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Sandemaniac
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While I'm impressed by Broad's bowling, and enjoying us winning away from home, I can't help feeling that when a game ends in three days I'm being done out of two days listening...
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Mr Clingford
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Now that is amazingly diabolical batting by India. Monumental cock-up.
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Sioni Sais
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Now that is amazingly diabolical batting by India. Monumental cock-up.
It takes some special to lose like that even against Australia. Three lions on your shirt are usually required.
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Mr Clingford
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We taught them everything they know?!
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New Zealand prepared a green top wicket in Wellington to suit their good swing bowlers, but unfortunately for them lost the toss and had to bat first. Result 50/5 after an hour or so of day 1 and all out for 183. After Australia lost two quick wickets , still on day 1, the pitch eased and they kept batting: 463/6 at stumps on day 2. It will take a massive third innings by NZ to save the match, but Wellington has seem a few of those. McCullum made 300 here a year or two back!
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Welease Woderwick
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This may seem a bit out of my usual line but I'm really, really pleased that West Indies won the Under 19s World Cup - a resurgence of the Windies canonly be good for the game globally.
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So do the big three just roll over and go to sleep when they put their pajamas on?
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Mr Clingford
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I know it's just not cricket, but, bloody hell, England won chasing 230.
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Welease Woderwick
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I was telling all and sundry here that England had no chance against the Proteas and that I wasn't even bothering to stay up to watch their innings - and I at there spellbound as they did it!
Is Joe Root good or what?
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Sioni Sais
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I was telling all and sundry here that England had no chance against the Proteas and that I wasn't even bothering to stay up to watch their innings - and I at there spellbound as they did it!
Is Joe Root good or what?
Nasser Hussein was on TV this evening proclaiming Root as our best ever, over all three forms. That conveniently ignores the greats of the past. From what I've read Wally Hammond and Denis Compton would have loved ODIs and T20s. There are probably a dozen others besides, but Root is very good.
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Welease Woderwick
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Peter May would have had fun over the shorter formats, and possibly even Fiery Fred.
Bangladesh made a bit of a pig's ear of it last night, sad about that as my perfect semi-final line-up would be India [of course], Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh with the trophy going to India [of course].
Ah well, one can dream!
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Mr Clingford
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Sandemaniac
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That funny smell.... might it have been a nation of over a billion people all bricking themselves at once?
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Sioni Sais
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England's was a worry but ......
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Welease Woderwick
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It was quite a game, we were on the edges of our seats. How many times has the third umpire been called upon to adjudicate on the last ball of a game? I'm not sure my heart would stand many more finishes as close as that.
The men's game has a day off today so we can all recover a bit.
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Barnabas62
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And .... England almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against Sri Lanka. But we won and will now play New Zealand in the semis. And base on what I've seen so far, that will be as far as we get.
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Nail-biter. Our spinners were literally murdered.
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Do we have a fifth pace bowler we could put in for Rashid?
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Sioni Sais
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That's what happens. On some pitches slow bowlers are exactly what you need, on others you need more quicks. As far as today's match would Reece Topley have done better than Moeen or Adil Rashid?
What would have helped would have been another bowler able to put it in the blockhole, like Chris Jordan.
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Welease Woderwick
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Tonight India play Australia with a place in the semis as the prize - could be fun depending on which teams turn up.
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Mr Clingford
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Go Afghanistan!
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Welease Woderwick
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That was a great match, Go Afghanistan indeed!
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Mr Clingford
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Kohli! Kohli! Kohli!
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Sandemaniac
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...and look at those figures, two sixes and nine fours in 82 off 51 - that's actually pretty old fashioned scoring, yet way over a run a ball.
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Welease Woderwick
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Still reeling a bit from last night's result - indeed two amazing games yesterday - very much worth the licence fee for the TV, except there isn't one here.
Today's final Super 10 match between South Africa and Sri Lanka is now quite meaningless but might be entertaining.
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Sioni Sais
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You might not believe it but here in England the first-class season gets underway on Thursday. Yes, that is first-class cricket in March. OK, it's university v county matches but for Pete's sake, cricket in March??
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Welease Woderwick
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Fielding might be difficult in wellies, an overcoat and snorkel!
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And .... England almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against Sri Lanka. But we won and will now play New Zealand in the semis. And base on what I've seen so far, that will be as far as we get.
But it wasn't! Great win by England, with overs to spare, against a much-favoured New Zealand team.
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Sioni Sais
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And .... England almost snatched defeat from the jaws of victory against Sri Lanka. But we won and will now play New Zealand in the semis. And base on what I've seen so far, that will be as far as we get.
But it wasn't! Great win by England, with overs to spare, against a much-favoured New Zealand team.
And on to the final. One of the joys of T20 is that in a one-off anything can happen.
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Uncle Pete
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Dammit. I sacrificed a virgin for NZ, and England decided to play. You know how difficult it is to find a virgin these day? Do you???
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It's not Proper Cricket™, but it can be quite fun.
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Welease Woderwick
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...and tonight's semi-final is India v West Indies - it sounds like fun.
What has happened to England that they have this sudden will to win? Very out of character.
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Sioni Sais
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Are New Zealand unlucky? That's two semi-finals they have lost ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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If it was England who'd lost two semi-finals, we'd be calling them bottlers.
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Welease Woderwick
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West Indies play England in the final so now the debate is on as to who I shall be shouting for - or for whom I shall be shouting.
It should be a good match.
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Turns out they're not a one-man team.
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I will be shouting for the Windies... but I can't find any more sacrificial virgins. They will have to win this on their own.
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Welease Woderwick
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The Windies managed it okay, it was a good match and if Simmons hadn't been out, twice, to no balls it might have been different - but then it might not - I think the toss actually determined the result.
Sunday I shall just enjoy the match, may the best team win.
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Welease Woderwick
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I'm sure I'm not the only Shippie cricket fan who can also lip read but it seems to me that all the cricket playing nations have adopted the same expletive for when things go wrong - here, where I live, there are 18 official languages [including English] but still all Indian players scream the same [basically English] word when something goes wrong - so do Pakistanis, Afghans, Sri Lankans and those from other non-English speaking nations.
So, not only did we give the world cricket, but we also passed on the word F**K!!
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Sioni Sais
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I'm sure I'm not the only Shippie cricket fan who can also lip read but it seems to me that all the cricket playing nations have adopted the same expletive for when things go wrong - here, where I live, there are 18 official languages [including English] but still all Indian players scream the same [basically English] word when something goes wrong - so do Pakistanis, Afghans, Sri Lankans and those from other non-English speaking nations.
So, not only did we give the world cricket, but we also passed on the word F**K!!
John Emburey, the Middlesex and England off-spinner, has to take some of the credit. He was heard to say "The f***ing f***er's f***ed" during a game. The phrase got into a movie (Reservoir Dogs?).
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Welease Woderwick
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That sounds so like him! He was quite a star and, of course, played for the finest county in the land!
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Nearly time - come on England!
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Sioni Sais
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Nearly time - come on England!
West Indies men are going to get such stick from their women's team if they don't do the double!
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Ouch!!!! And I thought England had done it. But then came Brathwaite.
A great, competitive, game deserved a dramatic ending, and it got one. Ben Stokes will just not know where to put himself.
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Welease Woderwick
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That was quite a final over! Well done Carlos Brathwaite and poor Ben Stokes!
West Indies Double Champions!
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Nearly time - come on England!
West Indies men are going to get such stick from their women's team if they don't do the double!
I'm sure that was in Brathwaite's mind when he faced the final over! Congratulations x 2 to West Indies!
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Congratulations times three: They won the U19 men's tournament as well!
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Welease Woderwick
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An upsurge in WI cricket has to be good for the global game!
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Sioni Sais
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Congratulations times three: They won the U19 men's tournament as well!
If they can sort out cricket administration in the Caribbean, just watch out!
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