How about woakes to open?
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
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I have stokes in my fantasy team. Need him to get me at least some points
Yeah it's shite in a game where you can't sub players out of the batting line up. I think you should be able to sub players out of the batting line up if you can prove they are injured though.
On KP I think that the Old School Tie brigade hold England back as a cricketing nation. He was by far our best player at the time he should have been who we built the team around rather than letting a few players force him out of the team.
Back spasm for Morgan - good news.
Long term yes but not for today.
What's most annoying about it is that people fail to realise this is a change in the playing conditions in international cricket rather than a change in the laws.
I've seen teams refuse runners in shit tier village cricket because they think they're not allowed.
Exactly as a diagnosis it's very good news. Roy might not play again this tournament after today.
I think KP did a good job of forcing himself out of the team. Got no sympathy for the bloke. Great player but did himself no favours.
So you're okay with certain players being able to look down on other players because they come from money and the other player hasn't.
Root
Bairstow
Stokes
Buttler
Morgan
Woakes
Roy
Plunkett
Rashid
Archer
Wood
Done.
Bairstow
Stokes
Buttler
Morgan
Woakes
Roy
Plunkett
Rashid
Archer
Wood
Done.
Nadeem: "Correct me if I am wrong that Thomas has played 13 innings and has yet to score a single run? " --- That is in fact, correct. Oshane Thomas matched his career-best today, with 0*
Bairstow injured too?
Hope not.
Woakes up to 3
Sun's out at last!
We've just got to keep the cuts and hooks down here. Don't get suckered into going the aerial route like Gayle did.
England should try chasing this down in 30 overs just in case NRR becomes relevant later on.
See that kid trying to stop his Mom signalling a four?
Sheldon Cottrell looks like an interesting character. Imagine he's got some chat out in the field.
Couple of lovely shots from Bairstow & then Root. England should comfortably chase this.
Still early but always felt West Indies were severely over rated as even a dark horse. Don't think they have it in the them just yet to get close to winning the competition. Might still be wrong but they're still a little inexperienced and chopping and changing their team every year doesn't help.
Fazeer Mohammed live on TMS: "Trevor Bayliss said he was... am I allowed to say this?... pissed off with Cottrell's salute"
Just switched off the TV. This is just a slow painful crawl to the end. No point in watching this.
We never were a dark horse. I have no idea who’s been pushing this, but pretty much everyone I know despairs at how bad we are currently, and had no expectations coming into this World Cup. It’s a fun journey but I didn’t and still don’t expect anything.
As a Man Utd fan over the past few years. I feel for you man.
Being a United fan and a WI fan these days is pretty rough
I was more referring to his slagging off of his team mates behind their backs. How are you meant to play in a team when you do that? Can’t imagine anyone in a football team accepting someone back on after that.
They slagged him and others off to their faces because they didn't fit to a certain class system. What do you expect him to do? I wouldn't sit there and take it. Especially if I was better than they were.
Bairstow gone.
Decent innings, but a soft way to go
Decent innings, but a soft way to go
Unlucky Jonny. When will he go on in this WC?
Unnecessary from Bairstow.
Don’t think there was really any need for him to be playing a shot like that when we’ve been under no pressure to score at all
This seems like a night's watchman.
It's silly from Bairstow.
We should still win but he knows we're missing two senior batsmen and there was no need to force the shot there.
We should still win but he knows we're missing two senior batsmen and there was no need to force the shot there.
Gayle is great
Why don't they sub Gayle off of fielding?
Easy chase.
Not sure I'd have Moeen opening.
He's in horrible form with the bat. Can't imagine him dealing well with a new ball barrage of short deliveries.
He's in horrible form with the bat. Can't imagine him dealing well with a new ball barrage of short deliveries.
Depends, I see what Nasser is saying and Afghanistan won't be the game where there will be a whole load of short balls. He does need to get in nick and it might be the right game for him.