Trent Bridge,Nottingham

Trent Rockets will take on London Spirit in the 20th match of The Hundred for men in the 2022 season later today. This game is to be played at the Trent Bridge venue in Nottingham. The Trent Rockets have performed well in the last five matches of the competition. They have won 4 matches and lost just a single game from these five matches.

Rashid Khan will again be available for this game after completing a 5-game T20I series against Ireland for his national Afghanistan side. He will return to the team with his spinning partner Tabraiz Shamsi. Another crucial player for the Rockets is the tall opening batsman Alex Hales. He is back in the minds of selectors for England with the T20 world cup coming up. He has hit a couple of fifties in the competition so far. Dawid Malan is the leading run-getter in The Hundred this year. He is averaging an amazing 80.33 in the competition from five matches. Tabraiz Shamsi is a left-arm wrist spinner. He picked up a couple of vital wickets in the last game of Sam Billings and Jason Roy on Wednesday. He was not doing too well earlier as he could manage just a single wicket before this game. This better performance would have added more confidence to him as goes on in this match. Both the opening batsmen for Trent Rockets are in good nick.

London Spirit has done well in the competition by turning it on its head. They are using the approach of batting first in the competition and it is working out well for them. Northern Superchargers opted to bat first in their game against London. They enjoy the success of different members of the side much in the same vein as Eoin Morgan's English white-ball team did.

A crucial member of the side is Zak Crawley who missed the last match because of doing duties for the British national side. He will not be playing this game either. The wicket-keeper batsman for London Spirit is Adam Rossington. He played a match to remember in his last outing against Northern Superchargers. He inflicted a stumping and scored a fabulous 66 from just 26 balls. In the last match at Headingley, the Australian superstar Glenn Maxwell was in terrific attacking form. He hit one six and six boundaries on his way to a 43 runs effort from 25 balls.  All the players are contributing to the success of the team from all positions. Adam Rossington hit a quickfire fifty for London Spirit in their last game. You can expect him to come good again in this match.

PITCH AND CONDITIONS

The weather forecast for this match is that of partly cloudy conditions and humidity reaching 70% level before the game ends. The temperature during the game will remain in the lower 20s and higher 10s during the game. Even though the wicket at the Trent Bridge venue is not a bowl of dust, it is likely to provide some assistance to the spinners

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The Hundred 2022 has seen its teams being divided into two clear halves. The top 4 have all dominated and are bunched closely together while the bottom four could fall too far behind if they do not get their act together. This next match is between the Trent Rockets and the Oval Invincibles, both of whom have won three out of the four matches they have played.

The Trent Rockets ended up losing their previous match after a rare top-order failure. Both Hales and Malan were dismissed early to spin, a strategy that is no doubt going to be used against them more often in the future. The contest between the openers and Narine+Briggs is going to be very important. We saw Sams and Gregory get on top of the bowling even when the entire top order had been dismissed. With Munro, Cockbain, and Kohler-Cadmore also in the lineup, the Trent Rockets should have a massive advantage on the batting front. The Trent Rockets also have a good bowling lineup with Wood, Sams, Cook, Gregory, Shamsi, and Samit. These are all excellent bowlers with a lot of varied skills. Out of these, Wood and Shamsi would be the ones that we would back.

The Oval Invincibles continue to find ways to win even though their batting is a bit inconsistent. Jason Roy is having a horror of a time and England supporters would seriously be questioning his place as the first-choice opener. Will Jacks scored a century in the previous match and put his hat in the ring as a direct replacement for Roy. Rossouw, Billings, Jordan Cox, and the Curran brothers form a strong batting lineup but some of the major players are out of form and there is always a chance of a collapse. The bowling attack has done quite well for the Oval Invincibles. Sunil Narine has been among the best bowlers this season. His overs are always difficult to score off and he has been picking wickets as well. With Reece Topley, Sam Curran, Tom Curran, and Mohammad Hasnain, the Oval Invincibles have a lot of good options.

PITCH AND CONDITIONS

The conditions in Nottingham are expected to be a bit cloudy but hopefully, there will be no major stoppages. The pitch is excellent for batting. The average score batting first here was 140 in 2021 but teams batting first will probably need to aim around 165 to have a good shot of winning.

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MATCH PREDICTION

The toss is going to play a big role in this match. A small ground where defending a total is tough already provides a big advantage to the chasing side. Add rain to the equation and that advantage grows even more.

We think that Australia has the bowling attack to be able to stop the West Indian batsmen or at least limit the damage that they can cause. Both sides have a strong batting lineup and so the bowling could well be the differentiating factor.

Bet on Australia to win.

MATCH PREDICTION

Considering the results of the first two matches of the tournament, England certainly look to be firm favorites to win the upcoming encounter. Having said that, one game is too little a sample size to come to a conclusion about how things are going to unfold going ahead in the tournament. England are coming off a 4-0 victory over Pakistan in same conditions which will certainly inflate the hosts' confidence. Both the sides are well aware of the strength and weaknesses of each other it isn't going to be easy for either of the sides. While the two sides have a bowling unit that is on par, England definitely score higher when it comes to batting. They have the home advantage and that coupled with the reasons mentioned above make England firm favorites to come on top in the upcoming encounter.

World Cup Prediction

What to expect: The weather is set fair for the game although plenty of cloud cover is forecast, keeping temperatures cool. The pitch, as ever in Nottingham, is expected to be excellent for batting which means there will be plenty of runs on offer.

Team News

West Indies: Will West Indies opt for all-out pace and pick both Oshane Thomas and Shannon Gabriel or will one of them sit out for the left-armer Sheldon Cottrell? Given the expected cloud cover and Cottrell's ability to swing the ball, he may get the nod. Ashley Nurse will be the lone spin option.

Possible XI: Chris Gayle, Evin Lewis, Shai Hope, Darren Bravo, Shimron Hetmeyer, Andre Russell, Jason Holder, Ashley Nurse, Sheldon Cottrell, Oshane Thomas, Kemar Roach

Pakistan: Pakistan have to decide which combination of bowlers they will go with and whether to exclude the experienced pair of Mohammad Hafeez and Shoaib Malik. Imad Wasim's batting prowess means he is likely to play alongside Shahdab Khan as the second spinner while Shaheen Afridi, the pick of Pakistan's quicks of late, will lead the attack, probably with Mohammad Amir.

Possible XI: Fakhar Zaman, Imam-ul-Haq, Babar Azam, Haris Sohail, Sarfraz Ahmed, Shoaib Malik, Imad Wasim, Shahdab Khan, Mohammad Amir, Hasan Ali, Shaheen Afridi

Did you know?

- Pakistan have lost 21 of the 32 ODIs they have played since their 2017 Champions Trophy triumph, and won only nine (2 no-results). Their current losing streak is 10 games.

- Babar Azam's scores against West Indies read: 120, 123, 117, 13, 125* & 16

- Shai Hope is the leading run-getter in ODIs since October 2018 with 1132 runs in 17 innings that included five centuries, at an average of 80.85.