Louis Expounds Upon Twenty20

I'm more annoyed at England losing because it increases the chance of an Australia win than for England's sake

I’d slightly fancy Australia in todays game too, unfortunately. Let’s see who wins the toss. If it’s Pakistan and Shaheen comes out flying, who knows?

If it's Australia, Pakistan will be bowled out for 80

still hoping against hope that Pakistan do to Aus what they have done to every other team they have played thus far

there it is

yup

Solid total.

they'll find a way to fuck this

For sure.

they'll STILL find a way to fuck this

giving Imad a second over the first of many blunders

Looks ominous.

Rauf not faring any better.

much needed

ban mohammad hafeez

they'll STILL fuck this

It’s going to be a pretty comfortable chase, I think.

There you go.

Ridiculous finish.

permaban hasan ali

permaban the entire pakistan brains trust for not keeping imad wasim on and maybe also bowling hafeez/malik

Both semis finished with a boundary on the last ball of the 19th over with five wickets remaining.

only one won by a bunch of cunts tho

No Conway for the final, which sucks for NZ - we already have enough psychological scars against Australia.

I've decided I am not going to watch it, pay attention to it, or think about it at all. I am going to have a nice Sunday and there will be no cricket

Only half-joking that I might just watch the toss and switch off.

Some bug hutting here from NZ. I thought it was over at the half way point but Williamson has been terrific.

Shami’s on fire for Gujarat in the match between the two expansion teams. He’s taken KL Rahul, de Kock and Pandey in 15 balls. This season should be a lot of fun, the games over the weekend were great.

Yeah, I watched the Punjab run chase. Mad that someone won MOTM for their batting in a game where six others outscored them (and their own bowling got murdered), but those were tbf some clean hits

A weekend where literally everything came up West Indies I guess

I didn’t want to say, but yes…

Not sure I’d have had Pat Cummins down as the batsman who’d equal KL Rahul’s 14-ball 50 but he’s just hit 56 off 15.

can he actually stop pls

I don’t think anyone has dominated a season like this since Kohli in 2016. I can’t imagine Buttler won’t break the record of four centuries.

Absolute scenes. 36 needed off the last over, Powell hits three sixes in a row, the last of which was probably over waist height but not given as a no-ball, Delhi go bananas, look like they’re going to take the batsmen off, send a guy from the bench over to argue with the umpire, etc, they end up losing by 15.

if mccoy had conceded 36 to win off the last over then i'd have feared for his career tbh

Umran Malik looks like a real talent. Probably the fastest Indian bowler in recent memory and laser-focused on the wicket today.

Not that it mattered when Marco Jansen got smacked for 25 in the final over…

that was the most egregious betrayal of an all-time great spell in living memory

I can not believe this game.

LSG out of it, then strolling to victory, then throwing it away, then a failed mankad, then chaos.

Missing a Mankad from here with one wicket to take and one run to defend is among the most embarrassing things that can happen to a cricketer pic.twitter.com/aEE5Paaany

— Sreshth Shah (@sreshthx) April 10, 2023

lolllll I was only following it on Cricinfo but omg

RCB are the clown princes of cricket

honestly I think RCB might be one of the most cursed modern franchises in all of sport

it ended the way it had to, with a Kohli ton and an abysmal bowling display

couldn't help but getting a bit teary eyed at the hug between Kohli and Gill mind. a torch being passed

Gill and Jaiswal are going to own the next decade

that was fuckin epic

Tears in my eyes, maiden T20 century for Sunil Narine #IPL2024 pic.twitter.com/QTrRyl4BJy

— Santokie (@Santokie89) April 16, 2024

So happy for him.

the bowler gets repeatedly smashed for boundaries and literally can't do anything about it. the crowd listlessly cheer, knowing the currency of a six, once a momentous event, is about the equivalent of a quick-run two circa 2009