Thankfully the forecast for the England and Scotland games at the weekend is good. So now our fate lies in Australia's hands. ****.
And Josh Hazlewood has “floated the idea that Australia could “knock it around and drag it out” in the final group match against Scotland to boost their opponents’ net run-rate – and help England towards the exit in the process.” Probably a joke but he also said “We’ve had some real struggles against England in T20 cricket, so if we can get them out of the tournament, that’s in our best interest as well as probably everyone else’s.” I think his comments probably mean that the Aussies will have to go for it for fear of being accused of breaching “Article 2.11 which is intended to prevent the manipulation of international matches for inappropriate strategic or tactical reasons.”
I’m struggling to work out why that is our run rate. Any help with the calculations? I read up on NRR online but still can’t match what the group table says…
We've scored 215 runs from 139 balls faced. Which is 1.54676 per ball. We've conceded 248 runs from 240 balls bowled. Which is 1.03333 per ball. 1.54676 - 1.0333 = 0.51346 per ball - or 3.08076 per over. The 90 balls bowled in the Scotland game aren't included, because the match was abandoned. And because we bowled out Oman, we're deemed to have bowled the full 120 balls.
