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India (97/2) defeat Ireland (96) by 8 wickets, starting their ICC T20 World Cup 2024 campaign with a comprehensive win

jnaveen1980 said:
Any half decent bowler will look good here with new ball regardless of who they bowl to.
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That sounds like great news for SSA, Imad, and maybe even Amir who will surely want to dominate Kohli and Rohit one last time.
 
Some fans never learn Pak always brick it before they enter the field v Ind in world cups dodgy pitch or not.. these over the hill sharmas will beat shaheen & co to pulp.
 
Highly unlikely Ireland is winning this, but from this stage if they can even get 3-4 more wickets it will hurt India down the stretch.
 
AAli98 said:
Some fans never learn Pak always brick it before they enter the field v Ind in world cups dodgy pitch or not.. these over the hill sharmas will beat shaheen & co to pulp.
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Pakistan had the spiciest early season pitch imaginable at the mCG. Probably the quickest in the world cup.
 
AAli98 said:
Some fans never learn Pak always brick it before they enter the field v Ind in world cups dodgy pitch or not.. these over the hill sharmas will beat shaheen & co to pulp.
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Because they did so well the last two times out. Rohit Sharma has averaged 2 in his last two T20 world cup matches vs Pakistan, faced a grand total of 8 balls. It took a Kohli blinder off Haris Rauf for India to win in 2022. I'll give you the 23 world cup. Pakistan just sucked that day.
 
140+ is very competitive score . batting first tram should look for 150 targets when they bat first
 
zn426 said:
Because they did so well the last two times out. Rohit Sharma has averaged 2 in his last two T20 world cup matches vs Pakistan, faced a grand total of 8 balls. It took a Kohli blinder off Haris Rauf for India to win in 2022. I'll give you the 23 world cup. Pakistan just sucked that day.
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I do not think Pakistan will stand a chance in ODIs. But in T20s they will be more competitive given that INdia is still stuck with washed up seniors.
 
As others struggle at the NY picth, Rohit Sharma is effortlessly hitting pull shots.
 
I think India should have batted first. Not sure why a team like India went with the defensive option.
 
Pitch is the same for both teams. Can you guys stop cribbing about the pitch? Adapt and play accordingly. These guys are used to such flat tracks that they cant adapt. Sometimes it's good to see ball dominate bat..
 
deltexas said:
Pitch is the same for both teams. Can you guys stop cribbing about the pitch? Adapt and play accordingly. These guys are used to such flat tracks that they cant adapt. Sometimes it's good to see ball dominate bat..
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Want to see how senior washed up ind batsmen perform against better teams this wc
 
Rohit Sharma retires hurt on 52

India will hope that is not a serious injury to their captain. When we have any further news, we will let you know.

The issue appears to be his shoulder as he was hit on that joint a short time ago. Anyway, Suryakumar is on in his place.
 
MenInG said:
Rohit Sharma retires hurt on 52

India will hope that is not a serious injury to their captain. When we have any further news, we will let you know.

The issue appears to be his shoulder as he was hit on that joint a short time ago. Anyway, Suryakumar is on in his place.
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Depends on if he thinks he can bat well against Pakistan.
 
India looked...good enough on this pitch. Losing only two wickets on a difficult pitch is definitely a positive for them.

Pakistan is going to have a rough day if they don't take this pitch seriously on Sunday.
 
zn426 said:
India wins by 8 wickets.

Huge match tomorrow here in Dallas between USA and Pakistan. Who would have ever thought I would write that. I'm here for it. Go USA!
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Dallas will be run fest
 
This is the only banana skin match for any team in the group. India is assured of next round more or less regardless of what happens against Pakistan.
 
Two more interesting matches scheduled to happen today

Australia vs OMan
PNG vs Uganda will be a thriller
 
India captain Rohit Sharma showed his class with a fine half-century to help his side successfully chase down a manageable target of 97 to win, although the skipper wasn’t able to carry his bat after retiring hurt on 52 (37).

India lost Virat Kohli early in their chase of 97, with the opener departing for 1 (5)

But Rishabh Pant, promoted to No. 3, did a strong job on a challenging batting track and hit the winning runs with a huge and unorthodox six, finishing on 36* (26) as India wrapped up the win with 7.4 overs and eight wickets to spare.

Earlier, India’s bowlers produced a sizzling display on a helpful surface to rip through Ireland, bowling them out for just 96 in the Group A contest at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium.

Hardik Pandya took 3/27, with Jasprit Bumrah brilliant with his 2/6 from 3 overs, and Ashdeep Singh impactful with the new ball but expensive late on as he finished with four-over figures of 2/35.

Only four Ireland batters reached double figures, with a late flurry of runs from Gareth Delany (26 from 14) helping his side up to a total that at least gave the bowlers something to work with.

The world’s top-ranked men’s T20I team won the toss and opted to bowl first against Ireland at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium, with Rahul Dravid’s India hoping to end the nation’s 17-year wait for a Men’s T20 World Cup trophy win.

India captain Rohit Sharma picked an XI with five front-line bowling options, with Mohammed Siraj Jasprit Bumrah and Arshdeep Singh all included along with Ravindra Jadeja and Axar Patel.

And India's pacers made early inroads on a surface with plenty on offer for the bowlers, with Arhsdeep Singh proving hugely dangerous with the new ball.

Such was the dominance of seam over spin that India turned to Hardik Pandya ahead of the spin options, and the all-rounder made a big impact with the ball to continue the flurry of wickets.

Hardik bowled out, finishing with 3/27 from his four overs, removing the only two Ireland top-order batters to reach double figures – Lorcan Tucker (10) and Curtis Campher (12).

Ireland’s batters struggled to cope with all members of India’s attack, but it was Jasprit Bumrah who proved the trickiest to get away, with the star quick conceding just four runs from his first two overs and picking up the big wicket of Harry Tector.

But, with the side eight-down with plenty of over remaining, it was all-out attack that proved the successful policy for Gareth Delany and Josh Little, who plundered a partnership with 27 runs from just 18 balls to at least give the Irish bowlers something to work with.

Rohit brought Bumrah back to stem the flow of runs, and he did just that, cleaning up Little (14) with the perfect yorker.

With the No. 11 at the other end, Delany let loose, slamming late runs off Arshdeep. But the Ireland innings ended in slightly shambolic fashion as Delany was run out of a free hit, with Ben White looking to come back for a second run to get the set batter on a strike for the next over.

A target of 97 to win should be well within India’s reach, despite the challenges of the Nassau County surface.

Ireland produced a number of early chances as they searched for wickets, with Rohit getting away with two edges – off Mark Adair and Josh Little respectively.

The excellent Adair did get the breakthrough, tempting Virat Kohli into a hack into the deep to depart for 1 (5).

But Ireland were unable to get into India’s middle order, as Rohit and Rishabh Pant built a strong partnership worth 54 runs from just 44 balls to break the back of the chase.

There was one point of concern for India when their captain walked off with what appeared to be a shoulder injury, having by that point reached his half-century and bringing up career milestones of 4000 T20I and 1000 T20 World Cup runs.

But, after Suryakumar Yadav (2) holed out off Ben White, it was Pant who finished the job to give an Indian-dominated crowd something special to cheer in New York, bringing up the winning runs with a remarkable shot.

India won the inaugural ICC Men’s T20 World Cup in 2007, but have been in unsuccessful in the following seven events, reaching the final just once more, a decade ago.

But Dravid’s side go into the 2024 edition at the top of the MRF Tyres ICC Men’s T20 Rankings, and will have strong hopes of going all the way in the USA and Caribbean.

Opponents Ireland will be eyeing a top-two finish in Group A to seal an against-the-odds spot in the Super 8 stage, but know they will likely need to win all of their remaining group matches – against Canada, USA and Pakistan – in order to achieve that goal.


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Ireland head coach Heinrich Malan criticized the pitch used for their T20 World Cup Group A match against India, emphasizing the importance of a good playing surface, he made these comments during the post-match press conference:

"When you play the game you need a really good surface or as good as surfaces you can get and unfortunately what we've seen over the last couple games just doesn't necessarily live up to that. So hopefully, over the next day or so it can hopefully flatten out a little bit and we can see some good cricket come Friday.”

"I think we just want to see good cricket, don't we? It's the pinnacle of our event and it doesn't have to be 200 play all the time, it just needs to be an equal contest and I think if you look at today it is debatable where that was."

"When we were finding it really tough, we were talking about if we can get to 130-140 and if we can back that up in the execution of our skills from a bowling point of view that's probably, we were looking at to try and get to at one stage."

"If you look at the way they bowled up front, it was obviously pretty challenging. We had to change our game plan a couple of times and unfortunately it just didn't go the way we wanted it to work out. Mike Tyson said any game plan change, you get punched in the face, and I think there was some serious bowling out there."

"They've got three or four serious quick bowlers which we've seen over a period of time who can perform at this level and look, we communicated well. But it's one thing talking about it and another thing executing it under pressure when there's some quality that's coming down at you."

"We tried to do as much homework as we could even though we weren't at the ground training or playing on the surface."

"We spoke to the groundsman; the scores were totally different in that warm-up game that was played on that surface. So, we weren't necessarily expecting it to behave like it did, but again we've got to be better with our execution of our skills and that's obviously something we'll reflect on."
 
jnaveen1980 said:
Don't tell me this team can't have Rinku singh. Rinku singh has more boundaries in 11 matches than Jadeja in his entire career (starting from 2009)
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Jadeja has not been deserving of place in Indian T20 team for a long long time. I can’t even remember one match where he won the match for us.
 
shaz619 said:
@Nikhil_cric Do we still want to drop Rohit and are we still comparing him with Rizwan 🤔
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Brother shaz. Rizwan smashed this jabroni attack twice in their own backyard not too long ago. :danish Surely , we have to judge players on how they play against Top sides and chasing proper totals , not 97 ?
 
Nikhil_cric said:
Brother shaz. Rizwan smashed this jabroni attack twice in their own backyard not too long ago. :danish Surely , we have to judge players on how they play against Top sides and chasing proper totals , not 97 ?
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Mate, I genuinely fear for his life against your bowlers on that pitch lol This isn’t the UAE unfortunately where we can unleash Misbah’s unique infantry with ease.

You were worried about Ireland and they beat Pakistan as well recently, it’s a world event and good start for Rohit, more importantly, the way in which he got his runs
 
shaz619 said:
Mate, I genuinely fear for his life against your bowlers on that pitch lol This isn’t the UAE unfortunately where we can unleash Misbah’s unique infantry with ease.

You were worried about Ireland and they beat Pakistan as well recently, it’s a world event and good start for Rohit, more importantly, the way in which he got his runs
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At this point any runs from Rohit is a bonus.
He didn't deserve his spot 2021, 2022 now 2024.
 
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