The one thing we have going for us on that side of the ball is we have an actual spinner, and also Woakesy is a cricket legend. 270 or whatever this ends up being is not enough however in the seething cauldron of silence that is the Narendra Modi Stadium.
First time in cricket history that numbers 1-11 have made double figures in an ODI. What a time to be alive.
And in such a nondescript innings too.
Woakes 9, Rashid 10, Wood 11 is a pretty decent tail, mind.
We're toast I think. Jimmy Neesham at eight. Commencez la voiture.
A good start to the tournament for you at least.Originally Posted by niko_cee
Absolutely smashed.
Tournament's done for me.
Would have been even more peak had I not written "on route".
En route is a common follow up thing we put on the shared work job list thing, except everyone else puts on route. I assume they assume I'm the idiot.Tournament's done for me.
Would have been even more peak had I not written "on route".
Pakistan bang in trouble here against the pot smokers.
They’ll lose this and then turn India over.
Looks like they've recovered sufficiently.
Holland will beat someone major in this tournament, they're so dangerous at times. Probably us, again.
Pakistan doing their best to fuck things up.
Bangladesh slotted Afcrapistan earlier and Sri Lanka getting absolutely annihilated by sith africa as I speak. Already 362/4 off 45 and they're on track to have 3 fielders called up for a slow over rate.
Need tomorrow to be a decent game or this could go the way of the rugby World Cup.
Entire Aus team is over 30 except for Cam Green and Marnus (29). Please tell me they're heading for a crash in the next few years.
We only had Brook and Curran under 30 the other day
We're always heading for a crash.
There's something about this tournament that really isn't doing it for me. Maybe it's because I'm off a 50 game mental cricket season here and need a break, I don't know.
Fairs
Start times for me. That and always takes time to remember it’s not JAMODI. Usually about the end of the group stage.
Again I had no idea we were playing this morning. Malan smearing the Bangladeshis to all parts.
I can get behind the tournament if we're going to break the habit of a lifetime and not lose to Bangladesh. Already marked the Sri Lanka game down as a loss though.
I was also unaware of this, but since I have become aware of it we seem to have commenced collapsing, so the Bangla Boys will probably chase these with ease.
We did beat them in 2019 to be fair.
Seems strange to say this when we've hit 335+ but the pitch doesn't look that easy to bat on, ball is sticking on the surface a lot. Malan's innings was class.
Bing bong bangladesh we beat in 2019 but lost in 11 and 15. Sri Lanka we have lost to for the last 4 World Cups in a row.
And yes, this is far too many for the bangers.
It's a slogger's pitch. Forget extra cover drives, clear the front dog.
Pakistan look like they've got a bit of a chase on their hands in the other game. I know, another game, who knew?
The scheduling for this is proper wank.
Tournament could use a Sri Lanka win here, or maybe not, it's hard to judge this ludicrous format.
Is this just going to be 6 weeks of bowlers getting absolutely flogged?
Wonder when we’ll see a remotely close game. Could have done with 2 games a day as well with the format as it is.
It's so easy to find the boundary on these tiny grounds with the intent these batters now have. Needs to be on big grounds to be a proper contest.
If tomorrow's game (Aus v SA) is also shit, we're in trouble. That's normally a banker for decent entertainment.
Aus are fucking shit and given this isn’t a crunch game will be piling into Saffers @ 2.25
Markram so good to watch when he’s on
I can't wait to see how Australia somehow peel these off even as Smith and Labuschagne both strike at 65.
Having admittedly paid scant attention to South African cricket for many years, the development of Markram from what I thought was solid opening chugger into some sort of freewheeling boundary merchant always catches me by surprise.
Famous last words and all, sorry South Arfica, but have Australia been at the England 2003-2015 Build A Platform ODI Handbook?
Here we go. Smith and Maaaaarnus at the crease, 6.6 an over needed. Cricket at its worst.
I cite this every tournament but I think this - https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...full-scorecard - is in many ways the greatest game of cricket ever played.
Oh it’s definitely been touched on in this thread many times. The Dilshan innings seems the headline, but the Dilshan bowling analysis is proper England ODI heritage
We took Murali for 6s but score under 5 for the innings. We were a disgrace.
As I recall, there was a theory from 2011-era analytics that said 225 batting first had historically won 57% of ODIs (or some such) and so the instructions were to post that every time to flip the odds in our favour.
You just know we strolled off thinking that was a decent effort on a tricky wicket.
Sri Lanka have a habit of doing this to us. Absolutely coasting chases in dominant fashion.
There was this in 2006, Jayasuriya in his pomp: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...full-scorecard
And we also followed up the 2011 WC effort with this in 2015: https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/...full-scorecard
Yeah, that Jayasuria one was the daddy, remember it well as we never scored that many in an ODI and still got absolutely smashed.
Aussies whining that a bad umpiring decision is costing them here, forgetting the fact they were 70-5 chasing 312.
Whining about a shit decision is fair enough, but asking Bavuma to withdraw his appeal is the peak of comedic Australian-ness.
They had SA right where they wanted them too.
Wait, are the Australians crying about a hawkeye lbw review?
How many years have we been seeing that "things going down leg" actually quite often aren't?
Although, to go all Gary Neville worried about offside for a while on that front, I always thought the DRS on Lyon to Stokes after they'd burned all their reviews at Headingly looked mega dodgy.
Oh no, I see it's something else.
Maybe telling the umpire "it's off the bat" not the best way to clarify that you don't think you should be out caught behind? Could have been bat handle anyway.
It's better to convince yourself it was hitting halfway up middle because the seethe is funnier that way.
Marnus currently 27* (54) as he looks to salvage their net run rate in match 2 of 9. And people say cricket can't compete for hearts and minds.
Impressive bottlejob from Pakistan this.
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