ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[JunkieMiner]

I think ICC don't have much options to choose from. There are 12 test teams at the moment including Zimbabwe and Ireland. Bangladesh has got test status in 2000 and in last 23 years they were not able to produce any good test results but they also have test status intact. West Indies and Sri Lanka are also down and out in test but they also have there test status. There are only 4 to 5 out of these 12 teams who have the capability to play test and give good performance rest are there to just fill the table. 

Thinking about the West Indies that they still have some players who can play the test cricket although the team West India were been a favorite team for their t20 skills. As most top players for the t20 were also discovered by them. But Sri Lanka team I don't think can provide good skills in the test cricket and also the ICC may be some issues with some teams which is due to the financial status of some teams like I can say the current situation of Sri Lankan Team.

[mdzahed134]

Actually it is not Ireland and Afghanistan are making their survival difficult. Ireland is in very poor form ever since they got the test status in 2019, and even if they lose to these teams it can be justified by saying that they lost to test nations. But what about the recent defeats to African associates such as Namibia and Uganda? And also in the ODI World Cup qualifiers, they lost to Scotland and Netherlands. These sort of defeats triggers a lot of questions and the decision by ICC to keep the test status of Zimbabwe will look more and more unjustified with each passing day.

I think ICC don't have much options to choose from. There are 12 test teams at the moment including Zimbabwe and Ireland. Bangladesh has got test status in 2000 and in last 23 years they were not able to produce any good test results but they also have test status intact. West Indies and Sri Lanka are also down and out in test but they also have there test status. There are only 4 to 5 out of these 12 teams who have the capability to play test and give good performance rest are there to just fill the table.  

Afghanistan and Ireland both teams have test status by ICC but they're not still played enough match in test cricket but they also got status and ICC given status 19 teams and ICC ranking nearly 100 teams in ODI format but how much team got qualify to play world cup and other big event. So status is doesn’t mean every team will play well and show good results.

[ThemePen]

ICC Under-19 World Cup Warm-up Matches

We know that the ICC U19 ODI world cup is going to be started. And there are some warm up matches are playing. Today there are three matches.
England U19 vs Pakistan U19
Bangladesh U19 vs Australia U19
Scotland U19 vs New Zealand U19

I am not sure who will win the matches from these teams. But I think Pakistan U19 Australia U19 and New Zealand U19 may win today match. So let's see who will win today match.

[Sithara007]

ICC Under-19 World Cup Warm-up Matches

We know that the ICC U19 ODI world cup is going to be started. And there are some warm up matches are playing. Today there are three matches.
England U19 vs Pakistan U19
Bangladesh U19 vs Australia U19
Scotland U19 vs New Zealand U19

I am not sure who will win the matches from these teams. But I think Pakistan U19 Australia U19 and New Zealand U19 may win today match. So let's see who will win today match.

Most of the warmup matches till now have got washed out. And today's matches are the last batch of warmups, as the tournament will get started on 19th January. India U19 will be playing against Sri Lanka U19, and I hope that the Indians will get at least some match practice out of it. A few days back, they were involved in a triangular tournament, which also saw the participation from South Africa U19 and Afghanistan U19. India U19 will be one of the favorites to lift the trophy, along with the hosts and Australia U19.

[tbterryboy]

Afghanistan and Ireland both teams have test status by ICC but they're not still played enough match in test cricket but they also got status and ICC given status 19 teams and ICC ranking nearly 100 teams in ODI format but how much team got qualify to play world cup and other big event. So status is doesn’t mean every team will play well and show good results.

Yeah, Afghanistan and Ireland got into test status in 2019 and both are having only 7 test matches in last four years with Afghanistan won 3 and lost 4 and Ireland was unable to win any which is clearly indicating how things are going in this format, so better thing is now they stop this all and bring more teams for the white-ball format which helps them for having more interesting cricket and which is also better for the entertainment purpose.

We are currently having 12 teams in test format and just 5 or 6 are able to have better things with all others are losing their quality and things are also not favourable for them in finances, so now it's time for bringing more teams into shorter formats instead of going into this which is not affordable to all.

[Publictalk792]

ICC Under-19 World Cup Warm-up Matches

Today is the last day of the warm up matches and the ICC World Cup of under nineteens will start from 19 January.
There are four groups. And every group has four teams. Here are the details.
Group A
Bangladesh19
India 19
Ireland19
USA19

Group B
England 19
Scotland 19
South Africa 19
West Indies 19

Group C
Australia 19
Namibia 19
Sri Lanka 19
Zimbabwe 19

Group D
Afghanistan 19
Nepal 19
New Zealand 19
Pakistan 19

So let's see which team will perform well and will win World cup.

[elevates]

So let's see which team will perform well and will win World cup.

It is hard to tell which team will win this year, defending champions India looks good. Australia is doing well and they can be seen as one of the contenders. Not sure about Bangladesh they won the Cup in 2020 so did South Africa in 2018. India has won the maximum time and this time they are again the favorite to win. The teams to look at this year are the USA, Namibia, and Nepal, they are all new teams. I have not seen these three teams play so won't be able to comment on how good they are.

[redsun114]

So let's see which team will perform well and will win World cup.

It is hard to tell which team will win this year, defending champions India looks good. Australia is doing well and they can be seen as one of the contenders. Not sure about Bangladesh they won the Cup in 2020 so did South Africa in 2018. India has won the maximum time and this time they are again the favorite to win. The teams to look at this year are the USA, Namibia, and Nepal, they are all new teams. I have not seen these three teams play so won't be able to comment on how good they are.

There is no doubt most of the teams are unpredictable, and we can expect any result from them like we have few weeks back while India and Pakistan lost into semifinal, and we have Bangladesh and UAE into final with Bangladesh won the Asia Cup with after watching groups we can predict about few teams which can make into way for the last four like India, Australia are hot favourite with England and South Africa will fight for top spot with Pakistan and Afghanistan will fight for the top spot into their groups but still any upset still can happen.

But, good thing happening as we are now having teams from Namibia, Nepal and USA as well which are doing good progress into game and things can take good turn into future for them as well.

[JunkieMiner]

ICC Under-19 World Cup Warm-up Matches

Today is the last day of the warm up matches and the ICC World Cup of under nineteens will start from 19 January.
There are four groups. And every group has four teams. Here are the details.
Group A
Bangladesh19
India 19
Ireland19
USA19

Group B
England 19
Scotland 19
South Africa 19
West Indies 19

Group C
Australia 19
Namibia 19
Sri Lanka 19
Zimbabwe 19

Group D
Afghanistan 19
Nepal 19
New Zealand 19
Pakistan 19

So let's see which team will perform well and will win World cup.

It seems that Group B have some top teams which include England also which have some good batting players and when we look at South Africa which seems to be more dangerous teams according to their bowling attack which mostly putt them in the winning situation and the other team West Indian are also famous for their sixes against different teams. So, the matches between these group will be quite good and we can easily get some enjoyment likely to be very soon.

[Sithara007]

It seems that Group B have some top teams which include England also which have some good batting players and when we look at South Africa which seems to be more dangerous teams according to their bowling attack which mostly putt them in the winning situation and the other team West Indian are also famous for their sixes against different teams. So, the matches between these group will be quite good and we can easily get some enjoyment likely to be very soon.

India will be the favorites without any doubt. They performed quite strongly in the tri-series against Afghanistan and South Africa. After them, it maybe Australia and England, as they have a very strong grass-roots setup. And then South Africa will be having the home advantage. You can't discount New Zealand and Pakistan as well. BTW, I don't have high hopes for West Indies. They are in overall decline, and the same can be said about Sri Lanka as well. And regarding the other teams, Afghanistan and Bangladesh may score a few upset wins.

[Webetcoins]

It seems that Group B have some top teams which include England also which have some good batting players and when we look at South Africa which seems to be more dangerous teams according to their bowling attack which mostly putt them in the winning situation and the other team West Indian are also famous for their sixes against different teams. So, the matches between these group will be quite good and we can easily get some enjoyment likely to be very soon.

In this event, we have no big team all are doing good but as we know India is having much better and solid system for the youths so just they are had chance for staying as favourite, but others can face unpredictable results because these youngsters are going to start their careers, and they have to face ups and downs which are surely giving them good lessons for their rest of the careers.

In group B, we have England, West Indies and host nation South Africa which makes some interest about them because here any team can do good performance on game day and can go to the next round with others are having not better teams like this group but this is still game of nerves and any team can win on game day with their solid performance.

[Cheema02]

ICC Under-19 World Cup Warm-up Matches

Today is the last day of the warm up matches and the ICC World Cup of under nineteens will start from 19 January.
There are four groups. And every group has four teams. Here are the details.
Group A
Bangladesh19
India 19
Ireland19
USA19

Group B
England 19
Scotland 19
South Africa 19
West Indies 19

Group C
Australia 19
Namibia 19
Sri Lanka 19
Zimbabwe 19

Group D
Afghanistan 19
Nepal 19
New Zealand 19
Pakistan 19

So let's see which team will perform well and will win World cup.

I think in Group A india U19 and Bangladesh U19 is strong team as compared to  and Ireland19 and USA19. Bangladesh U19 give very strong performance in recent Asia cup and champions by  winning the final. the warm up match between Australia U19 and Banagladesh U19 won this match easily by 5 wickets. they all out Australia u19 in just 165 runs. while in Group D Pakistan U19 is balanced team and Afghanistan U19 also good team. both teams have ability to win against any team in the world. i hope pakistan U19 will win this U19 world cup of they perform well in bating and bowling department.

[Publictalk792]

Zimbabwe Women vs Ireland Women
First ODI

Ireland Women team won the toss and chose to bowl first. The match has already been started and Zimbabwe Women was playing. And at this time match has stopped due to rain. The Match already set to 46 overs due to rain and now they have stopped the match due to wet outfield. Zimbabwe already played 15 overs and made 43 runs and lost 3 wickets. If the Match will start again so it will be little bit difficult to say which team will win.
While typing the match has started again.

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Zimbabwe Women vs Ireland Women
First ODI

Ireland Women team won the toss and chose to bowl first. The match has already been started and Zimbabwe Women was playing. And at this time match has stopped due to rain. The Match already set to 46 overs due to rain and now they have stopped the match due to wet outfield. Zimbabwe already played 15 overs and made 43 runs and lost 3 wickets. If the Match will start again so it will be little bit difficult to say which team will win.
While typing the match has started again.

Zimbabwe Women vs Ireland Women 1st ODI match will be competitive if Zimbabwe Women can give Ireland Women a big target. Before Zimbabwe vs Ireland 1st ODI match it is not possible to say which team will win of course cricket is a game of uncertainty whichever team plays well will definitely win. But first as Zimbabwe women batting first they must keep the target if they can give Ireland women a big run target if they bowl controlled then maybe they can win today's match. Although the match was stopped for a while due to rain, Zimbabwe batsmen may not be able to do much as the field was wet. Still, let's see how many runs the Zimbabwe women's team can target to the Ireland women's team.

[Nalain420]

Zimbabwe Women vs Ireland Women
First ODI

Ireland Women team won the toss and chose to bowl first. The match has already been started and Zimbabwe Women was playing. And at this time match has stopped due to rain. The Match already set to 46 overs due to rain and now they have stopped the match due to wet outfield. Zimbabwe already played 15 overs and made 43 runs and lost 3 wickets. If the Match will start again so it will be little bit difficult to say which team will win.
While typing the match has started again.

This is the first ODI match between Zimbabwe women and Ireland women. Ireland women won the toss and first decided bowling. Zimbabwe women batsman makes 3 run in 2 over and Ireland no any wicket against Zimbabwe batsman.This is very bad started for Zimbabwe women batsman. Ireland women bowler out the Zimbabwe women batsman in the last ball of the 3 over. This is the first achievement for Ireland team. Zimbabwe women batsman makes 15 run in 5 over and 1 out. Zimbabwean batsmen are not working hard and struggle and not scoring runs. Zimbabwe women batsman makes 30 run in 10 over and 1 out. Once time again Ireland bowler out the Zimbabwe batsman in the fourth ball of the 13 over. This is the second achievement for Ireland team. Zimbabwe women batsman makes 170 run in 43 over and 10 outs. This is the target for Ireland batsman. This is the easy target. Now let's see Ireland Batsman can complete this target or not.

[AirtelBuzz]

Zimbabwe Women vs Ireland Women
First ODI

Ireland Women team won the toss and chose to bowl first. The match has already been started and Zimbabwe Women was playing. And at this time match has stopped due to rain. The Match already set to 46 overs due to rain and now they have stopped the match due to wet outfield. Zimbabwe already played 15 overs and made 43 runs and lost 3 wickets. If the Match will start again so it will be little bit difficult to say which team will win.
While typing the match has started again.

Zimbabwe women's team scored only 170 runs for 10 wickets in 42.5 overs. I saw the highlight of this match Zimbabwe women lost their wicket at regular intervals their first wicket fell for just 4 runs then the second wicket for 39 runs. The 170 runs scored by the Zimbabwean women's team will probably be too easy a score for the Ireland women's team.Because 170 runs is not a very big and strong score in ODI cricket if Ireland women batting well according to their strength today they will win this match today.Now the innings break.The game will start in no time and the Ireland women's team will fight for victory.

[Sithara007]

Zimbabwe women's team scored only 170 runs for 10 wickets in 42.5 overs. I saw the highlight of this match Zimbabwe women lost their wicket at regular intervals their first wicket fell for just 4 runs then the second wicket for 39 runs. The 170 runs scored by the Zimbabwean women's team will probably be too easy a score for the Ireland women's team.Because 170 runs is not a very big and strong score in ODI cricket if Ireland women batting well according to their strength today they will win this match today.Now the innings break.The game will start in no time and the Ireland women's team will fight for victory.

This was more or less expected. Men's game is alive in Zimbabwe, just because they have some legacy players such as Sikandar Raza, Sean Williams and Craig Ervine. Almost all of them are in their late 30s and may retire from active cricket very soon. And now coming to the women's game, they have no such luxury. Domestic cricket is in pathetic state and whatever funds they get from the ICC gets stolen by the politicians. Zimbabwe is going the same way as Kenya. And my biggest worry is that South Africa may follow the same path. 

[noormcs5]

Actually it is not Ireland and Afghanistan are making their survival difficult. Ireland is in very poor form ever since they got the test status in 2019, and even if they lose to these teams it can be justified by saying that they lost to test nations. But what about the recent defeats to African associates such as Namibia and Uganda? And also in the ODI World Cup qualifiers, they lost to Scotland and Netherlands. These sort of defeats triggers a lot of questions and the decision by ICC to keep the test status of Zimbabwe will look more and more unjustified with each passing day.

I think ICC don't have much options to choose from. There are 12 test teams at the moment including Zimbabwe and Ireland. Bangladesh has got test status in 2000 and in last 23 years they were not able to produce any good test results but they also have test status intact. West Indies and Sri Lanka are also down and out in test but they also have there test status. There are only 4 to 5 out of these 12 teams who have the capability to play test and give good performance rest are there to just fill the table. 

I will tell you the ranking of every particular team that plays cricket, and the teams who are present in the top 1. On number 1 India had a place, and in this team, all the players were very well, this is the team that can win all the matches but cannot win the important match that decides the champions and from this thing, they were never won an ICC trophy from the last 10 years,

They won the last Champions trophy in the captaincy of Dhoni and after this Indian team has never won any ICC trophy, and the last ODI World Cup that they got was under the captaincy of Dhoni, and the last T20 World Cup they got, was also inside the Ms Dhoni's captaincy.

[synchronym]

Ireland Women's team vs Zimbabwe Women's first ODI match, Zimbabwe did not bat that well as Zimbabwe Women's team was bowled out for just 170 runs. Zimbabwe women's team should have batted responsibly because only 170 runs is not a big target in an ODI match. So if Ireland could have given a little bigger target, then today's match would have been within their reach. Ireland's bowlers bowled exceptionally well in today's match as they bowled out their opponents Zimbabwe for just 170 all out. It is expected that Ireland will not have much problem to win the target of 171 runs. Because they have 50 overs in hand, so if you watch them protect the wicket and bat responsibly, they will easily win against Zimbabwe women. Now let's see how well the Zimbabwe women's team can bowl in the end.

[Essential10]

Ireland Women's team vs Zimbabwe Women's first ODI match, Zimbabwe did not bat that well as Zimbabwe Women's team was bowled out for just 170 runs. Zimbabwe women's team should have batted responsibly because only 170 runs is not a big target in an ODI match. So if Ireland could have given a little bigger target, then today's match would have been within their reach. Ireland's bowlers bowled exceptionally well in today's match as they bowled out their opponents Zimbabwe for just 170 all out. It is expected that Ireland will not have much problem to win the target of 171 runs. Because they have 50 overs in hand, so if you watch them protect the wicket and bat responsibly, they will easily win against Zimbabwe women. Now let's see how well the Zimbabwe women's team can bowl in the end.

In the first ODI between Zimbabwe Women and Ireland Women, Ireland Women won the toss and sent Zimbabwe Women into bat. Zimbabwe Women played defensively from the start but kept losing wickets along with short partnerships, collapsing for 170 in 42.5 balls. After the end of the first innings, the match was interrupted by rain, Ireland women's team had to make a target of 110 in 21 overs using the DLS method. It didn't take long for the Ireland women's team to chase down the target, with Amy Hunter scoring an unbeaten 36 off 39 balls and Gaby Lewis scoring 65 off 41 balls. Ireland women's team lead the series 1-0 with a big win by 10 wickets.