T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion

[Ab de villiers]

Bangladesh Women set 136 runs target for India Women, which seem a very average score to fight against the strong team like india women. However Bangladesh team played well, their top orders could do better as they need to be more careful while it comes to fight against India or England women.

India is a strong team in T20 cricket and the target of 136 runs that Bangladesh has set today is by no means a target score for India. In fact, considering that Bangladesh is a weak team, 136 runs is a big target for Bangladesh, but it is a very small target for India which India will easily meet. However, the way Shafali Verma is playing in India's attack, it seems that they will meet the target before 15 overs. Moreover, Bangladesh players cannot bat in T20 style, due to which 136 runs is a very insignificant target in an attacking position in T20.

Among the comparison of India and Bangladesh, no doubt Indian team is double time better in all aspects. But Bangladesh needs to pay focus on their players for the improvement. Here Bangladesh won the toss and played first, they lost first wicket in very first over. Then next combination gave little hope. Unfortunately they were failed to sustain it. Indian bowlers gave no chance to them for getting high scores. So team was collapsed on just 136 runs. That was too asy for Indian team, they wrapped in 16th overs. Where Shefali Verma was the prominent contributor. It was the match whose results was already known for the audience.

[Sithara007]

The first T20I match between India and Ireland will be played today at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Stormont. And this will be probably Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's debut match for India. He is likely to open with Abhishek Sharma, and IMO these two can become the backbone for the Indian batting for the next 10-15 years. And this means bad news for players such as Sanju Samson and Yashasvi Jaiswal. Ishan Kishan is likely to bat at no.3. Shreyas Iyer and Tilak Varma have been named as the captain and vice-captain. They are likely to bat at no.4 and no.5 respectively. 

[Bd officer]

I had said earlier that Bangladesh W will lose against Australia W and India W and South Africa W. They have already lost badly against India W and Australia W. Now Bangladesh women have one match left and the match will be against South Africa women where I do not see the possibility of Bangladesh women winning. So it will not be possible for Bangladesh women to reach the semi-finals.

Anyway yesterday Bangladesh W and India W faced each other where India won easily. Actually Bangladesh batsmen could not perform well, they could not improve their batting line because the strike rate of Bangladesh batsmen was not good. In the end Bangladesh scored 136 runs which was not a good enough target due to which India won easily by 5 wickets.

[Sithara007]

I had said earlier that Bangladesh W will lose against Australia W and India W and South Africa W. They have already lost badly against India W and Australia W. Now Bangladesh women have one match left and the match will be against South Africa women where I do not see the possibility of Bangladesh women winning. So it will not be possible for Bangladesh women to reach the semi-finals.

Anyway yesterday Bangladesh W and India W faced each other where India won easily. Actually Bangladesh batsmen could not perform well, they could not improve their batting line because the strike rate of Bangladesh batsmen was not good. In the end Bangladesh scored 136 runs which was not a good enough target due to which India won easily by 5 wickets.

Theoretically it is still possible for Bangladesh women to qualify for the semi-finals. For that they need to win their next match (vs South Africa) by a huge margin. And then India should lose their next match (vs Australia) by a big margin. In that case, three teams will end up with same number of points (Bangladesh, South Africa and India), and the one with better NRR would qualify for the semi-finals (to possibly face England). Australia and England have dominated this tournament so far, and the only upset (on paper) was the win by Scotland women over Ireland.

[noormcs5]

India tour of Ireland

Ireland to host Indian team matches, who have been the World Champions and back-to-back winning all the games, dominating every tournament or series, hence to win this series would be hard for them. For India, it is so easy.

By the way, it is also the series of just two T20Is matches not three as we used to see. Starting from today and the captain announced by the team India for this series is Shreyas Iyer, a good player but a bit hard to believe him as a captain while Tilak Varma is vice captain.

[virasog]

India tour of Ireland

Ireland to host Indian team matches, who have been the World Champions and back-to-back winning all the games, dominating every tournament or series, hence to win this series would be hard for them. For India, it is so easy.

By the way, it is also the series of just two T20Is matches not three as we used to see. Starting from today and the captain announced by the team India for this series is Shreyas Iyer, a good player but a bit hard to believe him as a captain while Tilak Varma is vice captain.

Maybe it is going to be the remarkable series where a 15 years old boy with the name of Sooryavanshi to make his international debut, he is the part of the squad but of course waiting to see him while playing in Indian International jersey, before he has dominated very well in India A team and Indian Premiere League, where he smashed long meter sixes to quality and experienced players like Bumrah. 

[savetheFORUM]

Theoretically it is still possible for Bangladesh women to qualify for the semi-finals. For that they need to win their next match (vs South Africa) by a huge margin. And then India should lose their next match (vs Australia) by a big margin. In that case, three teams will end up with same number of points (Bangladesh, South Africa and India), and the one with better NRR would qualify for the semi-finals (to possibly face England). Australia and England have dominated this tournament so far, and the only upset (on paper) was the win by Scotland women over Ireland.

Theoretically or not, I am not giving them any chance of having a spot in the semis. They have already done more than their potential and have two wins against the Netherlands and Pakistan. Now they are facing South Africa, which is also having a good run and needs another good display of batting for a good result and also to increase the chances of going into the semis. In the last 11 games between Bangladesh women and South African women, just one win by Bangladesh women.

Odds for this game are heavily favouring South African women @1.03. Australian women are at their best while England women are enjoying home conditions and have a chance of going into the final.

[Rustam Meraj]

India tour of Ireland

Ireland to host Indian team matches, who have been the World Champions and back-to-back winning all the games, dominating every tournament or series, hence to win this series would be hard for them. For India, it is so easy.

By the way, it is also the series of just two T20Is matches not three as we used to see. Starting from today and the captain announced by the team India for this series is Shreyas Iyer, a good player but a bit hard to believe him as a captain while Tilak Varma is vice captain.

India is huge mental edge, as they have landed on Irish soil as the newly crowned champions of world makes any upset highly unlikely. Difference in the two sides playing depth and skill is so great that touring giants can easily control speed of this short bilateral series without raising sweat. I just feel that they have very interesting situation with Shreyas Iyer given captaincy, I think sometimes it will be test for the on field leadership. Although talent level on squad is still very high, watching new captain and new coach perform under those conditions is great boost to excitement of what is supposed to be very one sided match. This is lineup of good players and Ireland will have to come up with perfect plan in order to stay in the game.

[vivekdhyani1]

Former Australia all-rounder James Hopes has stepped down as Sydney Sixers head coach less than two months after taking up the role, opting instead to return home as head coach of the Brisbane Heat and Queensland Bulls on a three-year deal.

Hopes had been appointed by the Sixers on a two-year contract on May 4, replacing Greg Shipperd, who guided the club to the BBL final last season. He is currently part of the Washington Freedom coaching staff in Major League Cricket and will begin his new role with Queensland next month.

[CryptoYar]

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While Hopes would make personal sense in heading home for longer term, it is terrible timing for Sydney. Just now they have been denied coach whom they went to special recruiting efforts to replace guy who did decent job getting them to the final. So, they are again starting over again, before season even starts. Three years of that steady state, just down the road, from his end, is quite appealing, and Brisbane Heat and Queensland Bulls mix is one he cant turn down. However, for Sixers it will bring up questions about what may be going on behind the scenes. Coaches typically dont break steady situation that quickly without there being some reason other than just better offer.

[JSRAW]

Thought they'd go with suryavanshi for fun, just 2 matches series so hopefully he gets some game time.

Hardik and Bumrah are missing otherwise this is full strength t-20 Indian team and kinda funny Iyer implying that our dibbly doobly dubey is allrounder but didn't say seam allrounder. Axar and washi were tagged as spinners. Idk if it's cheeky or management is confused.

[7788bitcoin]

Thought they'd go with suryavanshi for fun, just 2 matches series so hopefully he gets some game time.

Hardik and Bumrah are missing otherwise this is full strength t-20 Indian team and kinda funny Iyer implying that our dibbly doobly dubey is allrounder but didn't say seam allrounder. Axar and washi were tagged as spinners. Idk if it's cheeky or management is confused.

India should have allowed Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to make his debut. The team seems confused with the role played by Washington Sundar,  they are not giving the ball to him often. Today he went for runs, while he is contributing with the bat, but they could have went with a proper batsman.

Ireland set a good total of 182 runs, two debutants from Ireland picked wickets in their first over and India already lost their 4th wicket. India still need 96 runs from 63 balls and if they keep on losing wickets, it would be a difficult situation to chase the total.

[JSRAW]

^^ in T20 washi majority of impact with the ball came when he balls in powerplay with the new ball, he started this in IPL but impact player ruined his t-20 bowling, along with many potential allrounders and now due to this rule, he hardly get proper game time as all rounder.

India are in ditched now, no more bilateral bullies lol. Bring back Paytm trophy..

[Bd officer]

History in Belfast.

Ireland won against India for the first time. In this match, Ireland scored 182 runs while India got all out for 148 runs which was very disappointing. Where Abhishek Sharma played an aggressive innings as he scored 50 runs off 20 balls but the performance of all the other Indian batsmen was very bad. In the end, India lost shamefully against a team like Ireland.

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[Mahdirakib]

Thought they'd go with suryavanshi for fun, just 2 matches series so hopefully he gets some game time.
Hardik and Bumrah are missing otherwise this is full strength t-20 Indian team and kinda funny Iyer implying that our dibbly doobly dubey is allrounder but didn't say seam allrounder. Axar and washi were tagged as spinners. Idk if it's cheeky or management is confused.

Even in the absence of some key players, Indian squad was quite strong. Ireland was a very easy opponent for them. The target was decent, I never imagined that India would fail to chase the target of 183 runs against Ireland. It is unbelievable for me that India has lost this match by 34 runs despite having a well experienced squad of T20 format. Sooryavanshi will be available in the playing XI of the next match for sure.

[BTC FutureKing]

Thought they'd go with suryavanshi for fun, just 2 matches series so hopefully he gets some game time.

Hardik and Bumrah are missing otherwise this is full strength t-20 Indian team and kinda funny Iyer implying that our dibbly doobly dubey is allrounder but didn't say seam allrounder. Axar and washi were tagged as spinners. Idk if it's cheeky or management is confused.

India should have allowed Vaibhav Sooryavanshi to make his debut. The team seems confused with the role played by Washington Sundar,  they are not giving the ball to him often. Today he went for runs, while he is contributing with the bat, but they could have went with a proper batsman.

Ireland set a good total of 182 runs, two debutants from Ireland picked wickets in their first over and India already lost their 4th wicket. India still need 96 runs from 63 balls and if they keep on losing wickets, it would be a difficult situation to chase the total.

Ireland performance in today match surprised me because Ireland won against India by 34 runs although India does not lose to any team quickly but they were very weak compared to Ireland.I do not know what happened to the Indian team.They were neither perfect in batting nor in bowling.Everyone knows that Ireland is not a very strong team but by defeating a strong team like India they are gaining a lot of fame.Ireland should maintain this strength and need to be more alert than before in the next match because India is a team that is going to correct its mistakes and prove to be more dangerous in the next match.That is why Ireland batsmen and bowlers need to be strong.

[barbara44]

History in Belfast.

Ireland won against India for the first time. In this match, Ireland scored 182 runs while India got all out for 148 runs which was very disappointing. Where Abhishek Sharma played an aggressive innings as he scored 50 runs off 20 balls but the performance of all the other Indian batsmen was very bad. In the end, India lost shamefully against a team like Ireland.

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It's the third time in T20I history that a team, after winning the T20 World Cup, lost the first game. Firstly, England lost to Bangladesh in 2022, then India lost to Zimbabwe in 2024, and now again India lost to Ireland at Belfast.

In this game, Ireland was not playing with their first-choice players due to injuries and had a debutant who did an impressive job and restricted world-best power hitters. From 51 for 4 to having 182 amazing things from Irish players against Team India in reply, only Abhishek Sharma was good; all others went cheaply.
This gave them a shocking defeat. Prasidh Krishna was not at his best in bowling, but batting was also terrible from the top order. This is a wake-up call for them before the England tour.

[virasog]

India is huge mental edge, as they have landed on Irish soil as the newly crowned champions of world makes any upset highly unlikely. Difference in the two sides playing depth and skill is so great that touring giants can easily control speed of this short bilateral series without raising sweat. I just feel that they have very interesting situation with Shreyas Iyer given captaincy, I think sometimes it will be test for the on field leadership. Although talent level on squad is still very high, watching new captain and new coach perform under those conditions is great boost to excitement of what is supposed to be very one sided match. This is lineup of good players and Ireland will have to come up with perfect plan in order to stay in the game.

Ireland gave a good competition to team India, it was more than we expect and maybe same goes for India playing 11 that they might be underestimated to Ireland, this was not even India A team, yeah they were testing some of their new assets but still there is huge difference between the World Number 1 cricket board and the third class team like Ireland who play very less matches in one year. It was a good effort by the Irish team that they won this match by 34 runs.

[Farhan99]

The first T20I match between India and Ireland will be played today at the Civil Service Cricket Club in Stormont. And this will be probably Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's debut match for India. He is likely to open with Abhishek Sharma, and IMO these two can become the backbone for the Indian batting for the next 10-15 years. And this means bad news for players such as Sanju Samson and Yashasvi Jaiswal. Ishan Kishan is likely to bat at no.3. Shreyas Iyer and Tilak Varma have been named as the captain and vice-captain. They are likely to bat at no.4 and no.5 respectively. 

What game can be seen between India and Ireland on the pitches of Belfast ground and Ireland with top performances defeated the Indian team almost one sided. In the first T20I game Ireland opens innings first and the top order does not give a strong start but in middle order Lorcan Tucker and Gareth Delaney was brilliant and both showing a high quality shots and Ireland gives a very strong target at the end of the innings. Indian team was very strong in run chase and have a lot of so called super star players and in Europian conditions they completely flopped and among the openers Abhishek Sharma was unstoppable but all other the players don't gives a support to chase the target so India remains unsuccessful to chase the target and Ireland won this game.

[Jewan420]

Ireland gave a good competition to team India, it was more than we expect and maybe same goes for India playing 11 that they might be underestimated to Ireland, this was not even India A team, yeah they were testing some of their new assets but still there is huge difference between the World Number 1 cricket board and the third class team like Ireland who play very less matches in one year. It was a good effort by the Irish team that they won this match by 34 runs.

A total of 8 players in this Indian XI were in the last T20 World Cup squad and Shreyas Iyer, Harshit Rana and Prasidh Krishna are regular faces of the Indian team. So don't try to ignore India's defeat against Ireland. Ireland's great performance attracted me more than India's bad performance, especially their pace bowlers surprised me a lot. I don't follow Ireland cricket regularly, but they have found some new pace bowlers who have pace. Even Ireland proved how strong they are on their home ground by beating India. India came out with a strong XI and I think Ireland defeated the Indian main XI. Most of the members of the last World Cup are in this squad.