The International Cricket Thread

[Rory]

Whatever the outcome of this one, it's good that we're being challenged and pushed out of our comfort zone by a good side, after that steamrolling of much weaker opposition in Australia 😁

[Ad@m]

We're going to end up winning this comfortably thanks to Sri Lanka's tail being more than happy to spend as little time in the middle as possible.

[paul_e]

Brilliant captaincy from Morgan with his field placings. Defending a target on that pitch can't be easy with the amount of dew around but England just seem to have everything working correctly right now.

[Rory]

Brilliant captaincy from Morgan with his field placings. Defending a target on that pitch can't be easy with the amount of dew around but England just seem to have everything working correctly right now.

Agreed. Excellent response to being put under pressure.

[cdbearsfan]

Will be pissed off if Scotland lose to that shower.

Sorry to say it, mate, but they will.

It might rain 🤞

[Rory]

Will be pissed off if Scotland lose to that shower.

Sorry to say it, mate, but they will.

It might rain 🤞

Or there might be a sandstorm - or a swarm of insects like the one that held up that IPL game once 🤞

[cdbearsfan]

Hopefully the bloke in charge of the UAE will piss off someone called Moses.

[Rory]

Or the Aussie caterer for the night before the game is the proprietor of my local Chinese takeaway.

Edit: India sorry, not Aussie!

[PaulWinch again]

Morgan is a brilliant captain. I think he’ll be a top class coach if he wants to be.

[Rory]

Morgan is a brilliant captain. I think he’ll be a top class coach if he wants to be.

Definitely. I think it was Tom earlier in the thread who spoke about stats and match-ups. Everything feels so researched, considered and well thought-out.

Plus he has a good relationship with the team but also an unthreatening but slightly icy authority to him. Reminds me of Brearley in a lot of ways.

[UK Redsox]

Brilliant captaincy from Morgan with his field placings. Defending a target on that pitch can't be easy with the amount of dew around but England just seem to have everything working correctly right now.

Long On, Long Off, with another fielder in between at well….just  ‘Long’ ……and the ball is hit straight to the latter.

Pre-tournament, Morgan’s dodgy batting meant that he wasn’t really worth his place in the team, but moments like this are genius captaincy. Plus, a decent forty that might mean he’s finally coming back into form.

[paul_e]

Brilliant captaincy from Morgan with his field placings. Defending a target on that pitch can't be easy with the amount of dew around but England just seem to have everything working correctly right now.

Long On, Long Off, with another fielder in between at well….just  ‘Long’ ……and the ball is hit straight to the latter.

Pre-tournament, Morgan’s dodgy batting meant that he wasn’t really worth his place in the team, but moments like this are genius captaincy. Plus, a decent forty that might mean he’s finally coming back into form.

Yeah that fielder was perfect, I'm not sure he even had to move to take the catch.

[Meanwood Villa]

So impressive from England so far this tournament. My nagging fear is being the best team in the tournament then putting in an inexplicably crap performance in one of the knockout games

[JD]

So impressive from England so far this tournament. My nagging fear is being the best team in the tournament then putting in an inexplicably crap performance in one of the knockout games

The way it is currently panning out it could well be New Zealand in the semi finals.

[cdbearsfan]

Much more spirited performance by Scotland, shame they couldn't have played like that against Namibia or would have won easily.

And elsewhere, to nobody's surprise, India are acting like massive bigoted twats. Really hope they don't get through.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-59130556