Re: ODI cricket and general cricketing discussion [self - mod]
Namibia vs United States
So in these two teams United States of America teams is much better as compare to Namibia team. Because United States already played with Canada and Netherlands. So Namibia is looking a weak team against them. By the way this is too early to say. Match will start in 15 minutes. United States won the toss and they decided to bowl first and I think they made a good decision they will see the target and they have a goal so they will chase easily. So let's see.
This match should be won by the United States of America without any doubt. Even I was confident about this result even before the start of the game but now when they only need 20 runs in 72 balls, you can understand how easy was this match for the United States. Namibia only scored 199 runs and lost 9 wickets in the process. There were a couple of good innings by the Ireland team, one was by Jan Frylinck who made 70 runs and the other one by JJ Smit who made 49 runs. Rest there was just an ordinary display of batting by other batsmen and it did not help the Namibia cause. United States have lost only 4 wickets and they are very much near to the target now.So in these two teams United States of America teams is much better as compare to Namibia team. Because United States already played with Canada and Netherlands. So Namibia is looking a weak team against them. By the way this is too early to say. Match will start in 15 minutes. United States won the toss and they decided to bowl first and I think they made a good decision they will see the target and they have a goal so they will chase easily. So let's see.
Even though USA actually lost the first two wickets pretty quickly, they were able to recover from that situation, and in the end they were able to win the match pretty comfortably.
I have to say I think that USA bowlers actually did a very good job. All of them had an economy of less than five. And I think that’s where Namibia actually lost the match. They were unable to put up a big enough target and the USA team was just a little too good compared to Namibia.
Patel (72) was the top score on the chase of 200, then he got bowled out. Mukkamalla able to add more 59 out of 71 balls. Monank-Mukkamalla's partnership pushed the match with 106 runs and really good individual performances to make sure that USA won the match.