Off Topic Cricket Thread
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Kiwi is living the dream.
Top of the Prediction thread, top of the Cricket thread, you da man!
Top of the Prediction thread, top of the Cricket thread, you da man!
More difficult now, but England will still make the semis. India, NZ and Pakistan for the other three.
Pakistan have just beaten The Netherlands by 81 runs. It was a much better match than I'd anticipated with the Dutch bowling and fielding well, but their batting faded at the back end of the innings and at one point I thought they could make it.
India v Australia on Sunday should be tasty, see England v Bangladesh on Tuesday starts at 5.30am our time ! Marvelous
Have to say and it's not just because England lost and, as I think Stan said, I'm a bit exhausted with all these tournaments.
Probably watch though!
Just been looking at the fixtures. At one or two games a day in this format the thing is going to last forever. Lots of gimme games and not enough jeopardy early on.
I think they need to expand the cricket to grow the sport (also the rugby) if it’s to grow. We are missing Ireland Scotland for a start who are getting better. Make it four groups of four or two groups of six for a start, top four going on to a quarter final, lesser nations will only get better with better opponents.
The demise of the West Indies is off the scale. The winners of the first 2 World Cups and now can't even get through qualifying to take part in the finals ! When I watched the likes of Richards, Greenidge, Lloyd and all those ferocious quicks, I could never have dreamed that they'd be a World Cup with Holland in it but no West Indies !
Hard to avoid some "gimme games", but I think there's plenty of jeopardy with all the top nations having to play each other.
There's a helluva lot more jeopardy in these games than 75% of the Rugby group games !