Shami is ridiculously good.
Shami is ridiculously good.
15 wides?
'mon the extras!
Starting to get a bit spicy, apologies in advance New Zealand.
Kane Williamson must have resuscitated about 10 black cats on the way to the stadium or something.
Getting to halfway with the rate under 10s is some achievement. Now can they take it DEEP.
If they can both stay in for the next 5/6 overs, this is ON.
Got to laugh at the Indian crowds. Mitchell hits the biggest six they'll ever see and you can hear a fart.
Pearls of wisdom from the bird on TMS.As a rule of thumb, if you're chasing 400 - as they are - keep yourself n the game for as long as possible.
Fuck sake. A yard from destroying Shami’s confidence. Now he’ll probably run through NZ middle order
Latham is an absolute waste of space. They should have fucked him off ages ago and just had Conway keep. Then they could play Neesham without worrying about losing a bowler to accommodate him.
There's probably a case on these pitches to just pick 11 batsmen and accept the fielding part of the game is largely just a case of going through the motions.
Pace off filth probably as good as any type of actual bowling.
Match winning over from Kuldeep there
Kuldeep went huge there. Need Siraj to go for a ride again here
India aren't losing this but their bowling attack taking a battering bodes well for the pending bottlejob in the final.
Is the final at the wankhead as well?
Nah it'll be at the massive one.
Not sure if it's bad production but the atmosphere seems shit. You'd expect deafening roars when Phillips was out.
NZ can hit pace but they can't hit wrist spin, 10 overs of Kuldeep is too much.
Nope, at the Boris Johnson ArenaOriginally Posted by niko_cee
Fucking infuriating. He played a great knock, hit some stunning shots and it was quieter than some of the games I played in this summer.
Completely different mindset over there, they don't go to see cricket, they go to see India win.
Wonder what chance a pitch like this gets rolled out for the final.
Thinking back, I recall at the last world cup a big deal was made about the ICC being in charge of pitch preparation, amidst subcontinental cries of the English trying to gerrymander their way to victory, i assume that still applies now although the spiel puts a lot more emphasis on 'the hosts' this time around.
South Africa going at 1.8 an over after 10 overs. Impressive stuff.
How will TTH cope with an Australia/India final.
Crikey! Time to throw another shrimp on the barby!
I've already made a blow-up Davey Warner sex doll in preparation.
South Africa doing South Africa things.
Smith and Labuschagne forever playing ODI like it’s a 10 day test series
Jansen is an absolute beanpole. Seems like the kind of guy who'd benefit from a few Shepherd's pies.
English umps for the final.
The stage is set for the ultimate seethe.
Stevie Wilson doing thirders, now these are the scenes we've been waiting for.
Sad news for Marais but these two are probably the world's best tbh.
Gough is better than both. But two Yorkshiremen, who am I to complain.
Gough put himself on the shit list by breaching a covid bubble a while back.
Quite a good game developing here but the commentary is a nightmare. Matthew Hayden needs to be fired out of a cannon.
Is there even a crowd in? I turned it on about half an hour ago and not heard a peep.
Building nicely, although I have no faith in the cobbers to chase anything beyond 250.
More noise in my living room than the 120,000 seater stadium when Kohli dragged on.
There aren't many better things in sport than Kohli standing about trying to think up an excuse to review while his stumps lay strewn about him.
The as yet unrealised risk of future DEW already being blamed in the commentary box.
Harsha Bhogle is the worst commentator in the history of sports.
Still think India have enough though. Pitch is wank, Bumrah and Shami will rattle through the mates.
They're going to need some Shami/Bumrah heroics.
Pitch is far from wank.
"Australia taking advantage of conditions"
Captain Sir Eoin Morgan's in on it too.
I'm not sure the pitch is the nightmare they're claiming. Bit sluggish maybe.
Smith/Marnus in the game if total under 250.
Got to love a bit of umpire's call on the LBW, although it was clearly knocking leg over. That'll add to the seethe.
It’s just slow. Not a bunsen or anything, just crap. I love a low scoring game as much as the next guy, but not on a pitch like this. After a World Cup littered with 400 pitches, it’ll be lol as fuck if they bottle because their quicks didn’t bowl slower balls as well as the Aussies.
Pat Cummins is so good. Not just his bowling skills, but the mentality to actually successfully captain a team when also being the strike bowler is elite. Wouldn’t surprise me if he hit the winning runs.
He’s a properly sound bloke too
Yeah Cummins is disgustingly impressive.
I was just coming ask about this as my gut is any score low enough that Smith and Labooshaaaane can just stodge for a bit feels a bit sticky for India.
The good thing about worst case scenario finals like this is that at least, given how this has gone, there is always the opportunity to lol at whoever loses.
Think they do need Davey/Travis to lace the new ball around a bit to get ahead. Jadeja will be a nightmare on this.
Tbh I think Australia will stroll it. Head to go beserk in the powerplay and the stadium to be half empty by 20 overs.
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