Cricket Thread

[Alan Harper's Tash]

Taking over from Dr Jacoby

I could never fill those shoes.

Woakes won’t take another wicket today though.

 

[Corky]

Just realised and it’s incredibly sad that the West Indies failed to qualify for the World Cup.

They were bobbins to be honest, and were out with a couple of games to go.

Because we're typical England fans and we want more! That's our third highest ODI score in World Cups, it's a great knock and whilst it may have ended up light considering where we were, it's enough to win us this game.

Now limit them to 250 from their 50 overs and we're back to a positive NRR - just!

273 gives a positive NRR, 274 a negative one.

Keep them at 187 or below NRR is at least +1.0

 

[supercity88]

They were bobbins to be honest, and were out with a couple of games to go.

273 gives a positive NRR, 274 a negative one.

Keep them at 187 or below NRR is at least +1.0

Glad someone did a more thorough job than my quick maths!

 

[supercity88]

I could never fill those shoes.

Woakes won’t take another wicket today though.

Curran will clean these up.

 

[Corky]

Glad someone did a more thorough job than my quick maths!

It is hard to divide by 86.333333333333333 in your head.

 

[supercity88]

It is hard to divide by 86.333333333333333 in your head.

Yeah I only divide in boundaries.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

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

Sri Lanka 206/2 after 28 overs vs Pakistan. Could be on for a huge score.

 

[BringBackSwales]

We can't worry about NRR now, it's game 2! Plenty of time to worry about that. NZ qualified ahead of Pakistan on NRR at the last WC but theirs was positive and Pakistan's wasn't. You are guessing there will be a scenario where it's very tight, but it might not turn out that way. If we win our games we'll have enough points not to worry about it.

Only 4 teams had a positive NRR at the last WC, and ours was 1.152 which was the best.

It's early days, we'll probably be near enough back to 0 after this game and then can go and work on it.

The NRR we get is the average over the 9 games, of course it matters now

 

[supercity88]

The NRR we get is the average over the 9 games, of course it matters now

It doesn't matter unless it's a deciding factor much like goal difference. Win our games and we'll qualify through the number of points we have. If, with 2-3 games left it's looking tight then maybe we can think about it. In that scenario you put a side in to bat first so you can try and chase it in a set number of overs to boost your run rate. But as I said, they'll be worrying about winning the games at this stage and then it doesn't matter.

We lost 3 games in the last WC and NRR didn't matter.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

It doesn't matter unless it's a deciding factor much like goal difference. Win our games and we'll qualify through the number of points we have. If, with 2-3 games left it's looking tight then maybe we can think about it. In that scenario you put a side in to bat first so you can try and chase it in a set number of overs to boost your run rate. But as I said, they'll be worrying about winning the games at this stage and then it doesn't matter.

We lost 3 games in the last WC and NRR didn't matter.

Sides won’t worry about NRR until a game is won. Just like when NZ needed 50 off 20 overs against us, (or whatever it was) they decided to smash it round to maximise their NRR.