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<p>So far a good claw-back from England after a bloody good start from NZ, although far from over just yet. I don't agree with TeWaio's view that this England side are mentally fragile, more that they're just not that good. Their chase v South Africa showed some bottle and in a different way scraping past the Bangles (Edit: D'oh! Afghans) after being rubbish showed a bit too. The issue with England I think is that the seam bowling is a bit samey and the spinners are not top drawer either. All the bowlers are OK but that's it really and as a unit if things aren't conducive there is little in the way of an option B.</p>
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Fuck me what a limp finish. With the platform Munro and Kane laid 180 should have been minimum. Stokes dishing up juicy full tosses and all we can fo is sky catches - frustrating.<br><br>
Still, we have runs on the board so it is up to our bowlers to strangle the life out of them, which has been the blue print all tournament. Though I fear this pitch is a lot quicker them what we've been playing on, and the English batsmen have had plenty of practise on it. Will take a huge effort to win this now. -
Sound of a deflating forum. <br><br>
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<p>Well! Aren't I the fucking jinx. First game I've watched and even then only turned on to watch Munro get out and it's been a disaster since</p>
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<p>Sounds like I woke at the same time so I better take part of the blame</p> -
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<p>Not nearly enough runs after that good start - run a ball from 10 overs isn't going to win games on good pitches. Ah well, test cricket is what matters!</p>
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<p>cricket season is so last month, rugby is where its at now, right?</p> -
<p>I watched us bat, but I have to be honest I went back to bed during the innings break as I was fucking tired and thought we were 30 runs short of a competitive score on a quick pitch that would suit the English batsmen.</p>
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<p>Definitely lost the match in the final 5 overs of our innings. We've been lacking lower order hitting for a while now, and it came back to bite us today on a very good pitch. England definitely had an advantage of playing on that pitch a few times in the lead up where we had been playing on very slow turning pitches. But credit to them, they bowled well at the death - especially Jordan - and deserved the win.</p>
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<p>I'm proud of the boys, we beat both India and Australia on our way to the semi. T20 cricket can go either way on the night, and a few overs of bad cricket can cost you the match, which was the case this morning.</p> -
<p>Very disappointing effort.</p>
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<p>I know India were gunning for us in conjunction with the groundsman but still.</p>
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<p>Once Guptill went for 15 I knew we were in trouble even when Munro and Willianson were batting well. They put up strike rates of the batsman to follow and Taylor was the best on only 117 and thats how it played out.</p>
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<p>Good death bowling by England of course but I knew it was coming, the commentators knew it was coming, why didn't the NZ team?</p>
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<p>With all those wickets in hand why not go really hard at their spinners overs 8-16 that was the time to get so far ahead of the game, even if it cost us 5 wickets, that even if we only got a run a ball in the last 4 we would be close enough to 200.</p> -
<p>Was really disappointed to hear the news this morning. Seven wicket win is a complete spanking after playing so well, and if you don't bat so great you can't bowl poorly too. MEH.</p>
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<p>Now I would love the Windies to beat India then take the tournament.</p> -
<p>Gutted for the lads - they'd played bloody well but didn't get enough on the board today. That start England got away too pretty much stuck a fork in us.</p>
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<p>Hope they beat India in the final, remains to be seen who will prevail in the Gayle v Kohli match up! Would like England to win it now though.</p> -
<p>England have a decent bowling coach and a large pool of professional talent to draw from. It is something we have never been able to get close to perfecting but I have seen them hit on this consistent yorker death bowling thing before back in the day of Freddy Flintoff in the Trianglar series Aus used to run.</p>
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<p>Ironically we stood a better chance against OZ than England just cause Fleming did what Kane did and tried to preserve wickets and smash it at the end where we lost alot of wickets for not many, game after game. Australia won the series beside losing to us a few times by consistently beating England hammering them through the middle. England were inflexible like us and thought death bowling was only something you did in the last 10 overs.</p>
