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The 2023 ICC Men's Cricket World Cup

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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    That's all we need now - Topley limps off after diving for the ball
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Get the wrong one out 😆
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    At last - Zadran caught at short midwicket off the bowling of Rashid for 28 (48)

    114-1 off 16.4
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Get the wrong one out 😆
    I'd take any wicket at the moment! At least it potentially opens one end. "Potentially".
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    So, we've had 18 overs to date. Assuming Topley isn't coming back and that Wood and Rashid bowl their full allocation, then we have to find 20 overs from Curran, Woakes and Livingstone
  • What was the thinking behind putting them into bat first?

    On a pitch like this surely we should've batted first and looked to pile on 400+.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    And another to Rashid. He has Rahmat stumped for 3 (8)

    122-2 off 18.4
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    One brings two and all that.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    edited October 2023
    So, we've had 18 overs to date. Assuming Topley isn't coming back and that Wood and Rashid bowl their full allocation, then we have to find 20 overs from Curran, Woakes and Livingstone
    Good news - Topley has risen from the physio room a lot quicker than Lazarus did from the dead
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Run rate for the last 5 overs is under 4 now. 

    Two brings three etc etc.
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  • Addick Addict
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    Cafc43v3r said:
    Get the wrong one out 😆
    I'd take any wicket at the moment! At least it potentially opens one end. "Potentially".
    It opens up both ends as the very next ball, the new batsman, Hashmat sells Gurbaz (80 off 57) down the river and the latter is run out by a mile


  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    So, we've had 18 overs to date. Assuming Topley isn't coming back and that Wood and Rashid bowl their full allocation, then we have to find 20 overs from Curran, Woakes and Livingstone
    That doesn't look as much of a problem as it did 5 minutes ago.
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 7,960
    Seriously how come the onfield umpire can not just give the run out?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Seriously how come the onfield umpire can not just give the run out?
    They never do now - the main reason is that, for example, a keeper might have knocked the bails off before receiving the ball with his hand or with his foot hitting the stumps doing so and not referring it would then become an issue 
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    edited October 2023
    Last 5 overs run rate now at 3.
  • Cafc43v3r
    Cafc43v3r Posts: 21,600
    Maybe a good time in hide a couple of quick overs from Root while they are looking to rebuild if you don't want to risk Topley.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Cafc43v3r said:
    Last 5 overs run rate now at 3.

    But then Woakes comes back on. The only good thing about this performance is that it makes the decision as to whether he plays against South Africa that much easier. Feel sorry for the lad because he is one of the most honest cricketers around

    149-3 off 25
  • Addick Addict
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    Livingstone joins the party as Omarzai is caught by Woakes for 19 (24)

    152-4 off 26
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 26,853
    edited October 2023
    Genius decision from Buttler. 
    Gonna roll them over for 200 and knock them off in 17 overs and rack up the NRR 
  • Afghanistan batting is always great to watch 
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  • Addick Addict
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    Afghanistan batting is always great to watch 
    Even more so when Rashid Khan comes to the crease though he is only ever there for a good time rather than a long one
  • Addick Addict
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    167-4 off 30
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Impressive spell to date from Livingstone 7-0-17-1


  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Hashmat bowled by Root for 14 (36)

    174-5 off 34.1
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Buttler misses a stumping off Livingstone as the ball lands in his chest 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    Wood scares Nabi to death and the batsman surrenders his wicket in lobbing the ball to Root at point for 9 (15)

    190-6 off 36.1
  • Addick Addict
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    The somewhat unorthodox Rashid Khan produces a classic text book, boundary bound, cover drive to his first ball from Wood 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,783
    And then, a far more, "normal" Rashid Khan opens the face of the bat to send another one to the boundary between backward point and short third man
  • Addick Addict
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    216-6 off 40
  • Addick Addict
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    Great diving catch from Root on the long on boundary to dismiss Rashid Khan for 23 (22) off the bowling of Adil Rashid

    233-7 off 44.1