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Bangladesh team managed to beat Sri Lanka team today. I did not think to see such a decline of the Sri Lankan team. The Bangladesh team was now in a very bad form. So I was almost sure that Sri Lanka would win this match. Bangladesh lost the T20 series against USA a few days ago by 2-1.

The situation of the Sri Lankan team is now very similar to that of Bangladesh. The Sri Lankan team has lost two matches in a row. The Sri Lankan team was badly defeated in the first match against South Africa. And Sri Lanka lost against Bangladesh due to bad batting in the second match as well. Sri Lanka has given a target of only 125 runs. Although the pitch was bowling friendly. Sri Lanka could have won if they could have given a target of 140. But 124 runs was not a good collection.

In the match of New Zealand vs Afghanistan team, I did not think that the New Zealand team will lose the match so badly. I thought that the New Zealand team might be able to do something better in today's match. But the New Zealand team could not do anything for the good performance of the players of the Afghanistan team.  The New Zealand team went into bat and lost 75 runs for 10 wickets in 15.2 overs.

Afghanistan Outstanding performance in this match and winning by 84 runs a huge victory against New Zealand. New Zealand team All out in just 75 runs while chasing down a target of 160 runs. The Player of the Match is Rahmanullah Gurbaz for his amazing battling performance scored 80 runs from just 56 balls, unfortunately missed a well-deserved century by few runs short but he reached the Afghanistan total to 150 plus. I think in this picth a total of 150 plus is huge for any team. Afghanistan bowling performance was outclassed especially Rashid Khan who picked 4 important wickets by just giving 17 runs only and winning this match by a huge margin of 84 runs to Afghanistan.

I never thought the Sri Lankan team would perform so poorly, the Sri Lankan team scored only 124 runs and lost all their wickets. The target of 124 runs was a tough challenge for Bangladesh, as you will notice that the Bangladesh team lost 7 wickets to collect 125 runs. The first opening batsman Soumya Sarkar and Tanjid Hasan entered the field but they failed to perform and wickets fell early. Today's victory is not a pride for the Bangladesh team, if Mahmudullah Riyad was out then the Bangladesh team would have lost the most. 

A few wickets fell since Mahmudullah Riyad entered the field but he showed patience and intelligence to win the match alone, as Mahmudullah Riyad was the reliable batsman among the last-minute winning batsmen. Bangladesh team had a chance to win this match today by a big margin but they won by just two wickets which seems ridiculous to me.  LOL

The Bangladesh team was in dire wickets from the start today too, as two batsmen Tanjid Hasan and Soumya Sarkar were dismissed in the first over in the power play. Right now today's Liton Das has performed well but Soumya Sarkar and Nazmul Hasan Shanto have not performed well, these two batsmen are not fit to play T20. Therefore, if Nazmul Hasan Shanto and Soumya Sarkar are changed from the squad of the Bangladesh team, the Bangladesh team will definitely perform better.

You are right Bangladesh bowlers bowled very well against Sri Lanka due to which Bangladesh team managed to restrict Sri Lanka to just 124 runs. But the batting line of Bangladesh is very bad, their batting weakness has been clearly exposed against Sri Lanka, if Bangladesh team bats like this, they will not be able to win with other teams and it will be very difficult to win. Coming down to bat against a target of 125 runs given by Sri Lanka, the two openers of Bangladesh were dismissed in the beginning and were under pressure. From there, the Bangladesh team came very close to victory with the responsible batting of Tawheed Hriday. However, as soon as Tawheed Hriday got out, the wickets of Bangladesh began to fall, losing one wicket after another, and the Bangladesh team was under a lot of pressure. However, Mahmudullah Riyad's responsible batting finally won the Bangladesh team against Sri Lanka. But the way Bangladesh team batted against Sri Lanka is really very disappointing batting Bangladesh team have to focus on their batting in the next matches otherwise they can be defeated even against small teams. Because a team like USA wins the Super Over against Pakistan on the one hand, there is no consistency in the performance of the Pakistan team. Similarly, the batting line of Bangladesh is very bad, so if both the teams of the two countries want to improve their game, they have to bat responsibly, otherwise they will not be able to win with any team. Comparatively, every country in the world is improving the cricket game, but Bangladesh and Pakistan cricket game is getting worse day by day, so the players of the two teams have to perform well so that they can have a good position in the T20 World Cup.

In the 15th match of Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh team Bangladesh team won by 2 wickets. Sri Lanka team came out to bat first and scored 124 runs for 9 wickets in 20 overs. Bangladesh team did well in the bowling line today for which Sri Lanka team could not give much run target.  If the Sri Lanka team could have given a target of 150 runs, the Sri Lanka team might have won today's match. The batsmen of the Bangladesh team won this match after a lot of hard work. Shakib Al Hasan was out for 8 runs in 14 balls.

To me, the matter is very unexpected, especially the performance of Bangladesh. I had already assumed that Bangladesh would lose like today's match between Sri Lanka and Bangladesh because they had lost to a team like the United States of America a few days ago, so I should have known that they would lose to Sri Lanka. But unfortunately today the bowlers of Bangladesh team have performed really well. Specially these two guy Mustafizur Rahman and Rishad Hossain.
Anyway I will still say that even Bangladeshi bowling side have little improved but if their batting performance continue like this then I am damn sure they will not able to progress on the main tournament.

Just like I mentioned before World Cup that few team including Afghanistan will give us surprising results as most of team underestimate thier potential but let me clear it's true that Thier performance are not upto the mark In different ODI and test format but when it comes to T20 they really become beasts because that format really suit Thier aggressive play and today they really give tough time to NewZeland and that's become the second upset of the tournament after paksitan defeat against USA, I am really impressed by Afghanistan performance because after they scored 160 around with huge contribution of gurbaz I taught NewZeland will easily chased it down but when they lose several number of important wickets in powerplay that the Turing point of them. I really appreciate his efforts and hope a better end for them

Bangladesh bowled aggressively from the start due to which the Sri Lankan batsmen could not bat that well, collecting 124 runs in the allotted 20 overs. Two openers of Bangladesh got out to bat against the target of 125 runs given by Sri Lanka, which is very embarrassing for the team. If a country's opener gets out for zero runs then there is already a lot of pressure on the next batsmen. Of course, Bangladesh team needs a reliable opener who can bat responsibly from the start. The current score of the Bangladesh team is 63 runs for three wickets in 10 overs. If the next batsmen of the Bangladesh team can bat responsibly, then maybe Bangladesh can win against the Sri Lankan team. Tawheed Hriday and Liton Das have to bat responsibly then Bangladesh will win easily against Sri Lanka. Bangladesh needs 61 runs from 60 balls to win. If Bangladesh team can bat responsibly then they can easily cross this target.

Afghanistan bowlers are taking the game away from the New Zealand team. Remember in their last match, they bowled out Uganda for only 58 runs. Today also, they will bowled out New Zealand cheaply as they are 69-9 right at this moment. Although all their bowlers are excellent but Fazalhaq Farooqi is the key bowler. He took 5 wickets in the first match and in this match he has taken three wickets till now.

In the match against Uganda, Now, there is a second wicket that how Fazalhaq Farooqi picked the second wicket and once again another good diversely, direct hit to the batsmen shoes and this time Mukasa failed to play his ball. The ball went to the four because the wicket keeper cannot pick the ball also dropped by the slip fielder after touching the batsmen's shoes but that was out, the umpire raised his finger and then the celebration started so don’t matter wherever the ball goes so that was the second out preview. Mukasa was out like this at the last match where Uganda was against Afghanistan by one and only Fazalhaq Farooqi.

In the Sri Lanka vs Bangladesh match, the Sri Lankan team has given a target of 125 runs to Bangladesh. To win today's match, Bangladesh team will have to reach the target given by Sri Lanka which seems very difficult to me. It is never possible to expect good results from the Bangladesh team with their poor performance in the last few matches. The opening batsmen did not have a good batting performance at the beginning of the match due to which they are under a lot of pressure at the moment. Although Bangladesh team has lost three wickets at the moment but there is still a chance to win if they can play well although they still need to score a lot of runs so it may be difficult for Bangladesh. Bangladesh still need to collect 88 runs from 78 balls to meet the target given by Sri Lanka, but the batting performance of the Bangladesh team suggests that they may not reach this stage.

New Zealand is going to lose this match. Because they have lost 9 wickets. According to the current situation they have made only 59 runs and lost 9 wickets and Afghanistan need only one wicket to win. And New Zealand need 97 runs on 42 balls. Which is looking impossible at this time. Afghanistan played really well. Their batting and bowling both was good. Rahmanullah Gurbaz played really well and he made 80 runs. And in bowling Rashid Khan collected 4 wickets and Fazalhaq Farooqi collected 3 wickets according to current situation. Excellent performance Afghanistan.

Afghanistan has played their turn and they made 159 runs.  Means now New Zealand has to make 160 runs to win. By the way which I am looking New Zealand is not looking strong as this time. They have lost 3 wickets and they made only 33 runs in 6 overs. I am typing my reply and they have lost one more wicket means New Zealand is looking little weak at this time. They need 126 runs on 82 balls. Means this is not difficult if they will play fast. But if they will play fast so they will lose wickets and they have only 6 wickets left. In conclusion Afghanistan is looking strong at this time I think they will win the match.

Even in that match that they lost, the Pakistan team was defending well at yesterday’s match. I think that the Pakistan team is the only team who can defend against any target, they just won this match if in the end Haris Rauf had not done the yorker at offside and done it on the leg side then the Pakistan team would have won the match until that time.

At the start, they were going with maintaining the gap of  30 runs (balls to runs ratio), later 20 runs and when the game came to the end then the gap was just 10 runs but still at the last ball, Haris Rauf had to defend 5 runs in 1 ball, and he got four. I would call it unlucky too for the Pakistan team and the United States of America were lucky to win this match.

In Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka match, Bangladesh team decided to bowl first, Sri Lanka lost wickets at the beginning but Pathum Nissanka played responsible batting for Sri Lanka. Pathum Nissanka batted very well and scored 47 runs from 28 balls. However, the Bangladesh bowlers bowled very aggressively from the start due to which the Sri Lankan batsmen were under a lot of pressure. Mostafizur Rahman got two wickets and Rishad Hossain got three wickets. The current score of the Sri Lankan team is 113 runs with six wickets in 17 overs. The current state of play of the Sri Lankan team seems to be able to strike a balance and maybe score a maximum of 150 runs. And if Sri Lanka can be limited to 150 runs, if the batsmen of Bangladesh can bat responsibly, then maybe Bangladesh can win. But there is a batting failure of Bangladesh. Now to see how responsible batsmen of Bangladesh team will be.

Today Sri Lanka's batting line is better than last match. So far Sri Lanka have collected 85 runs for the loss of 3 wickets in 12 overs. Both Kusal Mendis and Kamindu Mendis could not bat well. Pathum Nissanka He batted well scoring 47 runs off 28 balls. Shakib Al Hasan, one of the best all-rounders in Bangladesh, is currently performing badly, he has bowled 2 overs today and gave 24 runs. Mustafizur Rahman has bowled well today, he has taken 2 wickets so far. Let's see how many runs Sri Lanka can give the target.

Kaleem Sana, Dillon and Jeremy have the biggest role behind Canada team winning this match. Bowling performed very well in the last moment. And in the last overs, the runs were very less, because of which the Ireland team was in dire straits. Because many attempts to collect runs failed and the Ireland team was forced to lose. Although Ireland team had wickets in hand but from the opening batsmen, Ireland team players have lacked runs.

If Lorcan Tucker and Stirling could have scored a few more runs, Ireland would have made up for the 12-run deficit. A poor performance at the start of the game is a very bad sign which is more likely to be lost as this match proved.

T20I World Cup Today Matches

Today there are four matches which will be played today.

Afghanistan vs New Zealand
SriLanka vs Bangladesh
Netherlands vs South Africa
Australia vs England

Two matches already started.
Afghanistan and New Zealand are playing at this time. New Zealand won the toss and chose to field first. And Afghanistan is playing their turn and they have made 114 runs in 16 overs and lost one wicket. I think they will go above 130 runs.

In SriLanka and Bangladesh match. Bangladesh won the toss and chose to field first and Sri Lanka is playing at this time. This match is recently started so SriLanka made 32 runs in 4 overs. I hope Bangladesh will play well and win the match.

In the rest of two matches we know South Africa will win from Netherlands.
And in Australia and England match this is little bit difficult to predict because both teams are at equal level. But I think Australia will win.

Only Pakistan can create such an exciting situation because we have faced many such matches in the past where they managed to win despite facing certain defeat. However, it will be a difficult task for Pakistan in this World Cup as they have already lost against a weak team whereas a defeat against India will see them out of the group stage and that elimination looks more likely. At the moment Pakistan's overall performance is not going too well especially losing the T20 series with England before the start of the World Cup and this time also in the World Cup with United States in a bad situation. But let's see how far Pakistan can qualify itself in the high voltage match between India and Pakistan.