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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #200 on: July 10, 2019, 08:03:03 AM »
Very good game. Can't help feeling that both Australia & England would rather be facing NZ than India in the final.

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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #201 on: July 10, 2019, 08:04:36 AM »
Well done NZ! Was an exciting game.

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« Reply #202 on: July 11, 2019, 04:13:33 AM »
Oh no... just got home after my evening run (easy 10k 🙂) and see the Aussies are in trouble at 3 for not many! Have we got stage fright?

Hopefully Smith and Carey can stay in for the next 30 overs or so. I’ll back us to defend 220.

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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #203 on: July 11, 2019, 07:18:15 AM »
Looks like Australia's score is similar to the Indians yesterday. 223 all out in 49 overs, vs 221 all out in 49.3.

Are they going to suffer the same fate?

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« Reply #204 on: July 11, 2019, 08:09:45 AM »
Wicket looks a lot more benign than yesterday and the ball doesn't seem to be swinging. Bound to be a few twists in the story before the end though.

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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #205 on: July 11, 2019, 08:54:16 AM »
Wicket looks a lot more benign than yesterday and the ball doesn't seem to be swinging. Bound to be a few twists in the story before the end though.

95 for no loss. Looks like England has got Oz's number.

Nice seeing a non-Indian crowd so animate.

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« Reply #206 on: July 11, 2019, 08:55:13 AM »
Just need the rain to hold off for 6 overs so that it counts as a game...

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« Reply #207 on: July 11, 2019, 08:59:07 AM »
Very satisfying to see Steve Smith hit for three consecutive sixes in his first over. Must've left the sandpaper in the dressing room.

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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #208 on: July 11, 2019, 09:21:24 AM »
Roy cheated of a century by the umpire. Pathetic, it was so far from the bat!

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« Reply #209 on: July 11, 2019, 09:35:44 AM »
Roy cheated of a century by the umpire. Pathetic, it was so far from the bat!
It was a very poor decision, but also a very poor decision by Bairstow to waste the review on a very clearcut lbw.

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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #210 on: July 11, 2019, 09:58:13 AM »
Can someone explain something?

What are those Aussie fan hats with strings around the rim with something hanging off the string?
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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #211 on: July 11, 2019, 09:58:40 AM »
Roy cheated of a century by the umpire. Pathetic, it was so far from the bat!
It was a very poor decision, but also a very poor decision by Bairstow to waste the review on a very clearcut lbw.

True, but you expect higher standards for a WC semi.

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« Reply #212 on: July 11, 2019, 10:02:22 AM »
Can someone explain something?

What are those hats with strings around the rim with something hanging off the string?

Stereotypical Aussie headgear, to keep the blowflies off. Worn only by tourists, of course.

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« Reply #213 on: July 11, 2019, 03:30:13 PM »
Looks like I am jumping on the NZ bandwagon for the final.

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« Reply #214 on: July 11, 2019, 03:37:04 PM »
Can someone explain something?

What are those Aussie fan hats with strings around the rim with something hanging off the string?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cork_hat

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« Reply #215 on: July 12, 2019, 01:57:08 AM »
Nice seeing a non-Indian crowd so animate.

Saw a quote from Zainab Abbas saying it was the best support she'd seen for Pakistan in 25 years of watching. I guess they don't get to play at home so much.

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« Reply #216 on: July 12, 2019, 03:07:34 AM »
With both the women's soccer team and now the men's cricket team falling over there was a wonderful headline on the Betoota FB page today saying that Australia's sporting hopes now lie with the Wallabies :P

We can dare to dream but geez even if we get out of the group stage (with Wales), we'll likely be playing England or France in a quarter final. If we lose to Fiji in the first match it could be all over before it even begins.


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« Reply #217 on: July 12, 2019, 05:18:06 AM »
With both the women's soccer team and now the men's cricket team falling over there was a wonderful headline on the Betoota FB page today saying that Australia's sporting hopes now lie with the Wallabies :P

I had the impression that Netball was way more popular in Australia than in the UK and that Australia were quite likely to win the current world cup in that?


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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #218 on: July 12, 2019, 06:04:34 AM »
Looks like I am jumping on the NZ bandwagon for the final.

I don't have a dog in this fight, but I usually root for the underdog. So, NZ it is.

My son is the only one able to go to  the finals, he is going to get a NZ hat. Look out for the tall Indian dude with the black hat in the Mound stand.

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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #219 on: July 14, 2019, 04:20:02 AM »
That review

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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #220 on: July 14, 2019, 06:41:21 AM »
The Kiwis need to start scoring or they are going to let this match get away!

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« Reply #221 on: July 14, 2019, 06:57:59 AM »
The NZ bowlers are going to have to repeat what they did to India, because this doesn't look like enough runs at the moment. I'd have said 280-290 was about par.

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« Reply #222 on: July 14, 2019, 06:58:50 AM »
If they get Roy and Bairstow out cheaply you never know.

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« Reply #223 on: July 14, 2019, 07:06:09 AM »
If they get Roy and Bairstow out cheaply you never know.
Yep - they had India at 5-3 and as it stands will need to do something similar. England bat down to 9 or 10 though.

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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #224 on: July 14, 2019, 07:51:38 AM »
The first 10 overs are going to tell us who will win.

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« Reply #225 on: July 14, 2019, 08:00:09 AM »
I guess only 2 sides have chased 250 to win in this competition, but the pitch doesn't seem to be offering a huge amount to the bowlers. Needs Boult & Henry to take some early wickets to get NZ into the game.

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« Reply #226 on: July 14, 2019, 09:52:59 AM »
Looking good for the kiwis with England 86-4.

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Re: Cricket World Cup 2019
« Reply #227 on: July 14, 2019, 12:01:43 PM »
I’m not a cricket fan but UNBELIEVABLE!

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« Reply #228 on: July 14, 2019, 12:04:14 PM »
Definitely down to the wire!

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« Reply #229 on: July 14, 2019, 01:32:02 PM »
Unbelievable game! What a finish!

We will be talking about this game for years.

Congratulations England. NZ, what a great game.

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« Reply #230 on: July 14, 2019, 02:12:53 PM »
Well, I don't think you'll ever see a more exciting finish than the last few overs of that match. England got very, very lucky at a couple of key moments there.

Commiserations to NZ, who really didn't deserve to lose, delighted to see that Kane Williamson got player of the tournament.

It's been a brilliant event - really great to see so much travelling support for India, Pakistan, Bangladesh & Afghanistan, in particular, but every country had supporters there and although it seems like there's been some ticketing problems, great that most games have had pretty decent crowds and there's been so many exciting games and a good balance between batting and bowling.

I hope this win does something to reverse the slow decline of cricket in England (in terms of numbers playing, numbers watching live and tv ratings) that's happened over the last few decades.

I wonder what Ben Stokes's dad (who played rugby league for New Zealand in the 1970s and 1980s) thinks of the whole thing.

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« Reply #231 on: July 14, 2019, 03:08:27 PM »
Oh that's an awful way to win/lose the world cup - hitting more boundaries in the match? Which muppet came up with that rule?

Why not simply go to another Super over?

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« Reply #232 on: July 14, 2019, 05:18:23 PM »
Oh that's an awful way to win/lose the world cup - hitting more boundaries in the match? Which muppet came up with that rule?

Why not simply go to another Super over?
Or 'fewest wickets lost'.

I was asleep for most of the latter half of the match, but it seems to have been a great game. Congratulations to England on the win.

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« Reply #233 on: July 14, 2019, 08:46:12 PM »
What an absolutely mind blowing end to this World Cup. Lots of sleepyheads in NZ today.

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« Reply #234 on: July 15, 2019, 08:38:26 AM »
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Why not simply go to another Super over?
Or 'fewest wickets lost'.
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yeah... I think it's pretty fair to call that a tie. Winning/losing on a technicality sucks. But what a game.