ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[Nalain420]

Yes that's right, if the bowlers of the Afghanistan team can still make the wickets of the South African team fall quickly. Then this match will be possible for Afghanistan team to win. The bowlers of the Afghanistan team have so far managed to pick up 4 important wickets of the South African team by bowling 28.5 overs. Strengthening the bowling lineup of the Afghanistan team is very important to win this match against South Africa. Now it is impossible to say how successful the bowlers of the Afghanistan team will be in bowling. On the other hand, the batsmen of the Afghanistan team have also fought hard to reach the target of victory. In the second innings game, Afghanistan team has so far collected 143 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 28.5 overs. South Africa still need 102 runs to complete the target set by Afghanistan in today's match. Now let's see till the end of the game, which team can snatch victory in today's match

There is no doubt that a target of 244 runs is not a big target in this World Cup, and for another reason it is a very low target score for a strong batting line-up like South Africa. Still, Afghanistan's bowlers are trying their best and so far five South African players have been dismissed in 40 overs while South Africa have scored 193 runs. South Africa still need 51 more runs to win, if Afghanistan's bowlers perform well here, and manage to take two or three more wickets, chances of winning the match can arise. Rassie van der Dussen is currently at the crease and is batting on 62 runs and I think Rassie van der Dussen is the biggest obstacle for Afghanistan to win at the moment.

Today match Afghanistan 244 target for South Africa. South Africa batsman makes 13 run in 3 over and Afghanistan no any wicket against south Africa. South Africa batsman makes 32 run in 6 over. South Africa batsman makes 85 run in 18 over and 2 outs. South Africa batsman makes 132 run in 25 over and 3 outs. South Africa has achieved this target which was given by Afghanistan. Afghanistan batsmen did not play with struggle and effort.Due to which today's match was lost. South Africa won the match and go to semi final. South Africa was very proud. That they have reached the semi finals.

[3kpk3]

Pakistan vs England and Australia vs Bangladesh coming up next. Australia will just play for fun while the rest excluding Pak are fighting for staying in contention for the upcoming Champions trophy 2025.

Am not really interested in either of these matches, but I am expecting Pakistan and Australia to win their respective matches.

[MusaPk]

I don't really care about Sri Lanka. They are a team in decline. IMO, providing 30x more funds to teams like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and West Indies when compared to stronger associate nations such as Netherlands and Scotland doesn't make sense. Hopefully the ICC will re-distribute funds to smaller nations and it will create a level playing field. Back in 2016, the ICC suspended CAN (Cricket Association of Nepal) and for a period from 2016 to 2019 Nepal didn't received any sort of ICC funding. The same criteria should be applied to Sri Lanka as well.   

I think there is no need for such actions from Sri Lankan government. They could have done that with decency after the WC when team arrives back home. To me this issue will be settled very soon, as ICC dont have much full test teams at its pool. Teams like England and Bangladesh have similar story in this WC but see how proud still Bangladeshi team and its management is. They have acquired full test status for over two decade for no reason.

[Nalain420]

Pakistan vs England and Australia vs Bangladesh coming up next. Australia will just play for fun while the rest excluding Pak are fighting for staying in contention for the upcoming Champions trophy 2025.

Am not really interested in either of these matches, but I am expecting Pakistan and Australia to win their respective matches.

Today match Pakistan women 132 target for Bangladesh women. Bangladesh women batsman makes 30 run in 5 over and Pakistan women 2 wicket against Bangladesh women. Bangladesh women batsman makes 54 run in 12 over and 4 outs. Bangladesh can not complete this target. Pakistan women won the match. Bangladesh batsmen did not show any struggle and hard work in today match. Due to which he lost the match to today.Bangladesh batsmen scored very few runs in 20 overs. Pakistan women won this match was very happy.Pakistan women batsman and bowler won the match with great effort.

[ZAINmalik75]

Just in : ICC has suspended Sri Lankan cricket board membership, which directly means that they won't be able to play any ICC tournament for now.

The main reason is SL sports ministry recently sacked the complete SLC board and the ICC never entertains direct government interference.

To be honest if that were the main reason to suspend sirilankan team membership then they should suspend indian , Paksitani and Bangladeshi cricket board membership too because here  directly or indirectly government interfere too so it's not fair to target a single team instead of took action against all of them as everyone has equal right.
Afghanistan played well but they were few runs shorter in order to restrict south african batting line-up,  thier top order and middle order didn't add significant contribution but omarzai and some other add decent runs through which they able to scored around 250. Anyway South chase down required target and won this match in loss of big bunch of wickets .
Tomorrow we have Australia vs Bangladesh which I think should be Australia trashing win while on next day we have paksitan vs England which will be really important and interesting to watch because Paksitani captain Baber Azam told during Press conference that they had a plan to fix run rate problem so let see how they manage things

[SATWAT]

Knee jerk reaction from the sports ministry so it surely does look ugly but this problem should be resolved soon and we have a good 6-7 months window for T-20 WC.

The main issue would be WTC matches. SL only played 2 test matches so far and if they are scheduled to play some matches in the next 1-2 months then those fixtures might face cancellation.

I don't really care about Sri Lanka. They are a team in decline. IMO, providing 30x more funds to teams like Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and West Indies when compared to stronger associate nations such as Netherlands and Scotland doesn't make sense. Hopefully the ICC will re-distribute funds to smaller nations and it will create a level playing field. Back in 2016, the ICC suspended CAN (Cricket Association of Nepal) and for a period from 2016 to 2019 Nepal didn't received any sort of ICC funding. The same criteria should be applied to Sri Lanka as well.   

Alone Sri Lanka is not on decline now we are having few other countries as well which are having the worst time in this game with things are going to look like nothing positive is going to happen to them in near future just because of this now we need few big changes in this game and ICC needs to act quickly bringing more teams for the T20i and ending of these 50 overs format can bring good changes and having fewer teams in test format is also indeed.
Peoples having no time for watching this game all day and players are also now looking for less hassle which give them more time for having best in T20i hopefully after this event they will sit and talk this all Sri Lanka case is nothing new we have this tradition in Asian cricket for long time.

[HelliumZ]

Pakistan vs England and Australia vs Bangladesh coming up next. Australia will just play for fun while the rest excluding Pak are fighting for staying in contention for the upcoming Champions trophy 2025.

Am not really interested in either of these matches, but I am expecting Pakistan and Australia to win their respective matches.

Today's match is very important for Bangladesh because if Bangladesh lose to Australia by more than 180 runs then they will not be able to participate in Champions Trophy 2025. Therefore, even if Bangladesh cannot win today's match with the best performance, care must be taken to ensure that there is no gap of 180 runs. Moreover, as Shakib Al Hasan is not in today's match, there is pressure on Bangladesh in the match.

[noormcs5]

Just in : ICC has suspended Sri Lankan cricket board membership, which directly means that they won't be able to play any ICC tournament for now.

The main reason is SL sports ministry recently sacked the complete SLC board and the ICC never entertains direct government interference.

This is a major set back for the Sri Lankan cricket. They are already on the losing side in the majority of the tournaments including the World Cup and this ICC suspension may take their country's cricket even down.

Never expected this fate and downfall of the Sri Lankan team who were once the champions of the World Cup under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga in the 1996 World Cup.

[libert19]

^ we have seen some huge cricket surprises this year. First the world cup champs West Indies couldn't qualify for world cup and then this news regarding Sri Lanka. Also, England performance in this world cup counts too, they have big names in their squad but yet team performed so poorly.

[Jateng]

Yes that's right, if the bowlers of the Afghanistan team can still make the wickets of the South African team fall quickly. Then this match will be possible for Afghanistan team to win. The bowlers of the Afghanistan team have so far managed to pick up 4 important wickets of the South African team by bowling 28.5 overs. Strengthening the bowling lineup of the Afghanistan team is very important to win this match against South Africa. Now it is impossible to say how successful the bowlers of the Afghanistan team will be in bowling. On the other hand, the batsmen of the Afghanistan team have also fought hard to reach the target of victory. In the second innings game, Afghanistan team has so far collected 143 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 28.5 overs. South Africa still need 102 runs to complete the target set by Afghanistan in today's match. Now let's see till the end of the game, which team can snatch victory in today's match

There is no doubt that a target of 244 runs is not a big target in this World Cup, and for another reason it is a very low target score for a strong batting line-up like South Africa. Still, Afghanistan's bowlers are trying their best and so far five South African players have been dismissed in 40 overs while South Africa have scored 193 runs. South Africa still need 51 more runs to win, if Afghanistan's bowlers perform well here, and manage to take two or three more wickets, chances of winning the match can arise. Rassie van der Dussen is currently at the crease and is batting on 62 runs and I think Rassie van der Dussen is the biggest obstacle for Afghanistan to win at the moment.

A very responsible chase for batters, and a easy victory for South Africa, and they have finished the group stage with 7 Matches win over 8 matches and 14 points on point tables. They played their semifinal match against Australia because Australia is on top 3 on points table. Afghanistan world cup is over. Afghanistan are eliminated with 8 points. But i think it's their best world cup campaign in history beacuse they win 3 match against top teams. Today will played 2 important matches of world cup.

[Publictalk792]

Unfortunately for Azmatullah Omarzai, he could not score a century for just 3 runs. Azmatullah was unbeaten on 97 runs. Losing 10 wickets in 50 overs, Afghanistan managed to set a target of 245 runs. Coetzee and Keshav Maharaj bowled well today. Coetzee took 4 wickets with 44 runs in 10 overs. And Keshab Mahraz gave only 25 runs in 10 overs and took two wickets. I wouldn't call a 244 run collection a bad one. Afghanistan has a chance of winning if the bowlers do well. However, South Africa's batting order is very strong. Looking forward to see how Afghanistan's spin bowlers perform today.

Yes Azmatullah Omarzai tried well but unfortunately he didn't complete his century. By the way he played really well. And He was the one man Army who pulled the score above 200 and Afghanistan made 244 runs.
And in bowling line they collected 5 wickets but South Africa has Rassie van der Dussen and he made 76 runs. And they won the match. Congratulations to South Africa.

[synchronym]

Unfortunately for Azmatullah Omarzai, he could not score a century for just 3 runs. Azmatullah was unbeaten on 97 runs. Losing 10 wickets in 50 overs, Afghanistan managed to set a target of 245 runs. Coetzee and Keshav Maharaj bowled well today. Coetzee took 4 wickets with 44 runs in 10 overs. And Keshab Mahraz gave only 25 runs in 10 overs and took two wickets. I wouldn't call a 244 run collection a bad one. Afghanistan has a chance of winning if the bowlers do well. However, South Africa's batting order is very strong. Looking forward to see how Afghanistan's spin bowlers perform today.

Yes Azmatullah Omarzai tried well but unfortunately he didn't complete his century. By the way he played really well. And He was the one man Army who pulled the score above 200 and Afghanistan made 244 runs.
And in bowling line they collected 5 wickets but South Africa has Rassie van der Dussen and he made 76 runs. And they won the match. Congratulations to South Africa.

Yesterday's match between Afghanistan vs South Africa was played really well by Afghanistan boys. The way Afghanistan 2023 World Cup is shaping up, they will undoubtedly perform well against the big one one day. 2023 World Cup has done a great performance, Afghanistan team has improved their batting and bowling. They may have been knocked out of the race to reach the 2023 World Cup semi-finals but their incredible performance was seen by the whole world. No one can call them a small group now. Afghanistan's batsman did not do very well in yesterday's match between South Africa and Afghanistan. Azmatullah Omarzai is able to give a target of 245 runs to South Africa due to his excellent batting. The way Afghanistan bowlers are bowling, if South Africa was given a target of 270 runs, I think yesterday's match would have been won by Afghanistan.

[Patrol69]

Just in : ICC has suspended Sri Lankan cricket board membership, which directly means that they won't be able to play any ICC tournament for now.

The main reason is SL sports ministry recently sacked the complete SLC board and the ICC never entertains direct government interference.

This is a major set back for the Sri Lankan cricket. They are already on the losing side in the majority of the tournaments including the World Cup and this ICC suspension may take their country's cricket even down.

Never expected this fate and downfall of the Sri Lankan team who were once the champions of the World Cup under the leadership of Arjuna Ranatunga in the 1996 World Cup.

Sri Lanka are not the first to receive a ban from the ICC, we also saw Zimbabwe banned by the ICC in 2015. Such a ban may come in the case of undivided ICC parties when the cricket board is expelled or a new committee is formed due to political interference in cricket-related activities. Due to corruption and such a poor performance in the World Cup, Sri Lanka's Ministry of Action expelled every official and employee of the Lankan Cricket Board and formed a new committee due to which the ICC was forced to take such a decision against the team. As if Sri Lanka's controversies are not going away, against Bangladesh they have caused untold incidents at the end of the match, with senior players of their team directly talking down which team and which player as well as questioning the ICC rules. In other words, Sri Lankan cricket is going through a very bad time.

[HelliumZ]

Unfortunately for Azmatullah Omarzai, he could not score a century for just 3 runs. Azmatullah was unbeaten on 97 runs. Losing 10 wickets in 50 overs, Afghanistan managed to set a target of 245 runs. Coetzee and Keshav Maharaj bowled well today. Coetzee took 4 wickets with 44 runs in 10 overs. And Keshab Mahraz gave only 25 runs in 10 overs and took two wickets. I wouldn't call a 244 run collection a bad one. Afghanistan has a chance of winning if the bowlers do well. However, South Africa's batting order is very strong. Looking forward to see how Afghanistan's spin bowlers perform today.

Yes Azmatullah Omarzai tried well but unfortunately he didn't complete his century. By the way he played really well. And He was the one man Army who pulled the score above 200 and Afghanistan made 244 runs.
And in bowling line they collected 5 wickets but South Africa has Rassie van der Dussen and he made 76 runs. And they won the match. Congratulations to South Africa.

Azmat Ullah Omarzai was the only batsman who helped Afghanistan's score to 244 but failed to reach a milestone for three runs. On the last ball, Naveen Ul Haque was run out at the non-stick edge, something might have happened if Azmat Ullah Omarzai had tried to hit the ball for a boundary. Moreover, as ball number 5 of the 50th over was dot, the century was missed.

[Iranus]

Pakistan vs England and Australia vs Bangladesh coming up next. Australia will just play for fun while the rest excluding Pak are fighting for staying in contention for the upcoming Champions trophy 2025.

Am not really interested in either of these matches, but I am expecting Pakistan and Australia to win their respective matches.

Today's match is very important for Bangladesh because if Bangladesh lose to Australia by more than 180 runs then they will not be able to participate in Champions Trophy 2025. Therefore, even if Bangladesh cannot win today's match with the best performance, care must be taken to ensure that there is no gap of 180 runs. Moreover, as Shakib Al Hasan is not in today's match, there is pressure on Bangladesh in the match.

As the Australia team is in form now, there is no surprise even if they win by more than 180 margin against Bangladesh. A few days ago, the Australian team defeated the Netherlands team by a huge margin of 309 runs.

Bangladesh team is very weak without Shakib. Shakib performed well both in batting and bowling. We will see Anamul Haque Bijoy in the Bangladesh squad as Shakib's replacement. Anamul is basically an opener batsman. Anamul will probably replace Tanzid Tamim. But we still don't know which bowler will be included in the squad as Shakib's replacement. The batsmen of the Bangladesh squad must perform well today if they want to qualify for the Champions Trophy.

[HelliumZ]

Pakistan vs England and Australia vs Bangladesh coming up next. Australia will just play for fun while the rest excluding Pak are fighting for staying in contention for the upcoming Champions trophy 2025.

Am not really interested in either of these matches, but I am expecting Pakistan and Australia to win their respective matches.

Today's match is very important for Bangladesh because if Bangladesh lose to Australia by more than 180 runs then they will not be able to participate in Champions Trophy 2025. Therefore, even if Bangladesh cannot win today's match with the best performance, care must be taken to ensure that there is no gap of 180 runs. Moreover, as Shakib Al Hasan is not in today's match, there is pressure on Bangladesh in the match.

As the Australia team is in form now, there is no surprise even if they win by more than 180 margin against Bangladesh. A few days ago, the Australian team defeated the Netherlands team by a huge margin of 309 runs.

Bangladesh team is very weak without Shakib. Shakib performed well both in batting and bowling. We will see Anamul Haque Bijoy in the Bangladesh squad as Shakib's replacement. Anamul is basically an opener batsman. Anamul will probably replace Tanzid Tamim. But we still don't know which bowler will be included in the squad as Shakib's replacement. The batsmen of the Bangladesh squad must perform well today if they want to qualify for the Champions Trophy.

Bangladesh are batting after losing the toss but looking at the performance of the game, it seems that Bangladesh are very likely to score 250 runs which will not be a difficult task for Australia. However, if Bangladesh loses today's match, then it will not be difficult for Bangladesh to qualify for the Champions Trophy. But if the top order batsmen of Bangladesh can perform well and can do bowling and fielding well then Bangladesh can win today's match.

[MusaPk]

Bangladesh NRR is above Sri Lanka and they need to perform well in today's game to keep NRR above SL else they won't be playing next champions trophy. Moreover court in Bangladesh have taken notice of Waqar Younis statement on "time out" decision. Bangladeshi Court has asked Bangladeshi crikcet board to take this matter to icc to remove him from panel of commentators.

https://www.geosuper.tv/latest/29806-bangladeshs-court-issues-ruling-over-waqar-younis-comments-on-shakib-al-hasan

[synchronym]

Pakistan vs England and Australia vs Bangladesh coming up next. Australia will just play for fun while the rest excluding Pak are fighting for staying in contention for the upcoming Champions trophy 2025.

Am not really interested in either of these matches, but I am expecting Pakistan and Australia to win their respective matches.

Today's match is very important for Bangladesh because if Bangladesh lose to Australia by more than 180 runs then they will not be able to participate in Champions Trophy 2025. Therefore, even if Bangladesh cannot win today's match with the best performance, care must be taken to ensure that there is no gap of 180 runs. Moreover, as Shakib Al Hasan is not in today's match, there is pressure on Bangladesh in the match.

As the Australia team is in form now, there is no surprise even if they win by more than 180 margin against Bangladesh. A few days ago, the Australian team defeated the Netherlands team by a huge margin of 309 runs.

Bangladesh team is very weak without Shakib. Shakib performed well both in batting and bowling. We will see Anamul Haque Bijoy in the Bangladesh squad as Shakib's replacement. Anamul is basically an opener batsman. Anamul will probably replace Tanzid Tamim. But we still don't know which bowler will be included in the squad as Shakib's replacement. The batsmen of the Bangladesh squad must perform well today if they want to qualify for the Champions Trophy.

Bangladesh are batting after losing the toss but looking at the performance of the game, it seems that Bangladesh are very likely to score 250 runs which will not be a difficult task for Australia. However, if Bangladesh loses today's match, then it will not be difficult for Bangladesh to qualify for the Champions Trophy. But if the top order batsmen of Bangladesh can perform well and can do bowling and fielding well then Bangladesh can win today's match.

Since Australia won the toss and invited Bangladesh to bat. Bangladesh batsmen should bat with great responsibility. 2023 World Cup Bangladesh's performance was not very good. Today is their last match in the World Cup and it depends on this match whether Bangladesh can play the championship or not. At least Bangladesh should be kept in mind even if they lose to Australia. The openers of Bangladesh should know that wickets don't go too fast and they have to hold on to wickets so that they can score big. If a target of 270 runs is given to Australia, Australia will win very easily. But the Bangladeshi bowlers should bowl well and play Australia for at least 25 overs.  Now finally let's see how many runs target Bangladesh can give.

[noormcs5]

^ we have seen some huge cricket surprises this year. First the world cup champs West Indies couldn't qualify for world cup and then this news regarding Sri Lanka. Also, England performance in this world cup counts too, they have big names in their squad but yet team performed so poorly.

These surprises are in terms of teams lowering their performances when something good was expected of them. Srilanka, England and West Indies (could not qualify) were just disappointed but we can say that the Netherlands and Afghanistan showed some good performances like Afghanistan beating Pakistan and England while the Netherlands team beat South Africa and Bangladesh.

Coming to today's first match at Pune, Australia won the toss and rightly decided to bowl first. Litton Das and Tanzid Hasan started the innings slowly but carefully and they have made 20 runs in 5 overs but did not lose any wickets. Being the last match of Bangladesh they would really like to go home with a win against a big team Australia. Let's see how they play these 50 overs and if they can manage to score 300+ runs giving their bowlers something to defend at this ground.

[Bd officer]

Since Australia won the toss and invited Bangladesh to bat. Bangladesh batsmen should bat with great responsibility. 2023 World Cup Bangladesh's performance was not very good. Today is their last match in the World Cup and it depends on this match whether Bangladesh can play the championship or not. At least Bangladesh should be kept in mind even if they lose to Australia. The openers of Bangladesh should know that wickets don't go too fast and they have to hold on to wickets so that they can score big. If a target of 270 runs is given to Australia, Australia will win very easily. But the Bangladeshi bowlers should bowl well and play Australia for at least 25 overs.  Now finally let's see how many runs target Bangladesh can give.

Bangladesh's batting is getting better today, no wickets fell in the power play. Bangladesh's opening batting could not score a century in this World Cup. Tanzid Hasan is out, Liton Das is still unbeaten, if Liton Das can play a big innings in today's match then Bangladesh will be favored to score big. But Bangladesh team will miss Shakib Al Hasan in today's match, because Shakib Al Hasan can perform well both in batting and bowling. But if Shakib Al Hasan was there today, he could have given good leadership. But today, Nazmul Hossain Shanto is in charge of captaincy. I think it would have been better to give the captaincy to Mahmudullah or Liton Das because they are more experienced than Nazmul Hossain Shanto. Today all the players of Bangladesh will try to do well. So far Bangladesh has collected 84 runs after losing 1 wicket in 13 overs. Today all the batsmen of Bangladesh have to bat responsibly. Let's see how many runs Bangladesh can give the target in the end.