Topic: ICC WORLD CUP 2023 DISCUSSION THREAD! - page 103. (Read 12296 times)

Out of the six teams who will face each other in the World Cup warm-up matches today, only two teams have got a chance to play the full warm-up matches so far while the remaining four teams have had their first warm-up matches abandoned due to rain. The fact that these games are likely to be held today without rain, but not like that, rain may disrupt the match today as well. With four of the six teams having missed out on their first warm-up matches, the hope today will be for the six teams to take on each other and successfully play their second and final warm-up matches.

Both the matches that were played yesterday, but there were problems due to rain, but both the teams ended successfully. Hopefully no matches will be abandoned today due to rain

There is virtually zero chance that the India vs Netherlands match will take place. One of my friends just called me and told that it is raining continuously for the last 6-7 hours. Even if the rains stop, play won't be started as a result of wet outfield. Remember that India's first warmup (vs England, which was supposed to be played at the Barsapara Cricket Stadium in Guwahati) was washed out as a result of rain. And this time also, it looks like they will not get an opportunity to get some time on the field. For the other two matches today, the weather prediction is not much better.

Afghanistan Vs Sri Lanka

India Vs Netherland

Australia Vs Pakistan


Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka match, it cannot be said for sure which team can win. But probably the team that can play well in today's match will win, moreover, Afghanistan's first warm-up match today. Given Sri Lanka's loss to Bangladesh in their first match, there is no telling how well they will perform against Afghanistan today. But we will see a good amount of interesting games between the two teams today.

India vs Netherlands match, we can definitely say India is the strongest team, so they will win. We all know that Netherlands will lose this match as the Netherlands is a much normal team compared to India. Accordingly, we can expect India to win today's match easily.

Both the teams are strong in the Australia vs Pakistan match, so we will enjoy an interesting game between the two teams at best. It is very difficult to predict which team will win today's match, as both the teams have excellent batting and bowling. However, as Pakistan lost the match against New Zealand, today's match may be more likely to be won by Australia.

These matches I have predicted, I think they may be correct, but it is very difficult to guarantee so much by making predictions, they may not be correct. But I have personally confirmed this prediction, but no one will bet on this prediction again, only I have personally confirmed it.

Pakistan would have been one of the favorites if they had the trio of Naseem Shah-Shaheen Shah-Haris Rauf in their bowling lineup. But Naseem is out due to injury, and Haris is also not 100% fit. Then the fact that they don't have a quality spinner is going to work against them in the Indian pitches. The batting trio of Babar-Fakhar-Rizwan looks formidable, but in recent matches all three have been in volatile form. And the biggest challenge would be in adjusting to Indian conditions. Unlike players from other teams, Pakistani players don't take part in the IPL and therefore don't have much experience in playing under Indian conditions.

I won't count Pakistan, just yet despite their recent fuckups. This team is uniquely unpredictable, they have the unique ability to pull a rabbit out of the hat when no one expects anything from them. The opposite outcome is equally true as well.

In recent times their fielding has improved drastically but sometimes they do meme type fielding for lols, it's like keeping up the tradition.  

If the game is stopped at one stage due to rain, the game starts in DLS mode when the rain stops. Here the DLS method is not a bad method. This DLS is basically resource sharing between two parties. How many overs are left and how many wickets are left, a percentage is drawn and based on this percentage the DLS method is given. I have discussed another topic but the same topic needs to be discussed again here. Bangladesh cricket team is getting dull day by day because they can never improve the way they started. Because Bangladesh cricket team is full of politics now. Countries whose cricket teams are full of politics will never improve in cricket. I think Bangladesh cricket team can improve from the day it becomes free from politics. Moreover, it will not be possible to improve.

Funny thing about Bangladesh and England game is that Bangladesh scored 188 runs in 37 overs but due to DLS England were required to chase 197 runs in 37 overs. I don't know how productive or efficient DLS method is but it is known to produce some harsh results. Bangladesh really need to improve there performance, they are playing international crikcet for around 25 years.

England got a great win against Bangladesh by 4 wickets, which was a really interesting game. Bangladesh could not bowl very well in today's match due to which England could not put pressure on the team, if the bowling performance could have improved, then it would have been difficult for England to win today's match. However, many predictions were made beforehand that England will win today's match against Bangladesh in a big way, and that prediction has come true. England's batsman Moeen Ali played brilliantly and collected a lot of runs with his bat, which delighted the crowd. England won by 197 runs in 24.1 overs, today's match was played in 37 overs due to rain, England won in 24.1 overs, the match was really interesting.

Why are you giving an overview of a match You should say something constructive. Either criticize them or analyze the match. Analyses the performance. If you straight saying he doing that, he does that, well, we know that all buddy. Please tell me what he did wrong and what he could have done instead of it. But no, you are writing the overview of a match.

Basically, the rain saved Bangladesh. The rain reduced the match to 37 overs. They already lost five wickets in thirty overs, they were unlikely to survive the next ten overs which you see from the scorecard. Another batting failure innings from them.

Bangladesh have decided to bat against England before their last warm-up match before the World Cup. Tanjim Shakib opened the account of the first run by hitting a six.  Bangladesh Tigers started very well. But unfortunately the Bangladesh Tigers could not make the good start last long. Wicket keeper batsman Liton Das failed once again on batting support wickets in Guwahati. Liton Das hit a boundary and hinted at something great but that hint didn't last long.  As a result Liton Das scored 6 runs off 5 balls before returning to the pavilion. In this way, the wickets of the Bangladesh team began to fall rapidly. Once Tanjim Tamim and Miraj tried to turn around with the bat, but the Tigers of Bangladesh failed.  Bangladesh team managed to score 153 runs in 30 overs losing 5 wickets. But unfortunately the whole game is stopped due to rain.

That is the only game I believe would be played without any rain interruption. As it is a practice match I am also not excited but I feel this will be the game that will have a close finish. The reason is that New Zealand batters have batted well and after losing only 4 wickets they have scored 279 runs. I think they are eyeing 300+ as a target for South Africa and they still have 5 overs left in the game. Now the big hits will start which always interest me. I think 300+ won't be a big target for South Africa considering the number of inform batters they have in their batting lineup.

Looking briefly at the match between the two is not very interesting and doesn't show a game that is exciting enough although there are some that look very impressive and maybe you watch until the end and can get the excitement from this match but from the start there is no interest so only watch for few minutes.
From what NZ can get it also doesn't guarantee that they will perform well enough in the main match when it starts because there will be several teams that may look weak in the practice match and experience defeat but when they enter the main match they can have good game unexpectedly full of surprises after all for this training match several teams were free to choose who would be their opponents.

Bangladesh vs England today match Bangladesh are batting first and they have already lost 4 wickets. In today's match, Bangladesh's batting performance is not in a very good form due to which Bangladesh team could not collect good runs. However, England's bowling performance today is great especially Reece Topley is doing a great bowling line due to which Bangladesh are currently under pressure. If Bangladesh can score 300 runs in today's match then they can have a chance to win the match, moreover England is a stronger team than Bangladesh. England is in good form in this World Cup whereas Bangladesh is not compared to that, so today's match will be great both teams will try to play well.
But if England can bat well in today's match then they can easily win against Bangladesh, and if Bangladesh's bowling performance can improve then it can be difficult for England to win the match.

Tanjid Hasan Tamim showed a sensational batting style of 84 runs against Sri Lanka in their first warm-up match in the World Cup. This opener also started well against England.  In this match, he crossed the boundary by pooling on the bouncer of Race Tropli. He opened the account of runs by hitting a six. However, this opener, who is gradually settling down at the crease, returned to the pavilion with the regret of not getting a half century. Basically, he was batting keeping one end from the beginning of the innings. Tamim kept his personal run tally intact on a day when the other two top-order batsmen failed. However, he was caught by Mark Wood in the 16th over of the innings.  Wanted to pull it outside the off stump. Tamim was bowled by that. 45 runs came from his bat before returning to the dressing room. Meanwhile Mehdi Hasan Miraj is batting brilliantly scoring 50 runs off 62 balls and looks like he could score a century.

I don't think England would have much problem against Bangladesh. They are the best in white ball cricket, meanwhile Bangladesh have been not at their best. The did play well against Srilanka that doesn't mean it will easy for them against England. Their pace attack is good and thier spin attack too.

The match has already started, Bangladesh won the toss and choose to bat first. They have lost 3 wickets, have scored 83 runs in 18 overs. As expected it is a bad start for Bangladesh, their current run rate is less than 5, that is not at all good.

Today Sixth and Seventh Warm up matches lived

First of all I discuss about Sixth warm up match Bangladesh against England. England's first match of these waem up matches was not played against India because of rain and we can not see performance of England at this time how they will in Warm up matches. Bangladesh won previous against Sri Lanka and this time Bangladesh also showing well performance that they will give tough time to England. Now let's check out how they perform today.

Next seventh match played by New Zealand against South Africa. I feel that New Zealand easily will win this match if wee see their match performance then they defend huge target that was given by Pakistan. Now they batting first in crease and at this time they lost their one wickets Devon Conway and made 85 runs 16 overs. At the ending of their batting, let's see Howa much runs of target they will give to South Africa.

NZ vs SA

The practice match between these two teams has started. NZ won the toss and are batting first, they have lost Young. Williamson and Conway are looking good, looks like a partnership in the making. As it is a practice match I am not expecting these two batters to stay till the end. After they score 50 runs they might retire Hurst, as seen last time. The pitch doesn't favour the bowlers but sometimes the ball can remain low.

I will go with South Africa and Newzealand who will be fighting for the 4th one in the semifinals. South Africa has suddenly emerged as a team that could create some bad memories for the top 3 you predicted. Pakistan I would have chosen them before the Asia Cup fiasco. They are visibly struggling with their bowling department. Fielding was never their upselling point and is okayish as per me, batting depends on whether Babar and Rizwan are able to score big.

Yes, this is the biggest problem for the Pakistan team, if the bowlers don't take any wickets in the first 10 overs then they feel a lot of statement as a result of which their bowling line starts performing badly. Whenever they disrupt their bowling line, Pakistan team is completely confused in the game. If they perform well from the start and take wickets, they can do well in the end. In the same way they have a bad habit of batting too, if Babar Azam and Rizwan are performing well then every batsman tries to play well. And if those two players luckily get out without batting well, then no other player can hold the game and their poor performance starts. This is the biggest problem for the Pakistan team, if Pakistan can overcome this problem, they will definitely have a chance to reach the semi-finals in the World Cup.

After beating Sri Lanka, Bangladesh now aim to beat former World Cup winners England in the second warm-up match. Bangladesh may rest two openers in this match against England as they were quite uncomfortable due to overheating in the match against Sri Lanka due to which BCB may decide to get a full strength team against Afghanistan. 

According to the weather forecast there is a high chance of rain in the second match and nothing will be done if this match is abandoned due to rain. So far only two warm-up matches have been rain-free and all the remaining matches have been abandoned due to rain. 

England's first match was abandoned due to rain so England will definitely want to beat Bangladesh in the second and final warm-up match to start the World Cup undefeated before the World Cup.