T20 World Cup

@African-Monkey said in T20 World Cup:

Soooo are Zimbabwe a dark horse?

Or Sri Lanka ensuring even no outside mathematical chance of Australia coming back

T20 clearly more chance at upsets in every game though

I wonder when the Aussies last had to play a dead rubber where they hadn't qualified the next stage.

@Cyclops said in T20 World Cup:

I wonder when the Aussies last had to play a dead rubber where they hadn't qualified the next stage.

Had a quick look, one instance looked to be the ODI WC in 1992
They missed out on getting out of the group stage even before playing their last game against the Windies

All of our Super 8 games are at 2:30am which is pretty stink

@Virgil said in T20 World Cup:

@Cyclops said in T20 World Cup:

I wonder when the Aussies last had to play a dead rubber where they hadn't qualified the next stage.

Had a quick look, one instance looked to be the ODI WC in 1992
They missed out on getting out of the group stage even before playing their last game against the Windies

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I was at Lancaster Park watching NZ lose to Pakistan in our last pool game. We had to win for Australia to still have a mathematical chance of qualifying for the play-offs, so once it became obvious we were going to lose, the crowd started chanting "Goodbye to Aussie", eventually followed by "Aussies are w__kers" as our creativity shone through...

@Godder said in T20 World Cup:

@Virgil said in T20 World Cup:

@Cyclops said in T20 World Cup:

I wonder when the Aussies last had to play a dead rubber where they hadn't qualified the next stage.

Had a quick look, one instance looked to be the ODI WC in 1992
They missed out on getting out of the group stage even before playing their last game against the Windies

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I was at Lancaster Park watching NZ lose to Pakistan in our last pool game. We had to win for Australia to still have a mathematical chance of qualifying for the play-offs, so once it became obvious we were going to lose, the crowd started chanting "Goodbye to Aussie", eventually followed by "Aussies are w__kers" as our creativity shone through...

I don't remember us losing to Pakistan in the pool. I can't forget us losing to them in the SF

Looking forward to game later, lucky that this week I’m in the right Timezone for it. Tariq will be an interesting proposition for us since we haven’t faced this mutant yet

@canefan said in T20 World Cup:

@Godder said in T20 World Cup:

@Virgil said in T20 World Cup:

@Cyclops said in T20 World Cup:

I wonder when the Aussies last had to play a dead rubber where they hadn't qualified the next stage.

Had a quick look, one instance looked to be the ODI WC in 1992
They missed out on getting out of the group stage even before playing their last game against the Windies

View embedded content

I was at Lancaster Park watching NZ lose to Pakistan in our last pool game. We had to win for Australia to still have a mathematical chance of qualifying for the play-offs, so once it became obvious we were going to lose, the crowd started chanting "Goodbye to Aussie", eventually followed by "Aussies are w__kers" as our creativity shone through...

I don't remember us losing to Pakistan in the pool. I can't forget us losing to them in the SF

We lost to them two games in a row!

I remember there being discussion that we should throw the pool game against Pakistan to knock out the Aussies, pretty sure we didn't throw that pool game though.

@LABCAT said in T20 World Cup:

@canefan said in T20 World Cup:

@Godder said in T20 World Cup:

@Virgil said in T20 World Cup:

@Cyclops said in T20 World Cup:

I wonder when the Aussies last had to play a dead rubber where they hadn't qualified the next stage.

Had a quick look, one instance looked to be the ODI WC in 1992
They missed out on getting out of the group stage even before playing their last game against the Windies

View embedded content

I was at Lancaster Park watching NZ lose to Pakistan in our last pool game. We had to win for Australia to still have a mathematical chance of qualifying for the play-offs, so once it became obvious we were going to lose, the crowd started chanting "Goodbye to Aussie", eventually followed by "Aussies are w__kers" as our creativity shone through...

I don't remember us losing to Pakistan in the pool. I can't forget us losing to them in the SF

We lost to them two games in a row!

I remember there being discussion that we should throw the pool game against Pakistan to knock out the Aussies, pretty sure we didn't throw that pool game though.

I remember thinking we could win the SF until Martin Crowe went down, and Inzamam Ul Haq took the game away from us

@canefan

Still not over that. Tears on the terraces.
Lord’s 2019 did not help.
Avoiding all future WC semis/finals. Unless selected to play

Mike Hesson coached Pakistan … surely the fall guy if NZ get up . Getting close to kick off not sure if we get Ferguson back yet

Just reading square under cover although not much rain about hopefully no delays

No problems with square toss incoming Pakistan win soggy biscuit and bat first

There is some light drizzle

Rain delay but unknown how long

Saturday afternoon fucking ruined, now I have to watch England and Norwich.

Sooo rain still heavy and if we do start we start losing overs

@bayimports said in T20 World Cup:

Sooo rain still heavy and if we do start we start losing overs

Guessing that doesn't really play into our hands with our inability to get wickets?

@Bones said in T20 World Cup:

@bayimports said in T20 World Cup:

Sooo rain still heavy and if we do start we start losing overs

Guessing that doesn't really play into our hands with our inability to get wickets?

I’m guessing washout preferred now taking a point against Pakistan in this group could still be useful

Match officially abandoned