The Cricket Thread

[cider spurs]

Close but no cigar.

 

[dondo]

It was Stokes and Morgan that did not keep up with the run rate not Ali, thats were the 14 runs were lost.

The game was lost with the bowling and fielding you don’t win many chasing 350 even nowadays

 

[cider spurs]

Let's be honest, the fielding was poor at times today.

Yes Ali can be hit and miss, but in our first two matches either Bairstow hasn't reached double figures, when he has, Roy has come up short.

Be good to get a good opening partnership going.

Yes we got into SA in the end, but chasing that total against Pakistan today we obviously came up short.

 

[Spurslove]

The batsman cant score 4 runs off a wide ball...if he hits it then it's not a wide. I get @Spurslove point about this, even though it's small in the grand scheme of things. If it's a wide down the legside then it's one run, if there is a run taken by the batsmen (say the keeper fumbles it) then it's "2 wides", if goes to the boundary then it's "5 wides". It would seem logical to record it on the screen as "1 WD" in my view.

Theres some wanker there in a Liverpool shirt.
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Yes, I spotted the twat too.

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[Mornstar]

amusing result given the recent bilateral series where england completed a whitewash ..... yet when things really mattered and the heat was on, we choked! England can be a little "spursy" at times

 

[mpickard2087]

amusing result given the recent bilateral series where england completed a whitewash ..... yet when things really mattered and the heat was on, we choked! England can be a little "spursy" at times

Different game though really. There's no pressure and little riding on these one day series so we're free to smash the ball out of the stadium at will. However at the world cup a combination of everyone raising their game, pressure on, and because of multi-use you will get worn pitches, it makes things tighter.

I think England, especially at the start of an innings, might have to be a little smarter if this pattern continues. Even on a good day we tend to have a lot of dot balls but it doesn't matter because of the sheer number of boundaries that come, but if the opposition is managing to keep a lid on it we've got to make sure we're rotating the strike, you can go at 6 or 7 an over for the run rate doing very little. But yesterday we'd have spells where for instance Roy and Bairstow (and then others after them) went 8 or 9 dot balls in a row trying to force away shots, and just building pressure on themselves, and then wickets came. In a run chase that just causes problems.

 

[Mornstar]

great to see afghanistan back on the world stage after the war of terror

 

[tototoner]

SA only made 227 against India but their bowlers are making it interesting and Kohli out to an excellent catch

 

[SE Spurs]

The fixtures at the start of this WC are a bit strange. We're 6 days into the tournament, and South Africa are all but out after losing all 3 games, and India have only just started. I'd almost forgotten they were in it.
Disappointing from SA, they've near on gotta win out, to have any chance of making the semis.

 

[ffspurs]

I read somewhere that India asked the icc for more time to acclimatise to England after the IPL. South Africa have definitely got the tough end of it though as if your forms dicey 3 games in 7 days makes it hard to turn it around.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

Come on the Windies!

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Come on the Windies!

I've just had a cheeky tenner on them to win it, purely on the back of the last couple of games + because I don't think England will do it, not because we're not good enough but well, you know. Cricket's version of Spurs

Naturally I hope the fuckers prove me wrong.

 

[Arnoldtoo]

Good batting recovery by Oz, but 24 wides, Windies? Come on guys! That could well be the difference between winning and losing.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Good batting recovery by Oz, but 24 wides, Windies? Come on guys! That could well be the difference between winning and losing.

I've spunked a tenner if this is how they are going to carry on.

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

That gayle lbw decision is a disgrace after the terrible decisions the previous over

 

[LeSoupeKitchen]

These umps are on the take. You'd think they would not give a few marginal decisions given how many they've got wrong. But no...up goes the finger every time.

 

[Spurs_Bear]

This one going to the wire. Bloody Aussies will do it wont they. ****s.

 

[SteveH]

The maggots are going to win this sadly.
Cheating scum

 

[Arnoldtoo]

I was only keeping up with the score rather then watching at the end, so why did the last pair wait until a victory was mathematically impossible before having a bash? Was the bowling that good?

 

[SteveH]

I was only keeping up with the score rather then watching at the end, so why did the last pair wait until a victory was mathematically impossible before having a bash? Was the bowling that good?

Some sods had sandpapered the ends of their bats!