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Bangladesh were all out for 227 runs against England.

Among all the stadiums in which the game of Bangladesh is scheduled, the easiest venue for Bangladesh is this stadium in Chennai.  Bangladesh has taken the highest number of wickets in this field, although it may sound surprising, it is actually India's field, but India did not get the maximum wickets in this field, but Bangladesh got the maximum wickets in this match.  

Bangladesh may enter the field with some changes in the playing XI ahead of the match against New Zealand.  
Mahmudullah may drop Tanjid Hasan in the opening XI and drop Liton Das and Nazmul Hossain Shanto or Mehidy Hasan in the opening position.  
Instead of Mahedi Hasan, Bangladesh may field another spinner in the XI, Nasum Ahmed, and there may be a change in the fast bowling unit where Hasan Mahmud can be left out.

Bangladesh has never beaten New Zealand in the World Cup till date. Bangladesh did not win even once after facing New Zealand five times. Bangladesh will face New Zealand in the third match of the World Cup in Chennai today. After winning against Afghanistan, Bangladesh lost the second match against England by 137 runs. New Zealand, however, won the two matches of the World Cup with a bang. New Zealand defeated the world champion England by 9 wickets and New Zealand also won by 99 runs against the Netherlands. Rather than looking at past statistics, emphasis should be placed on current statistics. But being a citizen of Bangladesh and a supporter of Bangladesh I always hope for the victory of Bangladesh. Do you think Bangladesh has a chance to win against New Zealand today?

Just before the world cup there is 3 ODI match series between NZ and Bangladesh. The series was easily won by NZ 2-0. Bangladesh has lost its game against England while they got victory against Afghanistan. Odds may be in favour of NZ but you cant rule out victory chances for Bangladesh. Bangladesh can win the game if there bowlers and batsmen both work together.

In my point of view if New Zealand will take first turn and will go above 300 runs so it will be little bit difficult for the Bangladesh team. Because Bangladesh were unable to win the match against England and England scored 364 runs and Bangladesh team got out all of the team at 227 runs. In the previous two matches bowled well and I hope today will also bowl well. So let's see who will win, I think New Zealand will win today match.

Two games and both lost. This time Aussies are not looking lethal as they are in every world cup. The way SA were batting it looks like they will score over 350 runs but Aussie bowlers did a good job to restrict them to 311. Its the batting of Aussies that disappointed them in yesterday match. To me its very clear that Aussies wont make it to semis. May be they are not interested in this world cup because they have won so many titles in the past.

Just went through the scorecards of some of the recent New Zealand vs Bangladesh matches. It looks as if New Zealand has a weakness against slower bowlers, especially in sub-continental conditions. But that said, during their match against England, the Kiwi batsmen handled Moeen Ali and Adil Rashid quite well. And in the second match also, Roelof van der Merwe with 2 decades of experience in professional cricket was unable to trouble the New Zealand batsmen. Now today it is going to be the turn of Shakib and Mehdi Hasan.

Bangladesh vs New Zealand

Today is the third match of ODI World Cup between Bangladesh and New Zealand. New Zealand scored four points in the first two matches and Bangladesh scored two points in the first two matches. The third match of the World Cup between New Zealand and Bangladesh will be played in Chennai today.
According to past statistics, New Zealand has not won any match at this ground in Chennai so far. So far 24 ODI matches have been played at this venue in Chennai where the team batting first has won 14 matches and the team batting later has won only 9 matches at this venue. The average score in the first innings at this venue is 231 plus. Spinners will have an added advantage on this wicket where fast bowlers are favored on other wickets. 

The toss is very important in this match so both teams will want to bat first after winning the toss.

They won their first match against a relatively weak team (Sri Lanka). They won against Australia after that, but it was mainly due to their opponents playing poor cricket. Their total (311/7) was not that big, but then Australian top order collapsed to 70/6 as a result of some accurate bowling by Lungi Ngidi, Marco Jansen and Kagiso Rabada. And then it was the turn of Keshav Maharaj and Tabraiz Shamsi to mop up the proceedings. Hopefully they will be able to maintain this form through the remainder of the tournament.

In most of the World Cup South Africa used to have the best squad, but they turn unlucky at the important time. In recent days after the performance from South Africa, more memes have begun to roll around and the funniest I came across is Semifinals were always a nightmare for South Africa. The two matches played by South Africa were really the best and with this form it can defeat any team, but we don't know how long it continues.

Important match lose by team Australia which I think no one expect because Australia has history to perform best of the best in World cup and that why they are dominating every team in number of world cup tropies, I think these two defeat will really broke thier momentum and will create huge difficulties for them, As from start of the game I taught Australia will win but unfortunately due to some miss fielding and some bad batting and bowling they lose such a important match, may be later they comback stronger but now in my mind they are out of top 4 semifinalist because of thier recent performance.

After watching South Africa's two matches, I think this team has a good squad to win the World Cup this year. Especially their batting order is very strong. They batted well in both the matches. They played well against experienced Australian bowlers. But South Africa would not have been able to score 300+ runs if not for Australia's fielding. However, I feel South Africa's bowling is a bit weak. The performance of the bowlers against India will tell if their bowling attack is strong. India and South Africa have had the strongest performances so far. If this performance continues, these two teams will easily reach the semi-finals.

All hail South Africa! Wow! I expected them to win, but I never in my wildest dreams expected them to launch a team like Australia into the stratosphere. They made a mockery out of the men in yellow.

It was hilarious watching Smith's expression when he was given out fair and square. Australia are in deep trouble currently.

Quinton de Kock played a best knock of 109 runs in 106 balls having 5 sixes and 8 balls. Also, Aiden Markram made 56 runs in 44 balls which consisted of 1 six and 7 fours. They both played a good inning for South Africa and gave a total target of 312.
On the other hand, from the Australian side, Marnus Labuschagne had 46 runs in 74 balls consisting of 3 fours. Except for this one, no other players played good cricket today for Australia. South African bowling was too good today, as they bowled out Australia for just 177 runs in 40.5 overs. Although good cricket scenes were there a better victory for the team of South Africa pushed their run rate.
Kagiso Rabada took 3 wickets, and all others got 2 wickets with Lungi Ngidi 1 wicket.

South Africa won against Australia today by a huge margin. Australia is not getting off to a good start to their journey this season. South Africa played the first two matches and won the first two matches by huge margins. In the first match we saw them beat Sri Lanka by a huge margin and in the second match today's match we saw them beat Australia by 120 plus runs. At the beginning of the season I didn't give much importance to this team to play the semi finals but the performance of the current players of this team seems like they are the most deserving team to play the finals of this tournament. Having won the first two matches in South Africa, they will have the upper hand in the next matches as they will definitely want to finish the tournament well after a great start.

I did not expect such performance from the Australian team. They lost badly against India in the last match and they have another loss in today's match as well. South Africa had a good start. They went a long way with the loss of 1 wicket in the batting session. They played the full 50 overs but a team like Australia who led the cricket lost all their wickets for just 177 runs against 311 runs. They have declined and the same time South African team has improved. The South Africa team's chances have increased a lot in this tournament. They deserve to win this year's World Cup.

The performance of the Australian team has been going badly for some time now. After losing the series to South Africa, they have also lost the series to India and in the World Cup match, India has badly defeated Australia.Today's defeat is a link of these series.I don't think the Australian team will be able to cope now, but the Australian team will still face difficulties.

I think the South African openers got off to a good start which did not put too much pressure on the later batsmen, the Australian batsmen looked under pressure from the start and could not play openly against the South African bowlers. There was no home ground, but South Africa had a psychological advantage over Australia, which Africa took full advantage of.

Today's match saw the opposite of what I thought. As both the teams are not playing at their home ground, I expected both teams to get equal advantage. South Africa batted first and collected 311 runs. It was very easy for a strong team like Australia to score 312 from 300 balls to win. But as Australia came into bat, we saw the bowling pitch, the South African bowlers got more advantage by bowling well. Australia fell by 4 wickets in the first 12 overs which was unusual. The team came under a lot of pressure and were eventually bowled out for 177 runs. Australia team performs very well in the World Cup but in this World Cup we see the opposite. Australia lost two matches by a big margin. If Australia does not do well in the next few matches, there will be a possibility of elimination.

Australia had enough poor batting performances today to meet South Africa's target and are on course to lose the match. Right now Australia have lost 9 wickets, very soon they will be all out. Australia did not play well in today's match. But in today's match, South Africa batted and bowled well enough for them to win today's match. I see the game at the moment already with Australia losing the entire wicket by a huge margin of 134 runs. South Africa really played great today which led to the match win by a huge margin of 134 runs, South Africa won their first match by a huge margin and second match against Australia by a huge margin. In today's match, South Africa put up a huge score that allowed them to beat Australia, and their bowling performance was outstanding. If South Africa had improved their batting and bowling performance in today's match, if Australia had played well from the start, they would have had a chance to win. However, Australia batted very poorly from the start today which resulted in a fall of wickets and the game came under pressure and the Australian team lost. After today's match, South Africa moved to the first position of the points table with 4 points. However, Australia have played two matches so far and lost two matches but won both of the two matches against South Africa by huge margins.

Now, we can say that Australia has too less chances to win today’s match against South Africa. South Africa takes Australia wickets like a dripping of water. Australia lost their 8 batsmen. This is the second match of Australia and they have chances to lose their second match, they also have their first match against India, and today they are near to losing against South Africa.

Now, we are going to talk about South Africa's team performances in this World Cup. So, The South African team’s performance was very good, we are impressed with their performance. I think the win of South Africa's credit goes to De Kock, he plays very well in this World Cup and he should play well because this is the last World Cup of De Kock.

This one was a match which I thought would be close. And in the end, we are getting another one-sided match in which South Africa is going to win by a 3-digit margin. Marco Jansen has picked up the wicket of Mitchell Starc, to break the 7th wicket partnership. Now Australia are at 137/7, and they are trailing by 172 runs. Did we had any close matches so far in this world cup? Even matches between the pig-4 teams are turning out to be one-sided. And surprisingly Netherlands have so far managed to lose their matches by two digit margins.