ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[LittleBitFunny]

Throughout the ODI series ZimvsBAN Bangladeshi players played so well, their is mixture of performance both senior and junior which is great sign. Bangladesh have some quality finisher to sweep the game. Congratulations Tamim for century and Bangladesh win the series 0-3

I thought that Zimbabwe had the advantage after they made a total of close to 300. But once again, they lost a match from a winning position. The team coordination is simply inexistent among the Zimbabwe players. They could have won at least one ODI match. That would have helped them to climb to the 12th position in the ODI league. Now their prospects really look gloomy. Their next ODI series is against Ireland, and if they perform poorly in Ireland, then it is all over for them. I don't think that they will be able to get a series win, with their current form.

This match was completely under Zimbabwe. They lost the match due to their own failure. The target of 300 runs was enough to win against a team like Bangladesh. But Zimbabwe's bowlers could not take advantage of the opportunity. They lost the match due to lack of experienced players in the team.

[kro55]

After a lot of drama, the Indian team won today's match against Sri Lanka. However, we have to admit that the Sri Lankan team has played very well today. However, with the help of Deepak Chahar's extraordinary performance at the last moment, India won the match. I would like to give full credit to Deepak Chahar for winning this match.

[JSRAW]

Excellent fightback from Lankan's bowlers. Top 3 Indian batters and 1st match winners already out and India still need 190ish runs to win. Its a tremendous opportunity for Indian Middle-lower order, if they want to prove their worth in such chase. Manish Pandey's career might get some lifeline if he's able to use this platform.

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Ban vs Zim game is looking juicy. Bongs are fav tho.

India lost 3 of their top order batsmen by just 65 runs. But we have to remember that it is the India team. They are talented and experienced enough. At the moment, India have scored 114 runs in 16 overs. Run rate is good enough. And if they don't lose wickets in the next 10 overs, they will get an easy win in this match as usual.

Lol India Won after losing all batters.

I had some sort of hope in lower middle order in context of resistance but i didn't expect 2 bowlers to finish the game like this for India. Bhuvi and Chahar know thing or two about batting but this was unexpected. Finishing the game with maturity like a batter, we don't expect this from the bowlers.

Bat deep bat deep in every freaking format...

[bryant.coleman]

After a lot of drama, the Indian team won today's match against Sri Lanka. However, we have to admit that the Sri Lankan team has played very well today. However, with the help of Deepak Chahar's extraordinary performance at the last moment, India won the match. I would like to give full credit to Deepak Chahar for winning this match.

I will not agree when you claim that the Sri Lankan team has played well. In that case, they should have won the match. They had Indian struggling at 116/5, and then again at 193/7. If they lost the match from that position, then it is definitely their fault. They had a good chance of levelling the series. How can they allow a tail-end batsmen like Chahar to score a half-century? Individual performances were there from some of the Sri Lankan players (Charith Asalanka and Avishka Fernando in batting, and Wanindu Hasaranga in bowling). But they failed to perform as a team.

[Mahdirakib]

Lol India Won after losing all batters.
I had some sort of hope in lower middle order in context of resistance but i didn't expect 2 bowlers to finish the game like this for India. Bhuvi and Chahar know thing or two about batting but this was unexpected. Finishing the game with maturity like a batter, we don't expect this from the bowlers.
Bat deep bat deep in every freaking format...

Winning a match like this is truly unexpected with lower order batsman (actually bowler). At some point I was thinking that India will loss the game but Deepak Chahar just nailed it! It was a close match like Bangladesh & Zimbabwe second ODI. Both team had equal chance to win the game during death overs. I think India will get an easy victory on the 3rd ODI match.

[Sithara007]

Winning a match like this is truly unexpected with lower order batsman (actually bowler). At some point I was thinking that India will loss the game but Deepak Chahar just nailed it! It was a close match like Bangladesh & Zimbabwe second ODI. Both team had equal chance to win the game during death overs. I think India will get an easy victory on the 3rd ODI match.

LOL.. who would have imagined that Deepak Chahar would top score for India (with the bat)? I don't want to take anything away from Chahar. But Sri Lanka has a lot to introspect, if someone like Deepak Chahar is scoring at a rate of 10 runs per over against their mainstream bowlers. The only exception to the carnage was Wanindu Hasaranga (10-0-37-3). And this is how Sri Lanka performs against an Indian side, which lacks many of the top players (they are currently based in England). Sri Lanka is also missing most of their regular players (due to completely different reasons), so it gets complicated.

[Juggy777]

Winning a match like this is truly unexpected with lower order batsman (actually bowler). At some point I was thinking that India will loss the game but Deepak Chahar just nailed it! It was a close match like Bangladesh & Zimbabwe second ODI. Both team had equal chance to win the game during death overs. I think India will get an easy victory on the 3rd ODI match.

LOL.. who would have imagined that Deepak Chahar would top score for India (with the bat)? I don't want to take anything away from Chahar. But Sri Lanka has a lot to introspect, if someone like Deepak Chahar is scoring at a rate of 10 runs per over against their mainstream bowlers. The only exception to the carnage was Wanindu Hasaranga (10-0-37-3). And this is how Sri Lanka performs against an Indian side, which lacks many of the top players (they are currently based in England). Sri Lanka is also missing most of their regular players (due to completely different reasons), so it gets complicated.

@Sithara007 the key factor in Srilanka defeat was their overconfidence, and sloppy fielding which helped India secure a win. Furthermore if you’ll saw Chahar only played the basic shots, and that’s something Srilanka can ask it’s bowlers why did they allow him so much space to settle and dictate the proceedings.

[bryant.coleman]

@Sithara007 the key factor in Srilanka defeat was their overconfidence, and sloppy fielding which helped India secure a win. Furthermore if you’ll saw Chahar only played the basic shots, and that’s something Srilanka can ask it’s bowlers why did they allow him so much space to settle and dictate the proceedings.

Sri Lanka is going through a very rough patch now. Some of the players suspended for the bio-bubble breach in England, a few players injured and finally some of the big names out of the squad because of the dispute with SLCB over the contracts. But these are not valid excuses, because India is also missing many of their main players. The difference here is that India can perform well even with their irregular players, while Sri Lanka is unable to do that. Even many of the former players are now making statements against the current players.

[Haunebu]

And this is how Sri Lanka performs against an Indian side, which lacks many of the top players (they are currently based in England). Sri Lanka is also missing most of their regular players (due to completely different reasons), so it gets complicated.

This doesn't surprise me at all. Sri Lanka has been delivering consistently poor performances in all formats from a long period of time after all their legends like Sanga, Jaya etc retired.

However, I didn't expect bowlers to help India win the game though. I usually observed Shardul performing well as a batsman, but it was Chahar this time around.

What is worse is that the Sri Lankan coach and captain had an argument on field which is seriously demoralising for the team overall. Sad times for Sri Lankan cricket.

[Vishnu.Reang]

With their latest defeats, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe remain at the bottom of the ICC Cricket World Cup Super League points table. Sri Lanka has played a total of 11 matches, and have 13 points to their name, while Zimbabwe has 10 points from 6 matches. Zimbabwe will be taking on Ireland on a 3-match ODI series next month, while for Sri Lanka, they don't have any scheduled tours this year (unless some of the previously postponed series is rescheduled after the end of the T20 world cup). Their ODI series against South Africa, Zimbabwe and Afghanistan were postponed due to COVID.

[eaLiTy]

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However, I didn't expect bowlers to help India win the game though. I usually observed Shardul performing well as a batsman, but it was Chahar this time around.

I did not expect India to win the match after they lost their 5th wicket for 115 runs and it is great to see that the team does not like loosing and it reminds me of the performance by Australia and South Africa in the 90s, where they refuse to loose even when their top payers are back in the pavilion.

What is worse is that the Sri Lankan coach and captain had an argument on field which is seriously demoralising for the team overall. Sad times for Sri Lankan cricket.

Dimuth Karunaratne and Angelo Mathews are not part of the squad and there might be a reason for that as i have seen reports of a rift between the cricket board and now the present captain and the coach.

Anyone noticed a cryptocurrency exchange (CoinDCX) sponsoring Sri Lankan team, i was surprised to see that because it was an Indian cryptocurrency exchange and ceased to operate when the RBI circular came out in 2018 and it looks like they are back in full swing to sponsor a cricket team looks awesome.

[Sithara007]

Anyone noticed a cryptocurrency exchange (CoinDCX) sponsoring Sri Lankan team, i was surprised to see that because it was an Indian cryptocurrency exchange and ceased to operate when the RBI circular came out in 2018 and it looks like they are back in full swing to sponsor a cricket team looks awesome.

CoinDCX is sponsoring the Ireland cricket team as well (they are playing a home ODI/T20 series against South Africa right now, and next month they will be taking on Sri Lanka). Given the popularity of cricket in India, they know that a majority of the viewers for the matches involving Ireland may come from India. Also, I have seen ads from exchanges such as CoinDCX and CoinSwitch Kuber while watching live matches in Hotstar and Fancode. These ads are still being banned from Indian television, but they seems to have worked around a loophole to show them in the online streaming platforms.

[Haunebu]

Found an interesting article while checking Cricket news.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.hindustantimes.com/cricket/there-can-be-just-one-competition-if-rahul-says-he-wants-to-be-india-s-coach-former-india-batsman-aakash-chopra-101626932559352-amp.html

I would prefer Rahul taking over the reins from Shastri for various reasons, but we can't deny the fact that Ravi helped the Indian team become successful over the years. As Chopra pointed out, it would be a close battle between them for the coach position.

[pakhitheboss]

Anyone noticed a cryptocurrency exchange (CoinDCX) sponsoring Sri Lankan team, i was surprised to see that because it was an Indian cryptocurrency exchange and ceased to operate when the RBI circular came out in 2018 and it looks like they are back in full swing to sponsor a cricket team looks awesome.

CoinDCX is sponsoring the Ireland cricket team as well (they are playing a home ODI/T20 series against South Africa right now, and next month they will be taking on Sri Lanka). Given the popularity of cricket in India, they know that a majority of the viewers for the matches involving Ireland may come from India. Also, I have seen ads from exchanges such as CoinDCX and CoinSwitch Kuber while watching live matches in Hotstar and Fancode. These ads are still being banned from Indian television, but they seems to have worked around a loophole to show them in the online streaming platforms.

Both needs advertisement because they have a bad reputation with the Indian crypto community. If you search them on Reddit you will read a lot of problems that users face while using these platforms. They are spending the money that they have generated from investors and if these advertisements do not work for them they will drop these kinds of marketing strategy.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Both needs advertisement because they have a bad reputation with the Indian crypto community. If you search them on Reddit you will read a lot of problems that users face while using these platforms. They are spending the money that they have generated from investors and if these advertisements do not work for them they will drop these kinds of marketing strategy.

If I need to use any of the Indian exchanges, then I would go for WazirX. Because they are being owned by the most reputable and largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world (Binance). I don't trust any of the other exchanges, such as ZebPay, CoinDCX, CoinSwitch Kuber and Bitbns. That said, the vast majority of the cryptocurrency users in India use P2P platforms to trade their coins (especially of the trade volume is of small to medium size). No one really want to take the hassle of providing the KYC information to the Indian exchanges, since this data is being used by the IT department to harass users.

[pakhitheboss]

Third and the last one day in this series between India and Srilanka will start in just a couple of minutes. Indian B team has performed very well under the captaincy of Mr Dhawan. Today's match will be an interesting one as well, the chance of the Indian team wining this match is pretty high. It will be a complete whitewash if India wins today. What do you guys think? will India win or will Srilanka?

BTW, India has won the toss, they will be batting first.

[JSRAW]

^^Its dead rubber game for fans except srilankan's fans but today India again experimenting with new set of combination. 5 debutants Sanju Samson, Nitish Rana, Rahul Chahar, Chetan Sakariya and K Gowtham, not much stake for India. On the other hand Sri lanka need to win at least one game and gain some points. In last game they lost some points due to slow over rate.

[Vishnu.Reang]

^^Its dead rubber game for fans except srilankan's fans but today India again experimenting with new set of combination. 5 debutants Sanju Samson, Nitish Rana, Rahul Chahar, Chetan Sakariya and K Gowtham, not much stake for India. On the other hand Sri lanka need to win at least one game and gain some points. In last game they lost some points due to slow over rate.

ODI matches are no longer dead rubber, as the points count towards ICC Men's Cricket World Cup Super League. For India, a win is needed today, if they want to target the no.1 position. For Sri Lanka, now it is do or die situation, as they are placed at the 12th spot (even below Netherlands and Ireland). Their chances of directly qualifying for the world cup look slim, but some hope will be alive if they get 10 points from today's game. It is really pathetic.... Sri Lanka has played 11 matches till now, and they have won just once. 

[Swordsoffreedom]

BTW, India has won the toss, they will be batting first.

The game is now suspended due to rain. In 23 overs, India lost 3 wickets and scored 147 runs. It looks like the rain will save the Sri Lankan team from another defeat. Because, India's run rate is now 6.39, undoubtedly India can collect more than 320 runs. I don't think Sri Lanka will be able to win with more than 300 runs.

[SaShiRaJaVu]

The game is now suspended due to rain. In 23 overs, India lost 3 wickets and scored 147 runs. It looks like the rain will save the Sri Lankan team from another defeat. Because, India's run rate is now 6.39, undoubtedly India can collect more than 320 runs. I don't think Sri Lanka will be able to win with more than 300 runs.

The match is continuing and India lost another wicket, India is batting at a good strike rate but loosing wickets at regular interval and as usual Prithvi Shaw started well but he could not convert them to a huge one and Sanju Samson also had a good start but lost his wicket and now Suryakumar Yadav and Hardik Pandya is in the crease and hopefully India will be able to post a good total and white wash the series .