Weekly CRICKET Review - LVII | DISSAPOINTING AND INTERESTING

Hello, fellow Cricket Enthusiast,

You already know I am sharing a weekly wrap-up of what is happening within the Cricket community. It's the 57th edition now.

The 2024 ICC Men's T20 World Cup has already started in the Caribbean islands and the USA. With the increase of teams up to 20 and the USA setting their foot, we see an interesting future ahead in one or another. So, Let's dig on!

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• Last week, I discussed briefly about the arrangement and let's see the update after 19 matches.

Total Emarassement from Sri Lanka

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Well, it was a disappointing start from the Sri Lankan camp obviously, losing against South Africa and Bangladesh. Anyway, these guys deserve it and no surprise at all with the result. .

Other than two or three players, no professionalism in or outside the field, and no game plan, we are in the same spot as in 2015 when all the teams are playing competitive cricket. No winning mentality or hunger, the same Cricket Board, rotating the same players even without significant performance, the same old domestic structure, no competitive domestic tournament, and so on.

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Formal complaints about organizing party

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• Well, complaints have Been made from a few countries regarding accommodations and traveling distances. You will be surprised to see the huge difference between teams.

And on the other hand, it's surprising to see empty seats when the matches start at 10.00 a.m. How to enjoy the WC by the home crowd. To my knowledge, ICC is just targeting the revenue from Indian watch hours. And it's satisfactory about the pitch condition as well. Hello, this is the World Cup.

Rise of the Associate teams

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It was great to see the way associated teams are playing in the tournament. They are not only playing competitive cricket but also have outplayed top teams. USA, Canada, PNG, and Nepal are even though with part-time Cricketers showing some real class and maturity.

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• USA won against Pakistan - This was the first unexpected scene of the tournament. After a great run chase over Canada, they just shocked the whole Cricketing world.

Their ballers did well to restrict Pakistan to 159 runs. Unless for Shada's 40 off 25 alls it would have been much better. Anyway USA got a good start and the captain Monank Patel had a fifty, Monank Patel and they had it all under control. but Pakistan pulled things off with a few tidy overs, after breaking the above partnership. In the final over they had to take 15 runs off Haris and ended up scoring just 14 guiding to a super over.

USA scored 18 runs in the super over against Aamir including 7 wides. Netravalkar, the Software Engineer in the picture defended it securing them a famous win.

• Afghanistan cheaply outplayed New Zealand

It was always a pleasure to see how Afghan boys rose and proved their excellence during the past few years. They have a consistent batting lineup, a world-class balling attack, and a hunger mentality. They did not just win, but won it by 84 against Kiwis, by restricting them to just 75 runs.

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With a matured knock from Gurbaz, they put in a total of 159/6. Fazalhaq Farooqi, who took a fifer in the last match continued his form getting Fin Allan in the first ball of the run chase. He took 3 wickets in the powerplay and Rashid and Nai destroyed their middle order. In 15 over, Kiwis were all out for just 75 runs.

ICC Mens T20 World Cup 2024 - Points Table

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After 19 matches, here's the point tale of 4 groups.

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You can guess the 4 semi semi-finalists, finalists, and the winner correctly and win exciting prizes!!

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Until the next time! Enjoy!

Thank you.
Best Regards!