T20 World Cup

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  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Jordan gets another wicket in the final over, Australia 200-6 with 2 balls remaining.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited June 8
    Another wicket with the penultimate ball, a run out as Wade, the set batsman, ran to get on strike, and Cummings, the new batsman, didn't.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Australia finish on 201-7, England are going to need a quick start.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Ouch, Buttler survives, but that ball really kept low.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited June 8
    If we weren't chasing such a big target, you'd be fairly pleased with England's 54-0 at the end of the powerplay, but it's 20 runs behind Australia's 74-2, albeit with losing 2 fewer wickets.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Salt caught on the boundary, but did the fielder have a foot on the boundary? Yes he did, it's a 6.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    A better over for England, 19 off it.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Salt goes first ball of the next over, 73-1.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    edited June 8
    Buttler keeps trying reverse sweeps and now holes out to one. It’s the benefit of having a spinner who spins it.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Buttler goes, 92-2.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    93-2 after 10 overs, 9 runs behind with the same wickets lost.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Jacks goes, 96-3.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    96-3 now Jacks gone.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Moeen Ali comes in ahead of Brooks, probably to introduce a right hand/left hand combination.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited June 8
    Only 7 overs left, and we're 32 runs behind where Australia were. 104-3.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    20 off the next over though, with 3 6s from Moeen Ali. Required run rate is still 13 runs an over off the last 6.

    And now Bairstow is gone, 124-4.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Bairstow gone now having not really contributed. Down to Ali and Brook now but feel this game and possibly our World Cup are gone.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    edited June 8
    Moeen gone now. Heading for a big defeat now.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    128-5, Moeen Ali gone.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    Outbatted, completely out bowled and out thought.
  • thornburyironthornburyiron
    England football embarrassing, cricket embarrassing and our tennis players go out in the first round of tournaments embarrassing. Is there any sport we can hold our heads up.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Lost by 36 runs. In the lap of the gods now as to qualifying, the best we can do is big wins against Nambia and Oman and hope we better Scotland's net run rate.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    England take on Oman this evening, we need a big win to make a dent in our net run rate deficit to Scotland.

    England win the toss and have put Oman in, hoping to restrict them to a low total that they can knock off quickly.
  • MunichHammerMunichHammer
    Currently looking like a score which England could knock off inside the powerplay.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Oman 47 all out, the bowlers have done their bit.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited June 13
    England knock the runs off in 3.1 overs.

    The commentators said that if we took 3 overs it would only increase our net run rate to +0.3, but that doesn't seem right at all. Time will tell.

    Edit: Commentators completely wrong, our net run rate up to +3.08.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Bearing in mind England must beat Namibia to have any chance of progressing, it's absolutely chucking it down 15 minutes before the scheduled start. There's an extra 90 minutes before any overs would be lost, and then the possibility of a reduced overs match, but that just increases the lottery aspect of the game. Not ideal.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Play got underway for an 11 overs a side match. England, after a slow start, reached 82-3 off 8 overs when it's started raining again. Even if play gets back underway, it's turned into a lottery as, if play does manage to get re-started, Namibia will likely just have a slogfest target.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    edited June 15
    Hmm, it's been reduced to 10 overs a side, but surely that means they should have an increased target as we're partway through our innings and suddenly we've got fewer balls to hit out at with plenty of wickets in hand? Doesn't sound as though that will be the case though.
  • buffybegoodbuffybegood
    Commentators seemed surprised that Namibia's target was revised, but revised (slightly) it has been. England made 122-5, but Namibia's revised target is 127 off 10 overs.
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