Here would like to see similar pattern which IPL uses for knockout games.

Happy Diwali to you Haunebu and everyone.


Not sure bro if BCCI wants 2 captains for each format.

One sided game and CA was complaining about why people are not buying ticket, one of my friend was saying that less than 15k people bought the tickets and then CA literally gave away tickets for free just to bring crowds.

Certainly must be relieving for Australia for Warner to come back to his form again but we have yet to test out how he perform against side with good bowlers. Apart from Malinga I don't see bowlers who are quite good. We have seen Warner struggling in Ashes against England's bowlers so not quite sure if he can perform against good bowlers.

Under Ms Dhoni Chennai kings is the team to beat in the IPL and the ease in which they are winning the tournament is astonishing and the amount of times they reached the final speaks for their performance as a team and in the history of IPL they reached the finals eight times and none of the teams play with that level of consistency and remember they were banned for two years.

Srilanka beat the number one T20 team with ease but the number 5 team trashed them .

CSK also boasts the biggest fan following in the country. There was a video released sometime back which showed them following the CSK bus. Was insane. With Dhoni at the helm, CSK will continue performing well in the future too.

This is why rankings are not everything. Upsets happen and underdogs do win sometimes though Australia here was never an underdog to begin with. As expected, Warner(The beast) is back in form and Australia rocked that match.

The latest news from the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Qualifier is that Papua New Guinea has almost qualified for the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup. It is still "almost", because Scotland is playing the Netherlands now and if the latter wins by a big margin, then they have a chance of overtaking Papua New Guinea as the top team in Group A. As of now, the top 4 sides in Group A are PNG (10 points), Netherlands (08), Namibia (08) and Scotland (6).

In Group B, no one has confirmed their slot yet. The top 4 as of now are: Ireland (08), Oman (08), UAE (6) and Hong Kong (6). The remaining matches are Oman vs Jersey and UAE vs Canada. So the ranking can still change, but as of now it looks like Oman will top the group as Jersey is a very weak team. And this is how the tournament format works:

1. Top ranked teams from both groups qualify for the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup.
2. Second and third ranking sides from opposite groups play each other. Winner qualifies for the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup. The loser from these matches play against the 4th placed teams from both groups and the winners from these matches qualify for the 2020 ICC T20 World Cup.

Here we go, another Cryptotalk spammer messing with ongoing discussion quoting the 10-month-old OP and completely being offtopic by talking about IPL when it's not even close and diverted the topic from ongoing qualifiers and the SL-AUS series. I hate it when such things happen.


I don't think the SL team will win any of the matches against Australia in their home ground even if they managed to get a few wickets. Because, all the top-notch SL players are retired except for maybe Lasith Malinga and Angelo Mattews. So we have only one top-notch player playing for the Srilankan side that is Lasith Malinga. I know that he can create some serious upsets with his bowling, but I highly doubt that his fellow teammates will able to counter them.

Kinda agree with that. Shorter format is kinda favoured to batsman more than bowler. Also the fielding restrictions gives them more benefit since they are able to play more freely like you said.


You also should have hitting batsman to chase that score and I felt like Sri Lanka lacked aggressive players like a side should have in yesterday's clash.

If you notice the grounds are much smaller now and all the rules favor the batsman and it is really hard to be a good bowler in these situations as a miss hit will go over the ropes, i would like to see some equal playing field but the more commercialized cricket became more rules are favoring the batsman so that they could get more air time.

The Australians were on point and not giving away free space to launch these shots  .

The 2020 ICC T20 World Cup will be played at Australia and the results from today's match is not very encouraging for Sri Lanka. First of all, they could not directly qualify for the Super-12 because of their low rank. So they need to play the preliminary round, unlike the other big teams. And if they lose to the big 3 teams by this much huge margins, then I am afraid that they'll become irrelevant in international cricket.

Are you sure that Srilanka is not confirmed for the next world cup while non international teams playing for qualification can get into the world cup and i am certain that Srilanka will destroy all the teams with ease and if this is true this will be another blunder by the ICC and i really wish that what you say is not true as there is no logic behind that as they can accept who are not at all in the rankings but they will reject top teams playing international cricket .