BOTTLED it.
Awful luck for us to come up against these fucks after a shoeing. You just cannot touch them on days like this.
We didn't do much wrong really.
We were awful in the field.
Also, somewhat perversely, I reckon we'll do better losing tosses and batting first than the chase mentality we've fully bought into. Our bowlers are much better suited to being aggressive, and when bowling first we get a bit passive/complacent about trying to contain the other side (we can chase anything). Probably need to administer a few bonkings in the next 2 or 3 games.
I bet Wood goes under the bus after bowling well as we need more batting depth.
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Scoreboard pressure in big games. We'd probably have pissed that chase in the warm ups, as we wouldn't have cared and Pakistan wouldn't have been up for it.
I don't think we should be bowling first either really, not now we have Archer as an enforcer up top, and Wood.
In a big game I always want runs on the board.
Extras having a pretty solid knock for Sri Lanka so far.
This game looks bonkers.
Sri Lanka getting dicked on
This is a proper batting collapse, 140-1 to 182-8 is real England territory.
That led me to look up some England batting collapse stuff and this article:
https://www.wisden.com/stories/featu...tting-collapse
"Everyone has a favourite collapse"
G'wan then lads, what's your favourite England batting collapse? I can't remember the specifics of many, I'm sure there was a particularly harrowing one in Australia in the last five years or so where our last 8 wickets went for a combined 40 runs or something though.
There was one in Ashes 13/14 when I went to sleep for an hour with us about 3 down, and when I woke up we had Australia 2 down in the next innings.
For me that would have meant at least 30 seconds of confused blinking at the TV trying to work out whether I was thinking of the right match.
Jesus Afghanistan are not messing about.
Bit of a kick in the balls that they revised Afghanistan's total down.
I know it rained earlier but couldn't of they stuck with the 50 overs match?
The Saffers donning it again.
South Africa 2019 remind me of England 1975-2015 in ODI cricket. Just look old, stale and behind the times. And liable to collapse in a heap to spin.
And strangely shit in the field. I notice they have changed their first class structure from next year to abandon 'franchises' and go back to the old 12 Currie Cup teams. Should help them considerably widen the talent pool.
Rabada is on fire here, and here comes Kohli...
omg that Bangers runout fuck up
The Windies approach to this tournament seems to be that they aren't going to die wondering. Full beans all the way.
Helmets have made people really really bad at playing the short ball.
Fucking hell, they're going through them here. Smith will probably cling on for 150 or something silly.
I don't think me and my old man have laughed more in the space of an hour.
Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of LADS.
The lowest score Smith is getting here is 163*.
That bit of fielding to get Smith out was brilliant. For the speed of thought more than what he actually did, I think.
Hell of a knock from Coulter-Nile. Can't be getting on board with the way the aussie on co-comms was saying that though, as if it was all one word. Was Chris Gayle wearing several kits or is he just enormous nowadays?
It's probably his outright refusal to walk that does it. I'm surprised they don't have a golf cart to move him from one wicket to the other when they switch ends.
Umpire hellbent on seeing the back of Gayle evidently.
The middle one was a diabolical decision (these Cricinfo clips are brilliant for the office workers among us).
So I didn't understand how the free hit rule worked apparently and therefore was confused by all the fuss about the no-ball before the Gayle wicket.
Another absolutely disgraceful decision there.
Do the Windies have another game before we play them? If not then I fear we'll be the ones on the end of the Gayle special, s is traditional.
Maybe they're being paid in XXXX.
Nice sensible batting from Russell there.
They're going to bottle this.
See, we'd have got to this point, and then had the No.11 hit 36 off the final over.
The underdogs are all bottling it so far, which is annoying me.
We dodged about 17 bullets in that match. Khawaja looks like he might struggle on these pitches, but that could be unfair. Nice that Carey can get a few runs - he’s mostly been a keeper/non-batsman until now.
I can’t see is beating England or India even on our absolute best day.
Bumrah is an outstanding bowler. Maybe the best going around right now. India are playing with thin margins though - if Dhawan, Kholi and Sharma all go cheaply in a knockout match, they might be cooked. Probably won’t happen though.
Somerset took eight wickets in a morning to smash Surrey, reigning county champions, within three days and go 15 points clear .
Honestly, the treble is on and I am already stockpiling cider for the celebrations.
I repeat: you will never win it. Not this year, not any year.
Many thanks for your input.
We've dropped Moeen. May we burn in hell for evermore.
Bangladesh anthem is a ten minute floor filler as well. I can feel my allegiance turning like a Shakib delivery.
9 runs off nearly 4 overs.
Best in the world, lads.
They were talking about leaving a spinner out beforehand, although I'd seen Rashid mentioned. I think it is more situational given the conditions and the fact that Cardiff has favoured the seamers in the games there thus far.
I guess there will be a bit of rotation in the bowling with such a long tournament off the back of a five match ODI series as well.