The Cricket Thread 2014

[PGW]

Looks like the inevitable fucking up of a good position again.

Morgan and Buttler need to turn up.

You're right Morgan fails to succeed again wickets are falling too quickly now. They need 180 against these bare minimum.

[manic-road]

Moen Ali batted well today, England have hardly played him in the warm up games and kept dropping him down the order.

[taylorsworkrate]

145-5 after 17. I think we'll need at the very least 170

[taylorsworkrate]

Brilliant. last 10 balls have yielded 6 runs

[taylorsworkrate]

Need a Bopara special last over

[spangley1812]

172-6 after 20 overs...........

[PGW]

172-6 after 20 overs...........

Decent score would have liked 180.....bowlers got to do their jobs....get McCallum cheap!!

[taylorsworkrate]

172 not bad, but could have, and probably should have been 185-190 with the platform that Lumb and Ali built.

Can't afford any of the bowlers to have an off day now

[spangley1812]

172 not bad, but could have, and probably should have been 185-190 with the platform that Lumb and Ali built.

Can't afford any of the bowlers to have an off day now

Not looking enough so far

[taylorsworkrate]

Well, I guess that's pretty much it for this game. The're ahead on DL, and even if they get back out the revised target will be massively in their favour.

[PaulWinch again]

Leaving aside the fact that allowing 5 overs to make a game being utter nonsense, the bowling hasn't been good enough.

[paul_e]

D/L in T20 is stupid, 1 good over with the bat from McCullum won that, but it came when it was pretty clear that the game was going to get rained off so it really was a 1 over slog and he knew it.

[PaulWinch again]

D/L in T20 is stupid, 1 good over with the bat from McCullum won that, but it came when it was pretty clear that the game was going to get rained off so it really was a 1 over slog and he knew it.

Of course it is ludicrous and massively favours the team batting second. That match should have been a draw, you can't determine what would happen from 5 overs. 172 was a good total and would have been tough to get.

[tomd2103]

D/L in T20 is stupid, 1 good over with the bat from McCullum won that, but it came when it was pretty clear that the game was going to get rained off so it really was a 1 over slog and he knew it.

Of course it is ludicrous and massively favours the team batting second. That match should have been a draw, you can't determine what would happen from 5 overs. 172 was a good total and would have been tough to get.

Agree, but we probably wouldn't have been complaining if we had won in similar circumstances.  Seems a bit stupid to have a D/L target after 5 overs, especially as they are power play overs.  McCullum read the situation and we were a little naive /  lacking game intelligence (delete as applicable) yet again. 

[PaulWinch again]

Glenn Maxwell is slaughtering Pakistan.