ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[Swordsoffreedom]

Namibia can't be trusted too much. Because ‍accoridng to the last match performance, UAE will be ahead. UAE has some good bowlers who have the ability to create pressure on Namibian batsmen. I can't give an idea about which team will do better at this point. But the betting odds are in favor of Namibia. After the start of the 2nd innings it is possible to guess which team is going to win today's match. Nothing can be predicted in a low scoring match between these two teams.

The match between Namibia and UAE was also won by Namibia today. Moreover, the match has been won very convincingly, and it has also been won very easily for them. First of all, I found it a little funny that UAE scored just 166 by playing the whole 50 overs and they still had a wicket in hand even though they had played the whole 50 overs. In the end, Namibia won the match by seven wickets. With almost 22 overs left in the game, the team is in a comfortable position. The game was absolutely one sided in this instance.

In the previous match between Namibia and UAE, it was UAE to win the match by a wicket. In that match the target is just 91 runs and to reach the score UAE lost 9 wickets. This time Namibia have played better and won the match. It was Michael van Lingen who contributed almost half the target scoring 71 runs. If his wicket have lost earlier, the match could've been same as the previous match going closer.

I don't know why the performance of these teams is so erratic. In the first match, the team scored only 91 runs, in the second match they scored 167 runs in 28.2 overs losing only 3 wickets and winning. This match was completely one-sided. UAE's bowlers can't do much good. I expected a bit better performance from the UAE players. But after some responsible batting by Namibian batsmen Lingen and Louwrens, they reached the target with ease. However, the performance of teams like Nepal, UAE and Scotland is slowly improving.

[YinShuiSiYuan]

UAE VS Namibia

UAE vs Namibia match is going on now. At the end of 40 overs, UAE collected only 120 runs with the loss of 5 wickets. UAE batsmen are batting very slow. Rizwan remains unbeaten with 45 runs off 114 balls. Probably UAE will be able to target between 160-180. Namibian bowler Bernard Scholtz gave only 10 runs in 8 overs. He bowled well. Also the performance of Namibia's bowlers was quite controlled. However, if UAE can set a target of 170 then they have a better chance of winning. Because Namibia's batting line-up is weak.

Namibia can't be trusted too much. Because ‍accoridng to the last match performance, UAE will be ahead. UAE has some good bowlers who have the ability to create pressure on Namibian batsmen. I can't give an idea about which team will do better at this point. But the betting odds are in favor of Namibia. After the start of the 2nd innings it is possible to guess which team is going to win today's match. Nothing can be predicted in a low scoring match between these two teams.

The match between Namibia and UAE was also won by Namibia today. Moreover, the match has been won very convincingly, and it has also been won very easily for them. First of all, I found it a little funny that UAE scored just 166 by playing the whole 50 overs and they still had a wicket in hand even though they had played the whole 50 overs. In the end, Namibia won the match by seven wickets. With almost 22 overs left in the game, the team is in a comfortable position. The game was absolutely one sided in this instance.

In the previous match between Namibia and UAE, it was UAE to win the match by a wicket. In that match the target is just 91 runs and to reach the score UAE lost 9 wickets. This time Namibia have played better and won the match. It was Michael van Lingen who contributed almost half the target scoring 71 runs. If his wicket have lost earlier, the match could've been same as the previous match going closer.

I don't know why the performance of these teams is so erratic. In the first match, the team scored only 91 runs, in the second match they scored 167 runs in 28.2 overs losing only 3 wickets and winning. This match was completely one-sided. UAE's bowlers can't do much good. I expected a bit better performance from the UAE players. But after some responsible batting by Namibian batsmen Lingen and Louwrens, they reached the target with ease. However, the performance of teams like Nepal, UAE and Scotland is slowly improving.

The performance of these associates are below average according to standards of ICC and other teams those are competing in tournaments.  UaE and  Namibia should work on their batting as scoring 91 and 166 in ODI is really bad.

[romero121]

The performance of these associates are below average according to standards of ICC and other teams those are competing in tournaments. UAE and  Namibia should work on their batting as scoring 91 and 166 in ODI is really bad.

When these teams get regular matches, the performance will be better. UAE and Namibia have scored 91 and 166 in the last two matches. Earlier the same teams have scored runs above 300 and 200 in different matches. These teams get continuous matches for few months and have break for long. This gap isn't good with cricket and particularly with ODI players won't be able to maintain their consistent play. Few matches were really exceptional as unexpected results came out due to responsible play from bottom order players.

[Minecache]

The performance of these associates are below average according to standards of ICC and other teams those are competing in tournaments. UAE and  Namibia should work on their batting as scoring 91 and 166 in ODI is really bad.

When these teams get regular matches, the performance will be better. UAE and Namibia have scored 91 and 166 in the last two matches. Earlier the same teams have scored runs above 300 and 200 in different matches. These teams get continuous matches for few months and have break for long. This gap isn't good with cricket and particularly with ODI players won't be able to maintain their consistent play. Few matches were really exceptional as unexpected results came out due to responsible play from bottom order players.

The problem is if they get continuous matches against bigger opponents, the match is going to be one sided and people are not going to want to watch that. And that is bad for business for the ICC. Probably that's a big reason why they are not getting regular matches.

On top of that, what you said is also a very valid reason. If the associate teams are playing against bigger opponents, the quality of matches is going to drop significantly. So the spectators are probably not going to want to see those matches. So eventually the revenue is not going to be good enough.

[pakhitheboss]

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[TheGreatPython]

The native player controversy continues forever. To me, the players aren't gonna represent their home country. For some reason they've moved into a country and respresenting the respective country. Even now they holding the citizenship of their home country is the problem and I don't think they'll receive UAE citizenship.

As said, the players from every country in the United Nations Tri Series have got good abilities, but they weren't able to express it. As said, this is all because of the lack of matches. For a long the players will be in rest and for some time period they get matches continuously, even without rest for a day. This surely disturbs the consistency in performance.

Again here I will blame ICC for this all controversy because with solid policies and better management they can bring better things in cricket like we have in all other sports but sadly here we have no positive development from them as they are still having nothing positive about this all and many Gulf countries are bringing players those not deserve to represent them which is surely big issue right now.

If ICC wants to do some positive work for this sport then surely they need a long term policy with solid prospect because without this cricket could be in limbo and Pig-4 will blackmail this all system for their own sack which is also never been ideal situation for associate countries which are also had good potential for bringing good fan base and better revenue for this game which is also important for all which are involved in this system.

[Tony116]

The native player controversy continues forever. To me, the players aren't gonna represent their home country. For some reason they've moved into a country and respresenting the respective country. Even now they holding the citizenship of their home country is the problem and I don't think they'll receive UAE citizenship.
As said, the players from every country in the United Nations Tri Series have got good abilities, but they weren't able to express it. As said, this is all because of the lack of matches. For a long the players will be in rest and for some time period they get matches continuously, even without rest for a day. This surely disturbs the consistency in performance.

Again here I will blame ICC for this all controversy because with solid policies and better management they can bring better things in cricket like we have in all other sports but sadly here we have no positive development from them as they are still having nothing positive about this all and many Gulf countries are bringing players those not deserve to represent them which is surely big issue right now.

If ICC wants to do some positive work for this sport then surely they need a long term policy with solid prospect because without this cricket could be in limbo and Pig-4 will blackmail this all system for their own sack which is also never been ideal situation for associate countries which are also had good potential for bringing good fan base and better revenue for this game which is also important for all which are involved in this system.

My personal opinion is that the idea of a player representing a country that is not his own should not be a thing at all. I don't know why ICC has not taken any steps about this yet. But I believe that this should change. But we all not at this is going to cause a lot of problems even with a lot of being teams in the top 10 in cricket.

So I think the best decision ICC can take is that if a player has to play in the national team and represent a country, he has to be the citizen of that country. Otherwise, he will not be able to play in the main 11. He will still be able to play cricket professionally. But he will not be able to represent the country on international stages.

[ThemePen]

PNG vs Nepal

Both teams played well. PNG gave 9 wickets and made 203 runs. And on the other hand Nepal made 207 runs and gave 6 wickets.
In PNG team no player even touch the 50 runs. Chad Soper were on the pitch and made only 36 runs he remained not out I think If he has some more balls he could make 50 runs.
In Nepal team Kushal Bhurtel made 56 runs. We are looking that Nepal is trying its best to improve itself. And I hope it can make itself a good team with more time and practice.

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PNG vs Nepal

Both teams played well. PNG gave 9 wickets and made 203 runs. And on the other hand Nepal made 207 runs and gave 6 wickets.
In PNG team no player even touch the 50 runs. Chad Soper were on the pitch and made only 36 runs he remained not out I think If he has some more balls he could make 50 runs.
In Nepal team Kushal Bhurtel made 56 runs. We are looking that Nepal is trying its best to improve itself. And I hope it can make itself a good team with more time and practice.

Nepal have been performing very well for the last five matches and if they continue like this I think it won't be long before they take down the United Arab Emirates. On the other hand, Papua New Guinea have so far lost 26 out of 29 matches and won only two matches and this match was a part of that.
Let's see Papua New Guinea have another match against United Arab Emirates tomorrow although I think they are going to lose here too.

[BobK71]

Though Nepal's position in the ranking is far behind, this team will improve significantly in the future. Nepal's current performance is really appreciable. Their batting line is quite strong. The batsmen can perform quite reliably. Especially their lower order batsmen also need to praise. Among the teams at their level, I consider Nepal to be a reliable team. Their performance will help them to early rise like Afghanistan. Tomorrow we will have one another match between United Arab Emirates and Papua New Guinea. Most probably United Arab Emirates will win the upcoming match.

[dezoel]

My personal opinion is that the idea of a player representing a country that is not his own should not be a thing at all. I don't know why ICC has not taken any steps about this yet. But I believe that this should change. But we all not at this is going to cause a lot of problems even with a lot of being teams in the top 10 in cricket.

So I think the best decision ICC can take is that if a player has to play in the national team and represent a country, he has to be the citizen of that country. Otherwise, he will not be able to play in the main 11. He will still be able to play cricket professionally. But he will not be able to represent the country on international stages.

Here ICC and their favorite big-4 doing their own tactics for creating mess-up because they have personal benefits and own interest in this all even we all know IOC which is biggest sports authority in sporting world have all things clear about these adopted countries, but they never want to have fair policy like this in cricket and allowing teams like the UAE, Saudi Arab and Bahrain to play with no native player available in all these teams.

Just because of this ICC is also never been interested to have this game cricket part of Olympics because if they join them then surely they have to follow their rules which are clear about this all even right now they have done some paper work for the joining them, but this all is not enough just their bad tactics, but we can hope things will change, and we will have better policy about this all in the future.

[Crypto Library]

Though Nepal's position in the ranking is far behind, this team will improve significantly in the future. Nepal's current performance is really appreciable. Their batting line is quite strong. The batsmen can perform quite reliably. Especially their lower order batsmen also need to praise. Among the teams at their level, I consider Nepal to be a reliable team. Their performance will help them to early rise like Afghanistan. Tomorrow we will have one another match between United Arab Emirates and Papua New Guinea. Most probably United Arab Emirates will win the upcoming match.

Recently Nepal's team work has been going well and their players are pretty much all in form at the moment so they are unbeaten in five consecutive matches winning all of them. Especially RK Paudel, Aasif sheikh, Malla Inara are constituting a good batting line-up.  Hope Nepal can maintain this consistency.
If Nepal can make it seven more matches in a row we could see Nepal close to Scotland, and it's not unusual for Nepal to be performing the way they have already beaten Scotland easily.

[n0ne]

Though Nepal's position in the ranking is far behind, this team will improve significantly in the future. Nepal's current performance is really appreciable. Their batting line is quite strong. The batsmen can perform quite reliably. Especially their lower order batsmen also need to praise. Among the teams at their level, I consider Nepal to be a reliable team. Their performance will help them to early rise like Afghanistan. Tomorrow we will have one another match between United Arab Emirates and Papua New Guinea. Most probably United Arab Emirates will win the upcoming match.

Recently Nepal's team work has been going well and their players are pretty much all in form at the moment so they are unbeaten in five consecutive matches winning all of them. Especially RK Paudel, Aasif sheikh, Malla Inara are constituting a good batting line-up.  Hope Nepal can maintain this consistency.
If Nepal can make it seven more matches in a row we could see Nepal close to Scotland, and it's not unusual for Nepal to be performing the way they have already beaten Scotland easily.

Nepal team is consistent in its performance, and the scoring is quite good from the team. This means regularly the team have maintained to chase higher targets. The last five matches were of chasing the target. Last two matches the targets were around 210 runs. In its previous matches 275+ targets were easily chased. To experience the consistency over the next 7 matches is possible, if players take responsibility and perform when expected player doesn't fulfill the requirements.

[Sithara007]

Recently Nepal's team work has been going well and their players are pretty much all in form at the moment so they are unbeaten in five consecutive matches winning all of them. Especially RK Paudel, Aasif sheikh, Malla Inara are constituting a good batting line-up.  Hope Nepal can maintain this consistency.
If Nepal can make it seven more matches in a row we could see Nepal close to Scotland, and it's not unusual for Nepal to be performing the way they have already beaten Scotland easily.

LOL... Nepal has 7 matches remaining, and I don't expect them winning all these matches. If they win 4 out of 7 matches, then they can overtake the United States and get to 4th in the points table. Overtaking Namibia would be very difficult, and for that they need to win 6 matches. But it is not impossible as well. Out of their 7 remaining matches, 4 are against United Arab Emirates and 3 against Papua New Guinea. Winning against PNG is not that hard, but UAE is a tough team with a lot of Indian and Pakistani players.

[laurenB7742]

Recently Nepal's team work has been going well and their players are pretty much all in form at the moment so they are unbeaten in five consecutive matches winning all of them. Especially RK Paudel, Aasif sheikh, Malla Inara are constituting a good batting line-up.  Hope Nepal can maintain this consistency.
If Nepal can make it seven more matches in a row we could see Nepal close to Scotland, and it's not unusual for Nepal to be performing the way they have already beaten Scotland easily.

LOL... Nepal has 7 matches remaining, and I don't expect them winning all these matches. If they win 4 out of 7 matches, then they can overtake the United States and get to 4th in the points table. Overtaking Namibia would be very difficult, and for that they need to win 6 matches. But it is not impossible as well. Out of their 7 remaining matches, 4 are against United Arab Emirates and 3 against Papua New Guinea. Winning against PNG is not that hard, but UAE is a tough team with a lot of Indian and Pakistani players.

Nepal is in very good form now. There is nothing surprising if Nepal wins 6 out of the next 7 matches. Because Nepal is undefeated in the last 5 matches. This team is playing very well. Nepal has a chance to finish third or fourth in the table. And I think the Nepal team will be able to finish fourth in the table.
But the problem is as you said, they will play four matches against UAE. The UAE team is very strong. It is difficult to win against them. While Nepal has won all 3 matches against PNG, it is challenging for Nepal to win against UAE. The UAE team is also trying to grab third or fourth place in the table.

[Sithara007]

Nepal is in very good form now. There is nothing surprising if Nepal wins 6 out of the next 7 matches. Because Nepal is undefeated in the last 5 matches. This team is playing very well. Nepal has a chance to finish third or fourth in the table. And I think the Nepal team will be able to finish fourth in the table.
But the problem is as you said, they will play four matches against UAE. The UAE team is very strong. It is difficult to win against them. While Nepal has won all 3 matches against PNG, it is challenging for Nepal to win against UAE. The UAE team is also trying to grab third or fourth place in the table.

The problem is that for UAE also, their remaining matches are against PNG and Nepal. And the United Arab Emirates are slightly ahead of Nepal, as they have 29 points from 28 matches (compared to Nepal, who have 28 points from 29 matches). So in case Nepal wants to finish ahead of the United Arab Emirates, they need to win 3 out of the 4 matches between these two. It will be the ultimate irony if Nepal finish behind United Arab Emirates and thereby lose access to extra funding from the ICC. Nepal has played their matches with a 100% native squad, while United Arab Emirates has depended on foreigners.

[GigaBit]

United Arab Emirates vs Papua New Guinea
United Arab Emirates and Papua New Guinea started 2nd match where United Arab Emirates opted to bowl first. Papua New Guinea already score 34 runs in 3 overs without losing any wicket. This is really a good start for them. Between these two teams, we usually refers to United Arab Emirates who will be front. I think they will have some advantage by winning the toss. But if Papua New Guinea can set a big target then the result of the match can be change even though the United Arab Emirates has enough power to chase it down. If Papua New Guinea won the toss and decided to bowl in the same way, then there could have been some doubt about the result of the match. After all in today's match Papua New Guinea will try to give good gifts.

[ThemePen]

United Arab Emirates vs Papua New Guinea
United Arab Emirates and Papua New Guinea started 2nd match where United Arab Emirates opted to bowl first. Papua New Guinea already score 34 runs in 3 overs without losing any wicket. This is really a good start for them. Between these two teams, we usually refers to United Arab Emirates who will be front. I think they will have some advantage by winning the toss. But if Papua New Guinea can set a big target then the result of the match can be change even though the United Arab Emirates has enough power to chase it down. If Papua New Guinea won the toss and decided to bowl in the same way, then there could have been some doubt about the result of the match. After all in today's match Papua New Guinea will try to give good gifts.

PNG is still going well. They played 10 overs and they didn't give any wicket to United Arab Emirates. And the Current run rate is also good at 6.00.  And Tony Ura is playing well and is near to 49 runs and soon he will make 50 runs. If they will play like this so I think they can give 300+ target to United Arab Emirates. And I hope the PNG can with.

[Sithara007]

LOL... Tony Ura was playing so well, but he got out immediately after getting to 50. Now Sese Bau has joined Kiplin Doriga at crease. The PNG run-rate is still above 6 runs per over, and they are nearing the 100 mark (98/1 after 16.2 overs). They have the momentum with them and should try to get to a total of around 300. United Arab Emirates do have some very experienced batsmen with first-class experience in India and Pakistan, and it will be a tough task for the PNG bowlers to defend any total which is less than this level.

[WatChe]

LOL... Tony Ura was playing so well, but he got out immediately after getting to 50. Now Sese Bau has joined Kiplin Doriga at crease. The PNG run-rate is still above 6 runs per over, and they are nearing the 100 mark (98/1 after 16.2 overs). They have the momentum with them and should try to get to a total of around 300. United Arab Emirates do have some very experienced batsmen with first-class experience in India and Pakistan, and it will be a tough task for the PNG bowlers to defend any total which is less than this level.

PNG is sitting on very last position in this league. They have won only two matches so far one against USA and second against UAE. I don't know the reason why UAE has made a team that is almost 100% from south asia. Its now very clear that there is zero interest of cricket in UAE and no resident of UAE is interested in cricket, still they have a team of imported players.   
At the moment PNG is in good position and if they can give a target of over 270 then surely they have a chance to win there second game against UAE.