The Cricket Thread 2014

[Dave Cooper please]

How on earth is our net run rate so poor?

Because runs against also count, we only won with three (?) balls to spare remember.

I think my bigger issue is how our run rate was impacted by our defeat to NZ.

Actually yeah, D/L is hard enough to fathom as it is without trying to calculate net run rates from it.

[olaftab]

Good win by England today. Well played. In this form one bad  over bowling or great batting over makes a huge difference. That innings by Hales is as good as anything ever seen in Twenty20.

[paul_e]

Missed the game and the score, came onto this thread before checking early on page 21 I assumed we'd been given a bit of a tonking.  Getting a couple more posts down and findding we'd won was pleasant, checking on the Beeb and finding it was on the back of one of the best batting performances ever in T20 makes it all the sweeter.

[PaulWinch again]

Missed the game and the score, came onto this thread before checking early on page 21 I assumed we'd been given a bit of a tonking.  Getting a couple more posts down and findding we'd won was pleasant, checking on the Beeb and finding it was on the back of one of the best batting performances ever in T20 makes it all the sweeter.

It was the biggest Hyde and Jekyll performance I've ever seen. The bowling and fielding was horrible but the batting was simply brilliant.

[Dave Cooper please]

I'm not the biggest fan of the baseball, but there's certainly some decent entertainment to be had in this T20 World Cup.
Seeing Sammy smack two sixes off two balls to beat the Aussies amused me anyway!

[PaulWinch again]

Sammy is an unbelievable finisher in this form of the game, he's consistently doing it at the moment. Poor old Aussies haha.

[rob_bridge]

Sammy is an unbelievable finisher in this form of the game, he's consistently doing it at the moment. Poor old Aussies haha.

Indeed - just said to my Indian supporting colleagues - wait till Sammy comes him. He is the man.

[Dave Cooper please]

Our women are doing okay as well i see.

[PaulWinch again]

I think it's really important that we bowl Bopara today.

[taylorsworkrate]

Well i see the shit fielding continues unabated

[taylorsworkrate]

For fuck sake be better at fielding

[taylorsworkrate]

Oh FFS

[taylorsworkrate]

How many times does Amla have to time it perfectly for our bowlers to realise that bowling on his pads ain't working?

[taylorsworkrate]

The pitch does look a belter for batting to be fair

[taylorsworkrate]

If there's a fielding coach then he should be ashamed