It just feels like a cheap win. I don't know. I don't like how rain-affected games favour the team batting second in almost every case. Maybe it needs tweaking
It just feels like a cheap win. I don't know. I don't like how rain-affected games favour the team batting second in almost every case. Maybe it needs tweaking
On the other hand, England reaching the DLM total was never straightforward, as ever wicket falling makes the target a lot harder. If Mooen had got out just as the rain was starting, we would have lost
It just feels like a cheap win. I don't know. I don't like how rain-affected games favour the team batting second in almost every case. Maybe it needs tweaking
i was there and what an enjoyable game ! it would have been just as cheap a win if windies had won that way ..its such a great shame for the game of cricket ...but the weather won and i am afraid thats cricket ..maybe if it was an old fashioned club game they could have retired to the bar and had a best of 3 rounds between samuels and stokes
If Lewis had not been injured (fractured ankle), I do not think we would have been anywhere near their total, why don't our football team get these lucky moments
Nah, they got a few sixes and fours even after he retired. I doubt they'd have gotten much more. I guess I feel less cheap about the win considering it involved Hero Moeen blasting them everywhere again
It just feels like a cheap win. I don't know. I don't like how rain-affected games favour the team batting second in almost every case. Maybe it needs tweaking
The only way it benefitted us was that the "par" score was brightly lit on the scoreboard so it was there for all to see. Not that it helped the Windies as their captain didn't bring the field in for the last ball of the penultimate over so we could get an easy 2 runs.
Also Ali & Butler still had to score around 40 runs in 3 overs to get past the "par" score - could easily had been out and thus making the "par" score even higher.
It just feels like a cheap win. I don't know. I don't like how rain-affected games favour the team batting second in almost every case. Maybe it needs tweaking
The only way it benefitted us was that the "par" score was brightly lit on the scoreboard so it was there for all to see. Not that it helped the Windies as their captain didn't bring the field in for the last ball of the penultimate over so we could get an easy 2 runs.
Also Ali & Butler still had to score around 40 runs in 3 overs to get past the "par" score - could easily had been out and thus making the "par" score even higher.
Needing to get a really testing DLM score actually made the last 15 minutes really exciting, it was a run chase within a run chase, with England really going for it and the Windies trying to slow play down, with both teams getting weather reports to let them know how long there was before the rain arrived!
It just feels like a cheap win. I don't know. I don't like how rain-affected games favour the team batting second in almost every case. Maybe it needs tweaking
The only way it benefitted us was that the "par" score was brightly lit on the scoreboard so it was there for all to see. Not that it helped the Windies as their captain didn't bring the field in for the last ball of the penultimate over so we could get an easy 2 runs.
Also Ali & Butler still had to score around 40 runs in 3 overs to get past the "par" score - could easily had been out and thus making the "par" score even higher.
Needing to get a really testing DLM score actually made the last 15 minutes really exciting, it was a run chase within a run chase, with England really going for it and the Windies trying to slow play down, with both teams getting weather reports to let them know how long there was before the rain arrived!
That and the DL required score goes up with each wicket taken by the fielding side, plus the algorithm is constantly updated with the results of completed matches.
What happened to Jade Dernbach? He was horribly expensive when he last played for England, does he have some extra nous now? He was good when I saw him in a T20 this season
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Also Ali & Butler still had to score around 40 runs in 3 overs to get past the "par" score - could easily had been out and thus making the "par" score even higher.
Maybe Jake Ball is a good drinks waiter?
If not Ball who else?
...except, I have a game tomorrow. Really not sure how or why
Bairstow
Hales
Root C
Buttler
Stokes
Ali
Woakes
Plunkett
Rashid
Willey
Wiley does look the weakest of the bowlers
Jake Ball gone for 80+ 4 times in 12 games so jury out for me. Willey can bat too, although does look he can't at international level!
Chris Jordan?