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AndyRM
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Down to 5. That powerplay has killed them I reckon.
AndyRM
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Could really do with getting Maxwell out here. He's dug in very impressively.
T4tomo
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its a phenomenal effort from Maxwell, apparently he can barely stand up thru cramps etc. very contrasting inning / strike rates from him and Patty C
AndyRM
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He sounds broken. Chapeau!
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Well that was ridiculous! What a game.
albion
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Saw most of the Afgan innings and have now watched the highlights.
The foregone conclusion at something like 65 for 5 and not a lot for 7 got thrown out of the window. Has to be the greatest ODI innings of all time,
Maxwell had a 202 run partnership with Pat Cummings, Glenn Maxwell getting 190 of them.
The foregone conclusion at something like 65 for 5 and not a lot for 7 got thrown out of the window. Has to be the greatest ODI innings of all time,
Maxwell had a 202 run partnership with Pat Cummings, Glenn Maxwell getting 190 of them.
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Alex321
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AndyRM
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North of 300 from here should be defendable.
Morgan is spot on here I think, though the ship is already languishing at the bottom of the ocean IMO.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/67354728
Morgan is spot on here I think, though the ship is already languishing at the bottom of the ocean IMO.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/67354728
AndyRM
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Mmm, I was worried we'd left it too late but happy to be proven wrong.
It's weird, because take nothing away from Bangladesh or the Dutch, but these really are teams we should be beating with relative ease.
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We SHOULD win this comfortably.The Netherlands at the moment are well below the asking run rate
T4tomo
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so now we are down to winning slightly more stronger /losing less badly than 2 out of BAN SRI & NED in our final game?
or lets say match the results of 2 of them and maintain our runrate advantage.
It really shouldn't come to this, scrapping around to hang onto 8th place to get a champions trophy berth.
Pakistan are well motivated for our final game, they need to better NZ's result vs SRI by a reasonable margin to edge their NRR up.
Donger
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I've been quietly mulling things over throughout our drip by drip fall from grace in this World Cup. Does anyone else think we have been resting on our laurels somewhat of late?
OK, you can always get one or two players right out of form (Bairstow and Buttler's batting, Curran's pie chucking), but this team was built on flexibility, with a number of top quality all-rounders (Stokes, Moeen, Woakes, Sam Curran) all able to step in and keep up the batting onslaught or provide bowling relief and diversity. Of these, Stokes is injured and unable to bowl and Moeen has announced his upcoming retirement. None of our all rounders has appeared to be bang in form. We have been playing with two wicket keepers in the side because of their batting reputations, and have been unable to call on Stoke's bowling. Root and Brook are both great red ball batsmen, but showed little form in the 50 over format in the months leading up to this World Cup. You would think there was nobody else that could have made the squad.
Personally, as a Bears fan, I would have loved to see Sam Hain in the squad as batting cover, as he is one of very few emerging stars who is capable of being included. I honestly can't identify an all-rounder who is capable of stepping up at the moment, and the wait for Joffra Archer to be fit enough to return as our chief bowling threat seems interminable. David Willey looks like he has had enough of being treated shoddily, when this is actually the form of cricket that he is best at. We may be about to lose him. Why are there so few genuine contenders to replace our ageing squad (or at least keep them on their toes)?
The Sky Sports own expert pundits will never mention it, but just look at the state of the 50 over game in English domestic cricket. Sky Sports' flagship event "The Hundred" has been run concurrently with the 50 over one day cup competition for the last two years. The result? Nearly all the best white ball cricketers have been taken away from their clubs to play for Hundred franchises in a form of cricket that nobody else in the world plays. This looks set to continue in 2024. The One Day Cup games have then ended up being played by a mixture of those senior professionals not picked for the Hundred and second team squad members. Up and coming youngsters trying to learn the ropes of 50 over cricket have either been drafted into the Hundred instead, or have been denied the opportunity to play against (and learn from) the best. This could easily turn out to be much more than a mere dip in form, but actually more of a prolonged slump. Thoughts?
OK, you can always get one or two players right out of form (Bairstow and Buttler's batting, Curran's pie chucking), but this team was built on flexibility, with a number of top quality all-rounders (Stokes, Moeen, Woakes, Sam Curran) all able to step in and keep up the batting onslaught or provide bowling relief and diversity. Of these, Stokes is injured and unable to bowl and Moeen has announced his upcoming retirement. None of our all rounders has appeared to be bang in form. We have been playing with two wicket keepers in the side because of their batting reputations, and have been unable to call on Stoke's bowling. Root and Brook are both great red ball batsmen, but showed little form in the 50 over format in the months leading up to this World Cup. You would think there was nobody else that could have made the squad.
Personally, as a Bears fan, I would have loved to see Sam Hain in the squad as batting cover, as he is one of very few emerging stars who is capable of being included. I honestly can't identify an all-rounder who is capable of stepping up at the moment, and the wait for Joffra Archer to be fit enough to return as our chief bowling threat seems interminable. David Willey looks like he has had enough of being treated shoddily, when this is actually the form of cricket that he is best at. We may be about to lose him. Why are there so few genuine contenders to replace our ageing squad (or at least keep them on their toes)?
The Sky Sports own expert pundits will never mention it, but just look at the state of the 50 over game in English domestic cricket. Sky Sports' flagship event "The Hundred" has been run concurrently with the 50 over one day cup competition for the last two years. The result? Nearly all the best white ball cricketers have been taken away from their clubs to play for Hundred franchises in a form of cricket that nobody else in the world plays. This looks set to continue in 2024. The One Day Cup games have then ended up being played by a mixture of those senior professionals not picked for the Hundred and second team squad members. Up and coming youngsters trying to learn the ropes of 50 over cricket have either been drafted into the Hundred instead, or have been denied the opportunity to play against (and learn from) the best. This could easily turn out to be much more than a mere dip in form, but actually more of a prolonged slump. Thoughts?
