T20 Cricket World Cup

[Petcha]

NZ-W Indies later will be quite tasty I think.

 

[planetgeli]

Yeah, it's a nice bouncy track, but no horrors in it. Looks like a good wicket tbh. Finally. They got it right for the last match.

Are you sure? SKY nearly got his thumb broke, and now he's got another that flew up out of control. Two balls later Pant gets a grubber that gets him out.

 

[Petcha]

Hazlewood trolling England...

Hazlewood raises prospect of run-rate shenanigans but England’s task clear

England face Oman on Thursday with their T20 World Cup future at stake while Australia stir the pot

www.theguardian.com

How do you police that though

 

[Maggot]

Am watching England v Oman and the stadium is almost empty. I know Oman aren't the most illustrious opponents, but I would have expected more interest than this.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

England are going to have to try fairly hard to bugger this up, but excuse me while i hide behind the sofa...

 

[QueenOfGoths]

England are going to have to try fairly hard to bugger this up, but excuse me while i hide behind the sofa...

I'm going for eight 6's and all done in 2 overs!!

 

[planetgeli]

Apparently they need to do it in 5.2 overs to beat Scotland's NRR

Doesn't matter how many wickets they lose, as long as it's not 10

 

[SpookyFrank]

I'm not sure cricket or anybody is getting anything out of this fixture.

 

[Puddy_Tat]

the collapse is on

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Well that was quick!

 

[Puddy_Tat]

 

[two sheds]

Great run rates: 400, 300, 300 & 71.

Worth having a bet on Australia losing to Scotland?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Well if Aus throw the match, they are still through and knock out England. No points are carried over in this version of the 'super 8', so they don't harm their tournament chances.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Am watching England v Oman and the stadium is almost empty. I know Oman aren't the most illustrious opponents, but I would have expected more interest than this.

The public got it right.

There was a very good crowd for the earlier match between Bangladesh and the Netherlands, which was a good game. St Vincent has a population of 100,000. A pretty big proportion of them were there.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Worth having a bet on Australia losing to Scotland?

You'd want really long odds before it would be worth it IMO. Australia might have enjoyed trolling England a bit about net run rates but they're not about actually throwing matches and they're a better team than Scotland by a massive distance.

The risk to England would be another washout I think but it seems the weather forecast looks OK at the moment.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Who'd have thought that USA vs Ireland would be a huge game? But it is. Hope for no more rain. It's played enough havoc already.

Florida in June? Rain? Never!

 

[planetgeli]

Australia won't throw their game, sandpaper-gate is still too fresh and they'll be under extra scrutiny. And I'd like to think they wouldn't anyway. But Hazelwood wasn't trolling I don't think. He was being a dick.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Australia won't throw their game, sandpaper-gate is still too fresh and they'll be under extra scrutiny. And I'd like to think they wouldn't anyway. But Hazelwood wasn't trolling I don't think. He was being a dick.

Yeah. Hazelwood was being a dick and his teammates probably won't thank him for it. If anything, he's put extra pressure on Australia to win a game that ordinarily would only have an embarrassment factor to deal with.

 

[Wilf]

The public got it right.

There was a very good crowd for the earlier match between Bangladesh and the Netherlands, which was a good game. St Vincent has a population of 100,000. A pretty big proportion of them were there.

Probably a better spectacle if England had batted first. At least you'd have (probably!) seen them score 220 or so before watching Oman collapse, perhaps even more quickly if they'd been chasing 10/11 per over.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

And now a thunderstorm, so the USA are through, Pakistan are out.

Shame. It's good to see the odd 'minnow' qualify but not by default like this. Would have liked them to have earned it properly by winning today.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

And now a thunderstorm, so the USA are through, Pakistan are out.

Shame. It's good to see the odd 'minnow' qualify but not by default like this. Would have liked them to have earned it properly by winning today.

They did beat Pakistan tbf.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Well this doesn't look good. If England go out because of rain it will be galling!

 

[Petcha]

Well this doesn't look good. If England go out because of rain it will be galling!

Nah, they'll be going out because they're... shit

 

[QueenOfGoths]

Nah, they'll be going out because they're... shit

But that's not true. Yes they lost to Australia but other teams will be going through with a loss.

Only playing two of the four scheduled games is, well, as I said galling.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I mean I'm not saying that they might not be shit and, if they go through, would crash and burn but at the moment it's shit weather rather their own shitness that is confounding them

 

[planetgeli]

90 minutes left to start a game. It's grim. England are out.

 

[planetgeli]

Is there anywhere in the world that plays cricket where it isn't raining? Or melting degrees.

 

[planetgeli]

Seriously, fuck climate change. If it's starting to cost England World Cups then this shit is serious. I'm voting Green.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

11 overs, England to bat first. Game on. England..... don't be shit

 

[Puddy_Tat]