World Cup Cricket: How to play better in World Cup to win matches

Each match in this World Cup is as important and crucial as the semi finals. It’s the batting of any cricket team that wins matches because they score the winning runs or achieve winning target. Bowlers are equally important to perform better for restricting any team to score less runs.

However, in ODIs or in any limited overs game, the batsmen need to keep cool and play better. During the first five overs bowled at the opening pair, which in any case needs an observation. Openers need to find the bad balls bowled at them to score runs in the first five overs of the match.

They need to keep patience as they should read the conditions and do assess how the pitch is playing. So, they need to be defensive for about the first five overs. Keep watching the ball and the bounce, the pitch is providing as such they shouldn’t lose any wicket.

Openers need to Fight Initially

Even if 15 runs been scored in the first five overs, the opening pair declared to be performing better. This is because they’re cautious and reading the pitch to play their natural game at later stage. ODIs are no joke as this format provides you to keep focused in all the 100 overs of the match.

Thus, to achieve a good total in World Cup matches, you need to be cautious by not losing any wicket in first five overs. Then comes your way as to hit the bad balls for boundaries in the next ten overs.

An opening partnership that consumes over 15 overs will be regarded as best in this 2019 World Cup. There’s no doubt that the openers might score less than 70 odd runs in their first fifteen overs. But, they give the batsmen to follow, a better platform.

The Middle Order of the Match

In the middle overs of the match, there’s required to score runs on a better rate in the middle overs of any ODI. Middle order batsmen should look for quick singles and keep their scoring rate above seven. Thus, to capitalize on opening pairs’ good performance, they should play even better. The game plan should be as such that one batsman playing as sheet anchor role, others should bat around him.

Later on, they can keep scoring runs after 35 overs been bowled. Until the 42 overs get bowled the job of middle order batsmen might come to an end. There should be one middle order batsman to play till the end. Down the order batsmen should play powerful strokes when one of the middle order batsmen might be at the crease.