I thought you'd love the cricket Giggles. They're All-Ireland. Fuck them unionists.
I thought you'd love the cricket Giggles. They're All-Ireland. Fuck them unionists.
Agreed. In our league it's very advantageous to bowl first (stupid draw points), unless rain is due, then you bat first because you control the game as only the team batting second loses overs so it's up to the team batting first to declare to even it out. Even 25 stone 4th XI specialist slip fielders know that.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
I like the sport but they're not All-Ireland, they're All-Ireland + Northern Ireland like rugby is. No team that includes NI interests me.
Our limited overs games used to have an insane rain rule. If it rained in the first innings, the team batting first would have to complete their 50 overs regardless, and all the lost overs would come off the second innings. Then the run chase would be at the same run rate as the first innings. So you'd often have a team score 240 off 50 overs, and the opponents having to chase 120 in 25.
Fortunately that fell to DLS a few years ago. The time games are 100 overs and the side batting first can go to 55 (or 120/66 in the Prem), so rain basically means the side batting first can't win.
Then you have the classic scenario as befell South Africa the other night where you're beyond the DLS target but haven't completed the requisite overs, so the game is abandoned. Never seen club cricketers seethe as much as they do in that circumstance.
It did strike me as an odd time of year for this to be happening [unless this is some sort of covid hangover] but I guess it just shows where International T20 sits in the pecking order. Presume the BBL gets to keep the prime summer slot where a major tournament in Australia really ought to be.
The BBL is in danger of getting banjaxed by this Dubai rubbish happening at the same time, not that I'd mourn it too much.
The international cricket schedule exists to serve/pay, what, about 400 people? Maybe 500 after the BCCI brown envelopes have been handed round. It's insanity.
They'd have been as well hosting this here by the looks of things.
Been a good tournament for games that have been completed
Baffling that it's so early in the summer.
Trashwin going the distance.
Now he's looking for the mankad.
They really can't help themselves.
Do or die defence of 179 coming up here. That loss to Ireland really was a shambles.
We'll probably get this down to them needing 36 off the last over and then lose.
Yeah, here we go, 32 off 7 balls, 6 . . .
21 off 1 ball...
No?
Gave away a bit of net run rate at the end, poor performance by England.
I see the new thing is that we will 'know exactly what we have to do' in our final game v SL after the Aussies eviscerate Afghanistan on Friday. Of course there is zero chance that anything could go wrong for us vs Sri Lanka in a World Cup, and even if we need to chase 190 in 13.4 overs we should saunter home. We'll never learn.
From my calculations, Aus have to win by 60 runs or inside 14 overs vs Afghanistan to overtake our NRR. So we've got to have a decent chance of only needing the win. Afghans crumbling for 50 or whatever would be the thing that puts us up shit creek.
I always find net run rate to be such a baffling thing. It'll be no way for whoever gets fucked by it to go out of the tournament.
Do it on boundary count I say, or some other arbitrary measure designed to make people seethe. Fewest wheels on national flag.
The amount of India cricket twitter seethe on the boundary count is already glorious. Make it so
Taskin Ahmed looks a cracking bowler these days.
Only 27, too, feels like he's been around since about 2003.
By Christ, please rain harder.
I'm going to have to look up that Warner wicket because it sounds excellent. Hey fucked, Davey.
I was half watching the screen over the top of my laptop (wfh, baby) and thought it was Marsh out at first.
Cracking wasted review by Smith with the stumps being obliterated. Reviewing just doesn't sit well in the Aussie macho psyche. 'Gotta go for it, mate'.
Just seen both, lovely stuff.
Strange goings on in this one. Afganistan cruising to the England just need a win total and then all of a sudden wickets start tumbling [realistically I guess we are now at England just need a win but whatever].
It's their way of saying thank you for our 20 years of efforts in their country.
Rashid Khan obviously a big dog lover.
Crikey, that was nearly an ending and a half.
Think they would have won it but for the spasm in the middle. Australia a poor side really given their resources.
Now we just have to beat Sri Lanka, what could possibly go wrong etc.
Yeah, now watch Australia somehow win the whole thing [obviously beating a meek New Zealand in the final].
Very scruffy start from England.
We're never chasing anything on this deck. Game raising pricks. Russel Arnold's voice before my morning coffee again, it's like a seethe alarm.
Dragged it back well. Will cruise this chase.
We're cruising fuck all. Hasaranga 6/12.
Yeah, Rashid going at 4 and Moeen at 5 in his ONE (!) over doesn't really bode all that well.
If JC Buttler goes off fast we'll be alright, otherwise it's struggle street, especially with Malan crocked in a situation tailor made for him. 21 off the last 4 for Sri Lanka. Well batted lads.
Is this like what Liverpool fans do?
Pretty much, but with more justification.
I'm surprised 'mystery spin' hasn't been put in the racist bin yet. Never seen a white 'mystery' spinner. Is it just a way of saying they're throwing it?
Alex Loudon?
Well his one-game England career was certainly a mystery.
Sri Lanka well on top here.
Mystery spinners almost always bowl straight up and down dobbers, it just comes out the hand funny. That Mendis bloke faded away when everyone realised he did fuck all with it.
Before sacking it off to become an umpire, I used to bowl left arm mystery straight up and down 'spin'. One time I was on about 3/1 or something on a wet pitch (my favourite) and the incoming batsman was told by his partner 'Be careful mate, he's got the one that goes on with the arm'. Brother, that's literally the only ball I've ever bowled.
Mystery spin strikes again.
Why Malan hasn't batted yet is baffling. Should have been in at 3 or 4.
Left arm non-spin, is there a more deadly form of bowling against English batsmen?
He's crocked.
Luckily their dogshit seamers will soon be back to save the day.
Great shot Mo.
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