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[Fritwakky]

Class batting by Latham & Williamson today! They both remained till the end and destroyed India's bowling. Except Usman Malik every other bowler was a failure today especially Arshdeep Sing. Rishab Panth form has been in question lately and I think after the series he should take a break. Newzealand have taken a lead in this series and now it all depends on Shikhar Dhawan and his team to work go back and work on those areas where they were not good.

What a great match we saw. New Zealand beat India brilliantly and took a 1-0 lead in the series. India batted first and set a target of 306 runs, losing 7 wickets. Next New Zealand managed to win by losing 3 wickets with few balls to spare. Kane Williamson and Latham, with their brilliant partnership, New Zealand won by a big margin.

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1st ODI  Afghanistan tour to Sirlanka.
Afghanistan bat first and gave target of 294 runs , Afghanistan batsman perform was outclass specially Ibrahim zadran scored a century of 106 , Rahmanullaah Gurbaz, rahmat Shah scored half centuries soo that's a good piece of batting by Afghanistan.  Now Sirlanka started their innings we'll see how they'll bat to chase this target .
Afganistan ballers have to perform well to win this match.

[Fritwakky]

Umran Malik is having a good outing so far. At this point, his figures are 8-0-46-2. He has made use of the pace and bounce at Eden Park, Auckland. In general all the bowlers have performed well for India and the required run rate for New Zealand has now crept above the 8 run per over mark. So far only 5 bowlers have been used by the Indian captain. BTW, no part-time bowlers in the Indian XI. If they need a couple of overs in between then who is going to bowl? Shikhar Dhawan or Shreyas Iyer, I guess.

New Zealand's chances of victory are quite high so far. Kane Williamson is performing well, as well as his teammate Latham the batsman is also playing well. If this partnership lasts till 45 overs then I see New Zealand victory for sure. India's bowlers will need to bowl more aggressively to break this partnership.

I thought New Zealand would struggle to score the runs India scored but I was totally wrong.  New Zealand is batting very well. It seems that New Zealand will win the match very easily. New Zealand has brought this game completely under their control. But India is batting well in this match but India is performing very poorly in bowling.

New Zealand is going to win required run rate is  1.89 and given only three wickets to India. India perform poorly here.
And therefore new Zealand now going to win the match.

New Zealand won match while typing.

Kane Williamson and Tom Latham partnership was great.
Both are not out Kane Williamson made 94* runs for 98 balls. And Tom Latham made 145* runs for 104 balls.

Wow what a great partnership we saw. All the cricket lovers got great pleasure from seeing the partnership of Kane Williamson and Latham. India's bowlers repeatedly failed to show their mettle in front of these two men. If India's bowling could have dismissed these two within 35 overs, then India could have won.

[CryptoBuds]

Class batting by Latham & Williamson today! They both remained till the end and destroyed India's bowling. Except Usman Malik every other bowler was a failure today especially Arshdeep Sing. Rishab Panth form has been in question lately and I think after the series he should take a break. Newzealand have taken a lead in this series and now it all depends on Shikhar Dhawan and his team to work go back and work on those areas where they were not good.

The performance of New Zealand's batsmen in the T20 series was very poor. It was unimaginable that they would make such a grand comeback in the ODI series. Batting against a huge target of 307, New Zealand won quite easily today. We don't see good performances from openers Finn Allen and Conway. But Williamson and Latham's performance was excellent. Tom Latham was unbeaten on 145 off 104 balls. New Zealand won because of such amazing batting. If the batsmen continue this performance, they can defeat India in the upcoming matches as well.

[ThemePen]

Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan 1st ODI match started. Afghanistan won the toss and batted. Afghanistan scored 275 runs in 48 overs and lost 4 wickets. Sri Lanka bowlers are bowling well in this match.  As he is doing well, he will perform well in batting.

Afghanistan batted first and set Sri Lanka a target of 294 runs.  Sri Lanka's run rate is now 5.33 and they need to keep their run rate at 5.94 to win.  Kusal Mendis got 1 run out in 5 balls in this match.  Now to see who will win this match.  But I think this game will be a different type of game between the two teams.

Riquired Run rate is low at this time. And no one can predict now. Who will win. Because Sri Lanka already given two wickets to Afghanistan. And if Sri Lanka will give more two wickets so it will make more pressure on Sri Lanka and the match will go in the favor of Afghanistan. BTW let see.

[onecall123]

I think you have said the right thing. If Bharat's bowling could have taken these two batting wickets of New Zealand earlier, then New Zealand could not have scored so many runs in this match and New Zealand could not have won this match so easily. New Zealand's  The batsmen have taken possession of this match and the players of New Zealand have destroyed all the games.

Williamson and Latham played beautifully together and won the game. There are a lot of concerns regarding Indian bowling. Unless they resolve this issue, more embarrassing results are likely to follow. In addition to Umran's pace, he needs to improve his line and length. It is not enough to have pace, you must also have some variation. There has been a weight gain for Shardul Thakur. In an over, he conceded 25 runs, which doesn't seem fast bowler. An inexperienced bowling staff and a pathetic captain cost India the match.

[Minor Miner]

Afghanistan V Sri Lanka

I am enjoying Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match now. Afghanistan managed to set a target of 295 runs. Every batsman in the top order performed well. Ibrahim Zadran scored 106 runs. Also, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rahmat Shah managed to collect more than 50. A target of 295 runs in 50 overs seems to be a big enough target. Afghanistan is more likely to win.

At the end of 14 overs, Sri Lanka collected 90 runs. Their run rate is quite good. But they lost three valuable wickets. Opener Pathum Nissanka remains unbeaten with 45 off 39 balls. He is playing very well.

[romero121]

Afghanistan V Sri Lanka

I am enjoying Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match now. Afghanistan managed to set a target of 295 runs. Every batsman in the top order performed well. Ibrahim Zadran scored 106 runs. Also, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rahmat Shah managed to collect more than 50. A target of 295 runs in 50 overs seems to be a big enough target. Afghanistan is more likely to win.

At the end of 14 overs, Sri Lanka collected 90 runs. Their run rate is quite good. But they lost three valuable wickets. Opener Pathum Nissanka remains unbeaten with 45 off 39 balls. He is playing very well.

It looks like the match have come into the hands of Afghanistan. Losing two more wickets will make it an easy win for Afghanistan. Even at the loss of wickets, Sri Lanka keeps the runrate undisturbed. This ease out the pressure of the upcoming batsmen. As expected the match is very enjoyable. With 4 wickets loss, Sri Lanka doesn't have much batting order to follow. Possibly Sri Lanka will end the innings within 200 runs.

[ZAINmalik75]

Afghanistan V Sri Lanka

I am enjoying Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match now. Afghanistan managed to set a target of 295 runs. Every batsman in the top order performed well. Ibrahim Zadran scored 106 runs. Also, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rahmat Shah managed to collect more than 50. A target of 295 runs in 50 overs seems to be a big enough target. Afghanistan is more likely to win.

At the end of 14 overs, Sri Lanka collected 90 runs. Their run rate is quite good. But they lost three valuable wickets. Opener Pathum Nissanka remains unbeaten with 45 off 39 balls. He is playing very well.

It looks like the match have come into the hands of Afghanistan. Losing two more wickets will make it an easy win for Afghanistan. Even at the loss of wickets, Sri Lanka keeps the runrate undisturbed. This ease out the pressure of the upcoming batsmen. As expected the match is very enjoyable. With 4 wickets loss, Sri Lanka doesn't have much batting order to follow. Possibly Sri Lanka will end the innings within 200 runs.

I think so it's still not because SiriLanka has need  165 runs in remaining 27 overs and his opening batter nissanaka is set himself at pitch by scoring 70* runs , so I think if he keep wicket in hand and take runs slowly they can easily chase this target, but credit goes to Afghanistan batter who score huges runs and bulid this big target. Now it's depend on bowling if they dismiss the SiriLanka opening batter they it may affect match, but still I believe that SiriLanka can do it

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Afghanistan V Sri Lanka

I am enjoying Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match now. Afghanistan managed to set a target of 295 runs. Every batsman in the top order performed well. Ibrahim Zadran scored 106 runs. Also, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rahmat Shah managed to collect more than 50. A target of 295 runs in 50 overs seems to be a big enough target. Afghanistan is more likely to win.

At the end of 14 overs, Sri Lanka collected 90 runs. Their run rate is quite good. But they lost three valuable wickets. Opener Pathum Nissanka remains unbeaten with 45 off 39 balls. He is playing very well.

It looks like the match have come into the hands of Afghanistan. Losing two more wickets will make it an easy win for Afghanistan. Even at the loss of wickets, Sri Lanka keeps the runrate undisturbed. This ease out the pressure of the upcoming batsmen. As expected the match is very enjoyable. With 4 wickets loss, Sri Lanka doesn't have much batting order to follow. Possibly Sri Lanka will end the innings within 200 runs.

I think so it's still not because SiriLanka has need  165 runs in remaining 27 overs and his opening batter nissanaka is set himself at pitch by scoring 70* runs , so I think if he keep wicket in hand and take runs slowly they can easily chase this target, but credit goes to Afghanistan batter who score huges runs and bulid this big target. Now it's depend on bowling if they dismiss the SiriLanka opening batter they it may affect match, but still I believe that SiriLanka can do it

It's looks Sri Lanka really was in underpressure of Afghanistan.  They have already lost their five wickets before half way through the match, although their opener Pathum Nissanka is trying hard to swing the match in their favor I don't think it will be possible as they are getting completely caught by the Afghanis today. Today Sri Lanka's batting and bowling both sides showed a lot of weakness.

[Mahdirakib]

Anyway, India did cross the 300 mark but i think they are still 20-ish runs short here. Won't be easy to defend this total, considering bowling is inexperienced and new. Credit to Kiwis bowlers, they didn't allow Indian batters to free their arms (except Sundar's cameo) despite having wickets in the bank. Their fielding was amazing throughout the first inning, they at least saved 15-20 runs.

You were right, but India needed at least 30 to 40 more runs to win the match. Although they have batted quite well, but we shouldn't expect a big score from the young inexperienced team. As an experienced player, Shikhar Dhawan contributed well with his batting. The debut performance (in ODI) of Arshdeep Singh wasn't good at all. Indian bowlers had created pressure on New Zealand by taking the first 3 wickets, but the partnership of Williamson & Latham was unbeatable.

[jack05]

Afghanistan V Sri Lanka

I am enjoying Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match now. Afghanistan managed to set a target of 295 runs. Every batsman in the top order performed well. Ibrahim Zadran scored 106 runs. Also, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rahmat Shah managed to collect more than 50. A target of 295 runs in 50 overs seems to be a big enough target. Afghanistan is more likely to win.

At the end of 14 overs, Sri Lanka collected 90 runs. Their run rate is quite good. But they lost three valuable wickets. Opener Pathum Nissanka remains unbeaten with 45 off 39 balls. He is playing very well.

It looks like the match have come into the hands of Afghanistan. Losing two more wickets will make it an easy win for Afghanistan. Even at the loss of wickets, Sri Lanka keeps the runrate undisturbed. This ease out the pressure of the upcoming batsmen. As expected the match is very enjoyable. With 4 wickets loss, Sri Lanka doesn't have much batting order to follow. Possibly Sri Lanka will end the innings within 200 runs.

The match between Afghanistan and Sri Lanka was fairly good. Both teams played good cricket. But the rule is that one team will lose and one team will win. Afghanistan won by 60 runs. Afghanistan batsmen have shown great skill. Besides, the Afghan bowlers were able to pick up the wickets of the Sri Lankan batsmen in no time and ensured the victory.

[BobK71]

Afghanistan V Sri Lanka

I am enjoying Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match now. Afghanistan managed to set a target of 295 runs. Every batsman in the top order performed well. Ibrahim Zadran scored 106 runs. Also, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rahmat Shah managed to collect more than 50. A target of 295 runs in 50 overs seems to be a big enough target. Afghanistan is more likely to win.

At the end of 14 overs, Sri Lanka collected 90 runs. Their run rate is quite good. But they lost three valuable wickets. Opener Pathum Nissanka remains unbeaten with 45 off 39 balls. He is playing very well.

It looks like the match have come into the hands of Afghanistan. Losing two more wickets will make it an easy win for Afghanistan. Even at the loss of wickets, Sri Lanka keeps the runrate undisturbed. This ease out the pressure of the upcoming batsmen. As expected the match is very enjoyable. With 4 wickets loss, Sri Lanka doesn't have much batting order to follow. Possibly Sri Lanka will end the innings within 200 runs.

I think so it's still not because SiriLanka has need  165 runs in remaining 27 overs and his opening batter nissanaka is set himself at pitch by scoring 70* runs , so I think if he keep wicket in hand and take runs slowly they can easily chase this target, but credit goes to Afghanistan batter who score huges runs and bulid this big target. Now it's depend on bowling if they dismiss the SiriLanka opening batter they it may affect match, but still I believe that SiriLanka can do it

It's looks Sri Lanka really was in underpressure of Afghanistan.  They have already lost their five wickets before half way through the match, although their opener Pathum Nissanka is trying hard to swing the match in their favor I don't think it will be possible as they are getting completely caught by the Afghanis today. Today Sri Lanka's batting and bowling both sides showed a lot of weakness.

Afghanistan is not only doing well in T20 cricket. They have now brought perfection in ODI as well. Afghanistan won by 60 runs against Sri Lanka today. Afghanistan has been very good at batting. Ibrahim Zadran has managed to score a century. Gurbaz managed to score 53 runs Rahmat 52 and Najibullah 46 runs. With their batting storm, Afghanistan managed to score 294 runs for 8 wickets. On the contrary, Sri Lanka lost the match by 238 runs and lost all wickets. Afghanistan cricket has promising batsmen who are capable of taking their cricket to greater heights.

[ZAINmalik75]

India again lost his first ODI against New Zealand, no doubt India play really amazing and give a big target for new Zealand to chase, but the way new Zealand play it's phenomenal, after first wicket of f.allen in early overs I taught that India will take a strong grip on new Zealand but the partnership of Williamson and Latham takeaway the match from India hands, Latham play an unbelievable inning by scoring 145 and Williamson score 94 and that's the main point of India loss

[Mamun74]

Afghanistan both site were outstanding today match against Sri Lanka. Afghanistan batters done their job 1st innings and bowlers did 2nd innings. It was very good match for Afghanistan. Afghanistan won by 60 runs. It is big win against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka didn’t do their job as well they were underdressed in that match. Hopefully, they will be come back in very next match cz they have the good team as well.

[Party24*7]

Class batting by Latham & Williamson today! They both remained till the end and destroyed India's bowling. Except Usman Malik every other bowler was a failure today especially Arshdeep Sing. Rishab Panth form has been in question lately and I think after the series he should take a break. Newzealand have taken a lead in this series and now it all depends on Shikhar Dhawan and his team to work go back and work on those areas where they were not good.

The performance of New Zealand's batsmen in the T20 series was very poor. It was unimaginable that they would make such a grand comeback in the ODI series. Batting against a huge target of 307, New Zealand won quite easily today. We don't see good performances from openers Finn Allen and Conway. But Williamson and Latham's performance was excellent. Tom Latham was unbeaten on 145 off 104 balls. New Zealand won because of such amazing batting. If the batsmen continue this performance, they can defeat India in the upcoming matches as well.

Credit has to be given to Kane Williamson and Tom Latham. It is actually a little sad that Kane Williamson did not get his century and tom Latham did not get his 150. But they did very well for New Zealand and they stayed there to make sure that New Zealand win the match. I thought India had a good enough total on the board. But the bowling of India was bad. None of them had a decent performance in this match. Only Washington Sundar was good, but even though he was economical, he did not get any wickets.

[noormcs5]

India again lost his first ODI against New Zealand, no doubt India play really amazing and give a big target for new Zealand to chase, but the way new Zealand play it's phenomenal, after first wicket of f.allen in early overs I taught that India will take a strong grip on new Zealand but the partnership of Williamson and Latham takeaway the match from India hands, Latham play an unbelievable inning by scoring 145 and Williamson score 94 and that's the main point of India loss

This was an unexpected win for New Zealand and i was not expecting that they could chase 306 runs too easily. Do we have to say that New Zealand's batting was outclassed in this match or do Indian again have difficulties with their bowling and are unable to defend a big total 

Umran Malik took 2 wickets but there was no Indian bowler whom we can say tried to contain the New Zealand batsmen. Also not to forget that Tom Latham scored 145 runs in only 104 balls and this is a very good strike rate in a one-day international match. He must be disappointed not to make 150 runs and make history.

[teosanru]

India again lost his first ODI against New Zealand, no doubt India play really amazing and give a big target for new Zealand to chase, but the way new Zealand play it's phenomenal, after first wicket of f.allen in early overs I taught that India will take a strong grip on new Zealand but the partnership of Williamson and Latham takeaway the match from India hands, Latham play an unbelievable inning by scoring 145 and Williamson score 94 and that's the main point of India loss

This was an unexpected win for New Zealand and i was not expecting that they could chase 306 runs too easily. Do we have to say that New Zealand's batting was outclassed in this match or do Indian again have difficulties with their bowling and are unable to defend a big total 

Umran Malik took 2 wickets but there was no Indian bowler whom we can say tried to contain the New Zealand batsmen. Also not to forget that Tom Latham scored 145 runs in only 104 balls and this is a very good strike rate in a one-day international match. He must be disappointed not to make 150 runs and make history.

Same for me really, Indian bowling was really below par, it felt as if the bowlers of Indian team have become too much familiar to bowling in T20. They were not really focusing on building the pressure and then taking up wickets they were focusing more on individual deliveries which new zealand played very intelligently so technically the strategy played by them was altogether wrong. I think  they will get better after a couple of games.

[LittleBitFunny]

Afghanistan both site were outstanding today match against Sri Lanka. Afghanistan batters done their job 1st innings and bowlers did 2nd innings. It was very good match for Afghanistan. Afghanistan won by 60 runs. It is big win against Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka didn’t do their job as well they were underdressed in that match. Hopefully, they will be come back in very next match cz they have the good team as well.

You are right. Afghanistan's batsmen and bowlers both performed very well. Afghanistan managed to set a big target of 295 due to the excellent performance of the top-order batsmen. On the other hand, Sri Lanka batsmen's performance was very poor. Opener Pathum Nissanka scored 85 runs and Hasaranga de Silva scored 66 runs off 46 balls. Besides, no other batsman in the team can perform well. The pitch was not bowling-friendly. Runs were being collected easily. Even then the Sri Lankan players could not survive at the crease. Fazalhaq Farooqi and Gulabdin Naib bowled brilliantly. Both these bowlers took 7 wickets.

[crunck]

India again lost his first ODI against New Zealand, no doubt India play really amazing and give a big target for new Zealand to chase, but the way new Zealand play it's phenomenal, after first wicket of f.allen in early overs I taught that India will take a strong grip on new Zealand but the partnership of Williamson and Latham takeaway the match from India hands, Latham play an unbelievable inning by scoring 145 and Williamson score 94 and that's the main point of India loss

This was an unexpected win for New Zealand and i was not expecting that they could chase 306 runs too easily. Do we have to say that New Zealand's batting was outclassed in this match or do Indian again have difficulties with their bowling and are unable to defend a big total 
Umran Malik took 2 wickets but there was no Indian bowler whom we can say tried to contain the New Zealand batsmen. Also not to forget that Tom Latham scored 145 runs in only 104 balls and this is a very good strike rate in a one-day international match. He must be disappointed not to make 150 runs and make history.

Same for me really, Indian bowling was really below par, it felt as if the bowlers of Indian team have become too much familiar to bowling in T20. They were not really focusing on building the pressure and then taking up wickets they were focusing more on individual deliveries which new zealand played very intelligently so technically the strategy played by them was altogether wrong. I think  they will get better after a couple of games.

Indian bowling has lost manpower. We don't see any good performances from Indian bowlers in T20 World Cup. However, they were quite effective against New Zealand in the last T20 matches. But in today's match again we saw their bad bowling. Indian management should now focus more on their bowlers. Otherwise, their performance will be worse in the next matches.