What's the chance of England winning their remaining two games by a mile to overtake Scotland.
And then the Koala botherers stitch us up.
The convicts will do their best to beat Scotland by the narrowest margin they dare Thereby preserving Scotland's NRR England can only match the Scots 5 points so have to improve their NRR by about 4 rpo which even against minnows is a very tall order England could have to win both tosses, bat first, and win both games by an aggregate 160+ runs No guarantee captain Butthead can retain all that in his noggin. If England bowl first, the window for shifting the NRR closes very rapidly indeed Any weather intervenes in either of England's games or in the Jocks v Convicts match and England will be heading home
What's the chance of England winning their remaining two games by a mile to overtake Scotland.
And then the Koala botherers stitch us up.
The convicts will do their best to beat Scotland by the narrowest margin they dare Thereby preserving Scotland's NRR England can only match the Scots 5 points so have to improve their NRR by about 4 rpo which even against minnows is a very tall order England could have to win both tosses, bat first, and win both games by an aggregate 160+ runs No guarantee captain Butthead can retain all that in his noggin. If England bowl first, the window for shifting the NRR closes very rapidly indeed Any weather intervenes in either of England's games or in the Jocks v Convicts match and England will be heading home
Josh Hazlewood has made some comments saying that it would be in Australia's interests not to have England left in the tournament so if Oz were chasing a target they could manage the run chase to help eliminate England.
I hope the ICC are watching this. I think its time the final sets of matches are played simultaneously like in the football WC.....just to make sure there are no dodgy endings.
I love T20 cricket but when you have a group with a couple of much stronger teams in it and some minnows, you can't have rained off draws.
I can't understand why, for the supposedly premier T20 tournament, they can't play the next day. I've heard it makes logistics difficult, such as ticketing for spectators, TV schedules and hotels for players, but it's not that complicated. Or does TV money rule?
It’s the super overs in the group stage that are the problem for me. It effectively means that teams are punished for the weather as it’s the only way to get 1 point.
It’s the super overs in the group stage that are the problem for me. It effectively means that teams are punished for the weather as it’s the only way to get 1 point.
It diminishes the tournament. If a team loses to a minnow, fair enough, they can't complain. The cricket authorities do need to look at this going forwards, whatever happens to England.
It’s the super overs in the group stage that are the problem for me. It effectively means that teams are punished for the weather as it’s the only way to get 1 point.
It diminishes the tournament. If a team loses to a minnow, fair enough, they can't complain. The cricket authorities do need to look at this going forwards, whatever happens to England.
Equally, one could argue that Scotland might have been the unlucky side in the game being abandoned. Even with 10 wickets in hand, against a decent bowling attack, chasing 109 on a wet outfield would have by no means by a foregone conclusion especially with our recent record in international white ball matches (lost 12 of our last 20) and against a side that beat us in an ODI not so long ago.
This WC won't be remembered as its original intention of being "ground breaking". Fragmented in terms of timings, bad weather and poor pitches have all served to undermine what really should be a flagship competition.
This WC won't be remembered as its original intention of being "ground breaking". Fragmented in terms of timings, bad weather and poor pitches have all served to undermine what really should be a flagship competition.
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Thereby preserving Scotland's NRR
England can only match the Scots 5 points so have to improve their NRR by about 4 rpo which even against minnows is a very tall order
England could have to win both tosses, bat first, and win both games by an aggregate 160+ runs
No guarantee captain Butthead can retain all that in his noggin. If England bowl first, the window for shifting the NRR closes very rapidly indeed
Any weather intervenes in either of England's games or in the Jocks v Convicts match and England will be heading home
USA finish on 110-8.
Doesn't sound much but on this wicket, it's probably not a bad score.
I hope the ICC are watching this. I think its time the final sets of matches are played simultaneously like in the football WC.....just to make sure there are no dodgy endings.
77 AO
96 AO
137-7
103-9
119 AO
113-6
106-7
110-8
USA
INDIA
T20 World Cup, Group C, Trinidad
West Indies 149-9 (20 overs):
New Zealand 136-9 (20 overs):
West Indies won by 13 runs
No warm up games; what do they expect?