Topic: ICC WORLD CUP 2023 DISCUSSION THREAD! - page 91. (Read 12293 times)

In Indian pitches, even a total of 350 is not enough to guarantee a win. And Sri Lanka is without Hasaranga, and they are considerably weakened without him. Pathirana and Theekshana seems to be out of form. Still, this was a match that should have been won by Sri Lanka. They had made such a decent total (344/9). And in return, they had Pakistan down at 37/2. But no one really expected Abdullah Shafique and Mohammad Rizwan to come up with such a solid 3rd wicket partnership. And in the end, Saud Shakeel and Iftikhar Ahmed finished the game.

Some matches create a lot of excitement among everyone. Many will remember todays' match for a long time. Looking at Sri Lanka's score today, I thought 90 percent Sri Lanka will win this match. When Pakistan lost two wickets against Sri Lanka's target of 344 runs, i see that 14 percent chance of winning in the TV screen as prediction. However, the regret of the Sri Lankan team was that they could not beat the Pakistan team in the World Cup. Had great chances today but they failed too. I saw several negative sites of the Sri Lankan team which I did not come across in this type of tournament. Sri Lanka conceded an extra 26 runs in this match which could be a great reason for the team's loss. The team was also behind due to some miss fielding. On the other hand, Pakistan proved to be an unpredictable team.

This match became exciting in the end. The player of the match is Muhammad Rizwan. When Muhammad Rizwan scored 80 runs or so, he was injured, not too much, it’s a normal injury, but he didn’t leave the ground and just played for the team and he scored 131. This is the first century of Muhammad Rizwan in the ODI in 2023.
I hope that Muhammad Rizwan recovers from their injury and is back to play. He took 3 catches as wicketkeeper. The other players are also playing very well. Abdullah Shafique scored a century. Iftikhar Ahmed and Saud Shakeel are also doing very good scores. Iftikhar Ahmed is a good finisher. Overall it looks like Pakistan got the batting momentum at the right moment.

Actually, I stopped watching the game when Babar Azam got out because I thought from that place chasing 344 looks impossible to chase it down but when I looked at the results I was shocked and even more to add they won by 6 wickets which is incredible also will up the morale of Pakistan after disappointing bowling performance.

Tomorrow we have India vs Afghanistan match and I expect it is going to be an easy win for India but what I want them to do is try to post better performance if possible, so they can increase the net run rate so that they should not take this match lightly, and also they should go with the same playing XI in my opinion.

What a commited perfot by Rizwan, this guy should be above Babar Azam. He single handedly took the ownership of chasing the target. He was injured, cramped but was not letting it go. An example he has set in to the mind's of upcoming newbies. I was thinking about Babar when Pakistan came to bat. I never expected his performance to be so bad in this important game. The bowling attack of Pakistan was good as they did what they felt good for themselves. Undoubtedly they knew that the batters would support them. A good comeback and a good finishing by Pakistan
 
 

Did you get the odds? I was able to place bets when the odd was 2.14 for Pakistan. It was a nice one although I have already lost a few mBTC in this world cup. I have been doing shits in cricket prediction lately.

Sri Lanka managed to score good runs today while giving Pakistan a big target of 345 runs. Sri Lankan batsmen were in great form against Pakistan today, and put up a huge score. But when Pakistan bats, Pakistan batsmen fight brilliantly against Sri Lanka and Pakistan team is in a good position at the moment. I predict Pakistan to win today without pressure, as they only need a few more runs to win. As Mohammad Rizwan is still alive and batting brilliantly, if he can play in the end then victory is assured. Mohammad Rizwan scored 121 runs off 113 balls. This match is really interesting. Currently, Pakistan team is fighting well against Sri Lanka. Right now Pakistan need 26 runs from 24 balls to win, I think they will collect one soon and meet the target given by Sri Lanka. And we can definitely predict that Pakistan will win today's match by defeating Sri Lanka.

Pakistan is talking this match slowly in their hand and it seems that they will win this match from here on in. They have less than 50 runs to win and with 7 wickets in hand, they should win from here.

Remember Pakistan have never lost against Srilanka in the ICC World Cup and look like this record will remain.

Chasing 344 runs is not a small thing and if Pakistan wins this match, it will be an eye opener for the other big teams in the tournaments. It's been a long time since i saw such a good batting performance by the Pakistan team.

wow! pakistan were huge odds  to win after srilanka posted 344 total

Amazing innings  from shafique and rizwan (not out) 

Now pakistan only need 82 runs  from  69  balls  with 7 wickets in hand

Also a pretty big opportunity lost by sri lanka bowlers ,they  got 2 early wickets but nothing since then

All the things went right then Abdullah Shafique lost their wicket. This is a sad thing for Pakistan. Abdullah Shafique plays as well, but don’t worry because Saud Shakeel is also a very amazing player. Abdullah Shafique did a 100+ score. He made a century. I hope that Muhammad Rizwan and Saud Shakeel play very well.

If the Pakistan team wins this match so Pakistan team becomes confident against India, the next match of Pakistan is India vs Pakistan in Ahmedabad. I know that most of the people are Indian in the crowd. Rizwan is nearly to century. I want to see the Rizwan century in this match.

Now this match is going to be very interesting and intense between both teams Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Pakistan team lost their openers players A.Shafique and Imam ul haq and one more Captain of their team B.Azam also catch up by Sri Lanka bowlers. In previous match, Sri Lanka played very good in batting inning but not in bowling innings. Same situation in this match, their batting inning was brilliant and did not in bowling inning. Pakistan scored 232 runs in 35.3 overs and loss e wickets. In current time, M.Rizwan and S.Shakeel players were showing their talent in the crease. M.Rizwan scored 83 runs in 79 balls with not out. Pakistan need 107 runs in 85 balls for won this match.

What did you guys expect from Bangladesh today? I did not expect better than this. They could have played better. They could have used their spinners from the beginning and restricted England from 320 to 330. That could have been a good total. If we talk about batting, their first four batters except for Liton Das did a terrible job. They could have been more responsible. The top performers failed and they collapsed with a very low total. The match wasn't competitive at all.

If we talk about the Sri Lanka VS Pakistan match, Sri Lanka posted a very good total on the board. Now it's their bowler's job to restrict Pakistan. But it seems Pakistan is on its way to winning the match. Abdullah and Rizwan are both batters playing very well.

I was expecting Babar to be a pillar like Kohli did against Australia. I never expected him to get out so easily. Rizwan is the key for Pakistan and if he bats well then it would help Pakistan. Another example of Babar getting succumbed to pressure. I still believe that he should only concentrate in his batting and not mixup his skill with captaincy. Rizwan would fail if not the whole Pakistani batting line-up will be unsuccessful knowing their inconsistency. This is not Lahore, where Pakistan was able to chase a target of 300+. This is Hyderabad wherein after playing so many games, Pakistan is stil confused.

Pakistan is in difficult situations and Sri Lanka stand a good total of 344 runs against Pakistan with fall of 9 wickets. Kusal Mendis  performed excellent inning and scored  122 runs with just 77 runs. Sadeera made  108 runs  with 89 balls and he contributed good for his country, Pat hum  Nissanka  made 51 runs with  61 runs . Sri Lanka set  an excellent score on board and Sri Lankan batsman seemed in good form . Pakistani batting cannot chase this big score, Pakistan lose 2 wickets in first 9 overs. It is very hard for Pakistan to chase this score because Pakistan middle order is very weak and no batsman  is performing excellent. Now, score of Pakistan is  40 in just 9 overs. Pakistan need 305 runs in  41 overs.

Sri Lanka won the toss and decided to bat first against Pakistan. Sri Lankan captain Dasun Shanaka won the toss and sent South Africa into bat in the previous match. After that, however, Sri Lanka had to be crushed by the mountain of runs. Keeping that mistake in mind, Sri Lanka decided to bat first at Hyderabad's Wicket Aid Stadium today. Batting first, he collected 344 runs losing 9 wickets in 50 overs. In today's match, Sri Lanka's top order batsmen Kushalmendis and Sadira Samarawickrama stormed the well positioned bowlers. Kushal Mendis became the fastest century for Sri Lanka in the World Cup. But it is yet to be said what Pakistan can do in today's match but Sri Lanka have scored enough runs and the chances of victory are very high. I see Sri Lanka more likely to win than Pakistan today.

Pakistan is favourite but Sri Lanka batting very well in this match Scored 344 in loss of 9 wickets in 50 overs. Pakistan has pulled it back, and credit goes to Hasan Ali he took 4 crucial wickets to keep the score under 350, but It's not out of reach. Pakistan should chase this down if the partnership between Abdullah Shafique and Imam ul Haq. Shaheen Shah Afridi has taken a wicket in the 18th consecutive ODIs. Its a record for a Pakistan bowler. Shaheen was bowling with his injured finger today.

No Pakistani pacer went for less than 6 an over, Mendis batting performance is outstanding Scored 122 runs in 77 and Sadeera also bat well scored 108 runs in 89 balls bossed Pakistani bowling to help Sri Lanka post 344. Hassan Ali bowling good picked up 4 wickets by giving 71 runs in 10 Overs, Shaheen Afridi picked 1 wickets by giving 62 runs in 9 overs and Haris Rauf picked 2 important wickets by giving 64 runs in 10 over.

England vs Bangladesh in this match, the England team has done an extraordinary batting performance, the target of 365 runs has been given to Bangladesh to win. England's batting performance was excellent in today's match and England fans are really happy to see such a good batting performance. England's two batsmen, Root and Malan both batted brilliantly and together they made a partnership of 222 runs. Unfortunately Root didn't score a century, but Malan scored a brilliant century, his batting performance was incredible. However, England played well enough to win today and are still bowling brilliantly against Bangladesh. Right now the Bangladesh team has lost 8 wickets but still can't come close to meeting the target. Since Bangladesh cannot win at all against England today we can predict that they will lose by a huge margin. Had the two Bangladeshi batsmen not been out, there might have been some hope, Mushfiqur Rahim and Litton Das both scored half-centuries if they had stayed at the crease. However, after the good batsmen of Bangladesh got out, they are batting under a lot of pressure, now they have only two wickets in hand, so they will lose against England. 
Bangladesh still need to score 145 off 30 balls to win which is never possible so we can say for sure that England will win today against Bangladesh by a huge margin.

Playing style of Pakistan and Bangladesh is very similar, in the match between Bangladesh and England both Bangladesh batting and bowling were very poor due to which Bangladesh's collection is so poor amidst England's big collection that Bangladesh will probably lose by a huge margin of 150 runs. Apart from Liton Das and Mushfiqur Rahim of Bangladesh, none of the other batsmen could score significant runs.
In today's match, Pakistan has performed so badly in fielding and bowling like Bangladesh that Sri Lanka has already given Pakistan a target of 345 runs which will be impossible for Pakistan to collect. In today's match Bangladesh and Pakistan have a high probability of defeat.

Two matches of the World Cup are currently underway in which Bangladesh is losing one match and the other match is going to end in the first innings.

Batting against the target of 365 runs given by England, Bangladesh quickly lost six wickets where Bangladesh has managed to collect 189 runs after 39 overs so far. England lost the first match by a big margin to New Zealand maybe they plan to fix their net run rate by winning this match by a big margin.

In the other match of the day, Sri Lanka won the toss against Pakistan and elected to bat first and managed to post 343 runs in 49 overs.  Pakistan bowlers did not bowl well against the Sri Lankan batsmen today. As Sri Lanka are likely to score 350 plus runs in the first innings, Sri Lanka will be ahead in the second match as well.

Today's matches in 2023 Asia Cup


Bangladesh Vs England

Bangladesh and England face each other in today's match.In this match Bangladesh won first and they decided to field.I would like to say one thing that perhaps the decision of Bangladesh to field first was not correct.England batted first and scored 365 runs.
Later Bangladesh came to bat and they were under pressure at first maybe because of more runs they played under pressure due to which their wickets fell very quickly.So far Bangladesh's score is 187 runs with the loss of 6 wickets.

On the other hand,

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka
In the match between Pakistan and Sri Lanka, Sri Lanka batted first and scored 322 runs.Now, however, their match is on break.But it seems that it will not be very easy for Pakistan to win this match.