Been less than stellar for the Poms.
And the impact of being rolled comprehensively by NED doesn’t fade in a week.
3.5 hours of the commentators talking about what a difficult pitch this was to score on.
Did they have an exorcism at the innings break? India cruising at 71-0 off 11. Though there have been a lot of dog balls, there have also been 14 boundaries.
Pretty comfortable in the end. If it hadn’t been, Kohli would have been there at the finish.
I couldn’t watch the end of the game, but at one point Kohli was on 77 with (I think) 27 required. I wondered if they were going to fart around with getting him his hundred. In the end he was out for 95 with 5 required to win, so he did score 18 of the intervening 22.
Were they actually trying to get him to 100? Seems risky.
Yeah, they both turned down a couple of singles to give him the chance to get a 6 and clinch the win and the ton.
He holed out trying, which is honestly no more than he deserved.
Someone told me at 71-0 not to worry. I’m now officially worrying.
Hey, Afghanistan are a tough team to beat.
On live betting Afghanistan is 81%.
Rahmat is cramping up and the ask is back over 6 an over, he says, dancing through the thread scattering Hope like some malevolent minor Greek deity.
They are treating Afridi like a schoolboy now.
I can’t believe that there isn’t more scrutiny with that type of selfish decision. I thought it was pretty risky, with only India’s last 2 legitimate batters still batting. Shouldn’t the goal be to close the game out as risk-free as possible? In the end, I was glad he was caught, and the risk of a collapse at the point was minuscule.
During today’s game, they described Pakistan as Afghanistan’s “biggest rival”. Obviously the history is one-sided, but the announcers made it a point to say that beating Pakistan would be Afghanistan’s biggest victory.
Is there more to this rivalry than the countries simply being neighbors? I know many Afghan players play in the PSL (along with every other major cricket league), so it can’t be like an India-Pakistan rivalry.
It’s like Zimbabwe-South Africa or Ireland-England.
Where the “smaller” country’s national team might be considered to be at the level of the first class teams in thd “bigger” country.
After 22 matches, I can’t remember any close finishes. I mean a game where the result was in doubt with three overs to go. BBC described yesterday’s match as a thriller, but Afghanistan were nailed on by the 45th over if not sooner.
They’ve got to stop letting these weaker teams in.
I have to say, as a showcase for ODI cricket it’s a great advert for T20 and Test.
There are some WC where I wish I’d sprung for a monthly Sky Cricket subscription but this isn’t one.
Thanks to the Bangladesh lower order showing some resistance, England still own the two biggest thrashings of the World Cup.
Not any more!
Pretty emphatic from Australia, and from Maxwell in particular. Especially because we’ve established that while NED aren’t in the same tier, they’re still solid professionals.
England flexing that they bat down to #11 by giving everyone a change for a hit.
The horror of this tournament for England fans and players alike is that it is going to keep dragging on long past this, the point where everyone would just rather stop thank you very much.
Can you just change out the whole team and send some county second XI guys out for the next game?