Unless you get one of these out they'll chase anything.
Unless you get one of these out they'll chase anything.
Kohli is fucking quality tbf
This sounds like a fairly damaging over for 'the finisher'.
Faulkner is bins and always has been. Zampa underbowled again.
I thought that. Not very brave captaincy at all from old Devereux. Leggie as likely to get Kohli out as anyone and they had to get him out.Originally Posted by Max Power
In that spinfest they lost to New Zealand he bowled 1 over for 3 runs.
Bowling eight overs of Hazlewood and Coulter-Nile on this pitch is literally incompetent.
I guess it's on the mighty ENGLAND to prevent the Evil Empire winning this tournament then.
I'm still fuming at Mahmudullah and Mushfiqur Rahim.
West Indies have half a chance with their attack unless they get bribed off, which is probably not as unlikely as it seems.
I think we'll do New Zealand.
T20 is just the most random-outcome format, which annoys me more than it probably should.
I think we'll do England.
Fairly poor show from Australia letting the gruesome twosome do them over like that.
Agree on the random format and that being irrationally annoying. I suppose, in a way, it allows you to appreciate the nuances of every fine detail (ie the difference saving a run can make) but it mostly just feels completely luck driven. If you don't time it, does it pick out the fielder? There's no skill in (unintentionally) shanking it into space, but that can often decide a game.
Kohli's two sixes were probably the two worst shots he played, lumbering halfway down, getting nowhere near the pitch and just chipping it over long off with his massive bat. T20 is a better game on big grounds. The best shots were those ones he drove willy out past extra towards the end (one of which made the ghastly Gavaskar ejaculate), and the two yorkers he squeezed through point.
I've long been convinced Dhoni is fucking awful, no idea how he gets away with it. Fortunately Simple Suresh appears to have been found out at long last.
It's kind of sad watching Steyn get taken round the park by wankers like Chandimal. He should retire and stick to Tests or something. Not sure he'll be an IPL commodity for much longer, not on playing ability anyway.
Alan Wilkins American accent on commentary. RIP cricket.
New Zealand are batting, and I fancy us rotten. I dare you, England, to disappoint me.
Early wicket.
'Colin Munro' can piss off back to the gardening job for a Highland estate in the 1980s where he belongs.
Got it on the radio, and it sounds like we're struggling a bit. Hopefully the spinners continue to be good on this pitch.
Jroy is donning this. Hopefully gets him a late IPL deal so I don't have to watch him skying it for 10 off 4 balls at number six in the County Championship.
Imagine the net run rate.
It's so refreshing to watch us go out and issue a clinical humping in a semi-final.
Badly need West Indies to win now. An England v India final would be too much for me.
Wait a minute, there's only one knockout round before the final? What kind of mad structure is that?
One with not enough teams in it because Giles Clarke/India. Although cricket doesn't really do quarter-finals to be honest, except at the World Cup, which has the worst structure for anything ever.
Just watched the highlights. Great stuff. Scarily competent bowling performance as well by the looks of things. End times.
When Roy comes off
Eoin Morgan. "We did really to peg it back after the first six or seven overs, Kane played really well and his wicket was very important. Continuing to take wickets helped us a huge amount. At one stage we were looking at 180, but the belief in our camp is a very aggressive brand of cricket and we have confidence at the moment - led by Alex Hales and Jason Roy. We are in a good position at the moment. [A final] is the kind of thing you dream about. The players have made a lot of sacrifices and worked very hard for it."
Well played and deserved on the day.
Get a fiver on Morgan for a golden duck in the final.
Kane Williamson really does have a camp voice. Bazza's testosterone legacy crumbling already.
West Indies won the toss and put indianteam in to bat.
But more importantly, the county vs university matches have started
Dhoni there, practising the sort of orthodox shot he hasn't yet managed to play for real in his career.
Kohli is ridiculous.
If England go down to this ghastly duo in the final I might cry.
We have to do these cunts.
That's that, then.
Brilliant from Kohli but he was dam lucky not to be out early doors. Gale out so this should be wrapped up now.
Or not...
This is game on. Thought they'd crumble with Gayle gone.
Test.
If India get teabagged by no balls and free hits.
Probably never lolled so much at anything in my life.
That shot of the Indian players' wives was fucking priceless.
Are we going to beat these? The thought of losing to The Universe Boss is only slightly more palatable than losing to India.
I would have them as favourites to be honest, but it will be a very different surface to the one they spanked us on in the opener.
The Universe Boss has done literally nothing since that game as well. Not even made double figures and couldn't be arsed at all in two of the games.
That was the best thing I've watched in a long time. That's an absolute monster of a chase after being 50/2 after seven and it couldn't have played out any better than it did. Kohli and Dohni are absolutely massive cunts.
Siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiilence.
Was it a proper silent finale? Or silent but for riotous murmurings?
Haven't watched a ball. Checked the score at 20/2 or whatever and thought no chance. Gonna catch up with the highlights now with this world class Gavaskar seethe in my mind
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The noise was amazing. Huge cheers for dot balls, but fours and sixes greeted by total silence, as if somebody pulled the plug out. The level of expectation is ridiculous and can't help the players to be honest. Pretty much all of them bar Virat and to some extent Bumrash have performed very poorly at this tournament, but then that's also because the team is selected on marketability rather than merit.
Well, Andre Russell hits a big ball.
Ian Bishop with some top calling at the end there.
"GAME OVER! GAME OVER! WEST INDIES HAVE UPSET INDIA... If you can call it that..."
Quite restrained really. I'd have whipped my cock out and slapped Sunil Gavaskar in the face.
In another era, Russell would be one of the great Test all-rounders. Would be a better bowler than he is (not hard), and come in at seven and play these Klusener-esque knocks. Alas he's probably the laziest out of all of them in terms of what cricket he plays.
I assumed there was more regionalism than marketability. But I actually think there aren't that many obvious selection errors (Rahane and Dhoni are the glaring ones).
Sharma will take a match away from you when he comes off, and if he doesn't, there's still time to rebuild. Rahane has no place being in the T20 side, but the idea of an Indian player forgoing T20 to focus on his obvious ability in the longer formats is basically impossible. Kohli is good. Dhoni is there because he is somehow in charge of the BCCI, for reasons that I can't quite pin down. Raina hasn't been great for a while, but can still do a job - probably should have come in ahead of Dhoni.
No idea who Pandey/ya are, so if they're being picked on marketability, it's failed. Jadeja normally keeps producing results far better than his limited ability would suggest is possible. Ashwin is comfortably the best spin bowler in the world. Anyone who reckons they're picking a 37-in-two-weeks Ashish Nehra on marketability is vastly overestimating the pensioner dollar.
Some of the selection is a bit out there, but I don't know if that's the only reason in play. The real question for them in this tournament is why Ashwin (a good bowler) and Jadeja (a poor bowler who sometimes lucks out) managed to fail so badly.
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