ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[kro55]

This victory of Bangladesh is really incredible. Mehdi Hasan Miraj has been the biggest contributor to India's two-match victory. While Bangladesh collected 70 runs for the loss of six wickets, Mehdi Hasan Miraj played a stormy innings of 100 runs with Mahmudullah Riyad in great company. However, in the last minute of today's match, Rohit Sharma was leading India towards a certain victory. But Mustafizur Rahman's skillful ball ensured Bangladesh victory and the series with him.

The main heroes of Bangladesh's victory today are Mahmudullah and Mehdi Miraj. . Both openers did not perform well. Bangladesh lost 6 wickets very quickly. Bangladesh team was able to collect big due to the great pair of Mahmudullah and Miraj. A target of 272 runs on such a pitch was enough to win. Even so, the match turned out to be very competitive. India needed 20 runs to win in the last over. And in the end India was defeated by just 6 runs. I would say Bangladesh's bad fielding made the match competitive. If the Bangladeshi fielder and keeper could have done well, then Bangladesh would have won this match easily.

Yes it's true that the full credit goes to Mehedi Hasan Miraz and Mahmudullah Hasan in today's match victory.  However, the way their batting side gave relief to the Bangladeshis, the bowling side scared them towards the last. But I would also appreciate the captains for the try in the towrd of the match ending .

It was a magnificent performance from Mehndi Hassan Miraz. It was his first ever One Day International century. I believe that he is going to cherish this moment for a long time.

I honestly believe that India has made a mistake. Actually, the mistake was made by Rohit Sharma himself. My question is, if he was so injured, why did he come to bat?
And if he could bat, which he did, why did he not come earlier?
India could have won the match easily if he had been there at least one wicket earlier. He still took the match very close.

But I have to give credit to Mehdi Hassan and Mahmud Ullah. They played very well for Bangladesh. However, Bangladesh needs to improve its catching. They dropped Rohit Sharma twice in the same over. That could definitely have cost them the match. After Bangladesh dropped Rohit Sharma's second catch, I was actually thinking Bangladesh didn't deserve to win.

[savetheFORUM]

Bangladesh played well and won the series by winning the first two matches against India. This is truly commendable. But still comparing India's team with Bangladesh's team is stupid. The Bangladesh team is still far behind the Indian team. Even looking at the performance of the last two matches, this is well understood. Bangladesh won both the matches depending on the performance of Shakib and Miraj. They missed a lot of fielding. Also the top-order performance is still very poor. Bangladesh's team must improve on these sides.

India lost this match as we have few big factors here life foremost from 69/6 to 271/7 in 50 overs mean you are on back foot captaincy is also one of the problem now because Rohit Sharma fail to maintain momentum and allow lower order batsmen to attack on them, and they have done amazing job with having big total on board for their bowlers after this failure now India lost in batting as they are giving chances to those are not capable to give them better results and having failure again and again which is surely not acceptable because if they give chance to youths then surely they can give better results which helps them for having better selection options in coming months now after losing two back to back series hopefully they will learn from these mistakes and try to have better strategy for coming matches.

[Sithara007]

I am expecting some big changes to the Indian team after the defeat against Bangladesh yesterday. Senior players such as Rohit, Kohli, Dhawan and Shami needs to concentrate on test cricket rather than focusing on the limited overs game. Also, there is no point in persisting with bowlers such as Mohammed Siraj, if he can't perform against weak teams such as Bangladesh. There are a lot of promising players lining up for that spot, such as Natarajan, Mohsin Khan, Kuldeep Sen and Prasidh Krishna. Siraj should not get a default slot just because he is with the RCB.

[wiss19]

Absolutely stunning performance by Bangladesh. They have only three balls left for their innigs to end otherwise they would have easily set a target of 300 runs for India. They still have wickets in hand but after losing 6 wicket coming back into the game shows how inconsistent Indian bowlers are performing. In my opinion only Washington Sundar was productive as he not only took 3 wickets he was also economical. Sanju Samson again not playing in this match and his absence will hurt India's batting when they 271 runs.

No doubt shocking performance from the two tail ender batsmen at this level against team like India as after 19 over we have 69 runs on board with 6 wickets lost and then as we have break of first inning they were 271 with the lost of 7 wickets and Mahmudullah ends with 77 on 96 balls and Mehdi Miraz give lifetime performance with 100 on 83 balls is surely match winning by these two for the home side Bangladesh.

After this stunning batting they have done good job in bowling as well because once there was chance they will lose by 30 to 35 runs but at the end Rohit Sharma done a cameo performance with broken thumb and give some hopes, but sadly he fails to achieve his target and lost match by just five runs which is also really stunning performance from him for the losing cause.

[pakhitheboss]

I am expecting some big changes to the Indian team after the defeat against Bangladesh yesterday. Senior players such as Rohit, Kohli, Dhawan and Shami needs to concentrate on test cricket rather than focusing on the limited overs game. Also, there is no point in persisting with bowlers such as Mohammed Siraj, if he can't perform against weak teams such as Bangladesh. There are a lot of promising players lining up for that spot, such as Natarajan, Mohsin Khan, Kuldeep Sen and Prasidh Krishna. Siraj should not get a default slot just because he is with the RCB.

Changes have already started happening. They have already removed Dravid as a coach and a new name should be announced soon. Rohit Sharma got his chance and royally screwed it in the T20 world cup and after this humiliating defeat from Bangladesh he might be dropped as a captain for ODI squad. The same thing might happen to KL Rahul. I am still confused as to what might be the reason of Sanju Samson not being played again and again. They should have given him an opportunity. As for Kohli I think he should take a permanent rest from cricket. He no more suitable as a batter for any form of cricket.

[Sithara007]

Changes have already started happening. They have already removed Dravid as a coach and a new name should be announced soon. Rohit Sharma got his chance and royally screwed it in the T20 world cup and after this humiliating defeat from Bangladesh he might be dropped as a captain for ODI squad. The same thing might happen to KL Rahul. I am still confused as to what might be the reason of Sanju Samson not being played again and again. They should have given him an opportunity. As for Kohli I think he should take a permanent rest from cricket. He no more suitable as a batter for any form of cricket.

Rather than giving the role of captain to oldies such as Rohit, the BCCI should consider some of the younger players such as Shreyas Iyer or Rishabh Pant. And regarding Sanju Samson, enough chances were given to him but he failed to utilize the opportunities. There are other keeper-batsmen in the bench such as Ishan Kishan and Shrikar Bharat. Why always Samson should be given the preference over other keepers? Let Samson perform in the India A and domestic tours first. He is yet to show the match winning capability at international level.

[dezoel]

The Bangladeshi fightback was incredible. Bangladesh's incredible recovery from 69/6 to 271/7 was largely owed to Mehdi Hasan and Mahmudullah. As a new star for Bangladesh, Mehdi Hasan proved his worth once again. Whatever the result, Bangladesh's team deserves credit for the way they played. They will impress us with their bowling attack like Mehdi Hasan and Mahmudullah, who are amazing partners to work with.

It is the best performance for Miraz in a series. He is going to get the man of the series award without any doubt. I thought Bangladesh wouldn't be able to score more than 120 runs in that match. But Miraz and Mahmudullah made a strong comeback from such disaster position. Shreyas Iyer and Axar Patel also made a good partnership when they were chasing the target. Eventually Rohit Sharma made the game alive for India, but Bangladesh has won the match by 5 runs.

No one was expecting score like this and batting like this from Mehdi Miraz because after 69/6 nothing was positive available for Bangladesh but a pair of Mehdi and Mahmudullah change the momentum of this match, and we have 272 runs on board which is surely the biggest target and good fight from tail enders, but main problem starts as we have poor batting from top order Indian batting lineup with Kohli second time fail to give any positive performance and few other big players are also not play positive game thanks for Rohit Sharma as he has done good job in last few balls and India able to reach near the target.

While Rohit Sharma was smashing in last three overs, I have feeling they can do this like Bangladesh done in first game, but miss of last ball give them defeat in this match and series as well.

[BobK71]

I am expecting some big changes to the Indian team after the defeat against Bangladesh yesterday. Senior players such as Rohit, Kohli, Dhawan and Shami needs to concentrate on test cricket rather than focusing on the limited overs game. Also, there is no point in persisting with bowlers such as Mohammed Siraj, if he can't perform against weak teams such as Bangladesh. There are a lot of promising players lining up for that spot, such as Natarajan, Mohsin Khan, Kuldeep Sen and Prasidh Krishna. Siraj should not get a default slot just because he is with the RCB.

Changes have already started happening. They have already removed Dravid as a coach and a new name should be announced soon. Rohit Sharma got his chance and royally screwed it in the T20 world cup and after this humiliating defeat from Bangladesh he might be dropped as a captain for ODI squad. The same thing might happen to KL Rahul. I am still confused as to what might be the reason of Sanju Samson not being played again and again. They should have given him an opportunity. As for Kohli I think he should take a permanent rest from cricket. He no more suitable as a batter for any form of cricket.

I think Kohli has been given a lot of opportunities. Which he completely failed to use. Indian cricket should take place new one instead on Kohli. I deserve that he has no contribution in the last two matches. As a result, India defeated by Bangladesh. The first match can be accepted but the same result in the 2nd match that has greatly affected the entire Indian cricket. I think BCCI must take good decision about it. I won't complain against Rohit. Because he played responsibly. If Mohammad Siraj could use the balls in yesterday's match, India might have won the match.

[Sithara007]

I think Kohli has been given a lot of opportunities. Which he completely failed to use. Indian cricket should take place new one instead on Kohli. I deserve that he has no contribution in the last two matches. As a result, India defeated by Bangladesh. The first match can be accepted but the same result in the 2nd match that has greatly affected the entire Indian cricket. I think BCCI must take good decision about it. I won't complain against Rohit. Because he played responsibly. If Mohammad Siraj could use the balls in yesterday's match, India might have won the match.

I don't have anything against Kohli as such, although it is true that he was given too many opportunities. IMO, he should concentrate and focus more on the test format. But he is not ready to do that, because obviously there is more glitz with the T20 format. And now with Ganguly out of the BCCI, he doesn't feel the threat from selectors as well. Rohit was injured, so don't want to comment on his batting. But as a captain, so far his performance has been disappointing. These guys (Rohit, Rahul.etc) are not captaincy material.

[coinism]

I don't have anything against Kohli as such, although it is true that he was given too many opportunities. IMO, he should concentrate and focus more on the test format. But he is not ready to do that, because obviously there is more glitz with the T20 format. And now with Ganguly out of the BCCI, he doesn't feel the threat from selectors as well. Rohit was injured, so don't want to comment on his batting. But as a captain, so far his performance has been disappointing. These guys (Rohit, Rahul.etc) are not captaincy material.

Despite injury Rohit played a genuine knock yesterday (thanks to poor fielding of Bangladesh) and took India very close to victory. BCCI is no doubt growing financially but on quality of cricket they are going down and down. I am sure nobody will question kohli for his bad performance. He is a celebrity that's why he will remain in team for ever.

[Haunebu]

I think Kohli has been given a lot of opportunities. Which he completely failed to use. Indian cricket should take place new one instead on Kohli. I deserve that he has no contribution in the last two matches. As a result, India defeated by Bangladesh.

Some people weren't complaining when he helped India in a big way in the recently concluded T-20 World Cup, but their stance changed just because of his bad performances in recent matches. Double standards as usual.

Rohit was injured, so don't want to comment on his batting. But as a captain, so far his performance has been disappointing. These guys (Rohit, Rahul.etc) are not captaincy material.

Let's face it. Rohit should be replaced asap(Not Kohli) primarily because of his inconsistent batting performances and his poor captaincy skills.

Read this particular tweet recently which was true and cracked me up. 'Rohit's captaincy makes Kohli's captaincy seem legendary and MSD's captaincy seem godly in comparison'.

[ThemePen]

I am expecting some big changes to the Indian team after the defeat against Bangladesh yesterday. Senior players such as Rohit, Kohli, Dhawan and Shami needs to concentrate on test cricket rather than focusing on the limited overs game. Also, there is no point in persisting with bowlers such as Mohammed Siraj, if he can't perform against weak teams such as Bangladesh. There are a lot of promising players lining up for that spot, such as Natarajan, Mohsin Khan, Kuldeep Sen and Prasidh Krishna. Siraj should not get a default slot just because he is with the RCB.

Changes have already started happening. They have already removed Dravid as a coach and a new name should be announced soon. Rohit Sharma got his chance and royally screwed it in the T20 world cup and after this humiliating defeat from Bangladesh he might be dropped as a captain for ODI squad. The same thing might happen to KL Rahul. I am still confused as to what might be the reason of Sanju Samson not being played again and again. They should have given him an opportunity. As for Kohli I think he should take a permanent rest from cricket. He no more suitable as a batter for any form of cricket.

There is the management issue. I don't think so this is coach mistake. And also think that the players should concentrate more on the practice.
Opponent team also has the players. They have the management. Bangladesh was also trying to win the match but Bangladesh also has some management issues. I think that both were not played well.
Both teams should resolve the issues. BTW congratulations to Bangladesh again.

[BobK71]

I don't have anything against Kohli as such, although it is true that he was given too many opportunities. IMO, he should concentrate and focus more on the test format. But he is not ready to do that, because obviously there is more glitz with the T20 format. And now with Ganguly out of the BCCI, he doesn't feel the threat from selectors as well. Rohit was injured, so don't want to comment on his batting. But as a captain, so far his performance has been disappointing. These guys (Rohit, Rahul.etc) are not captaincy material.

Despite injury Rohit played a genuine knock yesterday (thanks to poor fielding of Bangladesh) and took India very close to victory. BCCI is no doubt growing financially but on quality of cricket they are going down and down. I am sure nobody will question kohli for his bad performance. He is a celebrity that's why he will remain in team for ever.

He will no longer be able to retain his position in the way he  has begun to perform. However, after deserving Kohli's performance, the cricket board should have been thought even before it. He was given  many opportunities before the T20 World Cup, where i doubt whether any other cricketer will get such opportunity. Since the large number of good cricketers are waiting, it is very important to give new opportunities to them. Because Kohli is discovered or come from that position.

[JSRAW]

Overall this 2022 year was very bad for the Indian team, some memorable wins in Tests but otherwise, it was below average considering last year's success in Tests. Hope they finish the year on a high note (Test series against Ban).

Lost in the Asia cup, where they historically dominated by miles.
Lost SA Test series despite being leading series 1-0
Lost ODI in SA
Lost the last 5th Test against England and had to settle the series with 2-2 result.
WC semis curse
Lost ODI against NZ
Lost ODI against Ban

[Sithara007]

Despite injury Rohit played a genuine knock yesterday (thanks to poor fielding of Bangladesh) and took India very close to victory. BCCI is no doubt growing financially but on quality of cricket they are going down and down. I am sure nobody will question kohli for his bad performance. He is a celebrity that's why he will remain in team for ever.

Selectors doesn't have the courage to take strong decisions. Hardick Pandya was out of form for 2-3 years and still he was included in the squad for T20 matches everytime. Similarly, Kohli has been performing below par for quite some time now. But who will have the courage to kick him out of the team? Last to try something similar was Sourav Ganguly and we all know how it ended for him. I have given up hope. These useless guys like Virat and Rahul will be in the team for eternity, maybe until they become 45 years old or something.

[shawon01]

In the Nepal and Scotland match, Nepal has started playing very badly. Nepal will have no chance to win the match. If they bat like this in this match, they can score like 130 runs, but I don't know if Nepal has already played a bad game. Today they will lose the game.

[Sithara007]

In the Nepal and Scotland match, Nepal has started playing very badly. Nepal will have no chance to win the match. If they bat like this in this match, they can score like 130 runs, but I don't know if Nepal has already played a bad game. Today they will lose the game.

Yeah.. Nepal reeling at 81/6. Not much expectation from them now. Scotland is the strongest team playing in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 and they have been in exceptional form during the last two years. Nepal on the other hand has been in a continuous downward spiral ever since the ICC reduced their funding in 2014-15 (a major earthquake occurred in 2015, and that also contributed to the financial troubles). I am not even sure whether they will continue to feature in League 2 from next season onwards.

[Naficopa]

In the Nepal and Scotland match, Nepal has started playing very badly. Nepal will have no chance to win the match. If they bat like this in this match, they can score like 130 runs, but I don't know if Nepal has already played a bad game. Today they will lose the game.

Yeah.. Nepal reeling at 81/6. Not much expectation from them now. Scotland is the strongest team playing in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 and they have been in exceptional form during the last two years. Nepal on the other hand has been in a continuous downward spiral ever since the ICC reduced their funding in 2014-15 (a major earthquake occurred in 2015, and that also contributed to the financial troubles). I am not even sure whether they will continue to feature in League 2 from next season onwards.

Nepal vs Scotland  ODI.  Nepal is batting first.
After 27 overs Nepal is on 93 runs 8 wickets gone . Scotland ballers are performing excellently and Nepal batsman didn't stand infront of them.
Except of Rohit Paudel who made 47 runs no other batsman scored any runs .

[rojan]

In the Nepal and Scotland match, Nepal has started playing very badly. Nepal will have no chance to win the match. If they bat like this in this match, they can score like 130 runs, but I don't know if Nepal has already played a bad game. Today they will lose the game.

Yeah.. Nepal reeling at 81/6. Not much expectation from them now. Scotland is the strongest team playing in the ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 and they have been in exceptional form during the last two years. Nepal on the other hand has been in a continuous downward spiral ever since the ICC reduced their funding in 2014-15 (a major earthquake occurred in 2015, and that also contributed to the financial troubles). I am not even sure whether they will continue to feature in League 2 from next season onwards.

Nepal vs Scotland  ODI.  Nepal is batting first.
After 27 overs Nepal is on 93 runs 8 wickets gone . Scotland ballers are performing excellently and Nepal batsman didn't stand infront of them.
Except of Rohit Paudel who made 47 runs no other batsman scored any runs .

Nepal vs Scotland in this match Nepal batting performance is bad. It seems that Nepal can't score above 150 runs in this match. Nepal has lost 8 wickets till now. They have 2 wickets now. Now we have to see how many runs Nepal can score.  Scotland bowled well from the start.

[Sithara007]

Nepal vs Scotland in this match Nepal batting performance is bad. It seems that Nepal can't score above 150 runs in this match. Nepal has lost 8 wickets till now. They have 2 wickets now. Now we have to see how many runs Nepal can score.  Scotland bowled well from the start.

Nepal looking increasingly hopeless. The 9th wicket partnership between Sompal Kami and Lalit Rajbanshi has so far added 22 runs for Nepal. But they lost their captain Rohit Paudel for 47. He was the only Nepal batsmen who looked comfortable out there. Difficult to believe that this guy is just 20 years old, because he has been playing for Nepal since 2017. After the retirement of Paras Khadka he has been doing all the heavy lifting for Nepal. If they lose today's match then it will become extremely difficult for Nepal to finish within top-3 of the League-2.