CWC Final - Black Caps v England
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I have waited until I have calmed down a bit before making comment but the whole game through we seemed to be battling not only England but fate. Nearly every bit of luck went against us whether it was umpire calls, inside edges, uncontrolled shots landing in parts of the field that never see action. Then, just when it seemed we had beat that bitch lady luck into submission she came back with a cruel double blow of a deflection boundary and ump error. The fact we still had a realistic opportunity on the last ball was testament to the fight but eventually that bitch won.
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@Wairau said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
I wish that the ICC would declare a shared World Cup for 2019, with sharing of the trophy. We drew through both forms of cricket matches, and had a blatant umpiring error affect the outcome of the match in the crucial last over.
I'm afraid the winner will always be England*.
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@Godder said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
We've got the decent base of a good side for 2023 - Kane, Latham, Nicholls, Neesham, Santner, Ferguson are all young enough, and I'm probably missing a few.
Blundell is 29, Ish Sodhi could be around too
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@Bovidae said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
Maybe the ultimate tie-breaker is how many home-grown players in each team.
Good thing Watling and Raval aren't in our ODI side then... and Sodhi didn't make the starting XI!
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@akan004 said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Bones said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
Boult dropped the cup...
And yet again, Williamson not prepared to put himself in under pressure. Why have cart horse Guptill out there if you're opening with Neesh?
He explained it in the PC. They wanted the fastest runner out there and that was Guptill. The plan was to give Neesham most of the strike by turning ones into twos.
Guptill probably would have made it too, if he had all his toes.
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@Smudge said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@akan004 said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Bones said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
Boult dropped the cup...
And yet again, Williamson not prepared to put himself in under pressure. Why have cart horse Guptill out there if you're opening with Neesh?
He explained it in the PC. They wanted the fastest runner out there and that was Guptill. The plan was to give Neesham most of the strike by turning ones into twos.
Guptill probably would have made it too, if he had all his toes.
A mate of mine lost one of his toes in a trampoline accident as a young fella, I never knew til I saw him barefoot once and it was a bit of a "what the fuck" type moment. Said it took him months to learn to walk and run again.
He ain't got nothing on Guppy though !
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@pakman said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Wairau said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
I wish that the ICC would declare a shared World Cup for 2019, with sharing of the trophy. We drew through both forms of cricket matches, and had a blatant umpiring error affect the outcome of the match in the crucial last over.
I'm afraid the winner will always be England*.
The only winner in all of this is the Australian media who will have a field day with the "World Champions".
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@Sneakdefreak said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@pakman said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@Wairau said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
I wish that the ICC would declare a shared World Cup for 2019, with sharing of the trophy. We drew through both forms of cricket matches, and had a blatant umpiring error affect the outcome of the match in the crucial last over.
I'm afraid the winner will always be England*.
The only winner in all of this is the Australian media who will have a field day with the "World Champions".
The NZ media are banging on with the 'we was robbed' angle. I don't like us banging on about it. We all know what happened *
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@ACT-Crusader said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
So Kane and Ferg made the tournament XI with Kane captain.
And Trent?
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Kind of funny with all this Kane love that the panel on the TMS podcast managed to leave him out of their team of the tournament after the group stage. They came up with something like
Rohit
Roy (not sure on this one)
Shakab
Kohli
Root
Stokes
Carey
Archer
Starc
Bumrah
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Aus media has been scathing too. It's like a penalty shootout that stops at 5 and then they use some other metric (least yellow cards?) to decide the winner. Plenty of talk about the 5 not 6 runs too. Such a shame.
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@akan004 while still averaging 60 odd? agree he wasn't that dominant, but holy shit the bar gets set high for him.
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@Paekakboyz said in CWC Final - Black Caps v England:
@akan004 while still averaging 60 odd? agree he wasn't that dominant, but holy shit the bar gets set high for him.
Kohlis stats are ridiculous though.
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Official tournament team is pretty much on the money.
If you were going to quibble at all, Wee Davey Warner is probably unlucky not to be 12th man ahead of Trent (or potentially even in the XI ahead of Roy), but he failed in the semi and he's Davey, so feck him!
