That Stokes grab is insane. I love the change in crowd noise. A collective yelp of wtf.
That Stokes grab is insane. I love the change in crowd noise. A collective yelp of wtf.
That Ben Stokes catch is utter filth.
As with all such moments, it's just a shame Mark Nicholas wasn't on commentary.
Is this just a round robin with the top 4 going into the semis? We should probably heed the Indian chiding and go for 500 every game, it's not like the format is going to be much of a worry if it's as described.
That win over South Africa should get us into the semis. We'll have to go some to lose to a lot of the others.
Weather to fuck India over would be a nice outcome.
The Windies ripping through Pakistan here. I knew we'd had a good time against them but just saw there that they've lost their last 11 ODIs, which is pretty grim form if true.
They will lose the next three as well, then win the subsequent 7 and the World Cup. It's just what they do.
105? Fucking hell.
EDIT: Joy of Six is "Calamitous Cricket World Cup campaigns
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/bl...-cup-campaigns
Includes England 2015, which of course inspired JimRage.
Mark Nicholas on comms alert as the 'desh give saffas the runaround in the early stages.
Just turned on and have seen Soumya Sarkar paste Rabada through the covers and Nicholas is signing Smoke On The Water.
Lol Seth Effica.
'mon the 'Desh!
Saffers already on the brink 4 days in.
The Desh are bossing this.
I'd love to say they can't mess it up from here but this is Bangladesh after all....
I imagine that's it then, that's the last bit of Saffa resistance gone.
Why haven't India played a game yet?
I was pondering this yesterday given it'll now mean that as well as multiple teams having played two games already when they play it'll be against the Saffers who will be in their third game.
They requested a late start following the IPL, which will make it very funny in the unlikely event that they tank.
I was going to ask is anyone going to win the toss and bat in this tournament, but I see Afghanistan did.
Last edited by niko_cee; 03-06-2019 at 09:08 AM.
It's on the live text, it must be true.Asif: India 'lobbied' the ICC for extra time to acclimatise in the UK following the IPL season, hence the strange scheduling.
Pakistan have suddenly woken up.
All aboard the tamasha madness train to World Cup glory.
This is going well.
Ooof.
I just Googled Babar Azam. That's one hell of a monobrow.
Babar Azam is a gun. Great news though for those of us with money on over 14.5 tournament stumpings. That was number two.
Mo.
Fucking decades on and the professor is still haunting us in ICC events.
Should be a good test of England's chase anything theory, assuming Pakistan can kick on to something north of 350 here. Although, being Trent Bridge, christ knows how many is enough, pitch looks a belter.
The chase anything theory won't be enough against Cornered Tiger Pakistan. This is lost.
Not sure they have enough here, short of some spectacular fireworks at the end. They looked on for 400 at one point.
Will probably be enough once The Prof has opened the bowling and gutted our top order, mind.
They've been really up and down during this innings, variously looking well set for 350-400 and much less at one point as they struggled to get more than singles in dribs and drabs.
England have gone full Pakistan in the field.
So we'd need a world record here, right?
A World Cup record. The ODI record is somehow still the Mick Lewis Match in 2006.
Yeah I was just looking up the list to confirm if it was a world record or a World Cup one.
That top one is a bit mental.
Just remembered I put a MASSIVE bet on this morning that'll net me a life-changing £15 if England get a boundary in each of the first... three overs? I think?
One down.
Well, you're a winner, unlike England. You run into Pakistan in a corner there's nothing you can do about it.
I feel so ALIVE.
Had to go into a meeting so had my eye off the live text and come back to England looking a bit shit.
Nothing new there then.
Getting to 349 is going to beat this rate.
That's out
On second viewing it missed the bat, never mind
There he is again, Professor Nightmare ripping out our left handers.
Just had the "if these two bat 15 overs we'll be fine" thought, so, sorry about that, collapse ahoy.
Believe in the Jos.
Pakistan will come again when we least expect it and bowl us out.
Going to need a Butler special to get over the line here.
Regardless of the result it shows how important Root is in the batting line-up even if he doesn't offer enough in the pursuit of 500 to warrant picking.
Amazing that we can get two tons and not chase this down. That said, Pakistan have been brilliant in these last few overs to restrict the runs.
Pakistan chucking it away with silly wides.
This is a proper MELTDOWN!!
Scenes.
Hope you chucked some money on it.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
Moeen looked like he won a competition to have a bat for England there.
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