******Cricket Thread******

[BringBackSwales]

Bit of a shame to see about two men and their dogs in such a fine stadium.

Fucking Aussies only bothered about Aussies

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Bit of a shame to see about two men and their dogs in such a fine stadium.

Not sure there’d be a big crowd here for an Aus vs Afg group game either.

Silly to stage it in such a huge venue.

 

[waspish]

Fucking Aussies only bothered about Aussies

This is the problem with big stadiums look like no one is there! Have they said what the attendance is? Wouldn’t surprise me they say around 5k

 

[crooky]

Afghanistan have always been good at these niggly low scoring games. The overs seem to fly by with their endless spin attack.

We're doing the right thing, inching up to the total. With 20-25 runs to go we should play some risky shots and try and get the net run rate up as well.

 

[PaulPowerScreamer]

India Pakistan about to start, MCG not absolutely full by the look of it but sounds like a cracking atmosphere. India won the toss and are fielding

 

[PaulPowerScreamer]

MCG is pretty packed now, atmosphere looks insane!

 

[heslops barnet]

India’s bowling looks lethal…….

 

[heslops barnet]

India’s bowling looks lethal…….

Pakistan making a game of it now…….

 

[crooky]

I do love with the exception of India that all the Asian teams are seemingly all or nothing.

 

[waspish]

Looks like Pakistan going to get a half decent score to bowl at..

 

[waspish]

India making a hard work of this 31/3 after 6 Pakistan favourites

 

[waspish]

India are losing this

 

[tasblue]

MCG is pretty packed now, atmosphere looks insane!

Yep 100,000 in there and its in Melbourne (evidently plane loads are flying in from around Australia and also from the Sub Continent).

It will be a record crowd for a sporting event in Australia that does not involve Australia - previous one was 87,000 at the MCG in 1992 for the World Cricket Cup Final (50 over) between England and Pakistan (Imran Khan made 72 and Akram ran through the English batting) - Pakistan won and I even was there.

 

[PaulPowerScreamer]

India are losing this

Looking that way, those 2 50s for Pakistan are looking really impressive now in the context of the match

 

[PaulPowerScreamer]

If these 2 are there at the end, India could nick this one

 

[crooky]

Game on. 12 an over with 5 overs left is definitely doable for a strong Indian batting lineup.

 

[heslops barnet]

48 from 18………doable

 

[heslops barnet]

Good watch this……

 

[PaulPowerScreamer]

16 needed off the last over but Kohli off strike, they'd take a single first up I reckon

 

[heslops barnet]

Poor bowling