2019 Cricket ODI WC
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Smiling aussie cricketers while losing was a new experience, even under the pump staring at 350 plus and laughs all round. Not bad per se, but odd.
Flat wicket that dulled the ball. Fielders throwing it into the ground after 6 overs. But a pitch suited to India, who, it must be said have seamers and spinners in equal measure. The asy wristy singles to leg off pace showed the banality of the surface.
Australia weren't bad, it's just that India are good, really good. Pandya innings highlighted that, promoted up the order and delivers just what they asked for.
No more Zampa I think, but otherwise Aus will have to win games with the bat because the swing bowler's are getting none, well at the Oval anyway.
Funny that we beat India easy at the oval, all due to about 5 to 10 mms of grass.
Oh well, you only need to beat India once, and the round Robin is not the time. Australian matches are must watch now to see how they rise from this. Will be big games vs us and England
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@Canes4life looks like bullshit to me. A spinner keeping his hands warm is hardly suspicious.
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@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@Canes4life looks like bullshit to me. An
spinnerAustraliankeeping his hands warmplaying pocket billiards is hardlysuspiciousunusual.FIFY
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@ACT-Crusader said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
What a poor article.
Yep, but it's the new normal for Australia. Honestly, even if he has hand warmers in his pockets for a summer sport, it just looks terrible.
This is going to follow the team around for ages, and they'll just have to cop it.
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@nzzp said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@ACT-Crusader said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
What a poor article.
Yep, but it's the new normal for Australia. Honestly, even if he has hand warmers in his pockets for a summer sport, it just looks terrible.
This is going to follow the team around for ages, and they'll just have to cop it.
WI players were doing exactly the same thing last night with the hand warmers. It's a shit article based on stupid tweets for clickbait... but you're right it will follow them around now. Hard to have a heap of sympathy, using sandpaper on the ball in today's age of high definition footage was beyond stupid.
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SA with 3 losses and then a wash-out for a must win game. Could not be a worse start for them. Not that they looked like winning though.
The WI quicks aren't the most accurate but shit they can get the ball to jump around. A few deliveries last night were absolutely unplayable.
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@No-Quarter said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
SA with 3 losses and then a wash-out for a must win game. Could not be a worse start for them. Not that they looked like winning though.
The WI quicks aren't the most accurate but shit they can get the ball to jump around. A few deliveries last night were absolutely unplayable.
Shame a tournament that goes for this long can't fit in reserve days here and there.
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@MN5 it’s Britain ... need reserve weeks!
Today has easily been the wettest day since I’ve lived here. Rained literally the whole day, quite heavy too. Lots of localized flooding!
Should be some interesting pitches / ovals around. All likely to be heavily waterlogged today.
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@MajorRage said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@MN5 it’s Britain ... need reserve weeks!
Today has easily been the wettest day since I’ve lived here. Rained literally the whole day, quite heavy too. Lots of localized flooding!
Should be some interesting pitches / ovals around. All likely to be heavily waterlogged today.
Makes me even more happy that we got the results against the lesser teams without washouts. I'd say there's a few big teams pretty nervous about taking just a draw with the likes of Sri Lanka and Afghanistan.
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@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Shame a tournament that goes for this long can't fit in reserve days here and there.
It's frankly bizarre that for a tournament that is 100% about TV, the ICC wouldn't force a reserve day to maximize the product especially when each team averages 4.5 days between games and the most simple travel logistics of any host county.
These two no results will inevitably have a role in determining who makes the semi-final and that will be either a blight on the tournament or just the nature of the beast depending on if it is in New Zealand's favour or not.
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@rotated said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Shame a tournament that goes for this long can't fit in reserve days here and there.
It's frankly bizarre that for a tournament that is 100% about TV, the ICC wouldn't force a reserve day to maximize the product especially when each team averages 4.5 days between games and the most simple travel logistics of any host county.
These two no results will inevitably have a role in determining who makes the semi-final and that will be either a blight on the tournament or just the nature of the beast depending on if it is in New Zealand's favour or not.
Well SA coulda quite legitimately been four from four and not in the good way.
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@No-Quarter Yeah - we're in a good position with those points banked - and in reality a washout against England or India especially will likely help rather than hinder us.
From here, I'd think we want our games against SA and Pakistan to reach a conclusion. Games against the Windies and Oz are somewhat neutral.
Five wins and a washout would probably get you to the semis, I think.
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@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@rotated said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
@MN5 said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Shame a tournament that goes for this long can't fit in reserve days here and there.
It's frankly bizarre that for a tournament that is 100% about TV, the ICC wouldn't force a reserve day to maximize the product especially when each team averages 4.5 days between games and the most simple travel logistics of any host county.
These two no results will inevitably have a role in determining who makes the semi-final and that will be either a blight on the tournament or just the nature of the beast depending on if it is in New Zealand's favour or not.
Well SA coulda quite legitimately been four from four and not in the good way.
They're really down in the dumps at the moment. Still have some really classy players - de Kock and Amla opening both with incredible records, but it seemed almost inevitable they'd get out based on body language. Sad to see.
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There was a good feature during the rain delay on the history of South Africa in Cricket World Cups since their reentry into international cricket. The All Blacks 1991 - 2007 pale by comparison!
Interesting re-watching the Klusener/Donald run-out from 1999. While Donald seems to gets much of the flak - and would have made his ground if he'd sprinted for it at the start - it was a very dodgy choice of run by Klusener. From a quick pause on MySky, had the ball hit the stumps at the bowlers end, Klusener would also have been well run out with two balls to spare.
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@Chris-B said in 2019 Cricket ODI WC:
Five wins and a washout would probably get you to the semis, I think.
At the start of the tournament I had down the most likely path as being...
3/3: Bangles, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan.
2/3: South Africa, Pakistan, West Indies
1/3: India, England, Australia.But a NR among the remaining games would be fine, preferably in the India/England/Australia group.
