ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[virasog]

This is not a full strength SA team rather it's there second string team that has so far given good results in this tour. This SA side manage to draw the test series, while lost the T20I series with 2-1 margin and in first ODI they made Pakistan work hard to win the match. The target set for Pakistan team in yesterday match was just 264 and Pakistan chased that tiny total in 49.4 overs after losing 8 wickets. Thanks to Agha and Rizwan batting that Pakistan manage to win the first game otherwise SA were very close to victory.

Tomorrow is going to be the second one day match between South Africa and Pakistan, I think this match surely to win by the team Pakistan especially if they again bowl first like the previous matches of this series. Pakistan bowlers, spinners and pacers are really magical. Naseem Shah , disciplined bowling never comes under pressure. He did not lose his line and length no matter how the batsmen are playing it and not depending on the field set while spinner to take early wickets and Shaheen Shah is most good when it comes to middle overs and death overs of the innings.

[UmerIdrees]

Tomorrow is going to be the second one day match between South Africa and Pakistan, I think this match surely to win by the team Pakistan especially if they again bowl first like the previous matches of this series. Pakistan bowlers, spinners and pacers are really magical. Naseem Shah , disciplined bowling never comes under pressure. He did not lose his line and length no matter how the batsmen are playing it and not depending on the field set while spinner to take early wickets and Shaheen Shah is most good when it comes to middle overs and death overs of the innings.

I think if Pakistan wins the toss luckily, they have to bat first because in every other game we see them while bowling first and it is not good that for instance in an important game, if they would not win the toss and opponent decided to bowl first so what they would do 

Pakistani bowlers always feel pressure in defending and to change this habit, have to take the step by the captain Shaheen Shah Afridi. In addition, he is also the bowler, so he has to focus on such things.

[Tipstar]

In last game of ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League, 2 bottom sides UAE steal the win against struggling Nepal which have 4th consecutive defeat and 5th lost from their last 6 games which is surely disappointing result for them and their fans.

Nepal have decent total on board as the UAE captain decided to bowl first which was good decision because their bowlers done good job and restricted Nepal on 239 for lost of 9 wickets no batsman able to produce big inning as most gone between 30s to 40s.

In reply, UAE have good partnership for 4th wicket between Mohammad Waseem and Mohammad Shahzad which allow them to have consolation win in this game but still they are ended at bottom of this league.

Disappointing performance by Nepal's team. After their first place qualification for T20 World Cup, everyone had expected them to play similar on the ODI League 2 but they lost all 4 of the matches played in this leg and are now in the lowest position of the League, they would still get the chance to save their ODI status through playoffs but the chances to reach the ODI worldcup is highly unlikely now. Mathematically still possible but very difficult to achieve as UAE is one of the weakest among them and other teams they are to play would be stronger.

[BTC FutureKing]

Over the years, Pakistan has gone from a team that used to challenge the pig-3 countries, to a team that get whacked by South Africa and New Zealand. The win yesterday would help to boost the morale of the team, but root issues remain unresolved. Their batsmen are inconsistent, and among the pacers they don't have anyone to support the opening bowlers (Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah). And more importantly, they don't have a world class spinner who can trouble the opposition batsmen.

This is not a full strength SA team rather it's there second string team that has so far given good results in this tour. This SA side manage to draw the test series, while lost the T20I series with 2-1 margin and in first ODI they made Pakistan work hard to win the match. The target set for Pakistan team in yesterday match was just 264 and Pakistan chased that tiny total in 49.4 overs after losing 8 wickets. Thanks to Agha and Rizwan batting that Pakistan manage to win the first game otherwise SA were very close to victory.

South Africa as they had performed in other matches like Test matches and T20 matches could not perform like that in the first ODI match because they are among the heavy teams so the target they gave to Pakistan was a little easy.The brilliant way they started the game they could not score many runs accordingly.Their first partnership was 98 and they could not make such a bond again because Pakistan left everyone behind in bowling. They took 4 wickets one after the other.In the first match against South Africa Pakistan was heavy on the field and did not leave any shortcomings in batting. The best batsmen of this match were Salman Ali Agha and Rizwan.

[Crypto Library]

In last game of ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League, 2 bottom sides UAE steal the win against struggling Nepal which have 4th consecutive defeat and 5th lost from their last 6 games which is surely disappointing result for them and their fans.
Nepal have decent total on board as the UAE captain decided to bowl first which was good decision because their bowlers done good job and restricted Nepal on 239 for lost of 9 wickets no batsman able to produce big inning as most gone between 30s to 40s.
In reply, UAE have good partnership for 4th wicket between Mohammad Waseem and Mohammad Shahzad which allow them to have consolation win in this game but still they are ended at bottom of this league.

I thought Nepal team can improve their cricket as Nepal team had to improve their batting performance in the last few matches and that is why we saw them defeating a strong team like West Indies.
From this point of view I thought that they can create a good position in ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League, 2 but here we can see that they are losing repeatedly to United Arab Emirates and United State of America.
And looking at the current condition, it seems that they are going to make all the recovery that they had to do so much worse.

[ZAINmalik75]

But whatever we say, the Pakistan team played exceptionally well today, especially at the beginning when the South African team came out to bat and scored runs like they were going crazy, but the Pakistan team was able to stop them by bowling well, and that is why I think that if the Pakistan team's target did not go above 300 today, their target would have gone above 300.

And at the same time, I have to praise the Pakistani batsmen because they also played a great role today. In this case, I would like to praise the partnership of Mohammad Rizwan and Agha Salman and also the long partnership. However, it is true that the South African team also tried to recover towards the end, but they were unable to do so even towards the end.

It's true I agree that Pakistan bowling does phenomenal job and restrict south African whome were easily on a Verge to score 300+ which make things quite difficult for Pakistan to chased, but despite having 250 around target still Pakistani batter struggle to catch required run rate. Saim and fakhar truly done thier job to set early on momentum for his team. but unfortunately unable to carry it long while baber lbw wasn't out and surprinsgly after conversation with Rizwan baber didn't took review which is surprising, as his partnership with Rizwan really mean to team at such situation. Anyway I don't think Such kind of batting performance can safe them once again in coming future they has to work on it.

[Bluedrem]

Disappointing performance by Nepal's team. After their first place qualification for T20 World Cup, everyone had expected them to play similar on the ODI League 2 but they lost all 4 of the matches played in this leg and are now in the lowest position of the League, they would still get the chance to save their ODI status through playoffs but the chances to reach the ODI worldcup is highly unlikely now. Mathematically still possible but very difficult to achieve as UAE is one of the weakest among them and other teams they are to play would be stronger.

Nepal is definitely a stronger team than UAE. But UAE has performed brilliantly in today's match especially Harshit Kaushik and Muhammad Shahdad's great batting performance. Earlier, due to the combined performance of the bowlers of the UAE team, Nepal was able to be restricted to just 249 runs. Later, when the UAE batsmen came to bat, after losing 3 wickets for 68 runs, they built a big partnership and from there they collected 215 runs without losing any wickets. As a result, it was not that difficult for UAE to win against Nepal. Finally, they reached the target of winning with 5 balls to spare after losing the wicket. Harshit Kaushik scored 76 runs for UAE and Muhammad Shahdad scored the highest score of 96 runs for the team. Muhammad Shahdad and Harshit Kaushik really deserve praise for such a good performance.

[Alex077]

Tomorrow is going to be the second one day match between South Africa and Pakistan, I think this match surely to win by the team Pakistan especially if they again bowl first like the previous matches of this series. Pakistan bowlers, spinners and pacers are really magical. Naseem Shah , disciplined bowling never comes under pressure. He did not lose his line and length no matter how the batsmen are playing it and not depending on the field set while spinner to take early wickets and Shaheen Shah is most good when it comes to middle overs and death overs of the innings.

Pakistan's bowling lineup is really awesome now. Naseem Shah's sway & patience are frankly incredible for his age. It discern like he has been bowling for years. On the other hand, if you look at Shaheen, his horrifying middle & death overs can turn the tide of the game. When the spinners can get into rhythm early it brings about problems for most teams

It is kinda funny but their batters also have to come out first ,, they cannot just rely on the bowlers to make it through the day. If Pakistan win the toss and bowl first, then it could be said that this match could be a great opportunity for them to win

[Compromise me]

This was a fantastic match between Pakistan and South Africa. Pakistan team won this match by 2 wickets with 2 balls leftover. Pakistan team won the toss and elected to field first. This decision by the Pakistan  team was proved unique in this match. Pakistan team player Muhammad Rizwan scored 55 runs and Salaman Agha scored 62 runs. which was proved effective for achieving the target. Pakistan team shows their excellent performance in this match. While South Africa team skipper Matthew Breetzke scored 42 runs and Quinton De Kock scored 63 runs. which wasn't proved effective in this match. If South Africa team play's well in upcoming matches they can won.

South Africa International cricket team should try their best to make 300 plus runs in next match because wicket was flat in this match and South Africa team made 15 runs short and end players should try to make 275 runs. South Africa team start was good but middle order could not play well and they could not make big partnership in this match and they lose this match at the  end of the match.Salman Ali Agha made runs for the team but he should accelerate in the last overs but match was tight in last overs and Pak team could lose this match because Pakistan team lose 8 wickets in this match and they won the match by 2 wickets.

[hafiztalha]

Disappointing performance by Nepal's team. After their first place qualification for T20 World Cup, everyone had expected them to play similar on the ODI League 2 but they lost all 4 of the matches played in this leg and are now in the lowest position of the League, they would still get the chance to save their ODI status through playoffs but the chances to reach the ODI worldcup is highly unlikely now. Mathematically still possible but very difficult to achieve as UAE is one of the weakest among them and other teams they are to play would be stronger.

Nepal is definitely a stronger team than UAE. But UAE has performed brilliantly in today's match especially Harshit Kaushik and Muhammad Shahdad's great batting performance. Earlier, due to the combined performance of the bowlers of the UAE team, Nepal was able to be restricted to just 249 runs. Later, when the UAE batsmen came to bat, after losing 3 wickets for 68 runs, they built a big partnership and from there they collected 215 runs without losing any wickets. As a result, it was not that difficult for UAE to win against Nepal. Finally, they reached the target of winning with 5 balls to spare after losing the wicket. Harshit Kaushik scored 76 runs for UAE and Muhammad Shahdad scored the highest score of 96 runs for the team. Muhammad Shahdad and Harshit Kaushik really deserve praise for such a good performance.

Yes, Nepal is good team than UAE team but unfortunately they lost this 90 th game of ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 series and today lost game by close margin. UAE team won toss and they got opportunity to choose right decision and they elected bowling lineup first. Nepal team set 239 runs target in 50 overs by losing 9 wickets. Junaid and Dhruv both bowlers helped Nepal team to win game and showed help in bowling. Opening effort of Nepal team performed very poor and made small runs. UAE team successfully chased down target and won game by small margin 5 wickets and 4 balls remaining. Shadad got player of game award because his batting effort was outstanding and scored 96 runs in 123 balls and hitted six 4s and three 6s.

Congratulations UAE team and won 90 th game by strong effort.

[N.O]

Disappointing performance by Nepal's team. After their first place qualification for T20 World Cup, everyone had expected them to play similar on the ODI League 2 but they lost all 4 of the matches played in this leg and are now in the lowest position of the League, they would still get the chance to save their ODI status through playoffs but the chances to reach the ODI worldcup is highly unlikely now. Mathematically still possible but very difficult to achieve as UAE is one of the weakest among them and other teams they are to play would be stronger.

Nepal is definitely a stronger team than UAE. But UAE has performed brilliantly in today's match especially Harshit Kaushik and Muhammad Shahdad's great batting performance. Earlier, due to the combined performance of the bowlers of the UAE team, Nepal was able to be restricted to just 249 runs. Later, when the UAE batsmen came to bat, after losing 3 wickets for 68 runs, they built a big partnership and from there they collected 215 runs without losing any wickets. As a result, it was not that difficult for UAE to win against Nepal. Finally, they reached the target of winning with 5 balls to spare after losing the wicket. Harshit Kaushik scored 76 runs for UAE and Muhammad Shahdad scored the highest score of 96 runs for the team. Muhammad Shahdad and Harshit Kaushik really deserve praise for such a good performance.

Yes, Nepal is good team than UAE team but unfortunately they lost this 90 th game of ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League 2 series and today lost game by close margin. UAE team won toss and they got opportunity to choose right decision and they elected bowling lineup first. Nepal team set 239 runs target in 50 overs by losing 9 wickets. Junaid and Dhruv both bowlers helped Nepal team to win game and showed help in bowling. Opening effort of Nepal team performed very poor and made small runs. UAE team successfully chased down target and won game by small margin 5 wickets and 4 balls remaining. Shadad got player of game award because his batting effort was outstanding and scored 96 runs in 123 balls and hitted six 4s and three 6s.

Congratulations UAE team and won 90 th game by strong effort.

UAE played a very good match and made their fans very happy and they made great comeback. Nepal played a very bad match and disappointed their fans. Their team needs to work hard now. UAE won by 4 wickets and 5 balls . The 90th match between Nepal and UAE was held at ICC Academy. UAE won the toss and elected to fielding first. Nepal set a rcied total runs for 239 and lost the match. UAE chased woman chased a rotal runs for 243 and won the match. hope Nepal they will play better in the future matches. The best batting performance in the UAE team was by Muhammad Shahdad scored 92 and 123 balls and hitted 6 fours and 3 sixs. Congratulations UAE.

[Publictalk792]

South Africa vs Pakistan

2nd ODI between Pakistan and South Africa is on now in Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad where we know that cricket is being played after 17 years and Pakistan is leading game by 1-0 after win by small amount in first match and that happened due to good batting by Salman Ali Agha who made 62 runs and Mohammad Rizwan with 55 runs and very good bowling by Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed. Risks are high now Pakistan with new ODI captain Shaheen Shah Afridi can win whole series with another win but South Africa needs to win to keep series going and force final match.

[Sithara007]

South Africa vs Pakistan

2nd ODI between Pakistan and South Africa is on now in Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad where we know that cricket is being played after 17 years and Pakistan is leading game by 1-0 after win by small amount in first match and that happened due to good batting by Salman Ali Agha who made 62 runs and Mohammad Rizwan with 55 runs and very good bowling by Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed. Risks are high now Pakistan with new ODI captain Shaheen Shah Afridi can win whole series with another win but South Africa needs to win to keep series going and force final match.

So far Pakistan has done well. They draw the test series 1-1, and then won the T20I series. And now they are one win away from the ODI series win. A win here should take away some pain from the fact that they failed to win the test series. There are plenty of positives for Pakistan to take away so far. The new ball combination of Shaheen Shah Afridi and Naseem Shah is working fine, and the spinners, especially Abrar Ahmed have been among the wickets. On top of that, Fakhar Zaman and Mohammad Rizwan seems to be doing OK with the bat. 

[WatChe]

South Africa vs Pakistan

2nd ODI between Pakistan and South Africa is on now in Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad where we know that cricket is being played after 17 years and Pakistan is leading game by 1-0 after win by small amount in first match and that happened due to good batting by Salman Ali Agha who made 62 runs and Mohammad Rizwan with 55 runs and very good bowling by Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed. Risks are high now Pakistan with new ODI captain Shaheen Shah Afridi can win whole series with another win but South Africa needs to win to keep series going and force final match.

Pressure today will be on South Africa team because if they lose today's game the series will be over for them. Pakistan won the first game after tough competition and that's why we expect a tough competition today as well. We saw full house in first ODI and that shows the fact that people of Faisalabad love to see international cricket in their city. The lesson for Pakistan from first game is that their batting is very consistent and players like Babar Azam need to perform well, so that Pakistan can win the game easily.

[Zaka1221]

South Africa vs Pakistan

2nd ODI between Pakistan and South Africa is on now in Iqbal Stadium, Faisalabad where we know that cricket is being played after 17 years and Pakistan is leading game by 1-0 after win by small amount in first match and that happened due to good batting by Salman Ali Agha who made 62 runs and Mohammad Rizwan with 55 runs and very good bowling by Naseem Shah and Abrar Ahmed. Risks are high now Pakistan with new ODI captain Shaheen Shah Afridi can win whole series with another win but South Africa needs to win to keep series going and force final match.

Today the 2nd ODI match is playing between Pakistan and South Africa. Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first. Pakistan started not good they lost their 3 wickets early. Pakistan made 45 runs with the loss of 3 wickets in 13 overs. Saim AYUB is playing on 20 runs and Salman Ali agha playing on 3 runs in 21 balls. Today Pakistan team played very bad no batsman playing good short Pakistan now on full pressure and trying to set on wickets. South Africa bowled very well and took early wickets. Last match Pakistan won but now south Africa will come back and try to win this match.  Today Babar Azam also failed to perform and made only 11 runs. I think this is very tough for Pakistan because Pakistan played very slow if they played all overs then maybe Pakistan can make good runs.

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Today the 2nd ODI match is playing between Pakistan and South Africa. Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first. Pakistan started not good they lost their 3 wickets early. Pakistan made 45 runs with the loss of 3 wickets in 13 overs. Saim AYUB is playing on 20 runs and Salman Ali agha playing on 3 runs in 21 balls. Today Pakistan team played very bad no batsman playing good short Pakistan now on full pressure and trying to set on wickets. South Africa bowled very well and took early wickets. Last match Pakistan won but now south Africa will come back and try to win this match.  Today Babar Azam also failed to perform and made only 11 runs. I think this is very tough for Pakistan because Pakistan played very slow if they played all overs then maybe Pakistan can make good runs.

Today I can see the batting performance of Pakistan team is completely different here, I can see them struggling in front of South African bowlers in the beginning. Even today, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rezwan could not bat well. But at least Saim Ayub got out after scoring half century otherwise Pakistan team would be in a worse situation now.

Anyway, the Pakistan team's run rate is currently somewhat better than before, let's see if they can finally cross 250 runs, although I don't think they will be able to do that.

[Smack That Ace]

Today the 2nd ODI match is playing between Pakistan and South Africa. Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first. Pakistan started not good they lost their 3 wickets early. Pakistan made 45 runs with the loss of 3 wickets in 13 overs. Saim AYUB is playing on 20 runs and Salman Ali agha playing on 3 runs in 21 balls. Today Pakistan team played very bad no batsman playing good short Pakistan now on full pressure and trying to set on wickets. South Africa bowled very well and took early wickets. Last match Pakistan won but now south Africa will come back and try to win this match.  Today Babar Azam also failed to perform and made only 11 runs. I think this is very tough for Pakistan because Pakistan played very slow if they played all overs then maybe Pakistan can make good runs.

In the first ODI , Pakistan batted and won the match , chasing a target of  264. It cannot be said that they played very well. The team won the toss and decided to bat in today's match. But I doubt whether they will be able to give a big target.

Pakistan managed to score 122  runs in 27  overs and lost four wickets. As usual,  we saw bad batting from Babar Azam. He managed to score only 11 runs. Rizwan played well in the first match , but he was out  today after scoring only 4  runs.

Pakistan management should now rest Babar and give a chance to a new player. He has been out of form for a long time. There is no possibility of him getting back into form.

[Nanga Parbat]

Today the 2nd ODI match is playing between Pakistan and South Africa. Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first. Pakistan started not good they lost their 3 wickets early. Pakistan made 45 runs with the loss of 3 wickets in 13 overs. Saim AYUB is playing on 20 runs and Salman Ali agha playing on 3 runs in 21 balls. Today Pakistan team played very bad no batsman playing good short Pakistan now on full pressure and trying to set on wickets. South Africa bowled very well and took early wickets. Last match Pakistan won but now south Africa will come back and try to win this match.  Today Babar Azam also failed to perform and made only 11 runs. I think this is very tough for Pakistan because Pakistan played very slow if they played all overs then maybe Pakistan can make good runs.

Today I can see the batting performance of Pakistan team is completely different here, I can see them struggling in front of South African bowlers in the beginning. Even today, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rezwan could not bat well. But at least Saim Ayub got out after scoring half century otherwise Pakistan team would be in a worse situation now.

Anyway, the Pakistan team's run rate is currently somewhat better than before, let's see if they can finally cross 250 runs, although I don't think they will be able to do that.

Pakistan team has made itself quite strong by Victory the first match and intending to play poorly in the second match. South Africa has made them very tough in the second match, due to which they will fail in this match. Pakistan batsmen have so far managed to score only 117 runs in 26 overs in batting. Their batsmen have weakened themselves a lot. The target of Pakistan batsmen will not be very big because they have lost 4 wickets so far and Pakistan batsmen are not capable enough to victory the match or try to strengthen the target in the last wickets. South Africa will make the series interesting by Victory this match and we can see a very tough match between the two in the last match, but Pakistan should play better in today's match and avoid a tough competition which will make them very strong. I think it will be useless to have this hope from Pakistan because they will soon defeat this match with an easy target.

[MFahad]

In last game of ICC Men's Cricket World Cup League, 2 bottom sides UAE steal the win against struggling Nepal which have 4th consecutive defeat and 5th lost from their last 6 games which is surely disappointing result for them and their fans.

Nepal have decent total on board as the UAE captain decided to bowl first which was good decision because their bowlers done good job and restricted Nepal on 239 for lost of 9 wickets no batsman able to produce big inning as most gone between 30s to 40s.

In reply, UAE have good partnership for 4th wicket between Mohammad Waseem and Mohammad Shahzad which allow them to have consolation win in this game but still they are ended at bottom of this league.

The match between NEP And UAE was Tough One. UAE team won this match by 4 Wicket's with 5 balls leftover. UAE field first and this decision by UAE team proved helpful in today match. NEP team gave the target of 293 runs. UAE team player Muhammad Shahdad scored 96 runs and Muhammad Waseem scored 76 runs.which was proved oustanding for achieving the target. UAE team show's their excellent performance in this match. While NEP team player Asif Sheikh scored 34 runs and Bhim Sharki scored 48 runs which wasn't proved effective in match. If NEP team improves their batting and bowling. They can won in upcoming matches.

[laspol65]

Today the 2nd ODI match is playing between Pakistan and South Africa. Pakistan won the toss and elected to bat first. Pakistan started not good they lost their 3 wickets early. Pakistan made 45 runs with the loss of 3 wickets in 13 overs. Saim AYUB is playing on 20 runs and Salman Ali agha playing on 3 runs in 21 balls. Today Pakistan team played very bad no batsman playing good short Pakistan now on full pressure and trying to set on wickets. South Africa bowled very well and took early wickets. Last match Pakistan won but now south Africa will come back and try to win this match.  Today Babar Azam also failed to perform and made only 11 runs. I think this is very tough for Pakistan because Pakistan played very slow if they played all overs then maybe Pakistan can make good runs.

Today I can see the batting performance of Pakistan team is completely different here, I can see them struggling in front of South African bowlers in the beginning. Even today, Babar Azam and Mohammad Rezwan could not bat well. But at least Saim Ayub got out after scoring half century otherwise Pakistan team would be in a worse situation now.

Anyway, the Pakistan team's run rate is currently somewhat better than before, let's see if they can finally cross 250 runs, although I don't think they will be able to do that.

At present, Pakistan team's Siam Ayub and Salman Agha have performed well and now in the end Mohammad Nawaz has given good support for Pakistan team. Moreover, other batsmen could not perform well, if these three players had not given good support for Pakistan team then Pakistan team could have lost by a huge margin today and the target of runs would have been much less. But till now Pakistan team has collected 238 runs in 48 overs for 8 wickets, but in this situation if Pakistan team can complete 250 runs then surely they will be able to put pressure on South Africa team through bowling. And if bowling performance is good then Pakistan team will definitely have a chance to win.