The New Cricket Thread

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

If England don’t get to the semis it will be some bottle job. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

1 minute ago, Jairzinho said:

Steyn and De Villiers though...

 

Maybe's, but SA have major problems at the shorter game. Mind you, Steyn getting a lot of early wickets could have eased the pressure on their batsmen. De Villiers wanted to make a comeback from injury at this W/C but they left him out. 

Shakib made another half century, out now though. Bangladesh 143/3 off 29.1 overs. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

5 minutes ago, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

If England don’t get to the semis it will be some bottle job. 

 

They had their so called easier games stacked at the start, could bite them in the arse now. I fully expect them to win at least one of those final three games though, they might need to win two of them though. 

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

17 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

 

They had their so called easier games stacked at the start, could bite them in the arse now. I fully expect them to win at least one of those final three games though, they might need to win two of them though. 

Hopefully the others are through before we play them. Losing to Pakistan was familiarity/contemp. Losing to Sri Lanka was pass the buck shite.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Just now, VERBAL DIARRHEA said:

Hopefully the others are through before we play them. Losing to Pakistan was familiarity/contemp. Losing to Sri Lanka was pass the buck shite.

 

Australia and India will want to beat us regardless. NZ not so much, that is the last game and NZ should be safely in the Semi's. England are capable of beating all three, but it could easily end up in three defeats. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Roy has been ruled out for the game V Australia tomorrow. Not good news. 

[Jairzinho]

Shakib is the best one day player in the world.

[Trumo]

Article on the BBC Cricket website about the Mali women's T20 team getting a hiding in a tournament in Rwanda.

 

Mali Women out for 6, 10 and 11 as they set unwanted T20I records

 

These are the results from their games:

 

Mali..............6 all out (9.0 overs)...5 of those runs came from extras!

Rwanda.......11/0 (0.4 overs)

Rwanda beat Mali by 10 wickets

 

Mali..............11 all out (15.4 overs)

Tanzania......14/0 (0.4 overs)

Tanzania beat Mali by 10 wickets

 

Uganda........314/2 (20.0 overs)

Mali...............10 all out (11.1 overs)

Uganda beat Mali by 304 runs

 

Rwanda........246/1 (20.0 overs)

Mali...............30/9 (20.0 overs)...Yes they actually batted out the 20 overs!

Rwanda beat Mali by 216 runs

 

Tanzania.......285/1 (20.0 overs)

Mali...............17 all out (12.5 overs)

Tanzania beat Mali by 268 runs

 

Mali...............14 all out (7.4 overs)

Uganda.........18/0 (1.4 overs)

Uganda beat Mali by 10 wickets

 

I'm starting to wonder if they actually used bats.

 

 

 

[Jairzinho]

The Mali blind women's team, coached by Boycott.

[Trumo]

5 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

The Mali blind women's team, coached by Boycott.

 

They'd still be out there batting if they were!

[Mudface]

I've always liked this bizarre scorecard, from the 1975 World Cup- https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/8039/scorecard/65035/england-vs-india-1st-match-prudential-world-cup-1975

 

England knocked up 334, the highest score ever at the time, then Gavaskar opened and finished not out- on 36... Report here.

[s(k)aturation]

8 hours ago, Jairzinho said:

Shakib is the best one day player in the world.

 

He's magnificent, isn't he?

 

He alone deserves a semi-final spot... sadly won't happen.

 

Only possible chance, I think, is if the loser of Eng/Aust today went on to lose both their subsequent remaining 2 matches.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Weather has improved in London so should get a full game in today. I reckon Warner and Smith are in for quite a lot of crowd abuse. 

[Captain Turdseye]

3 minutes ago, Pistonbroke said:

Weather has improved in London so should get a full game in today. I reckon Warner and Smith are in for quite a lot of crowd abuse. 

 

Ball tampering twats. 

[Captain Turdseye]

 

 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

England V Australia. 

 

Cloudy conditions and you'd want to bowl face. 

 

England win the toss and Bowl first. Excellent toss to win. 

[Bjornebye]

Win this or I can see England not getting through 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Streaky shots from Aus but they're getting away with them. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Reckon Woods will get the best out of this strip. Australia not piling the runs on but we need a wicket. 

[Jairzinho]

Australia playing the conditions well. We haven't been very good.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Far too many short deliveries, they needed to pitch it up further. Aussies have treated it like Test conditions and have a decent platform now. Wickets change things, especially on a pitch like this that batsmen need to ease into things, but we need to fucking bowl better. Lose this match and it means Aus are through to the semi's and we'll struggle. 

Hard to judge what a good score on this pitch is. Reckon Aus will have to post at least 280. 

[Jairzinho]

Agree, mate. Anything between 265-285 will be competitive. I think 300 could be tough to chase.

[VERBAL DIARRHEA]

Predictable short shite on a helpful pitch. Brainless.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

19 minutes ago, Jairzinho said:

Agree, mate. Anything between 265-285 will be competitive. I think 300 could be tough to chase.

 

If we don't get a wicket soon they'll just bat us out of the game. Looking more like getting 340-350 atm. 

[Guest Pistonbroke]

I wish Slater would shut his gob.