CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan

[Duluth]

https://www.espncricinfo.com/series/icc-cricket-world-cup-2023-24-1367856/new-zealand-vs-afghanistan-16th-match-1384407/match-preview

9:30pm tonight

[Cyclops]

45/1 after 11. Afghanistan have also dropped a couple of chances. I'd say pretty even at the moment.

[Gunner]

Well fuck.

Cruising at 109/1, and all of a sudden it’s 110/4.

Ravindra and Mitchell out to absolute rubbish shots, Young caught behind to a great catch.

Our record of never losing to a minnow at a World Cup in suddenly in danger.

[Chris]

All three out were rubbish Young caught off an inside edge driving is a poor shot,
Completely missed the line it didn’t even swing.

[voodoo]

@Gunner said in CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan:

Well fuck.

Cruising at 109/1, and all of a sudden it’s 110/4.

Ravindra and Mitchell out to absolute rubbish shots, Young caught behind to a great catch.

Our record of never losing to a minnow at a World Cup in suddenly in danger.

Are the Bangles still considered a minnow? They’ve beaten basically everyone now in all forms just about?

[Gunner]

@voodoo I wouldn’t think so, certainly not in ODI or T20’s.

[Bones]

I hate that every time they show black caps in the bunker I think it's England. Yuck "civvies".

[Gunner]

Latham and Phillips with a beauty partnership of 140 odd, drag us back into it, then they both go and get out in the 48th over…

Hopefully Chapman and Santner can finish the innings with a bang

[Bones]

Weird how Comms were saying NZ were looking at 280+ before the wickets but not now.

As we go to 276 with 7 balls to come.

[ACT Crusader]

Chapman seeing it well. Change of pace, full, short - he’s on it.

[ACT Crusader]

288 on a not so easy pitch is pretty good.

We need to bowl well (take pace off and not wide)

[Bones]

72% of runs for NZ scored by the top 3 in this tournament. Am I in backwards land?

[Gunner]

@Bones even crazier, is that Kane has only played once…

[Bones]

@Gunner said in CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan:

@Bones even crazier, is that Kane has only played once…

You just made me realise, there's about 99.99% probability captain Kane/Cane will hold aloft the cricket and rugby world cups.

[MN5]

Afghanistan all out for 139. Easy victory.

I’d just like you guys to know this is pretty shit ferning, I had to go to cricinfo for the result. The least one of you could have done was tracked each over on here.

[Donsteppa]

Surely the absence of a thread meltdown gave away the result?

[Virgil]

Well thats the easy games out of the way.

Now comes the fun part, starting with India up next

[Duluth]

Another good game for the NRR

[Duluth]

@Virgil said in CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan:

Now comes the fun part, starting with India up next

India, Australia, South Africa, Pakistan then Sri Lanka

Win 2 and NRR might be enough? Win 3 should be enough without NRR?

[Cyclops]

India will be a good test of where we are. England have been a bit rocky so tough to read too much into that first up result. A loss would be okay (India are clearly the best team), but if we want to be contenders we need to be competitive at least.

I think 3 wins will get us through easily. 2 wins probably enough.