CWC Final - Black Caps v England
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@Bovidae said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
So proud of the team but gutted to get so close and lose in that manner.
There will be (rightfully) some criticism of the choice of Guptill for the super over. CdH would have been a much better option as he has the ability to bludgeon good balls to the boundary.
To be fair, we saw CdH facing Archer earlier on and all the bludgeoning that was going on was by the bowler. CdH got a hiding.
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@Bovidae said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@JC @akan004 I will admit I didn't watch most of the NZ innings so didn't know how CdH batted earlier but Guptill is struggling to hit the ball outside the 30 m circle. There had to be someone other than Guptill.
Agreed it had to be someone else. Either Kane or Taylor would have been a better choice.
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@akan004 said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Bovidae said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@JC @akan004 I will admit I didn't watch most of the NZ innings so didn't know how CdH batted earlier but Guptill is struggling to hit the ball outside the 30 m circle. There had to be someone other than Guptill.
Agreed it had to be someone else. Either Kane or Taylor would have been a better choice.
Yep I said Neesh and Kane at 6.09am. Guppy's two boundaries from 8 hours earlier shouldn't have taken precedence over Kanes' tournament form and uncanny ability to hit sixes to win games.
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@akan004 said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Snowy What's ridiculous is the farking boundaries calculation. Surely the team who lost the least number of wickets wins the match.
Abso-fucking-lutely this is how it SHOULD be decided. Bryan Waddle and Jerry Coney are both tipping up deluxe on radio this morning, and rightly so. Since when are fours and sixes more vaulable than wickets? Duckworth & Lewis principles would have had us wunning this game.
For fucks' sake.
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It was quite fitting that the guy who made a hash brown of a review should be run out to lose the match.
Tremendous game though. Maybe the greatest ever I can recall. Gutted and proud all at the same time. We were incredibly unlucky today.
No consolation but funny when all and sundry were collapsing around him, A kiwi pulled them through. Super mental strength by Stokes.
I really am gutted but what a game of cricket. Happy enough for England too.
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Hard to stomach that given it was technically a draw ,
At least with 2015 you could say we were shit, they outplayed us ,we didn’t deserve it
Fuck , fuckety, fuck
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@Hooroo said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
It was quite fitting that the guy who made a hash brown of a review should be run out to lose the match.
Tremendous game though. Maybe the greatest ever I can recall. Gutted and proud all at the same time. We were incredibly unlucky today.
No consolation but funny when all and sundry were collapsing around him, A kiwi pulled them through. Super mental strength by Stokes.
I really am gutted but what a game of cricket. Happy enough for England too.
I really feel for Guppy. That was a truly cruel end to the tournament for him. But he did waste that review with Nicholls' assistance, and this probably (Taylor may have been out next ball anyway) contributed to the eventual loss. Then to be asked to squeeze out two runs minimum off the last ball of a super over to win the match was tough. The skipper was a much better bet to partner Neesham in that over.
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@shark said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Hooroo said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
It was quite fitting that the guy who made a hash brown of a review should be run out to lose the match.
Tremendous game though. Maybe the greatest ever I can recall. Gutted and proud all at the same time. We were incredibly unlucky today.
No consolation but funny when all and sundry were collapsing around him, A kiwi pulled them through. Super mental strength by Stokes.
I really am gutted but what a game of cricket. Happy enough for England too.
I really feel for Guppy. That was a truly cruel end to the tournament for him. But he did waste that review with Nicholls' assistance, and this probably (Taylor may have been out next ball anyway) contributed to the eventual loss. Then to be asked to squeeze out two runs minimum off the last ball of a super over to win the match was tough. The skipper was a much better bet to partner Neesham in that over.
I agree but they would have had a hell of a team meeting with coaches as well to determine who should be out there. I tend to agree with Ian Smith that they need two players that could engineer power off that deck.
I'm not disappointed with the decision for those two to be chosen. (Still doesn't help with getting over the loss)
How unlucky were we with that ricochet? That was the turning point of the end there.
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