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Post by pimpinainteasy on Sept 18, 2018 5:34:27 GMT
The cynic in me says England won't do the business away from home. yes. 40 year old HERATH will take care of them. |
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 18, 2018 17:51:59 GMT
Carl LaFongIndia is being humiliated and humbled by Hong Kong. India 285/7 Hong Kong 144/0 (30 Overs)
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 18, 2018 17:54:26 GMT
LMAO
It will be a great fun if India gets knocked over like Sri Lanka.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 18, 2018 17:55:47 GMT
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Sept 18, 2018 20:53:31 GMT
India get home. Good performance from Hong Kong...that they will be given no opportunity to build on.
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Post by weststigersbob on Sept 19, 2018 5:01:16 GMT
India get home. Good performance from Hong Kong...that they will be given no opportunity to build on. Their performances over the last 10 years is incredible really - considering they have a system that features 4 league teams. But the ICC’s record of promoting and furthering the game in non Test playing nations is truly abysmal, and makes organisations like FIFA look like a bastion of fairness and transparency. Aside from Ireland (and virtually all of their good work has come from their own hard labours) and to a lesser extent Afghanistan (most of whose players are Afghans, but learn the game in rich private schools in Pakistan or England and sports are far from the most pressing issue there) virtually every country in the cricket world has gone backwards in its development, including the 3 most egregious - Netherlands, UAE and especially Kenya. Remember when Kenya first beat a “Tier 1” nation at a World Cup ? They beat a Richie Richardson led, Brian Lara inclusive West Indies - 22 YEARS AGO. Now, they are a rabble and no better off than their near neighbours Uganda. Dutch Cricket has badly stagnated and they are propped up by ex-pats. we shouldn’t be surprised. The way the USA and Canada were treated, even as far back as the 1890’s, by the cricket hierarchy has been terrible. Likewise Denmark and Nigeria - two nations in the 70’s and 80’s whose stocks were rising. Nothing from the ICC though, who only reluctantly accepted Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka at that time as it was. |
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 19, 2018 6:01:01 GMT
India get home. Good performance from Hong Kong...that they will be given no opportunity to build on. India will be obliterated today by the Pakistan. One can only imagine the ego and arrogance of Indian team players and management. They are playing against their arch rivals and they have rested their best player and captain. Pakistan will trounce them. |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Sept 19, 2018 7:59:41 GMT
The ICC are corrupt incompetents but they are aided and abetted by the major national boards. The Bangladesh situation really grinds my gears. They finally get to play Australia after a decade and beat them in a legitimate 5 day contest. Their reward: barely in the test schedule the next 12 months and their planned tour of Australia (off season tour so it's not like they were expecting Boxing Day/ New Year's or anything) gets canned. No thoughts of showing it on the CA app or Optus Sports 2 if local broadcasters really aren't interested. Nope just can it, because making money is our business, not advancing the sport of cricket.
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Post by weststigersbob on Sept 19, 2018 8:00:06 GMT
India get home. Good performance from Hong Kong...that they will be given no opportunity to build on. India will be obliterated today by the Pakistan. One can only imagine the ego and arrogance of Indian team players and management. They are playing against their arch rivals and they have rested their best player and captain. Pakistan will trounce them. It’s Pakistan. Literally, anything can happen. Even if I was a bookie fixing games involving Pakistan, I’d still be worried about what might happen. They’ve gone past mercurial and enigmatic into mad scientist random mixture territory now..... |
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 19, 2018 14:03:36 GMT
Does everyone agree here that average odi scores in subcontinent (Ind, UAE and Sri) has fallen considerably in last 3 years as compared to 2003-2014 period?
These low score matches are much more enjoyable as against mindless 350+ runs games that happened in Asia before and that currently happens in England and New Zealand.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Sept 20, 2018 9:23:05 GMT
I had the result of India Pakistan narrowed down to 2 possibilities:
1. A confortable Pakistan victory or, going out on a limb;
2. Pakistan getting rolled for 160 odd and India chasing it down with 8 wickets and about 123 balls to spare.
Which one was right?
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Sept 20, 2018 9:46:04 GMT
Not really following ODI cricket, I can't really comment. From following ODI cricket in Oz I can say that there are two types of games.
1. Team bats first, scores 20-30 either side of 300. Side bats secind and either falls behind early and gets belted or they keep up. Either way, you can skip the 30 overs in the middle of the chase and miss absolutely nothing.
2. Team bats first. Gets shot out for 150-220. If the defending team knocks over 2 or 3 early, you've got a match, if they're 0-80 you can switch it off.
Basically there's no reason to watch the middle overs unless there's wickets tumbling.
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 20, 2018 10:17:09 GMT
Not really following ODI cricket, I can't really comment. From following ODI cricket in Oz I can say that there are two types of games. 1. Team bats first, scores 20-30 either side of 300. Side bats secind and either falls behind early and gets belted or they keep up. Either way, you can skip the 30 overs in the middle of the chase and miss absolutely nothing. 2. Team bats first. Gets shot out for 150-220. If the defending team knocks over 2 or 3 early, you've got a match, if they're 0-80 you can switch it off. Basically there's no reason to watch the middle overs unless there's wickets tumbling. I don't have any extensive evidence but I believe the ODI spinners have improved vastly in recent years. I don't know of all matches but I feel I have been seeing low scoring ODI and Test matches in Asia in last 3 years. I remember one terrible series between India and Australia played in India in 2013-14 in which you had scores of 300+ in 5 of 6 games and the one in which you didn't have 300 the score was 295. In 3 of those 6 matches both sides scored 300+ runs and won the matches chasing 300+ runs. That's the worst ODI series I have seen this decade.
In contrast last India vs Australia series in 2017 had only one instance of 300+ score and quite a many innings that saw teams getting below 250. Same I have seen in other series as well. Probably spin and to some extent more turning or slow track as compared to idiotic batting surfaces in the past.
That said England's ODI home matches have been abominable at times. In one series between England and New Zealand it seemed that all the matches had 300 + scores.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 20, 2018 10:29:38 GMT
I had the result of India Pakistan narrowed down to 2 possibilities: 1. A confortable Pakistan victory or, going out on a limb; 2. Pakistan getting rolled for 160 odd and India chasing it down with 8 wickets and about 123 balls to spare. Which one was right? 2. If that was a guess it was uncannily accurate! |
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 21, 2018 15:35:27 GMT
Afghanistan has put a total of 257 against Pakistan.
Their bowlers have a great chance to rise and show the world that they can win. Come on Afghanistan!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 19:40:15 GMT
Rory Burns called up to replace Cook. Big shoes to fill, off you go, kid.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 21, 2018 19:40:56 GMT
I had the result of India Pakistan narrowed down to 2 possibilities: 1. A confortable Pakistan victory or, going out on a limb; 2. Pakistan getting rolled for 160 odd and India chasing it down with 8 wickets and about 123 balls to spare. Which one was right? 2. If that was a guess it was uncannily accurate! Right, a guess... Check the timestamp of his post versus the time of the match. |
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 21, 2018 19:52:20 GMT
Well played Afghanistan even if you lost it.
I think the loss comes mainly due to their inexperience. Better luck next time.
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Post by weststigersbob on Sept 26, 2018 9:48:38 GMT
Afghanistan showing they belong on this stage - need to improve their batting though.
Anyways, Usman Qadir, son of Abdul, took 3/50 yesterday. For Western Australia. He’s stopped playing in Pakistan due to reverse nepotism by the looks of it.
Again, only in Pakistan.....
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 26, 2018 11:24:45 GMT
Afghanistan showing they belong on this stage - need to improve their batting though. Anyways, Usman Qadir, son of Abdul, took 3/50 yesterday. For Western Australia. He’s stopped playing in Pakistan due to reverse nepotism by the looks of it. Again, only in Pakistan..... Rashid khan seems like 90s hard hitting tailenders. Not exactly an all-rounder yet but can play some good innings.
I think Afg can beat surprise any of the Asian or for that matter any of the international teams in subcontinent conditions on any given day. They can win a series against SL at least now when SL are in slump.
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