ICC T20 World Cup
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Hooroo" data-cid="568505" data-time="1459349582">
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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>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> -
<p>India used to have a airport in Kolkata called Dum Dum airport which they changes to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.</p>
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<p>Maybe they should also consider the stadium in Mumbai where the second semi is being played Wankhede stadium.</p> -
<p>well, that was quite the South Africa wasn't it?</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="TeWaio" data-cid="568501" data-time="1459347334">
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<p>89 off 10, 1 down, Munro and KW set. Could be 200 from here.</p>
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<p>I think this post sums up everything ( don't mean to pick on you specifically TeWaio ). T20 is a prick of a game in the way it can change in an instant. Still proud of the boys but you definitely got the feeling our attack couldn't save us from the start.</p>
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<p>An England/Windies final would be awesome but I reckon the Indians have timed their form run perfectly, fuckers.</p>
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<p>Sodhi and Santner have stepped up in the looming absence of McCullum which is good to see, who's gonna replace Ronchi behind the wickets ? shit, imagine if they could actually bat too !</p> -
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<p>well, that was quite the South Africa wasn't it?</p>
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<p>No - Bangladesh did a South Africa in their pool match v India, South Africa did not do a South Africa when they lost in the CWC15 semi-final.</p> -
<p>Well, there were some positives from the tournament.</p>
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<p>Sodhi more than justified his inclusion.</p>
<p>There has clearly been a very smooth captain transition.</p>
<p>A fully fit Santner should be pretty much an autopick in future.</p>
<p>Mitch M demonstrated some good slow med pace.</p>
<p>Fielding unit remains pretty good - some outstanding catches taken.</p>
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<p>Ronchi. Seriously. No.</p>
<p>Some brittle batting, and more than a few occasions where we stalled/collapsed because batsmen wanted to launch out of the park every ball instead of putting pressure on the bowler with quick singles/singles to twos. Nobody cares if you get out to a peach or a miracle catch, but too often we got out to indecisiveness, lollypopping to the inner circle.</p> -
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<p>Some brittle batting, and more than a few occasions where we stalled/collapsed because batsmen wanted to launch out of the park every ball instead of putting pressure on the bowler with quick singles/singles to twos. Nobody cares if you get out to a peach or a miracle catch, but too often we got out to indecisiveness, lollypopping to the inner circle.</p>
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<p>Kohli's innings showed how this is done. Rebuilt beautifully with fast twos, and then started 4s and then went the full smash. Lovely stuff.</p> -
<p>Kohli is a fucking gun though, probably only Williamson has his talent level, and even that's in a different way. </p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="tubbyj" data-cid="568538" data-time="1459370210">
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<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><strong>Once Guptill went for 15 I knew we were in trouble even when Munro and Willianson were batting well.</strong> 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>
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<p>At more than 8 an over with one wicket down, we were looking very good. Our middle order failed (again) to build on the good start.</p>
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<p>England aren't that well known for their death bowling in T20. Its their batting that has been the impressive part, so we knew we needed 170-180 to put them under pressure.</p>
