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New Zealand win, by the barest of margins. By the barest of all margins.

Absolute ecstasy for New Zealand. Agony. Agony for England.
 
ancoats said:
England is in free fall and has far too many players in the ODI team living on past glories,
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I’ll bite. Who are you talking about? Buttler, Rashid, Bairstow, Wood, Woakes and Root were in both the 2019 team and played today.

I suggested earlier that picking Woakes was silly in India. The rest would be in most best XIs.

Who are the ones on their laurels?
 
Next four games are crucial in building a base of points.

Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and South Africa. If we win all of those and then beat one of either Pakistan or Australia then we'll be well in the mix still.

I'm thinking the India game is likely a guaranteed loss and the Netherlands game a guaranteed win..
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
I’ll bite. Who are you talking about? Buttler, Rashid, Bairstow, Wood, Woakes and Root were in both the 2019 team and played today.

I suggested earlier that picking Woakes was silly in India. The rest would be in most best XIs.

Who are the ones on their laurels?
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Livingstone and Moeen Ali as well
I don't understand why Bairstow is being picked, OK he's in for the batting but his fielding is poor and looks overweight, looking at the group it looks like most of the other teams NZ will beat as well, So maybe getting them out of the way first will work in England's favour

I will say one thing ?
all of the above players you and I named will stand down after this world cup
 
ancoats said:
Livingstone and Moeen Ali as well
I don't understand why Bairstow is being picked, OK he's in for the batting but his fielding is poor and looks overweight, looking at the group it looks like most of the other teams NZ will beat as well, So maybe getting them out of the way first will work in England's favour

I will say one thing ?
all of the above players you and I named will stand down after this world cup
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Livingstone‘s first ODI was in 2021.

Bairstow is using credit in the bank that Jason Roy has just run out of.

It’s very common for cricketers to retire after a World Cup cycle, so the mid-30s guys may well retire.

Who would you be picking instead?
 
Alan Harper's Tash said:
Livingstone‘s first ODI was in 2021.

Bairstow is using credit in the bank that Jason Roy has just run out of.

It’s very common for cricketers to retire after a World Cup cycle, so the mid-30s guys may well retire.

Who would you be picking instead?
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That is the greatest thing in cricket/sports, A world-class message board manager like myself never shows his hand or his team selections to anybody else, I've seen what you did there in trying the oldest trick in the book but you're not fooling me,

that's why I have won 10 cricket world cups, 12 Fifa world cups, 10 Euro championships, 25 Premier League titles, 19 Champions League titles, I've even won world titles at Ruby, Hockey, NFL, Basketball, to name a few
 
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