ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]

[noormcs5]

In the first ODI, India had a great win over New Zealand and they were ahead in the series. But in the second match, New Zealand's game changed and they gave a strong batting and bowling performance, due to which India was able to defeat the team. Will Young and Daryl Mitchell's batting performance was very good, both of them took the team to the brink of victory. Daryl Mitchell's batting performance was really impressive, he scored 131 runs off 117 balls and remained unbeaten, which brought the team to victory. India had set a target of 284 runs, KL Rahul had a great batting performance in this match, he scored 112 runs. However, New Zealand's batting performance was very good today, as a result, they were able to win the series by 7 wickets. The series result is equal between the two teams, the next matches will be even better.

It was a really interesting game between India and New Zealand. New Zealand Best game plan, perfect bowling and batting in this match from the side of New Zealand. Daryl Mitchell played a very classical and aggressive inning while chasing  the target. He was in good touch and contributed 131 runs in total and the target was 285 runs. Target seems to be strong but in realtime its not easy to chase it and New Zealand also well perform in bowling and also utilities the bowling lineup according to perfect plane. India don't utilizes its bowling line up perfectly which turns the game in favor of New Zealand and New Zealand can easily Chase the target of 285 runs.

Virat Kohli scored a lot last time but this time not too good performance but average, this time there was no pressure on his shoulders and at the same time when he has no pressure that's why he was being calm and peacefully scoring some runs, looking for running between the wickets and prefer to tips.

This helps in understanding the pitch and the bounce as well, obviously the matches of this series are scheduled to play in different venues so it is important to know the pitch for a better and long innings but it is by chance in cricket , one mistake and back to Pavilion.

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Virat Kohli scored a lot last time but this time not too good performance but average, this time there was no pressure on his shoulders and at the same time when he has no pressure that's why he was being calm and peacefully scoring some runs, looking for running between the wickets and prefer to tips.

This helps in understanding the pitch and the bounce as well, obviously the matches of this series are scheduled to play in different venues so it is important to know the pitch for a better and long innings but it is by chance in cricket , one mistake and back to Pavilion.

Over all in this match for winning the indian team should took score more than the 300 run but they couldn't do that becuase of some player quick fall and I will say that Virat Kohli is one of them if Virat Kohli did even a half century score in this match there would be High chances to win on that match.
Anyway, that has been passed , if we think about the next match we saw the changes on venue I don't know this venue is batting friendly or not but if it is batting friendly then I think the team who will bowling first they will have the biger chance of wining on that match as well in this series.

[ThemePen]

There were three matches of ICC Men's Under-19 World Cup yesterday. First match was between India and USA and India won the match easily. After that second was between Zimbabwe and Scotland which was abandoned due to rain. And third match was between Tanzania vs West Indies and West Indies won the match easily.

So today there are three matches too. In the first match England and Pakistan will face each other. In the second match Australia will face Ireland. And in the third match Afghanistan and South Africa will face each other. So today First and the third match are little competitive and second match will be one sided and Australia will easily win.

[JSRAW]

GG era is helping many records to break and last night it was for Kiwis, they managed to win an ODI in India after 9 years.

Jadeja is a special player but isn't effective anymore and even his fielding effors becomes sloppy on the field, might need a break to get back his real game. Prasidh is decent in Test format but I think Arshdeep should be playing in ODIs since he got better control and better wicket taking ability in my opinion.

Irony is in top 10 ODI batters ranking there is 4 Indian player and KL at the 11th position yest our batting looks very ordinary after the top order gone and it was not for KL, we would have even strugged for 220.

For some reason, jadeja going under radar despite being not in firm with the ball, no one talking about him much. Ish umar mein ushe break nahi retirement ka sochna chahiye in respectful manner.

They are investing in prasidh, which is good but I hope it's not because of ego or something. Still not worried about bowling department and once Bumrah and pandya are back, all combination will be back to normal but yeah backup stock is not looking exciting.

[Sithara007]

Over all in this match for winning the indian team should took score more than the 300 run but they couldn't do that becuase of some player quick fall and I will say that Virat Kohli is one of them if Virat Kohli did even a half century score in this match there would be High chances to win on that match.
Anyway, that has been passed , if we think about the next match we saw the changes on venue I don't know this venue is batting friendly or not but if it is batting friendly then I think the team who will bowling first they will have the biger chance of wining on that match as well in this series.

Was Virat Kohli the only batsmen in the playing XI? Why all the burden needs to be shouldered by Virat and Rohit everytime? Especially when they are in their late 30s? What actually is the responsibility of the captain (Shubman Gill), and the other batsmen (especially Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy)? Before Virat, India used to struggle to win matches abroad. Virat was primarily the one who changed this. Rohit played his part as well. As both these players are nearing their retirement, India seems to be struggling even to win matches at home. 

[Rustam Meraj]

Was Virat Kohli the only batsmen in the playing XI? Why all the burden needs to be shouldered by Virat and Rohit everytime? Especially when they are in their late 30s? What actually is the responsibility of the captain (Shubman Gill), and the other batsmen (especially Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy)? Before Virat, India used to struggle to win matches abroad. Virat was primarily the one who changed this. Rohit played his part as well. As both these players are nearing their retirement, India seems to be struggling even to win matches at home. 

Although Kohli very recently got back No. 1 ODI ranking after great show of 93 runs at Vadodara, and Rohit is still highest ranked opener, but younger group of players such as Shreyas Iyer and Nitish Kumar Reddy have not shown steady enough to leave weight to old stars. Win rate of India, when two Big Two are not scoring half centuries, is only 34 percent, which shows that safe way of thinking of young players is still big problem.

Truth does not tell lie now India is two men team in time of trouble. Although it was good to see KL Rahul hit hundred in second ODI against New Zealand. I believe that Gill should be more attacking in his handling of bowling and ask players such as Shreyas Iyer to take more active role in middle overs instead of simply staying at wicket.

[Bd officer]

So today there are three matches too. In the first match England and Pakistan will face each other. In the second match Australia will face Ireland. And in the third match Afghanistan and South Africa will face each other. So today First and the third match are little competitive and second match will be one sided and Australia will easily win.

In the match between Pakistan U19 vs England U19, I think the match will be competitive, although I don't know about the performance of the U19 team, but I want to keep England U19 ahead. On the other hand, you are right that the match between Australia U19 vs Ireland U19 can be one-sided, I can definitely say that Australia U19 will win this match, now I am wondering whether the Ireland U19 team will be able to survive till 50 overs? Like yesterday, the smaller teams could not survive till 50 overs in the 1st innings. On the other hand, in the match between Afghanistan U19 vs South Africa U19, I want to keep South Africa ahead.

[Doll2233]

On opening day of Mens Under 19 World Cup 2026 in Zimbabwe, it was really changed by rain mostly to hosts as their game against Scotland was cancelled completely. India was able to win tight, rain shortened match with USA, with Henil Patel playing great role of taking five wickets to limit their team to tiny 107 runs. Even though India was shown to be losing early part of run chase in hard pitch, they managed to win game and leave no points to weaker team. However, West Indies in Namibia had far much smoother start as they beat Tanzania with 123 in just 21 overs which gave their net run rate huge early jump. As Bulawayo and Harare are expected to get more rain, teams will need to bowl first to use DLS method, while bowlers who will be able to use wet ball will become most useful player on their team.

Yes In first game of 2026 Under 19 world cup, India won by 6 wickets through DLS after rain had changed the target against USA. Bowlers in India did very well and one of them was Henil Patel who got out the USA with only 107 runs. Though it was hard chase after the Ritvik Appadi of the USA took the first two wickets, India stayed calm with its Abhigyan Kundu remaining not out to hit a six at the end. This win provides India with an excellent start to the games as it makes plans to move to their next game with Bangladesh.

USA team in the first match could not start well. They scored 107 runs in 35.2 overs and all team dismissed. In the power play they scored just 32 runs and lost 2 wickets. In whole match they did not hit any maximum. In middle overs they scored 75 runs and lost remaining 8 wickets. After that they tried to perform best in his bowling and I think they looked well but due to low target their efforts could not be successful.
On the other hand Indian  team firstly bowled well and then in batting they batted little well. In power play they scored 59 runs and lost 3 wickets but in middle overs they scored 40 runs and lost 1 wicket. They hit 1 maximum and four boundaries.Then according to DLS method they won the match easily.

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In the match between Pakistan U19 vs England U19, I think the match will be competitive, although I don't know about the performance of the U19 team, but I want to keep England U19 ahead. On the other hand, you are right that the match between Australia U19 vs Ireland U19 can be one-sided, I can definitely say that Australia U19 will win this match, now I am wondering whether the Ireland U19 team will be able to survive till 50 overs? Like yesterday, the smaller teams could not survive till 50 overs in the 1st innings. On the other hand, in the match between Afghanistan U19 vs South Africa U19, I want to keep South Africa ahead.

The current , match between the Pakistan under 19 team and the England under 19 team was going through a competitive match as Pakistani bowler did good performance they made all out the England under 19 team in only 210, Which makes a good oppurtunity for the Pakistani Under 19 team to secure a win agaist a strong team but even their bowler did good performance their batters didn't make good performance as their openers fully failed to perform and currently they have only four wickets in their hand but they need more 102 run from the 98 bowls even it is possible to win in this situation but I have a huge doubt on the pakistani lowers order batsmens.

[Nanga Parbat]

USA team in the first match could not start well. They scored 107 runs in 35.2 overs and all team dismissed. In the power play they scored just 32 runs and lost 2 wickets. In whole match they did not hit any maximum. In middle overs they scored 75 runs and lost remaining 8 wickets. After that they tried to perform best in his bowling and I think they looked well but due to low target their efforts could not be successful.
On the other hand Indian  team firstly bowled well and then in batting they batted little well. In power play they scored 59 runs and lost 3 wickets but in middle overs they scored 40 runs and lost 1 wicket. They hit 1 maximum and four boundaries.Then according to DLS method they won the match easily.

South Africa U-19 batsmen are playing in a lot of difficulties because their batsmen will have to victory this match with some good effort and hard work. Afghanistan U-19 batsmen have played enough well and given a strong target but their bowling does not have that effort but they are still working hard which will help them victory. South Africa U-19 batsmen need 39 runs in 24 balls and it is somewhat difficult for them and they have 3 wickets due to which their chances of negligence are enough high and Afghanistan U-19 bowlers will get an easy victory after a little hard work. At this time the match is being played very interestingly and strongly and it can go in favor of both the teams so both the teams are playing with a lot of hard work and strength.

[HelliumZ]

In today's match between Pakistan Under-19 and England Under-19, it seemed that Pakistan might have restricted England to 210 runs, but Pakistan Under-19 is performing worse than England. The conditions prevailing in the match now have a 90% chance of England Under-19 winning, especially as Pakistan have scored 173 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. Oh sorry, as I was writing this post, England defeated Pakistan U-19 by 37 runs. That is, Pakistan U-19 was all out for 173 runs. Pakistan lost today's match only because of bad batting.

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They are investing in prasidh, which is good but I hope it's not because of ego or something. Still not worried about bowling department and once Bumrah and pandya are back, all combination will be back to normal but yeah backup stock is not looking exciting.

Prasid is a good one change bowler and also got wicket taking ability but he can't be the main bowler that team can rely on, so need someone who is an absolute bank that is why I said Arshdeep will be a better fit in Bilateral where Bumrah won't be playing. And the bankup of all round seamer is much oworrying than anything to me, seriously Nithish kumar is not anywhere near compared to Bumrah and AFAIK, even in the whole domestic circuit we don't have any like to like replacement for Kung fu Pandaya at the moment.

[Tipstar]

In today's match between Pakistan Under-19 and England Under-19, it seemed that Pakistan might have restricted England to 210 runs, but Pakistan Under-19 is performing worse than England. The conditions prevailing in the match now have a 90% chance of England Under-19 winning, especially as Pakistan have scored 173 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. Oh sorry, as I was writing this post, England defeated Pakistan U-19 by 37 runs. That is, Pakistan U-19 was all out for 173 runs. Pakistan lost today's match only because of bad batting.

Of the three under 19s match today, England had an easy win against Pakistan. Pakistan bowled well like they always do and limited England to 210 but their batting failed them again and they were all out for even lower. Pakistan had a bad start on batting and even though the middle order tried to get back to the game, their run rate was low and the down order couldn't bat.
Australia comfortably won against Ireland. The target from Ireland was decent but the century from Steven Hogan made everything easier for Australia.
On another game, Afghanistan came victorious against South Africa, Afghanistan gave a decent target and South Africa failed to chase it. The three early run outs were some stupid performance from South Africa that gave the game away, if they had just kept it slow, they could have won it with wickets in hand.

[Crypto Library]

Was Virat Kohli the only batsmen in the playing XI? Why all the burden needs to be shouldered by Virat and Rohit everytime? Especially when they are in their late 30s? What actually is the responsibility of the captain (Shubman Gill), and the other batsmen (especially Shreyas Iyer, Ravindra Jadeja and Nitish Kumar Reddy)? Before Virat, India used to struggle to win matches abroad. Virat was primarily the one who changed this. Rohit played his part as well. As both these players are nearing their retirement, India seems to be struggling even to win matches at home. 

No, I will not say that only Virat Kohli is a batsman in the squad, what I have said from my point of view is that Virat Kohli is a player with experience and good rating at the same time, so my and everyone's expectations are a little higher from him. Like we expect Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar in football. In this case, I mentioned his name first because Virat did not do well and at the same time I mentioned it "because of some player quick fall", that means here I am not only talking about Virat Kohli alone.

[Bluedrem]

No, I will not say that only Virat Kohli is a batsman in the squad, what I have said from my point of view is that Virat Kohli is a player with experience and good rating at the same time, so my and everyone's expectations are a little higher from him. Like we expect Messi, Ronaldo and Neymar in football. In this case, I mentioned his name first because Virat did not do well and at the same time I mentioned it "because of some player quick fall", that means here I am not only talking about Virat Kohli alone.

Yes you are right. After Indian legend Sachin Tendulkar, only Virat Kohli is considered as his successor and it is considered that Virat Kohli can break Tendulkar's record of 100 centuries. Honestly, I like Virat Kohli's performance a lot. I think those who really like the game of cricket and consider players by their performance and not their emotions will definitely like Virat Kohli's game. Virat Kohli is a batsman who has performed poorly in a very few matches.

[Farhan99]

On opening day of Mens Under 19 World Cup 2026 in Zimbabwe, it was really changed by rain mostly to hosts as their game against Scotland was cancelled completely. India was able to win tight, rain shortened match with USA, with Henil Patel playing great role of taking five wickets to limit their team to tiny 107 runs. Even though India was shown to be losing early part of run chase in hard pitch, they managed to win game and leave no points to weaker team. However, West Indies in Namibia had far much smoother start as they beat Tanzania with 123 in just 21 overs which gave their net run rate huge early jump. As Bulawayo and Harare are expected to get more rain, teams will need to bowl first to use DLS method, while bowlers who will be able to use wet ball will become most useful player on their team.

Yes In first game of 2026 Under 19 world cup, India won by 6 wickets through DLS after rain had changed the target against USA. Bowlers in India did very well and one of them was Henil Patel who got out the USA with only 107 runs. Though it was hard chase after the Ritvik Appadi of the USA took the first two wickets, India stayed calm with its Abhigyan Kundu remaining not out to hit a six at the end. This win provides India with an excellent start to the games as it makes plans to move to their next game with Bangladesh.

In Men's Under-19 World Cup India Under-19 defeated USA Under-19. USA opens inning with Amrimder Gill and Sahil Garg and both the openers don't give a positive start to the team and Sahil scores only 16 runs and also Gill losses his wicket early on 1 run and in middle order Nitish Sudini played a well inning of 36 runs and also Adnit Jhamb  scores 18 runs but the other players don't perform well and at the end of the innings USA scores 107 runs which then converted into 97 runs target in 37 overs. India opens inning with Vaibhav Sooryavanshi and. Shush Mhatre and both the openers don't give a positive start to the team and Mhatre scores only 19 runs and also Sooryavanshi losses his wicket early on 2 runs and in middle order Abhigyan Kundu played a well inning of 42 runs and also Vihan Malhotra scores 18 runs and India easily chase the target of 96 runs and won the game by 6 wickets.