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South Africa Under 19 team batted very well South Africa Under 19 team managed to collect 185 runs in allotted 50 overs. However, South Africa U19 lost one wicket for 10 runs. Both Lhuan and David batted brilliantly to make their partnership almost 80 runs. The West Indies batsmen are under a lot of pressure after losing 3 wickets in the beginning when the West Indies team came down to bat with a target of 186 runs. West Indies batsman Jewel Andrew is batting brilliantly and will score a century in a very short time. Jewel Andrew is unbeaten with 94 runs from 64 balls. If Jewel Andrew cannot be dismissed by the South African bowlers, West Indies will win the match.

West Indies U19 vs South Africa U19.

The bowlers of the West Indies U19 team did not bowl well in the last minute of the game. If the bowlers of the West Indies U19 team could have bowled a little better, then the batsmen of the South Africa U19 team could not have scored such a big score. South Africa Under 19 managed to score 285 runs due to irresponsible bowling by West Indies Under 19 bowlers. I think for the West Indies U19 batsmen in the second innings, chasing a score of 286 is very difficult. Now in the second innings, West Indies Under 19 come out to bat, 5 wickets down early in the game. At the moment West Indies Under 19 team score 73-5(10.5). Now if West Indies U19 batsmen can't improve their batting sites then West Indies U19 will lose by a huge margin against South Africa U19.

Yes, South Africa U19 set a target of 286 runs to the West Indies U19 cricket team after playing 50 overs. I think the South Africa U19 cricket team managed to achieve a good score. The batsmen of the South Africa U19 cricket team have batted very efficiently. Now South Africa U19 can win this match if South Africa U19 Cricket team can bowl aggressively in the second innings.

Ireland is in a very comfortable position against the United States. Last 5 years of higher allocation of funds from the ICC seems to be having some impact. And completely disappointed with the USA squad. Out of the 11 players, all 11 are of South Asian origin. And South Asians are less than 2% of the total population in the US. At least for the age group teams, I expected a few native players. BTW, South Africa recovered from early blows, to finish at a commanding position against the West Indies. For the West Indians, decline continues even in age group cricket.

Looking at the batting performance of the South Africa U19 team, it seems that it will be difficult for the South Africa U19 batsmen to set big targets. South Africa Under 19 have been a bit underwhelming with the fall of 6 wickets so far. South Africa's score so far is 225-6(45) South Africa U19's run rate suggests that South Africa U19 can score 260 runs in this match. But I think West Indies U19 bowlers need to bowl stronger to stop Africa U19's score at the moment.

The way South Africa Under 19 team is batting, it seems that they might give West Indies Under 19 a big target. South Africa U19 team's current score is 108 runs for 3 wickets in 23 overs. If South Africa U19 bats responsibly then South Africa U19 can score 240 runs. And if the West Indies team can be given a target of 240 runs and if the South Africa U19 team can do controlled bowling, then maybe the South Africa U19 team can win this match today. Let's see how the batsmen of South Africa bat in the end, they can bat well and definitely give West Indies a good target.

Yes, today in ICC Under-19 World Cup competition, total two matches is playing on crease and this competition has started today. First of this match is playing between South Africa U@9 squad against West Indies U19 sqaud. Second match is playing between USA U19 squad against Ireland U19 sqaud. South Africa U19 sqaud has started this match firstly batting inning because West Indies U19 sqaud took field on crease. Almost half overs of this match has passed and South Africa U19 sqaud successfully collected 112 scores with lost of 3 batters. These Stater batters Steve Stolk and Lhuan-dre Pretorius started this match one of these Lhuan-dre Pretorius collected 40 scores then he got out, Steve Stolk collected only 5 scores just. Oliver Whitehead still batting on crease with not out and he collected 8 scores in 8 deliveries. But recently, Richard Seletswane batter bowled from crease by run out after scoring 16 scores. David Teeger also collected 33 scores. South Africa squad performance is going great and if their performance continues like this then they collected good defending target and beat West Indies squad.

On other hand, Second match USA U19 sqaud against Ireland U19 sqaud match is also ongoing on crease. Lets see what the outcome will come at end of this match.

Since it is an ODI match, they are still in a good position as the score tells them. South Africa Under 19 are currently in the driving position with 56 runs for the loss of one wicket in nine overs.Current run rate of South Africa U19 team is 6.11. If they can score at this run rate per over then after 50 overs they will be 300 plus which is a very strong score in ODI cricket. As the opening batsman for the South Africa Under-19 team, Lhuan dre Pretorius remains unbeaten with 38 runs.He is a few runs away from completing his half century and maybe he will be able to do that.

Today 2nd Match of South Africa U19 vs West Indies U19 team has already started. South Africa U19 now come out to bat. They scored 36 runs for the loss of 1 wicket in 7 overs. South Africa U19 team batsman Steve Stolk is out for 5 runs from 6 balls. Steve  Stolk could not bat well in today's match. If the bowling line of West Indies U19 team can perform well, maybe South Africa U19 team will not be able to give the target of many runs.

ICC Under-19 World Cup

I am excited that today the ICC Under Nineteens World Cup is starting today. There are two matches today.

1. Ireland U19 vs United States of America U19
2. South Africa U19 vs West Indies U19

In these matches this is little bit hard to predict that which teams will win. But in my point of view from first match Ireland can win and in second match West Indies have chances to win the match. The matches will start in 2 hours.

Ireland Women's team had to target 110 runs in allotted 20 overs but Ireland Women's team batted fairly well against the target of 110 runs. I would say here Zimbabwe women team is completely defeated because they could not get any batsmen out of Ireland women team in the target of 110 runs. Of course Zimbabwean bowlers should have bowled well and took them four-five wickets for now but Ireland batsmen could not take a single wicket. Ireland's bowling was very good compared to the Zimbabwe women's bowling Ireland bowlers bowled very well due to which they bowled out the Zimbabwe women's team for just 170 runs. Due to which Ireland Women's team won by 10 wickets Congratulations to Ireland Women's team.

Yes, you are right.  Indian International cricket team is top class team and no team is like Indian International cricket team. Indians are very focused on their quality cricket but  they lose World cup final against Australia. They remained unbeaten in the Whole tournament and they lose match that was final. In 2017, Pakistani International cricket team lose India by a high margin. Indian lose Pakistani International cricket team in pole match but lose the final. It means Indian International cricket team can't handle pressure of final match and they are the winners of small matches and they can't win big matches.

Good game and good show by the Ireland Women, they played some good cricket because the way they achieved the target in just 13.1 overs, even I have noticed at some point whether they are playing the tt20 cricket but rather saw at their openers were smashing through out the boundaries and they have made good runs and that was all about their passion to the cricket and the way they have already been produced some good cricketing shots today.

In the first ODI between Zimbabwe Women and Ireland Women, Ireland Women won the toss and sent Zimbabwe Women into bat. Zimbabwe Women played defensively from the start but kept losing wickets along with short partnerships, collapsing for 170 in 42.5 balls. After the end of the first innings, the match was interrupted by rain, Ireland women's team had to make a target of 110 in 21 overs using the DLS method. It didn't take long for the Ireland women's team to chase down the target, with Amy Hunter scoring an unbeaten 36 off 39 balls and Gaby Lewis scoring 65 off 41 balls. Ireland women's team lead the series 1-0 with a big win by 10 wickets.

Ireland Women's team vs Zimbabwe Women's first ODI match, Zimbabwe did not bat that well as Zimbabwe Women's team was bowled out for just 170 runs. Zimbabwe women's team should have batted responsibly because only 170 runs is not a big target in an ODI match. So if Ireland could have given a little bigger target, then today's match would have been within their reach. Ireland's bowlers bowled exceptionally well in today's match as they bowled out their opponents Zimbabwe for just 170 all out. It is expected that Ireland will not have much problem to win the target of 171 runs. Because they have 50 overs in hand, so if you watch them protect the wicket and bat responsibly, they will easily win against Zimbabwe women. Now let's see how well the Zimbabwe women's team can bowl in the end.

I will tell you the ranking of every particular team that plays cricket, and the teams who are present in the top 1. On number 1 India had a place, and in this team, all the players were very well, this is the team that can win all the matches but cannot win the important match that decides the champions and from this thing, they were never won an ICC trophy from the last 10 years,

They won the last Champions trophy in the captaincy of Dhoni and after this Indian team has never won any ICC trophy, and the last ODI World Cup that they got was under the captaincy of Dhoni, and the last T20 World Cup they got, was also inside the Ms Dhoni's captaincy.

This was more or less expected. Men's game is alive in Zimbabwe, just because they have some legacy players such as Sikandar Raza, Sean Williams and Craig Ervine. Almost all of them are in their late 30s and may retire from active cricket very soon. And now coming to the women's game, they have no such luxury. Domestic cricket is in pathetic state and whatever funds they get from the ICC gets stolen by the politicians. Zimbabwe is going the same way as Kenya. And my biggest worry is that South Africa may follow the same path. 

Zimbabwe women's team scored only 170 runs for 10 wickets in 42.5 overs. I saw the highlight of this match Zimbabwe women lost their wicket at regular intervals their first wicket fell for just 4 runs then the second wicket for 39 runs. The 170 runs scored by the Zimbabwean women's team will probably be too easy a score for the Ireland women's team.Because 170 runs is not a very big and strong score in ODI cricket if Ireland women batting well according to their strength today they will win this match today.Now the innings break.The game will start in no time and the Ireland women's team will fight for victory.

This is the first ODI match between Zimbabwe women and Ireland women. Ireland women won the toss and first decided bowling. Zimbabwe women batsman makes 3 run in 2 over and Ireland no any wicket against Zimbabwe batsman.This is very bad started for Zimbabwe women batsman. Ireland women bowler out the Zimbabwe women batsman in the last ball of the 3 over. This is the first achievement for Ireland team. Zimbabwe women batsman makes 15 run in 5 over and 1 out. Zimbabwean batsmen are not working hard and struggle and not scoring runs. Zimbabwe women batsman makes 30 run in 10 over and 1 out. Once time again Ireland bowler out the Zimbabwe batsman in the fourth ball of the 13 over. This is the second achievement for Ireland team. Zimbabwe women batsman makes 170 run in 43 over and 10 outs. This is the target for Ireland batsman. This is the easy target. Now let's see Ireland Batsman can complete this target or not.

Zimbabwe Women vs Ireland Women 1st ODI match will be competitive if Zimbabwe Women can give Ireland Women a big target. Before Zimbabwe vs Ireland 1st ODI match it is not possible to say which team will win of course cricket is a game of uncertainty whichever team plays well will definitely win. But first as Zimbabwe women batting first they must keep the target if they can give Ireland women a big run target if they bowl controlled then maybe they can win today's match. Although the match was stopped for a while due to rain, Zimbabwe batsmen may not be able to do much as the field was wet. Still, let's see how many runs the Zimbabwe women's team can target to the Ireland women's team.