T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[virasog]

Today is going to be the second T20 game between India and New Zealand. India is dominating all the games, no matter who the opponent is.

The last time India lost a game to New Zealand was in 2016. It has been almost 10 years and New Zealand is still looking to have a win, while this is a cup of tea for the Indian team. Let's see what will happen today. Can New Zealand change the history? By the way, New Zealand won the ODI game, their ODI squad did their best but now we want the same effort and same results as well from the New Zealand T20 team ahead of the World Cup.

Well the history may change today. The New Zealand team is batting well in the 2nd T20 match. They are already 183 runs and with 10 more balls to go, it will be so good for them to have a psychological advantage by scoring a 200 today.

It was a good team effort by them today where every batsmen contributed the runs. First it was Rachin Ravindra who made a 44 runs and now Mitchell Santner is batting on 42 and he is looking to hit only boundaries, already five of them and a six. Whatever score they make from here, it will be a big test for the Indian batting today.

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Well the history may change today. The New Zealand team is batting well in the 2nd T20 match. They are already 183 runs and with 10 more balls to go, it will be so good for them to have a psychological advantage by scoring a 200 today.

It was a good team effort by them today where every batsmen contributed the runs. First it was Rachin Ravindra who made a 44 runs and now Mitchell Santner is batting on 42 and he is looking to hit only boundaries, already five of them and a six. Whatever score they make from here, it will be a big test for the Indian batting today.

At the moment, the state of India's batting performance makes it seem to me that we are going to see a different result today. The New Zealand team has managed to score a competitive score even after coming out to bat, which is not easy for the opposing team.

At the same time, the Indian team has lost a wicket in the first over and another wicket in the first ball of the second over. The concern for India is that Abhishek Sharma, who played a brilliant innings of 84 runs off 35 balls in the first match, has scored a golden duck in this match.
At the same time, Sanju Samson was out for just 6 runs. And through this we can understand that the first power play is not going to be good for the Indian team and which is not really a good signal. Now it is to be seen whether Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav can form a strong partnership because if they cannot create a strong foundation of score in this situation, then the chances of them losing this match is high.

[tbterryboy]

After got defeated in first T20I, today New Zealand done good batting with good charge from Mitchell Santner in last overs have 47 on 27 balls allow them to have defendable target on board. India chose to chase in this match, New Zealand have decent start which allowed them to stay alive even they lost wickets regularly.

Today Arshdeep and Harshit Rana both were not on their best, conceded more runs with poor economy but still spinner keep things on target now Indian chase is already started with Sanju Samson after hitting six on second ball of inning gone on fifth ball of first over and Jacob Duffy have his man Abhishek Sharma on first ball of his first over India 6 for 2.

[Bitcoin Smith]

Santner played an amazing knock and took Kiwis more than what they expected after losing 5 wickets in the halfway stage and to add more fuel to that India lost both the openers in 7 balls. Going to be a real test for India's batting unit, can they manage this initial fumble and strike back a score like 200?

Ishan is playing like the pocket dynamite again, hope he will carry this for a while. SKY just needs to keep the wickets now and let Ishan to play the shots.

[Emitdama]

Santner played an amazing knock and took Kiwis more than what they expected after losing 5 wickets in the halfway stage and to add more fuel to that India lost both the openers in 7 balls. Going to be a real test for India's batting unit, can they manage this initial fumble and strike back a score like 200?

Ishan is playing like the pocket dynamite again, hope he will carry this for a while. SKY just needs to keep the wickets now and let Ishan to play the shots.

Now, this is beauty of Indian cricket if one fails then there is another available for taking charge just happening right now at Raipur after failure of Sanju Samson and Abhishek Sharma, new batter is in charge which is Ishan Kishan who got 76 runs on 31 balls which making things easy for Team India to stay alive in this match.

Required rate was @10.4 in start but have decline thanks to Ishan Kishan who is making mockery of New Zealand bowlers with his bat and doing business which will give his team, easy win in this second match now at the end of 7 overs they are having 88 for 2 while 16 boundaries already scored in these 7 overs of this inning SKY watching all from other side of crease.

[JSRAW]

Some fine chase from india, thought we'll struggle a bit after 2 wickets but next 3 batters made a mockery of 200+ runs chase. Kiwis surely needed atleast 20 runs cushion.

Kishan came in clutch tonight, wasn't enjoying sky batting as for first 10 balls he looked like a spectator and accumulator but boy o boy he did change the gear quickly ( first 10 runs off 10 balls and next 72 runs came in just 27 balls), hope skipper didn't use all his luck tonight.

Fielding standard was piss poor from both the teams, can understand india as lately, their fielding standards are going down but don't expect poor field from Kiwis.

[BTC FutureKing]

New Zealand won the ODI series. But they stumbled in the first T20I. They lost mainly because of the poor bowling of the bowlers. It was naturally very difficult to win against a team like India, who were batting for a huge target of 239 runs.

This stadium in Raipur is new. So it is difficult to predict the condition of the pitch. But it seems that this will also be a batting friendly pitch. The batting order of both the teams is very strong. Today too, there is a high possibility of seeing runs close to 200.
The first target of New Zealand bowlers today should be to try to take the wicket of Abhishek Sharma quickly. If Abhishek Sharma can survive for 8 overs at the crease, India will undoubtedly move towards a big collection.

Today is going to be the second T20 game between India and New Zealand. India is dominating all the games, no matter who the opponent is.

The last time India lost a game to New Zealand was in 2016. It has been almost 10 years and New Zealand is still looking to have a win, while this is a cup of tea for the Indian team. Let's see what will happen today. Can New Zealand change the history? By the way, New Zealand won the ODI game, their ODI squad did their best but now we want the same effort and same results as well from the New Zealand T20 team ahead of the World Cup.

India has corrected the mistakes of the ODI series and is batting aggressively in the T20 series.You must have guessed their performance from the first match but today we will talk about the second match in which New Zealand has also batted quite well.But the way India is scoring runs New Zealand is certain to lose the second match.India has made a brilliant comeback.I think India is in the mood to win the entire series to New Zealand.By the way New Zealand is fighting India with determination but wining belongs to one team.In the second match.New Zealand batted first and set a aim of 208 which the Indian batsmen seem to be achieving at a very fast pace.So far 13 runs are needed off 36 balls and Shivam Dube is facing the New Zealand bowling.

[Out of mind]

New Zealand scored 208 runs against India, India's batting performance was good in today's match. India won today by a huge margin of 7 wickets, they are leading the series 2/0, India's batting performance in T20 is very good. New Zealand tried to put up a strong performance but they still failed to equalize the series. However, the batting performance of Indian batsmen Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan was really impressive, they won the match in 15.2 overs. India will try their best to win the match against New Zealand in the next match, if India wins the next match, India will win the series.

[virasog]

New Zealand scored 208 runs against India, India's batting performance was good in today's match. India won today by a huge margin of 7 wickets, they are leading the series 2/0, India's batting performance in T20 is very good. New Zealand tried to put up a strong performance but they still failed to equalize the series. However, the batting performance of Indian batsmen Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan was really impressive, they won the match in 15.2 overs. India will try their best to win the match against New Zealand in the next match, if India wins the next match, India will win the series.

The highest target you give to the Indian team, you are making your own difficulty level  .

The way the Indian team works in unity is just remarkable. New Zealand got early wickets, but still they can't be successful in their mission, it was really hard and bad luck. Every step taken by New Zealand ensures that they win this game, but additionally, every step that New Zealand takes is technically bad for the New Zealand team. Suryakumar Yadav with an extraordinary smash of up to 82 off 37 balls shattered the dreams for the NZ.

[romero121]

New Zealand scored 208 runs against India, India's batting performance was good in today's match. India won today by a huge margin of 7 wickets, they are leading the series 2/0, India's batting performance in T20 is very good. New Zealand tried to put up a strong performance but they still failed to equalize the series. However, the batting performance of Indian batsmen Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan was really impressive, they won the match in 15.2 overs. India will try their best to win the match against New Zealand in the next match, if India wins the next match, India will win the series.

The highest target you give to the Indian team, you are making your own difficulty level  .

The way the Indian team works in unity is just remarkable. New Zealand got early wickets, but still they can't be successful in their mission, it was really hard and bad luck. Every step taken by New Zealand ensures that they win this game, but additionally, every step that New Zealand takes is technically bad for the New Zealand team. Suryakumar Yadav with an extraordinary smash of up to 82 off 37 balls shattered the dreams for the NZ.

Indian players are turning to be West Indies players. With West Indies players there won't be much of consistent performance. Indian players are doing really well. As said, they lost the ODI series. Now the mistakes are being corrected and they're making themselves strong. New Zealand team is no down in any means. I believe Home team always have upper hand in the home ground and the same has happened here.

[MFahad]

Afghanistan's two batsmen, Rahmatullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Jordan, performed quite well. Entering the field as opening batsmen, they wanted to win the match with their best performance, and started their batting performance with the intention of whitewashing the West Indies team. But after this opening pair of the Afghanistan team was out, no other pair could last long, so the Afghanistan team itself remained in failure.
I never expected such a performance from the Afghanistan team in this match, but the West Indies team introduced themselves as brave and attacking in front of the audience with their best performance.

Afghanistan should have won this match. They restricted West Indies to 151/7, and that too in a good surface at the Dubai International Cricket Stadium. But batting has been their weakness for the last few years. Rahmanullah Gurbaz was the only one who looked comfortable out there. Ibrahim Zadran gave good support in the beginning, but once he got out, the Afghan batting line-up collapsed like a peck of cards. Anyway, Afghanistan already won the series 2-1, so I guess the defeat yesterday will not have much impact on the morale of the players. And their next match will be against New Zealand in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup.

It was a really enjoyable game between Afghanistan and West Indies. West Indies bowlers showing there aggression and perfect bowling plane according to fielding batting and also Indies Batters set a good total for Afghanistan on a tough to batting pitch and West Indies won the game by 15 runs. Brandon King played a very classical and aggressive inning while giving the target. He was in good touch and contributed 47 runs in total and unfortunately missing his half century by just three runs and the target was given by West Indies is 152 runs. Target seems to be enough and defensive but in realtime its not easy to defend it because the pitch is supporting to batters and also the Afghanistan batters are in good form from tbe previous game instead of these factors West Indies bowlers well perform in bowling and also utilities the bowling lineup according to perfect plane but in start Afghan batters played well and it seems that Afghanistan can easily chase the target but after openers the game was completely gone to Indies side because Afghan batters continuously losing their wickets until they lost the game and that's why West Indies defend the target of 152 runs and won the game.

[WatChe]

New Zealand scored 208 runs against India, India's batting performance was good in today's match. India won today by a huge margin of 7 wickets, they are leading the series 2/0, India's batting performance in T20 is very good. New Zealand tried to put up a strong performance but they still failed to equalize the series. However, the batting performance of Indian batsmen Suryakumar Yadav and Ishan Kishan was really impressive, they won the match in 15.2 overs. India will try their best to win the match against New Zealand in the next match, if India wins the next match, India will win the series.

India win in first two T20I of this series tells how well they are prepared for the T20 world cup. Abhishek Sharma got out on first ball he faced but today was day of Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav. India lost two early wickets but Ishan and Suryakumar Yadav did the recovery work and took the score to 128 runs. Zak Foulkes was expensive today as he gave away 67 runs in his 3 overs, these are most runs conceded in an innings in T20Is for New Zealand. India just need one more victory to win this series while New Zealand need to win all three remaining matches if they want to win the series.

[Farhan99]

Afghanistan Vs West Indies

Today the last T20 match between Afghanistan vs West Indies will be held. Afghanistan team has won the first T20I match and the second T20 match. If Afghanistan team can ensure victory today then they will definitely be able to whitewash West Indies team, so Afghanistan team will have to take today's match as challenging to whitewash. In this case how much role do you think West Indies team can play to avoid whitewash, because West Indies team will have to take this match as challenging to get rid of whitewash.

When the West Indies were batting, they were supposed to make a big total but that did not happen. They could only make 151 runs and that is almost below par score. Maybe they needed another 30 runs to give themselves a better chance. They still have chance but can they restrict the Afghanistan team under 150 ?

Captain Brandon King played his part but that wasn't enough for them. Also he missed his half century just by three runs. There were some power hitting by the guys coming late in the order like Matthew Forde and Shimron Hetmyer who tried to play fast and also lost their wickets quickly.

Yeah, in T20I game between Afghanistan and West Indies, West Indies defeated Afghanistan by 15 runs. West Indies opens inning first with Brandon King and Johnson Charles and both the openers give a very positive start to the team and King played a well inning of 47 runs and also Johnson Scores 17 runs and in middle order Matthew Forde  played a good inning of 27 runs and also Shamar Springer scores 16 runs and at the end of the innings West Indies set a good target of 152 runs for Afghanistan.

Afghanistan opens inning with Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran and both the openers give a very positive start to the team and Gurbaz played a memorable inning of 71 runs and also Zadran scores 28 runs but after opening couple Afghanistan batters was panicked and falls of wickets continue and no one can stay on wicket to chase the target and scores only 136 runs at the end of the innings after a good start by openers and West Indies won the game by 15 runs.

[Jewan420]

India win in first two T20I of this series tells how well they are prepared for the T20 world cup. Abhishek Sharma got out on first ball he faced but today was day of Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav. India lost two early wickets but Ishan and Suryakumar Yadav did the recovery work and took the score to 128 runs. Zak Foulkes was expensive today as he gave away 67 runs in his 3 overs, these are most runs conceded in an innings in T20Is for New Zealand. India just need one more victory to win this series while New Zealand need to win all three remaining matches if they want to win the series.

In India, we have seen some talent in recent times that is ideal for T20 cricket. With this talent, it would not be wrong to call them the best team in the world in T20 cricket now. They won the last T20 World Cup, their preparation as the defending champion is also excellent. Maybe they can win the upcoming T20 World Cup too. However, India still has weaknesses in the longer version matches, as we have seen in the ODI series.

Although New Zealand has played well in Test and ODI cricket, they are still behind India in T20 cricket. I do not see these defeats as unexpected, it would not be surprising if they lose 5 T20 matches as well. It is very difficult for any team to beat India in a T20 series, especially on India's home ground.

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After got defeated in first T20I, today New Zealand done good batting with good charge from Mitchell Santner in last overs have 47 on 27 balls allow them to have defendable target on board. India chose to chase in this match, New Zealand have decent start which allowed them to stay alive even they lost wickets regularly.
Today Arshdeep and Harshit Rana both were not on their best, conceded more runs with poor economy but still spinner keep things on target now Indian chase is already started with Sanju Samson after hitting six on second ball of inning gone on fifth ball of first over and Jacob Duffy have his man Abhishek Sharma on first ball of his first over India 6 for 2.

As I said in my previous post that if Ishan Kishan and Suryakumar Yadav of the Indian team cannot make a strong partnership then the Indian team is likely to lose this match but in the end they were able to make a good partnership they both made a partnership of 122 runs in just 49 balls and this basically made the Indian team recover and restore their form and later again Suryakumar Yadav and Dube made it possible to win this match through a partnership of 81 runs in 37 balls.

To say that it was an exciting match although at first glance it seemed that the Indian team could lose but with the pace at which the Indian team played, even if their score was 250, they could have won this match.

[Mahdirakib]

Although New Zealand has played well in Test and ODI cricket, they are still behind India in T20 cricket. I do not see these defeats as unexpected, it would not be surprising if they lose 5 T20 matches as well. It is very difficult for any team to beat India in a T20 series, especially on India's home ground.

It isn't about the home ground actually, Indian batsmen are on top form now in the T20 format. As the way Indian batsmen have played in the first two matches, they are going to win this series either by 5 - 0 or 4 - 1 difference. Sanju Samson was flopped again in today's match. Where Ishan Kishan has played very well. Sanju Samson is losing his priority for the world cup matches.

[Bitcoin Smith]

Some fine chase from india, thought we'll struggle a bit after 2 wickets but next 3 batters made a mockery of 200+ runs chase. Kiwis surely needed atleast 20 runs cushion.

Kishan came in clutch tonight, wasn't enjoying sky batting as for first 10 balls he looked like a spectator and accumulator but boy o boy he did change the gear quickly ( first 10 runs off 10 balls and next 72 runs came in just 27 balls), hope skipper didn't use all his luck tonight.

Fielding standard was piss poor from both the teams, can understand india as lately, their fielding standards are going down but don't expect poor field from Kiwis.

Ishan and SKY getting some runs is a good sign and now the big concern is on Sanju who should atleast post a decent runs in the next match or else it will be hard on Ishan who is not playing in this original position just because of Sanju and if Tilak gets fit then Sanju might even miss out since Ishan Kishan proved what he is capable of.

Kiwis had no time to stop the run flow, started by Ishan and Sky ended it even after losign 2 early wickets.

[spacelab]

Today will be the 2nd match of the T20 series between India and New Zealand. We saw that in the 1st match India scored 238 runs which was difficult for any team to chase, yet the New Zealand batsmen put in a good effort but they were limited to 190 runs. But we can say that if the New Zealand bowlers could have performed well and restricted India below 200 runs then the result of the match could have been different. However, Abhishek Sharma bats aggressively in almost all matches, he is seen batting at a strike rate of 200+ in most matches which is very commendable. So today the New Zealand bowlers have to try to get Abhishek Sharma out quickly. Let's see which team can win this match.

The game Nz and Ind has ended. Ind chase the strong target and won it. Nz batted first and not  showing the well control in batting don't panicked in tough conditions and seems to be very confident in the game and give a very huge taget to Ind in allotted twenty overs. putting a strong target Nz don't defend it because they showing a very low quality bowling and don't utilizes their bowlers according to perfect plane which helps in the successful chase for Ind. There is no doubt Indian batters put a great efforts to chase the target and successfully achieve the chase.

[ZAINmalik75]

Well the history may change today. The New Zealand team is batting well in the 2nd T20 match. They are already 183 runs and with 10 more balls to go, it will be so good for them to have a psychological advantage by scoring a 200 today.

It was a good team effort by them today where every batsmen contributed the runs. First it was Rachin Ravindra who made a 44 runs and now Mitchell Santner is batting on 42 and he is looking to hit only boundaries, already five of them and a six. Whatever score they make from here, it will be a big test for the Indian batting today.

Yep history has been made but by Indian super star like Kishan and suryakumar(the captain) whome were struggling alot in recent time to catch momentum, but finally get his touch and deliver an blistering innings and won the vital match almost 5 over before which was astonishing, although thier team lose thier spotlight hero Sharma effectiveless early on and have 2 down at 6, but then rapid fire blaster partnership between Yadav and Kishan put his team back on track and register remarkable victory. hope kiwis will make comeback at next to avoid series defeat and keep entertainment alive.

[Crypto Library]

Yep history has been made but by Indian super star like Kishan and suryakumar(the captain) whome were struggling alot in recent time to catch momentum, but finally get his touch and deliver an blistering innings and won the vital match almost 5 over before which was astonishing, although thier team lose thier spotlight hero Sharma effectiveless early on and have 2 down at 6, but then rapid fire blaster partnership between Yadav and Kishan put his team back on track and register remarkable victory. hope kiwis will make comeback at next to avoid series defeat and keep entertainment alive.

Actually, when India started their batting, I checked the score and after seeing their first two wickets fall, I thought that India might be going in the same direction as in the ODI series, that is, they will lose to New Zealand in the second match.
But Kishan and Suryakumar, with their completely responsible batting performance, lifted the Indian team out of that pressure and put pressure on the New Zealand team. And later, Ishan Kishan was out for 76 runs, but Shivam Dube filled his positon by taking 36 runs from 18 balls.