ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[Bd officer]

Chasing a target of 368 runs is difficult for any team to win. However, Pakistan came down to bat with the aim of winning and so far collected 213 runs after losing 3 wickets in 32 overs. Pakistan's two opening batsmen have played well, with Babar Azam getting out shortly before. Babar Azam is out and Pakistan are under some pressure. Pakistan need 155 runs in 18 overs to win, now they have to bat in T20 style to win. 8+ runs per over should be scored. But if they play by holding the wicket and if Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan can form a good partnership, Pakistan will have a chance to win in the end. Australia performed very well today, they were not in good form but they surprised today. Australia is slightly ahead to win today's match. But I think I can finally see the rivalry.

[Popkon6]

Australia team performed very well against Pakistan today which is surprising. Australia team has collected 367 runs which will be a big target for Pakistan. Of course Pakistan team has to give a very good batting performance to win this match today. I noticed something during the match Pakistan team has many misses regarding fielding due to which Australia team got chance and two opening batsman warner and Mitchell Marsh scored huge runs. And the opening two batsmen have scored maximum runs which is the performance of both of them which gives Australia team a lot of chances to win this match. But if Pakistan can perform well in terms of batting then surely we can enjoy a competitive match.

The game of the Pakistan openers was good enough today,both the opener going to complete their fifty runs.Shafique and Imam ul Haq game was good today.They both scored 104 runs in 17 overs was not expected one by the Australian bowlers.Because the Cummins gave 33 runs and Starc also gave 28 runs and very expensive today.The 367 runs was good one,but if the Australian was not take the early wicket of the team Pakistan.It will be the big trouble for the team Australia at the end.Because if the opener was set to the field,the run from that batsman will be unpredictable at the end of the game.Today game was very important for team Australia then Pakistan team.

Pakistan team started very well but the fall of three wickets put Pakistan team under a lot of pressure. Just as Australia's opening batsmen performed well, Pakistan's players Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq also started the performance. But if Pakistan team wants to win today's match then they must save the wicket and survive till the end. Pakistan's victory will depend on these two batsmen, Rizwan and Saud Shakeel, who are one of the strongest players in the current crease. Because the next batsmen are not very strong so if these two wickets can perform well then I think Pakistan will definitely win. But in terms of bowling and doing great performance for the Australian team, it is a competitive match at present.

[SATWAT]

Chasing a target of 368 runs is difficult for any team to win. However, Pakistan came down to bat with the aim of winning and so far collected 213 runs after losing 3 wickets in 32 overs. Pakistan's two opening batsmen have played well, with Babar Azam getting out shortly before. Babar Azam is out and Pakistan are under some pressure. Pakistan need 155 runs in 18 overs to win, now they have to bat in T20 style to win. 8+ runs per over should be scored. But if they play by holding the wicket and if Saud Shakeel and Mohammad Rizwan can form a good partnership, Pakistan will have a chance to win in the end. Australia performed very well today, they were not in good form but they surprised today. Australia is slightly ahead to win today's match. But I think I can finally see the rivalry.

Situation is very interesting as right now we have 16 overs left and Pakistan needs 137 runs which is looking possible, but cricket nature is unpredictable while we have Pakistan in chase then any prediction is never been easy Mohammad Rizwan and Saud are at crease with Aussies are trying their best for having another wicket which can change the momentum of the match but its really entertaining match between two top class teams.
Pakistan lower order is also not good which is concern for them but if they are able to have Mohammad Rizwan then surely we can expect good end of this match.

Edit: Cummins have another breakthrough as Saud out but still game is on for both teams as Mohammad Rizwan is doing his best for another good end.

[Minecache]

Australia team performed very well against Pakistan today which is surprising. Australia team has collected 367 runs which will be a big target for Pakistan. Of course Pakistan team has to give a very good batting performance to win this match today. I noticed something during the match Pakistan team has many misses regarding fielding due to which Australia team got chance and two opening batsman warner and Mitchell Marsh scored huge runs. And the opening two batsmen have scored maximum runs which is the performance of both of them which gives Australia team a lot of chances to win this match. But if Pakistan can perform well in terms of batting then surely we can enjoy a competitive match.

The game of the Pakistan openers was good enough today,both the opener going to complete their fifty runs.Shafique and Imam ul Haq game was good today.They both scored 104 runs in 17 overs was not expected one by the Australian bowlers.Because the Cummins gave 33 runs and Starc also gave 28 runs and very expensive today.The 367 runs was good one,but if the Australian was not take the early wicket of the team Pakistan.It will be the big trouble for the team Australia at the end.Because if the opener was set to the field,the run from that batsman will be unpredictable at the end of the game.Today game was very important for team Australia then Pakistan team.

Pakistan team started very well but the fall of three wickets put Pakistan team under a lot of pressure. Just as Australia's opening batsmen performed well, Pakistan's players Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq also started the performance. But if Pakistan team wants to win today's match then they must save the wicket and survive till the end. Pakistan's victory will depend on these two batsmen, Rizwan and Saud Shakeel, who are one of the strongest players in the current crease. Because the next batsmen are not very strong so if these two wickets can perform well then I think Pakistan will definitely win. But in terms of bowling and doing great performance for the Australian team, it is a competitive match at present.

If Babar Azam was able to perform well Pakistan would have been able to win. But Pakistan did not get better performance from their experienced batsmen. Even if Babar scored 60+ runs, the road to victory would have been a bit easier for Pakistan.

Mohammad Rizwan and Iftikhar are batting now. These two batsmen are also quite talented. But now it has become very difficult to win this match. Pakistan need 116 runs from 78 balls. It cannot be said that it is impossible to collect. It can be collected if Iftikhar and Rizwan play well. But the Australian bowlers are quite experienced. It is now very difficult to collect 9 runs per over against them. But if these two batsmen can survive at the crease, maybe Pakistan can win.

[ZAINmalik75]

Both teams are almost equal in performance so today match will be interesting. There will be high chances of winning of Australia if Australia will play first turn and will set a target of 300+ runs. So it will make difficulties and a little pressure on Pakistani team. By the way we can't say anything at this time anything can happen.

Australian took a brilliant start with a double century of both of thier player which were already expected according to pitch conditions and small boundaries. Anyway again like previous matches thier middle order exposed and collapse. But the momentum set by opener already done a huge damage. Later some magnificent bowling of Shaheen stop them below 400 because they way they are smashing it's was confirmed that they will scored 400.
Now paksitan took a decent start unexpectedly and build a decent partnership but again after thier dismissal baber again failed and now things are become difficult for paksitan but hope Rizwan will manage things easily

[3kpk3]

Iftikhar gone after a couple of sixes! Rizwan is the lone man standing along with a couple of tail enders and they still need 99 runs which implies that the game is pretty much over for Pakistan basically.

Afridi was the only bowler who bowled admirably while Warner played one of the best knocks of his life along with Marsh.

[rojan]

Pakistan team now came out to bat. 269 runs in 38.5 overs. Now Pakistan team is under a lot of pressure after losing 5 wickets. Babar Azam got out for 18 runs in 14 balls. Babar Azam did not do well in today's match. I don't think today.  In which way can Pakistan team win the match. Australia team has started a good performance in the bowling line for which Pakistan team is under a lot of pressure in today's match.

[romero121]

Pakistan team now came out to bat. 269 runs in 38.5 overs. Now Pakistan team is under a lot of pressure after losing 5 wickets. Babar Azam got out for 18 runs in 14 balls. Babar Azam did not do well in today's match. I don't think today.  In which way can Pakistan team win the match. Australia team has started a good performance in the bowling line for which Pakistan team is under a lot of pressure in today's match.

Pakistan team had lost its hope of winning the match. Team Pakistan have lost 8 wickets scoring 292 runs in 44 overs. Adam Zampa is the match turner as he took important wickets of Babar Azam, Mohammad Rizwan, Ifthikhar Ahmed, Mohammad Nawaz. These players were the last hope to chase the massive target. Zampa had maintained good economy and Pakistan team players weren't able to maintain the start given by the openers. Australia have won by 62 runs as Pakistan was able to reach 305 runs in 45.3 overs losing every wicket.

[TakeItEasy]

Pakistan team now came out to bat. 269 runs in 38.5 overs. Now Pakistan team is under a lot of pressure after losing 5 wickets. Babar Azam got out for 18 runs in 14 balls. Babar Azam did not do well in today's match. I don't think today.  In which way can Pakistan team win the match. Australia team has started a good performance in the bowling line for which Pakistan team is under a lot of pressure in today's match.

Pakistan again failed to achieve the target against Australia as they have now 9 going on 301 runs, which I can't think they will achieve the target. They need 67 runs in 31 balls which is too difficult because at the crease now there is Shaheen Shah Afridi Haris Rauf and both are bowlers from the Pakistan side. This will be their 2nd back to back loss as they have already lost to India in their previous match that was played on 15 of October, and they are losing even today. That will also make them below in the points table.

Australia played well today as their openers David Warner and Mitchell Marsh played good cricket and gave a positive start to the Australia Team which led them to a target of 268. David Warner played 163 runs innings in which he hit good sixes as well. Also, their bowlers played well specially Stoines bowled good overs today.

[Bureau]

Adam Zampa destroyed the Pakistani batting line up, he took all the important wickets of Pakistan. Another defeat for the Pakistani side with very poor batting performance. The whole team depends on the batting of Babar Azam and Rizwan. If these two are not able to score good runs then the batting line up always collapses. As seen today, Paskistan got a good start but were not able to capitalize it after Babar got out. A great comeback by the Australian team as this win will help them on the points table. They are now on the fourth place on the points table that will surely boost their morale.

[noormcs5]

Pakistan's game does not look bad but it may not be possible for them to overcome such a big target given by Australia. 145 runs in 22 overs and the loss of 1 wicket does not count as a bad score. But Australia's performance was much better than them and here they were able to give such a big target.  And because of this I agree with you that Australia are much more likely to win the match.  Because Pakistan still need 223 runs in 27 overs which is very difficult to collect. But Pakistan is a good team so if they can collect high runs per over then they can win the match

Pakistan lost another match against Australia. The main player of Australia who reached Australia to win, whose name is Adam Zampa. He took the wickets of Babar Azam, Rizwan, and Iftikhar Ahmed. If these batsmen hadn't been out at that time maybe Pakistan could have won this match or maybe in a better position.

When Iftikhar Ahmed came, he looked good, and hit 3 or 4 sixes but then he got LBW, and then Rizwan was the last hope for them and he was also out by Adam Zampa.

Now Pakistan is in the 5th position in this point table. Pakistan team went all out on 305 scores, giving them a dent in the run rate too.

[MusaPk]

Adam Zampa destroyed the Pakistani batting line up, he took all the important wickets of Pakistan. Another defeat for the Pakistani side with very poor batting performance. The whole team depends on the batting of Babar Azam and Rizwan. If these two are not able to score good runs then the batting line up always collapses. As seen today, Paskistan got a good start but were not able to capitalize it after Babar got out. A great comeback by the Australian team as this win will help them on the points table. They are now on the fourth place on the points table that will surely boost their morale.

Once again Pakistan batters failed to show aggression. Both Imam and Abdullah gave a good start but they both scored with run a ball. Imam ul Haq was opener yet he failed to produce any 6 in his whole innings. It seems that players like Imam, Rizwan and Babar are playing to improve there stats and they don't have any interest in team victory. Pakistan with this defeat now slipped to number 5th spot while Aussies are now at 4th spot.

[Vaskiy]

Adam Zampa destroyed the Pakistani batting line up, he took all the important wickets of Pakistan. Another defeat for the Pakistani side with very poor batting performance. The whole team depends on the batting of Babar Azam and Rizwan. If these two are not able to score good runs then the batting line up always collapses. As seen today, Paskistan got a good start but were not able to capitalize it after Babar got out. A great comeback by the Australian team as this win will help them on the points table. They are now on the fourth place on the points table that will surely boost their morale.

Once again Pakistan batters failed to show aggression. Both Imam and Abdullah gave a good start but they both scored with run a ball. Imam ul Haq was opener yet he failed to produce any 6 in his whole innings. It seems that players like Imam, Rizwan and Babar are playing to improve there stats and they don't have any interest in team victory. Pakistan with this defeat now slipped to number 5th spot while Aussies are now at 4th spot.

The openers have created good partnership and the first wicket fell at 134 runs. At the start of the innings it is a must to stand wicket and the openers did it well also the scoring isn't bad. Further the players could've managed to perform well, instead the wickets kept and at some point Pakistan team gained stability and the same is being crashed by the bowling of Adam Zampa. More 27 balls left when Pakistan lost the entire wickets. This is common with most of the matches played by equally strong teams to have the required runrate of 12 rpo at the end overs. Here also same thing happened, but the mistake is with the players losing wickets.

[JunaidAzizi]

Adam Zampa destroyed the Pakistani batting line up, he took all the important wickets of Pakistan. Another defeat for the Pakistani side with very poor batting performance. The whole team depends on the batting of Babar Azam and Rizwan. If these two are not able to score good runs then the batting line up always collapses. As seen today, Paskistan got a good start but were not able to capitalize it after Babar got out. A great comeback by the Australian team as this win will help them on the points table. They are now on the fourth place on the points table that will surely boost their morale.

Once again Pakistan batters failed to show aggression. Both Imam and Abdullah gave a good start but they both scored with run a ball. Imam ul Haq was opener yet he failed to produce any 6 in his whole innings. It seems that players like Imam, Rizwan and Babar are playing to improve there stats and they don't have any interest in team victory. Pakistan with this defeat now slipped to number 5th spot while Aussies are now at 4th spot.

The openers have created good partnership and the first wicket fell at 134 runs. At the start of the innings it is a must to stand wicket and the openers did it well also the scoring isn't bad. Further the players could've managed to perform well, instead the wickets kept and at some point Pakistan team gained stability and the same is being crashed by the bowling of Adam Zampa. More 27 balls left when Pakistan lost the entire wickets. This is common with most of the matches played by equally strong teams to have the required runrate of 12 rpo at the end overs. Here also same thing happened, but the mistake is with the players losing wickets.

The 27 balls are more for doing the 67 runs, if they did only 2 runs on a single ball then they can easily win the match and if they show some aggression and make some sixes and fours then the match will be so easy for them but the thing is that they all are out and the ball is left. They have to show some aggression at least at the end and stand on the wicket. They saved their wicket from the start but after 132 runs their wicket started falling and they lost but yeah they did a good match with Australia at least they crossed the 300 and went near to the target. And congratulations to the Australian team supporters.

[GigaBit]

Adam Zampa destroyed the Pakistani batting line up, he took all the important wickets of Pakistan. Another defeat for the Pakistani side with very poor batting performance. The whole team depends on the batting of Babar Azam and Rizwan. If these two are not able to score good runs then the batting line up always collapses. As seen today, Paskistan got a good start but were not able to capitalize it after Babar got out. A great comeback by the Australian team as this win will help them on the points table. They are now on the fourth place on the points table that will surely boost their morale.

Once again Pakistan batters failed to show aggression. Both Imam and Abdullah gave a good start but they both scored with run a ball. Imam ul Haq was opener yet he failed to produce any 6 in his whole innings. It seems that players like Imam, Rizwan and Babar are playing to improve there stats and they don't have any interest in team victory. Pakistan with this defeat now slipped to number 5th spot while Aussies are now at 4th spot.

The openers have created good partnership and the first wicket fell at 134 runs. At the start of the innings it is a must to stand wicket and the openers did it well also the scoring isn't bad. Further the players could've managed to perform well, instead the wickets kept and at some point Pakistan team gained stability and the same is being crashed by the bowling of Adam Zampa. More 27 balls left when Pakistan lost the entire wickets. This is common with most of the matches played by equally strong teams to have the required runrate of 12 rpo at the end overs. Here also same thing happened, but the mistake is with the players losing wickets.

It's a great match played between Australia and Pakistan. David Warner has performed very poorly in almost every match but he scored 162 in today's match with Mitchell Marsh playing in the same manner and he also managed to score 121. But the rest did not come out of the bat very well. Pakistan's big problem was that nobody except Mohammad Rizwan was consistent. Some of them got runs but they could not make any big partnership. But they had a problem that they could not hold their wickets. Pakistan would have had a chance if they could have played with 50 over wickets.

[Mahdirakib]

One of the reasons why Bangladesh fought a relatively weak team in this match is that Shakib Al Hasan is injured.When Shakib Al Hasan is in the team, the team has an added motivation and energy.

With or without Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh has been performing in the same way in all matches except one or two. The management has destroyed the team by rotating the batting order on each match.
Anyway, I think Pakistan would have won the match today if the middle order batsman played a longer innings. The journey for the 3rd and 4th rank will be competitive in the group stage. The first and second rank is for India and New Zealand.

[Sithara007]

Once again Pakistan batters failed to show aggression. Both Imam and Abdullah gave a good start but they both scored with run a ball. Imam ul Haq was opener yet he failed to produce any 6 in his whole innings. It seems that players like Imam, Rizwan and Babar are playing to improve there stats and they don't have any interest in team victory. Pakistan with this defeat now slipped to number 5th spot while Aussies are now at 4th spot.

I don't understand why everyone is blaming the batsmen, when Pakistan lost the match as a result of poor bowling. Abdullah Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq did well IMO. They scored at a run-a-ball, and added 134 runs for the first wicket partnership. It was the middle order that couldn't keep the momentum going. Babar Azam failed yet again, while Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel couldn't convert their good starts to 50s. In the end, Pakistan had plenty of overs remaining, but ran out of batsmen. They were bowled out with 4.3 overs remaining in the innings.

[BitcoinsGreat]

Tomorrow is the two matches. One of Netherlands vs Sri Lanka and both teams are on downfall so any team doesn’t affect their wins or lose. This match will be played in Lucknow.

The team of Sri Lanka didn’t have any good results in this World Cup matches even though the Netherlands played better than Sri Lanka. The Sri Lanka team lost against Pakistan, Australia, and South Africa and the Netherlands team beat the South African team in this World Cup, so it totally means that the Netherlands is better than Sri Lanka. The Netherlands also lost their 2 matches but the Netherlands is a new team, they don’t have any big wins in cricket but Sri Lanka is a big team and this is a shameful thing for Sri Lanka if they lose this match.

[GbitG]

I don't understand why everyone is blaming the batsmen, when Pakistan lost the match as a result of poor bowling. Abdullah Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq did well IMO. They scored at a run-a-ball, and added 134 runs for the first wicket partnership. It was the middle order that couldn't keep the momentum going. Babar Azam failed yet again, while Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel couldn't convert their good starts to 50s. In the end, Pakistan had plenty of overs remaining, but ran out of batsmen. They were bowled out with 4.3 overs remaining in the innings.

I agree with your statement both batter and bowler are 50:50 responsible of this defeat, because first they leak tons of runs against thier top order especially Haris which are at another level while after that Hassan Ali and Nawaz they all of them allow thier opener to took a good start which will make things easy for them if they are ahead toward big Target, some miss field and catch dropping took match away form paksitan.
While if we have a look at thier batting then thier main batter baber Azam dismissed with adding a significant runs at such important stage and I things that the stage where paksitan start to choke and later after iftikhar and Rizwan they completely lose a grip and hence they lose an important match, anyway it's much worth for Australia than paksitan because they are at bottom of table before that victory

[LittleBitFunny]

I don't understand why everyone is blaming the batsmen, when Pakistan lost the match as a result of poor bowling. Abdullah Shafique and Imam-ul-Haq did well IMO. They scored at a run-a-ball, and added 134 runs for the first wicket partnership. It was the middle order that couldn't keep the momentum going. Babar Azam failed yet again, while Mohammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel couldn't convert their good starts to 50s. In the end, Pakistan had plenty of overs remaining, but ran out of batsmen. They were bowled out with 4.3 overs remaining in the innings.

I agree with your statement both batter and bowler are 50:50 responsible of this defeat, because first they leak tons of runs against thier top order especially Haris which are at another level while after that Hassan Ali and Nawaz they all of them allow thier opener to took a good start which will make things easy for them if they are ahead toward big Target, some miss field and catch dropping took match away form paksitan.
While if we have a look at thier batting then thier main batter baber Azam dismissed with adding a significant runs at such important stage and I things that the stage where paksitan start to choke and later after iftikhar and Rizwan they completely lose a grip and hence they lose an important match, anyway it's much worth for Australia than paksitan because they are at bottom of table before that victory

I would say Pakistan's bowlers are responsible for the loss in this match. The batsmen batted well enough. It is unimaginable to win with a target of 368 runs. Bengaluru's 368 was probably the second highest score on this ground. And the average score of the first innings on this ground is 235 runs. There, Australia set a target of 368 runs. This is a very big target. It is very difficult to win such a big target against any team. Had Pakistan won today, it would have been a record.
Pakistan's opening pair played well. Babar and Rizwan's partnership would have lasted Pakistan's victory. But Adam Zampa bowled brilliantly today. He has brought back several very important batsmen to the dressing room.