West Indies will be expecting to get back on winning track after their three consecutive losses when they face New Zealand in Manchester on Saturday. Moreover, looking at this ground, the average 1st inning score on this track is 248 while the highest score chased is 205 while doing so. Pacers have dominated in this ground, taking 67% of the wickets and remainder goes into the account of spinners.
While looking at the team performance first comes New Zealand, who have been dominating in this World Cup and are coming to this match after seven successive wins in the ODI format. Moreover, they have struck with their consistent playing XI since their opening encounter against Sri Lanka in Cardiff and makes no sense to tweak their side given the way they have been performing. More than that, their key players Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Colin Munro have already struck a half-century each in the tournament. While, Trent Boult, Matt Henry, and Lockie Ferguson will be on the mission to continue their winning streak against West Indies.
On the other hand, West Indies are under tremendous pressure as they lost three matches successively and one more loss at this stage will virtually knock them out of the tournament. While they are expected to make one change in their playing XI Carlos Brathwaite might come in place of Darren Bravo as their strategy failed in their last match by playing one extra batsman. Besides all that, Shai Hope
West Indies will be expecting to get back on winning track after their three consecutive losses when they face New Zealand in Manchester on Saturday. Moreover, looking at this ground, the average 1st inning score on this track is 248 while the highest score chased is 205 while doing so. Pacers have dominated in this ground, taking 67% of the wickets and remainder goes into the account of spinners.
While looking at the team performance first comes New Zealand, who have been dominating in this World Cup and are coming to this match after seven successive wins in the ODI format. Moreover, they have struck with their consistent playing XI since their opening encounter against Sri Lanka in Cardiff and makes no sense to tweak their side given the way they have been performing. More than that, their key players Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Colin Munro have already struck a half-century each in the tournament. While, Trent Boult, Matt Henry, and Lockie Ferguson will be on the mission to continue their winning streak against West Indies.
On the other hand, West Indies are under tremendous pressure as they lost three matches successively and one more loss at this stage will virtually knock them out of the tournament. While they are expected to make one change in their playing XI Carlos Brathwaite might come in place of Darren Bravo as their strategy failed in their last match by playing one extra batsman. Besides all that, Shai Hope, Shimron Hetmyer, and Nicholas Pooran are expected to dominate their batting unite while Oshane Thomas and Sheldon Cottrell are their frontline bowlers.
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Wicket-keeper: Shai Hope (10 credits): Currently, the fifth-ranked in the ICC OD ranking Hope is currently the leading run-getter for the team with 186 runs in four innings and has smashed a couple of half-centuries, including the 96 in the last game against Bangladesh. Overall, looking at his recent form we can expect him to score another half-century.
Batsman: Kane Williamson (10 credits): The Black Caps skipper is amongst the top ten run-scorers in the World Cup with 225 runs in just three innings at an incredible average of 225. Nevertheless, he is coming off a match-winning knock of 106 (not out) against South Africa. Moreover, if he continues his run-scoring form then we can expect him to score around 70 runs against West Indies.
All-Rounder: Colin de Grandhomme (8 credits): Another Black Caps player who is coming into this match after a playing match-winning knock of 60 runs against South Africa and also claimed a wicket with the ball. Moreover, if he replicates his performance then we can expect him to score around 30 runs and at least one wicket to his name.
Bowler: Trent Boult (9 credits): Boult's performance has been shadowed by Matt Henry and Lockie Ferguson where both pacers took 18 wickets combining in this World Cup. However, Boult cannot keep himself away from picking wickets as we expect him to derail the West Indies batting unit by picking at least three wickets.
Captain: Kane Williamson
Vice-Captain: Trent Boult
Predicted Playing XI:
New Zealand: Martin Guptill, Colin Munro, Kane Williamson (C), Ross Taylor, Tom Latham (WK), Jimmy Neesham, Colin de Grandhomme, Mitchell Santner, Matt Henry, Lockie Ferguson, Trent Boult
West Indies: Chris Gayle, Evin Lewis, Shai Hope (WK), Nicholas Pooran, Shimron Hetmyer, Andre Russell, Jason Holder (C), Carlos Brathwaite, Oshane Thomas, Sheldon Cottrell, Shannon Gabriel
