Cricket Thread

[supercity88]

What's is good losing wickets when you already have a decent score is the batters all get a hit in India conditions! It's what you need if you going to win the World Cup

Much was said about how deep England bat, and it's a good job because clearly the middle order doesn't fancy doing much of it!

 

[BringBackSwales]

The best teams dont throw away wickets like this. The potentially lost net run rate could really hurt us as it’s going to be very tight for at least 2 of the semi final spots

 

[BringBackSwales]

It will be an incredibly pleasant and unexpected surprise if we retain the World Cup, we are too one dimensional and seemingly unable to adopt our gameplay to the situation. Morgan seems to think it’s fine, Atherton seems to think it’s due to Bangladesh, neither of them question Englands mentality

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It will be an incredibly pleasant and unexpected surprise if we retain the World Cup, we are too one dime and seemingly unable to adopt our gameplay to the situation. Morgan seems to think it’s fine, Atherton seems to think it’s due to Bangladesh, neither of them question Englands mentality

We don’t have the bowlers.

India, Australia and New Zealand have better attacks than us.

I reckon we’re 4th favourites, possible joint with South Africa.

 

[BringBackSwales]

Why the fuck are they stopping the game for this?

 

[supercity88]

The best teams dont throw away wickets like this. The potentially lost net run rate could really hurt us as it’s going to be very tight for at least 2 of the semi final spots

Yeah we could have done with closer to 400 to help on that front. But we'll see. We lost to NZ and can probably lose another couple of games and still qualify on NRR. Let's just win our remaining games so it doesn't come down to that! Scoring at 6 an over for the final 10 overs when we had 7 wickets in hand is poor though. Too many bad shots. Someone needed to stay in, it's easy to say "get to 40 overs then attack" but you have to have a bit of discipline.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

The other aspect that needs factoring is that the grounds are much bigger here, meaning six hitting is harder and you’re more likely to get caught on the boundary.

The Old Trafford effect.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

The other aspect that needs factoring is that the grounds are much bigger here, meaning six hitting is harder and you’re more likely to get caught on the boundary.

The Old Trafford effect.

I thought that at Ahmedabad vs NZ - that pitch looked huge!

One or two aren't that big, particularly straight boundaries.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

I thought that at Ahmedabad vs NZ - that pitch looked huge!

One or two aren't that big, particularly straight boundaries.

Let’s hope we play the better sides on them.

 

[BringBackSwales]

We don’t have the bowlers.

India, Australia and New Zealand have better attacks than us.

I reckon we’re 4th favourites, possible joint with South Africa.

I think 6th, behind the 4 you mention plus Pakistan