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Afghanistan are almost through now to the World Cup, even one win from their remaining 9 games will see them through.

Afghans annhilated Sri Lanka in the first ODI. Sri Lanka, despite winning the T20 Asia Cup are still a very mediocre side.

Kriterion_BD wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 27, 2022 8:54 pm

Afghans annhilated Sri Lanka in the first ODI. Sri Lanka, despite winning the T20 Asia Cup are still a very mediocre side.

Ya, Sri Lanka look very vulnerable. Pakistan should never have lost that Asia cup final, they threw it away. Two finals - Asia Cup and World Cup and in both Pakistan underperformed.

Considering the disastrous performance of South Africa, Sri Lanka and West Indies in the WSL, Zimbabwe would be kicking themselves for not doing better against some of the team where they could have won a few games.

Even 1 win each against India, Bangladesh and Afghanistan would have meant 75 points for Zimbabwe with three games remaining against the Dutch. They should have won that last ODI against India, they won the non-WSL series against Bangladesh, if only they had played like that in the series that mattered and surely they could have pulled one over the Afghans.

This was a very realistically possible scenario which could have given Zimbabwe a very good chance for a shot at Direct WC qualification.

Sri Lanka have been quite ordinary in the last two games against India, making elementary mistakes like dropping easy catches and lacking game sense. I'm afraid but they look the most vulnerable of the teams to get upset in the qualifiers should they not make it directly.

Gosh, what is it with Indians and double centuries?

pillowprocter wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:44 am

Gosh, what is it with Indians and double centuries?

The grounds play a part.

slcricfan1 wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 19, 2023 3:35 am

pillowprocter wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 18, 2023 11:44 am

Gosh, what is it with Indians and double centuries?

The grounds play a part.

Well other players are also batting on these same grounds and pitches. I think its mindset mostly. The Indian batters don't tuk tuk when they are in form and realize the pitch is a belter. Other teams' batters for the most part will take a more conservative approach thinking "330-340 is a great total, we don't need 400". But Indian batters have the mentality of smashing records when given the opporunity.

Indians play more games in high quality games than any other countries. T20 cricket has sharpened up everyone’s ODI game, batsman can score quickly with less risk than 10 or 15 years ago.

It’s no coincidence that India’s rise to the top started with the birth of the IPL. Guys like Gill, SKY, Ishan etc get to play in the highest quality t20 competition in the world. What other domestic players get to test themselves and improve in such an environment?

India also play loads of domestic cricket as well, I’m not sure if it’s more than England, but I assume it would be. So ultimately their players play more cricket than anyone else and play against stronger opposition than anyone else, that’s why they’re so good.

^ Not sure on that. Most of their top players, centrally contracted or even IPL contracted, play relatively little domestic cricket it seems. Once their players 'make it' they seem to almost abandon their provincial teams completely.
Also I don't know about the quality, they have surely way too many teams and thats why in the Ranji Trophy you get mammoth innings totals and guys scoring double and triple hundreds relatively regularly. Big disparity between the strongest 8 or 9 teams and everyone else.