ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[Sithara007]

Indian cricket structure is very strong and aesthetic.Cricket has become so popular in their country that they have now taken cricket as a business.If you look, you will find that India hosts a large number of domestic leagues from which talented players are constantly emerging.India spends a lot of money every year to host the IPL but every year several very talented players are produced who even later represent the national team.

Apart from Australia, none of the other countries can challenge India at this point. India has a massive population of 1.45 billion, which is growing at an astounding rate each year. None of the other teams come close. For example, New Zealand has a population of just 5 million (less than 1% of that of India). It is simply not possible for the smaller nations to compete with India. Neither in terms of money or in terms of player pool. And this is making international cricket really boring (especially when the matches are being held in sub-continent).

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Looking at the performance in Tri-Nation Under-19s Tournament, India will be one of the clear favorites to win the U19 World Cup, which starts in around 2 weeks from now. Yesterday they were flawless against Afghanistan. Left-arm seamer Naman Tiwari returned figures of 7-1-11-4, while Dhanush Gowda, Aaradhya Shukla and Priyanshu Moliya were also impressive. And most of these guys don't even have any first class experience. This is a sign of the recent improvements in the quality of age-group cricket in India.

In this tri-nation U19 series, India participated in three matches and won all three matches and are at the top of the points table with 6 points. Although Afghanistan U19 are second in the points table with one win from three matches but wait but the stronger team than Afghanistan South Africa U19 has not won a single match so far. Among the three countries in the tri-seriesSouth Africa Under 19 are at the bottom of the table. Considering India as champions, Afghanistan will have a lot of chances as South Africa have next two matches against India and Afghanistan where they have no chance of winning against India but they can win against Afghanistan.

The India U19 vs Afghanistan U19 match looked as if the Afghanistan team surrendered very helplessly to the India U19 team. Indian teams are performing well in this tournament. Be it Indian national team player or under 19 team every player performs brilliantly. Maybe the performance of Afghanistan U19 against India U19 team was not very good. But comparatively if we see the performance of Afghanistan U19 team is better than South Africa. Afghanistan U19 have another match against South Africa in that match Afghanistan must focus on batting as they lost the match against India U19 due to batting failure so they need to focus on batting.

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U19 vs Afghanistan U19 match looked as if the Afghanistan team surrendered very helplessly to the India U19 team. Indian teams are performing well in this tournament. Be it Indian national team player or under 19 team every player performs brilliantly. Maybe the performance of Afghanistan U19 against India U19 team was not very good. But comparatively if we see the performance of Afghanistan U19 team is better than South Africa. Afghanistan U19 have another match against South Africa in that match Afghanistan must focus on batting as they lost the match against India U19 due to batting failure so they need to focus on batting.

I agree with you, the Indian U19 team did a great performance today. And it is obious that the Afghanistan team will be surrendered to the Indian team. because the Indian u19 team is much stronger than Afghanistan U19 team. So the result is expected for me. But I also thought that Indian team will be won without falling any wicket but the lose 1 wicket of them.

[Publictalk792]

I agree with you, the Indian U19 team did a great performance today. And it is obious that the Afghanistan team will be surrendered to the Indian team. because the Indian u19 team is much stronger than Afghanistan U19 team. So the result is expected for me. But I also thought that Indian team will be won without falling any wicket but the lose 1 wicket of them.

First of all India U19 restricted the Afghanistan U19 below 100 runs and then India chased the target in 12 overs. I think this win based on two factors. First is Afghanistan U19 team was really weak and need much practice and second is India U19 team was very strong in both batting and bowling line.
From Afghanistan the batting was weak but India had good bowling line therefore Afghanistan made only 88 runs. After that Afghanistan's bowling was weak but here again India was strong in batting line. Therefore India won the match easily.

[Marvell1]

Indian cricket structure is very strong and aesthetic.Cricket has become so popular in their country that they have now taken cricket as a business.If you look, you will find that India hosts a large number of domestic leagues from which talented players are constantly emerging.India spends a lot of money every year to host the IPL but every year several very talented players are produced who even later represent the national team.

Apart from Australia, none of the other countries can challenge India at this point. India has a massive population of 1.45 billion, which is growing at an astounding rate each year. None of the other teams come close. For example, New Zealand has a population of just 5 million (less than 1% of that of India). It is simply not possible for the smaller nations to compete with India. Neither in terms of money or in terms of player pool. And this is making international cricket really boring (especially when the matches are being held in sub-continent).

I mean when you have this big of population, talented players are bound to come out. All the BCCI has to do is find them out and train and nurture them. They definitely have a very strong talent hunt system to find out the talented young players. Some of the recent young players are very talented and some of them are not performing right now in the national team but it is okay. It will take time.

As far as I can remember, Shubman Gill also suffered at first but the Indian team gave him chance after chance and now he is one of the best openers in the world. Their squad depth is so good that 2 of their team can be formed to play 2 series at the same time.

[Sithara007]

First of all India U19 restricted the Afghanistan U19 below 100 runs and then India chased the target in 12 overs. I think this win based on two factors. First is Afghanistan U19 team was really weak and need much practice and second is India U19 team was very strong in both batting and bowling line.
From Afghanistan the batting was weak but India had good bowling line therefore Afghanistan made only 88 runs. After that Afghanistan's bowling was weak but here again India was strong in batting line. Therefore India won the match easily.

Afghanistan's growth seems to have stagnated after they got the test status in 2019. They performed well in the 2023 ODI World Cup, but apart from that their performance during the last 4 years have been sub-par. In fact, both the teams (Afghanistan and Ireland) who got test status back in 2019 have faced the same fate. I am not sure exactly what happened. But it seems that for both the teams the "golden generation" of players retired and the younger players failed to fill the gap. And this is being reflected in the performance of Afghan U-19 team as well.

[mdzahed134]

Indian cricket structure is very strong and aesthetic.Cricket has become so popular in their country that they have now taken cricket as a business.If you look, you will find that India hosts a large number of domestic leagues from which talented players are constantly emerging.India spends a lot of money every year to host the IPL but every year several very talented players are produced who even later represent the national team.

Apart from Australia, none of the other countries can challenge India at this point. India has a massive population of 1.45 billion, which is growing at an astounding rate each year. None of the other teams come close. For example, New Zealand has a population of just 5 million (less than 1% of that of India). It is simply not possible for the smaller nations to compete with India. Neither in terms of money or in terms of player pool. And this is making international cricket really boring (especially when the matches are being held in sub-continent).

If population is main factor of comparing with one team to another, then how did they become such a big team and who can they compete with in India. I think money & other many stuffs is play important role to build a strong team. Bangladesh has big population over 174 million (i think it’s not accurate data) but they can't produced such an international players as considering massive population, and also Pakistan has high population 240 million, but they can't make enough. On the other hand Australia & New Zealand both of extremely lower population but these are big teams.

[Publictalk792]

Zimbabwe tour of Sri Lanka

In this tour they will play two series ODI and T20I series. Both series have three three matches. Tomorrow the ODI series will be started and Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will face each other. In we took a look on ICC World cup so we remembered that Sri Lanka didn't played well. Sri Lanka is still looking more strong. By the way we can't predict correctly which team will win the series or the matches. So tomorrow performance will show everything. I hope Sri Lanka will win the series.

[minairia3]

Zimbabwe tour of Sri Lanka

In this tour they will play two series ODI and T20I series. Both series have three three matches. Tomorrow the ODI series will be started and Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will face each other. In we took a look on ICC World cup so we remembered that Sri Lanka didn't played well. Sri Lanka is still looking more strong. By the way we can't predict correctly which team will win the series or the matches. So tomorrow performance will show everything. I hope Sri Lanka will win the series.

I don't think it is hard to predict who will win the matches here, to be honest. I know Zimbabwe are kind of a strong team but at the end of the day kind of let everyone down. Zimbabwe failed to qualify for the T20 when they failed to beat weak teams. I don't see any point in Sri Lanka playing with Zimbabwe while they got a World Cup coming up. They should play with someone stronger to better prepare for the World Cup.

[JunkieMiner]

I don't think it is hard to predict who will win the matches here, to be honest. I know Zimbabwe are kind of a strong team but at the end of the day kind of let everyone down. Zimbabwe failed to qualify for the T20 when they failed to beat weak teams. I don't see any point in Sri Lanka playing with Zimbabwe while they got a World Cup coming up. They should play with someone stronger to better prepare for the World Cup.

There are more chances of Sir Lanka to win than Zimbabwe because we have seen currently the Team Zimbabwe has not going to involve more than their top batting. Recently their matches were at the stage that they have been lost in many matches from other countries. As the series will give us so much fun and that would be nice because they both have good batting now a  days.

[Sithara007]

If population is main factor of comparing with one team to another, then how did they become such a big team and who can they compete with in India. I think money & other many stuffs is play important role to build a strong team. Bangladesh has big population over 174 million (i think it’s not accurate data) but they can't produced such an international players as considering massive population, and also Pakistan has high population 240 million, but they can't make enough. On the other hand Australia & New Zealand both of extremely lower population but these are big teams.

Previously population was not a major factor. The reason is that there were few quality cricketing facilities in countries such as India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. Small nations such as Australia and South Africa had these facilities and they made up for the difference in population with the advantage in infrastructure. But now every nook and corner of India has a cricket academy with state of the art facilities. Quality of club cricket is improving and it is almost at the same level as that in England and Australia. Domestic 4-day cricket still needs improvement. This in turn has ensured that India reaps the benefits from the population factor.

[Publictalk792]

I don't think it is hard to predict who will win the matches here, to be honest. I know Zimbabwe are kind of a strong team but at the end of the day kind of let everyone down. Zimbabwe failed to qualify for the T20 when they failed to beat weak teams. I don't see any point in Sri Lanka playing with Zimbabwe while they got a World Cup coming up. They should play with someone stronger to better prepare for the World Cup.

Exactly this is not a big deal to predict between these two teams. But this is cricket my dear friend. So here a small team can beat a big team easily.  I know Sri Lanka team is really good and have ability to beat Zimbabwe but We can't underestimate the Zimbabwe team too.
By the way at this time we can't say anything. Both teams performance will show everything that which team is more strong. So for now we should wait for the match.
If Sri Lanka will take first turn and if Sri Lanka will make 250+ runs. So this will be little bit difficult to chase by Zimbabwe.

[JahriMeayer]

Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe, 1st ODI is about to start within few hours. Sri Lanka team looking strong as always. Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, Asalanka, akila Dananjaya are in the Squad. where Craig Ervine(c), Sikandar Raza, Luke Jongwe are pretty popular players belongs to Zimbabwe. I saw the Google prediction where 78% winning possibility for SL & 22% of Zimbabwe. Recently Uganda creates history by defeated Zimbabwe and become quality in ICC T20 World Cup 2024; that proves the weakness of Zimbabwe team. But i can't imagine what is going to happened cause situation can change anytime but SL sounds more chance to win IMHO

[Bd officer]

Zimbabwe tour of Sri Lanka

In this tour they will play two series ODI and T20I series. Both series have three three matches. Tomorrow the ODI series will be started and Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will face each other. In we took a look on ICC World cup so we remembered that Sri Lanka didn't played well. Sri Lanka is still looking more strong. By the way we can't predict correctly which team will win the series or the matches. So tomorrow performance will show everything. I hope Sri Lanka will win the series.

Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe ODI series first match will be played today. Zimbabwe is not performing well at present. Lost the ODI and T20I series against Ireland at home. Currently, Sri Lanka is a much stronger team than Zimbabwe. Sri Lanka's batting and bowling line is much better than Zimbabwe's. Also the game will be at Sri Lanka's home ground, so Sri Lanka will get a lot of support. If I have to predict today's match then I will favor Sri Lanka. I think Sri Lanka will win today's match and Sri Lanka will win the series.

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Zimbabwe tour of Sri Lanka

In this tour they will play two series ODI and T20I series. Both series have three three matches. Tomorrow the ODI series will be started and Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will face each other. In we took a look on ICC World cup so we remembered that Sri Lanka didn't played well. Sri Lanka is still looking more strong. By the way we can't predict correctly which team will win the series or the matches. So tomorrow performance will show everything. I hope Sri Lanka will win the series.

Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe ODI series first match will be played today. Zimbabwe is not performing well at present. Lost the ODI and T20I series against Ireland at home. Currently, Sri Lanka is a much stronger team than Zimbabwe. Sri Lanka's batting and bowling line is much better than Zimbabwe's. Also the game will be at Sri Lanka's home ground, so Sri Lanka will get a lot of support. If I have to predict today's match then I will favor Sri Lanka. I think Sri Lanka will win today's match and Sri Lanka will win the series.

op I agree with you because it is true that Sri Lanka will always perform well against Zimbabwe. I will put Sri Lanka ahead of Zimbabwe in today's match because both Sri Lanka batting and bowling are much stronger than Zimbabwe. I think if Sri Lanka win the toss first they may decide to bowl Sri Lanka will want to restrict Zimbabwe to very few runs. Now let's finally see how many runs Sri Lanka can restrict Zimbabwe to. As the game is being played on Sri Lankan soil, however, Sri Lanka will try to give the best performance.

[cozytrade]

Zimbabwe tour of Sri Lanka

In this tour they will play two series ODI and T20I series. Both series have three three matches. Tomorrow the ODI series will be started and Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will face each other. In we took a look on ICC World cup so we remembered that Sri Lanka didn't played well. Sri Lanka is still looking more strong. By the way we can't predict correctly which team will win the series or the matches. So tomorrow performance will show everything. I hope Sri Lanka will win the series.

Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe ODI series first match will be played today. Zimbabwe is not performing well at present. Lost the ODI and T20I series against Ireland at home. Currently, Sri Lanka is a much stronger team than Zimbabwe. Sri Lanka's batting and bowling line is much better than Zimbabwe's. Also the game will be at Sri Lanka's home ground, so Sri Lanka will get a lot of support. If I have to predict today's match then I will favor Sri Lanka. I think Sri Lanka will win today's match and Sri Lanka will win the series.

Yes, it is wise for you to support the Sri Lanka team in this first match today, and bet for Sri Lanka. In the first match of this ODI series against Zimbabwe, the Sri Lankan team is likely to do well. Because there are many good and skilled players in the Sri Lankan cricket team. Sri Lanka team Kusal Mendis, Pathum Nissanka, many talented players. It is expected that they will be able to present a very good game in today's match. The toss of the first match of this ODI series has already been completed. Sri Lanka team won the toss of this match. After winning the toss in today's match, Sri Lanka will bat at the start of the game. Only 20 minutes left for the game to start. I am ready to enjoy this match today

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I agree with you because it is true that Sri Lanka will always perform well against Zimbabwe. I will put Sri Lanka ahead of Zimbabwe in today's match because both Sri Lanka batting and bowling are much stronger than Zimbabwe. I think if Sri Lanka win the toss first they may decide to bowl Sri Lanka will want to restrict Zimbabwe to very few runs. Now let's finally see how many runs Sri Lanka can restrict Zimbabwe to. As the game is being played on Sri Lankan soil, however, Sri Lanka will try to give the best performance.

That's true if we saw the head to head match result then there will be Sri Lanka is a head from Zimbabwe team. Anyway match between Sri Lanka vs Zimbabwe all ready started. But it was not a good start form Sri Lanka openers  because Fernando already got out with a golden duck.

[noormcs5]

Zimbabwe tour of Sri Lanka

In this tour they will play two series ODI and T20I series. Both series have three three matches. Tomorrow the ODI series will be started and Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka will face each other. In we took a look on ICC World cup so we remembered that Sri Lanka didn't played well. Sri Lanka is still looking more strong. By the way we can't predict correctly which team will win the series or the matches. So tomorrow performance will show everything. I hope Sri Lanka will win the series.

The four wickets of Sri Lanka were felled in just 20 overs. They made good runs but now their main batsmen have been going so the new batsmen who come should maintain the partnership because there are some batsmen left who can manage this game just 2 or 3 and they are batting right now so they should make a partnership and when innings come near to the end so on that time,
they can play fast but not right now, and if they lose wickets again and again so maybe they cannot get success to complete 250 runs, and if they can't do this so it is such a shameful thing for Sri Lanka because once a time, many big teams has the target to beat Sri Lanka.

[cryptoWODL]

The four wickets of Sri Lanka were felled in just 20 overs. They made good runs but now their main batsmen have been going so the new batsmen who come should maintain the partnership because there are some batsmen left who can manage this game just 2 or 3 and they are batting right now so they should make a partnership and when innings come near to the end so on that time,
they can play fast but not right now, and if they lose wickets again and again so maybe they cannot get success to complete 250 runs, and if they can't do this so it is such a shameful thing for Sri Lanka because once a time, many big teams has the target to beat Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan team is still in good shape even though they have lost five wickets for just 163 runs in 30.5 overs. The bigger the pair formed in the cricket match, the more runs the team will be able to score. Charith Asalanka and Sahan Arachchige are currently batting for the Sri Lankan team. I think these two are going to form a good pair and they will take their team far and even put up a strong innings against Zimbabwe.

[Dimitri94]

The four wickets of Sri Lanka were felled in just 20 overs. They made good runs but now their main batsmen have been going so the new batsmen who come should maintain the partnership because there are some batsmen left who can manage this game just 2 or 3 and they are batting right now so they should make a partnership and when innings come near to the end so on that time,
they can play fast but not right now, and if they lose wickets again and again so maybe they cannot get success to complete 250 runs, and if they can't do this so it is such a shameful thing for Sri Lanka because once a time, many big teams has the target to beat Sri Lanka.

The Sri Lankan team is still in good shape even though they have lost five wickets for just 163 runs in 30.5 overs. The bigger the pair formed in the cricket match, the more runs the team will be able to score. Charith Asalanka and Sahan Arachchige are currently batting for the Sri Lankan team. I think these two are going to form a good pair and they will take their team far and even put up a strong innings against Zimbabwe.

Sri Lanka have a decent score so far but they have lost comparatively more wickets. But this score is certainly not low for a weak team. Zimbabwe is not performing very well at the moment while Sri Lanka is one of the stronger teams although they have not had much wins in recent times. As the opening batsman in the first match of the series, Avishka Fernando went back to zero run but everyone else has scores to their names. Sri Lankan team is predicted to win but if Sikandar Raza's team can show anything amazing then it is not impossible for them to win the match.