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Men's T20 World Cup 2021

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  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,671
    MrOneLung said:
    When was last time Gayle had an innings of note ? 
    Got a couple of 30s and 40s in CPL but its not exactly the best standard
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Awful T20 wicket.
    They've got this massive thing about their game plan being how many balls they can hit for 4s and 6s. So they end up preserving wickets for the last 5 overs. Trouble is they dot up along the way (biggest percentage of any team) and then find that the pitch isn't conducive for going big late on anyway.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Pollard is retiring!!!!!
  • Awful T20 wicket.
    They've got this massive thing about their game plan being how many balls they can hit for 4s and 6s. So they end up preserving wickets for the last 5 overs. Trouble is they dot up along the way (biggest percentage of any team) and then find that the pitch isn't conducive for going big late on anyway.
    True, that haven't adapted to conditions and have failed to keep the score moving, but I still want better surfaces than this for T20 games.

  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Chase thinks that because he's replaced Simmons he has to bat like him. He would have been out for 27 off 36 in the 14th over
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Awful T20 wicket.
    They've got this massive thing about their game plan being how many balls they can hit for 4s and 6s. So they end up preserving wickets for the last 5 overs. Trouble is they dot up along the way (biggest percentage of any team) and then find that the pitch isn't conducive for going big late on anyway.
    True, that haven't adapted to conditions and have failed to keep the score moving, but I still want better surfaces than this for T20 games.

    I do think that there is an element of it being in the heads of the teams batting first. The commentators might not major on the stats but their analysts/captains/players know full well what the implications of losing the toss are. The team that can overcome that will deserve to win.
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Now what is so different about the pitch that prevented the Windies from going sooner?
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Windies finish on 142-7

    Pooran & Holder combined - 55 off 27
    The Rest - 73 off 93
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    It can only have been political leaving Holder originally from this squad
  • Slightly surprised Carlos "4 sixes" Brathwaite was left out entirely also
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  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,597
    The woman over the tannoy is doing my fecking head in đŸ˜«
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    I can't believe it - Afghanistan have won the toss and chosen to bat against Pakistan
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,454
    Finally, a close game!
  • nice to see Bravo doing the umpiring as well as the bowling.
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,454
    Big big wicket. If the last ball of the 19th goes for a boundary then Bangladesh would have been favrouties needing single figures from the last over. As it stands they need 13, big ask with new man facing the first ball of the over (I believe, unless they didn't cross whilst it was in the air, I'm following the text commentary)
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Big big wicket. If the last ball of the 19th goes for a boundary then Bangladesh would have been favrouties needing single figures from the last over. As it stands they need 13, big ask with new man facing the first ball of the over (I believe, unless they didn't cross whilst it was in the air, I'm following the text commentary)
    Had any other player than Holder with his height than no one else might have caught it
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Windies win by 3 runs

    Frankly, there was so much poor cricket in this game, neither team deserved to win!
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    Good game by 2 teams that are less than average.
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,313
    Terrible game that also happened to be quite compelling 
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 51,989
    How much/what sort of cricket is played in Afghanistan?
    The images of the terrain that I've seen, doesn't look conducive to a game of cricket.
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  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    How much/what sort of cricket is played in Afghanistan?
    The images of the terrain that I've seen, doesn't look conducive to a game of cricket.
    There is a superb documentary on the BBC called "Afghan Cricket Club - Out of the Ashes" as to how cricket in Afghanistan came about. Conditions were absolutely primitive and the guy who started cricket there put down a concrete area originally for bowlers to pitch the ball and batsmen to stand. It developed from there as a sport that united the nation 

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ydj1r
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    Leuth said:
    Terrible game that also happened to be quite compelling 
    Perfect summary. 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Haris Rauf bowls a 95mph swinging toe breaker. Nice!
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,761
    Brainless cricket from Afghanistan. Started when they won the toss and has carried on from there!
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    I think Pakistan are by way the best team in this competition. 
    That's not to say that in a one-off game England couldn't beat them.
    But for me they are odds on favourite for this competition. 
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,679
    How much/what sort of cricket is played in Afghanistan?
    The images of the terrain that I've seen, doesn't look conducive to a game of cricket.
    There is a superb documentary on the BBC called "Afghan Cricket Club - Out of the Ashes" as to how cricket in Afghanistan came about. Conditions were absolutely primitive and the guy who started cricket there put down a concrete area originally for bowlers to pitch the ball and batsmen to stand. It developed from there as a sport that united the nation 

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00ydj1r
    Yep good documentary that, particularly when they went to play in Jersey (or Guernsey).
  • Pelling1993
    Pelling1993 Posts: 6,671
    Haris Rauf bowls a 95mph swinging toe breaker. Nice!
    No match for Liam Livingstone's stick though
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72 Posts: 23,667
    You have to admire the way Afghanistan go about their batting. 
    Absolutely brilliant to watch.
  • ValleyGary
    ValleyGary Posts: 37,973
    Great over for Afghanistan
  • moutuakilla
    moutuakilla Posts: 7,567
    This is a great end to their innings at the moment. 31 off 10