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Discussion in 'Southampton' started by TheSecondStain, Apr 11, 2016.

  1. tomw24

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    Final will be well worth watching regardless of who wins tomorrow. Either England will be in it or it will be Pakistan v India. Either way, going to be great.
     
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    Had no doubt Pakistan would beat NZ. Not sure about our SF. We seem a bit hit & miss at the mo & we’ll definitely need to be on it to win.
     
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    Nice, Rahul out early.
     
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    Needed to start well as India will accelerate later
     
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    Yadav gone - huge wicket!
     
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    I think India have had the rub with regards to hitting balls in the air just dropping short or wide of catchers.
    Would like to see Kohli out sooner than later.
     
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    And here we go. We had been on top until this over, Jordan at risk of letting them right back into this.
     
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    True but last over he was an umpire’s call away from getting Kohli out.
     
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    Kohli's gone.
     
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    I'll be honest I'm not confident at all England will chase this.
     
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    Let it slip at the end. We had them 100-3 after 15 overs and they managed to score 68 off the last 5.

    Sadly I can't see us chasing this now.
     
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    I wonder if those 4 missed runs will cost India there? Pandya hit the ball to the fence but trod on his stumps! Careless.
     
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    Brilliant start from England with the bat. Making great ground into the target.

    By no means will this be easy from here though. We tend to do the opposite of India in that we start well, and then let the pressure get to is later in the innings.
     
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    PP so important and England recognise that.
     
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    Brilliant PP from England. Same as the SL game. But we can't afford to do what we did against SL after that.
     
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    That all run 4 was laugh out loud stuff.
     
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    India under pressure.
     
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    Hales playing the innings of his life here.
     
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    Serious statement England are sending out here.
     
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