Sri Lanka doing all they can to not bowl their pacers.
Sri Lanka doing all they can to not bowl their pacers.
This is a tremendous wobble.
Absolutely tremendous.
I forgot about Chris Woakes. Truly the man for all seasons.
That over was utter tripe, and yet we've only scored 2 and lost a wicket. What are we doing?
Woakes running twos from the non-striker's end truly a joy to watch. Box office T20 cricket at its best.
It's 3am now but I am so delighted to have ended up staying up to witness the greatest choke of all time.
Not a shred of backbone in that SA team. Roelof van der Merwe running catch to dismiss Miller was absolutely unreal.
That is unbelievable news to wake up to. No team has choking in their DNA than the SA cricket team.
Yeah that was brilliant.Originally Posted by Jimmy Floyd
A cricket tournament wouldn't be a cricket tournament without South Africa choking.
Apart from Nortje, who was magnificent, they were absolutely pathetic (and Holland were really good). Rabada was particularly useless with the ball, and Bavuma sat there all innings as if a swarm of wasps had flown into his mouth. The scenes at the end when they sent in Keshav Maharaj to literally hop singles on one leg for the last three overs when they needed 12s+ summed it all up.
That also qualified Holland for the next World Cup and consigned Zimbabwe to African regional qualifying.
Pakistan back from the dead as per.
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Pakistan cruising into the final. What a shithouse tournament it has been.
Part of me wants to see a Pakistan-India final (and Pakistan to win) even though that would mean we get beat tomorrow.
Pakistan don't do cruising. Pile on New Zealand.
NZ are only 5/1, that's fucking dreadful.
The bookies know.
Just want to be very clear that I want us to beat fucking India tomorrow. I want Harsha Bhogle to do a 15 tweet thread about how unfair it all is. I want curry off the menu across Britain. I want the Viceroy back in his office by Monday morning.
How about us winning by one run and the final wicket coming by Mankad off the last ball? That seems perfect.
It'll be pretty glorious when Mark Wood mankads Ashwin then gives him a proper Yakka send off.
Nothing T20 related is worth even jokingly bad-mouthing curry for.
Personally I love a T20, it's about as short as you can go while retaining 10 wickets representing meaningful jeopardy, and the risk-reward dynamic is a microcosm of the other forms of cricket. Large boundaries help as well.
If they ever bring in substitutes / specialists, as idiots want to do, that will kill it as the wickets will cease to have value and it will turn into a six hitting procession.
Basically everything loses any meaning for me when it's all crammed into every game.
I may watch the semi and final.if we get in because most things are okay if the stakes are high enough but broadly, meh. Pointless and all consuming.
Shastri called Chris Woakes a 'slippery customer', must be a first for Woakesy. Early wicket brings Kohli in.
Nasser fucking hates India you can tell. Itching for a win today.
Yes, fuck off 'Sky'. You are shit.
Turned this on in time to hear some dickhead doing call and response shit over the tannoy. Is this how much constant distraction a T20 crowd requires?
Ah piss, Kohli getting DRS'd out would have been a nice start to the day.
Feel a bit shafted on that DRS, I'm sure Reiffel didn't give it as he thought there was a nick.
He didn't give it out because it was Kohli in front of a massive Indian crowd. Rod Tucker would have pulled the trigger.
There you go. Doesn't walk when he's bowled, doesn't walk when he chips it to short third. Imagine the ego involved.
Horrible team. Kohli's got an ego bigger than the stadium and then you've got Surya, Pandya and Pant who are all scruffy as fuck. Never played an orthodox drive in their lives. The openers are good to watch then it descends into midweek cricket shit.
I don't understand all these weirdos who say Rishabh Pant is their favourite cricketer. Like watching an overpowered 14 year old with no talent whomp a bat at the under 12s.
Think we've got a chance here if we get off to a flyer. Salt could be a secret weapon.
The silence when India concede a boundary.
Was it Mo or Rashid who clean bowled him and he looked like he was asking his mate if he should appeal?
Mo I think. Through the gate Vaughan-to-Ponting style.
Fair play to Eoin Morgan, he's giving Hales all the credit when it's due.
It was Mo. And he didn't go until the umpires reviewed it.
Shastri/Morgan is such a surreal commentary pairing.
Anything involving Shastri is surreal. The bloke is nuts.
A racism-fuelled innings from Hales here so far. He's probably jist hoping the ball hits somebody in the crowd who wasn't paying attention.
Reiffel is all over the place here. Knows he should have given Kohli out and head has gone. I've been there.
OK, cricket has finally peaked with that relay throw. There's nothing better even theoretically possible.
They are shaping for a mankad here. Keep your heads boys.
I wish Bob Willis was still around to analyse this Indian bowling performance. His verbal murder of Xavier Doherty remains one of Sky's all-time great moments.
What a demolition
This is one of the most comprehensive poundings I can recall England dishing out in this sport. 2019 semi-final vibes.
This is a massacre.
I don't remember that one but I always think of poor old Simon Kerrigan getting the treatment from Bob
"Unfortunately Simple Simon was the pie-man today."
The guy writing the BBC live text is not holding back on India.
I've tried YouTube but it seems to have disappeared into the ether.
"I've never seen such unmitigated tripe served up at Test match level" is one quote that stands out in my mind. It was on those review shows; Charles Colville kept trying to move the show on and Bob would keep going back to poor Xavier.
Dropped for four. DONKEYS IN THE FIELD
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