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[TakeItEasy]

Pakistan lost their third wicket before the end of 14 overs.  Abdullah shafiq also failed to play well. He managed to collect only 12 runs off 16 balls. Pakistan's top order failed today. Iftikhar and Shadab fail to play big innings, Pakistan will lose by a big margin today.

Iftikhar Ahmed is still a hope for Pakistan,  and also Babar Azam came to batting,  which is in form and scored much runs in the previous match. This could be an interesting one,  the main problem for Pakistan is their 4 wickets has been fallen. On these pitches 350 is easily chased. But I don't know what the Pakistan Team is doing,  in the previous match they didn't provide a positive cricket and also now in this match they are not showing that they are ODI no 2 Team. Although Australia is still at no 3rd.

Pakistan should change their team in the coming ODIs. This may be help them,  otherwise,  the way they are playing I didn't even think they will qualify for the other round in the World Cup.  
Now Pakistan have 107 having a 4 wicket loss in 20 overs. Will they chase?

[onecall123]

ICC Cricket World Cup Warm-up 8th match pits Sri Lanka vs Afghanistan. Afghanistan team is bowling at the beginning of today's match. The Afghanistan bowlers, despite picking up two wickets from the Sri Lankan team, are yet to make any major impact on the Sri Lankan batsmen. Sri Lanka batsman Kushal Mendis is in great form in this match. Kushal Mendis has so far scored 94 runs off 56 balls. Kushal Mendis will get a century if he can collect only 6 runs. Now let's see how much Kushal Mendis can finally score with the bat for the Sri Lankan team. Sri Lanka's team score so far is 116-2(16.5), runs

In today's match, Sri Lanka batted exceptionally well. Afghanistan bowling line is very strong but Afghanistan bowling line is not looking good today. Sri Lanka's opening batting Dimuth Karunaratne and Pathum Nissanka were not very good. Kusal Mendis batted like T20 format in today's match, I was surprised by his batting, scored 158 runs in 87 balls with a strike rate of 180+. Kusal Mendis seemed to score a double century in today's match but the retd hurt. So far, Sri Lanka have collected 245 runs in 31 overs with the loss of 2 wickets. Now there are 19 overs left, if the wickets are not under pressure then they can target 400+ runs. Sri Lanka's chances of winning today's match are very high.

Mendis shows his power against the world's top spin attack. Surprisingly, the spinners aren't getting much advantage on these pitches. Kusal Mendis showcased an incredible performance, scoring 158 runs off 87 balls against Afghanistan in the warm-up game. Sri Lankan batsmen are performing exceptionally well, and it seems they are on heading to get a big total.

Sri Lanka's performance makes me laugh. I did not watch the match live. Because I was enjoying the Australia vs. Pakistan warm-up match. Even then I was checking the scoreboard of this match after some time. I saw Sri Lanka score 230 runs, and then they lost 2 wickets. Probably not even 30 overs are over then. And the interesting thing is that Sri Lanka has lost 10 wickets and set a target of just 295 runs.
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After the dismissal of Kushal Mendis, no other player could play big innings. The total collection of the last 5 batsmen of the Sri Lankan squad was only 7 runs. The way Sri Lanka started their innings, the team should have given away a target of at least 340. Sri Lanka's lower order batted like fools.

I was quite surprised when I saw the scoreboard. Sri Lanka, starting strong at 257/2, somehow ended at 294/10 against Afghanistan in the warm-up match. This batting collapse is a cause for concern and needs immediate attention. Although they seemed on track for a 400+ score, everything changed after Kushal Mendis got out. The Afghan bowlers, particularly Mohammad Nabi, showed great skills and took four crucial wickets. Afghan batters responded confidently. It was indeed an impressive comeback by the Afghan side.

[Compromise me]

Australia Cricket Team vs Pakistan Cricket Team.

Australia won the toss against Pakistan in ICC cricket world Cup 2023 warm- up match and elected to bat first. Australian batters played very well. Maxwell scored excellent  77 runs in only 71 balls. David Warner also played very well and made 48 runs in only 33 balls. Labuschagne performed well and made 40 runs in just 31 balls. Australian score is 280 runs with fall of 6 wickets. In 45.1 overs. From Pakistan side,Mir took 2 wickets by giving 31 runs in 5 overs. Match is very interesting and Australia is stronger side than Pakistan. Pakistan batting line up is not performing well. Now, it is time for Pakistan to show their capabilities against big teams. These are practice matches that will give confidence to win matches in World Cup under the same conditions.

[Swordsoffreedom]

Pakistan lost their third wicket before the end of 14 overs.  Abdullah shafiq also failed to play well. He managed to collect only 12 runs off 16 balls. Pakistan's top order failed today. Iftikhar and Shadab fail to play big innings, Pakistan will lose by a big margin today.

Iftikhar Ahmed is still a hope for Pakistan,  and also Babar Azam came to batting,  which is in from and scored much runs in the previous match. This could be an interesting one,  the main problem for Pakistan is their 4 wickets has been fallen. On these pitches 350 is easily chased. But I don't know what the Pakistan Team is doing,  in the previous match they didn't provide a positive cricket and also now in this match they are not showing that they are ODI no 2 Team. Although Australia is still at no 3rd.
Pakistan should change their team in the coming ODIs. This may be help them,  otherwise,  the way they are playing I didn't even think they will qualify for the other round in the World Cup. 
Now Pakistan have 107 having a 4 wicket loss in 20 overs. Will they chase?

Iftikhar played very well. He was able to play big innings when the team needed it. He returned to the dressing room after collecting 83 runs off 85 balls. But we haven't seen a big innings from Shadab. Babar Azam on the other hand is playing brilliantly. He scored 83 runs off 51 balls unbeaten. This is because of Babar's disastrous innings. Pakistan team managed to collect 241 runs in 34 overs. As long as Babar Azam is at the crease, the match will be in Pakistan's control. But if Babar is out, it will be difficult for Pakistan to win. Mohammad Rizwan is not sure if he will bat. Had Rizwan batted, it would have been easier for Pakistan to win the target of 353 runs. Pakistan now need 111 runs off 96 balls. It is not a very difficult task.

[cozytrade]

Looking at the second innings, it looks like Pakistan team will fail to chase the target of 352 runs in the match today. Pakistan cricket team scored 130 runs for the loss of 4 wickets in 23 overs. Important wickets of Pakistan cricket team Faqar Zaman, Imamul Haque, Shafiq, and Shadab Khan have fallen. Now, Babar Azam and Iftekhar Ahmed at the crease are the last hope for the Pakistan team. It is also uncertain how far these two players can go in their target of 352 runs. But I think to face Australia cricket team bowlers, Pakistan team players need to be more aware. If Pakistan team players can still play well. Then there will be a chance to win the match against Australia

[hafiztalha]

Pakistan lost their third wicket before the end of 14 overs.  Abdullah shafiq also failed to play well. He managed to collect only 12 runs off 16 balls. Pakistan's top order failed today. Iftikhar and Shadab fail to play big innings, Pakistan will lose by a big margin today.

Iftikhar Ahmed is still a hope for Pakistan,  and also Babar Azam came to batting,  which is in from and scored much runs in the previous match. This could be an interesting one,  the main problem for Pakistan is their 4 wickets has been fallen. On these pitches 350 is easily chased. But I don't know what the Pakistan Team is doing,  in the previous match they didn't provide a positive cricket and also now in this match they are not showing that they are ODI no 2 Team. Although Australia is still at no 3rd.

Pakistan should change their team in the coming ODIs. This may be help them,  otherwise,  the way they are playing I didn't even think they will qualify for the other round in the World Cup. 
Now Pakistan have 107 having a 4 wicket loss in 20 overs. Will they chase?

This match is going to be very challenging for both teams Pakistan and Australia. Both team have a very strong in cricket but at start of match Pakistan performance was not good and look like they will lose this match. Now match at full of challenging for both team and they have equal PERC to win this match. Babar Azam at pitch of batting and he is scoring 83 runs in  51 balls and Pakistan team also lost 5 batsman. At this moment, Pakistan team need 111 runs in 96 balls if they secure their wickets then they easily win this match from Australia. M.Labuschagbe took down 2 wickets of Pakistan batsman and he bowled 7 overs. Let's see at the end of match who will win this match warm up match.

[Crypto Library]

Iftikhar played very well. He was able to play big innings when the team needed it. He returned to the dressing room after collecting 83 runs off 85 balls. But we haven't seen a big innings from Shadab. Babar Azam on the other hand is playing brilliantly. He scored 83 runs off 51 balls unbeaten. This is because of Babar's disastrous innings. Pakistan team managed to collect 241 runs in 34 overs. As long as Babar Azam is at the crease, the match will be in Pakistan's control. But if Babar is out, it will be difficult for Pakistan to win. Mohammad Rizwan is not sure if he will bat. Had Rizwan batted, it would have been easier for Pakistan to win the target of 353 runs. Pakistan now need 111 runs off 96 balls. It is not a very difficult task.

Well I will also agree on that point it will not be a very difficult task for Pakistan. What I see now is that they need 91 runs from just 79 balls. And their current run rate is more than 7 and Require run rate is around 7. In this case, it can be said that they are still very comfortable. Five more wickets to go. Babar Azam was performing very well but I regret his retired hurt. He played an amazing innings with 90 runs off 59 balls, 150.5 strike rate in ODI formats is a fairly good position.
Finally I want to say that this match is going to be more interesting, Australian bowlers are not too bad although the amount of runs they give in this match is very high . But I think they have the ability to come back.

[BALIK]

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Sri Lanka's performance makes me laugh. I did not watch the match live. Because I was enjoying the Australia vs. Pakistan warm-up match. Even then I was checking the scoreboard of this match after some time. I saw Sri Lanka score 230 runs, and then they lost 2 wickets. Probably not even 30 overs are over then. And the interesting thing is that Sri Lanka has lost 10 wickets and set a target of just 295 runs.
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After the dismissal of Kushal Mendis, no other player could play big innings. The total collection of the last 5 batsmen of the Sri Lankan squad was only 7 runs. The way Sri Lanka started their innings, the team should have given away a target of at least 340. Sri Lanka's lower order batted like fools.

I was quite surprised when I saw the scoreboard. Sri Lanka, starting strong at 257/2, somehow ended at 294/10 against Afghanistan in the warm-up match. This batting collapse is a cause for concern and needs immediate attention. Although they seemed on track for a 400+ score, everything changed after Kushal Mendis got out. The Afghan bowlers, particularly Mohammad Nabi, showed great skills and took four crucial wickets. Afghan batters responded confidently. It was indeed an impressive comeback by the Afghan side.

I agree with you. If you bat well, scoring 360-380 runs in this match was not a difficult task. The way Sri Lanka started the batting, they could easily have collected more than 350 if they had maintained the consistency. But the Sri Lankan batsmen's performance was very bad. Apart from Mendis and Sadeer, I don't like the batting of any batsman.
Along with the batsmen, the performance of the Sri Lankan bowlers is also quite poor. The match is now being delayed due to rain. In 20.5 overs, the Sri Lankan bowlers managed to pick up only 1 wicket. Afghanistan lost 1 wicket and collected 118 runs. Both Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Rahmat Shah are unbeaten with 50+ runs. Afghanistan will win if the match is not abandoned due to rain.

[Jateng]

The warm up match between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan is played in Guwahati. Sri Lanka was bowled out from a strong position of 257/2 to 294/10 against Afghanistan in the warm-up match. Mohammad Nabi is pick of the bowler with four wickets in eight overs. Kusal Mendis retired hurt after an unbelievable knock of 158 runs in 87 balls against Afghanistan and Sadeera Samarawickrama also played a 39 Score helped Sri Lanka to Reach 294. I think Afghanistan have ability to chase down the they current score 118/1 in just 18th Overs.

[Popkon6]

Pakistan lost their third wicket before the end of 14 overs.  Abdullah shafiq also failed to play well. He managed to collect only 12 runs off 16 balls. Pakistan's top order failed today. Iftikhar and Shadab fail to play big innings, Pakistan will lose by a big margin today.

Iftikhar Ahmed is still a hope for Pakistan,  and also Babar Azam came to batting,  which is in from and scored much runs in the previous match. This could be an interesting one,  the main problem for Pakistan is their 4 wickets has been fallen. On these pitches 350 is easily chased. But I don't know what the Pakistan Team is doing,  in the previous match they didn't provide a positive cricket and also now in this match they are not showing that they are ODI no 2 Team. Although Australia is still at no 3rd.

Pakistan should change their team in the coming ODIs. This may be help them,  otherwise,  the way they are playing I didn't even think they will qualify for the other round in the World Cup. 
Now Pakistan have 107 having a 4 wicket loss in 20 overs. Will they chase?

This match is going to be very challenging for both teams Pakistan and Australia. Both team have a very strong in cricket but at start of match Pakistan performance was not good and look like they will lose this match. Now match at full of challenging for both team and they have equal PERC to win this match. Babar Azam at pitch of batting and he is scoring 83 runs in  51 balls and Pakistan team also lost 5 batsman. At this moment, Pakistan team need 111 runs in 96 balls if they secure their wickets then they easily win this match from Australia. M.Labuschagbe took down 2 wickets of Pakistan batsman and he bowled 7 overs. Let's see at the end of match who will win this match warm up match.

The patience of Pakistani players is very low as I can see the wickets starting to fall from the beginning of the game until quite some time has passed. Imam UL haq, Shafique, Shadab khan these three batsmen went out of the field for few runs, Pakistan team has to face big loss. Because if these three batsmen could have advanced some runs then surely it would have been easier for the next players to win. Although the win is in Pakistan's control at the current position, but with Babar Azam out of the field, the Pakistan team must be under pressure.

[UmerIdrees]

Pakistan is being captained by Shadab Khan, which according to me is an interesting approach. Rizwan is not playing today and he has been replaced by Abdullah Shafique. I wonder whether he has the potential to bat better than Rizwan, the pressure would be on Babar and Iftikar today to chase the target.

Pakistani team make a several Changes in second warm-up match against Australia to observe how player behave and play in absence of their main player like baber and Rizwan who's really done a huge performance in his previous match. no doubt paksitan will be in trouble but they have to be ready for any kind of challenges.
If we have a look on score board then we will find out that paksitan bowler really done a good job in early over especially spinners where they almost took Australian entire wickets before 250 but later due to high leakage of runs from especially fast bowler and some sensible innings of Maxwell and green really put Australia on track and thus they scored unexpected 340+ runs despite the really choked in early stage of the match. Hope it will be interesting how they chasedown the required target in absence of thier main players

What can I say about the Pakistan performance today? This had been an incredible chase and I never expected this type of run chase by the Pakistan team.

Muhammad Rizwan replacement Abdullah Shafique did not able to perform well, but Babar Azam took all the responsbiliy and scored 90 runs. Another good batting performance by Iftikhar Ahmed who scored 80 runs helped Pakistan to be in a position where they can win this one.

Mohammad Nawaz  needs some support from the bowlers who are batting for Pakistan and they can win this match. He is making a good finish for this warm up match.

[Out of mind]

One thing I feel very bad about is that India has announced two abandonment of the two warm-up matches that were supposed to take place. Whereas other teams' games started in rain and then restarted when the rain cleared, but it has been the complete opposite for India. Before the start of India's match, the weather turned bad, and it rained due to which the match was abandoned before the toss. Hearing this, it seems ridiculous that India has not played a single match against their opponents in the warm-up matches so far. Where every one of the nine teams in the World Cup has participated in the warm-up matches, but India has not played a single warm-up match so far. As funny as it sounds, it is very unfortunate for India that matches are being abandoned without a toss due to bad weather. India's previous match against England was not played, and today's match against the Netherlands was similarly declared abandoned. India are suffering from bad weather in their warm-up matches due to incessant rain, due to which they could not take the field in the warm-up matches.

[TheSpiral]

The March between Sri Lanka and Afghanistan has been stopped due to rain. There are 118 runs scored by the team of Afghanistan and 1 player is out in the over of 20.5. The match between Pakistan and Australia is going very well, the scores obtained by Australia team is very higher but the Pakistan team is performing very good.

The batting of Ifthikhar was good and out on the score of 83 runs. Babar azam make the run of 90 and then left the batting. There is a great chance for the team of Pakistan to win this today's match. 60 runs are remaining in the ball of 54 for the team of Pakistan.

[rojan]

In the Pakistan vs Australia team match, Australia team came to bat first. They gave a target of 351 runs in 50 overs. Australia team batsman performance was very good. Now Pakistan team came to bat. They scored 331 runs in 47 overs. So far 8 wickets.  Pakistan team batsmen are under a lot of pressure after losing. Pakistan team need 21 runs from 18 balls to win this match. The game is very close between two teams. Still don't understand which team will win this match.

[Fuso.hp]

Pakistan is being captained by Shadab Khan, which according to me is an interesting approach. Rizwan is not playing today and he has been replaced by Abdullah Shafique. I wonder whether he has the potential to bat better than Rizwan, the pressure would be on Babar and Iftikar today to chase the target.

Pakistani team make a several Changes in second warm-up match against Australia to observe how player behave and play in absence of their main player like baber and Rizwan who's really done a huge performance in his previous match. no doubt paksitan will be in trouble but they have to be ready for any kind of challenges.
If we have a look on score board then we will find out that paksitan bowler really done a good job in early over especially spinners where they almost took Australian entire wickets before 250 but later due to high leakage of runs from especially fast bowler and some sensible innings of Maxwell and green really put Australia on track and thus they scored unexpected 340+ runs despite the really choked in early stage of the match. Hope it will be interesting how they chasedown the required target in absence of thier main players

What can I say about the Pakistan performance today? This had been an incredible chase and I never expected this type of run chase by the Pakistan team.

Muhammad Rizwan replacement Abdullah Shafique did not able to perform well, but Babar Azam took all the responsbiliy and scored 90 runs. Another good batting performance by Iftikhar Ahmed who scored 80 runs helped Pakistan to be in a position where they can win this one.

Mohammad Nawaz  needs some support from the bowlers who are batting for Pakistan and they can win this match. He is making a good finish for this warm up match.

Pakistan need 37 more runs from 31 balls to win against Australia but Pakistan have already lost seven wickets. I have not seen that much of the match but I will see that Pakistan will score 37 runs in 31 balls. They came very close to winning Pakistan. Pakistani batsmen have contributed well to bring the innings to a good position. Mohammad Nawaz and Hasan Ali are on the wickets at the moment, let's see if they can eventually lead Pakistan to victory. 
Another match of the day was stopped due to rain for some time and finally due to rain the 50 over match was played in 42 overs for Afghanistan the target is 257 runs at the moment. The Sri Lankan bowlers have managed to fall just one wicket so far in the Afghanistan camp. It is only a matter of time for Afghanistan to win this match.

[Maheshkumar_Hrangkhawl]

It is quite irritating to watch all these matches getting washed out as a result of rain. I was watching live on Hotstar, and a lot of fans were attending these matches. They were quite disappointed with the outcome. Anyway, these were just warmup matches. It will be much more disappointing, in case the group stage matches get washed out.

[Cheema02]

In the Pakistan vs Australia team match, Australia team came to bat first. They gave a target of 351 runs in 50 overs. Australia team batsman performance was very good. Now Pakistan team came to bat. They scored 331 runs in 47 overs. So far 8 wickets.  Pakistan team batsmen are under a lot of pressure after losing. Pakistan team need 21 runs from 18 balls to win this match. The game is very close between two teams. Still don't understand which team will win this match.

Really an amazing match of Cricket played by both teams Pakistan and Australia. The performance of Iftikhar played 83 runs inning and babar Azam was outclass today score 90 runs but Australia won 14 runs a great comeback. Pakistan just fall short by 14 runs in their second warm-up match score 337 runs all out in 47.4 overs. Iftikhar, Babar and Nawaz scored amazing half-centuries in the chase target of 352 runs. Pakistan batted well but the point of concern is our Bowling unit Haris Rouf pick only 1 wickets by giving 97 runs in 9overs, and specialy spin department Pakistan have to do well in upcoming world match otherwise situation becomes tough for Pakistan

[noormcs5]

Pakistan need 37 more runs from 31 balls to win against Australia but Pakistan have already lost seven wickets. I have not seen that much of the match but I will see that Pakistan will score 37 runs in 31 balls. They came very close to winning Pakistan. Pakistani batsmen have contributed well to bring the innings to a good position. Mohammad Nawaz and Hasan Ali are on the wickets at the moment, let's see if they can eventually lead Pakistan to victory. 

Pakistan failed to chase this massive score as they lost wickets in regular intervals and Australia won this match by 14 runs. Still Pakistan scored 337 runs which was not bad at all.

Also in the post-match ceremony, Shadab Khan (who is the captain for today's match) said they did not care about the result of this match, as the result was not important at all. They were more concerned with getting to know the performance of the players so that they could enter the WC with the best Playing XI.

Also, the Australian team's thoughts were that a win is always good before going in the World Cup and they will take this win as a positive sign and hopefully continue the momentum.

[SATWAT]

We need a topic here for the positive talk and after some search and work I am able to bring one topic for the all cricketing community, hopefully they will give their view about this with their available knowledge of cricket.

West Indies won 2 world cups and then lost third final and after this we have England which lost two finals first against Australia and then against Pakistan after that we have Sri Lanka which lost against Australia and then India.

Now we have New Zealand which is already on two finals losing streak first against Australia and then England now give your opinion can they make third, or now we will have new teams into final lets talk about this for some time here on this thread.

[Insanity]

Sri Lankan team, losing all wickets in 46.2 overs, set Afghanistan a target of 295 runs. With the Afghanistan team aiming to meet the target, the match was interrupted by rain shortly after the start of batting and the match was halted for a while. It took some time to restart the game as the pitch got wet due to rain. Now making the field playable, as per the DLS system, the game has been reduced to 42 overs and the Afghanistan team has been set a target of 257 runs.  Afghanistan has a good chance to win this match. Afghanistan batting is very good from the beginning. Afghanistan team has so far scored 152 runs in 26 overs for the loss of one wicket. If the players of the Afghanistan team strengthen their batting a little more. Afghanis will win this match against Sri Lanka very easily