The Cricket Thread

[aussiespursguy]

Bowling Mitch

 

[Dakes]

The Proteas are the Spurs of cricket. At least I have the Springboks to give me that winning feeling.

 

[Dakes]

Bowling Mitch

Congrats to ya'll and good luck for the final.

 

[midoshairband]

christ, don't the Saffers usually get things a bit closer before choking?

 

[Dakes]

christ, don't the Saffers usually get things a bit closer before choking?

No, we start choking at any stage during knockouts.

 

[UncleBuck]

It’s going to be close this, cracking game. SA just needed a couple of them catches to stick!

 

[midoshairband]

SA get the cheat in the next few overs and it's game on.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

TBH I wasn't rooting for either of today's finalists which is probably why I forgot all about watching this. Think i'll carry on watching Midsomer Murders

 

[SE Spurs]

No doubt the one country India wouldn't have wanted in the final would have been the Aussies, and it's showing why. Even though India have had all the advantages they could think of being at home, I just didn't think they would win every game. Not sure that's ever been done.

Couldn't really win either way with this final. But you gotta hand it to them, the Aussies know how to win WCs.

 

[PCozzie]

Ravi Shankar, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa, Sachin Tendulkar, Lamb Bhuna, Kabaddi. Your boys took one hell of a beating!

Well played Aussies.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

We England fans have been embarrassed enough by our half arsed approach to defending this but India fans must be bereft, all those games steamrollering teams only to not turn up on their big day. If it were against anyone else it'd be funny but seeing Mr Spirit of Cricket lift the trophy will be slightly irritating.

 

[1882andallthat]

We England fans have been embarrassed enough by our half arsed approach to defending this but India fans must be bereft, all those games steamrollering teams only to not turn up on their big day. If it were against anyone else it'd be funny but seeing Mr Spirit of Cricket lift the trophy will be slightly irritating.

India's fans were encouraged to believe that all their side needed to do was simply turn up in their hoards and they would be rewarded in a procession like match that would see them crowned as World One Day Champions in their own backyard as if it was their right to have it end this way.

That was always a very dangerous assumption to make and trap to fall into, as far as now 6 time winners Australia are concerned, and as pride often comes before a fall, they well and truly got a rude awakening.

 

[Twizzle]

we were so shit a month ago, and then this happens

 

[aussiespursguy]

we were so shit a month ago, and then this happens

We absolutely were.
Travis Head coming back after injury saved the team.
I was quite surprised by the pitch for the final. Absolute dead track.
Also very surprised at India's lack of aggression in the middle overs.
Overall a great result for us.

 

[dellybelly]

I can't say I'm too upset. Modi turned this into a propaganda exercise. All the shots of the WAGS and the Bollywood actors just made me sick.
They all want to be the next Posh and Becks.
The players were far too cocky and deservedly lost.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

India's fans were encouraged to believe that all their side needed to do was simply turn up in their hoards and they would be rewarded in a procession like match that would see them crowned as World One Day Champions in their own backyard as if it was their right to have it end this way.

That was always a very dangerous assumption to make and trap to fall into, as far as now 6 time winners Australia are concerned, and as pride often comes before a fall, they well and truly got a rude awakening.

Pressure got to them.

I didn’t mind who won tbh, since I watched the documentary on Prime about the Aussie cricket team I’ve not minded them, far nicer than many Aussie cricket teams of yesteryear and tbh fair ply them beating a tremendous Indian team in their own back yard, takes some serious balls that.

Australia are to cricket what Germany were to football, they just know how to win on the big stage.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Englands white ball tour of the West Indies is part of a 'stop clock' trial

'Stop-clock' to be trialled in men's limited-overs internationals

A "stop-clock" will be trialled in men's limited-overs internationals in order to regulate the time taken between overs.

www.bbc.co.uk

Basically, you have 60 seconds from the end of an over until you start the next one.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Englands white ball tour of the West Indies is part of a 'stop clock' trial

'Stop-clock' to be trialled in men's limited-overs internationals

A "stop-clock" will be trialled in men's limited-overs internationals in order to regulate the time taken between overs.

www.bbc.co.uk

Basically, you have 60 seconds from the end of an over until you start the next one.

What a load of bollox - do they stop the clock when someone comes on to powder the batsman’s nose?

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

What a load of bollox - do they stop the clock when someone comes on to powder the batsman’s nose?

No, It's an excellent idea and if it works, somewhere down the line a version of it could possibly be used in Test cricket and given that we're constantly short changed with over rates, that cannot be a bad thing. Right now it's just a trial, to see what any potential issues with it might be.

 

[stonecolddeanaustin]

I can't say I'm too upset. Modi turned this into a propaganda exercise. All the shots of the WAGS and the Bollywood actors just made me sick.
They all want to be the next Posh and Becks.
The players were far too cocky and deservedly lost.

Indeed. And ironically hosting the final at the modi stadium at this time of year probably cost india the game as that dew made it a bat second pitch which I'm not sure india would've ever done.