India & Pakistan play tough opposition today in ICC T20 world cup

Yesterday in the group stage two important games get spoiled due to rain but fortunately we'd results for both the games. South Africa won the rain hit match against Sri Lanka, the match was shortened to seven overs a side. In the second game which I think was the most interesting game of this T20 world cup far, Australia best West Indies by Duckworth Luis system. In the West Indies innings we saw West Indies post a total of 191runs against strong bowling of Australia. I now understand the difference Chris Gayle makes in a team.

Today India and Pakistan will play their respective matches against England and New Zealand. For India, England and New Zealand these matches are of less importance as both the teams has already qualified for the super eight. However Pakistan is playing their first match of the tournament thus they need to start it off in a winning fashion. We may expect some changes in the playing eleven for India,New Zealand and the defending champions England. However Pakistan team need to pick best eleven in the team and that's what the captain Mohammad Hafeez and coach Dav Whatmore might be thinking about. The match between Pakistan will start at 3:30 pm local time (+5:50 GMT) and though it forecasts about rains I am confident of a full play today.

The second match today between India and England will be played at 7:30 pm local time and this might be another interesting match to watch. England are the defending champions of the twenty twenty world cup while Indians are the winners of the first T20 world cup played.  One thing might be interesting to see is the battle between Stuart Broad and Yuvraj Singh. 5 years back in the history it was Yuvraj Singh who hit the England bowler for 6 consecutive sixes in an over. You can read more about it at this post
Lets wait and watch if something similar happens in the match today or we can see someone taking a ha-trick of wickets. Catch all the live scores and action of the matches in few hours from now. Stay tuned. 

India v Netherlands match live - ICC Cricket World Cup

Many people are taking this match as Sehwag vs ten Doeschate. Let see how the match will progress. Like many other ICC assosciates Netherlands mayalso want to go home with atleast one win. Tomorrows match may not ne the one they may consider winning. But yes Netherlands team will have a great experience playing against the number one team at the home. For Team India I want to see some changes in the team like gettin R Ashwin and Ashish Nehra back in the team.

Indian team looke very poor in bowling and they will need to get a good bowling combination before moving to the knock out rounds of the world cup. Let wait and watch how tomorrows match may go for team India and Netherlands as well. In the mean time New Zealand has accelerated heavily in the slog voers and team score reaching 257 for 6 in 48 overs. Pakistan here played a heavy price for Dropping birthday boy Ross taylor in the very first over he played bowled by Shohaib Akhtar.

New Zealand 142/4 in 35 overs - Need to push for runs

New Zealand lost 2 quick wickets at the start of the innings but Martkin Guptil and Ross Taylor batted well to build the innings for Neww Zealand. Once Marting Guptil was bowlede by Shahid Afridi delivery, other wicket also fell quickly. Now New Zealand can make a strong comeback in the match only be batting well in the last 15 overs and if they can manage to score somewhere around 280 it won't be easy for Pakistan to chase the score.

For Pakistan it would be ideal if they can pick some quick wickets and manage to restric New Zealand under 250 otherwise it wont be easy for them to chase.