2019 Cricket ODI WC
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Amazing result even for a team as unpredictable as Pakistan inevitably are. They got spanked by the Windies yet in the same vein I can see WI wilting meekly to whoever they play next if their big guns don't fire to throw further spanners in the works.
England losing is pretty massive yet there's still a few games to come back and finish top if that's the way things are gonna roll.
You're right @NTA no pools makes everything so much more interesting. No coincidence that my favourite cup to look back on was 92. Only gripe is 12 teams could have been even more fun, Zimbabwe and Ireland would round things out nicely.
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@Cyclops said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Yeah, Root and Buttler will be fuming after that. Wonder if anyone else managed to look them in the eye in the dressing room post match.
Fuming? no way! a hundred in a losing effort is the holy grail!
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@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Cyclops said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Yeah, Root and Buttler will be fuming after that. Wonder if anyone else managed to look them in the eye in the dressing room post match.
Fuming? no way! a hundred in a losing effort is the holy grail!
Makes for a better story at the pub years after the playing days are over.
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This looks like it could be a remarkable tournament. We've had some good cricket and remarkable results already, and it's still only very early days.
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@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
This looks like it could be a remarkable tournament. We've had some good cricket and remarkable results already, and it's still only very early days.
Our game is the one that has "gone to plan" the best so far. Let's be honest we've had the wool on SL for years now and it was only the conditions that were gonna possibly be a factor. A wicket second ball though and I knew we had this one in the bag pretty easy.
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Woke up at some ungodly hour and flicked the TV on to see how Pakistan was going - and of course had to watch to the end.
England discovers that they're not invincible. Wonder whether this will affect their confidence.
You don't really want to be chasing a big score against those Pakistan bowlers.
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Oh man that is tasty! That will definitely put some self-doubt into the perennial underachievers at CWCs. Loads of pressure on them now!
Pakistan are weak in the batting but as always pretty strong in the bowling. I'd prefer to bat first against them and then put their batting under pressure; having their bowlers performing at the back end of the game suits them.
England look like a "we'll out score whatever they get" type of team, their batting is insanely dangerous but chasing down 350 odd is never easy even in today's age of the batsmen.
If we can get the win done against the Bangles and then take care of Afghanistan as expected that will take a heap of pressure off us, and we can really throw caution to the wind against the top teams with plenty of confidence.
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@No-Quarter Yeah - for a team that's underdone, we've got quite a helpful draw with three of the easier teams at the start and the chance to get some momentum.
But my cynicism (and possibly tinfoil hat) suggests to me that someone did some analysis of British weather patterns and found it was much more likely to rain at the start of June than later in the tournament - hence why New Zealand got three easy games scheduled at the start and India hasn't yet played!
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@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
That will definitely put some self-doubt into the perennial underachievers at CWCs
South Africa weren't playing? -
@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
That will definitely put some self-doubt into the perennial underachievers at CWCs
South Africa weren't playing?South Africa have embraced the inevitable, and are just getting their choke job out of the way early
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@mariner4life said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
That will definitely put some self-doubt into the perennial underachievers at CWCs
South Africa weren't playing?South Africa have embraced the inevitable, and are just getting their choke job out of the way early
Maybe they're trying the reverse-choke? Lose early and lower expectations before storming home?
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@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
P.S. How the fuck in a 10-team tournament have India NOT played a game yet?
What brand of bullshit is this when England, RSA, and Pakistan already knocked out 2 games inside the first 5 days?
They must have got IPL timing dispensation to start later?
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@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
That will definitely put some self-doubt into the perennial underachievers at CWCs
South Africa weren't playing?Hah, yeah, but England are also yet to win the thing. Given they're meant to be one of the big players in world cricket they really need that monkey off their back.
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@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
That will definitely put some self-doubt into the perennial underachievers at CWCs
South Africa weren't playing?Hah, yeah, but England are also yet to win the thing. Given they're meant to be one of the big players in world cricket they really need that monkey off their back.
Neither have we.....
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@canefan said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@NTA said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
That will definitely put some self-doubt into the perennial underachievers at CWCs
South Africa weren't playing?Hah, yeah, but England are also yet to win the thing. Given they're meant to be one of the big players in world cricket they really need that monkey off their back.
Neither have we.....
We're just a plucky underdog that punches above its weight...
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@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
So based on what has happened so far does anyone wanna even try and predict what will happen vs the Bangies ?
Logic dictates this should be about as tough as the game vs SL but this tourny is totally up in the air even at this early stage.
Factor in the venue conditions. Apart from the WI bouncing out Pakistan and us demolishing SL the spinners have done the most damage. I don't think we should lose but a spinners deck isn't going to make life easy
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@MN5 We've played them six times in ODIs the past couple of years - in the UK and NZ.
The score is 4-2 to us, but they won the big game in the Champions Trophy.
We've got a better team now than in that game (especially if we open with Nicholls), so I'm optimistically saying 75-25 that we win.
I think their batting is stronger than their bowling, so we might want to put them in and try to knock the top off their order.
