Pollard has ragequit
― imago, Friday, 29 October 2021 11:12 (two years ago) link
Yes, and came back to hit a six when Pooran and Holder had shown it wasn’t impossible.
I don’t think this will be enough with the bowlers we have but at least there’s a game.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 29 October 2021 11:58 (two years ago) link
I think without extras and Holder/Pooran, they were 67 off 92 balls before he connected on the last one.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 29 October 2021 12:00 (two years ago) link
Never in doubt.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 29 October 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
That's the worst winning performance I can recall in a while. Bangladesh completely pathetic
― imago, Friday, 29 October 2021 13:55 (two years ago) link
Asif is such a brilliant finisher.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:32 (two years ago) link
6-6-66
Unbelievable hitting.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Friday, 29 October 2021 17:34 (two years ago) link
This is making me feel a little better about England vs West Indies.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 October 2021 14:33 (two years ago) link
England are not fucking around
― imago, Saturday, 30 October 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
India looking extremely shaky again.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 31 October 2021 14:16 (two years ago) link
64 balls, and counting, since the last boundary.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 31 October 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
Loool
― imago, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:43 (two years ago) link
You absolutely love to see it
― imago, Sunday, 31 October 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
India are an affectless mess (although I don't imagine Kohli will be affectless in the dressing room).Also, fuck me, the stadium announcers.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:00 (two years ago) link
It’s inexplicable how a team who have all spent months playing T20 in the same stadiums can look so completely at sea with the conditions.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 31 October 2021 17:04 (two years ago) link
Burn-out I guess? There must be an element of the thing you've been doing non-stop for god knows how long in isolation beginning to lose all meaning, even with Virat glowering at you and it being a world cup
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 1 November 2021 09:57 (two years ago) link
Batting second is tbf a monster advantage. The only teams to have lost doing so in the second phase have been Scotland, Bangladesh (who should have won) and Namibia
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 10:02 (two years ago) link
When one of the major teams wins batting first against another major team, this world cup will have progressed beyond the 'farrago' category imo
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 10:05 (two years ago) link
split the game into four innings of ten overs IMO
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 1 November 2021 11:02 (two years ago) link
I find it hard to believe that conditions change so much over the course of an hour and a half to explain the West Indies, Australia and India top order flailing wildly at everything but England, NZ and Pakistan looking effortless but idk.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 1 November 2021 11:23 (two years ago) link
NZ didn't look effortless when asked to bat first
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 11:42 (two years ago) link
Ok, watching England, i'm converted to the theory.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 1 November 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
yep
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 14:52 (two years ago) link
this second ten overs had best be an orgy of self-destructive hitting. sick of seeing every fucking team freeze batting first
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 14:53 (two years ago) link
Funny feeling we're watching Eoin Morgan's final game as a pro cricketer
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 15:04 (two years ago) link
Yep. He's a good captain but has been absolutely terrible as a batsman all year in T20. He needs to do a Pollard and get Moeen in to bat.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 1 November 2021 15:11 (two years ago) link
Or do that :D
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 15:14 (two years ago) link
Yep, they’ve both woken up.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 1 November 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
Kumara is, as we've seen, completely hopeless tbf
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
He is. He’s also extremely aggro which I think inspires people to want to hit him out of the park.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 1 November 2021 15:19 (two years ago) link
This is a pretty incredible innings. Not many world cricketers are transcending these conditions
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 15:32 (two years ago) link
lol brilliant
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 1 November 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link
Yep, glad he got there.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 1 November 2021 15:45 (two years ago) link
This is going to be close.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 1 November 2021 17:15 (two years ago) link
yep, SL don't have Buttler but Hasaranga is an equally valuable T20 cricketer
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 17:23 (two years ago) link
That’s fantastic fielding.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 1 November 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
could be the game aye
― imago, Monday, 1 November 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
Oof. That’s that.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 1 November 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
To think the Windies almost lost to this lot
― imago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 11:03 (two years ago) link
59 off the first 10 overs, 130 off the last ten.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
gonna be so sad when Maxwell slogs Australia to the title past Pakistan and England
― imago, Tuesday, 2 November 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
looks like India have woken up
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 15:15 (two years ago) link
they're pissed off alright
― imago, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
It’s probably also the pitch least conducive to spin we’ve seen all tournament, which I guess is just a handy coincidence.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Wednesday, 3 November 2021 15:18 (two years ago) link
the fix requires Afghanistan to be presented a bunsen against NZ next obv
― imago, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 15:22 (two years ago) link
This is gonna be ugly isn't it
― imago, Thursday, 4 November 2021 10:09 (two years ago) link
Honestly they'd have been better off going out in phase 1
― imago, Thursday, 4 November 2021 10:37 (two years ago) link
This is literally unfolding like a ludicrously optimistic Shane Warne tweet
― imago, Thursday, 4 November 2021 11:59 (two years ago) link
Ban Gladesh
― imago, Thursday, 4 November 2021 12:16 (two years ago) link
SV's lot being summarily disposed of too (barring the sort of batting performance they CAN in theory pull off)
― imago, Thursday, 4 November 2021 15:43 (two years ago) link