Come On You Irons 3:28 Mon Oct 2
Cricket World Cup
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Starts on 5 October. Hopefully England can successfully defend the trophy, but it will be tough in Indian conditions.
If England fall short, anyone but India or Australia please. I do fear India will 'find a way' to win their home World Cup though, given it's in their backyard and they effectively control the ICC these days.
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El Scorchio
3:39 Mon Oct 2
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Kohli already got some practice in by not walking after being clean bowled by Moeen that time.
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El Scorchio
2:06 Thu Oct 5
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England New Zealand looking quite in the balance here.
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Coffee
2:58 Thu Oct 5
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We'll need our bowlers to do their stuff.
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El Scorchio
5:03 Thu Oct 5
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Getting steamrollered here. NZ will knock us off with 10-15 overs to spare.
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Fauxstralian
6:20 Thu Oct 5
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I saw Jocelyn Buttler was quoted as saying he rejects the tag of England being 'defending champions'.
WTF?
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southbankbornnbred
6:11 Fri Oct 6
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Just don't see England doing a huge amount in this world cup, unless Stokes gets fit and catches fire.
Little momentum, bang average captain this time around (Buttler is a fine one-day batsman, but not a strong cricket brain like Morgan was), and some blunt (on those pitches) medium pace and spin.
Not sure Buttler insisting Wood just bangs the ball in short in India is going to get them far.
They'll improve, England, as they get used to the conditions. But this is unlikely to be their tournament. Rashid is going to be important: he needs to find his best white-ball form, or opponents will always have too many wickets in the tank. Moeen, too. The spinners will probably have to step up and take vital mid-innings wickets to stop momentum - but what are the chances?
I like Moeen, but does he get enough revs on the ball these days? He looks like he doesn't rip it like he used to.
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Come On You Irons
9:15 Mon Oct 9
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This World Cup has been awful so far. Empty stadia, awful pitches and outfields and dull, one sided games.
Boring.
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Coffee
8:26 Tue Oct 10
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Come On You Irons 9:15 Mon Oct 9
Agreed. In India there's a fair amount of embarrassment over low crowds, particularly at the Modi stadium in Ahmedabad for NZ v England. It looked pathetically empty.
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Westside
11:13 Tue Oct 10
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The format is all wrong. One group pf 10, 9 games, then semis and final. Far too drawn out and will inevitably be some dead rubbers.
Should be 2 groups of 5, then semi finals. Shorter and each group game, will have much more bearing on the group outcome.
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El Scorchio
1:26 Tue Oct 10
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England at least doing better today.
RE: format. It is a bit of a pain but at least everyone plays everyone else once and it's fair, and it gives the lesser nations more opportunity to play everyone which can only be good. There would be just as many dead rubbers in a group format when there's a huge disparity between all nations competing. Look at the RWC for example.
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Fauxstralian
2:14 Tue Oct 10
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I dont mind the everyone playing everyone format as long as there are reserve days to make all the games happen.
Think there are 2 games today but needed to do this from the start to GET ON WITH IT.
Also wary of India's pitch fixing ... imagine the groundsmen will be told not to give England any more pitches like todays which favours the quicks and if they meet India later they will get one like the pitch served up for India v Australia which was prepared in Jadeja's back garden
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Fauxstralian
9:10 Tue Oct 10
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Record World Cup chase of 345 by Pakistan to beat Sri Lanka
I almost (ALMOST) want Pakistan to win this to wind up the Indians
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Westside
1:11 Wed Oct 11
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If England don't win it (they won't), I'd favour New Zealand. Would really piss off the convicts and be a great double with Australia, not even getting of of their rugby world cup group.
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Fauxstralian
9:59 Wed Oct 11
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NZ have made and LOST the last two finals so SHOULD be in the mix.
Unbeaten in 2015 until the match fixer McCullum had his stumps rearranged in the first over of the final and they fell apart.
Not sure how they lost in 2019 but have the knack of choking from anywhere.
Think they will make the semi finals but maybe no further
Quite like the fact that they and S Africa have never won so hopefully will continue.
England will go deep as M Mott attempts to win another white ball tournament and go past Lord Trevor Bayliss 2 to 1 but suspect India will QUEER them with a dodgy pitch at some point
An India v Pakistan final would be immense
Australia still have their middle order problems and selecting ONE specialist spinner after Agar was injured was mental. I'd have brought Lyon or Murphy in.
Need to beat SA on Thursday or they are behind the eight ball at 0-2
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Fauxstralian
10:10 Wed Oct 11
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I see after yesterdays double header they have gone back to one game a day .... YAWN
Pakistan chasing down 345 with about 10 balls to spare was as near to a close game so far.
And that was by 6 wickets so a bit of a cruise at the end
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Come On You Irons
5:25 Thu Oct 12
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70-6. A pretty humiliating run chase so far for the cheating convicts.
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El Scorchio
5:29 Thu Oct 12
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Yup, going well so far at this world cup, the Aussies.
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LeroysBoots
6:49 Thu Oct 12
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Couldn't happen to a better bunch of unlikeable and cheating cunts
Sport in Australia is falling apart !!!
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southbankbornnbred
7:03 Thu Oct 12
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Saffers crushing the Unrepentant Cheats despite the chief Cry Boy's tear-jerking attempt to have his dismissal overturned. Boo fucking hoo, Smithers...
Do you think they might re-name one of the Big Bash sides as the Unrepentant Cheats?
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Kaiser Zoso
7:15 Thu Oct 12
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Crims get trounced.
LOL
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