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ICC World Cup Qualifiers 2018, Round Robin League is nearly over now. Six teams will feature in Super Six Stage, which will clearly be looked as knock out phase.

Group A :

Windies
Ireland
UAE

Group B :

Zimbabwe
Scotland
Afghanistan

####Must win games

Zimbabwe V/s Windies

Zimbabwe V/s Ireland

Every game is a must win game, but I think most importantly we need to allow for a mishap. We are not expected to beat the West Indies. We should not go in to that game expecting to lose, but we should definitely be looking to knock over Scotland first, then Ireland and UAE.

Surely wins in those games will secure our spot.

Against Windies, Jarvis needs to be replaced by Chisoro. Chatara & Muzarabani are among wickets. Raza needs to open the bowling. Windies Spin weakness needs to be cash in by Zimbabwe

Can we also start bowling first if we win the toss?

It is such a massive advantage in tournaments where NRR is important. Look at the group match between Australia and New Zealand at the last world cup. Australia posted 151 and New Zealand scored 9/152 in 23.1 overs. Common sense would tell you it was a pretty close game, NZ would probably only score another 5-10 runs or so if left to keep batting, but because NRR doesn't take into consideration the wickets, it was the equivalent of scoring 328 because they chased it down so quickly which gave them a massive NRR boost.

The Scotland/Hong Kong game was a bit like this: HK 91 all out & Scot 6/92 (23.3ov)

The result is even more magnified if you have attacking openers such as ours.

Even our own game vs Hong Kong, we bowled HK for 174; we reached the same total in 27.2 overs (probably could've done in 20 if required), which would would have been the equivalent of scoring 318 batting first.

Add in the fact that the HSC pitch is most lively in the morning and it is a no brainer.

I have serious doubt on West indies, this is a team which can loose three matches at super six in no time. Mind you Zimbabwe spinners are way better than Ireland and feel Zim will start as favorites. Just imagine what a massive boost Zim will get by qualifying for the world cup.

ricky wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 11, 2018 5:00 pm

I have serious doubt on West indies, this is a team which can loose three matches at super six in no time. Mind you Zimbabwe spinners are way better than Ireland and feel Zim will start as favorites. Just imagine what a massive boost Zim will get by qualifying for the world cup.

It would be a big help for us if Netherlands somehow beat West Indies tonight.

One game at a time boys lets just concentrate on beating Scotland which will be no easy task they've been very impressive this tournament

Afghanistan may play like champions now. History of ICC events says, favourite teams who comes out from the position of being kicked out emerged with strength

It seems like it will be one of WI/Afghanistan qualifying

The Afghanistan supporters are horrible. I've had to really bite my lip having read through some of those comments.

Just really thick and stupid the way they come across