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  • Start date May 15, 2019
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Gazolba

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  • Jun 18, 2019
  • #106
Seventeen sixes is something special.
They had videos of them all on ICC-Cricket.com
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 18, 2019
  • #107
Amazing knock and to think he was thinking about putting Butler in!
 

chiefdave

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  • Jun 19, 2019
  • #108
Bit of a shambles at Edgbaston so far today.
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 19, 2019
  • #109
SA run rate way off the pace, they haven’t turned up to this tournament sadly
 

Grendel

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  • Jun 19, 2019
  • #110
Best game if the competition so far!
 

Gazolba

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  • Jun 19, 2019
  • #111
Can't help thinking SA screwed up by leaving only their worst bowler to bowl the final over.
Should have kept one over in hand from one of their better bowlers.
 

Grendel

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  • Jun 19, 2019
  • #112
Gazolba said:
Can't help thinking SA screwed up by leaving only their worst bowler to bowl the final over.
Should have kept one over in hand from one of their better bowlers.
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There biggest problems are they have no bowling alternative to the five and they have a horribly long tail - the tail was always on their minds I think

I’ve seen New Zealand twice now and they make heavy weather chasing not very high totals - they’ll get to the semis but they seem not up there with the other big 3. To be fair they haven’t had a lot of batting recently

If Australia beat Bangladesh tomorrow the 4 will be pretty much vying for positions
 

CJ_covblaze

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  • Jun 20, 2019
  • #113
We managed to get two tickets for the final earlier. Trying to get tickets for the India game now. Last night's attempt to buy on the black market didn't go well!
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #114
Making hard work of this.
 

Otis

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #115
Seem determined to throw this one away don't we.

When you need less than a run a ball and you have 5 wickets in hand, you should be winning the game quite easily.
 

Otis

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #116
We are going to lose this now.

Almost certainly.

8 down.

 

Covstu

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #117
Absolutely shocking! We have been so poor, we should chase that total with ease
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #118
Must be because we are in Leeds, we bottle a winning position
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #119
School boy stuff, miracle needed now. Need stokes to start smashing and wood to defend out. Plenty of balls to play just running out of batsman!
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #120
Get out of jail stokes!
 

Otis

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #121
Still think it is too much to do.
 

Otis

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #122
He can't face every ball you would have thought.

No margin for error at all now
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #123
Maybe just maybe......
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #124
What was he thinking!
 

chiefdave

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #125
Piss poor batting performance today. Only Root and Stokes showed up.

Suddenly a semi final place doesn't look the certainty it was supposed to be with Australia, India and New Zealand to come.
 

Grendel

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #126
chiefdave said:
Piss poor batting performance today. Only Root and Stokes showed up.

Suddenly a semi final place doesn't look the certainty it was supposed to be with Australia, India and New Zealand to come.
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We have to win one game and if we can’t win one against those 3 then we don’t deserve it anyway
 
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Covstu

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #127
Grendel said:
We have to win one game and if we can’t win one against those 3 then we don’t deserve it anyway
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I think we need 2 of 3 to be sure
 

Grendel

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #128
Covstu said:
I think we need 2 of 3 to be sure
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We don’t when you look at the fixtures
 

Liquid Gold

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #129
That’s Sri Lanka and Pakistan we’ve put in below par performances now. Can’t keep doing that at a World Cup.
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 21, 2019
  • #130
Grendel said:
We don’t when you look at the fixtures
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Not sure myself, Sri Lanka have 2 winnable games and they can cause us problems. We have 3 very hard games!
 

Gazolba

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  • Jun 22, 2019
  • #131
We may as well come up against the good teams now because we'll only have to meet them later anyway.
Have always felt that England would fold when it mattered.
Hope they can prove me wrong.
 

Grendel

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  • Jun 22, 2019
  • #132
Covstu said:
Not sure myself, Sri Lanka have 2 winnable games and they can cause us problems. We have 3 very hard games!
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Our run rate is superior
 

Sky_Blue_Dreamer

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  • Jun 22, 2019
  • #133
Was it down to complacency? Low total to get, we've been getting high scores for quite a while. It's the problem with having that kind of batting line-up - it's very explosive and when it works it works unbelievably. But when it doesn't there's not really anyone other than Root to provide a solid base. It's either smack it around the park or back in the pavilion after a few balls.

With so many players like that we can afford for one or two to have an off day, but if we've got a pitch that isn't suited to it it can come unstuck. Bizarrely we would seem to want the other team to be able to bat well and post a decent score because it means the pitch is good and we've got to back ourselves to beat it given the line-up we've got.
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 22, 2019
  • #134
Sky_Blue_Dreamer said:
Was it down to complacency? Low total to get, we've been getting high scores for quite a while. It's the problem with having that kind of batting line-up - it's very explosive and when it works it works unbelievably. But when it doesn't there's not really anyone other than Root to provide a solid base. It's either smack it around the park or back in the pavilion after a few balls.

With so many players like that we can afford for one or two to have an off day, but if we've got a pitch that isn't suited to it it can come unstuck. Bizarrely we would seem to want the other team to be able to bat well and post a decent score because it means the pitch is good and we've got to back ourselves to beat it given the line-up we've got.
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Headingley is a slower pitch which played to Sri Lanka spin and we didn’t adapt quick enough. There was arrogance there in that we tried to smash it when we didn’t need too, Ali was a great example of that where he hit a great 6 and then went for another and was caught, he just didn’t need to play that shot. Not the end of the world but we have given ourselves an up hill task
 

tisza

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  • Jun 23, 2019
  • #135
NZ - WIndies good game.
Typical WIndies - some brilliant individual stuff surrounded by mediocrity.
300 should be a good score - not these 350+ games.
India just showed that bit of extra class in the quick bowling dept vs. Afghanistan.
 

Grendel

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  • Jun 23, 2019
  • #136
Pakistan are now an outside bet to qualify. They have fine players but seem so erratic - I can’t though believe New Zealand can keep getting off the canvas every game and scrape through and then they have the Afghans and Bangladesh
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 24, 2019
  • #137
Grendel said:
Pakistan are now an outside bet to qualify. They have fine players but seem so erratic - I can’t though believe New Zealand can keep getting off the canvas every game and scrape through and then they have the Afghans and Bangladesh
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totally, they blow so hot and cold each game. They would be a force if they could string those results together!
 

Gazolba

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  • Jun 25, 2019
  • #138
Looks like some of those one pointers due to rained off games could come back to bite England.
 

Covstu

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  • Jun 25, 2019
  • #139
Gazolba said:
Looks like some of those one pointers due to rained off games could come back to bite England.
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Would we well gutted if today is called off, this is our biggest game
 

Grendel

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  • Jun 25, 2019
  • #140
England dragged it back from the brink - Australia looked in for 330 but somehow we dominated the last 15 overs and took wickets at key times

The England innings will be s significant indicator for our chances to win
 
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