this team. Pakistan's first ODI defeat by Zimbabwe was totally unexpected. Since losing the first ODI match against Zimbabwe, the Pakistan cricket team is yet to lose a single match. Among all the matches of this series, Zimbabwe cricket team performed worst in the second T20 match. They did not bat well or even bowled well in this match. It has to be admitted that Pakistan's young spin bowler Sufyan Muqueem bowling performance has shocked everyone.

[noormcs5]

Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 2nd T20 Match

Pakistan will play with Zimbabwe in today exciting game. After Pakistan won first game easily they want to keep winning. And I hope they wil. But Zimbabwe wants to come back strong and will do everything to beat Pakistan. So let's see what will happen in today match. Will Pakistan good batting and skilled bowling be too much for Zimbabwe? Or will Zimbabwe hard work and teamwork help them win surprisingly?

Pakistan had an outstanding performance in the second T20 match, winning by a huge 10 wickets victory over Zimbabwe. Pakistan team chased down the target of 60 runs in 5.3 overs without losing any wickets and created history by chasing the target in the first powerplay. Zimbabwe was looking strong at one stage they scored 36 runs with only a loss of one wicket but after the Pakistan bowler's magical bowling, Zimbabwe was all out at just 57 runs. New young, talented spin bowler Sufiyan Muqeem bowling is outclassed the best bowling figure picked a five-wicket haul in just giving only 3 runs and helped the Pakistan team restrict Zimbabwe to a low score of under 60 runs. Pakistan leads the series 2-0 by winning back-to-back matches.

In both of the T20Is matches Muhammad Rizwan was not the part of the team and Muhammad Rizwan gave chance to Omair Yousuf. In the first match, he has not made too good but valuable effort as well. He scored 18 and lost his wicket but yesterday he was playing fast from the start and scored 22 while using 15 balls, he could score more but the target was chased that is why he remains not out.

I think today again Muhammad Rizwan would not be the part of the team and if Pakistan won the toss then they should try to back their batsmen because bowlers are in good form already but they have to make sure that there is backup of any batsmen in case the upper order don’t perform well.

[ThemePen]

In both of the T20Is matches Muhammad Rizwan was not the part of the team and Muhammad Rizwan gave chance to Omair Yousuf. In the first match, he has not made too good but valuable effort as well. He scored 18 and lost his wicket but yesterday he was playing fast from the start and scored 22 while using 15 balls, he could score more but the target was chased that is why he remains not out.

I think today again Muhammad Rizwan would not be the part of the team and if Pakistan won the toss then they should try to back their batsmen because bowlers are in good form already but they have to make sure that there is backup of any batsmen in case the upper order don’t perform well.

In recent T20I matches as you said Muhammad Rizwan did not play so Omair Yousuf got chance to show what he can do. In first match Yousuf performance was okay he scored 18 runs before getting out but in second match he played much better. He started playing aggressively from the beginning scored 22 runs in 15 balls and did not get out because Pakistan reached the target they were chasing. Since Rizwan is still not playing Pakistan plan for next match should be to help their batsmen especially if they win the toss. Their bowlers are already playing well, but it's very important to have a backup plan in case the main batsmen don't play well.

[Lidger]

In the 2nd T20 Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, team Pakistan won by 10 wickets which is incredible.i mean most of people including me, can relate that, Pakistan is eligible enough beat Zimbabwe but didn't think that Zimbabwe could show such poor performance which is badly decreased from previous match. Zimbabwe just afford to score only 57 runs in 12.4 overs. Their openers batsmen Brian Bennett(21) and T Marumani(16) able to made some runs. Rest of players did worst batting performance even. Sufiyan Muqeem Showed his skillful bowling and took 5 wickets  behalf of Pakistan. Apart from that, it wasn't a big deal to suprpas such little targeted runs and so was happened. Pakistani openers batsmen Omair Yousuf(*22) and Saim Ayub(*36) were enough for everything and at the end., Pakistan achieve the victory against their opponent even without losing any single wicket.

In the second T20 match, Zimbabwe managed to score perhaps 30 runs in the first three overs but at that time Zimbabwe was wicketless on the scoreboard but Zimbabwe lost 10 wickets to reach 57 runs from 30 runs on. After watching the first three overs, I went out for some time and came back to see Zimbabwe all out. I didn't expect the second T20 match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe to end so quickly. Pakistan reached their target without a wicket in just five overs. The match was over in such short time that there is really nothing to discuss about this match. But even if Zimbabwe were defeated, they should have been beaten honorably. If the batsmen's run-scoring trend had been a bit slower, Zimbabwe could have scored more runs against Pakistan, but that was not the case.

[Sithara007]

Anyone following the Nepal Premier League? There was an exciting match between Karnali Yaks and Kathmandu Gurkhas today, with the Gurkhas winning with 3 balls to spare. Shikhar Dhawan (who has a contract to play 4 matches for the Yaks, reportedly for $120,000) made his first significant contribution with the bat, scoring 72 from 51 balls. But in general, Kathmandu bowlers maintained good line and length and didn't gave away much leeway. Namibian spinner Gerhard Erasmus was the pick, with figures of 4-0-29-2.

[noormcs5]

Anyone following the Nepal Premier League? There was an exciting match between Karnali Yaks and Kathmandu Gurkhas today, with the Gurkhas winning with 3 balls to spare. Shikhar Dhawan (who has a contract to play 4 matches for the Yaks, reportedly for $120,000) made his first significant contribution with the bat, scoring 72 from 51 balls. But in general, Kathmandu bowlers maintained good line and length and didn't gave away much leeway. Namibian spinner Gerhard Erasmus was the pick, with figures of 4-0-29-2.

Not much hype for this match but still I think the matches are close in Nepal Premier League and one can bet on them. Karnali Yaks is the weakest team as they played two matches and lost both of them.  In this match, they batted first and made 149 runs. Shikhar Dhawan played good as he made 72 runs and remained not out. However, the rest of the players didn't bat as per expectations.

Kathmandu Gurkhas chased down the score in the last over. Even they didn't bat well. At one point, they scored 41 runs and lost 4 wickets. But them the lower middle order played well and they chased down the target. The main partnership was between Gerhard Erasmus and Sumit Maharjan. Kathmandu Gurkhas bat lower down the order and this will benefit them in later matches too.

[Sithara007]

Those who want to catch a glimpse of Shikhar Dhawan's innings in Nepal Premier League for the Yaks can go to the below link:

https://twitter.com/DalBhatCricket/status/1864169439358279876

The best thing about this league so far is the crowd. Thousands of fans have attended each of the matches. Now compare this to the recent ODI series between New Zealand and United Arab Emirates, which was played in front of a handful of spectators at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. And despite all this, UAE gets more funds from the ICC when compared to Nepal. 

[JunaidAzizi]

Do you know when anyone won such a match, even the winning team is not considered a favourite for the future series just because the opponent was so weak? Here also, even though Pakistan won this match very easily, no one sees them a threat. I think this is a drawback of playing with a weak team, If you win it does not matter but if you lose, people will point figures at you that you lost with the weakest team. I was thinking what will happen in the last match that will be played on 5th December. I think one should bet on Pakistan for this match but then Pakistan can be unpredictable and that too after winning the series 

Well mate, the first thing is that my previous post was about game analysis. I didn't criticize any team, but I was analyzing their mistakes and giving a suggestion that if they can improve in this area, they will perform better. In the Pakistan-Zimbabwe match, my focus was to discuss and learn from other sports enthusiasts about the improvement of the Zimbabwe team. Pakistan's victory, no doubt, is a result of better performance. When a weak team faces a stronger team, we will only focus on the weaker team's performance and how they are faring against the stronger one. The stronger team is only criticized when they lose a match to that weaker team.

Pakistan's performance in this tournament is going well, and we hope that they will perform even better. The same goes for the Zimbabwe team, so that we can see a good fight among the teams and be entertained. But this will only happen when we focus more on the weaker teams to get them stronger.,

[Compromise me]

In the 2nd T20 Match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe, team Pakistan won by 10 wickets which is incredible.i mean most of people including me, can relate that, Pakistan is eligible enough beat Zimbabwe but didn't think that Zimbabwe could show such poor performance which is badly decreased from previous match. Zimbabwe just afford to score only 57 runs in 12.4 overs. Their openers batsmen Brian Bennett(21) and T Marumani(16) able to made some runs. Rest of players did worst batting performance even. Sufiyan Muqeem Showed his skillful bowling and took 5 wickets  behalf of Pakistan. Apart from that, it wasn't a big deal to suprpas such little targeted runs and so was happened. Pakistani openers batsmen Omair Yousuf(*22) and Saim Ayub(*36) were enough for everything and at the end., Pakistan achieve the victory against their opponent even without losing any single wicket.

In the second T20 match, Zimbabwe managed to score perhaps 30 runs in the first three overs but at that time Zimbabwe was wicketless on the scoreboard but Zimbabwe lost 10 wickets to reach 57 runs from 30 runs on. After watching the first three overs, I went out for some time and came back to see Zimbabwe all out. I didn't expect the second T20 match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe to end so quickly. Pakistan reached their target without a wicket in just five overs. The match was over in such short time that there is really nothing to discuss about this match. But even if Zimbabwe were defeated, they should have been beaten honorably. If the batsmen's run-scoring trend had been a bit slower, Zimbabwe could have scored more runs against Pakistan, but that was not the case.

We know that Zimbabwe International T20 cricket team is not strong team and we didn't expect that team will win against Pak International team. But we didn't expect that kind of performance from Zimbabwe team because they played well against many teams in the past and they already try to give tough time and many times they became successful to give tough time but now Pak team gave excellent effort in this match and that team won the match by 10 wickets. Match was totally one sided in which bowlers played crutial role in this match . Especially Sufiyan Muqeem took 5 wickets in this match and he was prominent player in this match and his spell was brilliant in this match.Abbas Afridi also took 2 wickets in this match and we are watching young talent in Pak team and we are expecting good from Pak team in the future.

[Sithara007]

We know that Zimbabwe International T20 cricket team is not strong team and we didn't expect that team will win against Pak International team. But we didn't expect that kind of performance from Zimbabwe team because they played well against many teams in the past and they already try to give tough time and many times they became successful to give tough time but now Pak team gave excellent effort in this match and that team won the match by 10 wickets. Match was totally one sided in which bowlers played crutial role in this match . Especially Sufiyan Muqeem took 5 wickets in this match and he was prominent player in this match and his spell was brilliant in this match.Abbas Afridi also took 2 wickets in this match and we are watching young talent in Pak team and we are expecting good from Pak team in the future.

Looks like Zimbabweans are like the blue-eyed boys of the ICC. What is the point in forcing the Pakistan team to have a bilateral against this shit team? Most of their regular players (such as Sikandar Raza, Ryan Burl, Blessing Muzarabani and Brian Bennett), and yet they lost the matches by a very heavy margin. What prevented the organizers from including the neighbor Namibia, which is one of the strongest associate nations? It this was a tri-series with Namibia, then the matches would have been much more meaningful. 

[Nalain420]

Pakistan vs Zimbabwe 2nd T20 Match

Pakistan will play with Zimbabwe in today exciting game. After Pakistan won first game easily they want to keep winning. And I hope they wil. But Zimbabwe wants to come back strong and will do everything to beat Pakistan. So let's see what will happen in today match. Will Pakistan good batting and skilled bowling be too much for Zimbabwe? Or will Zimbabwe hard work and teamwork help them win surprisingly?

Pakistan had an outstanding performance in the second T20 match, winning by a huge 10 wickets victory over Zimbabwe. Pakistan team chased down the target of 60 runs in 5.3 overs without losing any wickets and created history by chasing the target in the first powerplay. Zimbabwe was looking strong at one stage they scored 36 runs with only a loss of one wicket but after the Pakistan bowler's magical bowling, Zimbabwe was all out at just 57 runs. New young, talented spin bowler Sufiyan Muqeem bowling is outclassed the best bowling figure picked a five-wicket haul in just giving only 3 runs and helped the Pakistan team restrict Zimbabwe to a low score of under 60 runs. Pakistan leads the series 2-0 by winning back-to-back matches.

In both of the T20Is matches Muhammad Rizwan was not the part of the team and Muhammad Rizwan gave chance to Omair Yousuf. In the first match, he has not made too good but valuable effort as well. He scored 18 and lost his wicket but yesterday he was playing fast from the start and scored 22 while using 15 balls, he could score more but the target was chased that is why he remains not out.

I think today again Muhammad Rizwan would not be the part of the team and if Pakistan won the toss then they should try to back their batsmen because bowlers are in good form already but they have to make sure that there is backup of any batsmen in case the upper order don’t perform well.

I didn't understand the performance and style of play in this match, was it the Zimbabwean batsmen who played poorly or the pressure from the Pakistan bowlers that made Zimbabwe not play well.  In this match Zimbabwean batsmen had up to 20 overs in which they could have given a good target but they scored only 57 runs but it was a good performance by Pakistan in which they will win the second match as well.  I am very happy that Pakistan has won this series.  Pakistan batsmen have won this match by fulfilling this target in 6 overs and also won 2 matches in this series.  Pakistan should win this next match as well and win this series by whitewashing Zimbabwe in this series.