2021 T20 World Cup in UAE/Oman

Aussies definitely exceeding expectations. They've been abysmal in T20 for a while but have been very good so far this tournament.

Bangladesh sloppy in the field today, 3 very straightforward catches dropped.

Northants legend Jason Holder scoring some useful runs at the end.

142 looks a bit light but that pitch isn't easy to score on, actually think WI will win. But I know fupp all.

This isnt the same Asif Ali is it? Watched him a lot and never seen this. They have good depth in the batting with Hasan Ali coming so low.

Afghanistan ran them fairly close. Too much panic from their top order cost them getting to a good total. Recovered well, just never enough. India and NZ will need to bring their A game against them.

Bavuma is after setting down and getting ones and twos now. Looked all over the place to start especially running. Markram is the key wicket for Sri Lanka.

Maybe I was wrong.Problem SA have is they can’t score and boundaries, only singles...need just over 10 from each the last 4 overs.

Kumara bottled the last over. Right where Miller wanted it.

England win the toss and field first. They're unchanged. Australia drop Marsh for Agar. This should be good.

Just a couple of extras off Wokes’s third, impressive.

21-4, Raschid strikes !

Australia will do well to score 110.

can really only see one winner..

Mills very expensive giving away 45 of the 125 runs.

England looking like they'll win this handly enough. Australia don't have anything like enough runs. Pakistan and England are easily the stand out teams so far, both will make the semis and at this stage look like the teams to beat.

Good to see the Quentin De Kock thing resolved, it was a really poor decision by him to initially pull out, certainly without any sort of explanation, taking a stance over an anti-racist gesture is stunning not least given the history of his country and the history of the sport there too.

18 off his last over, hopeless. Looked like a club player... not to take away from the batting but all over the show.

England respond with the best powerplay of the tournament so far. That's where they're clear of Pakistan, not really Rizwan and Babar's way of doing it.

Its funny Morgan and England credit IPL experience for how well they're going. Yet Australia have loads of players there every year. And they're still hopeless at this format.

It's that they're much better group of players than what came before and very little to do with the IPL.

Australia are where England were at the 2015 world cup. Test team with a few flair type players added. Shane Watson was saying about how little they play together as well. Never going to compete like that.

Did it without Mujeeb too. Who was every bit as effective as Rashid in the games so far.

New Zealand win the toss and if the trend continues win the game by choosing to chase. Milne plays. India make two changes Kishan and Thakur in for Yadev and Kumar.

Must win game for both teams. Afghanistan will have a big say in this group yet the loser today is gone.

Adam Milne drops a simple catch and goes for 15 runs in his first over. Despite that they'll be happy enough being 35-2 after six.

NZ are absolutely hammering them... been absolute levels above India with both ball and bat...Indians look resigned to defeat, body language is really poor, quite a few extras being bowled... born of frustration...but you’d expect better really, can’t say I’m disappointed though, I like the NZ team

India can't use the toss and dew excuse. Kohli is leaving the captaincy after this and it's not before time. To be relying on Afghanistan results to go their way with the talent available is really poor.

Sri Lanka have done brilliantly...to haul the English back from what was approaching a run away start... more dot balls in the last couple of overs then run scoring deliveries.....English might be 3 down but they are beginning to run out of overs with not many runs on the board....a single from the last jesus.

Buttler has always been a special player, since his move to opening he's gone up another level. It's how calm and in control he looks. Just one chance he gave and that was in the last over.

Hard to see anything other than and England vs Pakistan final as this stage

6 of the Sri Lanka team failed to get into double figures... both openers out extremely cheaply and the tail didn’t get close to wagging, a total collapse at the end.....3 of their bowlers going for over 10 an over.

Yes, Buttler is in the form of his life to be fair.

Namibia started well with the ball here but really shît the bed when they came under pressure by the Pakistani batsmen in the latter part of the innings... about 15 - 20 full tosses being bowled and being suitably dispatched...it looked initially like they might limit Pakistan to 145-155 thereabouts but loosing their heads with their line and length completely..and very average in the field, an innings of two halves.... another full toss hit for 6 as I type, brain dead, not learning... captain finally convened a meeting with 4 balls left in the innings, should have been doing that about 6 overs ago... makes no difference, boundaries a plenty, an expensive final over... 22 from it, all but the final delivery going to the boundary.

Feels like a warm-up match, Pakistan aren't even celebrating wickets or anything. Namibia gave it a go but are miles away. Needed Trumpelmann to have a great opening spell to have any hope today.

Do you only need one hand to count the close, competitive games? Very one sided games so far.

Very hard to see Scotland getting this total, good batting by NZ, not the most likely tournament winners but a decent dark horse.