The International Cricket Thread

[Gareth]

I would genuinely want Australia to get beat by Scotland if I was an Aussie. It doesn't matter either way to their tournament and despite England not playing well (until today) they are still a very dangerous team you'd rather not be in the next stage.

For England’s sake hopefully none of the Aussies are Spurs fans

[cdbearsfan]

Sounds like Pakistan (and Ireland) are both done for, flooding predicted for Florida so their game won't go ahead, so the US will be through.

Arranging a tournament that clashes with the second biggest football tournament on Earth, during hurricane season, was really well thought out by the ICC.

[paul_e]

Interestingly the huge nrr swing today potentially puts some pressure on Australia as a decent England win Vs Namibia will put us into top spot. That takes away the option of gaming of the result to see us out and means they have to go for the win.

Australia already have 6 points. They can"t be caught

Of course they can, Scotland are on 5 and we're on 4, if both of us win it'll be between England Australia on NRR.


Ignore me, I'm going insane, we're on 3, no idea why I'd got 4 in my head.

[tomd2103]

England have already overtaken Scotland's Net Run Rate. All down to if England beat Namibia and Scotland lose to the Aussies now.

Yep, simple as that.  England win, they should will only better their run rate, so it will all depend on whether Scotland can beat Australia, that's if the weather doesn't intervene. 

[taylorsworkrate]

I would genuinely want Australia to get beat by Scotland if I was an Aussie. It doesn't matter either way to their tournament and despite England not playing well (until today) they are still a very dangerous team you'd rather not be in the next stage.

For England’s sake hopefully none of the Aussies are Spurs fans

The difference here would be that losing would actually be  beneficial to Australia. Finishing 1st or 2nd makes no difference to the next stage, and England would be more of a problem to Australia later on in the tournament than Scotland.

Its not a great format that it can encourage that sort of thing though

[Richard]

Yes I'm sure previous formats let you take your group points through to the next stage.

[PaulWinch again]

Yep it’s slightly weird that there’s no benefit of finishing top rather than second, other than a bit of momentum.

[cdbearsfan]

Yes I'm sure previous formats let you take your group points through to the next stage.

I think the problem with that is you could have teams almost mathematically eliminated before the second group stage has even started, which wouldn't make for great excitement.

A reasonable compromise would be to allow first round group points to act as the first decider in the event that teams finish level on points in the second round. At least then there is some incentive to win the group.

Also ban Super Overs in the semis, group winners go through it it's a tie.

[cdbearsfan]

Nepal should beat South Africa here...

[cdbearsfan]

...maybe not. They've collapsed.

[cdbearsfan]

South Africa win by one run. FFS.

[PaulWinch again]

Lucky Saffers.

[PaulWinch again]

Rain again.

[Villa Lew]

Rain again.

It was a toss up on whether to watch the footie or the cricket, so footie wins.

[cdbearsfan]

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