ICC WORLD CUP 2023 DISCUSSION THREAD!

[Fuso.hp]

The ninth match of the World Cup will be played today at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. The Indian team will be playing without Shubhman Gill as he has been hospitalized. He as well might miss the match against Pakistan on 14th. India are the favourite to win today.

Betting Odds

India - 1.13
Afghanistan - 6.40

India should win today comfortably!

Afghanistan won the toss against India and Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat first. India have fielded with a change from the XI they fielded in the last match. An additional fast bowler has been included in the playing XI with the addition of a spin bowler. India's match against Afghanistan today is not going to be very competitive. With India's current performance, they will undoubtedly win this match very easily. If India had batted first, we might have seen a big target from India but Afghanistan eliminated that possibility. Today's innings is undoubtedly going to be a low-scoring innings as Afghanistan will be batting first.

[Bureau]

Afghanistan won the toss against India and Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat first. India have fielded with a change from the XI they fielded in the last match. An additional fast bowler has been included in the playing XI with the addition of a spin bowler. India's match against Afghanistan today is not going to be very competitive. With India's current performance, they will undoubtedly win this match very easily. If India had batted first, we might have seen a big target from India but Afghanistan eliminated that possibility. Today's innings is undoubtedly going to be a low-scoring innings as Afghanistan will be batting first.

Good start by the Indian bowler, both Bumrah and Shiraz are in attack mode. Rohit has kept an attacking field which is a good sign, Shardul Thakur is a good choice on this pitch. He is an all-rounder and he will give more depth to the batting lineup. The pitch looks excellent for batters, a high-scoring match is being expected. Afghanistan lost their first wicket within the first 10 overs, Bhumrah took the wicket. I feel sorry for Shubhman Gill, the guy was in good form. I hope he recovers soon and join the team.

[kro55]

Afghanistan won the toss against India and Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat first. India have fielded with a change from the XI they fielded in the last match. An additional fast bowler has been included in the playing XI with the addition of a spin bowler. India's match against Afghanistan today is not going to be very competitive. With India's current performance, they will undoubtedly win this match very easily. If India had batted first, we might have seen a big target from India but Afghanistan eliminated that possibility. Today's innings is undoubtedly going to be a low-scoring innings as Afghanistan will be batting first.

Good start by the Indian bowler, both Bumrah and Shiraz are in attack mode. Rohit has kept an attacking field which is a good sign, Shardul Thakur is a good choice on this pitch. He is an all-rounder and he will give more depth to the batting lineup. The pitch looks excellent for batters, a high-scoring match is being expected. Afghanistan lost their first wicket within the first 10 overs, Bhumrah took the wicket. I feel sorry for Shubhman Gill, the guy was in good form. I hope he recovers soon and join the team.

Afghanistan players have batted very well. The team lost only one wicket in 12 overs. And their collection is 58 runs. After a good start in the first match, they lost the truck badly. Bangladesh suffered a humiliating defeat against them in Afghanistan. In today's match, the opponent India is very strong. I am sure India will win this match. But if Afghanistan's batsmen perform well, the match is likely to be competitive. But I am not sure if Afghanistan batsmen can do well. Their poor batting against Bangladesh disappointed me a lot. India's bowling attack is more experienced than Bangladesh's.

[Bd officer]

Afghanistan won the toss against India and Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat first. India have fielded with a change from the XI they fielded in the last match. An additional fast bowler has been included in the playing XI with the addition of a spin bowler. India's match against Afghanistan today is not going to be very competitive. With India's current performance, they will undoubtedly win this match very easily. If India had batted first, we might have seen a big target from India but Afghanistan eliminated that possibility. Today's innings is undoubtedly going to be a low-scoring innings as Afghanistan will be batting first.

Good start by the Indian bowler, both Bumrah and Shiraz are in attack mode. Rohit has kept an attacking field which is a good sign, Shardul Thakur is a good choice on this pitch. He is an all-rounder and he will give more depth to the batting lineup. The pitch looks excellent for batters, a high-scoring match is being expected. Afghanistan lost their first wicket within the first 10 overs, Bhumrah took the wicket. I feel sorry for Shubhman Gill, the guy was in good form. I hope he recovers soon and join the team.

Afghanistan have so far collected 66 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 14 overs. Afghanistan's opening two batsmen are out. Rahmanullah Gurbaz out for 21 runs in 28 balls, Ibrahim Zadran out for 22 runs in 28 balls, Rahmat Shah out for 16 runs in 22 balls. Afghanistan's opening batting performed poorly, Afghanistan will not be able to sustain the batting in the end. If Afghanistan can set a target of 320+ runs, we could see a competitive match. Today it seems that it will be difficult for Afghanistan to score 250 runs. In today's match, India's pace bowling is doing well, 3 wickets have been taken by the pace bowlers. In today's match we will not see competitive match, India can easily win today.

[JSRAW]

Looks like the deck has been completely changed here in the Kotla. The last South Africa vs Sri Lanka encounter here witnessed 750-ish runs, that was a belter and one of the finest highways of Delhi-NCR.

This one has a fine bounce and might offer some assistance to spin as well, Afghans had a decent start tho and I felt they did well but now they are 3 wickets down, maybe they should try to touch 230-250.

[GigaBit]

Afghanistan won the toss against India and Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat first. India have fielded with a change from the XI they fielded in the last match. An additional fast bowler has been included in the playing XI with the addition of a spin bowler. India's match against Afghanistan today is not going to be very competitive. With India's current performance, they will undoubtedly win this match very easily. If India had batted first, we might have seen a big target from India but Afghanistan eliminated that possibility. Today's innings is undoubtedly going to be a low-scoring innings as Afghanistan will be batting first.

Good start by the Indian bowler, both Bumrah and Shiraz are in attack mode. Rohit has kept an attacking field which is a good sign, Shardul Thakur is a good choice on this pitch. He is an all-rounder and he will give more depth to the batting lineup. The pitch looks excellent for batters, a high-scoring match is being expected. Afghanistan lost their first wicket within the first 10 overs, Bhumrah took the wicket. I feel sorry for Shubhman Gill, the guy was in good form. I hope he recovers soon and join the team.

Afghanistan players have batted very well. The team lost only one wicket in 12 overs. And their collection is 58 runs. After a good start in the first match, they lost the truck badly. Bangladesh suffered a humiliating defeat against them in Afghanistan. In today's match, the opponent India is very strong. I am sure India will win this match. But if Afghanistan's batsmen perform well, the match is likely to be competitive. But I am not sure if Afghanistan batsmen can do well. Their poor batting against Bangladesh disappointed me a lot. India's bowling attack is more experienced than Bangladesh's.

By looking at the betting odds, it is easy to predict the condition of the Afghanistan team whether they will win this match or not. India will perform brilliantly in this World Cup no doubt. No other team seems to be a big than Australia's batting style but Australia can not do anything against India in this session. In that regard, Afghanistan are a very weak team who lose against smaller teams, so the thought of a win for Afghanistan is terrible but nothing impossible. But the reality is that even if Afghanistan can score 300 runs, they will still lose. In the last match, they managed to score only 154 runs against Bangladesh, compared to which they will try to improve in today's match.

[Bureau]

Looks like the deck has been completely changed here in the Kotla. The last South Africa vs Sri Lanka encounter here witnessed 750-ish runs, that was a belter and one of the finest highways of Delhi-NCR.

This one has a fine bounce and might offer some assistance to spin as well, Afghans had a decent start tho and I felt they did well but now they are 3 wickets down, maybe they should try to touch 230-250.

Until now all three wickets were taken by the pace bowlers. Jadeja is bowling now, don't see him is getting any help from the wicket. The pitch still looks good for batters. Afghans are struggling because the bowling and fielding of India has been good. The run rate is below 5, I doubt they will be able to get to 250. If they want to beat India they would need more runs than 250. I think a target of 280 and above can be defended on this pitch.

[JSRAW]

Looks like the deck has been completely changed here in the Kotla. The last South Africa vs Sri Lanka encounter here witnessed 750-ish runs, that was a belter and one of the finest highways of Delhi-NCR.

This one has a fine bounce and might offer some assistance to spin as well, Afghans had a decent start tho and I felt they did well but now they are 3 wickets down, maybe they should try to touch 230-250.

Until now all three wickets were taken by the pace bowlers. Jadeja is bowling now, don't see him is getting any help from the wicket. The pitch still looks good for batters. Afghans are struggling because the bowling and fielding of India has been good. The run rate is below 5, I doubt they will be able to get to 250. If they want to beat India they would need more runs than 250. I think a target of 280 and above can be defended on this pitch.

One good partnership and they should cross 250 runs and the current partnership is maturing nicely. They seem to taking a chance against spin now as there is not much spin on the wicket but Jaddu-Kuldeep did bowl some tighter lines.  

This pair needs to bat a bit longer for Afghanistan, they have alright hitters down the order when a T-20  type of situation comes to the death overs. India just needs another breakthrough.

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Runs are coming now.

[kro55]

Afghanistan won the toss against India and Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat first. India have fielded with a change from the XI they fielded in the last match. An additional fast bowler has been included in the playing XI with the addition of a spin bowler. India's match against Afghanistan today is not going to be very competitive. With India's current performance, they will undoubtedly win this match very easily. If India had batted first, we might have seen a big target from India but Afghanistan eliminated that possibility. Today's innings is undoubtedly going to be a low-scoring innings as Afghanistan will be batting first.

Good start by the Indian bowler, both Bumrah and Shiraz are in attack mode. Rohit has kept an attacking field which is a good sign, Shardul Thakur is a good choice on this pitch. He is an all-rounder and he will give more depth to the batting lineup. The pitch looks excellent for batters, a high-scoring match is being expected. Afghanistan lost their first wicket within the first 10 overs, Bhumrah took the wicket. I feel sorry for Shubhman Gill, the guy was in good form. I hope he recovers soon and join the team.

Afghanistan players have batted very well. The team lost only one wicket in 12 overs. And their collection is 58 runs. After a good start in the first match, they lost the truck badly. Bangladesh suffered a humiliating defeat against them in Afghanistan. In today's match, the opponent India is very strong. I am sure India will win this match. But if Afghanistan's batsmen perform well, the match is likely to be competitive. But I am not sure if Afghanistan batsmen can do well. Their poor batting against Bangladesh disappointed me a lot. India's bowling attack is more experienced than Bangladesh's.

By looking at the betting odds, it is easy to predict the condition of the Afghanistan team whether they will win this match or not. India will perform brilliantly in this World Cup no doubt. No other team seems to be a big than Australia's batting style but Australia can not do anything against India in this session. In that regard, Afghanistan are a very weak team who lose against smaller teams, so the thought of a win for Afghanistan is terrible but nothing impossible. But the reality is that even if Afghanistan can score 300 runs, they will still lose. In the last match, they managed to score only 154 runs against Bangladesh, compared to which they will try to improve in today's match.

Afghanistan's batsmen are playing very well against the Indian bowlers today even though they could not do well against the Bangladeshi spinners. They are batting very responsibly. They collected 201 runs in 37 overs. And lost only 4 wickets. This is a very good collection. Now Mohammad Nabi and Hashmatullah Shahidi are batting. Shahidi remains unbeaten with 63 runs. If the Indian bowlers cannot take the wicket of Afghanistan, then the batsmen of Afghanistan have the ability to collect 100 runs in the last 13 overs. Indian bowlers should try to bowl controlled. If the target somehow goes beyond 300 then it will not be an easy target for India, although India's batting order is very strong.

[Bureau]

One good partnership and they should cross 250 runs and the current partnership is maturing nicely. They seem to taking a chance against spin now as there is not much spin on the wicket but Jaddu-Kuldeep did bowl some tighter lines.  

This pair needs to bat a bit longer for Afghanistan, they have alright hitters down the order when a T-20  type of situation comes to the death overs. India just needs another breakthrough.

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Runs are coming now.

The good part about the Indian team is that they have become partnership breakers. Hardik has been brought into the attack as of now he has been successful in this match. I think India with their batting lineup would be able to chase anything beyond 250 and under 300. Afghanistan is playing a sensible game they are not taking any risk, whenever they find a loose ball it goes out of the boundary. 200 crossed before the 40th over started, wickets gone 4, they would start going after the ballers after the 40th over.  India needs to break this partnership before it matures and destroy India's objective of restricting Afghanistan within 300.

[pakhitheboss]

Indian bowling has been outstanding on a batting surface. I was watching Kuldeep bowling his last over and I was surprised to see him turning the ball. Sir Jadeja has not been able to dent the batting of the Afghanistan team. He was very successful against Australia where he took 3 wickets. Considering the experience of the Afghanistan team in a 50-over match, they are playing very well. I was not expecting them to get 230 or more runs with the kind of bowling attack they are facing. They have only 6 overs left with 5 wickets gone, Rashid Khan and Nabi are playing now. I am expecting some good hits from both the Afghanistan batters.

[JSRAW]

This is a respectable total for Afghanistan, considering at one point they were 68/3. Overall, fine recovery. Although the way their partnership was building, they could have added 10-15 extra runs. 

Indian bowlers were on the money from the start but Siraj was way off-color today and gave up 76 runs. When he leaks, he becomes way too generous. The dude needs to soak up pressure when things are not easy, he's not a rookie player anymore.


 

[Jateng]

Indian bowling has been outstanding on a batting surface. I was watching Kuldeep bowling his last over and I was surprised to see him turning the ball. Sir Jadeja has not been able to dent the batting of the Afghanistan team. He was very successful against Australia where he took 3 wickets. Considering the experience of the Afghanistan team in a 50-over match, they are playing very well.

Azmatullah Omarzai batting brilliant and departs for Scoring 62(69) against India after a brilliant partnership more then 100 runs with Hashmatullah Shahidi. Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi is back in the pavilion after a remarkable 80 runs in 88 balls. Hashmatullah batting put Afghanistan in a good position after three early wickets. Jasprit Bumrah wraps up a fantastic spell, collecting four wickets 4/39 in 10 Overs and Kuldeep Yadav delivers a brilliant spin masterclass in Delhi with a big wicket of Afghanistan's  captain Nabi in his last over 1/40.

[Shishir99]

This is a respectable total for Afghanistan, considering at one point they were 68/3. Overall, fine recovery. Although the way their partnership was building, they could have added 10-15 extra runs. 

This is Afghanistan's 2nd highest run in the ODI World Cup. Considering the situation they were in, they recovered well. Their Top order could do a little better than how they played there. Usually, ICC tries to organize tournaments on sporting wickets. So, there is nothing special in the pitch for bowlers. So, It's the failure of their top order of not being able to score in the first ten overs.

Even though India is the favorite in this match and they are likely to win the match, I still consider this a good total to defend considering how well the Afghans bowling line up. If they can manage to get a first few wickets in the first ten to fifteen overs, the game will become more interesting.

[Iranus]

Indian bowling has been outstanding on a batting surface. I was watching Kuldeep bowling his last over and I was surprised to see him turning the ball. Sir Jadeja has not been able to dent the batting of the Afghanistan team. He was very successful against Australia where he took 3 wickets. Considering the experience of the Afghanistan team in a 50-over match, they are playing very well.

Azmatullah Omarzai batting brilliant and departs for Scoring 62(69) against India after a brilliant partnership more then 100 runs with Hashmatullah Shahidi. Afghanistan captain Hashmatullah Shahidi is back in the pavilion after a remarkable 80 runs in 88 balls. Hashmatullah batting put Afghanistan in a good position after three early wickets. Jasprit Bumrah wraps up a fantastic spell, collecting four wickets 4/39 in 10 Overs and Kuldeep Yadav delivers a brilliant spin masterclass in Delhi with a big wicket of Afghanistan's  captain Nabi in his last over 1/40.

I would say Afghanistan batted very well. I can't call a target of 273 runs a bad target on this pitch. The average first innings runs on this pitch of Delhi is 230 runs. So the collection of 272 runs for Afghanistan is going to be called a good collection. The average run of the second innings of this pitch is only 207 runs. But it cannot be said that Afghanistan will win. The opponent India is very strong. Even if the pitch is decent enough to target, it is very difficult to win against India. If Afghanistan could provide a target of more than 300 then I would say they have a slim chance of winning. But it will be much more difficult to beat India with a target of 273 runs.

[Bureau]

This is a respectable total for Afghanistan, considering at one point they were 68/3. Overall, fine recovery. Although the way their partnership was building, they could have added 10-15 extra runs. 

Indian bowlers were on the money from the start but Siraj was way off-color today and gave up 76 runs. When he leaks, he becomes way too generous. The dude needs to soak up pressure when things are not easy, he's not a rookie player anymore.

Considering that they have played only a few matches in the World Cup, it is a good total. They will be overwhelmed with their achievement considering they were 3 down with only 63 runs on the scoreboard. It now depends on how efficiently they can bowl on a pitch that favors batters. The Indian team has an excellent batting order and on a pitch like this one it should not create any issue for them. The best scene of today was when Naveen came to bat and Virat tried to run him out, that got wasted because of Rahul. The next event would be when Kohli comes to bat and he is bowling to him, it would make this match more exciting.  

[WatChe]

I would say Afghanistan batted very well. I can't call a target of 273 runs a bad target on this pitch. The average first innings runs on this pitch of Delhi is 230 runs. So the collection of 272 runs for Afghanistan is going to be called a good collection. The average run of the second innings of this pitch is only 207 runs. But it cannot be said that Afghanistan will win. The opponent India is very strong. Even if the pitch is decent enough to target, it is very difficult to win against India. If Afghanistan could provide a target of more than 300 then I would say they have a slim chance of winning. But it will be much more difficult to beat India with a target of 273 runs.

Afghan bowlers now have a job to do, they have to defend a target of 272 against strong Indian batting. To win this game Afghan bowlers need to get early wickets because if players like Sharma and KL got settled then it will be difficult rather impossible to contain them.

Meanwhile India has just started the run chase and after 4 overs they are 23 for no loss. Indian top order batting lineup got derailed in last game that's why they are extra careful today.

[BALIK]

This is a respectable total for Afghanistan, considering at one point they were 68/3. Overall, fine recovery. Although the way their partnership was building, they could have added 10-15 extra runs. 

Indian bowlers were on the money from the start but Siraj was way off-color today and gave up 76 runs. When he leaks, he becomes way too generous. The dude needs to soak up pressure when things are not easy, he's not a rookie player anymore.

Considering that they have played only a few matches in the World Cup, it is a good total. They will be overwhelmed with their achievement considering they were 3 down with only 63 runs on the scoreboard. It now depends on how efficiently they can bowl on a pitch that favors batters. The Indian team has an excellent batting order and on a pitch like this one it should not create any issue for them. The best scene of today was when Naveen came to bat and Virat tried to run him out, that got wasted because of Rahul. The next event would be when Kohli comes to bat and he is bowling to him, it would make this match more exciting.  

Afghanistan could not get off to a good start. They lost three important top order batsmen for 63 runs. Even then the team was able to provide a target of 273 runs. But is 272 enough to win against a team like India? I think it's not enough. Afghanistan had to give 330+ targets to defeat India.
India collected only 13 runs in the first three overs. But soon Rohit Sharma started batting aggressively. India's collection of 64 runs at the end of 7 overs. Rohit Sharma remains unbeaten on 26 with 49 runs. And Ishan Kishan's collection is just 10 runs off 16 balls. With the form India's batsmen are in, they will reach the target before the 40 overs.

[Bitcoin_people]

The ninth match of the World Cup will be played today at Arun Jaitley Stadium in Delhi. The Indian team will be playing without Shubhman Gill as he has been hospitalized. He as well might miss the match against Pakistan on 14th. India are the favourite to win today.

Betting Odds

India - 1.13
Afghanistan - 6.40

India should win today comfortably!

Afghanistan won the toss against India and Afghanistan won the toss and elected to bat first. India have fielded with a change from the XI they fielded in the last match. An additional fast bowler has been included in the playing XI with the addition of a spin bowler. India's match against Afghanistan today is not going to be very competitive. With India's current performance, they will undoubtedly win this match very easily. If India had batted first, we might have seen a big target from India but Afghanistan eliminated that possibility. Today's innings is undoubtedly going to be a low-scoring innings as Afghanistan will be batting first.

In today's match, Afghanistan could not score many runs in the first innings. Afghanistan scored 272 runs and lost 8 wickets. This score is not very high. With this small target given to India, Afghanistan can never dream of winning. If Afghanistan's batsmen had started well, more runs would have been possible, but they did not start well. But if one more player bats well like Afghanistan batsman Shahidi could have collected a good score, where Shahidi collected 80 runs off 88 balls his batting performance was good. However India team is batting at the moment their batting performance is really very good and today they are doing amazing batting performance to meet the target. India's two batsmen Ishan Kishan and Rohit Sharma are batting confidently as India's wicket has not fallen so far. If these two survive till the end then surely both of them will play the maximum role to win the match. At the moment India team has scored 87 runs with no wickets falling, Rohit Sharma is batting brilliantly to score a century.

[Iranus]

I would say Afghanistan batted very well. I can't call a target of 273 runs a bad target on this pitch. The average first innings runs on this pitch of Delhi is 230 runs. So the collection of 272 runs for Afghanistan is going to be called a good collection. The average run of the second innings of this pitch is only 207 runs. But it cannot be said that Afghanistan will win. The opponent India is very strong. Even if the pitch is decent enough to target, it is very difficult to win against India. If Afghanistan could provide a target of more than 300 then I would say they have a slim chance of winning. But it will be much more difficult to beat India with a target of 273 runs.

Afghan bowlers now have a job to do, they have to defend a target of 272 against strong Indian batting. To win this game Afghan bowlers need to get early wickets because if players like Sharma and KL got settled then it will be difficult rather impossible to contain them.

Meanwhile India has just started the run chase and after 4 overs they are 23 for no loss. Indian top order batting lineup got derailed in last game that's why they are extra careful today.

Afghanistan team is going to accept a shameful defeat today as in the first match. This group is not weak. They have some very talented and world class players. Even then they are not doing well. We saw poor batting by Afghanistan against Bangladesh. Today we are seeing poor bowling from Afghanistan against India. India collected 96 runs in 11 overs without losing any wicket. Afghanistan has no chance of scoring in this match. Rohit Sharma scored 78 runs off just 45 balls. Ishan Kishan is batting with responsibility. He collected 12 runs off 22 balls. I wouldn't be at all surprised if India win without losing a wicket today.