Cricket Thread - England win T20 World Cup

[footle]

Bloody hell. Root now a mystery spinner?

[Gabe]

Stokes said before this tour that Root would be bowling a lot more and it was reported that he does work quite a bit on his bowling.

[Gotters]

Baz ball has gone soft, we should be declaring now and having a bowl. 

[merman]

Their captain dropping Duckett has helped us no end.

 

Well played to England ladies, 3-0 whitewash of the West Indies in the ODIs.

[Stopharage]

That Ollie Pope run out is 'Bad Old Days' England. 

[feltmonkey]

This is a test for Bazball, because the path to victory here is to bat boringly for another day and bowl on an aging pitch with a huge lead.

[feltmonkey]

There's just been the revelation on TMS that several of the stands and exclosures that Pakistan have named after their great former players have the names mis-spelled. 

[footle]

54 minutes ago, feltmonkey said:

This is a test for Bazball, because the path to victory here is to bat boringly for another day and bowl on an aging pitch with a huge lead.

 

They've probably got enough already.

[Timmo]

On 09/12/2022 at 12:27, feltmonkey said:

I think England will lose this one

 

Has anyone kept a tally of the number of times you've said similar in this thread only to be magnificently, gloriously wrong? 😁

[feltmonkey]

18 minutes ago, Timmo said:

 

Has anyone kept a tally of the number of times you've said similar in this thread only to be magificently, gloriously wrong? 😁

 

It's got to be hundreds. 

 

To be fair, I was often right over the few years before the Stokes and McCullum era.

[Sirloin]

Sydney Thunder were just all out for fifteen. Fifteen.

[milko]

That must be pretty historic. Top scorer was out second ball.

[merman]

Foakes back and young spinner Reham in. Will be interesting to see if we can get that third win.

 

(Rawalpindi pitch for the First Test rated “inadequate” by the ICC assessor - for not offering help to the bowlers. Makes it even more impressive we took 20 wickets on it.)

[feltmonkey]

8 hours ago, Sirloin said:

Sydney Thunder were just all out for fifteen. Fifteen.

 

I've participated in, and contributed to, many abject batting performances, but never quite that bad. I've been in situations where we all applauded a batsman's half-decimal. They didn't even get to do that, as the top scorer made 4.

[Sirloin]

And that four was from an edge that didn’t carry to the keeper.

[milko]

304 all out for Pakistan, doesn't look a par score. 2 wickets for England's youngest ever Test debutant as well.

[milko]

Then again, it's spinning a lot so it might be more than enough!

[feltmonkey]

Another hundred for Harry Brook. What a tour he's had.

[Stopharage]

That Harry Brook century will make Stokes feel an awful lot better about his run-out. Think Stokes would have been annoyed at being run out but instantly realised that Brooks staying in was the right call, so gave the thumbs up to put Brook at ease. 

 

Follows the fine tradition of Double 0 batsmen, Gooch, Cook, Root, Brook...

[milko]

On 17/12/2022 at 12:13, milko said:

2 wickets for England's youngest ever Test debutant as well.

 

Five-fer in the second innings!

[feltmonkey]

We might have found ourselves a spin bowler!

 

Crawley has started like he's got other plans for tomorrow.

[feltmonkey]

34-0 off three overs. This England team do not give one single fuck.

[MarkN]

It's daft. It's brilliant. On TMS they were saying how the target of 160ish would have been seen as potentially tricky previously, whereas the mindset has changed to be how quickly  can we rattle through these.

 

Not only is it working for us, it's got to be working against Pakistan's morale. It just seems inevitable.

[milko]

The "Powerplay?" graphic Sky put up for the first few overs' highlights was some cheeky fun.

[footle]

3 minutes ago, MarkN said:

It's daft. It's brilliant. On TMS they were saying how the target of 160ish would have been seen as potentially tricky previously, whereas the mindset has changed to be how quickly  can we rattle through these.

 

Not only is it working for us, it's got to be working against Pakistan's morale. It just seems inevitable.

 

It's crushing Pakistan.

[milko]

40 minutes ago, feltmonkey said:

This England team do not give one single fuck.

 

lol they bring Rehan in at number 3 and he smashes 4 off his first ball

[feltmonkey]

1 minute ago, milko said:

 

lol they bring Rehan in at number 3 and he smashes 4 off his first ball

 

Bazball nightwatchman! This is hilarious.  

[Timmo]

They’re gonna have to set everything up tomorrow for 20 easy runs, aren’t they

[feltmonkey]

Stokes literally throwing the bat now. It went over the square leg umpire's head.

[merman]

6 hours ago, Timmo said:

They’re gonna have to set everything up tomorrow for 20 easy runs, aren’t they

 

55, but yeah, incredible work from England to get the win clearly in their sights.