ICC Champions Trophy: Predictions Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton, including how England will do | Current news
Nasser Hussain and Michael Atherton share their predictions for the ICC champion trophy, which is live Sky Sports from February 19 to March 9.
AND Sky Sports Slundits List their favorites of the tournament, as they expect England to work and choose players who are particularly looking forward to action over the coming weeks.
Every game is live Sky Sports With English – Wanting to decline from a tour of India charged with defeat – Faced with the exhausted side of Australia in their introductory match in Lahore on Saturday 22 February.
Winners
Nasser Hussain: I did something for ICC about six weeks ago and I had Australia as favorites, but I performed five players from that team – Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins and Marcus Stoinis – And it’s a serious loss.
They got back in the packaging and now I have India As a team that will win, even though they are currently without the best player on the planet in Jasprit Bumrah.
If you look at their stroke reserves and a spin department, the way they have recently played against England and the way they play mostly in a bilateral crice, they look strong.
They play all their games in Dubai, know the conditions and will not have to travel. The paper is now the best side.
Michael Atherton: Like Nasser, I think India Headquartered in Dubai will help them massively.
Spin looks like it will be a really strong point of their game in the absence of Bumrah – I am also not sure Mohammed Shami is absolutely returned to the best, and you would think that it will be more effective in UAE than Pakistan.
But you also deeply look at their strength. If I can omit a player like Yashasvi Jaiswal, who would probably get into any other meeting in the world, it shows how much talent they have.
By saying that, some of their blows did not shoot all the cylinders – the virat kohli and, to their hundreds against England, Rohit Sharma. But they just beat England 3-0 and if you look at their record in the last few years, they were very strong.
They start for me as obvious favorites, but maybe New Zealand has a challenge. They played a lot of crickets in Pakistan and ran in decent form, while they have a lot of fire forces and experiences and a very smart Spinner at Mitchell Santner captain.
I really like South Africa. When they pull out their best team – that they couldn’t always do – they are pretty amazing.
How will England succeed?
Nasser: I think England will be a small tour of the tour in India, but not just that. They were not great in a crunch with a white ball from winning the T20 2022 World Cup.
At that stage, they held both World Cup titles at the same time, but now they have lost both and have been beaten in the last four bilateral pods.
However, I think they will be suffocated in Pakistan because the Wicti there are mostly straight and that fit their game style.
This is a place where you need bumps that go hard, the wrist stole – and they have one of the best in Adil Rashid – and accelerate the ball through the air. Their pace attack could be useful, although not everything in the pace, but also in skill.
They just need to make sure they get bigger than bats. Parties winning the games achieve big hundreds – Travis goes to Australia in the World Cup final, Shubman Gill and Rohit for India against England recently. The sixties are good, but they don’t win games.
If you go out after PowerPlay, you expose your middle order to turn around, so that like Ben Duckett, Joe Root and Tom Banton should break through.
The crisis of injuries to Australia helps to offer England to get out of the group. That first game is an opportunity now and if I can win that, then it enhances confidence and they will see a tour of India as a little.
If they lose it, they have Afghanistan – who have excellent spinners and blows – and South Africa, both of which they lost in the 2023 World Cup, then it becomes difficult.
If England plays their potential, which they have not done for a while, I think I can get out of the group. But I’m not sure I can win it, although the short nature of this tournament means that they are all candidate.
Athers: I think England will fight to get out of his group. The game in Australia now looks a lot more winning than it could have done with all their injuries, but the matches of South Africa and Afghanistan are really difficult.
A good result for England would be the reaches of the semifinals given the way they played recent results, but I am not so confident.
It will be a pretty high competition in Pakistan at good games – in a recent triangular series between Pakistan, New Zealand and South Africa, most of the results were over 300.
You need players that hundreds, and England is not working late, while many players who have hit them have not been involved for centuries, including Dawida Malena.
In India, they did not choose spin well, although this may have less consequences in Pakistan, and their bowling sometimes looked a bit single -dimensional, so they would get well from the group.
A leader WICKET and a runner?
Nasser: I say that India will beat him and that’s why he’ll play the most games, so I’ll choose Arshdeep Singh Like a winning winch. So far, he has played only nine ODOs, but is the highest Indian T20 International Wickket and can be poured at the start and end of the insertion.
To run, I’ll say Gill. Rohit loves the champion trophy and ICC events in general, but Gill is in the form of his life in this format.
Rohit’s form decreased in the test crice late against New Zealand and Australia, culminating in it leaving that format in the winter.
I almost feel like he was like he climbed on his mountain, to be honest. Within a year, he lost the World Cup World Cup finals of 50 years and then won the 20-year-old World Cup from a losing position.
The ups and downs to be a player of India and the captain probably took their toll and influenced his play in a crunch with a red ball, but not a crizzard with a white ball and he looks back somewhere, adding the strength of India.
Athers: I’m going to southern Africa Heinrich Klaasen Like a leading runner like in hot shape. You may need to look for an opener or someone in the first three, but he is a top short -shaped player and you should get a lot of opportunities.
For WICKET, I wanted to say that the English nose Adil Rashid, who is really a master of his craft, but as I doubt what they did the semi-finals, I will go to India Kuldeep Yadav.
I like to watch him a ball. He is a really attacking spinner with a lot of diversity and playing in a part of the world to help more.
And another player you are looking forward to?
Nasser: Pakistan Fakhar Zaman. I think he could turn on the tournament.
I didn’t see him for a while while he was on their side and out of them, but he achieved that great hundred in the final of the 2017 champion trophy.
He is a dynamic shot at the top of the order, maybe someone his side really missed late, and since he returned, he had a few running.
Pakistan hosted a global ICC event for the first time since 1996 and this is a big deal for them. If the team was playing well, I think Fakhar will have to take them to a flyer. Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan can play around him then.
Athers: I would say Gill For India.
He is a very elegant player at the top of the Order and, as Nass says, is in excellent form, scoring more than 250 runs in that Odo series against England with two fifties and then a hundred in the final game.
For Pakistan, the host of his first global event of the ICC for almost 30 years, a safe and successful tournament will illuminate the international cricket in the country after a long absence.
There is a huge passion for playing and it is a huge opportunity for Pakistan.
ICC champion trophy schedule
All games 9:00 UK and Ireland
Group A.
- 19. February: Pakistan VS New Zealand (Karachi)
- 20. February: Bangladesh against India (Dubai)
- 23. February: Pakistan Vs India (Dubai)
- 24. February: Bangladesh VS New Zealand (Rawalpindi)
- 27. February: Pakistan VS Bangladesh (Rawalpindi)
- March 2: New Zealand vs India (Dubai)
Group B.
- February 21: Afghanistan against South Africa (Karachi)
- February 22: Australia against England (Lahore)
- 25. February: Australia VS South Africa (Rawalpindi)
- 26. February: Afghanistan against England (Lahore)
- 28. February: Afghanistan against Australia (Lahore)
- March 1: South Africa against England (Karachi)
Semifinals
- March 4: Semifinals (Dubai)
- March 5: Semifinal 2 (lahore)
Ultimate
- March 9: Finally (Lahore or Dubai)
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