T20 World Cup

Canes4life

I thought the Indians were into their cricket. Hardly anyone there.

Chris B.

go on - give it to Rabada!

canefan

@Canes4life said in T20 World Cup:

I thought the Indians were into their cricket. Hardly anyone there.

India not playing

Donsteppa

Why not Gurbaz on strike first in either over too...

Donsteppa

Greg Chappell would be losing his nerve about now.

Bones

Saffa commentator has been fucking awesome

Bones

Surely you charge. Come on man

Donsteppa

said in T20 World Cup:

Why not Gurbaz on strike first in either over too...

Still wondering about this...

Chris B.

@Donsteppa No idea why they thought 41 year old Nabi was a better option.

Chris B.

And...now I'm annoyed that they didn't do a countback of boundaries! 🙂

Bones

Chris is to Afghanistan what Booboo is to the black caps.

No Quarter

That will haunt Afghanistan as one that got away, plenty of chances to win that match. Great game to watch, some crazy drama at the end there.

Bones

Ireland properly stifling Aus. Could get interesting.

Bones

Irish player catches Stoinis and sacrifices his finger as it hits the eject button.

Virgil

England have lost to the Windies, things going bad to worse for Baz and Harry Brook

KiwiPie

@Virgil said in T20 World Cup:

England have lost to the Windies, things going bad to worse for Baz and Harry Brook

Will still qualify - unless they lose to Scotland of course.

Virgil

@KiwiPie said in T20 World Cup:

@Virgil said in T20 World Cup:

England have lost to the Windies, things going bad to worse for Baz and Harry Brook

Will still qualify - unless they lose to Scotland of course.

Pretty sure they are on the same side of the Super 8 draw as us.
Doesnt look to be alot to fear from them at the moment

MN5

@Virgil said in T20 World Cup:

England have lost to the Windies, things going bad to worse for Baz and Harry Brook

England have really missed a trick by not having Michael Pepper in the squad as an opener.

he'd go really well with one of the other batsmen particular.

Bones

@MN5 never heard of them. Maybe Lehman could make a comeback.

Chris B.

@Bones said in T20 World Cup:

Chris is to Afghanistan what Booboo is to the black caps.

Not sure I can take too much responsibility for that craziness! 🙂

The game was won and lost about 10 times.

Each teams' resolve not to lose, matched only by their determination not to win!

Canes4life

Anyone watching the Aussie v Zimbabwe game? Well Aussie are about to get their arses kicked. Aus need 29 off 6 balls and only have 1 wicket left.

Canes4life

Zimbabwe win by 23 runs. Whoop.

Chris B.

@Canes4life No!

Thank god I didn't witness the great Australians get their arses handed to them by Zimbabwe.... 😢

Bovidae

Did Head keep his shades on in the interview to hide the tears?

Dodge

i realise this is a sport forum, and we're all slightly weird, but genuine question, is anyone else you know aware that this tournament is taking place? I didn't know it had started until the day we lost to the Windies, didn't realise we'd already played a game, don't know when our next one is, haven't heard a single mention of it on tv, radio, even online. I've never cared about T20 but this feels even more ignored than usual.

I'm aware there was some noise about Pakistan and Bangladesh before the tournament as i listen to the Sky Cricket podcast but i don't really know what's happened. I have no idea how the tournament works (even though i had a look at the tables etc when i realised we were playing the Windies) and even if were winning, i would genuinely have no interest in finding out.

Genuinely curious if this is just a me thing, a UK phenomenon or whether this is true in other cricketing nations.

Bones

@Dodge first day of treatment a couple of weeks ago, as soon as he heard my accent about the second thing one of the techs said was "are you a cricket fan?".

One guess as to where he was from though.

Virgil

@Dodge said in T20 World Cup:

i realise this is a sport forum, and we're all slightly weird, but genuine question, is anyone else you know aware that this tournament is taking place? I didn't know it had started until the day we lost to the Windies, didn't realise we'd already played a game, don't know when our next one is, haven't heard a single mention of it on tv, radio, even online. I've never cared about T20 but this feels even more ignored than usual.

I'm aware there was some noise about Pakistan and Bangladesh before the tournament as i listen to the Sky Cricket podcast but i don't really know what's happened. I have no idea how the tournament works (even though i had a look at the tables etc when i realised we were playing the Windies) and even if were winning, i would genuinely have no interest in finding out.

Genuinely curious if this is just a me thing, a UK phenomenon or whether this is true in other cricketing nations.

Doesn’t help with the over saturation of T20 cricket especially the world cups. It’s not even been 2 years since the previous one. It’s about money it’s not about glory or being a special event looked forward to

nzzp

@Chris-B. said in T20 World Cup:

@Canes4life No!

Thank god I didn't witness the great Australians get their arses handed to them by Zimbabwe.... 😢

Fun fact!

Australia are 0-2 against Zimbabwe in t20 tournaments

Donsteppa

@Dodge said in T20 World Cup:

i realise this is a sport forum, and we're all slightly weird, but genuine question, is anyone else you know aware that this tournament is taking place? I didn't know it had started until the day we lost to the Windies, didn't realise we'd already played a game, don't know when our next one is, haven't heard a single mention of it on tv, radio, even online. I've never cared about T20 but this feels even more ignored than usual.

I'm aware there was some noise about Pakistan and Bangladesh before the tournament as i listen to the Sky Cricket podcast but i don't really know what's happened. I have no idea how the tournament works (even though i had a look at the tables etc when i realised we were playing the Windies) and even if were winning, i would genuinely have no interest in finding out.

Genuinely curious if this is just a me thing, a UK phenomenon or whether this is true in other cricketing nations.

Was aware, but I'm not 100% sure if I would have been aware and as engaged without a mad keen 12 year old fan in the house.

Donsteppa

I did read a harsh but fair comment on the ABC Facebook page:

"The Loch Ness Monster has been sighted more times than Cam Green"

No Quarter

In the series against India in the leadup to the WC, I was far more interested in the ODI results than the T20 results. I still value that form of the game more, you need a better all round team to win. I've been watching a bit of this WC as the times of the first game are good, though there are a lot of shit games it seems. The finals should be better viewing.

Smudge

@Bones said in T20 World Cup:

@Dodge first day of treatment a couple of weeks ago, as soon as he heard my accent about the second thing one of the techs said was "are you a cricket fan?".

One guess as to where he was from though.

Sao Tome and Principe?