ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[onecall123]

West Indies scored 161 runs after losing 7 wickets for 55 runs which is a big achievement for them. New Zealand's batting was not very good. Finn Allen scored 96 so New Zealand was able to set a target of more than 200. The performance of West Indies batsmen is very erratic. They should practice more. If not, the West Indies squad will not be able to play well in the next T20 World Cup.

After having good performance in first ODI, again West Indies collapse badly in second ODI and fail to achieve a target of 212 and all out on 161 thanks to Cariah Y. and Joseph's 85 runs partnership which bring them to this score otherwise they were going to be out on very small score because in this match New Zealand both main bowlers done good job and wrapped all top order batting lineup very quickly on very small target 72 for 8 to 157 for 9 is good achievement by these tail enders.

Now this series is entering last and final match which is going to be decider here can West Indies fight back, or they have to be surrender without any serious trouble because now New Zealand bowling is on good touch, and they will not allow them for any resistance against them for winning this series.

New Zealand pacers help their team to a 1-1 tie, as they lead the series comfortably. It is the right time to make some changes to the West Indies' batting line-up. The 85-run partnership between Cariah Y. and Joseph, however, has helped stabilize Innings even after collapse. Although the target was low, WI missed a long-awaited opportunity to win the series. Although West Indies still have one match left, which will be the deciding match.

[pakhitheboss]

What was the need for KL Rahul to open the batting today. I mean the opening pair of Dhavan and Gill did wonders in the last match and in my opinion it was a bad move by him. Lost his wicket for just a single run. Being a captain you need to understand your responsibility and not act as an idiot. Getting out against a weak team for just 1 run would surely invite criticism from fans and experts.

A good question but no one available her for giving us a perfect reply because KL Rahul is captain, and he can do changes like these without any prior announcement with if they allow again Dhavan and Gill then surely it's going to be different story, but they try to be in different format and lost few wickets very quickly so hopefully now they will not do this again in last match and go with pair which is doing good job in this tour.

When you are in power never think about this what is happening and who is criticizing you because you want to enjoy your power, and it's South Asian culture we have many examples like this in past as well so most chances no one will talk about this as they won this match and series without any trouble.

Being out and not in form might have compelled him to get the opening slot and show the world that I am invincible and I am what India requires.

Suddenly I feel he is going the Virat Kohli way! What is wrong with these individuals? The job was to bat and score runs, create records and lbecome legends.

Unfortunately these newbies follow Kohli and want the same limelight. Rather, they should focus on what gave them that recognitions and not fall for the limelight that their girlfriend or wife recieve everyday.

[kro55]

New Zealand pacers help their team to a 1-1 tie, as they lead the series comfortably. It is the right time to make some changes to the West Indies' batting line-up. The 85-run partnership between Cariah Y. and Joseph, however, has helped stabilize Innings even after collapse. Although the target was low, WI missed a long-awaited opportunity to win the series. Although West Indies still have one match left, which will be the deciding match.

Although the batsmen batted poorly, New Zealand won as a result of the excellent performance of the bowlers. It is not possible to guarantee that the bowlers will perform well in every match. And so if New Zealand wants to win in the last match, the team's batsmen have to play well. I think New Zealand will win the series. New Zealand's squad is more experienced than West Indies.

[Mahdirakib]

What was the need for KL Rahul to open the batting today. I mean the opening pair of Dhavan and Gill did wonders in the last match and in my opinion it was a bad move by him. Lost his wicket for just a single run. Being a captain you need to understand your responsibility and not act as an idiot. Getting out against a weak team for just 1 run would surely invite criticism from fans and experts.

The target was low, India has won the first ODI match easily without losing any wickets. KL Rahul batting stats is quite good. He has played well in the recent ODI matches. Maybe he was unlucky today and got out quickly by scoring one run only. We shouldn't make criticism if a players perform badly in just one match. However, it wasn't an ideal decision to change the batting lineup. Shikhar Dhawan and Shubman Gill opening pair was impressive in the first ODI. Indian team should have used the same batting lineup in today's match.

[GigaBit]

Zimbabwe  vs  India

The second match between Zimbabwe and India is also going to be completely one-sided. India won the toss and decided to field. After losing 6 wickets in 29 overs, Zimbabwe collected only 107 runs. Despite performing well against Bangladesh, Sikandar Raja failed in both matches against India. Zimbabwean opener Kaitano returned to the fold with 7 runs from 32 balls. Zimbabwe's players are not yet experienced enough. They should host series against teams like Bangladesh, Ireland and Afghanistan.

Zimbabwe is not able to defend India in any way. In the 2nd match they scored less runs from the 1st match. This is very much clear that they did not improve in this match. All the matches may be one sided. In Zimbabwe, the opening 5 batsmen were defeated to build resistance against India. Naturally they have to stay long in wicket otherwise they can't do well.

[virasog]

Zimbabwe  vs  India

The second match between Zimbabwe and India is also going to be completely one-sided. India won the toss and decided to field. After losing 6 wickets in 29 overs, Zimbabwe collected only 107 runs. Despite performing well against Bangladesh, Sikandar Raja failed in both matches against India. Zimbabwean opener Kaitano returned to the fold with 7 runs from 32 balls. Zimbabwe's players are not yet experienced enough. They should host series against teams like Bangladesh, Ireland and Afghanistan.

Zimbabwe is not able to defend India in any way. In the 2nd match they scored less runs from the 1st match. This is very much clear that they did not improve in this match. All the matches may be one sided. In Zimbabwe, the opening 5 batsmen were defeated to build resistance against India. Naturally they have to stay long in wicket otherwise they can't do well.

Zimbabwe batting first and giving a very low target makes an easy win for the Indian team. Sanju Samson from India took three catches in the match and was declared as the man of the match. Also, he scored 40+ quick runs. India has won this series and the third match will not be as interested now. However, these wins may give more confidence to the Indian team before the Asia cup.

[smartaction]

Zimbabwe  vs  India

The second match between Zimbabwe and India is also going to be completely one-sided. India won the toss and decided to field. After losing 6 wickets in 29 overs, Zimbabwe collected only 107 runs. Despite performing well against Bangladesh, Sikandar Raja failed in both matches against India. Zimbabwean opener Kaitano returned to the fold with 7 runs from 32 balls. Zimbabwe's players are not yet experienced enough. They should host series against teams like Bangladesh, Ireland and Afghanistan.

Zimbabwe is not able to defend India in any way. In the 2nd match they scored less runs from the 1st match. This is very much clear that they did not improve in this match. All the matches may be one sided. In Zimbabwe, the opening 5 batsmen were defeated to build resistance against India. Naturally they have to stay long in wicket otherwise they can't do well.

Zimbabwe batting first and giving a very low target makes an easy win for the Indian team. Sanju Samson from India took three catches in the match and was declared as the man of the match. Also, he scored 40+ quick runs. India has won this series and the third match will not be as interested now. However, these wins may give more confidence to the Indian team before the Asia cup.

India beat Zimbabwe again. Zimbabwe scored 161 runs in 38.1 overs . India beat Zimbabwe by 167 runs in just 25.4 overs . India meanwhile played brilliantly.  But they lost 5 wickets for 167 runs which is pathetic for india.

[YinShuiSiYuan]

India beat Zimbabwe again. Zimbabwe scored 161 runs in 38.1 overs . India beat Zimbabwe by 167 runs in just 25.4 overs . India meanwhile played brilliantly.  But they lost 5 wickets for 167 runs which is pathetic for india.

It was an easy win for india today. Only Sean Williams from Zim side was able to score 42 runs and Ryan Burl 39 runs other then that no one troubled the scorer. Zim won last ODI series againest Bangladesh and that gives hope that Zim crikcet is improving but those hopes were shattered in this series againest India.

[Hamza2424]

India beat Zimbabwe again. Zimbabwe scored 161 runs in 38.1 overs . India beat Zimbabwe by 167 runs in just 25.4 overs . India meanwhile played brilliantly.  But they lost 5 wickets for 167 runs which is pathetic for india.

It was an easy win for india today. Only Sean Williams from Zim side was able to score 42 runs and Ryan Burl 39 runs other then that no one troubled the scorer. Zim won last ODI series againest Bangladesh and that gives hope that Zim crikcet is improving but those hopes were shattered in this series againest India.

Bro don't forget the Level India is very strong team by about many points. But ZIM is a struggling team as they still exploring their best. But that was sad that ZIM got clean sweeped by all the Wickets it happens sometimes lets give another chance another time. Well Played by Indian Bowlers especially. So poont it is was good match.

[noormcs5]

India beat Zimbabwe again. Zimbabwe scored 161 runs in 38.1 overs . India beat Zimbabwe by 167 runs in just 25.4 overs . India meanwhile played brilliantly.  But they lost 5 wickets for 167 runs which is pathetic for india.

It was an easy win for india today. Only Sean Williams from Zim side was able to score 42 runs and Ryan Burl 39 runs other then that no one troubled the scorer. Zim won last ODI series againest Bangladesh and that gives hope that Zim crikcet is improving but those hopes were shattered in this series againest India.

Bro don't forget the Level India is very strong team by about many points. But ZIM is a struggling team as they still exploring their best. But that was sad that ZIM got clean sweeped by all the Wickets it happens sometimes lets give another chance another time. Well Played by Indian Bowlers especially. So poont it is was good match.

I would not classify this match as a good one but rather it was a boring one sided match. There is no match between Zimbabwe and India team and it was always known that India would have the upper hand in the series and they should win it comfortably.
Also, the probability of a clean sweep is very much possible but then how many times we have seen the strong teams experiment with new players if they have won the series and may not focus on winning all the matches 

[romero121]

Looking for the decider match between West Indies and New Zealand. In the second game New Zealand made the easy win and managed to tie the series 1-1. In that match Finn Allen made a tremendous performance scoring 96 runs while the entire team struggled to perform. The target looked chaseable, but the opening order of West Indies weren't good to carry the responsibility. If they play in such a way this match too gonna be loss for them. A win in this match is much important for West Indies, because winning the series adds 10 World Cup Super League points.

[rugrats]

A good question but no one available her for giving us a perfect reply because KL Rahul is captain, and he can do changes like these without any prior announcement with if they allow again Dhavan and Gill then surely it's going to be different story, but they try to be in different format and lost few wickets very quickly so hopefully now they will not do this again in last match and go with pair which is doing good job in this tour.
When you are in power never think about this what is happening and who is criticizing you because you want to enjoy your power, and it's South Asian culture we have many examples like this in past as well so most chances no one will talk about this as they won this match and series without any trouble.

Being out and not in form might have compelled him to get the opening slot and show the world that I am invincible and I am what India requires.
Suddenly I feel he is going the Virat Kohli way! What is wrong with these individuals? The job was to bat and score runs, create records and lbecome legends.
Unfortunately these newbies follow Kohli and want the same limelight. Rather, they should focus on what gave them that recognitions and not fall for the limelight that their girlfriend or wife recieve everyday.

A performance like this against a team like Zimbabwe is obviously not going to be good for his resume. Obviously, a better performance was expected from him. He should realize that India is playing against Zimbabwe and any kind of excuse like his performance was not good because of the pressure of captaincy is not going to be an option for him to make. But other than that it was very easy to match for India and they also won the match as expected.

[pakhitheboss]

Looking for the decider match between West Indies and New Zealand. In the second game New Zealand made the easy win and managed to tie the series 1-1. In that match Finn Allen made a tremendous performance scoring 96 runs while the entire team struggled to perform. The target looked chaseable, but the opening order of West Indies weren't good to carry the responsibility. If they play in such a way this match too gonna be loss for them. A win in this match is much important for West Indies, because winning the series adds 10 World Cup Super League points.

My expectation was that this series would have been one sider but unfortunately, Newzealand has disappointed. On paper, the NZ side is far much better than the WI side. The decider match would again depend on how good the bowlers are in this match as the Kensington Oval pitch supports bowlers. I am expecting NZ to win the last match and win the series.

[rojan]

Looking for the decider match between West Indies and New Zealand. In the second game New Zealand made the easy win and managed to tie the series 1-1. In that match Finn Allen made a tremendous performance scoring 96 runs while the entire team struggled to perform. The target looked chaseable, but the opening order of West Indies weren't good to carry the responsibility. If they play in such a way this match too gonna be loss for them. A win in this match is much important for West Indies, because winning the series adds 10 World Cup Super League points.

My expectation was that this series would have been one sider but unfortunately, Newzealand has disappointed. On paper, the NZ side is far much better than the WI side. The decider match would again depend on how good the bowlers are in this match as the Kensington Oval pitch supports bowlers. I am expecting NZ to win the last match and win the series.

New Zealand will win the last match.  It would be a mistake to expect that I think New Zealand will play a poor game in the last match.  Newzealand have some good players who.  Balo can't do anything in matches.  They got out in those matches by scoring few runs.  So with them, I can't believe that they can play ball game in the sixth match.  But anyway we have to wait for that aunt now.  Will see what happens.

[Sithara007]

In ODI Sanju's fans might be correct and i also like to see him getting big rope but only in ODI not T-20, may be his time will come again after T-20 2022 WC.

In t-20 he had fair amount of opportunities and he failed to capitalize on that, 20-ish average with 135 SR is not going to help his case anyway. If he had average of 30+ with the same SR then management could have think about him fitting into top 5 but for top5 slots competition is tough and you can't survive in such setup with those numbers. 

As a player, Sanju Samson is one of the big names in the IPL. But I don't like his attitude. A few months ago, he had an altercation with the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) officials regarding team selection for domestic matches. And in this season of the IPL, he refused to give chances to Karun Nair, and chose instead to stick with Riyan Parag (who was the most useless IPL player in the entire season). He is quite young and has a lot of potential, but sometimes keeping a low profile helps to grow at international level.

[tomos81]

Looking for the decider match between West Indies and New Zealand. In the second game New Zealand made the easy win and managed to tie the series 1-1. In that match Finn Allen made a tremendous performance scoring 96 runs while the entire team struggled to perform. The target looked chaseable, but the opening order of West Indies weren't good to carry the responsibility. If they play in such a way this match too gonna be loss for them. A win in this match is much important for West Indies, because winning the series adds 10 World Cup Super League points.

My expectation was that this series would have been one sider but unfortunately, Newzealand has disappointed. On paper, the NZ side is far much better than the WI side. The decider match would again depend on how good the bowlers are in this match as the Kensington Oval pitch supports bowlers. I am expecting NZ to win the last match and win the series.

New Zealand will win the last match.  It would be a mistake to expect that I think New Zealand will play a poor game in the last match.  Newzealand have some good players who.  Balo can't do anything in matches.  They got out in those matches by scoring few runs.  So with them, I can't believe that they can play ball game in the sixth match.  But anyway we have to wait for that aunt now.  Will see what happens.

India won by 5 wickets against Zimbabwe. Sanju Samson was selected as Man of the Match in this match. Against India, the Zimbabwe cricket team went into bat first and got all out by scoring 161 runs in 38.1 overs. With a target of 162 runs, the Indian cricket team went into bat and scored 167 runs for five wickets in four overs for 25 points to win the match. India cricket team won this match but lead 2-0.

[JSRAW]

In ODI Sanju's fans might be correct and i also like to see him getting big rope but only in ODI not T-20, may be his time will come again after T-20 2022 WC.

In t-20 he had fair amount of opportunities and he failed to capitalize on that, 20-ish average with 135 SR is not going to help his case anyway. If he had average of 30+ with the same SR then management could have think about him fitting into top 5 but for top5 slots competition is tough and you can't survive in such setup with those numbers. 

As a player, Sanju Samson is one of the big names in the IPL. But I don't like his attitude. A few months ago, he had an altercation with the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) officials regarding team selection for domestic matches. And in this season of the IPL, he refused to give chances to Karun Nair, and chose instead to stick with Riyan Parag (who was the most useless IPL player in the entire season). He is quite young and has a lot of potential, but sometimes keeping a low profile helps to grow at international level.

Ha! that's a first instance i'm hearing attitude complain about him and didn't knew about these incidents. I do consider him as down to earth guy on-off the field.

One could strongly argue about him being bias against some players but at the same time Captain should've say when selecting team for obvious reasons.

[YinShuiSiYuan]

As a player, Sanju Samson is one of the big names in the IPL. But I don't like his attitude. A few months ago, he had an altercation with the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) officials regarding team selection for domestic matches. And in this season of the IPL, he refused to give chances to Karun Nair, and chose instead to stick with Riyan Parag (who was the most useless IPL player in the entire season). He is quite young and has a lot of potential, but sometimes keeping a low profile helps to grow at international level.

That's not something new. The same was with Kohli, he is an outstanding player but have attitude issues. Sanju is at start of his international career and if he maintains such attitude then there are rear chances that he might progress on his international career. He was man of the match in his last ODI because of his batting and fielding, for now he can enjoy.

[Smack That Ace]

In ODI Sanju's fans might be correct and i also like to see him getting big rope but only in ODI not T-20, may be his time will come again after T-20 2022 WC.
In t-20 he had fair amount of opportunities and he failed to capitalize on that, 20-ish average with 135 SR is not going to help his case anyway. If he had average of 30+ with the same SR then management could have think about him fitting into top 5 but for top5 slots competition is tough and you can't survive in such setup with those numbers. 

As a player, Sanju Samson is one of the big names in the IPL. But I don't like his attitude. A few months ago, he had an altercation with the Kerala Cricket Association (KCA) officials regarding team selection for domestic matches. And in this season of the IPL, he refused to give chances to Karun Nair, and chose instead to stick with Riyan Parag (who was the most useless IPL player in the entire season). He is quite young and has a lot of potential, but sometimes keeping a low profile helps to grow at international level.

Ha! that's a first instance i'm hearing attitude complain about him and didn't knew about these incidents. I do consider him as down to earth guy on-off the field.
One could strongly argue about him being bias against some players but at the same time Captain should've say when selecting team for obvious reasons.

As a human everyone has issues. And when it comes to certain players those issues are inexplicable. Sanju Samson is obviously a human and to err is human. But these types of mistakes are unacceptable at this level. I have no idea why he didn’t give any chance to Karun Nair. Instead, he gave Riyan Parag chances after chances when it was evident that he was going to fail. Those types of mistakes can obviously be very detrimental to the team. In fact, it is not only him that seems to love to be in the spotlight, it seems like Indian players, in general, like to be in the spotlight one way or another. Keeping a low profile is not something they aspire to do.


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Duke

[GigaBit]

Looking for the decider match between West Indies and New Zealand. In the second game New Zealand made the easy win and managed to tie the series 1-1. In that match Finn Allen made a tremendous performance scoring 96 runs while the entire team struggled to perform. The target looked chaseable, but the opening order of West Indies weren't good to carry the responsibility. If they play in such a way this match too gonna be loss for them. A win in this match is much important for West Indies, because winning the series adds 10 World Cup Super League points.

Today is the last match between West Indies vs New Zealand for this ODI series. Where both have won one match. Today will be a series deciding match. I'd say both teams are perfect. 50-50 chance of getting the series for both of them. Winning this series will be a lot of motivation on behalf of west indies. But New Zealand is a reliable team that is not easy to beat.