120 off 16 overs becomes 180 off 30 overs becomes 250 off 40 overs and you end up losing.
120 off 16 overs becomes 180 off 30 overs becomes 250 off 40 overs and you end up losing.
Big Angelo has this. Namoo namoo namooooo
Yeah, they've managed this chase brilliantly.
Going to need some extremely long shot fireworks from here. 260 all out.
SL batting has been shambolic for years now. Consistent collapses game after game. I don't understand how Mathews average is still so high.
Didn't even make 250. Poor.
Good job they let Maxwell steal 10 overs when they were going well, which completely killed the game for them.
Should have been taking Maxwell for minimum 6 an over. Such a weird chase, they got it right by going hard early and then just went into England 09 mode. Bizarre.
Pakistan have been a lazy shambles so far.
Ludicrous end to the match. India looked very dangerous though.
Gayle out for a duck is always nice to see.
#UniverseDross
West Indies need to win this for the tournament's sake really.
Tigers cruising this chase
It's a real pity they got rained off against SL which may well bollocks their chances, as they look a really good and indeed fun outfit in this tournament.
They probably have to upset Australia, Australia don't get upset in these things. They only lose to better teams.
This is how you chase a high total. Foot on the throttle from the start and don't let up. Shakib is demolishing them.
It helps when the oppo are absolutely clueless and refuse to bowl length in conditions that demand it. They're trying to play this match at Perth, and it's at Taunton.
Team selection was awful as well. Just five bowlers, all pace, one of which has no knees and keeps breaking down.
Yeah, the Windies have rather got carried away with that first morning against Pakistan.
The Desh now outsiders for the top 4. It would be all too familiar if we somehow ended up missing out to them, although I can't see it happening. Getting our game against Afghanistan washed out tomorrow (happening) will be a start though.
Bring back big Sulieman Benn imo.
Oh to be Athar Ali Khan on a day like this.
We are batting first against Afghanistan. Vince James, your time is now.
24 before edging to slip here we go.
He'll be trying to play a beautiful shot though.
Am I reading the live text right that he was actually dropped on 24??
Gone for 26. Truly did not see this coming.
We're going to lose this.
He is fucking hopeless.
Does he absolutely boss it in county?
Yeah. He's a poor man's Graeme Hick really.
Agree with Jimmy here, this feels like a loss. Uncharacteristically tame start.
O ye of little faith.
This is brutal. Rashid Khan has aged 10 years in this innings (lol)
Now starting to think we might shade it.
They protected Khan at the end there. He almost had Mick Lewis chased down
The drop when Morgan was on 26 or whatever goes down as one of the greats. Not only for the carnage that followed, but also for just how bad an effort it was.
Really hope Roy isn't out of the whole thing. This batting line-up has the potential to wreck anything it comes into contact with.
Starting to think my comment earlier was a little premature. Just goes to show the insanity in that batting line up. 229 runs scored in the last 19 overs is pretty mindblowing.
A lot of the stuff from Twitter or whatever they put on the live text is total bobbins but I quite like this:
Essex League Cricketer: Rashid Khan vs Eoin Morgan today.
It is a real struggle to find any kind of old cricket highlights on YouTube these days isn’t it? With South Africa/New Zealand today wanted to watch some of the great semi final last time and the horror choke four years previous but there’s nothing out there. A real shame. What do they gain by keeping this stuff private?
'Protecting rights holders'
Helps pay Tom Harrison's £700,000 salary no doubt.
The Aussie robelinda who has loads of old cricket videos on Youtube has had some epic battles over the years, I wish ECB put as many resources into getting my junior teams some equipment as they do into getting his videos taken down.
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He had some great stuff. Still has a fair bit up now tbf.
It’s baffling though. The rights holders can use their rights by having Mark Nicholas talk me through a 30 second “Magic Moment” during a Powerade hydration break but I can’t show a cricket agnostic friend 10 minute highlights of a great game 8 years ago.
It's real price of everything, value of nothing bullshit. Other sports are starting to see sense on this do no doubt cricket will follow in about 40 years.
de Grandhomme channeling some peak Mark Ealham here.
How he gets away with bowling this filth is anyone's guess.
Bowling at a three years past it Hashim Amla always helps.
Those teams who have stuck with old/injured stars all getting absolutely thrashed in this tournament.
Is Amla this far gone in tests as well? Was just looking at his ODI stats and some recent stuff about him.
I've got the radio on and Pommie Mbangwa is on as a summariser. My mind is slightly blown by this.
He's begun with a yoga/yoghurt pun.
This South African team is genuinely terrible. It reminds me very much of how England used to play the 50 over game. Having Amla, Du Plessis and Markram in your top four in a modern era ODI is just laughable.
And what's particularly frustrating is that I'd accept a paywall if there was any way to legitimately buy it. To use @Max Power's example, if I had a burning desire to watch extended highlights of an old game I'd happily pay a fairly extortionate £2 or something to do so .
I was thinking the same when I saw Markram in their line-up at the start of the tournament. A classic England thing to do.
New Zealand are always going to be dangerous in these sort of conditions, but I just feel that if they end up on a baked track in mid-July against India or England then they're going to get absolutely smoked.
Their approach is so wrong. In comes David Miller with Rassie fairly set, and now DM is 13 off 21. One of you has got to go ffs.
Letting de Grandhomme dibble and dobble his way through 10 overs for 31 is shocking.
Hearing commentary talking up 230 being a tricky chase further brings up the bad old England days when this would happen and they’d subsequently lose by 9 wickets in about 35 overs.
"Colin de Grandhomme has taken exactly one wicket in each of his last 6 ODIs"
Consistency.
We’ve slagged them off and they don’t have enough but really need South Africa to defend these to keep the tournament alive. New Zealand chase these and Australia win tomorrow and the top four is locked with plenty of time to spare.
Hoping Surrey's Immy Tahir can blow through them, but this is taylormade for Kane 85*