****ICC CRICKET WORLD CUP 2019 - ENGLAND CHAMPIONS***

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41 minutes ago, Naaperushiva said:

ley baa maxwell ki kooda tagilindhi anta nets lo forrearm ki..

Ellundi saffa medha aade chances slim vunnatunnayi...Manaki pakka first place vacchela vundhi

Baa Aus team ante Maxwell okkade kadu aa daridrulu WC ante chalu 11 worst players ni ichina max hmgelavataniki try chestharu... But vallaki chasing yekkuva raledu lucky pellows...Semis and finals kuda simple ga 1st batting and 320-330 pakka win...Chasing vasthe ika aashalu vadileskotame 

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32 minutes ago, Sucker said:

Baa Aus team ante Maxwell okkade kadu aa daridrulu WC ante chalu 11 worst players ni ichina max hmgelavataniki try chestharu... But vallaki chasing yekkuva raledu lucky pellows...Semis and finals kuda simple ga 1st batting and 320-330 pakka win...Chasing vasthe ika aashalu vadileskotame 

idhi true baa...toss odipothe match odipoyinatte

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Rahul Dravid is set to take charge as head of cricket operations at the National Cricket Academy in Bengaluru, with an eye on converting the academy into a high-performance centre, the BCCI's target for a long time now. Although the tenure of the contract could not be ascertained, ESPNcricinfo understands that it would be a long-term arrangement.

With the NCA job, Dravid's role in Indian cricket has been expanded. He is also head coach of the India A and India Under-19 men's teams, positions he has held since 2015. It is believed that Dravid will continue in those roles, but will have the authority to delegate coaching duties to the assistant coaches in case he is unable to travel.

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Pakistan did win four important games against top opponents but a crushing opening defeat against West Indies mean they have an inferior net run rate to New Zealand, for which they will pay the price even if they beat Bangladesh. Pakistan's performance has been difficult to read throughout. They started with that shocking defeat at the hands of West Indies. Following that, they were hit and miss, but damaging defeats to Australia and India meant they needed assistance from other results much too early in the tournament. That luck ran out with England completing two wins at the end to guarantee their own progress, quashing Pakistan's flickering hopes in the process.

Their only chance to make it into the semi-final is to bat first and win the contest by a margin of at least 316 runs, a feat never before achieved in ODI cricket. If Bangladesh win the toss and bat, Pakistan are out before a ball has been bowled.

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Bangladesh, meanwhile, have had an excellent World Cup, never quite being blown away by any side, and claiming the scalps of several fancied teams. Eliminated now, the task at hand will be to finish off with a win against Pakistan, which will give them four wins out of eight completed matches, and ensure they finish as the best of the rest - the highest-placed team not to make the semi-finals. Their batting has centred on the brilliance of Shakib Al Hasan's purple patch. He is the second leading run-scorer so far with 542 runs at 90.33 at a strike rate of 100.30 against pacers and 91.50 versus spinners. He is the only allrounder to get both 1000 runs and over 30 wickets in World Cups. No other Bangladesh player has even completed one of those feats.

It is the pacers who have let Bangladesh down in the tournament somewhat. The Bangladesh quicks have picked up only two wickets in the 79 overs they have bowled in the competition inside the first 20 overs. Mustafizur Rahman is the best in the lot taking 15 wickets in the tournament, but none of them have come in the first 15 overs. The batting has helped the side along but, with their World Cup campaign set to end, the question is whether their bowling can complement that effort.

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There was something profoundly significant about the time when West Indies eventually decided to axe Marlon Samuels (average of 22 and strike-rate of 63 since 2017) from the ODI squad post the Bangladesh tour late last year. That the 38-year-old veteran was hooked out for an uncapped 23-year-old Nicholas Pooran for the series against England three months out from a World Cup gave an inkling of the swirl behind the scenes in West Indian cricket administration. The poles needed to shift and this little move brought a lot of it into focus. 

Pooran scored a duck on ODI debut at Bridgetown in his only 50-over game before the World Cup but went on to play each of the team's nine league games at the World Cup finishing as their highest run-getter - 367 runs at 52.42. He signed off the tournament with a match-defining 43-ball 58 against Afghanistan, laying the finishing touches to the works of Shai Hope and Shimron Hetmyer before him. In doing so, he gave a brief glimpse of the metaphorical chinks of light emerging from the depths of another failed World Cup campaign.

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Between their all-consumingly uncertain present and the overly romanticised past, West Indies' recent players have generally not addressed the future. But when Chris Gayle took it upon himself to issue a warning to all future bowlers on behalf of Hope-Hetmyer-Pooran, you paid heed despite the Jamaican's penchant for relentless hyperbole. Then when Carlos Brathwaite, addressing an open media session, put the troika at the heart of an "England post-2015-style" revival for West Indies, your attention was piqued further. 

These were more than just hopeful talk. At ages 25, 22 and 23 respectively, Hope, Hetmyer and Pooran - the three top-scorers for West Indies in this tournament - are at the nascent stages of their careers, yet have already tasted individual success, and collective failure at a World Cup. They bat at Numbers 3, 4 and 5, keeps them optimally placed to influence the team's batting revolution that Brathwaite foreshadowed. That they each bring different attributes to the mix makes this trichotomy an exciting prospect. 

First to Pooran, because he joined this team last and bats after the other two. His addition sets West Indies up to play reactive cricket. Ravichandran Ashwin, Pooran's captain at Kings XI Punjab, paid the southpaw's attributes the best of compliments earlier this year when he stated that he wanted to build the core of the KXIP team's batting around the Trinidadian, who is equally adept against pace and spin and can temper his batting to suit any circumstance.

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That Pooran made the World Cup despite a duck in his only ODI audition before the tournament was down to West Indies assistant coach Roddy Estwick having seen nearly five years ago what Ashwin observed during IPL 2019. Estwick was privy to Pooran's 143 - in a team score of 208 - in an U-19 World Cup match against Australia - a knock Estwick remembers to date as "one of the best white-ball innings I've seen." That was an early show of Pooran's potential, where he alternated between defence and attack while stitching a 136-run stand for the ninth wicket. 

"I've always believed in Nicholas. I'm not surprised by his talent. What's surprised me is it's taken as long as this for him to come through [to the big stage]," Estwick said of his long-time ward ahead of the Afghanistan game. 

Then there's Hope, unequivocally the best all-round batsman in the team already. By those standards, he may have had a lukewarm World Cup - 274 runs at 34.25. The strike-rate of 70.43, down to a couple of slow fifties, particularly stands out. But his middling returns were as much a product of pressure as they were of the team's inability to overcome the injury-enforced Evin-Lewis-void at the top and therefore shunting Hope up and down the order. Against Afghanistan, after a nervy beginning which saw him reprieved by Rashid Khan, Hope played the anchor role to perfection, allowing the hitters around him to set the pace around him while he attempted to bat through.

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Hetmyer, at No.4, is the enforcer, the perfect in-betweener after Hope and before Pooran. He is also the perfect antidote to teams like India and Afghanistan that look to pin opposition down in the middle overs through spin. He endured a horrid time against Kuldeep Yadav in the Test series last year but turned the tables around dramatically during the ODIs, where his handling of the wrist spinners forced Virat Kohli to bring back Jasprit Bumrah and Bhuvneshwar Kumar from the rest they'd been given for the first half of the tournament. 

"I think we complement each other pretty well," Hope said about the emerging troika. "This is about learning, learning as quickly as possible. I'd say that we all have different types of play. But if you can mesh that all together and combine and really put those batting forms in, I'm sure we'll be a force to reckon with in the future." 

Interim head coach Floyd Reifer was in agreement with his batting lieutenant, going as far as to define the "future" in the timeline as the final of the next World Cup in 2023, while discussing the potential of this middle-order axis when paired with finishers Jason Holder and Carlos Brathwaite. 

"I mean the future is bright for us," Reifer said looking at the bigger picture. "One of the positive things to come out of the World Cup for us is we have three guys, at 3,4,5, Hety [Hetmyer] is averaging 40 [39.86], Pooran is around 46-47 [45.87], Hope 49[48.48]. We're building the brand of our cricket again and I'm confident these guys will show it in the future. 

"The great players in the world right now, they play Test and still play T20 cricket. It's about making the adjustments and being able to adapt to different conditions, different tournaments and different formats of the game. If we can build on it, I guarantee you that in the next four years, we'll be there at the World Cup final." 

Only time will tell if the multiple prophecies of Reifer, Brathwaite, and Gayle will be proved right. West Indies have a long way to go, but this axis has them hoping and facing the future with optimism.

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The permutations are nigh-on impossible for Pakistan. If Bangladesh win the toss and bat at Lord's on Friday, Pakistan cannot make the semi-finals. If Pakistan bat first, and make 350, they would have to bowl Bangladesh out for 39 to overhaul New Zealand's net run-rate. Their goose is as good as cooked. Barring one of the most ridiculous games in the history of ODI cricket, Pakistan will not make the semi-finals of this World Cup. 

Bangladesh too are out after their defeat to India on Wednesday put an end to their chances, so in effect, this game is a dead-rubber. Both of these sides have had their moments over the past five weeks but neither have been quite consistent enough to get a top-four spot. Pakistan will rue their opening game thrashing by West Indies which put a huge dent in their net run-rate. If they had been able to compete in that match, they would still have a realistic shot at the knock-out stages. Bangladesh will look back on their match against New Zealand as one that got away. 

Both teams will want to end on a high. Bangladesh, who have never played an ODI at Lord's before, have only ever won three games in a single World Cup so to make it four this time around will be further evidence of their progress and a reminder that they deserve to be taken far more seriously as a cricketing force than what is the case now. A victory for Pakistan would give them the same number of wins as New Zealand and a moral victory of being the best runners-up. Not much consolation but better than nothing. 

The two teams have not seen much of each other of late. They have only played four times since the last World Cup and Bangladesh have won all of those matches, including their last meeting in the 2018 Asia Cup. Overall, however, Pakistan have won 31 of the 36 meetings between them, with their only other loss to Bangladesh coming way back in 1999. 

Although the game lacks much context in terms of qualification, it will have plenty for a number of players who will be playing their last World Cup game. Mashrafe Mortaza of Bangladesh, and Pakistani's Shoaib Malik and Mohammad Hafeez will certainly not be around in four years' time. All three have been fine servants to their countries and despite suffering a difficult time in this tournament, they deserve to a fitting send-off. And what better place to play your last World Cup match than at the Home of Cricket.

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When: Friday, July 5, 2019, 10.30am Local Time, 3:00 PM IST 

Where: Lord's, London. 

What to expect: The rain that once threatened to ruin this tournament is long gone. Sun and temperatures in the late 20s are expected for this match, a continuation of the good weather of recent days. The pitch should be hard and dry as a result, which will likely mean a decent day out for the batsmen. There might be some spin on offer too. 

Team News

Bangladesh

Head coach Steve Rhodes said Bangladesh would not be rotating for the sake of rotation, so a full-strength team is expected. Mushfiqur Rahim suffered a blow to the elbow in the nets on Thursday but should be fit for the game. Mehidy Hasan, left out against India, could return given the dry weather. If that happens, Rubel Hossain would probably be preferred to Mohammad Saifuddin after performing better of the two against Virat Kohli's men. Mahmudullah, who missed the game against India with a calf injury, could return too. 

Possible XI: Tamim Iqbal, Soumya Sarkar, Shakib Al Hasan, Mushfiqur Rahim, Liton Das, , Mahmudullah, Mosaddek Hossain, Mehidy Hasan, Mushrafe Mortaza, Rubel Hossain, Mustafizur Rahman 

Pakistan

Given Pakistan still have a chance of qualification, no matter how remote, they will be reluctant to rotate their squad and may name an unchanged side from their victory over Afghanistan last weekend. If they do move things about, 18 year-old quick Mohammad Hasnain could get a run and Shoaib Malik could be included for a World Cup farewell. 

Possible XI: Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Haris Sohail, Mohammad Hafeez, Sarfraz Ahmed, Imad Wasim, Shadab Khan, Wahab Riaz, Shaheen Afridi, Mohammad Amir 

What they said:

"We're interested in finishing on a high note. So we will try our best in tomorrow's match." - Sarfaraz Ahmed is after a winning end to Pakistan's topsy-turvy campaign. 

"Bangladesh versus Pakistan at Lord's, the beautiful Lord's, there's no such thing as a dead rubber. Both teams desperate to beat each other. We certainly are." - Bangladesh head coach Steve Rhodes isn't a fan of the concept of dead rubbers.

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