2014 World Cup T20 Live Matches Thread

[KP_fan]

First topic message reminder :

World T20 has started again...seems  like a few months back WI won it........
I think this will be turned into a 4 year event...and rightly so.

so far:

--BD beat Afghanistan........avenging their Asia cup defeat...and BD were talking up the win as if it's an achievement......well maybe it is...shows where they have set their bar or expectations. I can't be excited watching or following such a game.

--Nepal beat Hongkong.......is this a surprise ?...I have no clue where / how either of these teams stand?....and no interest either.

--and the big upset IRE beat Zim off the last ball...and that too without their stars Morgan and Boyd Rankin

[JDizzle]

Why does Kusal still have his pads on? Like me after a bad decision.   

[Biltong]

Does anyone know on what runs he was dropped on?

[Pal Joey]

Does anyone know on what runs he was dropped on?

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[kingraf]

Sorry mate, but there's a frame missing (at least on my feed) and I think the ball is close enough to the ground between frames to raise doubts. Like I said, it's probably out but I've seen those reversed.

Also - Saffer marahJohanna is probably too strong a riefer for ya.

[kingraf]

Dernbach really is awful

[Mad for Chelsea]

someone caught one

[JDizzle]

Does anyone know on what runs he was dropped on?

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Na, he was caught on 0.   

Then dropped 2 or 3 times since then I think. I can't remember who was dropped, Jaya or Dilshan.

[guildfordbat]

I know that's the rational thought, but I've seen it happen plenty of times. Ultimately cricketers (and all sportsmen) are human beings, with human (emotional responses). Of course sometimes it goes the other way, and you use that sense of injustice to fuel your performance. what I have noticed is that it's very rarely a case of "everything back to normal again".

Mad - that's fair comment. I do though feel we've played so badly since the Davis decision that we have ourselves to blame more than him.

Particularly through his body language, Broad tends to wear his heart on his sleeve. I think a quieter, calmer approach is sometimes better and certainly might have been so here. We've never really looked in it since the Davis decision.

[Mad for Chelsea]

Sorry mate, but there's a frame missing (at least on my feed) and I think the ball is close enough to the ground between frames to raise doubts. Like I said, it's probably out but I've seen those reversed.

Also - Saffer marahJohanna is probably too strong a riefer for ya.

I drank something called stroh rhum or summat once, I think that's vaguely South African (at least it was the Saffers at our club who brought it in), never again

maybe you didn't get the right replay, there was one where you can actually see a gap between the ball and the ground when it goes into the fingers.

[Mad for Chelsea]

no idea why Dernbach is bowling slower balls to Perrera, that's just stupid

[Mad for Chelsea]

someone else caught one

[Mad for Chelsea]

Does anyone know on what runs he was dropped on?

Jaya was dropped by Dernbach when he was on not-very-many (I think 19), Dilshan was dropped by Bresnan when he hadn't made many either, then Jaya was dropped again by Bresnan when he'd already got to 70 or so.

[kingraf]

Stroh rum is Austrian, but for some reason... we do love it over here.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

So reckon we'll get within 50 then chaps?

[Mad for Chelsea]

So reckon we'll get within 50 then chaps?

we're going to win, Hales to make a century

[guildfordbat]

So reckon we'll get within 50 then chaps?

Tha's a cracking question. Think we will but it'll be very close on that basis!

[Mad for Chelsea]

on a side-note, 2 hours to bowl 20 overs is a little ridiculous...

[JDizzle]

Malinga will be tougher than normal to play with the ball skidding on. If we try and sweep Mendis and Senanayake (sp.), it could be carnage.

[Mad for Chelsea]

well bowled Jordan, lovely over

[Mad for Chelsea]

Malinga will be tougher than normal to play with the ball skidding on. If we try and sweep Mendis and Senanayake (sp.), it could be carnage.

doesn't much matter if it's skidding on for Malinga, he'll bowl yorkers, so the skid (off the pitch) is fairly irrelevant.

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

So this time the Sri Lankan legend isn't given a mulligan when caught out first ball...

[Mad for Chelsea]

we've dropped another one

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Finish strong boys finish strong...

[Mad for Chelsea]

well that's going to take some getting, not a great finish by Bresnan to say the least

[Liam]

Bresnan and Dernbach are just average at best

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Hopefully that'll be the last time we see Dernbach and Bresnan bowl this tournament, give wishes and someone else a go

[guildfordbat]

Just as well Pietersen wasn't there to cause disruption -    

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Just as well Pietersen wasn't there to cause disruption -    

you troublemaker

[Pal Joey]

Maybe they should have put detergent in the buckets of water at training...   

On a more serious note - they are dreadful conditions there in Chittagong. Humidity + dew factor must be horrific to play in. You'd expect maybe 3 out of the 4 catches (excluding the first one Olly) to have been taken even in those conditions... fairly straight forward ones they were. I felt so sorry for Bresnan. Must have been like catching a bar of soap. The poor bloke looked as though he wanted to dig a hole for himself.

[Mad for Chelsea]

great start

[Hoggy_Bear]

England off to a flyer  

[Mad for Chelsea]

Ali shouldn't have walked there, surely that didn't carry?

[Hoggy_Bear]

So reckon we'll get within 50 then chaps?

Might not get within 150  

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

So reckon we'll get within 50 then chaps?

Doo reckon we'll get within 100 then chaps?

[Mad for Chelsea]

So reckon we'll get within 50 then chaps?

Doo reckon we'll get within 100 then chaps?

I'm going to stick by my prediction: Hales to make a century, England to win

[Mad for Chelsea]

missed run out, we've got 'em rattled

[shivfan]

But the thing is,it is T20. Either can still win, and no one would be surprised. Hell! even England could still win  

Are you still clinging to that half-baked lottery theory?
  
I keep telling you, you need specific T20 skills to win this tournament, and this England team don't have them.

The teams that have good T20 skills are India, Australia, West Indies and Sri Lanka. IMHO, the winner of this tournament will come from one of them.

[Mad for Chelsea]

these two doing a good job, but need to press on now.

[Mad for Chelsea]

Matthews into the attack, England need to target him here.

[Mad for Chelsea]

and England do target Matthews

[Mad for Chelsea]

there's Hales's first 50

[Mad for Chelsea]

SL have taken fielding lessons from England

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Oh Eoin no

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Damn choking now

[Mad for Chelsea]

oh dear, no need for that shot from Buttler there, handed it back to SL. Down to Ravi now

[Mad for Chelsea]

so where does Chandimal go now? Kulasekera, or A.N. Other?

[Mad for Chelsea]

there's Hales's second 50

[Good Golly I'm Olly]

Cmon boys finish this off please

[skyeman]

WOW!!

[JDizzle]

Unbelievable knock.

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