Cricket World Cup 2023

[planetgeli]

Not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Pretty good summation of the whole tournament

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Aus are strolling this. Head reaches his hundred to total silence.

I was taking about this with Mr. QofG's earlier. I find that so strange. I would expect even the most partisan crowd to acknowledge a century.

 

[agricola]

Loads of people leaving. I don't warm to Indian cricket fan culture.

TBF people would have done that at Lords in 2019, if NZ had done this to England in that final.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

TBF people would have done that at Lords in 2019, if NZ had done this to England in that final.

Yeah the leaving early doesn't bother me too much. It's not something I would necessarily do but I can understand why. Not acknowledging good performances or play I find odder

 

[1927]

TBF people would have done that at Lords in 2019, if NZ had done this to England in that final.

Wouldn't have happened to same degree in England as majority of supporters would be too pissed and wouldn't leave until they'd got the biggest plastic glass python!

 

[a_chap]

Well done Aus, but what a disappointing match

I mean, compare this one to the previous World Cup final...

 

[Petcha]

Fucks sake. I've been offline and a bit ill and this post from this morning was left in my drafts.

I think the Aussies will cruise to a victory. Cummins will win the toss, field, and their bowlers will restrict them to something like 240. The Aussie top order will largely fail but I fancy Travis Head and Marnus to sort things out and guide them home with something like 6 wickets to spare. Gonna be a bit of a damp squib I fear and commentators will be banging on about dew 'falling' for the entire game when we all know dew forms, it doesn't 'fall'.

It looks like I was pretty close to being right this time. Commiserations to India. I hate their organising board but I love their country.

 

[Petcha]

On a more serious note, I'm pleased this match didn't hinge on that dodgy Smith LBW decision and his subsequent failure to review. Else that guy might be facing a Wayne Barnes situation after his performance in the rugby final.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

These were certainly the two best teams in the tournament. All-format quality players formed the core of both teams. Both sides featured six players who played in the World Test Championship final earlier this year. Both sides featured four specialist bowlers. And both sides' bowling lineups in the final were basically their test attacks with one bowler swapped out, in each case a wrist spinner for a finger spinner - Zampa for Lyon, Kuldeep Yadav for Ashwin. I think it's telling that the six frontline pace bowlers in the final were all first-choice test bowlers.

In terms of white ball specialists, both teams could be said to have had one batter and one spin bowler: Maxwell and Zampa for Aus, Suryakumar Yadav and Kuldeep Yadav for India. One big-hitting middle order batter and one wrist spinner each.

The other semi-finalists, NZ and SA, also had a core of test regulars.

It is interesting the turn ODIs have taken since England's Morgan revolution.

 

[Petcha]

Gotta clean out the management, coaching team and obvs Buttler is not up to the job.

So pleased for Pat Cummins. He's an absolute gentleman. Proof nice guys can actually finish first.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Yeah the leaving early doesn't bother me too much. It's not something I would necessarily do but I can understand why. Not acknowledging good performances or play I find odder

For a World Cup final, though? Nah you stay to the end even if your team is being spanked. (I don't like it when it happens at football matches either. )

Stadium was half-empty by the end, which is a poor show imo. Been reading a fair bit of criticism of it from Indians who did stay to the end, too.

 

[planetgeli]

I've never left a sport event early in my life and usually scoff at those who do but this was a massive, yes partisan, crowd a lot of who obviously had to find transport to hotels all at the same time. And the result wasn't close was it, not for long.

Why did they hold it in Ahmedabad?

 

[Petcha]

I've never left a sport event early in my life and usually scoff at those who do but this was a massive, yes partisan, crowd a lot of who obviously had to find transport to hotels all at the same time. And the result wasn't close was it, not for long.

Why did they hold it in Ahmedabad?

Because it's the largest cricket stadium in the world (if not the largest sporting stadium?). Oh and its named after the cunt of a Prime Minister, whose face presenting the trophy was priceless.