Milfner Posted November 1, 2022 Author Share Posted November 1, 2022 1 minute ago, Rodders said: need to bowl much better than against Ireland. If we do that, it's a tough total for NZ to get. But, it's win or bust for us now Such a huge advantage batting first in this tournament. Pace off constantly and we should be fine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Woakes with the first wicket, a much better start for him here. Good stuff. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kiwivillan Posted November 1, 2022 Share Posted November 1, 2022 Williamson terrible bowling rotations. Boult 1 early over when looked most threatening. Williamson awful batting all tournament. Too slow chasing big run rate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted November 4, 2022 Author Share Posted November 4, 2022 (edited) Australia need to skittle Afghanistan for 118 or less to leapfrog England on net run rate. They're already 38-1 off 5. Looks very much like any sort of win will get England into the semis. India have Zimbabwe on Sunday so it looks likely we'll be playing them in the semis if we beat Sri Lanka. Edited November 4, 2022 by Milfner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 (edited) Come on England ! As I've been an insomniac for years and as I'm in Chile I can't follow our upcoming match v Sri Lanka as it starts at 4am Chilean time, boooo! :s So I'll probably be woken up at about 7 or 8 by some noise or other, maybe a dog, and I'll go on the BBC website and suddenly read 'England in semis' or 'England knocked out'. The suspense as I'm waitng for the page to load! :s Edited November 5, 2022 by robby b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Sri Lanka have gotten off to a fast start. Hope we don't regret those big overs like we did v Ireland. A couple fo wickets for us at least but need a couple of back to back quiet overs 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Done really well to drag the score back, hopefully a solid last two overs and it won’t be too difficult a score to chase down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Was looking ominous after the first 6-8 overs. We’re well in this now though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted November 5, 2022 Author Share Posted November 5, 2022 Incredible comeback to be only chasing 142. 60 off the last 10, 25 off the last 5. Looked like they were nailed on for 180 at halfway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Come on England ! (A motorbike just woke me up). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 That bowling in the second 10 overs was superb from England, Curran and Rashid in particular. Now Hales and Buttler have done 80%of the work now. Just take it easy now, nothing stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted November 5, 2022 Author Share Posted November 5, 2022 (edited) What the **** is this. Livingstone has to be the most situationally unaware batsman I've ever seen. Expected better from Brook too, reverse sweeping on his second ball and didn't last much longer. Edited November 5, 2022 by Milfner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Absolute shit from livingstone Brook and mo. Mo is worse as two wickets had already gone down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Far far nervier than it should have been 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robby b Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Phew! How close was that in the end?! We'll have to play much better on both the semi and the final. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 We probably will tbf. We seem to oscillate between great and poor and we play better against the bigger sides but need to have the attention fully on. Will say that Stokes at least showed why he deserved to be dropped in to the t20 side. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milfner Posted November 5, 2022 Author Share Posted November 5, 2022 He played the Malan role very well. Be interesting to see who replaces him for the semi-final. You would assume he's out considering he didn't bat then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodders Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Phil Salt could come straight in. He was a bit unlucky to be dropped. Bring him in at 3 I'd have thought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sharkyvilla Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 28 minutes ago, Milfner said: He played the Malan role very well. Be interesting to see who replaces him for the semi-final. You would assume he's out considering he didn't bat then. Looks like Salt is the spare batsman but a very different player to Malan, I suspect he will come in and they will just rejig the order according to the situation. Stokes showed his value in the big games today without looking in great knick. There seems to have been an advantage batting first at Sydney so I wasn't surprised it got pretty tight towards the end. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bannedfromHandV Posted November 5, 2022 Share Posted November 5, 2022 Made hard work of it again but this hasn’t been a tournament of big scores Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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