ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[Litzki1990]

One of the best teams in Asia was bowled out for just 245 runs against a team like Scotland. Scotland were beaten by Sri Lanka but their bottom line was that they bowled out Sri Lanka for 245 runs. Scotland this team we only see when we play World Cup Qualifiers other times we don't see this team playing friendly matches with any country. If Scotland had been playing series with big teams throughout the year, their cricket would have improved a lot by now. Since the 2015 World Cup, this team has started doing well in the World Cup Qualifiers since then if some money could have been spent behind this team then this team might have made it to the main stage of the World Cup without playing the qualifiers. The Scotland Cricket Board still has time to plan this team.

Sri Lankan batters have had a tough time, as their middle and lower order collapsed badly. They were bowled out just for 145 runs. However, this score did not put any trouble for them to win over Scotland, because of their impressive bowling. I must say that Scotland's reckless batting played a significant role in their defeat. I suppose if they exercised more patience, they could have put up a better fight. Scotland's bowling attack turned out to be quite impressive in today's match. Of-course they need to continue working on their game regularly to maintain a good level of performance. It is fact that playing more matches will certainly improve their gameplay and confidence levels. It's high time to ensure that every cricket-playing nation gets an adequate chance to play enough games. There should be no discrimination between big and small teams anymore.

Scotland lost against Sri Lanka mainly due to lack of adequate guidance. If they had not got the right direction like Sri Lanka, they might not have lost this match. Sri Lanka's middle order and lower order batsmen are not providing good batting support as you mentioned. Sri Lanka is a big name in cricket and there is no option to perform well to protect their reputation. If they avoid like this then what will they do in the main phase. They should identify the areas where they are doing badly and strengthen that area but in that respect I think Sri Lanka is indifferent because they are not doing anything about it. Sri Lanka must do better in batting. Sri Lanka batting as a professional team is not satisfied at all.

Most of the new teams will have this problem. Slowly the teams will understand and starts to play better cricket. Look at the performance from Ireland, already they're out of the World Cup and now they've made a good performance against UAE. The team should have kept its performance at the best in its previous matches to keep its hope of playing in the ODI World Cup. Sri Lanka is a strong team and it isn't easy for Scotland to win with simple guidance, it also requires more experience to be successful and win against big teams.

We expected some teams in this World Cup Qualifier but those teams did not perform as we expected. Of all the new teams, we had the highest expectations for Ireland. Because Ireland played several friendlies against the big teams before the World Cup qualifiers to prepare for the World Cup. But they could not use that experience. Ireland have become one of the most unsuccessful teams in World Cup qualifying. Although Ireland did well in the last match, they should have done better from the start.  

Scotland lost against Sri Lanka but Sri Lanka failed to score good runs against Scotland bowling. If Sri Lanka can't bat well with such small teams then it will be very difficult for Sri Lanka to bat against big teams.

[Bitcoin_people]

Is it confirmed that West Indies are virtually knocked out of the upcoming ODI world cup race?

What a drastic downfall if it actually true. First, they missed out last T-20 cup and now the ODI format as well. Who would've thought this scenario to one of the fine white cricket ball team?

Nothing is confirmed, but it looks so. At this point, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are the two teams in Super-6 who have 4 points each. If they win just 2 of their 3 matches, then they are through. For Zimbabwe the matches are against Scotland, Sri Lanka and Oman. For Sri Lanka, the matches are against Zimbabwe, Netherlands and West Indies. West Indies need to win all of their remaining 3 matches and then hope that their net Run Rate gets a massive boost in the remaining matches. Oman looks like the weakest team in Super-6, while Scotland and Netherlands have so far proven their worth as a result of wins against test nations.

Zimbabwe won against the USA by 304 runs. Usually, teams make 300 runs in a one day match but you don't expect the team to win by such a big margin. Zimbabwe scored 408 runs in their allocated 50 overs. The major contribution was from Innocent Kaia who scored 174 runs in only 101 balls and was also the match of the match.

From the United States of America, the highest score was 24 by Abhishek Paradkar. Nothing much to discuss about this team performance as they were beaten badly.

Zimbabwe is a strong enough team that the US lost to them badly. USA is not that good at playing cricket, their performance is not that good. But Zimbabwe came into the match looking good enough to win them. Collecting 408 runs is a difficult task where Zimbabwe's batting performed very well and scored huge runs. However, USA batted later and were defeated by 304 runs, which was the highest margin of runs. While Zimbabwe scored 408 runs after 50 overs, USA lost badly losing all wickets in just 25.1 overs. So USA has nothing to be proud of they are not that strong team they are a normal team so they lost.

[JSRAW]

Unfortunately no.

A frustrated community is there but yeah not significant or powerful enough to make any dent or influence anything, they make noise now n then but no one listens to them lol. 

Then there is a casual community, they pop in when the former group starts screaming during such events (qualifications, revenue talk etc)

LOL.. no one really cares about ICC outside South Asia. In West Indies and England, cricket is getting less popular with every passing year and in case of latter the survival is now increasingly dependent on immigrants. And even in South Asian nations fans care only about their own national team and franchise T20 leagues. Interest in matches outside the matches by national team and local leagues such as IPL/PSL is close to zero. I was tracking the viewership during the super-over phase of West Indies vs Netherlands match on Hotstar. The peak viewership was somewhere around 200,000. This is around 1% of the viewership that you will get for an India vs Pakistan match.

In my experience, as far as the survivability of cricket in general goes, voices come from PIG-3 (you can add a couple more from other parts as well but they hardly matter tbh). Handful journalists raise these issues from time to time, you can actually count them on one hand. All of them are biased when it comes to their countries but they do raise some voices here n there.

About highlighted part, Well, it's the same for literally every country and fans.

[kro55]

Is it confirmed that West Indies are virtually knocked out of the upcoming ODI world cup race?
What a drastic downfall if it actually true. First, they missed out last T-20 cup and now the ODI format as well. Who would've thought this scenario to one of the fine white cricket ball team?

Nothing is confirmed, but it looks so. At this point, Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka are the two teams in Super-6 who have 4 points each. If they win just 2 of their 3 matches, then they are through. For Zimbabwe the matches are against Scotland, Sri Lanka and Oman. For Sri Lanka, the matches are against Zimbabwe, Netherlands and West Indies. West Indies need to win all of their remaining 3 matches and then hope that their net Run Rate gets a massive boost in the remaining matches. Oman looks like the weakest team in Super-6, while Scotland and Netherlands have so far proven their worth as a result of wins against test nations.

Zimbabwe won against the USA by 304 runs. Usually, teams make 300 runs in a one day match but you don't expect the team to win by such a big margin. Zimbabwe scored 408 runs in their allocated 50 overs. The major contribution was from Innocent Kaia who scored 174 runs in only 101 balls and was also the match of the match.
From the United States of America, the highest score was 24 by Abhishek Paradkar. Nothing much to discuss about this team performance as they were beaten badly.

Zimbabwe is a strong enough team that the US lost to them badly. USA is not that good at playing cricket, their performance is not that good. But Zimbabwe came into the match looking good enough to win them. Collecting 408 runs is a difficult task where Zimbabwe's batting performed very well and scored huge runs. However, USA batted later and were defeated by 304 runs, which was the highest margin of runs. While Zimbabwe scored 408 runs after 50 overs, USA lost badly losing all wickets in just 25.1 overs. So USA has nothing to be proud of they are not that strong team they are a normal team so they lost.

The important thing is that every player in Zimbabwe is now in their best form. They are playing very well in every match. Zimbabwe has also lost a big team like West Indies. And after the win against West Indies, Zimbabwe players are getting more and more confident. And because of this every player of Zimbabwe has been able to perform well against the USA. If this performance continues, Zimbabwe will qualify for the World Cup and they will do well in the World Cup as well.

[Iranus]

Scotland lost against Sri Lanka but Sri Lanka failed to score good runs against Scotland bowling. If Sri Lanka can't bat well with such small teams then it will be very difficult for Sri Lanka to bat against big teams.

I agree with you. The Sri Lankan team may have played well in previous matches and won every match. But these groups are comparatively very weak. Sri Lankan players will face stronger teams if they qualify for the World Cup. Sri Lankan batsmen can't bat well against Scotland's bowlers. I don't know how they will cope with the more experienced bowlers in the World Cup. But I am not expecting a very good performance from the Sri Lankan team in the upcoming World Cup. The overall condition of this team is still not stable.

[Litzki1990]

Scotland lost against Sri Lanka but Sri Lanka failed to score good runs against Scotland bowling. If Sri Lanka can't bat well with such small teams then it will be very difficult for Sri Lanka to bat against big teams.

I agree with you. The Sri Lankan team may have played well in previous matches and won every match. But these groups are comparatively very weak. Sri Lankan players will face stronger teams if they qualify for the World Cup. Sri Lankan batsmen can't bat well against Scotland's bowlers. I don't know how they will cope with the more experienced bowlers in the World Cup. But I am not expecting a very good performance from the Sri Lankan team in the upcoming World Cup. The overall condition of this team is still not stable.

The first hurdle for Sri Lanka is to finish the World Cup Qualifiers successfully. If they can successfully finish the World Cup Qualifiers and make it to the main stage of the World Cup, they have a big challenge ahead of them. Because in the main phase of the World Cup, Sri Lanka will be the opponent of many big teams. Recently Sri Lanka's performance is not going well at all. Even if they can make it to the main stage of the World Cup with this team, they will not be able to do well in the World Cup in India. Because to do well in a tournament like the World Cup, batting, bowling and fielding need to improve a lot in three areas where Sri Lanka will be lagging behind in terms of batting and fielding. If Sri Lanka can make it to the main stage of the World Cup, then Sri Lanka should prepare themselves well in the time they have for the World Cup.

[Tony116]

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You are right Sri Lanka is still quite tough team for Netherlands because the Sri Lankan bowlers are in their best form and they could give a hard time to Netherlands batsmen. If we closely examine the previous matches of Sri Lanka then we can easily see the performance of Sri Lankan batsmen as they have played very well in their previous matches, and I expect same performance from them in the coming match. Team Sri Lanka will do their best against Netherlands because they will have to be so tough to win this match.

On the other hand team Netherlands is also in good form and we can't neglect their last match's performance. The team Netherlands has played very well against West Indies and they have won the match against a tougher team. But, this time they will have to face one of the toughest teams of the season. Let's see what they will do against team Sri Lanka, but I'm still sure that team Sri Lanka will most probably win this match. However, anything can happen in this match because team Netherlands sometimes show exceptional performance, and if they show such performance in the coming match then Sri Lanka will have a tough time.

I am personally not expecting the Netherlands to win against Sri Lanka. But I am expecting the Netherlands to actually give Sri Lanka a good fight. I know that the Netherlands team is not a very strong one when compared to Sri Lanka. But I don’t think it is going to be too much to ask from the Netherlands after the type of performance they put on against the West Indies.

Of course, Sri Lanka is going to be a harder opponent. And even though they were able to win against the West Indies, they had to do it in the super over. So obviously, when we look at it from that angle we have to say Sri Lanka should be able to win against the Netherlands.

[Webetcoins]

Sri Lanka are in good form and their playing techniques are very good.  If only Sri Lanka can play like this. Then Sri Lanka can reach much higher level in future. The batsmen and bowlers of the team have become very responsible. Has improved a lot especially in the field of bowling. Sri Lanka deserved to win this match against Scotland. Congratulations Sri Lanka Cricket Team

No doubt, team Sri Lanka is among the strongest teams in the group and they are giving their best to the matches they are playing. I was pretty sure that team Sri Lanka will out run team Scotland because the players in team Sri Lanka are more experienced on ground, and they give their best to the matches. The Scotland team is also getting better each match, but still they are far away from the levels of team Sri Lanka and team team Zimbabwe on ground. The next match between Sri Lanka and Netherlands will be a very interesting one, the Netherlands won its previous match in a way that was totally unexpected, and I'm quite sure that they will compete well against Sri Lanka as well. The next match is going to be a tough one, and I'm pretty sure that everyone will love that match.

Even Sri Lanka is down and out of the cricket but still they have enough quality to bring down badly to these all teams which are involved in this qualifier event as this is happening with now most chances they will be winner of this event because their batting and bowling both are doing impressive job, and they are not allowing opponents to have anything positive from them now they are going to face Zimbabwe, Netherlands and West Indies from these match just two wins, and they will be secure.

South Asian cricketing quality is now superior and just Australians can compete with them others are having the worst time in domestic and International cricket which needs to be fixed, but nothing positive is going to happen through ICC.

[speeder]

Sri Lankan team showed great performance in this match Sri Lanka vs Scotland. Sri Lanka is a strong team compared to Scotland and is ranked first in Group B with 8 points. Sri Lanka beat Scotland in today's match to increase their points by winning the match and topping the group. Scotland is second in group points but they did not perform well in today's match. However, Sri Lanka played brilliantly to win by a huge margin of 81 runs and top the group points. Sri Lanka bowlers took all the wickets for Scotland 163 runs and Scotland lost.

Sri Lanka have won all four matches. And it is already predicted that Sri Lanka will win. The Sri Lankan team is very strong and is in very good form now. They are unfortunate that they are playing in the World Cup qualifiers. The Sri Lankan team is experienced compared to other teams. And so we see the dominance of Sri Lanka in every match against the opponent. Sri Lanka won today's match against Scotland by 82 runs. Sri Lanka easily won today's match despite giving a target of 246 runs.

Yes, the Sri Lankan cricket team has won four consecutive matches and is at the top of the Group B points table with 8 points. Winning consecutive tea matches in ICC Cricket World Cup Qualifiers is a big achievement for Sri Lanka. Sri Lankan cricket team has performed well in the World Cup qualifiers. But as far as I feel Sri Lankan team needs to be stronger to face strong teams in the World Cup. They should pay special attention especially in terms of batting

[Bd officer]

Zimbabwe vs Oman
Today is the Super Sixes first match of World Cup Qualifiers Zimbabwe vs Oman. Zimbabwe have been playing well since the beginning of the World Cup qualifiers, so far they have played four matches and have won four of them. Zimbabwe team is stronger than Oman in today's match. Zimbabwe batting and bowling line is better than Oman. Zimbabwe has more chances to win today's match.

[Sithara007]

In my experience, as far as the survivability of cricket in general goes, voices come from PIG-3 (you can add a couple more from other parts as well but they hardly matter tbh). Handful journalists raise these issues from time to time, you can actually count them on one hand. All of them are biased when it comes to their countries but they do raise some voices here n there.

About highlighted part, Well, it's the same for literally every country and fans.

I have seen a few posts in social media about the ICC not interested in the expansion of the game, but no one is really interested in finding out the root cause. IMO, funding is only part of the problem. The real issue why cricket hasn't expanded worldwide is due to the change in eligibility criteria, which was done sometime back in 2007 or 2008. This resulted in the number of associate nations getting increased to close to 100, and reduced the funding for teams with native players by as much as 90% (because the funds gets divided up among more teams). Till now, I haven't seen a meaningful conversation anywhere against the weird eligibility criteria in cricket.

[Bitcoin_people]

The Zimbabwe vs Oman Super Six match is taking place. Oman chose to bowl after receiving the opening batting. Zimbabwe batting at the moment managed to score a good score due to their excellent batting performance. However, in today's match, their run rate has not increased so much but Zimbabwe is trying to survive as no wicket has fallen yet. But in today's match Oman bowlers are bowling brilliantly due to which Zimbabwe could not score too many runs. In this way, if Oman can bowl well in the end, there is definitely a possibility of wickets falling. This is good bowling Oman and batting for Zimbabwe as their total score is 47 runs in 12 overs, with the fall of one wicket at this point. Zimbabwe can now be expected to reduce their run rate further due to the loss of wickets.

[ThemePen]

Zimbabwe vs Oman

Zimbabwe is currently playing at the run rate of 4.46. And it is a good run rate if they will try to keep this run rate so Zimbabwe team will make 350+ runs. And if the target will go up from 350 so it will be little bit difficult to chase by Oman team. And now the Zimbabwe team has lost 2 wickets. So let see what will happen at the end.

[rojan]

Zimbabwe vs Oman
Today is the Super Sixes first match of World Cup Qualifiers Zimbabwe vs Oman. Zimbabwe have been playing well since the beginning of the World Cup qualifiers, so far they have played four matches and have won four of them. Zimbabwe team is stronger than Oman in today's match. Zimbabwe batting and bowling line is better than Oman. Zimbabwe has more chances to win today's match.

Zimbabwe vs Oman, Super Sixes odi match between these two teams has started.Oman won the toss and decided to bowl.Now Zimbabwe came to bat.They scored 97 runs in 21 overs.So far Zimbabwe has lost 2 strong wickets.Zimbabwe team batsman  Joylord Gumbie got out with 21 runs off 34 balls. Craig Ervine scored 25 runs off 40 balls. Kaleemullah of Oman team took 1 wicket with 39 runs in 10 overs. Kaleemullah bowled very well. If Zimbabwe can give the target of 350 runs in today's match.  Zimbabwe will win today very easily.

[justdimin]

Zimbabwe is a strong enough team that the US lost to them badly. USA is not that good at playing cricket, their performance is not that good. But Zimbabwe came into the match looking good enough to win them. Collecting 408 runs is a difficult task where Zimbabwe's batting performed very well and scored huge runs. However, USA batted later and were defeated by 304 runs, which was the highest margin of runs. While Zimbabwe scored 408 runs after 50 overs, USA lost badly losing all wickets in just 25.1 overs. So USA has nothing to be proud of they are not that strong team they are a normal team so they lost.

Yeah, Zimbabwe is stronger among Associate countries but not against big teams due to lack of experience and practice and no one care about this all right now but as African countries are kicking off things hopefully they will be improved their quality and performance in coming years which will surely help them as they are also well populated region and have enough support for this sport as well.

USA is relatively new team which is having all Indian based players so just because of this we can expect consistency because their domestic setup is also not strong enough as we need for this game but as they are working hard, hopefully they will do good, but they need to encourage their domestic set-up which will help for better results just having adopted players will never help in long run.

[Sithara007]

If Zimbabwe wins at least 2 of their remaining 3 matches, then West Indies can't qualify. And it is quite possible, given the fact that they are playing against Oman today, and will be facing Scotland on 4th July. They don't even need to win against Sri Lanka. If this happens, it will be the first time that West Indies is not participating in the ODI World Cup. They have played in all the editions from 1975 till 2019 (winning the first two trophies in the process). It also shows how short-sighted was ICC's decision to restrict the world cup to just 10 teams.

[LDL]

If Zimbabwe wins at least 2 of their remaining 3 matches, then West Indies can't qualify. And it is quite possible, given the fact that they are playing against Oman today, and will be facing Scotland on 4th July. They don't even need to win against Sri Lanka. If this happens, it will be the first time that West Indies is not participating in the ODI World Cup. They have played in all the editions from 1975 till 2019 (winning the first two trophies in the process). It also shows how short-sighted was ICC's decision to restrict the world cup to just 10 teams.

Since West Indies could not come to the Super Six with any points, West Indies have no chance to participate in the World Cup. Looking at the batting performance that Zimbabwe is doing today, it can be assured that Zimbabwe will win today's match as well. Zimbabwe gets an added advantage as the matches are held at Zimbabwean venues. Moreover, several batsmen in Zimbabwe's batting line are performing exceptionally well, Sean Williams is one of them. Still unbeaten on 127 runs today.
Sean Williams 1st match 102*(70)
Sean Williams 2nd match 91(58)
Sean Williams 3rd match 23(26)
Sean Williams 4rth match 174(101)
Sean Williams today 127*

[Bd officer]

Since West Indies could not come to the Super Six with any points, West Indies have no chance to participate in the World Cup. Looking at the batting performance that Zimbabwe is doing today, it can be assured that Zimbabwe will win today's match as well. Zimbabwe gets an added advantage as the matches are held at Zimbabwean venues. Moreover, several batsmen in Zimbabwe's batting line are performing exceptionally well, Sean Williams is one of them. Still unbeaten on 127 runs today.
Sean Williams 1st match 102*(70)
Sean Williams 2nd match 91(58)
Sean Williams 3rd match 23(26)
Sean Williams 4rth match 174(101)
Sean Williams today 127*

Zimbabwe scored 332 runs for the loss of 7 wickets in 50 overs. Sean Williams played brilliantly and scored 142 runs. Sikandar Raza played brilliantly and scored 42 runs, Luke Jongwe scored an unbeaten 43 runs. Sikandar Raja and Sean Williams have both been in great form since the start of the World Cup qualifiers. Oman cannot win today. Zimbabwe will win today's match.

[onecall123]

If Zimbabwe wins at least 2 of their remaining 3 matches, then West Indies can't qualify. And it is quite possible, given the fact that they are playing against Oman today, and will be facing Scotland on 4th July. They don't even need to win against Sri Lanka. If this happens, it will be the first time that West Indies is not participating in the ODI World Cup. They have played in all the editions from 1975 till 2019 (winning the first two trophies in the process). It also shows how short-sighted was ICC's decision to restrict the world cup to just 10 teams.

Since West Indies could not come to the Super Six with any points, West Indies have no chance to participate in the World Cup. Looking at the batting performance that Zimbabwe is doing today, it can be assured that Zimbabwe will win today's match as well. Zimbabwe gets an added advantage as the matches are held at Zimbabwean venues. Moreover, several batsmen in Zimbabwe's batting line are performing exceptionally well, Sean Williams is one of them. Still unbeaten on 127 runs today.
Sean Williams 1st match 102*(70)
Sean Williams 2nd match 91(58)
Sean Williams 3rd match 23(26)
Sean Williams 4rth match 174(101)
Sean Williams today 127*

These days, Sean Williams has been playing like an unstoppable. He is currently in sublime form, lots of confidence in his batting. Today he second-highest ODI runs,142. Zimbabwe setting a massive target of 332/7 after 50 overs. West Indies team will undoubtedly be keeping a close eye on today's match, it's unlikely Zimbabwe will lose this match. They have performed good, and West Indies may find themselves to blame for any missed opportunities.

[ZAINmalik75]

Sean Williams 1st match 102*(70)
Sean Williams 2nd match 91(58)
Sean Williams 3rd match 23(26)
Sean Williams 4rth match 174(101)
Sean Williams today 127*

Zimbabwe team were again on fire again it's a fourth match in world Cup Qualifiers where they scored above 300+ which indicates now Zimbabwe team were moving toward experienced and amateur team especially in ODI format, most of his player really love and enjoy ODI format and results is front of everyone like Sean Williams and sikander Raza who's make runs consistently, now in today match Oman make some trouble for them because they are following same runrate for chasing target, but I am sure Zimbabwe bowling side will Handel it carefully and will make a postive results in Thier favor.