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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 1, 2019 11:54:56 GMT
I still maintain that Australia’s selectors could kill off their chances, despite winning 8 in a row. I get this horrible feeling they will keep Marsh and Khawaja in the side with Smith and Warner and we won’t have the power hitting in the middle/lower order to turn 280’s into 330’s. That side can make the Semis, but won’t win it. A side with Stoinis and Maxwell in it can. It’s desperately unlucky for Shaun Marsh. But he just doesn’t make my top XI : I’d go with Warner, Finch (c), Khawaja, Smith, Handscomb (wk), Maxwell, Stoinis, Cummins, Starc, Zampa, Hazlewood.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 1, 2019 13:51:44 GMT
I still maintain that Australia’s selectors could kill off their chances, despite winning 8 in a row. I get this horrible feeling they will keep Marsh and Khawaja in the side with Smith and Warner and we won’t have the power hitting in the middle/lower order to turn 280’s into 330’s. That side can make the Semis, but won’t win it. A side with Stoinis and Maxwell in it can. It’s desperately unlucky for Shaun Marsh. But he just doesn’t make my top XI : I’d go with Warner, Finch (c), Khawaja, Smith, Handscomb (wk), Maxwell, Stoinis, Cummins, Starc, Zampa, Hazlewood. no LYON? i dont think MARSH will be picked.
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 1, 2019 16:54:04 GMT
You only need 1 frontline spinner in England, and Zampa is bowling far better than Lyon with the white ball. Marsh will be in the squad of 15, as will Lyon. My 15 man squad will be Finch (c), Warner, Khawaja, Smith, Handscomb, Stoinis, Maxwell, Cummins, Starc, Zampa, Hazlewood, Carey, Marsh, J.Richardson, Lyon. Really unlucky is Nathan Coulter-Nile, Ashton Turner and Jason Behrendorff - but it’s a really tight squad of 15 and the 4 guys coming back are all proven WC performers.
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 1, 2019 21:44:02 GMT
the aussies are doing very well now. it is like an aussie B team. there is no SMITH, WARNER, STARC and HAZELWOOD. and CUMMINS played only in two of these 8 ODI's. this is a great achievement even though PAKISTAN is also without BABAR, FAKHAR (inconsistent most of the time), SHAHEEN, SARFARAZ (inconsistent) and AMIR in some matches. earlier they beat INDIA in INDIA. captain FINCH's last 10 ODI scores - all in asia - 0,37,93,0,27,116,153 not out,90,39,53. 608 runs at 67.55. Interestingly, the bookmakers have not responded to the recent surge in Australia's performance. Here are the chances I allocate to each team based on my subjective opinion.
England - 50% chance of winning the WC Australia - 20% chance of winning the WC India - 12% chance of winning the WC NZ - 6.5% chance of winning the WC South Africa - 4.5% chance of winning the WC
West Indies - 3.5% chance of winning the WC
Pakistan 3.4% chance of winning the WC Sri Lanka - 0.1%
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 3, 2019 12:12:59 GMT
kiwis announce world cup squad:
Kane Williamson (c) – 139* (Northern Districts)
Tom Blundell - 0 (Wellington Firebirds)
Trent Boult - 79 (Northern Districts)
Colin de Grandhomme - 28 (Northern Districts)
Lockie Ferguson - 27 (Auckland Aces)
Martin Guptill - 169 (Auckland Aces)
Matt Henry - 43 (Canterbury)
Tom Latham - 85 (Canterbury)
Colin Munro - 51 (Auckland Aces)
Jimmy Neesham - 49 (Wellington Firebirds)
Henry Nicholls - 41 (Canterbury)
Mitchell Santner - 59 (Northern Districts)
Ish Sodhi - 30 (Northern Districts)
Tim Southee - 139 (Northern Districts)
Ross Taylor - 218 (Central Stags)
*Number denotes ODI caps
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 3, 2019 12:29:34 GMT
kiwis announce world cup squad: Tom Blundell - 0 (Wellington Firebirds) Who is this great man, man? Is this the secret weapon that will make sure kiwis surprise everyone? Seriously, I have not even heard his name ever before.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 3, 2019 12:45:40 GMT
kiwis announce world cup squad: Tom Blundell - 0 (Wellington Firebirds) Who is this great man, man? Is this the secret weapon that will make sure kiwis surprise everyone? Seriously, I have not even heard his name ever before. he scored a century on debut against the west indies man.
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 4, 2019 0:33:15 GMT
Who is this great man, man? Is this the secret weapon that will make sure kiwis surprise everyone? Seriously, I have not even heard his name ever before. he scored a century on debut against the west indies man. The kiwi coach has said that Blundell was picked because of his superior keeping.
They have quite a few hitters now.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 5, 2019 3:03:24 GMT
pakistan omits the oldies:
The 33-year-old Wahab Riaz, whose fiery spell against Australia was one of the enduring memories of the last World Cup, fails to find a spot in the list of probables.
Umar Akmal, who is part of the Pakistan squad currently taking on Australia in an ODI series, has also been ignored. Ahmed Shehzad, another senior player, has also failed to get a look-in.
List of probables: Sarfaraz Ahmed (captain), Abid Ali, Asif Ali, Babar Azam, Faheem Ashraf, Fakhar Zaman, Haris Sohail, Hassan Ali, Imad Wasim, Imam-ul-Haq, Junaid Khan, Mohammad Abbas, Mohammad Amir, Mohammad Hafeez, Mohammad Hasnain, Mohammad Nawaz, Mohammad Rizwan, Shadab Khan, Shaheen Shah Afridi, Shan Masood, Shoaib Malik, Usman Shinwari, Yasir Shah Comments
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 9, 2019 2:50:45 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 16, 2019 2:31:55 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 16, 2019 2:32:19 GMT
marsh and khawaja make the cut.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 16, 2019 2:32:54 GMT
i cant believe RAHUL made it. wtf?
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Post by Aj_June on Apr 16, 2019 2:54:13 GMT
Aussies have selected much better than India. To be frank, I can't even imagine how Rahul has been selected. He is a total failure.
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 16, 2019 16:03:46 GMT
It’s obvious what the Australian selectors are thinking. Green decks, swinging conditions. Lots of quicks and Marsh ahead of Handscomb. I knew someone was going to be really unlucky, and Handscomb is the man. I’m surprised they picked Coulter Nile though.
It’s obvious that the Indian selectors are thinking something different to the Australians. 3 quicks plus Pandya and Shankar is not exactly a formidable pace battery, even if Shami, Bhuvneshwar and Bumrah are all top drawer. I just don’t see how it works over the distance with Chalal, Kuldeep AND Jadeja. Too many spinners. I’m also not convinced by the middle and lower order batting. Rohit, Dhawan, Kohli pick themselves. Dhoni bats 5. But to get a decent attack, both Shankar and Pandya have to play, otherwise they are reliant on spinners. So they bat 6 and 7. Who bats 4 ? Rahul, Jadhav or Karthik ? None of them are what India really needs at 20/2, and it shouldn’t be reliance on Dhoni to dig India out of trouble at 30/3 with only hitters behind him. If they only pick one of Pandya and Shankar, and go for another batter in the middle order, that’s fine - but then they MUST play a spinner who MUST bowl 10 overs. On a cloudy day on a seaming pitch, that could lose India a game.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 18, 2019 14:43:57 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 19, 2019 1:50:03 GMT
too many oldies? but that bowling attack is awesome.
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Post by weststigersbob on Apr 19, 2019 5:23:22 GMT
Pakistan isn’t winning this WC. Even by their standards, it’s a weak squad full of unknowns. There could be some really low scores in not ideal batting conditions from the Pakistanis.
South Africa - I really don’t know. It looks a very strong side, but is missing that real ‘game breaker’ that other sides have. Australia has Maxwell (or Stoinis or Coulter-Nile). India has Pandya. England has Moeen and Buttler. NZ has Neesham. South Africa has De Kock. Yeah, he scores quickly but he isn’t the super acceleration type. What I do like is that they have an attack like PAE says is awesome, and looks well suited for English conditions and variations therein.
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 26, 2019 13:14:03 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on May 13, 2019 7:07:45 GMT
england clear favorites?
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