Afghanistan vs Bangladesh, ICCWCT20, Today Match Prediction

AFG vs BAN Match Prediction & Analysis

The 2024 T20 World Cup will surely have peaked interest not only in North America but across the globe with exciting games as well as both Super Eights groups going to the wire!

In Group 1, it looked like it could be ending in boring fashion when India thrashed Bangladesh on Saturday and a win for Australia over Afghanistan would have meant that the two heavyweights, India and Australia, would have already booked their places in the semi-finals. But it wasn't to be and, depending on how India versus Australia plays out ahead of this game on Monday, Afghanistan could arrive at this game knowing that any kind of win will be enough to see them reach the semi-finals. 

And for Bangladesh, if India beat Australia then they will have a chance, albeit requiring a mammoth net-run-rate swing, of reaching the last four.

AFG vs BAN Betting News

AFG vs BAN Player of the Match Predictions

Afghanistan enter the contest as favourites to win and we back either of Rahmanullah Gurbaz or Rashid Khan to win the player of the match award

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AFG vs BAN: WHO WILL TAKE MOST WICKETS IN TODAY'S MATCH?

Rashid Khan, Fazal-haq-Farooqi and Naveen ul-Haq are the top bowlers with the highest probability of picking up more wickets in today's match

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AFG vs BAN - WHO WILL SCORE MOST RUNS IN TODAY'S MATCH?

Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran and Najmul Hossain Shanto are the top batters with the highest probability of scoring more runs in today's match.

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TEAMS PREVIEW

Afghanistan Preview

Beating Australia in any format of the game, is enough to give a country a confidence boost, but doing it in a do or die clash in a T20 World Cup shows that this Afghanistan side needs to be taken seriously across the cricketing world.

The victory was setup by the opening batters, Rahmanullah Gurbaz and Ibrahim Zadran who put on 118 for the first wicket and although only 30 further runs were added across the final 24 balls, 148/6 proved to be too high a total for the Australians to overcome.

With the ball, eight bowlers were used by Afghanistan against Australia and we could well see a similar approach in this match!

Afghanistan Predicted Playing XI:

Rahmanullah Gurbaz (wk), Ibrahim Zadran, Azmatullah Omarzai, Karim Janat, Rashid Khan (c), Mohammad Nabi, Gulbadin Naib, Nangeyalia Kharote, Noor Ahmad, Naveen-ul-Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Afghanistan Actual Playing XI:

Nangyal Kharoti, Rahmanullah Gurbaz, Ibrahim Zadran, Gulbadin Naib, Azmatullah Omarzai, Mohammad Nabi, Karim Janat, Rashid Khan, Noor Ahmad, Naveen ul Haq, Fazalhaq Farooqi

Bangladesh Preview

Vice captain Taskin Ahmed missed out for Bangladesh in their defeat against India on Saturday but we expect him to come back into the team and replace the ineffective Jaker Ali for this game.

Overall, it was a very poor display from Bangladesh against India and they were outperformed by their opposition from ball one. However, somehow, the Tigers are still standing in the tournament and a big win in this match could be enough to sneak into the semi-finals. This would represent an incredible turnaround for Najmul Hossain Shanto's side who went 2-0 down in their T20I bi-lateral series with USA just over five weeks ago.

Bangladesh Predicted Playing XI:

Litton Das (wk), Tanzid Hasan, Najmul Hossain Shanto (c), Towhid Hridoy, Shakib Al Hasan, Mahmudullah, Rishad Hossain, Mahedi Hasan, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman, Taskin Ahmed

Bangladesh Actual Playing XI:

Soumya Sarkar, Tanzid Hasan Tamim, Najmul Hossain Shanto, Litton Das, Shakib Al Hasan, Towhid Hridoy, Mahmudullah, Rishad Hossain, Taskin Ahmed, Tanzim Hasan Sakib, Mustafizur Rahman

PITCH AND WEATHER CONDITIONS

Weather Conditions

Cloudy conditions are forecast throughout this match and there could be a threat of rain late on. However, it will be hot and humid from start to finish with the temperature over 28 degrees.

AFG vs BAN Pitch Report

This is a tacky pitch in St Vincent where slower balls from the pacers will trouble batters and the spinners will also have plenty to say. In Saturday's clash between Australia and Afghanistan, we saw only 275 runs in total and we expect a first innings total of 150 to be tough to chase down.

Toss: To Bat

Bangladesh won the toss and chose to field first against India but the plan backfired. Therefore, with Afghanistan beating Australia after batting first, we expect both captains to want to bat first ahead of this game.

AFG vs BAN
Winning Prediction

Although, at the time of writing, there is a route to the semi-finals available to both sides, the truth is that Bangladesh have been way below the level of Afghanistan during this tournament. We have Afghanistan as the strongest team and are predicting a victory for them.

We are backing Afghanistan to win!

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