{"id":949,"date":"2014-03-23T21:31:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/?p=949"},"modified":"2014-03-23T21:31:51","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T01:31:51","slug":"world-t20-2014-predictions-for-march-24-matches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/world-t20-2014-predictions-for-march-24-matches\/","title":{"rendered":"World T20 2014: Predictions for March 24 matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/game.py?matchID=2014_T20_33\" title=\"New Zealand vs South Africa, World T20 2014\" target=\"_blank\">South Africa vs New Zealand<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Prediction<\/b>: South Africa (51%) expected to edge out New Zealand (49%) in a close match<\/p>\n<p>South Africa and New Zealand match up fairly well against each other, and we expect that this match will go down to the wire. A lot depends on whether <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/playerstats.py?player=F+du+Plessis&#038;role=all&#038;format=T20I\" title=\"Faf du Plessis: T20I statistics\" target=\"_blank\">Faf du Plessis<\/a> plays for South Africa or not. In our projection, we are currently assuming that he will play. However, South Africa&#8217;s chances are dented severely if du Plessis misses out, and in that case it is the Kiwis who are expected to win the match.<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/game.py?matchID=2014_T20_34\" title=\"Sri Lanka vs Netherlands, World T20 2014\" target=\"_blank\">Sri Lanka vs Netherlands<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><b>Prediction<\/b>: Sri Lanka (70%) expected to defeat Netherlands (30%)<\/p>\n<p>Netherlands hit 15 sixes in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/game.py?matchID=2014_T20_27\" title=\"Netherlands vs Ireland, World T20 2014\" target=\"_blank\">last match against Ireland<\/a>, en-route to a spectacular entry into the main draw of the T20 World Cup. However, they are unlikely to cause any upset against the vastly experienced Sri Lankan side. We predict that Sri Lanka will win this match comfortably.<\/p>\n<p><b>Cricmetric&#8217;s current prediction score<\/b>: 2 \/ 5 (40%)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa vs New Zealand Prediction: South Africa (51%) expected to edge out New Zealand (49%) in a close match South Africa and New Zealand match up fairly well against each other, and we expect that this match will go down to the wire. A lot depends on whether Faf du Plessis plays for South&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/world-t20-2014-predictions-for-march-24-matches\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">World T20 2014: Predictions for March 24 matches<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cricmetric.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}