CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan

[Cyclops]

45/1 after 11. Afghanistan have also dropped a couple of chances. I'd say pretty even at the moment.

[Gunner]

Well fuck.

Cruising at 109/1, and all of a sudden it’s 110/4.

Ravindra and Mitchell out to absolute rubbish shots, Young caught behind to a great catch.

Our record of never losing to a minnow at a World Cup in suddenly in danger.

[Chris]

All three out were rubbish Young caught off an inside edge driving is a poor shot,
Completely missed the line it didn’t even swing.

[voodoo]

@Gunner said in CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan:

Well fuck.

Cruising at 109/1, and all of a sudden it’s 110/4.

Ravindra and Mitchell out to absolute rubbish shots, Young caught behind to a great catch.

Our record of never losing to a minnow at a World Cup in suddenly in danger.

Are the Bangles still considered a minnow? They’ve beaten basically everyone now in all forms just about?

[Gunner]

@voodoo I wouldn’t think so, certainly not in ODI or T20’s.

[Bones]

I hate that every time they show black caps in the bunker I think it's England. Yuck "civvies".

[Gunner]

Latham and Phillips with a beauty partnership of 140 odd, drag us back into it, then they both go and get out in the 48th over…

Hopefully Chapman and Santner can finish the innings with a bang

[Bones]

Weird how Comms were saying NZ were looking at 280+ before the wickets but not now.

As we go to 276 with 7 balls to come.

[ACT Crusader]

Chapman seeing it well. Change of pace, full, short - he’s on it.

[ACT Crusader]

288 on a not so easy pitch is pretty good.

We need to bowl well (take pace off and not wide)

[Bones]

72% of runs for NZ scored by the top 3 in this tournament. Am I in backwards land?

[Gunner]

@Bones even crazier, is that Kane has only played once…

[Bones]

@Gunner said in CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan:

@Bones even crazier, is that Kane has only played once…

You just made me realise, there's about 99.99% probability captain Kane/Cane will hold aloft the cricket and rugby world cups.

[MN5]

Afghanistan all out for 139. Easy victory.

I’d just like you guys to know this is pretty shit ferning, I had to go to cricinfo for the result. The least one of you could have done was tracked each over on here.

[Donsteppa]

Surely the absence of a thread meltdown gave away the result?

[Virgil]

Well thats the easy games out of the way.

Now comes the fun part, starting with India up next

[Duluth]

Another good game for the NRR

[Duluth]

@Virgil said in CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan:

Now comes the fun part, starting with India up next

India, Australia, South Africa, Pakistan then Sri Lanka

Win 2 and NRR might be enough? Win 3 should be enough without NRR?

[Cyclops]

India will be a good test of where we are. England have been a bit rocky so tough to read too much into that first up result. A loss would be okay (India are clearly the best team), but if we want to be contenders we need to be competitive at least.

I think 3 wins will get us through easily. 2 wins probably enough.

[Virgil]

@Duluth said in CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan:

@Virgil said in CWC - Black Caps v Afghanistan:

Now comes the fun part, starting with India up next

India, Australia, South Africa, Pakistan then Sri Lanka

Win 2 and NRR might be enough? Win 3 should be enough without NRR?

whats helped us massively are the upsets.
England dropping a game vs the Afghan's and SA with the Dutch. They have both missed out on 2 points.
A high NRR helps us too, we havent just won those 4 games so far. We smashed them.

We should thump Sri Lanka as they look shite.
Not so confident against India and OZ, but id be confident we can beat the other 2 there