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This is looking a bit worrying, at 20 overs. The wicket is stone dead.
Gerrin! Woakes! Thank god for that.
 
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We should win this now. I don’t see the point of Livingstone. He and Curran are currently offering very little to the team.
 
Aidan11 said:
We should win this. More than 8 an over required with very little batting left.
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Need to strangle the rate some more to get our NRR back into the positive.

I'm sure we need them to end their innings with a run rate of 5.12 or less to get back into a positive NRR

That will help
 
SAFC11 said:
Rashid hasn't looked overly threatening from what I've seen today
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I think he'll retire soon. Hasn't had the zip with his googly for a while. Need to blood a young un sooner rather than later.

I mean, it might just be the wicket :lol: rather than a noticeable decline in ability.
 
Nasser Butt-Head said:
I think he'll retire soon. Hasn't had the zip with his googly for a while. Need to blood a young un sooner rather than later.

I mean, it might just be the wicket :lol: rather than a noticeable decline in ability.
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Think him and Ali will call it a day from ODI's after this, then retire after the T20 World Cup next year
Stokes and Willey in for Brook and Curran next match for me
 
Shrew said:
In the black again now?
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Yeah I pretty much understand NRR now

It's got nothing to do with margin of victory which I always thought it was, it's just your teams run rate minus the oppositions.

So our RR was 2.59 better than Bangladesh and our was 2.14 worse than NZ the other day.

So our NRR should be 0.45, but they must round up and keep RR to 2 decimal points. As on cricinfo table we were -2.149 and now 0.553
 
That was a very good win, against a potentially difficult opponent. Most things came off today.
 
Hyltons finest said:
Was this you @Paddy O'Dors ?
Sorry just seen you’ve said you don’t have a Sunderland top on
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Nor, saving me Sunderland shirt for Delhi next week.

First time at a cricket match in India, lovely ground but a bit of a shite experience (apart from the result). Got to the ground down a narrow back lane and crossed a school playground with a load of bemused kids watching us. Very strict entry into the ground, all you could take in was a phone, paper notes only (nee coins, the beggars done well with the ones thrown away), sunglasses and flags.

No alcohol on sale, expensive coke in its place. Very few England and slightly more Bangladesh fans. Lots of school kids on free tickets but they all had to nash off at about 4pm which made the ground look empty. Lots of feral Indian fans who just turned up just to goad the Bangladeshis.

Game was an improvement on last week but still some poor individual performances. Woakes is never an opening bowler, Curran looked sloppy and not threatening, Wood looked tidy but not threatening. Livingstone looked decent bowling but it was at their tail end tbf. Was odd watching him at gully doing theatrical dives to a straightforward stop. A collapse at 300 is better than a collapse at 150 tbf. If you've got that many on the board with 3 down and 10 over left you might as well have a bit of a go imho. Some times it comes of, sometimes it doesn't.

Next stop Delhi (via Amritsar and a bit of sightseeing). Namaste.
 
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