I am looking forward to tomorrow's match between West Indies vs New Zealand. If New Zealand wants to qualify for the next round, they need to beat the West Indies at any cost and get full points. Because the New Zealand team lost the first match against Afghanistan by a big margin of 84 runs. The New Zealand team managed to collect only 75 runs. So the New Zealand team will have to win the next three matches by a big margin.
The West Indies team is in pretty good shape I would say. However, the West Indies team has not yet faced a strong opponent. West Indies team won two matches easily against Uganda and Papua New Guinea. Now Afghanistan and West Indies from Group C will qualify for the next round if they defeat the New Zealand team. It is a do or die match for New Zealand.
Afghanistan's qualification is very easy as they have two matches left, one against West Indies and another against Papua New Guinea. If the equation with West Indies is difficult but the equation of Afghanistan with Papua New Guinea is much easier.
West Indies have two matches, one against New Zealand and the other against Afghanistan. If West Indies can beat New Zealand in today's match then they will qualify without any tie. So today's match is definitely a very important match between New Zealand and West Indies.
However, New Zealand's first match was so bad that the loss of that match had a huge impact on the subsequent matches and their net run rate dropped a lot due to which they are at the lowest position in the points table. New Zealand's chances of qualifying for the Super Eight are very slim.
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Grassroots CricketThe result of the West Indies versus New Zealand match has surprised me, to be honest. First of all, I thought New Zealand should have done much better to finish off West Indies. There was no way anyone actually thought that West Indies was going to reach 149 after they had lost the ninth week at 112. and even the way they started, it was really horrible. The whole West Indies innings was a one-man show. Rutherford was the only one playing like the pitch was batting-friendly.
New Zealand also did not start very well. But the start was definitely better compared to West Indies. The problem is, New Zealand was losing wickets at regular intervals. And even though Santner tried to score quickly, he did not have enough support around him later in the innings. In the end big win for West Indies