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2 Back to Back ICC Trophies..!! Feels great after the past decade ICC tournament finals/Semis losses. Hoping for 2 more trophies in the form of T20 WC '26 & '27 WC.

I hope Bcci & GG show enough balls and not name him in the champions trophy squad.

True, But I don't think BCCI will allow them to retire anytime in the near future, till the time Indian public finds god in a new player. That's the harsh reality of Indian Cricket, People worship these players & If they retire the viewership declines hence the BCCI & Broadcasters want them to play little longer. PS: This is my point of view , Can be wrong too.

T20 Team looks so good after Ro-Ko retirement. This is what we lacked in T20, the players who could score at 200+ SR. Now we have 3-4 match winners in the team. T20 team should always have been of fresh faces, Don't know why the management picked big names in the team. I am sure this team will win the next T20 WC in 2026 which will happen in India. Meanwhile ODI/Test team should be different, Sky should not be included in the ODI's, Let him be the T20 Captain. Also Jaiswal should not be included in the T20 Squad, He belongs to the Test/ODI category along with Ruturaj. S.Iyer - KL can still be included in these formats as they can play well in the middle overs.

I don't think so. Rohit & Virat both have not been delivering since long in red ball format. ODI's they are fine but Tests they are not upto the mark. Look at Smith/Root/Williamson they are way ahead of Virat in test performances recently. I mean draw's will give points but won't give us a sure shot spot. 4 Wins will give us sure spot. 3 wins will have us looking at the other team results (Nz Vs Eng) & (SA vs SL)

I won't say our bowlers failed. It's more like our batting has failed in 2 out of 3 innings so far in this series. Bowling has been okay.

If we lose this series (Which most likely we will) & End up losing in Aus then surely Rohit & Kohli will be shown the door as we know how Gautam is. Also we need 4 wins out of 6 (2 Nz & 4 Aus) so if we lose both series then we will not get into the WTC final.

Nz will score around 200, Target of 300-315. We will lose by 85-110 Runs on Day 3 session 3.

Prepared spin track for Nz, Ended up getting smacked by the Nz spinners

Test/ODI: Rohit, Jaiswal, Kohli, Pant, KL, Pandya, Jadeja, Ashwin, Siraj, Bumrah, Chahal, Kuldeep, Gill, S.Iyer. T20: Abhishek Sharma, Samson, Ruturaj, I.Kishan, SKY, Rinku, Riyan, Washington, Hardik, Arshdeep, Mayank Yadav, Harshit Rana, Jitesh, Tilak, Bishnoi. Only Hardik Pandya fits in both setup. Sky should be just kept for T20. Arshdeep also only for T20. Rest these T20 players are mostly new and can be switched with newer talents if they don't step up.

BCCI Should draw a line between ODI/Test Players & T20 Players. Will help with the workload management and also brings in the variety. Gill Should not be a part of the T20 setup I feel, Also Jaiswal Should not be included in the T20 setup as he is already playing 2 formats so doesn't make any sense to have him in T20 even though his approach is truly T20 style but still. Even I feel that Bumrah should be rested for the T20 Series and only included in the T20 Wc's, He is too injury prone so it's better to let him rest in the shorter format. We have too many options now, We can afford to juggle around and manage 2 parallel teams. Should just keep the youngsters in the T20 setup.

True, Losing 2 test matches to Bangladesh that too at Home is just unacceptable from a team like Pakistan.

I used to play FIFA 10-11-12 IIRC, Also played in a tournament not sure which one. Got good beating from everyone so left Fifa for good

Missed the Cricket thread during the T20 WC

No Bro, not using any. I could be of some help if you can elaborate your use case or DM me.

Hopefully its Q1 2025, Which makes it 11 Years after the release of GTA 5. But looking at the trailer I guess it will be worth the decade of a wait.

Can't Wait..!! Hoping for a 2024 Release Date.

Ruturaj, Jaiswal, Washington Sundar, Suryakumar Yadav, Rinku Singh, Jitesh Sharma (wk) , Axar Patel, Shivam Dubey, Arshdeep Singh, Mukesh Kumar, Ravi Bishnoi. Bench: Tilak Verma, Ishan Kishan, Prasidh Krishna, Avesh Khan Perfect playing 11, 4 Batsmen, 1 Wk, 3 all rounder, 3 Bowlers. They should not make any changes now to the squad till the upcoming T20WC. Let's see what these youngsters will do.

I feel from now on, we need 2 teams, totally separate. One for T20’s only with different coaches, support staff & players. Other ODI + Test again different coach, staff and again totally different players from t20 team. If one team goes overseas it takes 2-3 months, and you end up playing 3 t20’s, rather than that have 2 teams touring different countries that way workload can be reduced and play more format oriented games. This team is perfect for another 2 years for odi + test. Build totally new T20 Young team and nurture them for future. We select ipl players then give them 3 matches, then bench them, how can you expect them to win you matches when they play 3 games in 6 months. we need youngsters team for T20 and play at least 20 games globally touring UK, Australia, NZ, SA each year And avoid playing SL every 6 months.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 19, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Monday, October 23 Afghanistan v Pakistan Match = 0 - 1 50s = 1 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 20, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Tuesday, October 24 Bangladesh v South Africa Match = 0 - 1 50s = 1 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 21, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Wednesday, October 25 Australia v Netherlands Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 22, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Thursday, October 26 England v Sri Lanka Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 23, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Friday, October 27 Pakistan v South Africa Match = 0 - 1 50s = 2 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 24, prediction deadline at 10:30AM Saturday, October 28 Australia v New Zealand Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 2 Bangladesh v Netherlands: 2:00PM Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 25, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Sunday, October 29 England v India Match = 0 - 1 50s = 2 - 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 26, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Monday, October 30 Afghanistan v Sri Lanka Match = 0 - 1 50s = 1 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 27, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Tuesday, October 31 Bangladesh v Pakistan Match = 0 - 1 50s = 2 - 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 28, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Wednesday, November 01 New Zealand v South Africa Match = 1 - 0 50s = 3 - 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 29, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Thursday, November 02 India v Sri Lanka Match = 1 - 0 50s = 3 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 30, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Friday, November 03 Afghanistan v Netherlands Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 31, prediction deadline at 10:30AM Saturday, November 04 New Zealand v Pakistan Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 2 Australia v England: 2:00PM Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 32, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Sunday, November 05 India v South Africa Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 33, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Monday, November 06 Bangladesh v Sri Lanka Match = 0 - 1 50s = 2 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 34, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Tuesday, November 07 Afghanistan v Australia Match = 0 - 1 50s = 1 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 35, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Wednesday, November 08 England v Netherlands Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 36, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Thursday, November 09 New Zealand v Sri Lanka Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 37, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Friday, November 10 Afghanistan v South Africa Match = 0 - 1 50s = 2 - 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 38, prediction deadline at 10:30AM Saturday, November 11 Australia v Bangladesh Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 1 England v Pakistan: 2:00PM Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 39, prediction deadline at 2:00PM Sunday, November 12 India v Netherlands Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Match Day 16 Australia v Pakistan Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 17 Netherlands v Sri Lanka Match = 0 - 1 50s = 1 - 2 England v South Africa Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Match Day 18 India v New Zealand Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2 - 2

Match Day 13 Netherlands v South Africa Match = 0-1 50s = 1-2 ------------------------------------------------------ Match Day 14 Afghanistan v New Zealand Match = 0-1 50s = 2-3 ------------------------------------------------------ Match Day 15 Bangladesh v India Match = 0-1 50s = 1-2

Match Day 12 Australia v Sri Lanka Match = 1 - 0 50s = 2-1