The International Cricket Thread

[PaulWinch again]

England in huge trouble now. Will have to win both games and that still might not be enough.

[Richard]

As are Australia so don't think today makes too much difference

[Meanwood Villa]

It might be a bit rich for a British person to complain about rain disruptions but I would say the decision to play multiple fixtures at the same venue is looking very daft.

[Richard]

It might be a bit rich for a British person to complain about rain disruptions but I would say the decision to play multiple fixtures at the same venue is looking very daft.

Especially when its a 100k capacity venue with sometimes only a couple of thousand in attendance. Are there no suitable smaller grounds in less rainy areas?

[Villan For Life]

England in huge trouble now. Will have to win both games and that still might not be enough.

We need to win our remaining games, our net run rate is better than Australia’s so a couple of wins should see us progress.

There are such fine margins in T20 cricket. Against Ireland Moeen had just started to motor, if the rain had held off long enough for just a couple more balls to be bowled then we’d have probably been ahead of the DLS score.

[PaulWinch again]

Yeah but Australia have Afghanistan and Ireland. There’s every they’ll smash one or both of them.

As for England if you choose to bowl first when rain is around your advantage is to know where you need to be for DLS. They made a hash of it and never got in front.

[tomd2103]

England in huge trouble now. Will have to win both games and that still might not be enough.

Yeah going to be tricky to get through now.  Could have been worse though - don't know how we would have fared in a 5 over shoot out when Hazelwood, Starc and Cummins would have been bowling 3 of them.

[PaulWinch again]

This has solidified that it’s going to be NZ plus one other.

[PaulWinch again]

Australia are going to crush Ireland, which will resolve their net run rate position.

England really have ballsed this up - didn’t beat Afghanistan as comprehensively as they should have, and then lost to Ireland because they were sloppy and not proactive enough. To stand a chance of going through they’re not only going to have to beat both NZ and Sri Lanka, but they’re probably going to have to hammer at least one of them.

[Richard]

Phew, well done Ireland on making England's job a little easier  re net run rate.

[PaulWinch again]

Yes they dragged it back a bit.

[PaulWinch again]

Good start here, they need a big score from here.

[PaulWinch again]

Looks like spin is tricky to hit here.

[PaulWinch again]

Subsiding a bit here.

[PaulWinch again]

179, decent score in the end.