Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]
2 interesting encounters coming up people. We have Afghanistan and Bangladesh duking it out and it's tough to tell who will win among them since they seem evenly matched, but my bet is on Bangladesh.
Today is the two matches of the World Cup. The one match started and the second match will start after an hour. The Afghanistan team didn't play well in today's match. They lost their main wickets. Rashid Khan is on strike. I think Afghanistan can win this match because of Rashid Khan. Other players of the Afghanistan team can't play well. Muhammad Nabi was also out and he scored just 6 in 12 balls. Afghanistan's performance is not going well in today's match.
It was a poor display of cricket by the Afghanistan team. They were all out at 156 runs, which no one would have thought before the match. Although i thought that the Afganistan team started well with Rahmanullah Gurbaz making 44 along with Ibrahim Zadran 22 runs but once they started to lose wickets, there was no resistance shown by the lower end batsmen and all the team was booked at 156 runs.
Bangladesh should easily win this match and even Rashid Khan would not be effective when they have no score to defend.
In the bowling department, Shakib Al Hasan and Mehidy Hasan Miraz, both took three wickets each and stood out prominent among the Bangladesh bowlers.