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.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 23 October 2021 17:18 (two years ago) link
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.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 October 2021 10:34 (two years ago) link
This is a really great performance from Asalanka.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 October 2021 13:15 (two years ago) link
Disastrous over.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 October 2021 13:18 (two years ago) link
Shaheen is on fire.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 October 2021 14:14 (two years ago) link
Flawless.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Sunday, 24 October 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
That's awesome
― imago, Sunday, 24 October 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
Mujeeb ripping through Scotland. Three in an over.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:15 (two years ago) link
This is not unexpected but I think Afghanistan will cause a couple of upsets on these pitches.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 25 October 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
I see that, rather than getting bowled out for 55, we're aiming to finish all twenty overs at 55-0.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 10:12 (two years ago) link
lol, they’ve started swinging for sixes as soon as I posted that.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 10:21 (two years ago) link
This is looking like 15-20 short of a competitive total, i think.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 11:36 (two years ago) link
Outrageous call. The ball bounced.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 11:40 (two years ago) link
Cricket SA have confirmed de Kock was dropped from the team for refusing to take a knee.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 26 October 2021 14:10 (two years ago) link
dear me this is rancid
― imago, Friday, 29 October 2021 10:51 (two years ago) link
first ten overs: two boundaries
― imago, Friday, 29 October 2021 10:54 (two years ago) link
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