The International Cricket Thread

[olaftab]

Checking Friday flights to BBDS in case Thursday goes well.

Haha...any excuse.

[Chris Smith]

Apparently rain forecast for Guyana on Thursday with no rain-reserve day but the other semi does. If no result then India go through as they won their group. It just seems dodgy particularly with India knowing for months that was the likely venue for their semi.

[cdbearsfan]

They didn't know they'd be top of the group, though. Not dodgy, just stupid to play it during the rainy/hurricane season.

I'm generally sympathetic to the idea of always having reserve days but appreciate it can be more difficult when you have a tournament spread across different islands/continents, you don't want teams ending up missing a round as they couldn't get a flight after the last one.

[Bully2345]

In the event of qualifying, India were guaranteed to play at Guyana regardless of where they finished.

That's the semi final at prime Indian viewing time but also gave India an advantage of knowing where there semi would be whereas England have had to wait a day to find out where they were travelling to

[cdbearsfan]

In the event of qualifying, India were guaranteed to play at Guyana regardless of where they finished.

Yep, but if they had finished second in their group then they would have been eliminated in the event of a "no result". So they can't rig it to ensure that India make the final if that was what's being suggested.

[PaulWinch again]

Apparently rain forecast for Guyana on Thursday with no rain-reserve day but the other semi does. If no result then India go through as they won their group. It just seems dodgy particularly with India knowing for months that was the likely venue for their semi.

It was always going to be the venues for their semi—final if they made it right? That’s poor, but the fact one semi-final has a rain day and one doesn’t is really poor.

[Lsvilla]

Apparently rain forecast for Guyana on Thursday with no rain-reserve day but the other semi does. If no result then India go through as they won their group. It just seems dodgy particularly with India knowing for months that was the likely venue for their semi.

It was always going to be the venues for their semi—final if they made it right? That’s poor, but the fact one semi-final has a rain day and one doesn’t is really poor.

All because the final is Saturday and not Sunday. Presumably to allow a rain day but very unusual nowadays not to have a. Sunday finale. Were they over-assuming rainy season could impact and didn't want a game with no crowd on the Monday ?

[PaulWinch again]

Well that first semi seemed ridiculous.

[cdbearsfan]

Good. It was ridiculous that Afghanistan were allowed to play in the first place.

[taylorsworkrate]

Forecast looks poor for Guyana.

The no reserve day is poor. Why didn't they just schedule the final for Sunday?

The ICC changing the rules for India to guarantee them playing in Guyana is worse.

[cdbearsfan]

Here we go, then. Hopefully a good toss to win for England.

[taylorsworkrate]

Was definitely a good toss to win. Whether England chose the correct option after winning the toss is another question.

This looks the type of pitch that will only get worse for batting

[cdbearsfan]

Bugger. Didn't even get to the minimum ten overs required.

[UK Redsox]

Good. It was ridiculous that Afghanistan were allowed to play in the first place.

My opinion as well.

However, if North Korea were any good at cricket, they'd be allowed to play

[cdbearsfan]

There was no rule preventing them from doing so. There was a rule that says teams have to have a women's team, the ICC have just chickened out and not enforced it. The IOC refused to ignore their own rules so Afghanistan are sending a mixed (albeit small) team to the Olympics.