I think the Bangladesh win benefits us, but we need to STUFF the Netherlands tomorrow, then hope Bangladesh and Sri Lanka lose badly against NZ and Aus, and we beat or narrowly lose to Pakistan.
Shakib - "One of our fielders came to me and said if you appeal now then he is out. It's in the Laws. I don't know if it is right or wrong but I feel that I was at war. I had to take a decision to make sure my team wins. Right or wrong there will be debates but if it is in the rules then I don't mind taking those chances".
Village cricketers the world over will be familiar with the old rules, where it was standard to shove the disorganised batsman onto the field ready or not and tell him to sort his **** gloves out when he got there. The rule change that gave people extra time but required them to be ready to face, rather than just to enter the field, stopped that. But whatever I might feel about the sportsmanship of it, and however incompetent I might think the ICC were in not adding an exemption from the rule to ensure people have adequate head protection, there are questions about the professionalism of the Sri Lankan setup if they weren't able to get a player out there in 2 minutes. It's not as if he had to wait for the outgoing batsman to come back so he could borrow his pads.
In some of the club games I have watched it has taken some of the more mature players a couple of minutes to get up out of the chair , let alone having reached the crease and be ready to bat !!
I’m trying to balance the fact that my interest in England in this tournament is very low due to our form against my feeling that it seems a boring, drawn-out competition. I’ve found the whole thing dull. Does it really need only one game per day mostly? I would have thought two leagues of five and then a league of four or five would be better with a final to follow. It would mean games could be closer together and produce a higher standard of entertainment potentially.
I’m trying to balance the fact that my interest in England in this tournament is very low due to our form against my feeling that it seems a boring, drawn-out competition. I’ve found the whole thing dull. Does it really need only one game per day mostly? I would have thought two leagues of five and then a league of four or five would be better with a final to follow. It would mean games could be closer together and produce a higher standard of entertainment potentially.
Basically been done so the big countries (and in particular India) get to play more games.
Instead of growing the sport we've gone from a 16 team world cup in 2007 to now just 10 teams. I'm sure everyone can agree that a 10 team tournament that lasts for 46 days is absolutely ridiculous. At some points during this tournament teams have gone 6-7 days without a game which is madness. In comparison the Qatar world cup had 32 teams and the tournament lasted just under a month.
Although i believe for the next one in 2027 it's going up to 14 teams with two groups of 7.
I’m trying to balance the fact that my interest in England in this tournament is very low due to our form against my feeling that it seems a boring, drawn-out competition. I’ve found the whole thing dull. Does it really need only one game per day mostly? I would have thought two leagues of five and then a league of four or five would be better with a final to follow. It would mean games could be closer together and produce a higher standard of entertainment potentially.
Basically been done so the big countries (and in particular India) get to play more games.
Instead of growing the sport we've gone from a 16 team world cup in 2007 to now just 10 teams. I'm sure everyone can agree that a 10 team tournament that lasts for 46 days is absolutely ridiculous. At some points during this tournament teams have gone 6-7 days without a game which is madness. In comparison the Qatar world cup had 32 teams and the tournament lasted just under a month.
Although i believe for the next one in 2027 it's going up to 14 teams with two groups of 7.
It's a crazy format. It's also designed to reduce the chance of big teams (i.e. India) suffering a shock result, and going out in the group stages.
To be fair to cricket, there are more outside variables like rain and dew, which can create "flukey" results, so the football style groups of 4 countries might be too short, but a single group of 10 is madness,
2 groups of 6 this WC would have still given enough games for qualification to be fair, and let another 2 countries compete.
With four spinners in their side, this might be more of a challenge for Australia than they would have welcomed before the match. No Smith in their side but plenty of big hitters namely Warner, Head, Marsh, Maxwell, Inglis and Stoinis
I really do think that Trott has got Afghanistan playing with a gameplan that they can execute. Whereas we have had no gameplan whatsoever apart from "going hard" at exactly the wrong time to do so!
To be fair Stoinis actually asked for it be reviewed. The hands are actually apart when the ball bounces so one can't make out whether the ball actually touches the ground. There is no soft signal now so it is very much in the hands of the 3rd Umpire and the benefit of the doubt has been given to the batsman.
Stoinis is a somewhat clueless flat track bully. Tries to play a reverse sweep to Rashid of all people without any idea, whatsoever, which way the ball it's going to turn. LBW and wastes a review too.
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Instead of growing the sport we've gone from a 16 team world cup in 2007 to now just 10 teams. I'm sure everyone can agree that a 10 team tournament that lasts for 46 days is absolutely ridiculous. At some points during this tournament teams have gone 6-7 days without a game which is madness. In comparison the Qatar world cup had 32 teams and the tournament lasted just under a month.
Although i believe for the next one in 2027 it's going up to 14 teams with two groups of 7.
To be fair to cricket, there are more outside variables like rain and dew, which can create "flukey" results, so the football style groups of 4 countries might be too short, but a single group of 10 is madness,
2 groups of 6 this WC would have still given enough games for qualification to be fair, and let another 2 countries compete.
With four spinners in their side, this might be more of a challenge for Australia than they would have welcomed before the match. No Smith in their side but plenty of big hitters namely Warner, Head, Marsh, Maxwell, Inglis and Stoinis
The non spinner Naveen has Head caught behind
I really do think that Trott has got Afghanistan playing with a gameplan that they can execute. Whereas we have had no gameplan whatsoever apart from "going hard" at exactly the wrong time to do so!
Who would have predicted that before it started.
thoughts on the Stoinis 'catch' that the 3rd umpire overturned ?
49-3
49-4!!!!
69-5
87-6
91-7
But, if he'd reviewed it, ball tracking would have given him out bowled, clipping the stumps, umpire's call.
Maxwell really struggling with his lower back now too.
Afghanistan had them 15 overs ago. Then dropped a couple of catches & Maxwell has made them pay.
No quick singles available, and obvious twos to men on the boundary are only ones.