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Post by hitchcockthelegend on May 31, 2019 18:42:27 GMT
As the headline on Cricinfo said - good ‘ol chin music. Love it. Fast bowlers bowling fast, bending their backs and asking whether batsmen have the mettle and bottle for it. Absolutely nothing wrong with giving a batsman a sniff of leather, or seeing if his armpit, rib cage or better yet, fingers and throat can repel a cricket ball. BRAVO! This is why secretly Pommies and Convicts have respect for each other, tis a game for warriors with bat and ball. Level playing field required please...
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Post by hitchcockthelegend on Jun 1, 2019 8:26:13 GMT
West Indies' 'bumper warfare' could take World Cup by storm - Graeme Swannwww.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/48478058Vintage stuff indeed. I do hope they carry on against the rest. Be great viewing watching Williamson, Smith, Kohli and the England big hitters taking on the pace barrage. Bring it on!
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 1, 2019 10:07:11 GMT
West Indies' 'bumper warfare' could take World Cup by storm - Graeme Swannwww.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/48478058Vintage stuff indeed. I do hope they carry on against the rest. Be great viewing watching Williamson, Smith, Kohli and the England big hitters taking on the pace barrage. Bring it on! I am not too sure if Windies can continue their good performance although I would be happy if they can. I also expect Pak to put a better performance in the next fixtures. Big opportunity for Ross Taylor to prove himself as a player of big occasions. He has scored tons of runs in the last 4 or 5 years but he has not been known to be a player of big occasions. I hope he can deliver.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 2, 2019 1:16:11 GMT
Convincing wins as expected by Australia and New Zealand over Afghanistan and Sri Lanka respectively. The bowlers are doing the business at the moment for the winners - but it does look as though a return to the greenish, quickish bowler friendly pitches we are seeing now might be a false dawn. By the end of the tournament they might be pretty flat and tired and good for little more than slogging.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Jun 2, 2019 7:30:48 GMT
Thank God for the ICC getting rid of minnow nations from this World Cup to get rid of uncompetitive games and increase the quality of the contest. 4 games. 4 all time classic games fought on a knife's edge by these 'fair dinkum' cricketing superpowers. I mean look at the tightness of games. NZ and WI only won with a little over 200 balls to spare. Australia's win with just under 100 balls left and England only fell over the line by 104. Well done ICC. Making ODI cricket great again.
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 2, 2019 11:32:13 GMT
The Bangla Tigers are racing to a big total!
174/2 * (27.2/50 ov)
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 2, 2019 12:06:04 GMT
Thank God for the ICC getting rid of minnow nations from this World Cup to get rid of uncompetitive games and increase the quality of the contest. 4 games. 4 all time classic games fought on a knife's edge by these 'fair dinkum' cricketing superpowers. I mean look at the tightness of games. NZ and WI only won with a little over 200 balls to spare. Australia's win with just under 100 balls left and England only fell over the line by 104. Well done ICC. Making ODI cricket great again. Well, it’s not even minnow nations. Ireland have Test status, as does Zimbabwe. The World Cup will always be corrupted by the needs of TV after the unmitigated disaster that was the 2007 WC when India and Pakistan bowed out BEFORE the laboriously long super 8’s, and the broadcasters actually lost money. If the ICC was fair dinkum, it would be a 16 team, 4 pools of 4, quarters, semis, final format with a genuine qualifying system like the World Cups of most other major sports. Asia 6 Europe 2 Africa 2 Americas 1 Oceania 2 with 2 repechage and the host. No automatic qualifying. At least it makes the endless meaningless ODI bilaterals exactly that. Meaningless. And hopefully obsolete.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 2, 2019 12:08:23 GMT
The Bangla Tigers are racing to a big total! 174/2 * (27.2/50 ov) 217/3 now off 35. Just about to write how good this 142 partnership has been, then Tahir bowls Shakib, who played a terrible premeditated sweep and yorks himself.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Jun 2, 2019 14:31:43 GMT
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 2, 2019 14:36:37 GMT
Saffers in deep trouble. Would it be considered an upset if they lose or not anymore?
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jun 2, 2019 14:42:50 GMT
looks like BANGLADESH will upset SOUTH AFRICA.
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 2, 2019 14:44:06 GMT
looks like BANGLADESH will upset SOUTH AFRICA. Proteas have been so bad that we might have expected it. I am not much of anti-Bangla but I hope Saffers win. But looking very bleak at the moment.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Jun 2, 2019 14:47:26 GMT
no AMLA either. FAF will have to do a DE VILLIERS here.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 2, 2019 15:33:36 GMT
no AMLA either. FAF will have to do a DE VILLIERS here. Well that isn’t happening. Miller and Van der Dussen in now. vd Dussen has a pretty good record - averages 80. They’ll need that and then some now. But RSA still have Duminy to come. Remember when Ian Chappell said he was the best batsman in the world ? Here’s his chance to prove it.....
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 2, 2019 15:40:06 GMT
no AMLA either. FAF will have to do a DE VILLIERS here. Well that isn’t happening. Miller and Van der Dussen in now. vd Dussen has a pretty good record - averages 80. They’ll need that and then some now. But RSA still have Duminy to come. Remember when Ian Chappell said he was the best batsman in the world ? Here’s his chance to prove it..... De Kock run out was horrible to look at. That reminded me of Indian players in the 90s.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 2, 2019 15:50:42 GMT
Well that isn’t happening. Miller and Van der Dussen in now. vd Dussen has a pretty good record - averages 80. They’ll need that and then some now. But RSA still have Duminy to come. Remember when Ian Chappell said he was the best batsman in the world ? Here’s his chance to prove it..... De Kock run out was horrible to look at. That reminded me of Indian players in the 90s. Manoj Prabhakar perhaps ? How India was so shit for so long still baffles me. Between 1930 and 1990 they were generally poor, with a few exceptions. Seriously though, they still had the big population, and had a large ‘gentry’ of rich men educated in England. They weren’t playing Rugby......
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 2, 2019 15:56:37 GMT
De Kock run out was horrible to look at. That reminded me of Indian players in the 90s. Manoj Prabhakar perhaps ? How India was so shit for so long still baffles me. Between 1930 and 1990 they were generally poor, with a few exceptions. Seriously though, they still had the big population, and had a large ‘gentry’ of rich men educated in England. They weren’t playing Rugby...... Most Indian players except Sachin, Azhar, Dev & Jadeja were poor runners.
Most of the team till the early 90s consisted of players from Bombay. Team has got far better once Bombay players become fewer.
Luck has been with the Proteas so far.
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Post by MrFurious on Jun 2, 2019 16:27:45 GMT
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Post by Aj_June on Jun 2, 2019 16:33:25 GMT
Actually, he is England's captain. England gets a lo of Irish guys. Ireland's team is quite decent and could become better going forward if they can retain their talented players.
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Post by weststigersbob on Jun 2, 2019 22:47:21 GMT
Eoin Morgan - he will be the last of his kind TBH. The hoops he jumped through just to play for England, just as Ireland was becoming a genuine international side, won’t happen again. He is now more or less contractually obligated to play for England. However, if needed, I reckon he will do a Ed Joyce or Boyd Rankin and play for Ireland once England has had enough of him. Where this space is Interesting though is the process of qualifying for both England and Ireland was made much more concrete prior to Ireland’s ascension into the Test arena. England (as only England could) was terrified that a young up and comer with an Irish grandpa would be snaffled by Ireland because they could afford to give the youngster a go before England had a position in their team, despite being weaned through the county system for years. Like a lot of things in cricket, the hypocrisy is astounding. England had no qualms in playing half of county cricket in the 80’s and 90’s against Australia searching for answers, nor having half of their side coming from South Africa or the West Indies. I think at one stage they literally had 4 actual Englishmen in the side, the other 8 were foreigners.
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