Topic: Sportsbet.io 🏏 Men's T20 World Cup 2022 🏏 Discussion thread - page 26. (Read 8499 times)

The pitch is suitable for spin bowling therefore if Srilanka can reach 140 then it will be a defendable target as they have good spinners in their bowling lineup. At the moment 140 as a target looks too gloomy, they have already lost two wickets and the batters are really struggling to take singles. This match is crucial for Srilanka to stay in this tournament.

If I'm not wrong Namibia captain might've decided for some agressive start, so that if they weren't able to make upto the mark. The openers coming after could lead.

As said, UAE is weak based on the points table. During the match against Netherlands they did the best. If they've got few more runs the match might be win for them. Meiyappan did good bowling and maintained the economy. UAE too can't be considered simple, but they lack the stability if wickets fall. Someone to withstand is much needed for them.

Toss had a limited impact so far. Namibia won the toss last time, and then put up a pathetic performance against Netherlands. I don't know what was going through the mind of the Namibian captain, but he refused to send his two top batsmen up the order (David Wiese and JJ Smit). Namibia lost the second match due to poor captaincy more than anything else. And on paper UAE is the weakest side in Group A, but we can never be sure. They put up a spirited display against the Sri Lankans, with Karthik Meiyappan taking a hattrick.

Every team have come closer with the tremendous performance that took place all of the sudden. In today's match toss will be more important. Possibly both the teams will prefer batting first.

Sri Lanka batting first will target 180+ runs and good opening partnership will surely reach it. Crucial situation for Netherlands, maybe something against the odds too can happen same as the match of Srilanka vs Namibia.

In the second match the winning is with Namibia, I expected better performance from UAE as it holds good number of Asian players. Nothing worked for them.

It was really frustrating to see both Scotland and Namibia lose their respective matches. Ireland looked completely out of sorts in the first match, but they made a strong rebound to defeat probably the strongest team in their group. This may be due to inexperience. Namibia never played any international matches after their outing in the 2021 T20 World Cup. Scotland on the other hand, played just two matches in one year. However, Netherlands is part of the ODI World Cup Super League, and they were playing against the full members quite often.

West Indies wins @ 1.35


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Netherlands 5.90
Sri Lanka 1.14

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Namibia 1.37
UAE 3.10

Great analysis overall. I was stunned to see Scotland lose against Ireland when they were cruising towards a win at one particular stage. What a crazy start to this World Cup edition.

Both Sri Lanka and West Indies rebounded nicely and am expecting them to end up in the 1st or 2nd positions in their respective groups. Hasaranga, Theekshana and Alzarri are their key players if you ask me.

Netherlands and Scotland will most probably occupy the other spots in their respective groups as you mentioned.

Run-rate matters a lot now, since most of the teams are having 2 points each. Let's look at each of the 8 teams.

Group A

Netherlands: Only team with 4 points at this point. But their next match is against Sri Lanka. And their run-rate is below that of both Namibia and Sri Lanka. My prediction is that Netherlands may finish at the 3rd place and miss the Super-12.

Sri Lanka: Rebounded from their shocking loss to Namibia, with a strong win against the UAE. Next match is against Netherlands and in all probability they should win it by a big margin. My prediction is that they will finish at either 1st or 2nd place in Group A.

Namibia: Remaining match is against the UAE. They should win this match with ease. Given the good NRR, they should finish at 1st position and proceed to the Super-12.

UAE: out of the world cup.

Group B

West Indies: Lost to Scotland, but destroyed Zimbabwe. In NRR, they are well behind Scotland. A big win against Ireland may propel them to 1st position, but it will be quite difficult. My prediction is 2nd position in Group B.

Scotland: Pathetic loss to Ireland, but still their NRR is quite good. If they manage to defeat Zimbabwe, then they should finish at the top of the group.

Ireland: Remaining match against West Indies. Not much hope. May finish at 4th position.

Zimbabwe: Will be the underdogs in the match against Scotland. May finish at 3rd position.

What a shit show by Zimbabwe! This defeat proves that they were over confident and ignored all the warnings. I am also pretty much sure that this Zimbabwe team is completely dependent on one single guy, Sikandar Raza.

One of the primary reason that I can quote is that because of him they were able to restrict West Indies as he was the only bowler to get 3 important wickets when required.

The top batters of Zimbabwe were drooling with over confidence if you do not believe me just check the two wickets that were taken by Joseph in the early overs. What made them think it is proven by their humiliating defeat today.

I think it is a lot to do with the in experience of the Zimbabwe team but it is still a young team which needs to work a lot and not be dependent on one single guy. I also think Sikander Raza might get an entry in one of IPL franchise as an all rounder.

I definitely did the right thing in the end, and there was definitely one big super partnership in the end, Campher and Dockrell saved their team and are still alive! Now if only they can keep this up, I think even when they only needed 1 from 7 balls people were still praying on the team lol

I felt WI sure will win this next one ongoing so ALL teams on 2 points, big 2 games on Friday to see who goes through, currently Zim don't look like they will pull it off, Alzarri is unleashing hell right now.

The match between Scotland and Ireland turned out to be a shocker. Scotland was ahead for almost 80% of the match, but then Curtis Campher and George Dockrell managed to build a partnership and managed to get two valuable points. Now there is some similarity between Scotland and Namibia. These teams managed to beat test nations in the first match, and then went down to low quality opponents in the second match (Scotland against Ireland, and Namibia against the Netherlands). Scotland will face Zimbabwe in the next match and Namibia will face UAE.

Today's match will be very good because between Oostende and Zimbabwe, Sikander Raja of Zimbabwe is already playing very well in the previous match, everyone is hoping that he will play very well this time too, meanwhile West Indies have many hot hitter batsmen who can play very well today. Let's see, now the game has begun.

Ireland wins @ 1.64


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West Indies 1.35
Zimbabwe 3.25

Yes, you did the right thing. It wouldn't be easy for Ireland to chase the target of 177 runs. They have already lost 2 wickets before the end of 5th over. Still a lot of cricket is left but it is not looking good for the Irish side at the moment. All they need is one good partnership to chase that target.

Nevertheless as soon as they posted a 177 target for Ireland, I went right in and put up a bet for that. As you said even 140++ would have been a challenging mission but you never really know how pressure will be for the favorites, sometimes that's all that's needed to change form all together. And I still felt it was good odds with priceboost.

Anyway the reply from Ireland is starting already but I have to go back to work however, right now 172 runs to win from 19.1 overs.

176/5 is what they made in 20 overs. Michael Jones destroyed the Irish bowlers, with a 55-ball 86. I don't know what was going through the mind of the Irish captain, as he gave just two overs to his best bowler (Curtis Campher). Barry McCarthy on the other hand bowled full quota of 4 overs, and conceded 59 runs in total. And you are right. Ireland will be making their exit from the world cup, and it is almost confirmed that Scotland will sail through the Super-12 stage. Feels bad about Ireland. Ever since they got the test status, the quality of their game seems to have gone down.

You are missing the point here. Associate nations like Namibia, Scotland, Netherlands etc have improved a lot over time, but they still can't compete against big teams consistently. Better funding could help them in the long-term.

Scotland are still playing well at the moment. They are set to post a total close to 170 at this rate unless they collapse. Looks like Ireland are going to exit the tournament.

Scotland has started quite well against Ireland. If they win this match, then they will end up with 4 points, with the match against Zimbabwe remaining. And Ireland will be out of the world cup. Anything above 140-150 will be a winning total, given the bowler-friendly conditions at the Bellerive Oval in Hobart. And we need to remember that the Irish batsmen are in horrible form at this point.

Note: just when everything was going well for Scotland, they lost the crucial wicket of Matthew Cross. Curtis Campher took the wicket, in his very first ball of this match. At this point, the match seems to be posed 50-50.

 Sri Lanka wins @ 1.09

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Scotland 2.26
Ireland 1.64

I already mentioned early this team is going out of this event without any win even they have few good Indian and Pakistani players but still they are having no quality to face few teams which are doing good in last few years now most chances we will have Namibia and Sri Lanka from this group for the main round.