Cricket Thread

I do... We should be almost out of it considering our prior results. But with the way results have fallen, the whole bottom half of the table has condensed so every team including England still had a chance.

The match against Australia is key imo. If we lose that then our chances are probably very slim. Until then I'll be hoping they can still do it in a realistic way. If we lost that game I think we'd need a miracle as I think the India game is a guaranteed loss.

But this World Cup is starting to throw up some big surprises so it's really quite difficult to pick who will get the final semi final place.

The damage is already done. We are not getting into the top 4 even if we beat the Aussies

The Squad is in pieces and looks so old, We are miles away from 4 years ago and the Squad needed refreshing 2 years ago with youth and hungry players for this World Cup,
 
The damage is already done. We are not getting into the top 4 even if we beat the Aussies

The Squad is in pieces and looks so old, We are miles away from 4 years ago and the Squad needed refreshing 2 years ago with youth and hungry players for this World Cup,

If we assume India, NZ and SA qualify there's one spot left. You would assume it's between England, Pakistan and Australia despite there being some upsets and England sitting bottom.

Australia (4pts) play Netherlands, NZ, England, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Maximum 12pts if we beat them.
Pakistan (4pts) play SA, Bangladesh, NZ and England. Maximum 10pts if we beat them.
England (2pts) play Sri Lanka, India, Australia, Netherlands and Pakistan. Maximum 12pts.

There's a very slim chance we can still do it. Australia could lose a further game to bring them down to 10pts and that gives us the ability to lose one more game.

Our bowling attack has struggled like many predicted, and our batting hasn't exploded as we've expected. Hopefully we can nail some form, go back to basics and find a bit of form to take us through.
 
Has Stokes including himself in the squad changed the mentality?

I don't think Stokes' inclusion has been an issue - he wasn't in the side until the weekend! The fact he can't bowl doesn't help though.

I just feel there's been a really poor preparation for this. Not enough games in Indian conditions building up to the tournament, not enough ODI cricket in general and picking a team based on experience rather than suiting the conditions. Every man and his dog knows Woakes doesn't bowl well outside of England, but it looks like that's true of quite a few of our bowlers!

I also think there's a real obsession with attacking cricket, believing that's what has brought success. We were playing pedestrian cricket in the shorter format, we had to play more aggressively. But we won the WC last time, and in the T20 final through digging in when we had to.

Hopefully we go to basics. We've got to be so much better with the ball though, our bowling has been horrific.
 
If we assume India, NZ and SA qualify there's one spot left. You would assume it's between England, Pakistan and Australia despite there being some upsets and England sitting bottom.

Australia (4pts) play Netherlands, NZ, England, Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Maximum 12pts if we beat them.
Pakistan (4pts) play SA, Bangladesh, NZ and England. Maximum 10pts if we beat them.
England (2pts) play Sri Lanka, India, Australia, Netherlands and Pakistan. Maximum 12pts.

There's a very slim chance we can still do it. Australia could lose a further game to bring them down to 10pts and that gives us the ability to lose one more game.

Our bowling attack has struggled like many predicted, and our batting hasn't exploded as we've expected. Hopefully we can nail some form, go back to basics and find a bit of form to take us through.

Even on paper looking at the fixtures does not thrill me with any sort of hope, Can we find some sort of form maybe? But it's the other games when the top 3 teams already through will play a weakened team, If England had any hope it was lost in the last game when SA beat us badly,
 

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