Kohli, comes down the wicket, tries to hit Willey over the top, gets nothing of the ball and is caught in the ring by Stokes at mid off. Kohli out for a nine ball duck.
The old Chris Woakes is back. Forces Shreyas to pull a ball that is too quick on him and the ball tamely falls into the hands of Wood inside the ring at mid on
India are playing like how they usually do once in the knockout phase. Just not tournament smart to win it, but can look the best team in the group stages.
India are playing like how they usually do once in the knockout phase. Just not tournament smart to win it, but can look the best team in the group stages.
I think we need to judge them after the match, not 20 overs in.
Can still see them getting close to 300 and winning comfortably.
Willey comes back and KL Rahul gets suckered into giving hie wicket up by charging and hitting it straight up in the air. Caught by Bairstow for 39 (58)
Sharma tries to hoick Rashid to the midwicket boundary but doesn't get hold of it and gets caught brilliantly by a diving Livingstone for 87 (101). The shocking outfield, that I have referred to previously as being a "disgrace", cause Livingstone's knee to get stuck. This could have been of Simon Jones proportions.
So we now have this ludicrous situation with still six overs to go and still only 7 down, Suryakumar has to turn down singles in order that Bumrah doesn't get on strike.
Then six from Surya off Wood's first ball and a single when he hoped to run a two thus exposing Bumrah to the 95mph paceman. Bumrah clears his front leg and smashes Wood through mid on for a boundary.
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26-1 off 4
28-2 off 7
40-3 off 11.5
If they stay together much longer we won't.
Can still see them getting close to 300 and winning comfortably.
131-4 off 30.2
164-5 off 36.5
Big 10 overs now
182-6 off 40.3
183-7
195-7 off 45