Louis Expounds Upon Twenty20

This is literally unfolding like a ludicrously optimistic Shane Warne tweet

Ban Gladesh

SV's lot being summarily disposed of too (barring the sort of batting performance they CAN in theory pull off)

Yep, the bowling hasn’t been anywhere near good enough all tournament.

This scenario makes WI beating Australia more likely than if they still had something theoretical to play for, imo

This is great fun.

Neesham is a monster.

That's a phenomenal win.

putting Jordan on to bowl the 16th instead of Ali or Rashid was the error imo

sadly the script is that Pakistan and NZ will fold miserably upon seeing yellow shirts, which would be even worse than India winning

they really do both completely curl up and whimper when they play Australia though, it is psychological at this point

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