T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[Haunebu]

This World Cup keeps surprising everyone. No team can ever be underestimated in the T20 format regardless of how big or small they are. Betting on T20 matches is a next level gamble, but these are high risk, high reward bets at the end of the day.

I won my USA bet, but lost my bet on Canada and Australia earlier. Truly historic stuff Zimbabwe. India vs Pak could end up actually being interesting this time around. Abhishek vs Farhan!

[Out of mind]

USA team achieved a great victory against Netherlands today and they won their first win in this T20 Men's World Cup. USA team was able to win by a huge margin in this match, they defeated Netherlands team badly. They won by a huge margin of 93 runs, which was really a lot of win for USA, USA batting performance and bowling performance were very good. USA team has played three matches and lost two matches and won one match, currently they are in third position in the points table. If the team can improve their batting and bowling performance in the next matches, then they will be able to perform well against all the other teams.

[hafiztalha]

USA team achieved a great victory against Netherlands today and they won their first win in this T20 Men's World Cup. USA team was able to win by a huge margin in this match, they defeated Netherlands team badly. They won by a huge margin of 93 runs, which was really a lot of win for USA, USA batting performance and bowling performance were very good. USA team has played three matches and lost two matches and won one match, currently they are in third position in the points table. If the team can improve their batting and bowling performance in the next matches, then they will be able to perform well against all the other teams.

Yes, USA team beated Netherlands team in today's game of ICC Men T20 world cup series and in this game, Netherlands team won toss and they elected fielding first and gave batting lineup to USA team. USA team won 21 st game by big margin 93 runs and Netherlands chased down 103 runs only. USA batsmen set 196 big runs target in 20 overs by losing 6 wickets. Saiteja batsmen batted brilliantly and he made 79 runs in 51 balls and hitted five 4s and four 6s. Shubham also helped team to win game and played good with Saiteja and he scored 48 runs in 24 balls and hitted three 4s and two 6s. Harmeet bowler got player of game award because his effort was helpful and he took down 4 wickets in 4 overs and gave 21 runs. In Group A, USA team rank is 3 rd and they won one game out of 3.

[Farhan99]

Aussies silenced, must be a big moment for Zim. I didn't saw the game or even tracked the scores and just now checked the results and shocked after seeing the scorecard. Zim ended their 20 overs and lost just two wickets but mighty Aussies bundled completely. Already their bowling is too weak without hazlewoon and dummins now their batting also not clicking is a good sign for every teams.

Once in a while Zimbabwe comes up with these big upsets, which justify them getting close to $18 million per year from the ICC. On the other hand, associate teams such as Nepal struggle with $250k which is thrown at them every year. But in the end, wins matter much more than close defeats. Nepal lost their match against England by a narrow margin of 4 runs. It was their match to lose, and they fought hard but crumbled under pressure towards the end. On the other hand, Zimbabwe showed much more maturity towards the end, and managed to win their match. When you get opportunities such as this one once in a few years, you need to make them count.

Upset in world cup Zimbabwe defeated Australia by 23 runs. Zimbabwe opens inning first with Brain Bennett and Marumani and both the openers give a very  positive start to the team and Bennett played a good inning of 64 runs and also Marumani played a well knock 35 runs and in middle order Ryan Burl played a well knock of 35 runs and also Sikandar Raza played a well innings of 25 runs and at the end of the innings Zimbabwe set a very strong target of 170 runs. Australia opens inning with Josh Inglis and Travis Head but both the openers don't give a positive start to the team and Head scores only 17 runs  and also Inglis losses his wicket early on 8 runs and in middle order all the team was panicked and losing of wickets continue but in this situation only Matt Renshaw played a well inning of 65 runs and Glenn Maxwell played a well knock of 31 runs and at the end of the innings Australia don't chase the target successfully and scores only 146 runs and  Zimbabwe won the game by 23 runs.

[Doll2233]

The Australian team is performing so badly that under the current administration they are failing to compete with a very weak team. The main problem of the Australian team is the batting line, the batting line needs to improve more because the batsmen who used to perform aggressively and score huge runs are performing badly today and getting out for zero runs. If they continue to perform like this, the gamblers will be afraid to bet on the Australian team in the future.

What a great performance today Zimbabwe team showed in a special format against a strong team. Unbelievable performance they showed. By playing first they scored 169 runs and lost just 2 wickets. They were looking helpless against a weak team. Australian team in this match was looking weak even though he is strong team but today they looked weak. Since they have experienced players but also experienced players could not perform well just 2 players scored good runs. Maxwell and Ranshaw, other players could not played well.
But big credit goes to Zimbabwe team bowlers who dismissed dangerous players and they dismissed all team in this mega event. Blessing Muzarabani bowled well and he took 4 players wiclets and gave 17 runs in 4 over. Also Evans bowled well he dismissed 3 players in 3.3 overs and gave 23 runs. Mind blowing performance they showed. Many Many congratulations to the Zimbabwe team for unbelievable victory.

[Smack That Ace]

USA team achieved a great victory against Netherlands today and they won their first win in this T20 Men's World Cup. USA team was able to win by a huge margin in this match, they defeated Netherlands team badly. They won by a huge margin of 93 runs, which was really a lot of win for USA, USA batting performance and bowling performance were very good. USA team has played three matches and lost two matches and won one match, currently they are in third position in the points table. If the team can improve their batting and bowling performance in the next matches, then they will be able to perform well against all the other teams.

I am not surprised to see USA win. But it was also unbelievable that the USA would win by such a large margin.

USA also played well against Pakistan and India. India won by just 29 runs against USA and Pakistan won by 32 runs. USA won today's match by a huge margin of 93 runs. Batting first USA set a huge target of 197 runs losing 6 wickets. At the same time the USA bowlers were able to perform their duties properly. Netherlands lost all wickets to collect only 103 runs.

[noormcs5]

Australia has lost world cup matches against teams like Zimbabwe. It's a shame for Australia. Australia have been very poor in  both batting and bowling. The bowlers could not do well so Zimbabwe lost only 2 wickets and set a target of 170 runs. Brian bennett played an unbeaten innings of 64 runs. On the other hand, australian batsmen can't do well either. Matt renshaw scored 65 runs. Besides, although maxwell can bat a bit better, none of the other batsmen in the australian squad can play well. Zimbabwean  bowlers muzarbani and Brad Evans destroyed australia's batting order. Both of them took 7 wickets.

It's amazing, last time in the ICC T20 World Cup of 2022, they beat Pakistan in the big match and this time it's Australia. Zimbabwe is not Zimbabwe anymore. Zimbabwe 2 on 2, the nightmare for them was only Australia team and I hope so that the next games will be easy for them.

They just have to beat Ireland and Sri  Lanka, even if they lose against Sri Lanka, nothing much already they are most likely to secure their place for the Super 8, while we might not likely to see Australia there.

[Popkon6]

Australia has lost world cup matches against teams like Zimbabwe. It's a shame for Australia. Australia have been very poor in  both batting and bowling. The bowlers could not do well so Zimbabwe lost only 2 wickets and set a target of 170 runs. Brian bennett played an unbeaten innings of 64 runs. On the other hand, australian batsmen can't do well either. Matt renshaw scored 65 runs. Besides, although maxwell can bat a bit better, none of the other batsmen in the australian squad can play well. Zimbabwean  bowlers muzarbani and Brad Evans destroyed australia's batting order. Both of them took 7 wickets.

It's amazing, last time in the ICC T20 World Cup of 2022, they beat Pakistan in the big match and this time it's Australia. Zimbabwe is not Zimbabwe anymore. Zimbabwe 2 on 2, the nightmare for them was only Australia team and I hope so that the next games will be easy for them.

They just have to beat Ireland and Sri  Lanka, even if they lose against Sri Lanka, nothing much already they are most likely to secure their place for the Super 8, while we might not likely to see Australia there.

Zimbabwe team is at its best, Zimbabwe team is quite suitable to face tough matches. Zimbabwe team sometimes performs poorly but they are ready to defeat the team by understanding the opportunity. Yes now it is easy for Zimbabwe team to survive, because now they are competing with weak team like this, if the team can win then they will be able to rule this series.
Every player of Zimbabwe team is performing well, if Zimbabwe team can face Ireland and Sri Lanka team and win then they can definitely win the series.

[AgriTrack]

The match between Canada International cricket team and  United Arab Emirates is wonderful because both are same calipor teams and UAE did excellent bowling and Junaid Siddique was a person who took 5 wickets in this match but UAE batting is not good in this match and they made no good score after the end of 14 overs and they need 69 runs in just 36 balls and that is looking very difficult for that team because Canada can bend this match to their side by taking 2 wickets in the over because Aryansh Sharma is present on the crease and he made half century in this match and his team need of him and if he will play till end his team will win this match because he is match winner player.

The match was played between UAE and Canada, which proves that the UAE team won today's match. In match, the UAE team's batting was strong, in which Aryansh Sharma scored 74 runs but he failed to complete his century, but he still increased his team's score by scoring 74 runs and Shoaib Khan came in second with 51 runs. In comparison to the UAE team, three players from the Canadian team tried to increase their score, in which Harsh Thaker scored a half-century for his team and this player also failed to complete his century. In today's match, the Canadian team kept batting strong for their victory, but the UAE team did not give them a chance to win. From the Canadian team, Navneet Dhaliwal could have scored more runs for his team if he had tried, but he was out very early. But the UAE team, showing its wisdom, scored 5  wickets.  They won today's match by the loss of wickets and there were still two balls to go.

[ThemePen]

Zimbabwe team is at its best, Zimbabwe team is quite suitable to face tough matches. Zimbabwe team sometimes performs poorly but they are ready to defeat the team by understanding the opportunity. Yes now it is easy for Zimbabwe team to survive, because now they are competing with weak team like this, if the team can win then they will be able to rule this series.
Every player of Zimbabwe team is performing well, if Zimbabwe team can face Ireland and Sri Lanka team and win then they can definitely win the series.

Zimbabwe is making itself an actual team in 2026 T20 world cup as they beat Australia in amazing 23 run surprise win. They showed that they are able of handling most difficult games as they successfully guarded score of 169 runs.
With 4 points and placed as second, Zimbabwe has easy way to reach Super 8s in case they can beat worried Ireland on February 17 and number 1 Sri Lanka on February 19. By continuing their play at this speed, they will not only make it to group part, but can actually make it to finals by being one of strongest surprise teams in match.

[JSRAW]

Zimbabwe won by 23 runs !!  They beat the mighty Australians in the 2007 T20 WC, they've beaten them once again in 2026 and now have opened up Group B nicely.

World Cup trivia : Every time zimbabwe rolled over Australia in the ICC tournament, india went onto winning the tournament. 1983 odi wc, followed by 2007 inaugural t-20 wc.

Aussie batting lineup is stacked so feels weird reading scorecard.

Aussies silenced, must be a big moment for Zim. I didn't saw the game or even tracked the scores and just now checked the results and shocked after seeing the scorecard. Zim ended their 20 overs and lost just two wickets but mighty Aussies bundled completely. Already their bowling is too weak without hazlewoon and dummins now their batting also not clicking is a good sign for every teams.

Aussie mentality fanbois are in shambles lol. Their batting is packed so thought they will carry this team despite average bowling line up, absence of hazelwood did more damage to their bowling attack, Cummins nah..

If ICC give up test format kinks and restrict to handful test nations then it'll do more good for world cricket and can see 24 -32 teams t-20 wc in a decade.

[Sithara007]

Aussie mentality fanbois are in shambles lol. Their batting is packed so thought they will carry this team despite average bowling line up, absence of hazelwood did more damage to their bowling attack, Cummins nah..

If ICC give up test format kinks and restrict to handful test nations then it'll do more good for world cricket and can see 24 -32 teams t-20 wc in a decade.

I think the next T20 World Cup (2028) should be a 24-team event. By 2032 or at some point later they can expand it to a 32-team event. But first of all, they need to modify the eligibility criteria. It doesn't make any sense to have teams like Oman and the United Arab Emirates, who doesn't have a single citizen in their "national" team. If the ICC expands world cup with the current eligibility criteria, then similar teams will take up half the available slots. And I agree on test cricket. IMO, at the moment there are 6 teams who are fully capable of playing this format: Pig-3 + New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa.

[JSRAW]

Aussie mentality fanbois are in shambles lol. Their batting is packed so thought they will carry this team despite average bowling line up, absence of hazelwood did more damage to their bowling attack, Cummins nah..

If ICC give up test format kinks and restrict to handful test nations then it'll do more good for world cricket and can see 24 -32 teams t-20 wc in a decade.

I think the next T20 World Cup (2028) should be a 24-team event. By 2032 or at some point later they can expand it to a 32-team event. But first of all, they need to modify the eligibility criteria. It doesn't make any sense to have teams like Oman and the United Arab Emirates, who doesn't have a single citizen in their "national" team. If the ICC expands world cup with the current eligibility criteria, then similar teams will take up half the available slots. And I agree on test cricket. IMO, at the moment there are 6 teams who are fully capable of playing this format: Pig-3 + New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa.

First I'd like to see one radical change in funding criteria, no funding based on test format and if you want to play test cricket then fund yourself, there is no need to subsidize if it's loss making affair for you, make your test bilaterals profitable if you want to play and if it's too radical approach then fix some percentage of ICC revenue to 20-30% for test cricket.

After that all the icc revenue should be shared by everyone one equally but for only white ball cricket ( strictly focus on white ball). Fund the top 50 teams including associates. If this happens then in white ball, cricket will become truly global.

PS: I bet this proposal won't get a single vote from full test nations Lol

[Sithara007]

First I'd like to see one radical change in funding criteria, no funding based on test format and if you want to play test cricket then fund yourself, there is no need to subsidize if it's loss making affair for you, make your test bilaterals profitable if you want to play and if it's too radical approach then fix some percentage of ICC revenue to 20-30% for test cricket.

After that all the icc revenue should be shared by everyone one equally but for only white ball cricket ( strictly focus on white ball). Fund the top 50 teams including associates. If this happens then in white ball, cricket will become truly global.

PS: I bet this proposal won't get a single vote from full test nations Lol

Funding should be based on performance and nothing else. And only performance in the ICC tournaments should be considered (T20, ODI and Test world cups for both men and women). Australian won the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, and India were the runners up. India won the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup, and Proteas came second. The ICC World Test Championship for 2023-25 was won by South Africa. So obviously these teams should get the maximum funding. On the other hand, there is no justification in providing 3% of all the ICC funds to teams like Zimbabwe, when Nepal receives only around 0.05%.

[HelliumZ]

The match between the two teams included in Group-B is going on between Oman and Ireland where Oman won the toss and decided to field instead of batting. Both these teams have played two matches so far but neither team has been able to score any points so far, so they are at the bottom of the points table in Group-B. However, I think these two teams will be eliminated from qualifying for the Super-8s depending on the result of today's match. In this group, two teams Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe are at the top of the points table so there is a possibility of both these teams qualifying.

[Sithara007]

The match between the two teams included in Group-B is going on between Oman and Ireland where Oman won the toss and decided to field instead of batting. Both these teams have played two matches so far but neither team has been able to score any points so far, so they are at the bottom of the points table in Group-B. However, I think these two teams will be eliminated from qualifying for the Super-8s depending on the result of today's match. In this group, two teams Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe are at the top of the points table so there is a possibility of both these teams qualifying.

I am watching this match live on JioHotstar right now. Quite boring match, and at the moment there are only 3.5 million views. And not really surprising, since Ireland is having yet another poor match. They are 65/4, with top order back in pavilion (Tim Tector, Harry Tector, Ross Adair and Curtis Campher). Also, just now there was a controversial not out decision being given by the third umpire on a stumping chance against Lorcan Tucker. Overall this looks like a match between two of the weakest teams in the tournament. Ireland used to be quite strong when they were an associate team. Once they became the full member, it is a different story.   

[noormcs5]

The Indian Women's team is on tour in Australia. The first match will be played tomorrow, Sunday, the 15th of Feb. The series of three T20 and three ODIs games and also an Only Test match.

By the way, when was the last time both teams faced each other in the T20 combat of 2024 at the World Cup game? It was an easy win for Australia that time, but now the time has changed and many players replaced, so let's see which team will create history from here.

[laspol65]

The Indian Women's team is on tour in Australia. The first match will be played tomorrow, Sunday, the 15th of Feb. The series of three T20 and three ODIs games and also an Only Test match.

By the way, when was the last time both teams faced each other in the T20 combat of 2024 at the World Cup game? It was an easy win for Australia that time, but now the time has changed and many players replaced, so let's see which team will create history from here.

The match will be played on Australia's home ground, so most of the Australian teams will have a chance of winning this match. Even though India is a strong team in T20 matches, you can never throw away the Australian team. So I think Australia women's team can win in this T20 format, because the captain of Australia women's team will definitely use different tactics to protect their own honor on home ground and they will be aggressive and able to win.

[Bitcoinsummoner]

First I'd like to see one radical change in funding criteria, no funding based on test format and if you want to play test cricket then fund yourself, there is no need to subsidize if it's loss making affair for you, make your test bilaterals profitable if you want to play and if it's too radical approach then fix some percentage of ICC revenue to 20-30% for test cricket.

After that all the icc revenue should be shared by everyone one equally but for only white ball cricket ( strictly focus on white ball). Fund the top 50 teams including associates. If this happens then in white ball, cricket will become truly global.

PS: I bet this proposal won't get a single vote from full test nations Lol

Funding should be based on performance and nothing else. And only performance in the ICC tournaments should be considered (T20, ODI and Test world cups for both men and women). Australian won the ICC Cricket World Cup 2023, and India were the runners up. India won the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup, and Proteas came second. The ICC World Test Championship for 2023-25 was won by South Africa. So obviously these teams should get the maximum funding. On the other hand, there is no justification in providing 3% of all the ICC funds to teams like Zimbabwe, when Nepal receives only around 0.05%.

Thank you for your meanning full comment for above reading. I know the victory team will get maximam amount of support. On the other hand, ICC should provide a few extra amounts of support to the new entry team to fund the top 50 teams, including associates.

[Publictalk792]

The match between the two teams included in Group-B is going on between Oman and Ireland where Oman won the toss and decided to field instead of batting. Both these teams have played two matches so far but neither team has been able to score any points so far, so they are at the bottom of the points table in Group-B. However, I think these two teams will be eliminated from qualifying for the Super-8s depending on the result of today's match. In this group, two teams Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe are at the top of the points table so there is a possibility of both these teams qualifying.

Current game between Oman and Ireland is mostly out of tournament final in that if either side loses, the other will be completely knocked out because neither of two teams has scored point in first two games. Oman decided to bowl first so as to get help of early pitch conditions however Ireland Lorcan Tucker hit a great 94 runs not out to give Ireland huge 235/5 and it was highest score by Irish player in history of the games. Although Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe are both in lead in Group B with 4 points each, Ireland today scored huge points, which greatly increased their Net Run Rate and kept their small hopes of Super 8 alive since Australia is also in trouble at third place. In case of Oman, entry path has now been closed almost with their bowlers giving away 86 runs in last four overs and so they have giant job of avoiding being at bottom of table.