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Quote from: JSRAW on November 11, 2019, 07:15:32 AM

I didn't had much hope from Afghan batting when they were struggling at 118/5 but it seems to me they made a good comeback, thanks to Nabi who stood strong and gave good support to Asghar Afghan. At least they are close to very respectable score and if there their spinners can make some sort of impact in this game despite Dew, then who knows...

And just before that I placed a bet for WI at an odd of 1.35 or something LOL.

I was bored and nothing much to do so I thought to get some excitements. The target is 250 which is not something that can not be achieved. I hope WI will make it and keep the winning continued.

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I didn't had much hope from Afghan batting when they were struggling at 118/5 but it seems to me they made a good comeback, thanks to Nabi who stood strong and gave good support to Asghar Afghan. At least they are close to very respectable score and if their spinners can make some sort of impact in this game despite Dew, then who knows...

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Quote from: sureshnsnet on November 09, 2019, 01:24:25 PM

Before that two-wicket, I thought Afghanistan going chase target safely because they have still 5 wickets in hand but Afghanistan lost two important wickets in two balls that are the game-changing deliveries from west indies, then I come back in the game because I already placed a bet on the west indies with decent odds.

I have seen Afghanistan losing a lot many of the close matches, and even matches where they had an advantage. In this match, they had a good 6th wicket partnership going, with Najibullah Zadran and Mohammad Nabi taking them very close to the target. But after Najibullah Zadran got out to Cottrell, they collapsed like a peck of cards.

Although they have some very good world class spinners (Rashid Khan, Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Zahir Khan), in every other department they are quite average. They don't have a single world class batsmen, nor do they have any good pace bowlers. And the spinners may be able to give them some victories in the T20 matches, but for the other formats you need support from the batsmen and the pacers.

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Quote from: AB de Royse777 on November 09, 2019, 10:44:20 AM

This partnership was treating West Indies. Good thing that finally Cottrell got Zadran and now Nabi gone too :-P
I have some amounts for WI and now I feel a bit relaxed although I got some shit odds :-D

Looks like there was good odds for West Indies to win the match and you waited too long to wage a bet Cheesy

.. Afghanistan is struggling in ODI as they are not having a good consistent batsman, they won a Test match against Bangladesh because one player performed well and the bowlers were good enough to pick the wickets but in both these ODI matches i did not see have any player who could bat longer and in this match there was one good partnership and when West Indies was able to pick that wicket then the match is over.

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Quote from: AB de Royse777 on November 09, 2019, 10:44:20 AM

This partnership was treating West Indies. Good thing that finally Cottrell got Zadran and now Nabi gone too :-P
I have some amounts for WI and now I feel a bit relaxed although I got some shit odds :-D

Before that two-wicket, I thought Afghanistan going chase target safely because they have still 5 wickets in hand but Afghanistan lost two important wickets in two balls that are the game-changing deliveries from west indies, then I come back in the game because I already placed a bet on the west indies with decent odds.

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Quote from: AB de Royse777 on November 09, 2019, 10:44:20 AM

This partnership was treating West Indies. Good thing that finally Cottrell got Zadran and now Nabi gone too :-P
I have some amounts for WI and now I feel a bit relaxed although I got some shit odds :-D

Afghanistan lost their 9th wicket and when they had a good partnership going for the 6th wicket i thought they had a chance to win the game but then West Indies was too good for them and unless they sort the batting issue they cannot win games against any teams in the top ten but they are good in T20 and they have the team to upset any team with the bowling line up they have.

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Quote from: AB de Royse777 on November 09, 2019, 10:44:20 AM

This partnership was treating West Indies. Good thing that finally Cottrell got Zadran and now Nabi gone too :-P
I have some amounts for WI and now I feel a bit relaxed although I got some shit odds :-D

They're done here. Rashid Khan was the last hope and he's gone too. Now they need 64 more, with just 2 wickets remaining. Mujeeb Ur Rahman and Sharafuddin Ashraf batting right now and I don't think that they can do much. And Naveen-ul-Haq is not very renowned for his batting skills either. Afghanistan had a chance, but they wasted it when they conceded so many runs in the final overs when West Indies was batting. A few good individual performances won't get them anywhere. They needs to start winning matches.

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This partnership was treating West Indies. Good thing that finally Cottrell got Zadran and now Nabi gone too :-P
I have some amounts for WI and now I feel a bit relaxed although I got some shit odds :-D

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The Afghanistan players are still trying hard to win the match and the last five overs they increased their tempo by scoring runs at over six runs an over and Najibullah Zadran scored a half century and Mohammad Nabi scoring at a good pace and i wonder why they are not getting promotion and bat up the order and if they are able to play like this in the next five overs without loosing a wicket then it is a total they can chase.

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Quote from: SaShiRaJaVu on November 09, 2019, 09:33:26 AM

Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on November 09, 2019, 08:51:19 AM

Looks like Afghanistan is inching towards another very heavy loss. They have lost 3 wickets already and the score is only 65/3. Once again, the top order has failed for Afghanistan. Hazratullah Zazai and Rahmat Shah both got good starts, but they need to convert these 20s and 30s to half-centuries. Javed Ahmadi had yet another failure today.

I always wonder what would have being their situation when Mohammad Shahzad was their opener, he usually gave them a good start and he always had a hard time with the cricket board and so is the reason he is not in the team, if they need to win matches and all of their major past victories Mohammad Shahzad was their main player in batting and they have good spinners who could bat a bit and all of their victories came because of the start they got and now they are struggling to find a good opening combination and now it is difficult to chase this score with the way West Indies is bowling and a wicket from here will expose the tail end and they could bat but highly unlikely they can chase this score as they still need 143 runs to win.

It's not like the issues between the ACB and Mohammad Shahzad propped up all of a sudden. The relation was cold for the last 2-3 years and it reached a breaking point when Shahzad was omitted from the world cup squad. After that he threatened to retire, but the selectors refused to give in to his demands. This is what happened back then:

https://gulfnews.com/sport/cricket/afghanistans-mohammad-shahzad-threatens-to-quit-cricket-after-world-cup-axing-1.1560242367669

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on November 09, 2019, 08:51:19 AM

Looks like Afghanistan is inching towards another very heavy loss. They have lost 3 wickets already and the score is only 65/3. Once again, the top order has failed for Afghanistan. Hazratullah Zazai and Rahmat Shah both got good starts, but they need to convert these 20s and 30s to half-centuries. Javed Ahmadi had yet another failure today.

I always wonder what would have being their situation when Mohammad Shahzad was their opener, he usually gave them a good start and he always had a hard time with the cricket board and so is the reason he is not in the team, if they need to win matches and all of their major past victories Mohammad Shahzad was their main player in batting and they have good spinners who could bat a bit and all of their victories came because of the start they got and now they are struggling to find a good opening combination and now it is difficult to chase this score with the way West Indies is bowling and a wicket from here will expose the tail end and they could bat but highly unlikely they can chase this score as they still need 143 runs to win.

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Looks like Afghanistan is inching towards another very heavy loss. They have lost 3 wickets already and the score is only 65/3. Once again, the top order has failed for Afghanistan. Hazratullah Zazai and Rahmat Shah both got good starts, but they need to convert these 20s and 30s to half-centuries. Javed Ahmadi had yet another failure today.

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This always happens with me. I was just about to place a bet for WI at an odd or 1.97 and just few second before the place the get they lost Rahmat Shah LOL
Now the odd is down to 1.52 :-P

Lost the motivation to bet. Let's hope a good innings.

Edit: And another gone LOL
Odd is 1.25 :-(

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Quote from: Vishnu.Reang on November 09, 2019, 06:49:12 AM

The Afghan bowlers conceded too many runs during the last 10 overs. West Indies was struggling at 160/5 after 40 overs, but they managed almost 90 runs from the last 10 overs. This has been one of the issues with Afghanistan for quite sometime. They are not good finishers. Even Rashid Khan and Mujeeb ur Rahman went for a lot of runs during the last few overs.

West Indies recovered well as they lost Kieron Pollard in the 40th over with a score of 160 runs and from that they were able to put some runs on the board so that they will be able to defend the total as Afghanistan is not known to have consistent batsman and if the West Indies bowlers are able to restrict the flow of runs they would start going for big hits and start loosing their wickets, Afghanistan lost a wicket in the first over but after that they are playing well without taking much risk and if they can play like this till the 40th over without loosing much wicket then they are able to chase this total.

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Afghanistan did the right thing as they won the toss and elected to field and West Indies put a modest total of 247 runs, Mohammad Nabi and Rashid Khan bowled well to restrict them and if Afghanistan can bat properly they can win and level the series but i doubt whether they have the patience to chase a modest total, anyone following the match and if so who are the main players in Afghanistan batting line up.

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Quote from: Avirunes on November 09, 2019, 12:22:29 AM

Quote from: Sithara007 on November 08, 2019, 10:58:38 PM

If ODI is losing popularity, then the ICC can consider conducting more T20 matches and reducing the number of ODIs. But changing the format is not the right solution, IMO.

I don't think so that ODI is losing popularity. It's still that same packed stadium here. So I don't think its gonna happen either way.

Regarding changing format, the problem in Test no getting attention I can guess we can change that first need to determine the cause properly for the decline in crowd attendance.

There’re some ODI which record low turnouts but those are between lower tier teams, whenever top teams play the stadium are always full. In my personal opinion ODI popularity has taken a substantial hit, but I yet would not change it’s format I would rather have ICC introduce more day and night ODIs to pull in the crowds.

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Quote from: sureshnsnet on November 09, 2019, 06:47:38 AM

Afghanistan can beat west indies today? because of West Indies is 239/7 in 49 over maybe they can give the target of 250 runs or more so it will be easy to chase down for Afghanistan?

I don't think so. The Afghan bowlers conceded too many runs during the last 10 overs. West Indies was struggling at 160/5 after 40 overs, but they managed almost 90 runs from the last 10 overs. This has been one of the issues with Afghanistan for quite sometime. They are not good finishers. Even Rashid Khan and Mujeeb ur Rahman went for a lot of runs during the last few overs.

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Afghanistan can beat west indies today? because of West Indies is 239/7 in 49 overs maybe they can give the target of 250 runs or more so it will be easy to chase down for Afghanistan?

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^^^ In India, the Afghanistan vs West Indies match is being telecast on Star Sports 1 HD (they are showing the domestic T20 competition in Star Sports 2 HD). BTW, I don't know whether the matches are available outside South Asia. In India, we have close to 20 sports channels and you may always find some live match going on in at least some of the channels. Anyway, West Indies is off to a good (but slow) start. So far they have made 78/0 from 19.0 overs with Evin Lewis and Shai Hope opening the innings.

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Quote from: Avirunes on November 09, 2019, 03:20:04 AM

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In India we have Test not being popular while in England they find test entertaining to watch.

Well I Though Test match in between India and Australia is always exciting especially those old days one when Sachin, Ganguly, VVS Laxman and gang stopped Australia from their record breaking constitutive wins. If I recall they (India) won the Test from a point where they were nearly losing the series and finally they won the series. In those old days there were really no IPL and T-20 shit.

In England, Ashes is always popular and it's again against Australia. Fact is when Australia plays against a big team then it's always entertaining especially test match.

By the way, can anyone pass me a link of this WI vs Afghanistan match. I can not see it in my tele not is able to find a live link too. This match seems to have good potential to make some money :-P

I just need to follow few overs first.

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