ICC WORLD CUP 2023 DISCUSSION THREAD!

[Nalain420]

Harish Rauf has bowled today some of the weirdest wides and has been expensive. England was struggling in the initial overs but now both openers are doing good. Bangladesh batted extremely well and this might be the first time they have put on 309 runs on the scoreboard batting first. If they bowl well then they can win today unless Maxwell again plays too well today. For Pakistan, it is not looking good for now as both seamers were unsuccessful in getting any wickets and now spin is not working too.

It is the 44 match of ICC world cup. It is the between Pakistan and england. it is very important for both team. If england won the match Pakistan  out the world cup.Pakistan will have to win today match with run rate.So it is very difficult for Pakistan. England won the toss and elected batting. England batsman makes 8 run in 2 over and Pakistan no any wicket against england.England batsman makes 59 run in 8 over.England batsmen are playing with a lot of struggle and effort.If they continue to play like this it will become a very difficult target for Pakistan, due to which they will have to lose today's match.

[pakhitheboss]

If they bowl well then they can win today unless Maxwell again plays too well today.

Maxwell is not playing today.

Oh! I was not aware of his absence as I am not watching that match. I was of the impression that it would be a one sided affair as Bangladesh is one weaker side. It is still a competitive target and without Maxwell Australia should be able to chase it, knowing Bangladesh bowling and sloppy fielding.

Meanwhile the English batters are doing pretty well against Pakistan bowling. They have lost two wicket and are nearing 200 runs. With this scoring rate they should get to 300 runs. Ben Stokes is again batting aggressively and should be able to get another century.

[roksana.hee]

If they bowl well then they can win today unless Maxwell again plays too well today.

Maxwell is not playing today.

Maxwell is not the only player on the Australian Cricket Team. There are other Legendary players who have written their names on top of overall players. Everyone knows the name of Marsh, Warner. Here already Marsh's score is 96. Everyone knows that Australia is the team 5 time winner in this ICC World Cup.

[synchronym]

If they bowl well then they can win today unless Maxwell again plays too well today.

Maxwell is not playing today.

Maxwell is not the only player on the Australian Cricket Team. There are other Legendary players who have written their names on top of overall players. Everyone knows the name of Marsh, Warner. Here already Marsh's score is 96. Everyone knows that Australia is the team 5 time winner in this ICC World Cup.

Bangladesh gave Australia a target of 307 runs, Australia's batting line is very strong. If Bangladesh still bowls well, maybe this match can be within their reach. Mitchell Marsh does not have to get out at this moment, otherwise he will score a double century like Maxwell. When Bangladesh scored 306 runs, I was thinking that if we bowl well, we can win today's match. But the brilliant batting of David Warner and Mitchell Marsh has brought Australia to the verge of victory. If Mitchell Marsh can be dismissed now, Australia might have a bit of a hold. I want Bangladesh to win. But Australia's batting looks like they will easily win today's match. Still, congratulations to the country of Bangladesh for batting very well today. The absence of the world's best all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan remains a drawback, maybe if Shakib was there, both bowling and batting would have been better.

[ananyabushra]

i totally agree with you. being confident with bd team is quite hard

[Bitcoin_people]

England batted brilliantly after winning the toss against Pakistan today and managed to post a huge score. They scored 337 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. I'm really surprised by the game. England's performance against Pakistan today was amazing. England has given a target of 338 runs to Pakistan team, I think Pakistan will have to struggle a lot to meet this target today and it will be very difficult for Pakistan to win today's match. If Pakistan team loses today's match or wins by less runs, then they will not be able to go to the semi-final, but the New Zealand team will be selected for the semi-final. And today's match is definitely very important for Pakistan, in today's match they may have to leave the World Cup. Because meeting the target of 340 runs is not such an easy task if they can win without losing a wicket then there is a chance according to their run rate. England played so well today due to which they scored huge which is a lot of hurdle for Pakistan and due to this match today Pakistan team will not be selected for semi final.

[libert19]

Bangladesh gave Australia a target of 307 runs, Australia's batting line is very strong. If Bangladesh still bowls well, maybe this match can be within their reach. Mitchell Marsh does not have to get out at this moment, otherwise he will score a double century like Maxwell. When Bangladesh scored 306 runs, I was thinking that if we bowl well, we can win today's match. But the brilliant batting of David Warner and Mitchell Marsh has brought Australia to the verge of victory. If Mitchell Marsh can be dismissed now, Australia might have a bit of a hold. I want Bangladesh to win. But Australia's batting looks like they will easily win today's match. Still, congratulations to the country of Bangladesh for batting very well today. The absence of the world's best all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan remains a drawback, maybe if Shakib was there, both bowling and batting would have been better.

Bangladesh has 0 chance to win this game, Aussies just need 54 runs from 69 balls and with 8 wickets in the hand. It'll take miracle for them to lose this game.

No chance Mitch Marsh can make double century either, they need 54 runs and Marsh is at 143.

England batted brilliantly after winning the toss against Pakistan today and managed to post a huge score. They scored 337 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. I'm really surprised by the game. England's performance against Pakistan today was amazing. England has given a target of 338 runs to Pakistan team, I think Pakistan will have to struggle a lot to meet this target today and it will be very difficult for Pakistan to win today's match. If Pakistan team loses today's match or wins by less runs, then they will not be able to go to the semi-final, but the New Zealand team will be selected for the semi-final. And today's match is definitely very important for Pakistan, in today's match they may have to leave the World Cup. Because meeting the target of 340 runs is not such an easy task if they can win without losing a wicket then there is a chance according to their run rate. England played so well today due to which they scored huge which is a lot of hurdle for Pakistan and due to this match today Pakistan team will not be selected for semi final.

They need to make this 339 chase in below 10 overs (idk exact), there is no chance for Pak now.

[Fuso.hp]

Even with a good target in the last match against Australia, Bangladesh is defeated in the end. Australia need just five more runs to win.  Bangladesh bowlers managed to pick up only two wickets against Australia. Bangladesh could not bowl well against Australia in this match due to which the Australian batsmen are batting in a very fluent manner from the beginning. Australia may win against Bangladesh by the time I finish the post but Bangladesh has closed this match against Australia so Bangladesh will be much ahead of Sri Lanka in terms of net run rate. If India can defeat Netherlands in yesterday's match, then Bangladesh will be the champion trophy. India have not lost a single match in this World Cup tournament so we can consider Bangladesh in Champions Trophy final if there is no chance of them losing against Netherlands.

[Cheema02]

England batted brilliantly after winning the toss against Pakistan today and managed to post a huge score. They scored 337 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. I'm really surprised by the game. England's performance against Pakistan today was amazing. England has given a target of 338 runs to Pakistan team, I think Pakistan will have to struggle a lot to meet this target today and it will be very difficult for Pakistan to win today's match. If Pakistan team loses today's match or wins by less runs, then they will not be able to go to the semi-final, but the New Zealand team will be selected for the semi-final. And today's match is definitely very important for Pakistan, in today's match they may have to leave the World Cup.

England scored a big total 337 runs in loss of 9 wickets in 50 overs. England bastmen batting performance is outstanding especially Ben Stokes who scored 84 runs in 76 balls just miss his well deserved century by 16 runs short. Jony bristow batting well scored 59 runs in 61 balls, Joe Root also batting amazingly score fifty 60 runs in 71 balls and reached the England total to 330 plus runs. Pakistan poor bowling performance only Shaheen Afridi and Haris picked wickets and put pressure but other bowlers leak runs. Haris Rouf amazing bowling picked 3 important wicktes by giving 64 runs in 10 overs.

[Westinhome]

Bangladesh gave Australia a target of 307 runs, Australia's batting line is very strong.  If Bangladesh still bowls well, maybe this match can be within their reach. Mitchell Marsh does not have to get out at this moment, otherwise he will score a double century like Maxwell. When Bangladesh scored 306 runs, I was thinking that if we bowl well, we can win today's match. But the brilliant batting of David Warner and Mitchell Marsh has brought Australia to the verge of victory.  If Mitchell Marsh can be dismissed now, Australia might have a bit of a hold. I want Bangladesh to win. But Australia's batting looks like they will easily win today's match. Still, congratulations to the country of Bangladesh for batting very well today. The absence of the world's best all-rounder Shakib Al Hasan remains a drawback, maybe if Shakib was there, both bowling and batting would have been better.

This game will be the easy win for the Australia team,because the current target was around 54 runs from 69 balls.So the Australian team had nearly 15 balls more then the target.So if they made a run per each ball is enough to chase the target without any wicket loss.Because if the ticket had loss,the new batsman may not easy to chase the target of the game.Marsh had smashing the ball of the Bangladesh bowlers,So the match is seems to be end in 40-47 overs.So this target will be finished by the Australian team without the end of 50 overs is my prediction.Smith also make his contribution for the match win this match.

[Bureau]

The end of a respectable exit from the World Cup for Bangladesh. After 7 games they batted really well and in the end they again lost. They made themselves viral with Angelo Mathews time out and thanks to them we realised that such law does existed. The problem with Bangladesh is the same that is happening with Srilanka. All corrupt politicians are handling the board. After Srilanka, I feel the ICC should also ban Bangladesh board.

The second match of today is an interesting one. Pakistan known as the best team with the best bowlers lack those bowlers that they had earlier. They produced some of the best bowlers like Imran Khan, Wasim Akram, Saqlain and those before I understood cricket. Look at where they are now. They have bowlers who are over hyped. They have batters who are over hyped. They do not care about fitness test and most of them are in the team because they are relative of someone known.

I am not sure what India will do in the knock out. If history repeats itself then they would be out of the competition. If not then they will be in the finals. But, what happened to these countries in the Indian subcontinent like Srilanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. They were once the best but they are know the worst.

The most promising team in this format in the future looks Afghanistan.


Do you guys agree?

[JSRAW]

The most promising team in this format in the future looks Afghanistan.


Do you guys agree?

Absolutely! Afghanistan should be proud of their performance and i am sure they know it. They won hearts of many fans all around the world with their fight against good teams.

Still plenty of space for improvement in the field and how to handle pressure when things are not going their way but they are ticking lots of boxes, especially the batting department is maturing and it's a good sign. 

[Bureau]

The most promising team in this format in the future looks Afghanistan.


Do you guys agree?

Absolutely! Afghanistan should be proud of their performance and i am sure they know it. They won hearts of many fans all around the world with their fight against good teams.

Still plenty of space for improvement in the field and how to handle pressure when things are not going their way but they are ticking lots of boxes, especially the batting department is maturing and it's a good sign. 

Thanks for the support! If you could understand what is happening? Amul one of the big sponser startted to sponsor Afghanistan. If you remember, they were the last in the ranking and Amul still consider them a team to recognise. They did and they as a sponser would be happy.

In 2019 they were in the bottom and now they question those who qualified for.the semifinals.

[Shishir99]

Absolutely! Afghanistan should be proud of their performance and i am sure they know it. They won hearts of many fans all around the world with their fight against good teams.

That's why I said several times in this thread that this is Afghanistan's best World Cup they have ever played. They were amazing in this World Cup. Winning against teams like England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is a sign that they are becoming more mature these days. I guess one of their players said they should have win the match against Bangladesh too. They could have been in the equation playing the semi finals today. But they should not be upset of how they ended this World Cup journey. They should be proud of theirself.

[Sithara007]

That's why I said several times in this thread that this is Afghanistan's best World Cup they have ever played. They were amazing in this World Cup. Winning against teams like England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is a sign that they are becoming more mature these days. I guess one of their players said they should have win the match against Bangladesh too. They could have been in the equation playing the semi finals today. But they should not be upset of how they ended this World Cup journey. They should be proud of theirself.

Afghanistan performed way better than what was expected from them. There is no doubt in this regard. But the same can't be said about Pakistan. At least they should have ended this tournament with a win. But they are going to suffer a very heavy defeat today as well. For today's match, both the openers (Abdullah Shafique and Fakhar Zaman) were back in pavilion by the third over. And by then, the match was almost over. Pakistan was playing for the consolation win, and unfortunately today they are not going to get it. They are at 150/7 in 31.4 overs.

[Westinhome]

England batted brilliantly after winning the toss against Pakistan today and managed to post a huge score. They scored 337 runs for the loss of 9 wickets. I'm really surprised by the game. England's performance against Pakistan today was amazing. England has given a target of 338 runs to Pakistan team, I think Pakistan will have to struggle a lot to meet this target today and it will be very difficult for Pakistan to win today's match. If Pakistan team loses today's match or wins by less runs, then they will not be able to go to the semi-final, but the New Zealand team will be selected for the semi-final. And today's match is definitely very important for Pakistan, in today's match they may have to leave the World Cup. Because meeting the target of 340 runs is not such an easy task if they can win without losing a wicket then there is a chance according to their run rate. England played so well today due to which they scored huge which is a lot of hurdle for Pakistan and due to this match today Pakistan team will not be selected for semi final.

This was the biggest strategy of game by the England against the Pakistan team,the team Pakistan had loss their full hope in the game after the close loss with the South Africa.The bowling of the Pakistan was good enough at the beginning and win the big team.Personally I had think the team Pakistan will enter the semifinal.But they had loss the important matches and waiting for the last luck with the big team like England with huge run rate was not the better option for the Pakistan.It’s essential to win as like the team India and South Africa to keep at the top 4 places till the semi final for the easy chance of the semi final.

[UmerIdrees]

The end of a respectable exit from the World Cup for Bangladesh. After 7 games they batted really well and in the end they again lost. They made themselves viral with Angelo Mathews time out and thanks to them we realised that such law does existed. The problem with Bangladesh is the same that is happening with Srilanka. All corrupt politicians are handling the board. After Srilanka, I feel the ICC should also ban Bangladesh board.

You need to add Pakistan to this list and ban our board too. Corruption is at the highest level in Pakistan too and hence we should not expect anything good for the team for these players. We have alreeay seen West Indies and Zimbabwe exit and these countries are following the same pattern. what worries me is that we are now left with only 4 to 5 teams who show consistent performances and the rest is all garbage. Not good for cricket.

I am not sure what India will do in the knock out. If history repeats itself then they would be out of the competition. If not then they will be in the finals. But, what happened to these countries in the Indian subcontinent like Srilanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh. They were once the best but they are know the worst.

NZ is the team which has the habit of losing in the semi finals, and I am sure India will easily make it to the finals. The real battle will be between India, Australia and South Africa for the title.

[Sithara007]

NZ is the team which has the habit of losing in the semi finals, and I am sure India will easily make it to the finals. The real battle will be between India, Australia and South Africa for the title.

During the last world cup (in 2019), they won the semi-final and almost won the final as well. So you should not underestimate New Zealand. And Indians do have a habit of performing very well in the group phase and then losing the knockout matches. So even at this point, there are no clear favorites. India do have the home advantage as well as momentum, so they may be considered as the team that is most probable to be crowned as the champions. But at the same time, you can't write off the other three teams. Each of them have their own positives.

[UmerIdrees]

NZ is the team which has the habit of losing in the semi finals, and I am sure India will easily make it to the finals. The real battle will be between India, Australia and South Africa for the title.

During the last world cup (in 2019), they won the semi-final and almost won the final as well. So you should not underestimate New Zealand. And Indians do have a habit of performing very well in the group phase and then losing the knockout matches. So even at this point, there are no clear favorites. India do have the home advantage as well as momentum, so they may be considered as the team that is most probable to be crowned as the champions. But at the same time, you can't write off the other three teams. Each of them have their own positives.

You may be right but i have a gut feeling that India will win this World Cup.

And as far as the last World Cup is concerned, I remember that England was given an unfair advantage in the last over and it was a controversial win for England.

I don't know but I can see the ICC's new patterns, The Big 3 hosting the World Cup and winning it. Englands hosted in 2019 and England won it.
This time India is hosting the World Cup and it is programmed for an Indian Win:

[JSRAW]

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Thanks for the support! If you could understand what is happening? Amul one of the big sponser startted to sponsor Afghanistan. If you remember, they were the last in the ranking and Amul still consider them a team to recognise. They did and they as a sponser would be happy.

In 2019 they were in the bottom and now they question those who qualified for.the semifinals.

Don't worry about it yaar.

I was aware of Amul sponsoring the Kiwis but I wasn't aware of their connection with the Afghan team so that's news to me. Anyway, props to Amul that they went ahead with the Afghan team.

Absolutely! Afghanistan should be proud of their performance and i am sure they know it. They won hearts of many fans all around the world with their fight against good teams.

That's why I said several times in this thread that this is Afghanistan's best World Cup they have ever played. They were amazing in this World Cup. Winning against teams like England, Pakistan and Sri Lanka is a sign that they are becoming more mature these days. I guess one of their players said they should have win the match against Bangladesh too. They could have been in the equation playing the semi finals today. But they should not be upset of how they ended this World Cup journey. They should be proud of theirself.

Their batting is maturing nicely and batters are winning the majority of crucial moments for the team.

If there is no support for spinners then their bowling is still weak and death bowling is horrible, no matter what and a shitload amount of hard work is needed in fielding. Having said that they are still looking promising outfit so i am hopeful.