Today Cricket Match Prediction, India vs Pakistan, ICC T20 World Cup 2022, 16th Match. Who Will Win, On October 23, 2022

The 16th match of World Cup T20 2022 is scheduled to play between India and Pakistan on Sunday, 23rd October 2022 at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne.

India faced two main setbacks right before the start of the ICC T20 World Cup 2022. Two big names in team India had been ruled out from the series due to injury. Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja had been the key strengths of team India and now both players will not available for selection. This injury disturbed the bowling department of India. Arshdeep Singh, Mohammad Shami, and Bhuvneshwar Kumar are three key bowlers of India that had to stop the batting order of Pakistan from scoring big runs. Bhuvneshwar Kumar and Arshdeep Singh had been good in the recently played matches and we are sure that they will be good against Pakistan. It will be very interesting to see how these bowlers perform in the early overs against the opening pair of Pakistan like Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan.

Ravi Ashwin and Axar Patel are two leading spin bowlers in team India while Hardik Pandya can also use to bowl in the middle overs. Hardik Pandya is known as a good bowler in the middle overs and he is special to bowl short balls which are very difficult for any batter to face. The key strength of team India is their batting order. They have their key batters available for this match. Virat Kohli has a good record against Pakistan and it will not easy for the bowlers of Pakistan to stop him from run-scoring. Rohit Sharma, KL Rahul, and Suryakumar Yadav are the top batters in team India and we can expect that India will put a handsome total on the board if they bat first. Hardik Pandya and Deepak Hooda are two other batters who can bat well in the middle overs.

Pakistan is coming to this big match with a lot of confidence. They had won the tri-series earlier played in New Zealand and also beat New Zealand. The good news for Pakistan is their star bowler Shaheen Afridi is back on the team. He is git and will play this match. He can be a nightmare for the batters of India. Haris Rauf, Naseem Shah, Mohammad Nawaz, and Shadab Khan are other bowlers to help Shaheen Afridi in this match. Shaheen Afridi is the best bowler of power plays over and has a history of taking wickets in his very first. He did that in ICC T20 World Cup the previous year and we saw the results where Pakistan beat India by a big margin of ten wickets. The key strength of Pakistan is its bowling department and they can restrict India to a total of under 160 runs which can be easy for the batters.

The batting order of Pakistan had been conservative. Babar Azam and Mohammad Rizwan open the batting inning for Pakistan and destroys a lot of balls. They should improve their strike rate, especially in the power play overs, and lift some pressure from the top and middle batting order. Shan Masood was batting at number three but he is injured and will not be part of this match. We think that Fakhar Zaman and Haidar Ali can replace him in this match. The middle batting order of Pakistan had been a big issue since some previous matches. They were not good in Asia Cup and also in the tri-series in New Zealand. Asif Ali, Shadab Khan, and Iftikhar Ahmed are available to handle the middle batting order. The team management of Pakistan made some strange decisions by promoting Mohammad Rizwan as number four. They also had promoted Shadab Khan to the top order in some previous matches. Pakistan can change the batting order according to the situation.

India had played just 11 matches against Pakistan where they had won five while Pakistan had won three matches.

India is overall a strong team as compared to Pakistan at least on paper. According to our match prediction, India is the favorite team who will win this match. There are many factors that make India a favorite team to win this match. Some of the key factors are mentioned as under:

• The batting order of India had been more aggressive in previous matches
• India had won eight out of 11 T20 matches against Pakistan
• Pakistan is much stronger than India in the bowling department
• Pakistan is facing issues with its middle batting order
• India had lost its key bowlers like Jasprit Bumrah and Ravindra Jadeja
• Both teams will have the pressure of losing this match which can affect their performance

India is full of experienced and young players in the t20 format. The batting order of this team is also strong and some well-known hitters of the t20 format are part of the squad of this team, so the winning chances of today’s match for India have been increased. The equation of who will win today’s cricket match prediction and who will win the cricket match today is mentioned as under.

India has a 54% chance to win this match
Pakistan has a 46% chance to win this match

The toss will play an important role in the decision of all matches of World Cup T20. Having a good total on the board is always a big advantage in these kinds of big matches. According to our toss prediction, the team who will win the toss may choose to bat first.

The 16th match of World Cup T20 2022 is going to be held at Melbourne Cricket Ground, Melbourne. We had observed in the previous matches played here that the pitch here at this venue is good for batting. The track is slower than the others we have seen and helps the spinners quite a bit. We are hoping that the surface is bound to get slower and be a bit more difficult for batting in this match. A score of 190 is going to be tough to chase.

The weather forecast in Melbourne is predicting some clouds around on match day but the weather forecast does not predict rain. We should be able to have a full uninterrupted match.

India: Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar.

Pakistan: Babar Azam (c), Shadab Khan, Asif Ali, Haider Ali, Haris Rauf, Iftikhar Ahmed, Khushdil Shah, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Mohammad Wasim Jr, Naseem Shah, Shaheen Afridi.

Captain: Lokesh Rahul
Vice-Captain: Mohammad Shami
Mohammad Rizwan, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Babar Azam, Hardik Pandya, Shadab Khan, Mohammad Nawaz, Shaheen Afridi, Haris Rauf

Date: Sunday, 23rd October 2022
Time: 08:00 AM GMT / 07:00 PM LOCAL / 01:30 PM IST

• Stadium: Melbourne Cricket Ground
• Location: Melbourne, Australia
• Opened: 1854
• Capacity: 100000 (approx, including standing room)
• Known as: The MCG, The “G”
• Dimensions: 172.9m long, 147.8m wide
• Ends: Members End, Great Southern Stand End
• Time Zone: UTC +11:00
• Home to: Australia, Victoria
• Floodlights: Yes
• Curator: Tony Ware

• Total matches: 18
• Matches won batting first: 7
• Matches won bowling first: 10
• Average 1st Inns scores: 139
• Average 2nd Inns scores: 127
• Highest total recorded: 184/4 (20 Ov) by AUSW vs INDW
• Lowest total recorded: 74/10 (17.3 Ov) by IND vs AUS
• The highest score chased: 172/5 (20 Ov) by SL vs AUS
• The lowest score defended: 127/10 (18.4 Ov) by AUS vs PAK

Rohit Sharma (c), KL Rahul, Virat Kohli, Suryakumar Yadav, Deepak Hooda, Rishabh Pant, Dinesh Karthik, Hardik Pandya, Ravichandran Ashwin, Yuzvendra Chahal, Axar Patel, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Harshal Patel, Arshdeep Singh, Mohammed Shami.