Preview on West Indies and Pakistan
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In the first match host team, England starts the world cup with a win. In the second match, west indies and Pakistan will face each other at Trent Bridge of Nottingham. West Indies team have strong and aggressive batsman in their batting line up on the other side Pakistan team are also not less than west indies because against England series Pakistan batsman was strong.
West Indies team will have confidence before the first match of the world cup because they even have Chris Gayle and Andrew Russell who are playing for the west indies team. it will be an advantage for the team as well as for them because of their key players were not playing for their nation but they play as a county cricket in the various league because west indies board were helpless for them to pay wages.
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west indies team have Shai hope and Chris Gayle as a destructive opener. Followed by Hetymer, bravo and Evin Lewis and apart from this, they have a great finisher in their team as Andrew Russell and Jason Holder. Skipper Jason holder is giving an all-around performance for the team. Ashley Nurse is an excellent spinner for their team and Oshane Thomas is death over specialist.
Pakistan team is not having doubt with their batting order as they have deep batting order starting from Fakhar Zaman till Shadab Khan. Iman-ul-Haq and Fakhar Zaman open the innings followed be Haris Sohail and Babar Azam is their middle order batsman. Hafeez is an all-rounder for Pakistan and bowling unit is totally depend on Imad Wasim, Amir, and Hasan Ali. Shoaib Malik is a very useful player for the team for his all-around performance.