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I do not think so that in today's match South Africa squad successfully will made a 400 score defending target because their opponent squad also very strong team New Zealand. It was a right decision of New Zealand squad to won toss and invite South Africa squad come in crease and start batting inning. New Zealand bowler Trent Boult has picked up the wicket of South Africa's leader Temba Buvama. This batter got out after making 24 scores and then finished. Currently, two big and powerful batter is playing in crease and if these batters will not catch up by any bowler of New Zealand squad then South Africa squad set a 300 plus score defending target to New Zealand.

New Zealand are bowling first after winning the toss. Tim Southee comes in for Lockie Ferguson. Kagiso Rabada replaces Tabraiz Shamsi. NewZealand won toss and elected to bowl first. Both team 1 changes in the playing XI for both New Zealand and South Africa. South Africa Kagiso Rabada replaces Tabraiz Shamsi and from Tim Southee takes the place of Lockie Ferguson. I think South Africa will score 400 runs if the openiors partnership is successful

New Zealand are bowling first after winning the toss. Tim Southee comes in for Lockie Ferguson. Kagiso Rabada replaces Tabraiz Shamsi. NewZealand won toss and elected to bowl first. Both team 1 changes in the playing XI for both New Zealand and South Africa. South Africa Kagiso Rabada replaces Tabraiz Shamsi and from Tim Southee takes the place of Lockie Ferguson. I think South Africa will score 400 runs if the openiors partnership is successful

Pakistan did perform well in the last match against Bangladesh. They were good in all three departments. As far as Paistan's bowling is concerned, Shaheen Afridi is the lone worrier; in the last two matches, he did get some assistance from the other end from Waseem Jr. Apart from these two bowlers, the bowling is ordinary. Haris is leaking runs because he still does not understand that on these pitches line and length are the key. I am of the opinion that Pakistan's spin bowling is the worst in this World Cup; even the associate teams have better-performing spinners in this World Cup. I think they should have selected Abrar as he is the only front-line spinner in the side.
On the other hand, the chances of Pakistan qualifying for the semi-final are negligible. There are still many matches left in this World Cup, and the only way Pakistan can reach a semi-final is by winning all their matches and New Zealand or Australia losing all their matches  . If you think they can still reach the semi-final, then you are living in a fool's paradise.

Pakistan played well in the previous match. First they bowled well because they have a good bowling line after that theh also prove their existence in the world with batting. Pakistan still have the chances to qualify for the semifinal. By the way today is the big match . Which is between top teams means today New Zealand and South Africa will face each other. Both teams have good status and are equal in performance. If South Africa will win today match so Africa will make a confirm spot for semifinal.

Pakistani played really well and keep alive his chance to the next stage of the world cup, their net run rate is almost about to be in positive and if New Zealand lose their two or three remaining matches than definitely they can get the chance. Well Pakistan bowler were on fire today form first ball and especially after Shaheen (which were known backbone of their bowling factory) getting quick early on first wickets they become more confident and get momentum which give rest of their blower more boost and confidence.
During batting Fakhar show his impact and perform brilliantly and to be honest he played amazing shot which put Pakistan on track to the next stage

Labuschagne, Philips and Conway could have been South African players. I came to know this some time ago. And I thought then how much stronger the South African squad would have been if we had these three players in the squad. However, I never considered Bavuma a first-order opener. He is very talented and can bat quite well. But his performance is erratic in most of the matches. I have rarely seen Bavuma perform consistently well. And now that Bavuma is the captain of the South African team. South Africa team will not change the captain in the middle of the World Cup if the performance is bad. So Bavuma will remain in the South Africa squad despite consistently poor performances.

Bavuma is like the odd one in current South African squad. If they don't win the trophy this time, then they can blame themselves for such stupid selection policies. A lot of talented cricketers were forced to move to other countries because of this quota system. In this world cup, we have South Africans playing for a number of countries. I am talking about Marnus Labuschagne of Australia, Devon Conway and Glenn Philips of New Zealand, Dawid Malan and Brydon Carse of England and Roelof van der Merwe and Sybrand Engelbrecht of the Netherlands. 

I also think Temba Bavuma is disqualified for a place in the current South Africa squad. Temba Bavuma is the worst batsman in the South Africa squad in this World Cup. However, it is very unlikely that Temba Bavuma will be left out of the squad. He is the captain of the South African team. And the South African team led by Temba Bavuma is doing very well. However, Temba Bavuma's personal achievements in this World Cup are very few. He probably batted a bit better in one match.

Today's pitch is completely batting friendly. And the batsmen of both the teams are in very good rhythm. I think today we will see 700+ runs in this match. New Zealand will not want to lose for the third match in a row. The team will fight hard to win today's match.

I would also say that South Africa has better chances of winning. New Zealand have lost their last two matches, although they were playing against tough opponents (India and Australia). But the problem with South Africa is the lack of form with their opening batsmen Temba Bavuma. IMO, they should drop Bavuma and instead include Reeza Hendricks in the playing XI. I don't know how practical is this, given the strict quota target within the team and also due to the fact that Bavuma has been made the ODI captain.

Pakistan played well in the previous match. First they bowled well because they have a good bowling line after that theh also prove their existence in the world with batting. Pakistan still have the chances to qualify for the semifinal. By the way today is the big match . Which is between top teams means today New Zealand and South Africa will face each other. Both teams have good status and are equal in performance. If South Africa will win today match so Africa will make a confirm spot for semifinal.

There is no doubt that this match will be very competitive. Because both teams are very  strong. But I will consider this South Africa team as favourite. Because the batting order of the South African team is very  strong in this World Cup. South African batsmen are batting very well in every match consistently. On the other hand,  New Zealand  have lost their last two matches against Australia and India. Although they played well, the New Zealand team could not win. If the South African batsmen can bat like they did in the previous matches, I think they will win. But the match is going to be very competitive.

The match between New Zealand and South Africa will be a close match so it is difficult to predict this match. South Africa's opening batsmen are dangerous for any team, so New Zealand must have a different plan with some of the opening batsmen and if they can get the early batsmen out very quickly, then New Zealand's chances of winning against South Africa are very high. The toss is very important in this match, New Zealand or South Africa must win the toss and bat first. Most of the matches that South Africa have won in this World Cup have been by batting first, so they will definitely want to bat first in this match as well.

Pakistan played well in the previous match. First they bowled well because they have a good bowling line after that theh also prove their existence in the world with batting. Pakistan still have the chances to qualify for the semifinal.

By the way today is the big match . Which is between top teams means today New Zealand and South Africa will face each other. Both teams have good status and are equal in performance. If South Africa will win today match so Africa will make a confirm spot for semifinal.

After losing 4 matches in a row Pakistan Team came back to their position and they won their match against Bangladesh, as the Bangladesh Team didn't go for it well, they lost their games against Pakistan because they were not better at their bat first as they all out of 204 and set a target of 205 against Pakistan. Pakistani bowlers bowled amazing overs today, as we have seen impressive spells from Shaheen Shah Afridi and his partner Mohammad Wasim Jr. They were bowling at their best.
Although the Bangladesh Team is out of the World Cup now, as I don't think they can qualify for the Super Fours, Team Pakistan still has a chance if they win all their matches which is coming. As Pakistani bowlers win the match for Pakistan so easily.

Pakistani played really well and keep alive his chance to the next stage of the world cup, their net run rate is almost about to be in positive and if New Zealand lose their two or three remaining matches than definitely they can get the chance. Well Pakistan bowler were on fire today form first ball and especially after Shaheen (which were known backbone of their bowling factory) getting quick early on first wickets they become more confident and get momentum which give rest of their blower more boost and confidence.
During batting Fakhar show his impact and perform brilliantly and to be honest he played amazing shot which put Pakistan on track to the next stage

Bangladesh team vs Pakistan team in the 31st match of ICC ODI World Cup. In today's match, the Bangladesh team won the toss and batted first, collecting 204 runs for all the wickets. Bangladesh team players Shakib Al Hasan, Liton Das and Mahmudullah played somewhat well but no other batsman could play well. Bangladesh player Mahmudullah scored the highest runs in today's match, he collected 56 runs from 70 balls. In today's match, Mahmudullah's 56, Liton Das' 45 and Shakibul Hasan's 43 scored the Bangladesh team to set the Pakistan team a target of 205 runs. In the game of the second innings, the Pakistan team easily achieved the target given by the Bangladesh team without any pressure in 32.3 overs for three wickets. Pakistan team players played very well against Bangladesh in this match. By winning today's match against Bangladesh team by 7 wickets, Pakistan team has proved that Pakistan team is a much stronger team than Bangladesh team.

The most surprising thing for the Bangladesh team is that the Bangladesh cricket team has played seven matches in this ICC World Cup so far. Bangladesh team won only one match out of seven matches and suffered consecutive defeats in the remaining matches. Seeing such performance of the Bangladesh team, it can be said that the Bangladesh cricket team has lost its ability to play at the international level