ICC Cricket World Cup

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Table
England 2pts (+2.08nrr)
Afghanistan
Australia
Bangladesh
India
New Zealand
Pakistan
Sri Lanka
West Indies
South Africa 0pts (-2.08 nrr)


Pool Fixtures

Thu, May 30 
10:30 England vs South Africa  (The Oval)

Fri, May 31 
10:30 West Indies vs Pakistan (Trent Bridge)

Sat, Jun 1 
10:30 New Zealand vs Sri Lanka (Cardiff)
13:30 Afghanistan vs Australia (Bristol)

Sun, Jun 2 
10:30 South Africa vs Bangladesh (The Oval)

Mon, Jun 3 
10:30 England vs Pakistan (Trent Bridge)

Tue, Jun 4 
10:30 Afghanistan vs Sri Lanka (Cardiff)

Wed, Jun 5 
10:30 South Africa vs India (Southampton)
13:30 Bangladesh vs New Zealand (The Oval)

Thu, Jun 6 
10:30 Australia vs West Indies (Trent Bridge)

Fri, Jun 7 
10:30 Pakistan vs Sri Lanka (Bristol)

Sat, Jun 8 
10:30 England vs Bangladesh (Cardiff)
13:30 Afghanistan vs New Zealand (Taunton)

Sun, Jun 9 
10:30 Australia vs India (The Oval)

Mon, Jun 10 
10:30 South Africa vs West Indies (Southampton)

Tue, Jun 11 
10:30 Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka (Bristol)

Wed, Jun 12 
10:30 Australia vs Pakistan (Taunton)

Thu, Jun 13 
10:30 India vs New Zealand (Trent Bridge)

Fri, Jun 14 
10:30 England vs West Indies (Southampton)

Sat, Jun 15 
10:30 Australia vs Sri Lanka (The Oval)
13:30 Afghanistan vs South Africa (Cardiff)

Sun, Jun 16 
10:30 India vs Pakistan (Old Trafford)

Mon, Jun 17 
10:30 Bangladesh vs West Indies (Taunton)

Tue, Jun 18 
10:30 England vs Afghanistan (Old Trafford)

Wed, Jun 19 
10:30 New Zealand vs South Africa (Edgbaston)

Thu, Jun 20 
10:30 Australia vs Bangladesh (Trent Bridge)

Fri, Jun 21 
10:30 England vs Sri Lanka (Headingley)

Sat, Jun 22 
10:30 Afghanistan vs India (Southampton)
13:30 New Zealand vs West Indies (Old Trafford)

Sun, Jun 23 
10:30 Pakistan vs South Africa (Lord’s)

Mon, Jun 24 
10:30 Afghanistan vs Bangladesh (Southampton)

Tue, Jun 25 
10:30 England vs Australia (Lord’s)

Wed, Jun 26 
10:30 New Zealand vs Pakistan (Edgbaston)

Thu, Jun 27 
10:30 India vs West Indies (Old Trafford)

Fri, Jun 28 
10:30 South Africa vs Sri Lanka (Edgbaston)

Sat, Jun 29 
10:30 Afghanistan vs Pakistan (Headingley)
13:30 Australia vs New Zealand (Lord’s)

Sun, Jun 30 
10:30 England vs India (Edgbaston)

Mon, Jul 1 
10:30 Sri Lanka vs West Indies (Riverside Ground)

Tue, Jul 2 
10:30 Bangladesh vs India (Edgbaston)

Wed, Jul 3 
10:30 England vs New Zealand (Riverside Ground)

Thu, Jul 4 
10:30 Afghanistan vs West Indies (Headingley)

Fri, Jul 5 
10:30 Bangladesh vs Pakistan (Lord’s)

Sat, Jul 6 
10:30 India vs Sri Lanka (Headingley)
13:30 Australia vs South Africa (Old Trafford)




Knock Out Fixtures


To Follow

If the West Indies are continually allowed to break the rules like this, I may have to revise my earlier prediction of them being no-hopers.

VTR wrote:How come Windies are allowed to bowl endless bouncers but other teams are getting called for wides?

Windies have been called for quite a few over head height today.

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:I enjoyed it too soon and they’re gonna be fine, aren’t they?

Smith is 100% scoring a hundred here

Alex Carey starting to counter attack. Seems like the white ball doesn’t keep its hardness anyway near the as long as the red one. The bouncer theory not as effective during this stage of the innings

Need to break this partnership fast

Think they’ll win this

Strange to think Australia 219-6 but West Indies haven’t been all that disciplined. So many wides. Coulter-Nile batted like a top order player as he brings up a maiden ODI fifty.

Oh salute that! Just as I’d backed Smith to be not out

Absolutely stunning by the solider

Well looks like the tournament is sparking to life at last ...pretty inevitable that the west Indies would be at the heart of that. Brilliant and frustrating at the same time, turned what looked like a winning position into a balanced one with some ill disciplined bowling . As Nathaniel says the number of wides is horrible. Maybe not the highest quality cricket all round so far still but competition and some fireworks. 

Smith is a true competitor and at the top of his game since returning from his ban. A bit like Gayle if you overlook the kind of human he is and purely at the runs he scores its hard not to be impressed by his skills and resilience.

Ha oh! Well bye Smith.

West Indies continue to thrill though they didn't quite bring out a plan b when the ball got older and Australia's batting depth meant a counterattack. So despite the brilliant start with the ball, the West Indies will be chasing something substantial. With a bowling lineup including Cummins and Starc, it won't be easy at all. Will the eventual lack of discipline hurt the West Indies?

Love the cheers and performance for Gayle fielding

Coulter-Nile seriously striking it sweetly, prior to this innings his stats didn’t show he was capable of this kind of onslaught

Coulter-Nile has now made the highest score by anyone batting 8 or lower (a) for Australia in ODIs, and (b) for anyone in World Cups. Woakes' 95* is the highest all time in ODIs at 8 or lower.

Almost 4 hours for 50 overs is poor.

Great start by Windies, Smith did well to hang in and a phenomenal innings from NCN.

Olly can come out from behind the sofa, NCN falls for 92

Aussies all out for 288

Dolphin Ziggler wrote:Coulter-Nile has now made the highest score by anyone batting 8 or lower (a) for Australia in ODIs, and (b) for anyone in World Cups. Woakes' 95* is the highest all time in ODIs at 8 or lower.

That rate too! 

Incredible effort for someone with little batting pedigree. Maybe some luck and loose bowling but also sheer effort and bravery has paid off. 

In theory Aus have a tail almost as bad as India, he averages 12 in ODIs and not above 19 in any format domestically. A list A high score of 62 prior to this knock. twice as many sixes scored in this innings as his entire ODI career previously. Buy the man a XXXX hes made a game of it.

It may well not prove to be enough but it gives them a strong shout. Teams have struggled to chase scores lower than this.

Think 288 is going to be tough for the trigger happy lineup. Someone need to bat sensibly and bat long and the stroke makers will have to bat around him. Who can play that kind of a role? Hope perhaps? They do bat deep and have the greatest fire power available to any lineup, but can they sustain it for long is the big question, as the Australians, having recovered from a terrible position to post nearly 300 would be coming out all guns blazing

Smith played very well for his 73 though he did have some luck on the way, and Nathan Coulter-Nile was simply brilliant, he turned the game on its head. The fact he batted above Patric Cummins indicates that the Australian management kind of rated him as a decent lower order bet. He really justified that call with this stunning knock.

Agree with the comments MSP, but even so NCNs performance was not exactly predictable! 

Gayles rode his luck there with a ball brushing the stump initially given out caught and reviewed...now revieiwng a yorker lbw! Umpires getting more boos than Warner


999 world cup runs...2 reviews in 2 deliveries both won! 
He deserves to be out after being beaten twice. Crowds LOVING it

3 consecutive balls misshit 10 runs scored....this is pure Gayle

Is he bothered? Hits the next one for 4 cleanly. This is the game the world cup needed.

Needed that wicket of Gayle. 3rd time lucky.

...and just when it was calming down a third review for Gayle! Finally out now, by a whisker 

21 off 17 balls is exactly what West Indies didnt need! Hope on the other hand has struggled to score anything at all. pooran is probably the weakest player in the side ...so Australia could quickly look very much on top. They do need to dig in here, theres plenty of fire down the order even if the rate starts to look less healthy.

Think the West Indies chase is going to lose steam pretty soon. Gayle had a charmed life out there and while its was funn till it lasted from an entertainment point, the WI needed a lot more from the veteran to pull this one off. There is no solid batting left for the team now other than the skipper now as Hope is struggling big time out there.

...well Pooran looks like he wants to win this in 20 overs, whereas Hope wants Boycotts job. Its all a bit bonkers but very West Indies. They are the most entertaining team no question.

ha. Cummins now has 3 maiden overs and one over of 15 runs.

Seems Gafaney goofed up the Gayle dismissal a 3rd time too, should have been a free hit the ball he was given out on umpire's call! Blasphemous!

Real struggle out there for Shai Hope. He's 7 of 30. He's not Chris G to turn it around to 50 of 40. Needs to keep his calm now and don't throw it away. Keep rotating the strike and keep picking the singles.

Shai Hope is not throwing it away for sure, but he's really dragging his side down here with an atrocious innings. Pooran has batted well so far, but Hope is really putting him under the pump a lot more than the Australian bowlers are.

Hope's innings has to be one of the most bizarre of all time

VTR wrote:Hope's innings has to be one of the most bizarre of all time

He's doing *ok* for my money - the rate isn't out of control, and this WI lineup is full of guys like Pooran/Hetmyer who need someone to bat around like him. He does need to start rotating the strike better though...

Interested to see where Russell bats - do they bring him in early to try and break the back of the chase or hold him back for a final assault?

Well I suppose it does depend how this ends up. It could be seen in the end as a great anchor job and seeing off the threat of Cummins and Starc. If he's out fairly soon though it might look poor in the final reckoning

Oh, Terrible, terrible run-out! Hetmyer gone just when he was beginning to open up. West Indies holding Russel back as captain Holder comes in at 6.

Just like in their bowling innings, West Indies messing up the 2nd half here.

Umpires having a bad day. Holder overturns an out decision on review now.

I think this Hope innings is exactly what they needed.

They need 6.5 an over so he hasn’t exactly dragged the rate out of reach

And as I type he’s out!

Diabolical standard of umpiring today. Thank goodness for DRS.

msp83 wrote:Umpires having a bad day. Holder overturns an out decision on review now.

A bad day? It’s been so bad I hope they’re corrupt, so at least they’re not that incompetent - Holding rightly ripping into them on commentary it’s been embarrassingly bad. You don’t see this level of umpiring in village cricket

Hope didn't bat long enough and with almost another hundred needed, he gets out to a nothing ball playing a nothing shot. There is Dre Rus, and Holder has been there for some time. There is only Carlos Brathwaite to come now though, and he hasn't scored anything much of note after those 4 strikes!

Umpiring continues to be absolutely dreadful!

West Indies must have set a record for successful reviews today?

https://twitter.com/timessport/status/1136671013960323073?s=21

This would be an absolutely atrocious decision

Russel has thrown it away. Think that's it for the West Indies. Russel just had to see that over off, but he went for the bowling again and handed the initiative back to the Australians.

Last recognized pair for the West Indies. Too many starts, not enough substance. And seems the WI are fluffing this up royally.

Nurse and Cottrell are just about capable of holding a bat and scoring 10/15 if it comes to it.

Holder getting a lot of luck with the edges at the moment.

Game of the tournament by a mile. Bit of everything!

Ooh starch might've ruined the last few overs with that wicket ....surely australias game now.
The tail can hit but a few too many still needed youd think

There is another 4 overs to go, but that's the game, set and match for Australia. Good captaincy from Finch to bring Starc on now rather than keeping him for the last 3, and the senior paceman has delivered in a crunch situation. Poor from Holder and Brathwaite, they should have just knocked it around in this over rather than going for the big shots. A real, real chance ruined by the West Indies due to indiscipline...