Champions Trophy - England and Wales 2013

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Jimmy ends up with 2 wickets for his troubles and Broad leads England with 3.

Its a funny game.

Finn is a world class pacer......a wicket taking bowler of highest quality.

Bresnan is a trundler.........a world class trundler....but a trundler neverthless

Eugh just faffing around out there, make a decision

Just do a bluddy 10 over game if we have to!

Just give us a bluddy game of bluddy cricket!

3:45 start. Just start it now. Madness.

24 over game.

It'll rain before 3:45 you can almost guarantee it

Why don't they just start it now. I just can't understand it.

3:45 start. 24 overs a side.

Agreed.  Why bother with 24 now, just say 20 and leave some spare time.

Why they don't get right to it I will never know.

England have experience of 24 over cricket in this tournament, when they beat New Zealand in the groups. 169 was enough for England to win that game.

Sounds like KP is having some fun up at Leeds, 101* off 110 balls thus far. 12 fours and 2 sixes. Are you watching Australia?

Ah, it's raining now. 

Let's call it off, and have a shared trophy. The forecast is lovely for tomorrow as well.

Rain is back. This time wasting is a bit of a joke.

Need to be playing in a hour. Just about time to call it and go home

Covers on.  

Given the stupid delays to start the game it's safe to say its over and the trophy is shared I'd guess.

No reserve days is a bit silly but hindsight is 20/20 I guess. 2/15 matches unable to finish isnt bad.

The bloody rain's back, and hopes fast fading for any cricket today.

Just getting ready to celebrate our first 50 over trophy now (all 50% of it!)

Duty281 wrote:England have experience of 24 over cricket in this tournament, when they beat New Zealand in the groups. 169 was enough for England to win that game.

Sounds like KP is having some fun up at Leeds, 101* off 110 balls thus far. 12 fours and 2 sixes. Are you watching Australia?

yes they badly need KP....without whom even NZ are hard to beat for this english side

Frak SAKE!

Is there any chance, they can make a 5/10 over game?

NickisBHAFC wrote:Frak SAKE!

Is there any chance, they can make a 5/10 over game?

Let's just get everyone inside. 11 games of Fifa, 1 v 1. That should sort it.

No

Minimum 20 a side to constitute a game.

Going by the 45 minute gap from the last inspection to start of play, thats it.

Yep, it must be.

Yeah we ain't getting a game

Not really sure why they couldn't push back the T20 games a day, so they could have a reserve day. But hey ho

Think they should decide it with an indoor bowl off. Imagine the drama!

Kp going well in his game.  Lets hope he can come back against NZ.

Covers coming off.

Now if the bloody umpire can get a toddle on then maybe we can get a game?  Any disruption after start and it is done though.  But they say its clearing in the distance!

Lets have a game of sevens rugby to settle this.  Rain no worry then.

30 minutes left. 

T20 bash-a-thon starts at 4:20. The very last chance, the very last hope.

They are cleared to start at 4:20, no more delays.  Rain permitting of course.

The rain has stopped again, don't know for how long. The latest news is that there could be a T-20, starting at 4 20 UK time.
Well whatever........

You should be happy msp.  Who are better than India at this?

England to win their first 50-over trophy after winning a 20-over game? Interesting. Nasser optimistic about the weather.

Nas reckon we will get a game. It looks clear now.

Hope England shuffle their order.

Cook, Bell, Morgan, Root, Buttler, Bopara, Bresnan, Broad, Tredwell, Trott, Anderson.

Duty281 wrote:Hope England shuffle their order.

Cook, Bell, Morgan, Root, Buttler, Bopara, Bresnan, Broad, Tredwell, Trott, Anderson.

I think the order will depend on what score they're chasing.

I think Bell/Trott showed in that NZ game they will either hit out or get out. Trott's a better T20 player than people give him credit for

didn't Trott make his England debut in T20?

The stupid rain hasn't restarted as yet, and we are a good 14 minutes away from the proposed start. , Guys at cricinfo are starting to hope. Should we also think of the same?

Trott's 20 over career for England:

http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/47623.html?class=3;template=results;type=batting;view=innings

Back in 2009 i think it was, Trott was the lading run scorer in the t20 domestic game.

Looks good msp but can change quickly here.

trebellbobaggins wrote:You should be happy msp.  Who are better than India at this?

Not too sure trebs. India do have the batting strength, but by bowling first England can limit that to a great extent. The likes of Ravindra Jadeja with the ball are more effective when he has overs to play with. Again, the start's going to be very important. If Rohit Sharma and Shikhar Dhawan get off to a decent start, the likes of Kohli, Dhoni and Raina can then cash in. But if there are early wickets, England could control the tempo of the innings, and knowing their target, they can put in the right strategies.

Looks like pretty nice weather at the moment MSP, and they've said throughout the weather is fine late afternoon/evening

What could be a par score here?

Olly wrote:Looks like pretty nice weather at the moment MSP, and they've said throughout the weather is fine late afternoon/evening

Good news that.

Post number 5500 - I think that's a milestone - and time for England to end 38 years of hurt.

Come on England!