T20 World Cup 2021

Donsteppa

Too many hittable ones at the wrong times.

Boult goes for 40 off his four overs.

LABCAT

Need Neesham to fluke one of his good overs like he did against Afghanistan.

LABCAT

Jimmy!!!!!

Donsteppa

Definitely some curious bowling choices today. That might have been Phillip's first over in the tournament?

I thought Neesh might have bowled two overs at the death. But he's back on at the last over, starting with 0/7... and now a wicket and a boundary...

LABCAT

@donsteppa said in T20 World Cup 2021:

Definitely some curious bowling choices today. That might have been Phillip's first over in the tournament?

I thought Neesh might have bowled two overs at the death. But he's back on at the last over, starting with 0/7... and now a wicket and a boundary...

Yeah, I think that was Phillips first over too.

Donsteppa

Poor fielding off the last two balls costs an extra three runs and denies a wicket

Donsteppa

167 needed to win.

LABCAT

I feel it's England's game to lose at the moment.

Hopefully Guptill has a big innings today.

Donsteppa

And Guppy throws it away. Been a batsman short all tournament, and today is the day we are going to miss them...

Frye

Disappointing from Guptill but lot of batters still to come.

LABCAT

Williamson looks to be struggling which is not a good sign.

Donsteppa

And Williamson goes for 5 off 11...

nzzp

woke up, so got up to watch the second innings.

Damn. Need nearly 10s an over for 14 overs, 2 down and a long tail. It's not impossible, but it's going to be really challenging.

Come on Son Of John!

Donsteppa

A grumpy 5am and wide awake reflection. This tournament is reaffirming that the IPL is good entertainment and brilliant for the players bank balances.

But in terms of translating into pressure T20I performances... India were pants in their two big games, and of our three highest paid/profile IPL players; Jamieson hasn't featured all tournament, and Boult and Williamson had unusually below par shifts today.

nzzp

@donsteppa Philips will need a miracle from here.

We're not even firing a shot.

I actually disagree on IPL - T20 is very random on a game by game basis; it's like baseball. You need a series to figure out which team is better.

Right now, that's not us. This is the performance I feared, nto the one I hoped for

Donsteppa

@nzzp ironically that's why I had high hopes for this one - jamming two wins at the business end of this one without that unbalanced team selection coming back to bite us.

I missed Santner's bowling earlier, did anyone see enough to figure out why he bowled only one over?

nzzp

@donsteppa said in T20 World Cup 2021:

I missed Santner's bowling earlier, did anyone see enough to figure out why he bowled only one over?

Comms seemed to infer it was because they didn't want to bowl him to left handers.

I was asleep, so no idea really

Donsteppa

@nzzp said in T20 World Cup 2021:

@donsteppa said in T20 World Cup 2021:

I missed Santner's bowling earlier, did anyone see enough to figure out why he bowled only one over?

Comms seemed to infer it was because they didn't want to bowl him to left handers.

I was asleep, so no idea really

I wonder if teams overthink that stuff at times, if the alternative is an over from Philips

Looks like this pair have decided that they have to throw the kitchen sink at it now. Nice six to Conway.

nzzp

we haven't put away the bad balls.

And that's probably going to cost us the game. 2-3 sixes so far, and this is a different game; need 9s not 11s from here

nzzp

wow, that is some effort from Jordan

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T20 World Cup 2021