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  • #61
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    Originally posted by the other bob wilson View Post
    this must be one of the feeblest title defences ever..
    So has the 100 been a success then??

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    • #62
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      All of the commentators saying that Woakes was out, but I don’t think it should be the third umpire’s decision to make when the images he’s looking at are so blurred.

      Yet another bad shot though - you’d think England would need to double their current score of 124-7 to have a chance.

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      • #63
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        Originally posted by fugsyphil View Post
        So has the 100 been a success then??
        I think the answer to that depends on how much money it makes if you’re the ECB, but, on cricket grounds, I’ll never be convinced it was needed.

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        • #64
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          Originally posted by the other bob wilson View Post
          I think the answer to that depends on how much money it makes if you’re the ECB, but, on cricket grounds, I’ll never be convinced it was needed.
          Totally agree with you there, it's added nothing to the game but it does bring the funds in

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          • #65
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            A farcical run out now, it goes from bad to worse.

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            • #66
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              last wicket sums up a team that thinks they are unbeatable

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              • #67
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                Originally posted by fugsyphil View Post
                Totally agree with you there, it's added nothing to the game but it does bring the funds in
                thats all it does, as far as cricket it does nothing, franchise will kill the game unless something changes

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                • #68
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                  After the last game I didn't think it could get any worse but it just has. Total lack of application and apparent total disinterest in winning the game. All this against one of the poorest sides in the world. Over to the bowlers but don't hold your breath. Over within 25 overs would be my guess.

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                  • #69
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                    Wow , England’s XI who played Sri Lanka at the 2019 World Cup, eight of the players are participating in this match

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                    • #70
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                      Originally posted by TWGL1 View Post
                      Wow , England’s XI who played Sri Lanka at the 2019 World Cup, eight of the players are participating in this match
                      No one under 30 in the side today and the ‘future of England cricket’, Harry Brooks, dropped. Atkinson left out as well. Inept managing, captaining and tactics. Really there needs to be a big clear out - Malan, Ali, Woakes, Curran, need to go immediately.

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                      • #71
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                        Originally posted by dml1954 View Post
                        No one under 30 in the side today and the ‘future of England cricket’, Harry Brooks, dropped. Atkinson left out as well. Inept managing, captaining and tactics. Really there needs to be a big clear out - Malan, Ali, Woakes, Curran, need to go immediately.
                        Seems like this team are all too friendly with Stokes/Butler and get picked because they’re mates rather than ability. As if Woakes , Curran and Ali would bowl any team out in the sub continent

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                        • #72
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                          Thank goodness we won 4-0 on Tuesday!

                          This tournament is going on far too long, with so many one-sided games, but I didn't expect England to be the victim of some of them! Superannuated and arrogant is the way they have played. Pathetic.

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                          • #73
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                            The experts on Sky were saying that England are just a good team experiencing a horrendous month with some saying that they would still back them to finish in the top four if the tournament was starting this morning. To me, that is the sort of arrogant and complacent thinking that has got England into the humiliating position they now find themselves in.

                            The lack of fifty over games played by England between 2019 and now is being offered up as an excuse for their failure by some within and outside of the England camp and yet they wasted so many of the games they played in the lead up to this tournament rotating their squad and including players who had no chance of making the party to India.

                            England made the fifty over game a priority about ten years ago, but, having made their way to the top by 2019, they've ignored it while presumably thinking they'd cracked it and the game would not evolve as it constantly does - since 2019, the pursuit of money through the Hundred seems to have been the priority.

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                            • #74
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                              Finally, an exciting game.- South Africa need twenty one to beat Pakistan with two wickets and plenty of overs left.

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                              • #75
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                                Originally posted by the other bob wilson View Post
                                The experts on Sky were saying that England are just a good team experiencing a horrendous month with some saying that they would still back them to finish in the top four if the tournament was starting this morning. To me, that is the sort of arrogant and complacent thinking that has got England into the humiliating position they now find themselves in.

                                The lack of fifty over games played by England between 2019 and now is being offered up as an excuse for their failure by some within and outside of the England camp and yet they wasted so many of the games they played in the lead up to this tournament rotating their squad and including players who had no chance of making the party to India.

                                England made the fifty over game a priority about ten years ago, but, having made their way to the top by 2019, they've ignored it while presumably thinking they'd cracked it and the game would not evolve as it constantly does - since 2019, the pursuit of money through the Hundred seems to have been the priority.
                                When players play more T20 or Hundred cricket, then move to play 50 over games their mindset is still on the shorter formats. 50 overs gives batters time to play themselves in but they just haven't been doing that.
                                Yes, great game at last. 1 wkt or 11 runs.

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