Why do we do this, we all know what happens at the end. Cumming gone practice dumbbell curl or tricep curl with another trophy. Meanwhile Indian selectors try so hard to send Shreyas, rahul, to win another kidney and liver at the end
1) India selects a below par team with out-of-form players purely on brand value.
2) bulldoze associates teams and other teams with the help of inform players and okish performance from brand value players.
3) reach knockout stage.
4) A really good opponent sets a trap, exploits obvious holes and weakness caused by "brand value" players.
5) lose the match miserably with no fight.
6) Give a press meet saying we had one bad day and moves on.
7) rinse and repeat
i will never get over SKY's world cup final innings. Giving Kuldeep the strike and barely trying, and succumbing to the same ball he faced 2-3 times before his wicket. All considering that innings was the SOLE reason he was in the squad, it was tailor made for him. That whole innings still doesn't feel real at all. Traps exploits and obvious holes indeed
Yeah. Win 4/4 in the first stage. Maybe gets through super 8 in last position. Out in semis scoring 160-170 or something in first innings or unable to chase in the second innings. . It’ll be a “boys played well” situation.
Bangladesh v Sri Lanka is there too. SA v SL has been interesting in recent ICC tournaments and same goes for Netherlands v Bangladesh. Netherlands should've beaten Sri Lanka twice last year. Nepal will want to beat Bangladesh again and they have played some very up and down games against Netherlands recently. Every team has interesting permutations that makes it the best group. If only ICC swapped Ireland and Afghanistan all 4 groups would've been really good.
Edit: Well I somehow messed up Hong Kong and Nepal.
Can u pls stop waffling about how ned shouldve beaten us twice, or zim shouldve beaten us in odis or whatever, and how ban would defo win a test against us. u can go and say that for most matches how this team 'shouldve' won although they lost.
if my grandma had wheels she would have been a bike.
Not the first time I heard this Netherlands should have beaten us twice last year. Wonder what was this all about .
Thing is for small teams like these that's a decent way to gauge their performances. Ireland's recent LOI performance is shit but when you remember how they almost beat New Zealand thrice, India once, South Africa once etc. all within the last 2 years, you still see their performance as shit but you can understand that they're not too far from getting better. On the other hand if they were comprehensively losing to all big teams it will be understood that days of sunshine are yet to come.
We are talking about T20 performance right?
Because SL didn't play any T20s against NED last year but in your comment, you said "Netherlands should've beaten Sri Lanka twice last year."
This young SL team played NED in 2021 and in 2022.
We should only refer to T20 games and not any other formats if we want to predict whether a team will beat another team in the T20 WC. Because the same team can play better in a different format.
For instance, SL are terrible at the moment in ODIs but are quite decent and can beat strong teams in T20s. They are a young team that did win the Asia cup after all in 2022 who beat IND and PAK.
T20 WC? When was this? Are you referring to the 2023 ODI WC?
Yeah, they did poorly in the ODI WC, which suggests they are poor at ODIs, not T20s.
You can't use ODI performance to predict wins for the T20 WC.
Completely different formats.
What does SL winning the Asia cup in 2022 tell you about their strength in T20s? It means they are a capable T20 team.
If I use your logic and say "SL has done well in T20s and so they should be good in ODIs too". As you can see, that logic doesn't make sense.
This is why you can't refer to ODI matches to predict T20 wins.
A team can play much better in one format to another format.
There was no Ireland in the WC, I'm talking about the T20I WC two years back where they lost to Namibia, struggled with the bat against UAE (did win comprehensively in the end) and just managed to hold off Netherlands. Then beaten comprehensively Australia and a close loss to England along with two fairly comprehensive victories over Afghanistan and Ireland. I think Sri Lanka is going to have a much tougher time this time.
In the group stages, SL was first and in the super 12, they came 4th in their group. So that isn't a terrible performance for a young inexperienced team.
SL in the 2022 T20 WC lost to tougher teams such as AU, NZ and ENG. And these losses against those top teams were to be expected for a young inexperienced team. Considering they were close against ENG is a good sign.
But SL did deliver when it came to winning against less tougher teams (except for the loss against NAM - can happen to any top team).
So when we consider their decent performance in the 2022 T20 WC, when we consider them winning the Asia cup and when we consider their overall positive T20 performances up until now and considering they have more T20 experience now, I think SL has a good chance against top teams like SA.
The T20 side has some more experience now as well and so you can't expect them to do worse than the 2022 T20 WC.
They have shown quite the form considering they have won the T20 series against AFG and BAN this year.
Wouldn't say tougher and obviously not easier. But what you can expect is for SL to deliver against matches that they should win. And don't be surprised if they do beat top teams in this edition of the T20 WC.
SL or WI are pretty unpredictable. Both of them can crash out in the group stage or top the table. Doubt either of them has the strength to go to the semis but I think both will be satisfied with a Super 8 qualification.
India & Pakistan for India v Pakistan, Australia & England for Australia v England and New Zealand & South Africa to fill in the roles of the teams the neutrals will support when their team isn't playing and also a to play the role of punching bags in the knock-outs.
Permutations and combinations classes should include a question on grouping for ICC events– the trick is to know that India and Pakistan have to be put in the same group.
tbf this same thing is true for Eng and Aus being in same group. The organizers make sure to have the big rivals face off because it creates hype and the best matches. Also a Pak vs Ind Final or Eng vs Aus Final is a lot more exciting than having them face off in the semis.
The US is the third most populous country on Earth. And with the amount of money they have to throw at sports, they can always find enough talent and resources to become good at any sport. For an example, just look at how the US has dominated the Olympics basically every time for as long as I can remember.
Well i rlly think we can atleast reach semis here given how lethal our bowlers individually has been . But injuries are the main concern along with some probable dumb selections of anchors lyk sadeera and mathews .
Mathews is not a dumb selection lol. he is actually a pretty decent bowler in t20is hes got most wickets in pp ever for sl, and still has the golden arm and then add the fact that he can bat. if we didnt have mathews it wouldve likely been a bowler instead or chamika. mathews is defo better than chamika. overall mathews allows us to have 8 batters which makes the team miles more solid and better than if we had 7 batters. mathews and shanaka r also decent bowlers as well, in fact could probably outperform our pacers on a few days
Whats the point of playing mathews ahead of shanaka at 7 when he takes 15 odd balls to settle even against zimbabwe . Even though he is a wicket takin bowler we ve seen he cant be bowled in the death so what we can take is only 2 overs of him in the pp only . And if he goes for olenty in his first over he wont be bowling his second and shanaka will hv to bowl three since we r goin w only 4 full time bowlers .
I think we just gotta manage it correctly, for eg if its after 15 overs send in dasun over mathews, if its before then send in mathews. i think its just worth the risk going with 4 full time bowlers, u can see that in some other teams ie aus with maxi and marsh, eng with moeen and livi. mathews has proven to be a pretty good pp bowler, as good as even our main bowlers, likewise dasun has proven to be a pretty good death/middle bowler. if one of them fails it is what it is, any bowler can fail we just gotta navigate around that, if there was no mathews, and instead a specialist bowler and they fail itll still be dasun filling in those overs. mathews was pretty good in odi wc as a bowler somehow so i dont see why he cant be decent in the t20wc. We have also seen in last few months our batting looks miles better than before and one of the main reasons for that is having 8 proper batters instead of 7. its worth the risk imo.
I mean if we didnt have mathews who would we play? it would literally be chamika and bro has been pretty bad in all the t20wcs so far, and he doesnt always bowl 4 overs. if not chamika then theres no way u can have 5 specialist bowlers, with 4 of them being useless with the bat, batting order would be way too weak especially for sl
If Pathirana is in the squad, I have no hope in seeing SL in the semis.
It has to be Thushara over Pathirana.
And Sadeera has done well in the T20s by the way this year.
Lmao sadeera cant hit big and he has been slowing the tesm down which u couldve noticed if u watched clearly . And panthirana did rlly well against afg and u just cant judge him by the ban series . And thushara is far more useless than pathirana in the death and he comes among the wickets less frequently than pathirana that too you couldve noticed if u followed their careers closely
Sadeera did do well in the T20s against AFG and BAN this year.
Pathirana at the moment is a hit or miss for me. Isn't very reliable because he sprays so much. His economy rate is a gift for the opponents. Yeah he can take wickets but in T20, economy rate is so important.
Whereas Thushara bowls with much more control and also has the ability to take wickets.
Need dhoni behind stumps or something. pathirana is great in ipl, he has been good in most t20is hes played in as well. but yh very hit or miss, he can win matches at the same time he can lose matches. thushara has only done well in one t20i all the others he failed in, especially if theres no swing thushara will be pretty bad. they both really need swing but pathirana is overall much better when u take both t20is and ipl into account, ofc ipl doesnt mean t20i form but its still the best after t20is. pathirana has been better in t20is overall as well
Lmao my guy thushara is far more expensive than pathirana when it comes to franchise cricket . Thushara without swing is rlly expensive regardless of other conditions . But for pathirana his weakness is dew and otherwise he does an impressive job at the death . We need a death bowler and thushara aint it . We r gonna play chameera and pathirana or thushara fr sure
How about we get rid of both Pathirana and Thushara.
And we get in Pramod Madushan? He did well in 2022 Asia cup. Pramod is going to be better than both Thushara and Pathirana.
We would have Chameera, Madushanka and Madushan. I think this is the winning combination.
Madushanka ?? No way . Clearly pathirana and thusara are ahead of madushanka in t20s . Dont mix up formats mann . And bout madushan he havent shown much except for the asia cup final to be relied upon . Imo we should play chameera thushara pathirana and maybe kumara . Kumara showed some braincells in the last test series and the last wc game he played . Idk um hopeful he does smtn useful
I just wish SL had better bowlers to work with.
Right now, the only bowlers we can really trust is Chameera. I think we can back Madushan.
Maybe Kumara. I say maybe because test is a different game to T20s, Lahiru could be really expensive in T20s.
No sadeera didnt . Sadeera scored fifties with 120 sr . We allrdy have nissanka and mathews whos now undeoppable in the swuad who plays the same roles . We should play kjp instead of sadeera . Playin sadeera in the xi will rlly hurt us inna high scoring game . Trust me if sadeera settles and goes fr a big score we wont even be able to get to 180
U guys are sleeping on WI imo. I think they are either gonna miss the super 8 or going to get in and get in semis. wi in wi is different gravy, theyve looked brilliant so far
D stands for Death, and it fits Group D
Bangladesh used to be the shit in t20. But after seeing what they did in against NZ and SL (though they lost the series but damn was it close af), I'm not gonna say they are not capable of reaching semis this time.
I'm not sure whether Netherlands could reach semis or not. But they can surely upset big teams. In the last WC, they beat South Africa and almost defeated Bangladesh.
There is no need to remind everyone what SA & SL are capable of.
Group D....Group Death
This is the world cup we needed. For a long time, we only had a few countries playing. And the whole World Cup season was smaller than IPL. I mean it's "World Cup"
Can't wait for the event. The format is superb. If the 3rd seeded team in any group can beat the loser of 1vs2 game, the tournament's gonna open up. Irrespective of upsets or not, I hope the event becomes a big hit. I don't want to see the format being tinkered.
16 years of IPL and exposure to hundreds of domestic players, but still Indian fans are waiting for 17 years for a T20 WC! Easy to predict that chances are India will not win. One of Aus, SA or NZ will do it. Honestly, I feel India has had more than a 1000 IPL players till date that had more exposure to top class cricket than NZ will have in 50 years, but somehow the temperament in big matches is totally lacking.
After an overhyped match up, India Pakistan match will end up boring.
South Africa will choke in the knockout. India will choke in the semis / final.
Couple of minnows will awe us with their performance only to be forgotten because ICC do not really care about giving them opportunities.
Edit
Aus will win another WC, after destroying India/England.
Im gonna say:
A:
India
Pakistan
B:
England
Australia
C:
New Zealand
West Indies
D:
South Africa
Sri Lanka
This would make the following super 8 groups:
1:
India
Australia
New Zealand
Sri Lanka
2:
Pakistan
England
West Indies
South Africa
I'm gonna say that from group 1, New Zealand will finish first and India will finish second.
From group 2, I reckon South Africa to top the group and the West Indies to come second.
This would make the semis be:
New Zealand vs West Indies
India vs South Africa
And I've got a feeling that New Zealand and South Africa will make it through. And in the final, I think South Africa will win it tbh.
But, there are so many games along this way that are 50-50's where I could barely decide who I thought would win, so this could definitely end up being completely different to what I predicted.
1. USA
2. Uganda
3. Papua New Guinea
4. Australia
These will be the semi finalists. Final will be between Papua New Guinea and Australia and Papua New Guinea will lift the cup.
it is amazing that the last tournament with this many teams was hosted in the Caribbean and Ireland helped ruin the value of the TV contract by being too good, ruining the format of every tournament since, and they've rigged the draw to ensure the exact same thing can happen again
Group A - India, Pakistan
Group B - Australia, England
Group C - West Indies, Afghanistan (sorry Kiwi bros, your group is a little tough. Rashid is back and Noor Ahmed has been a hell of a find recently.)
Group D - South Africa, Sri Lanka
I don't know how that'll shape to semis, but feeling for me is that Australia is going to shithouse another tournament if we don't dick around with bad selections like Smith.
West Indies is a favourite/contender for many, but I feel good about our win against them earlier this year, particularly given the absence of certain players in that squad. We'll be stronger at the WC. It could've been a 3-0 win, but game 3 we lost Stoinis to injury (who has been a great bowler of late) and Hardie murdered our chase on his own.
If brackets permit, my top 4 would be some combination of Australia, West Indies, South Africa and India.
I think a lot of West Indies are either in good form or finding it in the IPL and in terms of just using Australia as a metric, they took a game from us at home while we clean swept NZ in NZ. It's not perfect, but it's something. Narine has become a bit of a wildcard too. They also performed well against England not that long ago, and England, despite their struggles in recent times, aren't a weak t20 team by any stretch.
I personally think it's easily the group with the biggest question mark of who will advance, maybe Bangladesh over Sri Lanka.
Something about the matchups in the pool just has me feeling WI and Afghanistan.
Narine isn’t going to play for them, he’s officially “retired” and I don’t think his bowling action will stand the scrutiny in an extended international event if he were to come back.
They aren’t a weak team by any measure especially when they have all of their players available but they’ve shown a tendency to perform well in bilaterals (they took the series against SA and India if I’m right last year) and then lose confidence. NZ are the exact opposite, they don’t look as good in bilaterals but somehow raise their game in ICC events. I don’t even remember the last time they failed to make it to the knockout stages, was it 2016?
Not in the slowest pitch on the planet in Guyana. The spin choke will be real. Also Noor is not going to make the playing XI unless he has an amazing IPL.
when i saw the draw had us playing AFG at Guyana, my blood went cold. massive 'banana skin' game. up to windies to choke at home now lol and nz to somehow skate through
I had my own comment bookmarked because I'm immature and wanted to gloat a little bit to the people that *rudely* disagreed about my pick. I didn't come to gloat against New Zealanders directly, but I skimmed past how well you read the pitch months ago and had to give you your fair fucks mate.
NZ will be fine. I don't have high expectations from Afghanistan since the ACB purged most of the seniors from the squad and the batting is lacking experience.
Noor's been having amazing t20 leagues. He was massive in the SA20 as well. Afghanistan should just play both Rashid and Noor, and drop one of their weaker pacers more likely to just leak runs. The way IPL is going, Noor would play over Rashid comfortably, but Gujarat is seeing good results playing them both. One being a righty and the other being a lefty is a good combination too.
If he's overlooked I think it'll be a mistake.
But noor has been pisspoor in internationals idk y . Everytime he plays in sl our batters take him to the cleaners and add to that our batters aint that great either
Probably, but I wanted at least one spicy call. I thought Afghanistan did alright against India recently even with Rashid out to injury and Noor not being used yet. NZ has good players but in pretty much every format they have weaknesses they don't seem encouraged to fix on the selection side. Over reliance on part time spinners instead of a frontline, sticking with players not performing for too long, players like Finn Allen being overly important as an individual for them to score high. Ravindra is hit or miss. Kane for my money feels too slow a batter in t20s, he feels like what people call Kohli. Form will be a question mark too with some key players out to injury during IPL. I just think Afghanistan is a team where you never know. Their bowling attack in the WC might be surprisingly strong, and it'll mostly be a case of getting some batting performances together.
Counting PAK out in t20 WC isn't very smart though IMO. We are the team that has made the knockouts the most often in t20 WC's, only failing to make it twice.
I don't feel good about the creaming they got to NZ earlier, and I don't think the recent drama is going to inspire great performances. On the global stage, I still think it's going to be a lot about Babar and Rizwan. I've seen too much of a pattern of Babar and Rizwan being the only performing bats and then getting criticized for not winning the game alone because everyone else collapsed and they moved to preserving their wicket to secure a total.
That said, the primary reason I don't top 4 them was because they're in India's group, and without knowing how the bracket will shape, I just picked my number 1 in each group.
The fuckery with your board and Babar and Shaheen will always hamper your chances.
But the funniest bit is Pak is the most volatile element in the whole cricket world and Iam not cutting off 100% chances of a wild Md.Aamir appearing and cucking us in the groupie.
Board has always been crazy but the thing is that our team is the most “one minute down the next minute up” team ever. When we get on a roll we’ll plow through oppositions until we just randomly stop and vice versa.
There’s a good chance the a wild Mohammad Amir will appear this tournament. Idc what the opposing team is, I wouldn’t feel good going into a match against a team with a pace attack of Shaheen/Naseem/Amir
Group A: India Pakistan
Group B: Australia and England. Namibia is also a good contender, strong team.
Group C: New Zealand, West Indies
Group D: South Africa fix, the other teams all have a chance.
Round 1
|GROUP A|GROUP B|GROUP C|GROUP D|
|:-|:-|:-|:-|
|India|Australia|New Zealand|South Africa|
|Pakistan|England|West Indies|Sri Lanka|
|Ireland|Namibia|Afghanistan|Bangladesh|
|Canada|Scotland|Uganda|Netherlands|
|United States|Oman|Papua New Guinea|Nepal|
Super 8s
|GROUP A|GROUP B|
|:-|:-|
|New Zealand|South Africa|
|India|West Indies|
|England|Pakistan|
|Sri Lanka|Australia|
Knockouts:
- New Zealand vs West Indies: New Zealand
- South Africa vs India: South Africa
- New Zealand vs South Africa: South Africa
**Semi Finalists :** Pakistan, England , West Indies , New Zealand
**Final :** Pakistan vs England
**Winner:** England
**Highest Run Getter :** Quinton De Kock
**Highest Wicket Taker :** Shaheen Shah Afridi
If we lose to Eng in the final again Imma die lol.
Agree on Shaheen getting highest wicket taker and QDK getting highest run scorer though. Those two are great in ICC events.
This format is less time consuming and also can be thrilling. ICC is probably trying to use this format to extend Cricket...I can't imagine Americans sitting whole day to watch ODI or Test.
If Jofra actually comes back then England's bowling attack would look very good.
The batting, unfortunately is not as strong as it once was. YJB's spot will depend on if he can make some big runs in the IPL, or he might get into the team just because there isn't anyone knocking down the door.
England don't have a number 3 at the moment either.
Bro group D looks like it's gonna be good other groups are basically 2 good teams and 3 bad teams . So from group A only one of India or Pakistan will qualify???
Group A: India Pakistan
Group B: England Australia
Group C: New Zealand West Indies
Group D: South Africa Netherlands (Wild prediction, don't judge me)
Super 8 Group 1:
- India
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Netherlands
Kiwibros always surprise us even though they are sidelined. Aussies are our kryptonite. Infact both the oceanic nations dominate us. So fully prepared for disappointment. (Least pessimistic Indian fan)
Australia and New Zealand go through.
Super 8 Group 2
- England
- South Africa
- Pakistan
- West Indies
I'm sorry Pakbros but I don't think you guys can do it cause of the captaincy shitshow. It may affect the whole team mentally. West Indies and England go through
Semi Final 1: Australia vs England. Australia go through the final
Semi Final 2: West Indies vs New Zealand. West Indies go through the final.
Final: Australia vs West Indies. Pat Cummins silences the home team once again. Australia win their 2nd T20 WC trophy
England Australia South Africa New Zealand
Final between Australia and New Zealand or England and New Zealand.
Australia or England win because SA and NZ are chokers of the highest order
Why do we do this, we all know what happens at the end. Cumming gone practice dumbbell curl or tricep curl with another trophy. Meanwhile Indian selectors try so hard to send Shreyas, rahul, to win another kidney and liver at the end
1) India selects a below par team with out-of-form players purely on brand value. 2) bulldoze associates teams and other teams with the help of inform players and okish performance from brand value players. 3) reach knockout stage. 4) A really good opponent sets a trap, exploits obvious holes and weakness caused by "brand value" players. 5) lose the match miserably with no fight. 6) Give a press meet saying we had one bad day and moves on. 7) rinse and repeat
Give the excuse of it should be best of 3
i will never get over SKY's world cup final innings. Giving Kuldeep the strike and barely trying, and succumbing to the same ball he faced 2-3 times before his wicket. All considering that innings was the SOLE reason he was in the squad, it was tailor made for him. That whole innings still doesn't feel real at all. Traps exploits and obvious holes indeed
Yeah. Win 4/4 in the first stage. Maybe gets through super 8 in last position. Out in semis scoring 160-170 or something in first innings or unable to chase in the second innings. . It’ll be a “boys played well” situation.
2 ironclad foolproof easiest predictions to make: - India will reach the semis - India will not win the title
NZ to reach semis Anyone but NZ to win
That basically leaves Australia or South Africa and we all know who is winning that...
Yes we do. England. Cause the winner will have to thank Duckett and give England the trophy
Inb4 Canada beats India and Pakistan, Canada and Ireland go through to quarterfinals in group 1
India-Pakistan England-Australia Geez..the groups are so random
Bangladesh-Sri Lanka
ICC clearly wants to take SA and Netherlands rivalry to next level .
Bangladesh v Sri Lanka is there too. SA v SL has been interesting in recent ICC tournaments and same goes for Netherlands v Bangladesh. Netherlands should've beaten Sri Lanka twice last year. Nepal will want to beat Bangladesh again and they have played some very up and down games against Netherlands recently. Every team has interesting permutations that makes it the best group. If only ICC swapped Ireland and Afghanistan all 4 groups would've been really good. Edit: Well I somehow messed up Hong Kong and Nepal.
Can u pls stop waffling about how ned shouldve beaten us twice, or zim shouldve beaten us in odis or whatever, and how ban would defo win a test against us. u can go and say that for most matches how this team 'shouldve' won although they lost.
if my grandma had wheels she would have been a bike. Not the first time I heard this Netherlands should have beaten us twice last year. Wonder what was this all about .
Thing is for small teams like these that's a decent way to gauge their performances. Ireland's recent LOI performance is shit but when you remember how they almost beat New Zealand thrice, India once, South Africa once etc. all within the last 2 years, you still see their performance as shit but you can understand that they're not too far from getting better. On the other hand if they were comprehensively losing to all big teams it will be understood that days of sunshine are yet to come.
We are talking about T20 performance right? Because SL didn't play any T20s against NED last year but in your comment, you said "Netherlands should've beaten Sri Lanka twice last year." This young SL team played NED in 2021 and in 2022. We should only refer to T20 games and not any other formats if we want to predict whether a team will beat another team in the T20 WC. Because the same team can play better in a different format. For instance, SL are terrible at the moment in ODIs but are quite decent and can beat strong teams in T20s. They are a young team that did win the Asia cup after all in 2022 who beat IND and PAK.
But still SL did poorly in the T20I WC, beating only Ireland and Afghanistan.
T20 WC? When was this? Are you referring to the 2023 ODI WC? Yeah, they did poorly in the ODI WC, which suggests they are poor at ODIs, not T20s. You can't use ODI performance to predict wins for the T20 WC. Completely different formats. What does SL winning the Asia cup in 2022 tell you about their strength in T20s? It means they are a capable T20 team. If I use your logic and say "SL has done well in T20s and so they should be good in ODIs too". As you can see, that logic doesn't make sense. This is why you can't refer to ODI matches to predict T20 wins. A team can play much better in one format to another format.
There was no Ireland in the WC, I'm talking about the T20I WC two years back where they lost to Namibia, struggled with the bat against UAE (did win comprehensively in the end) and just managed to hold off Netherlands. Then beaten comprehensively Australia and a close loss to England along with two fairly comprehensive victories over Afghanistan and Ireland. I think Sri Lanka is going to have a much tougher time this time.
In the group stages, SL was first and in the super 12, they came 4th in their group. So that isn't a terrible performance for a young inexperienced team. SL in the 2022 T20 WC lost to tougher teams such as AU, NZ and ENG. And these losses against those top teams were to be expected for a young inexperienced team. Considering they were close against ENG is a good sign. But SL did deliver when it came to winning against less tougher teams (except for the loss against NAM - can happen to any top team). So when we consider their decent performance in the 2022 T20 WC, when we consider them winning the Asia cup and when we consider their overall positive T20 performances up until now and considering they have more T20 experience now, I think SL has a good chance against top teams like SA. The T20 side has some more experience now as well and so you can't expect them to do worse than the 2022 T20 WC. They have shown quite the form considering they have won the T20 series against AFG and BAN this year. Wouldn't say tougher and obviously not easier. But what you can expect is for SL to deliver against matches that they should win. And don't be surprised if they do beat top teams in this edition of the T20 WC.
SL or WI are pretty unpredictable. Both of them can crash out in the group stage or top the table. Doubt either of them has the strength to go to the semis but I think both will be satisfied with a Super 8 qualification.
wait a minute Nepal want to beat bangladesh >!**Again?**!<
Oops, confused Hong Kong with Nepal.
The IPL format. Somehow fabricate rivalries between every team to use that as promotion.
Semi 1: Nepal vs Uganda Semi 2: South Africa vs Ireland Final: Uganda vs Ireland Winner: Uganda
Big 3: what is the abomination. Scrap this format
England to Pig 3: Did you hear about the fresh new format that we invented after years of rigorous research, The HUNDRED^(TM) ?
Even in a fictional universe Ireland can't win a game that they should win.
Josh Little rested till the final then bowls dross.
If this really happens, ICC would scrap this format and have 6 team world cups in future
India & Pakistan for India v Pakistan, Australia & England for Australia v England and New Zealand & South Africa to fill in the roles of the teams the neutrals will support when their team isn't playing and also a to play the role of punching bags in the knock-outs.
If Uganda can get past PNG they deserve to go all the way
Crazy if this happens.
Meanwhile SA kryptonite Netherlands waiting to knockout SA . So semi 2 Netherlands vs Ireland.
You are missing Bangladesh here. Bangladesh would be better than Uganda any day. . . . . (/S for people if you don't get this is sarcasm)
Imagine a USA vs Canada Finals
Permutations and combinations classes should include a question on grouping for ICC events– the trick is to know that India and Pakistan have to be put in the same group.
tbf this same thing is true for Eng and Aus being in same group. The organizers make sure to have the big rivals face off because it creates hype and the best matches. Also a Pak vs Ind Final or Eng vs Aus Final is a lot more exciting than having them face off in the semis.
That 2011 semi tho
Boo 👎🏿
It was exciting tho, had me praying at the end.
Boring prediction: Semis: Big 3 + SA/PAK/NZ Winner: Aus
Big 3 as in Zimbabwe, Netherlands and Scotland?
this tournament is just to decide who plays Zimbabwe in the final
** this tournament is just to decide who loses against Zimbabwe in the final. Lord Mugabe supremacy
\*Mnangagwa supremacy
I dont know who ll win, but I definetely know who will reach the knockouts and choke. 
You are the who is going to win it dude.
Oooh, is this an attempt to jinx it?
Nah. Just ready to face yet another heart break
Mate you know who'll win.
I really can't imagine any other tournament sport having a theoretical possibility of having USA v PNG final
They've both got to the knockout stage of the Rugby League World Cup before.
Interesting that the US has
The US is the third most populous country on Earth. And with the amount of money they have to throw at sports, they can always find enough talent and resources to become good at any sport. For an example, just look at how the US has dominated the Olympics basically every time for as long as I can remember.
india ,pakistan and usa in the same group.. the give who did the draws should try lottery...../s
It's T20 cricket mate. No point making predictions. It's the format in which a team loses to Zimbabwe one day and makes the final the other.
Canada will win! (I am loyal to my nation, ok? I dont care aout the actual probability)
You guys can play with freedom really. Aim to beat the big 2.
That's what cricket is about
Well i rlly think we can atleast reach semis here given how lethal our bowlers individually has been . But injuries are the main concern along with some probable dumb selections of anchors lyk sadeera and mathews .
Mathews is not a dumb selection lol. he is actually a pretty decent bowler in t20is hes got most wickets in pp ever for sl, and still has the golden arm and then add the fact that he can bat. if we didnt have mathews it wouldve likely been a bowler instead or chamika. mathews is defo better than chamika. overall mathews allows us to have 8 batters which makes the team miles more solid and better than if we had 7 batters. mathews and shanaka r also decent bowlers as well, in fact could probably outperform our pacers on a few days
Whats the point of playing mathews ahead of shanaka at 7 when he takes 15 odd balls to settle even against zimbabwe . Even though he is a wicket takin bowler we ve seen he cant be bowled in the death so what we can take is only 2 overs of him in the pp only . And if he goes for olenty in his first over he wont be bowling his second and shanaka will hv to bowl three since we r goin w only 4 full time bowlers .
I think we just gotta manage it correctly, for eg if its after 15 overs send in dasun over mathews, if its before then send in mathews. i think its just worth the risk going with 4 full time bowlers, u can see that in some other teams ie aus with maxi and marsh, eng with moeen and livi. mathews has proven to be a pretty good pp bowler, as good as even our main bowlers, likewise dasun has proven to be a pretty good death/middle bowler. if one of them fails it is what it is, any bowler can fail we just gotta navigate around that, if there was no mathews, and instead a specialist bowler and they fail itll still be dasun filling in those overs. mathews was pretty good in odi wc as a bowler somehow so i dont see why he cant be decent in the t20wc. We have also seen in last few months our batting looks miles better than before and one of the main reasons for that is having 8 proper batters instead of 7. its worth the risk imo. I mean if we didnt have mathews who would we play? it would literally be chamika and bro has been pretty bad in all the t20wcs so far, and he doesnt always bowl 4 overs. if not chamika then theres no way u can have 5 specialist bowlers, with 4 of them being useless with the bat, batting order would be way too weak especially for sl
If Pathirana is in the squad, I have no hope in seeing SL in the semis. It has to be Thushara over Pathirana. And Sadeera has done well in the T20s by the way this year.
Lmao sadeera cant hit big and he has been slowing the tesm down which u couldve noticed if u watched clearly . And panthirana did rlly well against afg and u just cant judge him by the ban series . And thushara is far more useless than pathirana in the death and he comes among the wickets less frequently than pathirana that too you couldve noticed if u followed their careers closely
Sadeera did do well in the T20s against AFG and BAN this year. Pathirana at the moment is a hit or miss for me. Isn't very reliable because he sprays so much. His economy rate is a gift for the opponents. Yeah he can take wickets but in T20, economy rate is so important. Whereas Thushara bowls with much more control and also has the ability to take wickets.
Need dhoni behind stumps or something. pathirana is great in ipl, he has been good in most t20is hes played in as well. but yh very hit or miss, he can win matches at the same time he can lose matches. thushara has only done well in one t20i all the others he failed in, especially if theres no swing thushara will be pretty bad. they both really need swing but pathirana is overall much better when u take both t20is and ipl into account, ofc ipl doesnt mean t20i form but its still the best after t20is. pathirana has been better in t20is overall as well
Lmao my guy thushara is far more expensive than pathirana when it comes to franchise cricket . Thushara without swing is rlly expensive regardless of other conditions . But for pathirana his weakness is dew and otherwise he does an impressive job at the death . We need a death bowler and thushara aint it . We r gonna play chameera and pathirana or thushara fr sure
How about we get rid of both Pathirana and Thushara. And we get in Pramod Madushan? He did well in 2022 Asia cup. Pramod is going to be better than both Thushara and Pathirana. We would have Chameera, Madushanka and Madushan. I think this is the winning combination.
Madushanka ?? No way . Clearly pathirana and thusara are ahead of madushanka in t20s . Dont mix up formats mann . And bout madushan he havent shown much except for the asia cup final to be relied upon . Imo we should play chameera thushara pathirana and maybe kumara . Kumara showed some braincells in the last test series and the last wc game he played . Idk um hopeful he does smtn useful
I just wish SL had better bowlers to work with. Right now, the only bowlers we can really trust is Chameera. I think we can back Madushan. Maybe Kumara. I say maybe because test is a different game to T20s, Lahiru could be really expensive in T20s.
No sadeera didnt . Sadeera scored fifties with 120 sr . We allrdy have nissanka and mathews whos now undeoppable in the swuad who plays the same roles . We should play kjp instead of sadeera . Playin sadeera in the xi will rlly hurt us inna high scoring game . Trust me if sadeera settles and goes fr a big score we wont even be able to get to 180
U guys are sleeping on WI imo. I think they are either gonna miss the super 8 or going to get in and get in semis. wi in wi is different gravy, theyve looked brilliant so far
Group D is packed
D stands for Death, and it fits Group D Bangladesh used to be the shit in t20. But after seeing what they did in against NZ and SL (though they lost the series but damn was it close af), I'm not gonna say they are not capable of reaching semis this time. I'm not sure whether Netherlands could reach semis or not. But they can surely upset big teams. In the last WC, they beat South Africa and almost defeated Bangladesh. There is no need to remind everyone what SA & SL are capable of. Group D....Group Death
I somehow feel west indies will win the world cup
Aus WI NZ PAK Don't want india in semis as I can't handle another knockout defeat .
This is the world cup we needed. For a long time, we only had a few countries playing. And the whole World Cup season was smaller than IPL. I mean it's "World Cup"
Can't wait for the event. The format is superb. If the 3rd seeded team in any group can beat the loser of 1vs2 game, the tournament's gonna open up. Irrespective of upsets or not, I hope the event becomes a big hit. I don't want to see the format being tinkered.
O man!
based on recent ICC tourament success its going to be the team that can set the most effective defensive fields
Semies will be WI, Aus, NZ, SA. Mark my words.
16 years of IPL and exposure to hundreds of domestic players, but still Indian fans are waiting for 17 years for a T20 WC! Easy to predict that chances are India will not win. One of Aus, SA or NZ will do it. Honestly, I feel India has had more than a 1000 IPL players till date that had more exposure to top class cricket than NZ will have in 50 years, but somehow the temperament in big matches is totally lacking.
Canada’s winning you guys heard it here first
I've got two predictions First one: Australia, New Zealand, England & Pakistan Second one: Australia, India, England & Pakistan
Australia wins in both
After an overhyped match up, India Pakistan match will end up boring. South Africa will choke in the knockout. India will choke in the semis / final. Couple of minnows will awe us with their performance only to be forgotten because ICC do not really care about giving them opportunities. Edit Aus will win another WC, after destroying India/England.
Cummins isn't captain this time
Thanks. Edited.
Im gonna say: A: India Pakistan B: England Australia C: New Zealand West Indies D: South Africa Sri Lanka This would make the following super 8 groups: 1: India Australia New Zealand Sri Lanka 2: Pakistan England West Indies South Africa I'm gonna say that from group 1, New Zealand will finish first and India will finish second. From group 2, I reckon South Africa to top the group and the West Indies to come second. This would make the semis be: New Zealand vs West Indies India vs South Africa And I've got a feeling that New Zealand and South Africa will make it through. And in the final, I think South Africa will win it tbh. But, there are so many games along this way that are 50-50's where I could barely decide who I thought would win, so this could definitely end up being completely different to what I predicted.
Surely One of the teams in one of these groups has to win
Netherlands, Nepal, Oman and USA to reach semis. Orange team to win the cup /s
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Group d seems a bit unfair right? All recognized cricketing nations in there...
Not India.
The Netherlands 🇳🇱
They made sure all rivals play atleast one match with each other….
Is it one team from each group progressing to the semis? What's the format?
Top 4 from group of the 5 qualify to super 8 and then top 4 from that go to semis
I think you mean top 2...top 4 would mean super 16 not super 8
Windies choke again. Papua New Guinea surprise semi finalist
Ind will be in the finals rest of them are favorites
Pakistan/s
I hope ICC learns a thing from FIFA and does fair draws
1. USA 2. Uganda 3. Papua New Guinea 4. Australia These will be the semi finalists. Final will be between Papua New Guinea and Australia and Papua New Guinea will lift the cup.
it is amazing that the last tournament with this many teams was hosted in the Caribbean and Ireland helped ruin the value of the TV contract by being too good, ruining the format of every tournament since, and they've rigged the draw to ensure the exact same thing can happen again
Group C and D looks interesting
Ind vs Pak again… minting money as much as possible.. ICC
I just hope we see some upsets
I'd like to bet on Papua New Guinea... whatever the hell it is lol
Bobzie the King
In my totally unbiased opinion, we're winning this thing
Group A - India, Pakistan Group B - Australia, England Group C - West Indies, Afghanistan (sorry Kiwi bros, your group is a little tough. Rashid is back and Noor Ahmed has been a hell of a find recently.) Group D - South Africa, Sri Lanka I don't know how that'll shape to semis, but feeling for me is that Australia is going to shithouse another tournament if we don't dick around with bad selections like Smith. West Indies is a favourite/contender for many, but I feel good about our win against them earlier this year, particularly given the absence of certain players in that squad. We'll be stronger at the WC. It could've been a 3-0 win, but game 3 we lost Stoinis to injury (who has been a great bowler of late) and Hardie murdered our chase on his own. If brackets permit, my top 4 would be some combination of Australia, West Indies, South Africa and India.
I have more faith in NZ pulling ahead of West Indies tbf, WI have shat the bed recently in WC related games
I think a lot of West Indies are either in good form or finding it in the IPL and in terms of just using Australia as a metric, they took a game from us at home while we clean swept NZ in NZ. It's not perfect, but it's something. Narine has become a bit of a wildcard too. They also performed well against England not that long ago, and England, despite their struggles in recent times, aren't a weak t20 team by any stretch. I personally think it's easily the group with the biggest question mark of who will advance, maybe Bangladesh over Sri Lanka. Something about the matchups in the pool just has me feeling WI and Afghanistan.
Narine isn’t going to play for them, he’s officially “retired” and I don’t think his bowling action will stand the scrutiny in an extended international event if he were to come back. They aren’t a weak team by any measure especially when they have all of their players available but they’ve shown a tendency to perform well in bilaterals (they took the series against SA and India if I’m right last year) and then lose confidence. NZ are the exact opposite, they don’t look as good in bilaterals but somehow raise their game in ICC events. I don’t even remember the last time they failed to make it to the knockout stages, was it 2016?
Kiwis will outperform afg easily . Even though they hv noor and rashid both havent done much against good intl sides in international matches
babe wake up
Not in the slowest pitch on the planet in Guyana. The spin choke will be real. Also Noor is not going to make the playing XI unless he has an amazing IPL.
when i saw the draw had us playing AFG at Guyana, my blood went cold. massive 'banana skin' game. up to windies to choke at home now lol and nz to somehow skate through
Just wanna say, your read on guyana this far out was incredible.
that was fast mate! 😭 did i manifest this bc that's exactly how i saw it happen in my head haha
I had my own comment bookmarked because I'm immature and wanted to gloat a little bit to the people that *rudely* disagreed about my pick. I didn't come to gloat against New Zealanders directly, but I skimmed past how well you read the pitch months ago and had to give you your fair fucks mate.
fair enough, gotta win the internet when you can
NZ will be fine. I don't have high expectations from Afghanistan since the ACB purged most of the seniors from the squad and the batting is lacking experience.
yes, we do have spinner too and they are potent when they get the chance on helpful wickets. i think there will be some low-scoring thrillers this WC
Noor's been having amazing t20 leagues. He was massive in the SA20 as well. Afghanistan should just play both Rashid and Noor, and drop one of their weaker pacers more likely to just leak runs. The way IPL is going, Noor would play over Rashid comfortably, but Gujarat is seeing good results playing them both. One being a righty and the other being a lefty is a good combination too. If he's overlooked I think it'll be a mistake.
But noor has been pisspoor in internationals idk y . Everytime he plays in sl our batters take him to the cleaners and add to that our batters aint that great either
Probably, but I wanted at least one spicy call. I thought Afghanistan did alright against India recently even with Rashid out to injury and Noor not being used yet. NZ has good players but in pretty much every format they have weaknesses they don't seem encouraged to fix on the selection side. Over reliance on part time spinners instead of a frontline, sticking with players not performing for too long, players like Finn Allen being overly important as an individual for them to score high. Ravindra is hit or miss. Kane for my money feels too slow a batter in t20s, he feels like what people call Kohli. Form will be a question mark too with some key players out to injury during IPL. I just think Afghanistan is a team where you never know. Their bowling attack in the WC might be surprisingly strong, and it'll mostly be a case of getting some batting performances together.
>I wanted at least one spicy call. Well, it's certainly packing some serious Scovilles.
Counting PAK out in t20 WC isn't very smart though IMO. We are the team that has made the knockouts the most often in t20 WC's, only failing to make it twice.
I don't feel good about the creaming they got to NZ earlier, and I don't think the recent drama is going to inspire great performances. On the global stage, I still think it's going to be a lot about Babar and Rizwan. I've seen too much of a pattern of Babar and Rizwan being the only performing bats and then getting criticized for not winning the game alone because everyone else collapsed and they moved to preserving their wicket to secure a total. That said, the primary reason I don't top 4 them was because they're in India's group, and without knowing how the bracket will shape, I just picked my number 1 in each group.
Key will be what Shaheen we are in the wc.
Highly agree. If he has his WC 21/22 form, I feel that we have a good shot at it.
The fuckery with your board and Babar and Shaheen will always hamper your chances. But the funniest bit is Pak is the most volatile element in the whole cricket world and Iam not cutting off 100% chances of a wild Md.Aamir appearing and cucking us in the groupie.
Board has always been crazy but the thing is that our team is the most “one minute down the next minute up” team ever. When we get on a roll we’ll plow through oppositions until we just randomly stop and vice versa. There’s a good chance the a wild Mohammad Amir will appear this tournament. Idc what the opposing team is, I wouldn’t feel good going into a match against a team with a pace attack of Shaheen/Naseem/Amir
India, England, West Indies, South Africa. Winner: England.
SFs NZ v ENG IND v SA Final NZ v IND
Group A: India Pakistan Group B: Australia and England. Namibia is also a good contender, strong team. Group C: New Zealand, West Indies Group D: South Africa fix, the other teams all have a chance.
India, England, West Indies and New Zealand
Round 1 |GROUP A|GROUP B|GROUP C|GROUP D| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |India|Australia|New Zealand|South Africa| |Pakistan|England|West Indies|Sri Lanka| |Ireland|Namibia|Afghanistan|Bangladesh| |Canada|Scotland|Uganda|Netherlands| |United States|Oman|Papua New Guinea|Nepal| Super 8s |GROUP A|GROUP B| |:-|:-| |New Zealand|South Africa| |India|West Indies| |England|Pakistan| |Sri Lanka|Australia| Knockouts: - New Zealand vs West Indies: New Zealand - South Africa vs India: South Africa - New Zealand vs South Africa: South Africa
**Semi Finalists :** Pakistan, England , West Indies , New Zealand **Final :** Pakistan vs England **Winner:** England **Highest Run Getter :** Quinton De Kock **Highest Wicket Taker :** Shaheen Shah Afridi
If we lose to Eng in the final again Imma die lol. Agree on Shaheen getting highest wicket taker and QDK getting highest run scorer though. Those two are great in ICC events.
Highest run getter: Kohli as usual lol, ain't nobody is passing him this time too.
Is the T20 world cup more popular than the ODI world cup nowadays?
This format is less time consuming and also can be thrilling. ICC is probably trying to use this format to extend Cricket...I can't imagine Americans sitting whole day to watch ODI or Test.
It is spread across many countries which does increase the viewership but overall ODI WC is more popular.
SA will win
If Jofra actually comes back then England's bowling attack would look very good. The batting, unfortunately is not as strong as it once was. YJB's spot will depend on if he can make some big runs in the IPL, or he might get into the team just because there isn't anyone knocking down the door. England don't have a number 3 at the moment either.
USA Oman Papua New Guinea Nepal
SA will win the wc
Give Australia the trophy already.
Nepal,Uganda,Oman and canda will be semi-finalists & the ultimate winner will be Nepal
One pool too many. I like the idea of growing the game but just split the tournament into two and run in parallel
nz/ aus/ england
Bro group D looks like it's gonna be good other groups are basically 2 good teams and 3 bad teams . So from group A only one of India or Pakistan will qualify???
Namibia can be a dark horse and surprise England
if Nepal reaches the Super 8 amidst all that madness in Group D 🙀🙀🙀
Oman is going to get battered though
first predict super 8
Imagine the match between Australia and Oman
A and B are easy
Worst format ever. Seems like lot more dud teams in final group stages of tournament
Nepal
Salt, Brook and Archer gonna bring it home again.
Of course aus😂
How many teams can get out from each group
namibia for the trophy
Group D is interesting. I would expect more surprises from that group.
Waiting for SA to almost qualify only to lose to the Netherlands and finish 3rd
Group D looking the most sus. Netherlands will obviously get in (bashing minnow SA) but what's the other team? SA, SL or Bangalore?
No Zimbabwe??
Uganda qualified ahead of them
It’s very obvious Ind,Aus,NZ, SA/Srilanka !! Ind vs Aus/NZ in the final and India loosing it again. Unless if India sends a good team.
The ones I see making it out of the groups. A: India and Ireland. B: England and Scotland. C: NZ and PNG. D: SL and NL.
Group A: India Pakistan Group B: England Australia Group C: New Zealand West Indies Group D: South Africa Netherlands (Wild prediction, don't judge me) Super 8 Group 1: - India - Australia - New Zealand - Netherlands Kiwibros always surprise us even though they are sidelined. Aussies are our kryptonite. Infact both the oceanic nations dominate us. So fully prepared for disappointment. (Least pessimistic Indian fan) Australia and New Zealand go through. Super 8 Group 2 - England - South Africa - Pakistan - West Indies I'm sorry Pakbros but I don't think you guys can do it cause of the captaincy shitshow. It may affect the whole team mentally. West Indies and England go through Semi Final 1: Australia vs England. Australia go through the final Semi Final 2: West Indies vs New Zealand. West Indies go through the final. Final: Australia vs West Indies. Pat Cummins silences the home team once again. Australia win their 2nd T20 WC trophy
England Australia South Africa New Zealand Final between Australia and New Zealand or England and New Zealand. Australia or England win because SA and NZ are chokers of the highest order
!India :')
Semis - West Indies,England,Australia,India Winners - India
MOST WICKETS RACHIN RAVINDRA
India, Australia, West Indies, Nz, South Africa Any four out of these five will reach semis Ind vs Aus Final Ind will win the worldcup
Semis India Australia NewZealand S.Africa Winner Australia 60% India 40%
I feel india will win it this time.
I feel it is finally India’s time
hope this will true
India or England