ICC Champions Trophy 2025

Just started

Pakistan:
1 Fakhar Zaman, 2 Babar Azam, 3 Saud Shakeel, 4 Mohammad Rizwan (capt & wk), 5 Salman Ali Agha, 6 Tayyab Tahir, 7 Khushdil Shah, 8 Shaheen Shah Afridi, 9 Naseem Shah, 10 Haris Rauf, 11 Abrar Ahmed

NZ:
1 Will Young, 2 Devon Conway, 3 Kane Williamson, 4 Daryl Mitchell, 5 Tom Latham (wk), 6 Glenn Phillips, 7 Michael Bracewell, 8 Mitchell Santner (capt), 9 Matt Henry, 10 Nathan Smith, 11 Will O'Rourke

Pakistan chose to bowl first

A big opening partnership is a must. Currently 11/0 off 2.3 overs.

BCs 30/0 off 5 overs.

Conway and Williamson gone now. BCs in trouble. 40/2 off 8.1 overs.

Mitchell with a horror shot to match 10 (24).

Does Will Young have an IPL contract? He should, he loves batting on the subcontinent

Young certainly looks unfazed by the ball gripping on the deck. Going to have to get a move on because these conditions tend to favour the second batting side.

Young should have his ton already. Poor fielding and the boundary padding moved so pretty obvious 4, unsure why it wasn't called.

Wonderful hundred to Young

Well done Young. A great first up ton

Great 100 run partnership really good 100 by Young and 2nd 50 on the bounce for Latham on a difficult surface and under pressure from 3 down,these 2 have given us a shot at a decent score.

Latham very hit and miss for the last 3-4 overs. Not getting g the strike rotating either.

What a catch. That went high as.

Excellent innings by Young.

@ACT-Crusader said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

Latham very hit and miss for the last 3-4 overs. Not getting g the strike rotating either.

Difficult pitch
Taking spin
Holding up on the surface
Variable bounce especially at one end
Good luck scoring freely on a pitch like that
Latham has done very well to back up Young everyone else apart from these 2 so far has done fuck all.

Latham with a beauty of a 6 and then next ball completely miss times it and almost lobs one to mid off.

Phillips struggling to get timing on this pitch very hard to get a flow on this pitch.

Good from Phillips we need some boundaries push up to at least 275

Great stuff Latham 6 then a 4 putting some pressure back on the Pakis

300 up in the 49th over. Phillips with 50 off 34 balls and Latham gets his 100.

Brilliant knocks from Young 107 off 113
Latham 118 off 104
And great 60 off 39 by Phillips
Real chance with that score to start off with a win.

I ahhhh....I....nope.

Have mostly had it on mute, have the commentators referenced how much Pakistan are dominating, like they mentioned in the tri series?

Great result.

Amazing that warm up games may make a difference, who knew?

Good continuation of "under fire" batsmen scoring big runs.

@Chris said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

Great stuff Latham 6 then a 4 putting some pressure back on the Pakis

I can hear Bob Cunis' voice saying Pakis in commentary and being met with silence

@canefan said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@Chris said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

Great stuff Latham 6 then a 4 putting some pressure back on the Pakis

I can hear Bob Cunis' voice saying Pakis in commentary and being met with silence

Just as well Great Britain don't often get called the Brits. Imagine the furor!

Great effort after losing three quick wickets including Kane and Mitchell. Well done Young for keeping it together and then Latham for taking it deep. Given how hard it was to score, Phillip’s cameo was incredibly impressive to get the run rate moving too

That's a seriously impressive win first up. @Chris is right that pitch was not easy to bat on but we kept the runs flowing throughout. It feels so weird to say, but we are one of the best teams against spin in the world these days.

Pleased to be proven wrong by Latham. Given the lack of games in champions trophy format each individual game becomes so important so that's a huge century by him.

Excellent for Will Young to get a big score too.

Glenn Phillips doing Glenn Phillips things.

There is quite a large gap between games so hopefully can keep the momentum going.

@canefan said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@Chris said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

Great stuff Latham 6 then a 4 putting some pressure back on the Pakis

I can hear Bob Cunis' voice saying Pakis in commentary and being met with silence

Poor old Bob was on the receiving end of "This is Cunis at the Vauxhall End. Cunis, a funny sort of name: neither one thing nor the other."

Obviously, a huge win - beat Bangladesh and we're 9/10ths of the way into the semis, with a free swing against India. And already our fifth win on the trot.

Despite the prognostications of doom, we haven't fallen apart as our golden generation have departed.

We won this game with only three of the team that won the WTC - and Little Kane only contributed one run. Rachin, Sears and Ferguson on the injured list - but, we're able to send home for Big Kyle!

This sort of result would have been unimaginable in the low points of the Young Guns (early-mid-90s), late-90s, Dan Vettori as captain/coach/bus driver.

To the extent that it all traces back to Hesson replacing Rossco with BMac as captain - that's probably the greatest decision in NZ cricket history. (I think I was critical of it, because I thought BMac was a moron!)

@Chris-B said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

This sort of result would have been unimaginable in the low points of the Young Guns (early-mid-90s), late-90s, Dan Vettori as captain/coach/bus driver.

Lol I remember listening onthe radio to the Aussie commentators as Vettori came onto the field to bat and they were talking about his run scoring record and ability to hold the tail together as our top order (yet again) failed.

One of them said "He should come out to bat on a white horse". That lines stuck in my mind forever

Ah yes the batting of Vettori - he laid down a challenge to any bowler - no matter what delivery you come up with, fast or slow, full or short, I will find a way to wangle it down to third man.

@KiwiMurph said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

Pleased to be proven wrong by Latham. Given the lack of games in champions trophy format each individual game becomes so important so that's a huge century by him.

Don't think anyone really proven wrong, he had an extreme run of poor form across formats, but could not have found this form at a better time, certainly happy for him and NZ

@Chris-B said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

To the extent that it all traces back to Hesson replacing Rossco with BMac as captain - that's probably the greatest decision in NZ cricket history. (I think I was critical of it, because I thought BMac was a moron!)

I agree - one of the great appointments. The 'how' was utter shit though and could have been handled a lot better.

@Chris-B said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

I think I was critical of it, because I thought BMac was a moron!

this. i was furious for this exact reason.

fuck i love when i am that wrong.

@nzzp said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@Chris-B said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

To the extent that it all traces back to Hesson replacing Rossco with BMac as captain - that's probably the greatest decision in NZ cricket history. (I think I was critical of it, because I thought BMac was a moron!)

I agree - one of the great appointments. The 'how' was utter shit though and could have been handled a lot better.

Even the tastiest omelettes are made by breaking a few eggs. Lucky for us Rosco took the high road and stayed on

@canefan Ross is still one of my favourite Black Caps - just seems a thoroughly decent human being

@nzzp said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@canefan Ross is still one of my favourite Black Caps - just seems a thoroughly decent human being

Had a great last phase of his career, capped off with the WTC win

@canefan said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@nzzp said in ICC Champions Trophy 2025:

@canefan Ross is still one of my favourite Black Caps - just seems a thoroughly decent human being

Had a great last phase of his career, capped off with the WTC win

Third greatest black caps batsman ever. I did get pissed off on occasion with those slogs to cow corner but he was class. Held together a weak batting line up early in his career then quite deservedly got much more support from a succession of good players. Almost picked the perfect time to retire.

Would have made any international side in his era.