Malo took on the Friendship CC in what was always going to be a top game in the European Cricket Nation’s Portugal edition. The game lived up to its billing as it was a close encounter going right down to the wire. Those involved in the dream 11 tips and prediction have always been interested in the European T10 game and they were really on the edge of the seat in this game. Let’s have an analysis of this game.

Friendship started this game as the batting team and scored 106 runs. When one batsman scores almost half of the runs the team has scored, it is evident that the player is one who is influential to say the least. Md Nazrul Islam was on song and was not going to relent at any cost in this game. He scored a brilliant 52 runs in just 24 balls. This innings came at a strike rate of close to 216 and had 5 sixes and 3 fours. While the rest off the batsmen never quite got off the mark, he was nothing short of explosive and absolutely slaughtered the bowling. Assad Mehmood was impressive for the bowling team though as he picked up 3 wickets for just 12 runs. This was a great opening introduction for the European cricket for him. This is nothing short of phenomenal particularly when the other bowlers were going for a plenty of runs. The total while competitive was nowhere close to being a total which would put the opposition out of sight. Which total actually puts a team out of the contest in a T10 game with the shorter boundaries? Let’s say that’s a discussion for another day. On this day, Malo would’ve felt that they were in with a shot and they did get really close only to agonizingly lose by just 4 runs. The problem though was the number of wickets they had lost in the process of scoring big runs. There were 8 wickets lost and while they had some really good contributions with Mian Mehmood scoring a 21 run of 11 balls. This was dominated however by the contribution of Amir Zaib who scored 32 runs of just 10 balls. Md Motin was the big difference maker though with the ball as he picked up 4 wickets for just 15 runs in his 2 overs. Imtiaz Rana however was the unsung hero here conceding only 11 runs in his 2 overs.

This is going to be a revelation for the world. European cricket has well and truly arrived and has also seen dominance in the world of fantasy cricket. What is striking is the strike rates of some of the players and how they are able to play the power game with such ease. It is important for those who are predicting here to know that the boundary lines are definitely much shorter and that is a big factor in the strike rates. There is nothing doubting the six hitting ability of the players though. There are some real beasts here and some of them pummel the bowling for fun. This is not going to be for the purists who like test cricket. This is smash bang cricket and that has caught the eye for sure. We can only see the European cricket growing leaps and bounds and what is going to be amazing is if this format of cricket grows, whether they will be able to compete with the giants or the associate nations of the cricket. This may be next big thing in cricket.