Louis Expounds Upon Twenty20

Making it look easy now, tbf.

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Local fan unimpressed by Oman’s start.

Ireland going up in flames. The slog overs have been really tough for batsmen with these pitches, but THIS tough?

You know what they say, take the score after 7 overs and double it

Some beautiful bowling from Theekshana.

This looks like it might be over already.

Hmmm…

Lol

Sorry

Disappointing but not entirely unexpected, unfortunately, particularly after getting crushed by Afghanistan in the week.

There’s a lot of negativity around squad selection and today’s team selection that seems to be getting to the players. Pooran’s had an abysmal IPL but he’s justified in starting to keep wicket. Gayle is being picked primarily on sentiment at the moment, though. Narine is a huge absence.

Not sure if there is an IPL-style fair play league table for the World Cup but I suspect Sri Lanka might not top it if there is.

This is a really great performance from Asalanka.

Disastrous over.

Shaheen is on fire.

Flawless.

That's awesome

Mujeeb ripping through Scotland. Three in an over.

This is not unexpected but I think Afghanistan will cause a couple of upsets on these pitches.

I see that, rather than getting bowled out for 55, we're aiming to finish all twenty overs at 55-0.

lol, they’ve started swinging for sixes as soon as I posted that.

This is looking like 15-20 short of a competitive total, i think.

Outrageous call. The ball bounced.

Cricket SA have confirmed de Kock was dropped from the team for refusing to take a knee.

dear me this is rancid

first ten overs: two boundaries

Pollard has ragequit

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.

I think without extras and Holder/Pooran, they were 67 off 92 balls before he connected on the last one.

Never in doubt.

That's the worst winning performance I can recall in a while. Bangladesh completely pathetic

Asif is such a brilliant finisher.

6-6-66

Unbelievable hitting.

This is making me feel a little better about England vs West Indies.

England are not fucking around

India looking extremely shaky again.

64 balls, and counting, since the last boundary.

Loool

You absolutely love to see it

India are an affectless mess (although I don't imagine Kohli will be affectless in the dressing room).

Also, fuck me, the stadium announcers.

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.

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

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

When one of the major teams wins batting first against another major team, this world cup will have progressed beyond the 'farrago' category imo

split the game into four innings of ten overs IMO

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.

NZ didn't look effortless when asked to bat first

Ok, watching England, i'm converted to the theory.

yep

this second ten overs had best be an orgy of self-destructive hitting. sick of seeing every fucking team freeze batting first

Funny feeling we're watching Eoin Morgan's final game as a pro cricketer