Quote from: Sithara007 on Today at 09:46:25 AM

Quote from: Bitcoin Smith on Today at 08:52:07 AM

Surprisingly Afghanistan won the toss but decided to bowl first, I expected to follow the same formula which is bat first, put a decent total then they have a very good bowling unit to be a threat even if its 230+ score since the match is happening in Chennai which is highly spin friendly pitch.

The match started already and AFG dropped an early chance, which they can't afford to do if they want to bear a team with this form.

Afghan batting is in poor shape and that maybe the reason why they chose to field first. Even during the match against England,

I think if their bowling is their strongest then they should opted to bat first and try to defend the total with the best possible way, but AFG tried to do it other way around and failed miserably. Now NZ got back to the table-top again with better run rate.

So it's like little cat and mouse between India and NZ for the first position now and probably India can regain the top place if they win against Bangladesh. But Bangladesh has wonderful record against India, and they are also capable of upsetting any team, and they consistently did for very long and in 2007 they knocked India out of super 8.