T20 World Cup 2021
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I was very fortunate to pick up a last minute ticket for this match and I must say that it was a complete anticlimax - one of most beautiful anticlimaxes ever in fact. I’ve never felt more serene watching the BCs play it was really quite weird. Best part was watching about 10k Indian fans all up and leave simultaneously once we got to about 65/1.
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Got up this morning expecting to read that we'd lost and to complain about how unengaging this tournament has been.
A weird draw that pitted the big teams against one another immediately - well with about a week between the games - but no minnows in between. And our games at an unwatchable 3am.
Not that anyone would have listened.
Maybe the ICC will listen to a billion Indian fans though and pay a bit more attention to running a decent tournament in future.
Who would have thought it?
We won't have three trophies in the cabinet whatever happens, but it's looking like we've sunk the might of India in all three tournaments!
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@chris-b said in T20 World Cup 2021:
We won't have three trophies in the cabinet whatever happens, but it's looking like we've sunk the might of India in all three tournaments!
Wow, just amazed we got up and won this morning. We may not have the ODI WC, but we do have the MODIWC (the lesser known moral world cup; won traditionally by minnows and teams that 'shoulda').
In this case I'll take it though.
We seem to have teh wood on India mentally, and I'm not sure how we managed it, but I'll take it. Need to sneak into the semi, and then have two good games ... we're a starters chance.
Really impressed with this side doing this. I still think HEsson is a miles better coach, but Stead has rocked up and grabbed the glory!
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I saw some comments that teams batting first have struggled in this tournament
Skimming in through the results it seems only 8 teams have won batting first in 28 matches
Of those 8 wins, ~5 of them had a large quality gap between the sides
Afg beat Nam
WI beat Ban
Afg beat Sco
Ban beat PNG
Sri beat Ire
Ban beat Oman
Sco over PNG
Sco beat BanCouldn't be bothered looking up the coin tosses. I presume it's almost always win the toss and chase?
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I have day off work. Would like to watch the entire match to fill in a few hours. I cant find the stream on Spark? Only see the 6 min highlights packages of all the matches?
Same thing last weekend when thought I would spend rainy sunday morning watching India V Pak full stream, couldn't find it, eventually went to cricinfo wondering if it must gave been abandoned for some reason...
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@rapido said in T20 World Cup 2021:
I have day off work. Would like to watch the entire match to fill in a few hours. I cant find the stream on Spark? Only see the 6 min highlights packages of all the matches?
I think Spark just has highlights. Sky has the live matches and full replays
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@duluth said in T20 World Cup 2021:
@rapido said in T20 World Cup 2021:
I have day off work. Would like to watch the entire match to fill in a few hours. I cant find the stream on Spark? Only see the 6 min highlights packages of all the matches?
I think Spark just has highlights. Sky has the live matches and full replays
Ah, cheeky.
I kept the spark subs going after the Bang/Pak tours as I saw they also had the T20WC coverage.
Anyway. Have decided to watch NZ v Aus lawns bowls ball ODI match from 1982 instead of Windies 87. As I've never seen this one where as i had the Windies match on a VHS back in the day when TVNZ did a best victories of the 1980s program back on new year 1989 which i taped.
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Great result by our lads. Turned up and did the job we had to do and did it convincingly.
I woke and was gonna put it on the TV but just opted for occasional checks on cricinfo and always looked well under control. Didnt need my eyes on the big screen to jinx it
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@rapido Sky is presently running an ad featuring Laura Guppy advertising cricket coverage for the summer.
As well as the T20 WC, they're going to have the BCs in India and Oz and the Ashes among other things, so worth checking what Spark is offering.
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Wow. Just finished watching this on sky sport after recording and then avoiding the news this morning. Well done nz. Just a thought but the dropped boundary catch by Neesham was critical in our favour. His superhuman effort to stop the 6 became a huge part of the boundary struggle that dashed the Indian spirits. Then Daryl Mitchell showed what a power driver can do. Great bowling Sodhi Boult and Souther. But that fielding effort won it in my eyes.
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@hooroo said in T20 World Cup 2021:
So only the Afghanistan banana skin to get through and we are in the Semifinals.
Although the way India are performing they may also come second to them.
And Afghanistan in these conditions is not one to be taken likely in this format. I agree with you it is a potential banana skin, but if we go in as if we were playing a top nation we should be ok. Just hope the guys dont take it to easy.
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@bayimports said in T20 World Cup 2021:
@hooroo said in T20 World Cup 2021:
So only the Afghanistan banana skin to get through and we are in the Semifinals.
Although the way India are performing they may also come second to them.
And Afghanistan in these conditions is not one to be taken likely in this format. I agree with you it is a potential banana skin, but if we go in as if we were playing a top nation we should be ok. Just hope the guys dont take it to easy.
Completely agree. They would have seen the game vs Pakistan and will surely see they are better than a walk-over. They are performing better than India at the moment so to write them off would be foolish of our guys (Which I am sure they won't)
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@bayimports we have a really tough week. Three more games. Wed v Scotland, Fri v Namibia and then Sunday v Afghanistan.
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@hooroo said in T20 World Cup 2021:
@bayimports we have a really tough week. Three more games. Wed v Scotland, Fri v Namibia and then Sunday v Afghanistan.
Unless Pakistan using lulling us all into a false sense of security only to bet on themselves when the odds get tempting, we should both walk in from here..
ha ha when you look the schedule like that , must be hard for the guys to stay focused!
