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Nigeria vs Zimbabwe African Games

In Wonderful African Games competition, total four matches were finished today and these matches were very competitive and thrilling among all squads. I was expected that this match was going be very intense and thrilling among Nigeria squad against Zimbabwe sqaud but Nigeria squad was not displayed a impressive performance and their sqaud members were collected just 88 scores as a defeating target and they also has begun this match first batting Inning. Not single batter was not played well and also their Bowler inning also not bowled good. Just two batters from Zimbabwe sqaud was enough for this low quality 88 scores defeating target. Both starter batters Tadiwanashe Marumani achieved 47 scores mad Rodney Mupfudza also collected 39 scores.

Although the PSL have finished but i would need to discuss about  Baber Azam in this PSL.

In cricket, we have seen many players who cannot win for their team as Babar Azam who is known as Bobzy the King but still waiting to win a trophy of any tournament to us of any tournament but still, he cannot do this.

In 2021 World Cup Semi-Final, and 2022 World Cup final then Asia Cups and ODI World Cup but he cannot give us any trophy. He is not only a player Virat Kohli, Kane Williamson and others have situations just like his. It is a common problem for big players.

You have seen about Babar Azam and how he had bad luck now let's come to Virat Kohli as you can see last Champions Trophy where they had a lot of chances to win when they had Sikhardawan, Kohli, Dhoni, Hardik Pandya, Bumrah and these are the greatest players which a side had but chance on that time all the player is good but they were young as Shadab Khan who played Under 19 on the same year. Then Babar Azam who debut before 2 years, Fakhar Zaman who was not played many matches and there was only Amir and that match won by Pakistan.

Then Pakistan won against India in 2021 at World Cup of T20 for the first time. By the way, the Pakistan team has more wins than India in the match Pakistan vs India in the full matches of cricket if we combine all the formats, and the 2019 World Cup and from the last 16 years, he cannot give any trophy to RCB.

^^^ South African squad was comprised of amateur cricketers, and therefore I wouldn't read too much from the results. Even the captain (George Van Heerden) doesn't have any first class experience apart from representing the South Africa Under-19s. Kenya on the other hand, had several experienced players such as Collins Obuya, Nelson Odhiambo, Rakep Patel and Shem Ngoche. And in a way, Kenya were the favorites to win the match. Namibia is also faring quite poorly, as they have already lost two matches. 

African Games:

Today in African games league, Kenya team vs South Africa team game is continuing and this is the 7 th game of this series and in past game of South Africa, South Africa beat their opponent team very poorly. I think South Africa team will show same effort in today game and Kenya team also not very strong team so far. Kenya team won toss and they decided to take batting lineup first and gave target. This game was took place on Achimota Senior Secondary School A Field Stadium. N.Mugabe batsman scored 15 runs in 16 balls with one 4s and one 6s and also dismissed. C.Obuya was also bowled out for 58 runs in 47 balls and S.Singh also made 10 runs only. Now, R.Patel and N.dhiambo batsmans is batting on field and hope these batsman perform well and 5 overs left for play. Kenya made only 98 runs in 15 overs which is so small for such a strong team South Africa.

We are very excited about today's final match of Pakistan Super League. The Multan Sultan team reached the finals for the first time as the group champions of this year's Pakistan Super League.Multan Sultans were the only team to top the group stage. Another opponent of Multan Sultan team in the final is Islamabad United who defeated Babar Azam's team in the second eliminator match to reach the final. This match between Multan Sultans and Islamabad United will be held at Karachi National Stadium.Islamabad United's batting line-up may be very strong today especially as they have many good quality foreign batsmen in their team.

In South Africa team vs Ghana team game, the game was also ended today in African games series. South Africa team won toss and they elected bat first for giving chasing target. South Africa team set 237 runs target in 20 overs by losing only wickets and these four batsman gave too much big target. M. Joseph was not played well and made only 8 runs but next three batsman, G.Van Heerden made brilliant century in 57 balls and he hitted eight 4s and seven 6s. L.Botha not dismissed and scored 46 runs in 25 balls and last one H.Pieterse made 62 runs in 34 balls. Ghana team player batting lineup with full of under pressure of big target and only made 107 runs and lost game by 134 runs.

Now this first match of African games competition was completed today and this match was played among Zimbabwe squad against Namibia squad. From my experience Both these squads Zimbabwe sqaud and South Africa squad are powerful squads from other squads. Zimbabwe sqaud has begun this match first batting Inning and collected 197 scores with lost of  6 batters. Brian Bennett made highest scores in this match and collected 65 scores off 39 deliveries with power hitting. Some batter also needs some improvement in their batting skills like Tadiwanashe Marumani, this batter was wiped out at 1 run, Tony Munyonga was also out at 5 scores amd one more Tashinga Musekiwa was cleared out from crease at 2 scores.  Namibia squad also displayed impressive performance due to big defeating target Namibia squad just achieved 162 scores and lost with 35 scores.

In African Games, Today match is the between Zimbabwe and Namibia. Zimbabwe won the toss and elected batting. Zimbabwe batsman makes 11 run in 1 over and Namibia no any wicket against Zimbabwe batsman. This is the good started for Zimbabwe batsman. Namibia bowler out the Zimbabwe batsman in the fivth ball of the 2 over. This is the first achievement for Namibia bowler. Once time again Namibia bowler out the Zimbabwe batsman in the second ball of the 6 over. This is the second achievement for Namibia bowler. Zimbabwe batsman makes 85 run in 10 over and 2 outs. Zimbabwe batsman are working hard and struggle and make run. Zimbabwe batsman makes 197 run in 20 over and  6 outs. This is the target for Namibia batsman. This is the good and hard target. Now let's see Namibia batsman can complete this target or not.

Anyone here who has watched first match of Papua New Guinea tour of Malaysia competition?

First match of this competition Papua New Guinea tour of Malaysia was vey interesting and thrilling among PNG sqaud against Malaysia squad. I really liked and appreciated the performances of Papua New Guinea squad because first in batting Inning, their squad collected very high defeating target and this was impossible to any squad to achieve this 206 scores target. Malaysia squad played this match under a lot of pressure of big defeating target and wiped out at 129 scores and lost this match by 77 scores. With the help of strong batting partnership of Lega Siaka and Charles Amini, Papua New Guinea squad made this tremendous target. Charles Amini batter collected 91 scores off 53 balls and Lega Siaka collected 55 scores after playing 35 deliveries.

In yesterday's match, the Peshawar Zalmi were not able to handle the pressure and lost the match. Babar Azam made 46 runs and this also could not help the team reach the final.

Yesterday's match could be won by Peshawar Zalmi, if their team had a mood to start the Partnership at the mid overs but without Babar Azam no one working on this plan. First of all, Saim Ayub did a mistake, and he was out then Haris lost his form from the start of the PSL and he also didn't play well then Babar Azam again got aggression because that time all the game came to Babar Azam as he was only set player left in the team. This also means that all the pressure came to Babar Azam at the National Stadium of Karachi against Multan Sultans team bowlers yesterday. But lets hope they will not do this mistake in the next match.



It was Usama Mir who turned the table for the Multan Sultan. He took 2 wickets for 16 runs. Chris Jordan also took two wickets but Usama Mir gave the lowest 16 runs in his four overs. A happy face who deserves to take his team to the finals of the PSL 2024.

Clinical Multan Sultans reach fourth successive PSL final

Mumbai won by 169 runs, and they are the Ranji champions for 2024. The outcome was very clear once Vidarbha was bowled out for just 105 in the first innings. And in the second innings, Mumbai got to a massive total of 418, to add insult to injury. By then it was all over for Vidarbha. Even then, they fought back hard with Karun Nair, Akshay Wadkar and Harsh Dubey getting themselves to good scores. Let's not forget the fact that there were only two players with international experience in Vidarbha (Nair and Umesh Yadav). On the other hand, Mumbai had several of such players - Prithvi Shaw, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer, Shardul Thakur, Tushar Deshpande and Dhawal Kulkarni.

Is anyone here watching Koshi Province Trophy (KPT) National T20 Cricket Tournament competition?

Today two matches of this competition was finished on crease  one match was played among Nepal Police Club squad against Bagmati Province squad and second one match was finished among Madhesh Province squad against Armed Police Force Club sqaud. In first match, Bagmati Province sqaud beated Nepal Police Club squad very badly also with great performance. Nepal Police Club squad did many mistakes in this match both on batting inning and bowling inning that's why their sqaud face defeat. Bagmati Province squad collected such a beautiful defeating target of 173 scores after playing 20 overs. Ishan Panday contributed his best performance in today match both innings, in first batting inning, he collected 74 scores off 50 deliveries and also in bowling inning, he picked 2 batter wickets in 4 overs. One more bowler Krijan Gurung also wiped out 4 batter in just 3 overs. And Nepal Police Club got a victory in this match if they secured their batter wickets and a lost of over behind for play but whole squad was wiped out at 12 overs.

Mumbai now have lead of 260 runs in second innings and that's because of terrible batting from Vidarbha in first innings. In first innings Vidarbha team was bowled out for just 105 runs. It's final game and one should be well prepared for that game but Vidarbha batsmen were not much interested in winning that game for there side. The experienced Ajinkya Rahane is leading the Mumbai side and he has done good job as captain.

Malaysia Open T20 Championship

Today final game between Malaysia team and Bahrain team game was ended today. I don't expect that Malaysia team performed like this and they did not showed good effort and only set 77 runs target in 20 overs by losing 9 wickets. This target was so small and also easy for every team to chase it easily without any made hard effort. Bahrain team easily chase down this target in 15.2 overs by losing 2 wickets. Opener batsman did not performed well and good down very quickly but next batsman H.Butt and S.Ahmed chased all remaining target and won this final game. H.Butt scored 37 runs 38 balls and S.Ahmed made 32 runs in 46 balls.

The final match of Ranji Trophy will be played between Vidarbha and Mumbai. Vidarbha managed to defeat Madhya Pradesh in the semi-finals, despite trailing in first innings by almost 100 runs. Karun Nair, Dhruv Shorey, Aman Mokhade, Yash Rathod and Akshay Wadkar all made excellent contributions for Vidarbha. And while bowling Yash Thakur and Akshay Wakhare destroyed the MP lineup. In the second match, a star-studded Mumbai (which included Prithvi Shaw, Musheer Khan, Ajinkya Rahane, Shreyas Iyer and Shardul Thakur) defeated a star-studded Tamil Nadu (which had players such as Sai Sudharsan, Narayan Jagadeesan, Vijay Shankar, Washington Sundar and Sandeep Warrier).         
 

The match is not over yet but Quetta Gladiators seems to have lost this match.  This is evident from his performance.  On the other hand their competitors Karachi king look quite strong and their chances of winning are obvious.  There seems to be some lack of strategy and execution by the Gladiators players which is holding them back in this match.This time Quetta Gladiator team player not play well and all team out 118 run . And Karachi king bowling side Hassan Ali play very Excellent performance he took 4 wickets by giving 15 run in 4 overs ,Ali Hasan is a good batsman as well as a good bowler and Muzarabani and Z Mahmood also play well in bowling he took 2 , 2 wickets .

Karachi Kings Vs Quetta Gladiator

Today match is the between Karachi king and Quetta gladitors.karachi king won the toss and first decided bowling. Quetta gladitors batsman makes 20 run in 2 over and Karachi king no any wicket against Quetta gladitors batsman. This is the good started for quetta galidator batsman.karachi king bowler out the quetta galidator batsman in the first ball of the 3 over. This is the first achievement for Karachi king bowler.Once time again Karachi king bowler out the quetta galidator batsman in the first ball of the 9 over. This is the second achievement for Karachi king bowler. Quetta gladitors batsman makes 77 run in 10 over and 3 outs. Quetta gladitors batsman are not working hard and struggle and can not make run. Quetta gladitors batsman makes 118 run in 19.1 over and 10 outs. This is the target for Karachi king batsman. This is the easy target for Karachi king batsman. Now let's see Karachi king batsman can complete this target or not

Anyone following the Ranji Trophy? Both the semi-finals are going on at this moment. In the first semi-final, Vidarbha seems to be having the upper hand over Madhya Pradesh, as they are leading by 295 runs with 3 wickets remaining. It was a stellar comeback from Vidarbha, after conceding a first innings lead of close to 100 runs to MP. Karun Nair was the only one who managed to get a good score in the first innings. However, in the second innings Yash Rathod, Akshay Wadkar and Dhruv Shorey also made good contributions.

The match is very suspenseful moment Zalmi Peshawar need 43 run in 2 overs .This moment is very interesting for cricket fans.  Islamabad United  bowling is tight and wickets have been taken but Peshawar Zalmi batsmen have also performed well.  But now the result of the match is not predictable for anyone.  The pressure is on Zalmi but their experienced players have the ability to handle the situation. let see who will win this match but I hope Islamabad united win this match .

Tomorrow again we will see Peshawar Zalmi and Baber Azam in action but this time in other ground. Only Rawalpindi is left to host a match of PSL but tomorrow this thing will be complete because tomorrow are the two matches that will be played at Rawalpindi and in the first match if Babar Azam wins the toss and chooses to bat first so it will be great because Rawalpindi ground is small and in the small ground we can see back to back boundaries to world-class bowlers.
As you know, in the last PSL season when Rawalpindi hosted PSL matches for the first time, the team could easily make 250 runs on this pitch and these runs also chase when Rawalpindi hosted a match in the last PSL so expect with the same in this PSL also.