T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[Mahdirakib]

Lol, win predictor just shown 72-28 (WI-IND) chances, but I disagree, and I come here to vent my disagreement. Indian batting looks strong and they have been keeping up with RRR fairly well, no way public knows what it's voting on (but believe me I know, less than JSRAW though — I am humble where I should be) — I'll go with more like 40-60 chances.

Don't rely on the predictor which is based on public votes and emotions . You will get a better idea if you follow the odds from the sportsbook. India was pretty much favourite to win the match based on the odds. In the semi-finals, England is an easy opponent for India. South Africa is favourite to win the other match. I'm expecting a final between India and South Africa.

[CryptoYar]

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You are right Windies gave great target of 195 runs, but their bowlers could not always put pressure on India. Sanju Samson became record breaker of night, his 97 score being not out, though Abhishek Sharma has been in bad run with 10 runs being his low score to date, which creates problem on choosing in next semi finals. Being only Asian team that stayed in tournament, India now faces huge weight going into their March 5 match with undefeated England at Wankhede Stadium.
I feel that although winning 196 runs was huge show victory, India must make decision whether they can risk bad form played by Abhishek against perfect England team or that they need more safety at top so as to make it to final.

[Danica22]

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You are right Windies gave great target of 195 runs, but their bowlers could not always put pressure on India. Sanju Samson became record breaker of night, his 97 score being not out, though Abhishek Sharma has been in bad run with 10 runs being his low score to date, which creates problem on choosing in next semi finals. Being only Asian team that stayed in tournament, India now faces huge weight going into their March 5 match with undefeated England at Wankhede Stadium.
I feel that although winning 196 runs was huge show victory, India must make decision whether they can risk bad form played by Abhishek against perfect England team or that they need more safety at top so as to make it to final.

I was sure that india would win the match. India is the host team of this T20 world cup . They will not want to lose to a team like west indies and be eliminated from the world cup.
West indies are a strong team. But their performance has  been erratic. The batsmen have done their job properly. But the bowlers need to perform better. India's batting order is very strong . Even the  first 7 batsmen of the squad have the ability to  bat aggressively and play  big innings. As expected , India won the match.

[MusaPk]

You are right Windies gave great target of 195 runs, but their bowlers could not always put pressure on India. Sanju Samson became record breaker of night, his 97 score being not out, though Abhishek Sharma has been in bad run with 10 runs being his low score to date, which creates problem on choosing in next semi finals. Being only Asian team that stayed in tournament, India now faces huge weight going into their March 5 match with undefeated England at Wankhede Stadium.
I feel that although winning 196 runs was huge show victory, India must make decision whether they can risk bad form played by Abhishek against perfect England team or that they need more safety at top so as to make it to final.

Abhishek Sharma is not in good form throughout this tournament but still he is such a good player that India won't drop him in semis because he has the capability to play a crucial knock at any time. WI were good with bat but they were not able to get the wicket of Sanju Samson who played an unbeaten innings of 97 runs. WI was not playing good cricket before this world cup but they showed good spirit in this world cup. India and England are up against each other in semi final and the contest will be interesting to watch. 

[libert19]

It's been a while since I saw Samson score past 20s in the T20 format which just goes to show how inconsistent he is.

Meanwhile, Sanju's last 4 innings ^[1] aside from the yesterday's — 24(15), 22(8 ), 6(6), 24(15).

Dude was a beast in this match, but is still very unreliable if you ask me.

He looked in touch but he was lucky too, I remember this one incident where ball edged the bat and barely survived the wickets.

West Indies was always behind with that below par total.

IMO it was good score.


[1] Sanju Samson — T20I stats

[Compromise me]

You are right Windies gave great target of 195 runs, but their bowlers could not always put pressure on India. Sanju Samson became record breaker of night, his 97 score being not out, though Abhishek Sharma has been in bad run with 10 runs being his low score to date, which creates problem on choosing in next semi finals. Being only Asian team that stayed in tournament, India now faces huge weight going into their March 5 match with undefeated England at Wankhede Stadium.
I feel that although winning 196 runs was huge show victory, India must make decision whether they can risk bad form played by Abhishek against perfect England team or that they need more safety at top so as to make it to final.

I think West Indies team was not happy when umpire gave out to Shimron Hetmyer  and he was not out and he took review but umpires did fixing in this match and they gave out and that was a big reason West Indies could not make 220 to 230 . IND team tried to chase this target which was possible on this batting wicket And West Indies team had no depth in bowling because that is not their strength. Hetmyer looked in excellent form because he played with strike rate of 250 and he was in form  batter of his team and we saw that kind of wrong decisions by umpire in many matches. Everyone saw that there was a clear difference between bat and bowl but umpire gave out to give happiness to IND team because they are bought by BCCI .

[noormcs5]

It is the best tournament for Farhan, couple of centuries scored by him and became the most highest score in the T20 World Cup history, before this record owned by Virat Kohli to have maximum runs by any batsman in a single edition of T20 tournament but now it is for Farhan and with a huge margin also at the same time. Last time many years ago there was a player named Ahmed Shahzad who scored a century for Pakistan in an ICC tournament of T20 against Bangladesh but this record owned by Farhan to have 2 centuries in a single edition.

When Abrar came, he got the wicket on his very first ball and he did good job. I think in that over there should be slip as well as third man. Agha should have placed slip there because that time I was thinking if the ball touched the edges of the bat so there might be a bad thing for Pakistan. Also at that time I was also thinking that they should go with Usman Tariq on the next over instead of Naseem Shah because the pitch is so good for the spinners and the Pakistani team almost depended on their spinners compared to pacers.

[virasog]

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You are right Windies gave great target of 195 runs, but their bowlers could not always put pressure on India. Sanju Samson became record breaker of night, his 97 score being not out, though Abhishek Sharma has been in bad run with 10 runs being his low score to date, which creates problem on choosing in next semi finals. Being only Asian team that stayed in tournament, India now faces huge weight going into their March 5 match with undefeated England at Wankhede Stadium.
I feel that although winning 196 runs was huge show victory, India must make decision whether they can risk bad form played by Abhishek against perfect England team or that they need more safety at top so as to make it to final.

West Indies had the same strength in 2026 as they did in 2016, when they last won. Everyone was hoping for the best for them, but they could not beat India. I must say, they fought hard, but luck wasn't on their side this time.
 
By the way, thought side apart that this time there are going to be amazing clashes in the World Cup Semi Finals because England and New Zealand are already in the Semi finals, and South Africa as well as India. And all of these teams are superb, that's why it will double the excitement and suspense.

[Jaweria parveen]

Abhishek Sharma is not in good form throughout this tournament but still he is such a good player that India won't drop him in semis because he has the capability to play a crucial knock at any time. WI were good with bat but they were not able to get the wicket of Sanju Samson who played an unbeaten innings of 97 runs. WI was not playing good cricket before this world cup but they showed good spirit in this world cup. India and England are up against each other in semi final and the contest will be interesting to watch. 

In the Wt game, A.Sharma scored 10 runs and got out, owing to this wrong shot, he is not playing nice this time and his tournament play is due to his better struggle. This player scored 97 runs and remained not out till the end and his better play added super effort to achieve this aim and also showed super performance. Before this tournament, many teams were not super but slowly there was a better change in them and they were playing nice in the greed of winning this WC, of which Wt is one team. IND will make itself superior in this game because ENG has had a suitable aim in every game which is weak compared to IND big aims. In this game, IND better game is seen to win and A. Sharma, Samson, expecting better game from them is a powerful thought of IND.

[Haunebu]

Why do I feel that we will have a India vs South Africa final where the Proteas take revenge successfully culminating a full circle drama? I don't see England or New Zealand stopping India and South Africa which is why this could be a very realistic scenario.

IMO it was good score.

Nah. Anything below 200 on such surfaces are below par. I felt 220+ would have insured a West Indies victory, but Bumrah made sure that they didn't cross 200.

[Nalain420]

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You are right Windies gave great target of 195 runs, but their bowlers could not always put pressure on India. Sanju Samson became record breaker of night, his 97 score being not out, though Abhishek Sharma has been in bad run with 10 runs being his low score to date, which creates problem on choosing in next semi finals. Being only Asian team that stayed in tournament, India now faces huge weight going into their March 5 match with undefeated England at Wankhede Stadium.
I feel that although winning 196 runs was huge show victory, India must make decision whether they can risk bad form played by Abhishek against perfect England team or that they need more safety at top so as to make it to final.

West Indies had the same strength in 2026 as they did in 2016, when they last won. Everyone was hoping for the best for them, but they could not beat India. I must say, they fought hard, but luck wasn't on their side this time.
 
By the way, thought side apart that this time there are going to be amazing clashes in the World Cup Semi Finals because England and New Zealand are already in the Semi finals, and South Africa as well as India. And all of these teams are superb, that's why it will double the excitement and suspense.

In these years, they did not show any better performance or struggle and in this game too, their struggle was quite better but they could not put pressure on their bowler and could not achieve the better target of 196. Ind players play quite well, so the Wes indies bowler could not control the Ind players and could not go beyond their big target. They have succeeded because of their better performance and struggle. If Wes Indies had also been among them, then this time we would have seen the final with a team that has improved after a few years. Congratulations to Ind on this winning in which they maintained their performance and strength while playing better. SA inclusion is also a surprising result and perhaps we can see SA as a better team as the champions of 2026.

[BTC FutureKing]

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You are right Windies gave great target of 195 runs, but their bowlers could not always put pressure on India. Sanju Samson became record breaker of night, his 97 score being not out, though Abhishek Sharma has been in bad run with 10 runs being his low score to date, which creates problem on choosing in next semi finals. Being only Asian team that stayed in tournament, India now faces huge weight going into their March 5 match with undefeated England at Wankhede Stadium.
I feel that although winning 196 runs was huge show victory, India must make decision whether they can risk bad form played by Abhishek against perfect England team or that they need more safety at top so as to make it to final.

I was sure that india would win the match. India is the host team of this T20 world cup . They will not want to lose to a team like west indies and be eliminated from the world cup.
West indies are a strong team. But their performance has  been erratic. The batsmen have done their job properly. But the bowlers need to perform better. India's batting order is very strong . Even the  first 7 batsmen of the squad have the ability to  bat aggressively and play  big innings. As expected , India won the match.

The Indian team has this talent that it makes a very great comeback during the match and wins the match while losing.Something similar happened in the West Indies and India match.When the West Indies played the first innings they were very confident that the West Indies would win because they scored 199 runs which was very strong.West Indies were unlucky that they would lose the match after playing so well which I regret.India was in danger of being eliminated from the World Cup but by winning one match they have reached the end of the World Cup and in my opinion and considering India strong team India will win the World Cup.Now there are only 3 matches left and each team is playing seriously and presenting a very strong aim to their opponent.The Indian other batsmen have indeed scored less runs but they bat with a very great strike rate.

[noormcs5]

Why do I feel that we will have a India vs South Africa final where the Proteas take revenge successfully culminating a full circle drama? I don't see England or New Zealand stopping India and South Africa which is why this could be a very realistic scenario.

In the last T20 World Cup 2024, South Africa played the final against India but due to some irregular shots and such mistakes they lost that big easy game and also if we rewind history so that time there was wonderful knock by the bat of Virat Kohli, playing his last T20 match for team India even he was being flopped in the entire tournament.

He could not play a good innings in front of the USA, Pakistan, or any other team, but when the situation came in the final, he did his best. Well, that was history, and now we are living in the present where both teams, South Africa and India, are in the semi-finals, and probably they will meet again in the final.

[Crypto Library]

West Indies had the same strength in 2026 as they did in 2016, when they last won. Everyone was hoping for the best for them, but they could not beat India. I must say, they fought hard, but luck wasn't on their side this time.
 
By the way, thought side apart that this time there are going to be amazing clashes in the World Cup Semi Finals because England and New Zealand are already in the Semi finals, and South Africa as well as India. And all of these teams are superb, that's why it will double the excitement and suspense.

You are right, they were in great form in 2016 and then when senior players like Chris Gayle and some more experienced players, although I can't remember their names now, but when they started to retire from the West Indies team, then the West Indies team started to have a bad day and even a few days ago we saw that they were going through a very bad time with their cricket. Because a few months ago they lost a T20 series to a team like Nepal.

If we compare that, the West Indies team performed great in this last match even though they lost. And they will not lose or why is the Indian team currently the strongest team.

[Out of mind]

Why do I feel that we will have a India vs South Africa final where the Proteas take revenge successfully culminating a full circle drama? I don't see England or New Zealand stopping India and South Africa which is why this could be a very realistic scenario.

Based on the performance of England and New Zealand, we can see that the performance of India and South Africa is relatively good. In that case, there is a high chance that your prediction will be correct if South Africa and India can qualify for the final match. And if that happens, then of course a final victory for South Africa will be truly historic, although it will not be easy.
In recent times, we have seen that the South African team has improved a lot in the knockouts compared to other years, and in that case, there is a high chance of becoming the champion against India. However, looking at the current form and squad balance, many may think that, besides the previous losses to the South African team which have hurt them a lot, the Proteas will want to take revenge and create a new history.

[Cheema02]

The West Indies did a good job, still they are short of 25 to 30 runs from their target which was looking good for them and can secure their spot in the semifinal, dew factor is also going to be favourable for India. Arshdeep Singh had a good comeback in his last over while things were looking not good for bowlers.

195 is still looking decent, but India is the easy favourite to win this match and have a spot in the last four, End of first over 5 for no loss. Good luck to both sides for having a winning and exciting cricket.

India outstanding batting performance in this knockout match of world cup and qualify for the semifinal of world cup. Indian team chase down this huge total in last over of the match. West indes poor bowling display in last 5 overs they drop important catch and lost match baldy. The man of the match is Sanju Samson for his amazing batting performance scoring a unbeaten 97 runs from just 50 balls and assisted Indian team to qualify for the next round of world cup now india will play semifinal against England. Indian team is hot favorite now to win this world cup and I think final will be take place between India and South Africa once again.

[MusaPk]

Based on the performance of England and New Zealand, we can see that the performance of India and South Africa is relatively good. In that case, there is a high chance that your prediction will be correct if South Africa and India can qualify for the final match. And if that happens, then of course a final victory for South Africa will be truly historic, although it will not be easy.
In recent times, we have seen that the South African team has improved a lot in the knockouts compared to other years, and in that case, there is a high chance of becoming the champion against India. However, looking at the current form and squad balance, many may think that, besides the previous losses to the South African team which have hurt them a lot, the Proteas will want to take revenge and create a new history.

South Africa is always a good team in every ICC event they play but there main issue is that they always choke at last stages of the tournament. South Africa was runner up in last T20 world cup and after that they managed to won the World Test Championship which is there first ICC title. The WTC title certainly have boosted morals of South Africa and they can feel that they can win major titles. India and England match will be interesting to watch while South Africa is likely to win its game against NZ but its T20 and anything can happen.    

[Ab de villiers]

I was sure that india would win the match. India is the host team of this T20 world cup . They will not want to lose to a team like west indies and be eliminated from the world cup.
West indies are a strong team. But their performance has  been erratic. The batsmen have done their job properly. But the bowlers need to perform better. India's batting order is very strong . Even the  first 7 batsmen of the squad have the ability to  bat aggressively and play  big innings. As expected , India won the match.

The Indian team has shown a great performance in Yesterday match. In this series, the Indian team has played with all its heart, which has led to their victory. They have defeated the West Indies team so that they can participate in the World Cup because they are a powerful team and they did not want to come out of the match losing to this team, so they defeated this team. West Indies is also a good playing team, but they have shown a poor performance in Yesterday match. They should have dismissed the Indian batsmen with their good bowling so that they would have been out early and could not score more runs. And due to their poor bowling, India kept their batting strong. From their team S. Samson has made a very good score of 97 runs and he remained not out, while in comparison R. Chase from the West Indies players has scored 40 runs. Just as India has won every match, in this match too they have won.

[Nanga Parbat]

West Indies had the same strength in 2026 as they did in 2016, when they last won. Everyone was hoping for the best for them, but they could not beat India. I must say, they fought hard, but luck wasn't on their side this time.
 
By the way, thought side apart that this time there are going to be amazing clashes in the World Cup Semi Finals because England and New Zealand are already in the Semi finals, and South Africa as well as India. And all of these teams are superb, that's why it will double the excitement and suspense.

At that time, West Indies was playing against England in which West Indies had victory by playing well, this time it was India that caused them to lose. Although the West Indies batsmen played very hard and consolidated their victory with a strong target, their bowling did not tighten and could not control the Indian batsmen and even with their strong target, West Indies had to get disappointed and defeated. Although if West Indies had gone to the final, we could have seen a very interesting match and maybe this time we could have seen a match with England. I feel that in the final we will see only India, New Zealand and England because South Africa is not strong enough to fail them in the final. If South Africa succeeds, it will be the same target that this time even the strong teams have been defeated.

[Crypto Library]

At that time, West Indies was playing against England in which West Indies had victory by playing well, this time it was India that caused them to lose. Although the West Indies batsmen played very hard and consolidated their victory with a strong target, their bowling did not tighten and could not control the Indian batsmen and even with their strong target, West Indies had to get disappointed and defeated. Although if West Indies had gone to the final, we could have seen a very interesting match and maybe this time we could have seen a match with England. I feel that in the final we will see only India, New Zealand and England because South Africa is not strong enough to fail them in the final. If South Africa succeeds, it will be the same target that this time even the strong teams have been defeated.

Actually, if we want to find any fault with the West Indies team in this match, then it was mainly their bowlers who made the mistake. Although we are currently seeing controversy about the umpiring. Still, the reality is that the West Indies team lost mainly because of their bowling performance.

However if I talk about the semi-final match between India and England, I also have doubts whether the England team will be able to perform like the West Indies team in the semi-final against India. I think the England team will have a worse batting performance than the West Indies team in the semi-final and will lose.