ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
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Shankar should be dropped for Pant. He's literally useless.
Have a fixed top 3 and then depending on the situation, float Jadav, Dhoni, Pant and Hardik.
Have a fixed top 3 and then depending on the situation, float Jadav, Dhoni, Pant and Hardik.
It is pretty horrible because lot of games have nothing at stake
That's fine and far less important than having the best teams qualify for the final stage. This isn't a movie going on where thrill and upsets need to be catered for.
So far it didn't matter since the top 3 made 200+ and Hardik could just come up. It's only when the top order fails all hell breaks lose, but that is the weakness we have that we are incredibly reliant on the top 3 (now top 2, dont trust Rahul whatsoever). Any match that fails, we will be in trouble.
We bungled number four for two years like you said. It's between Shankar and Pant, both can go wrong, both need to be blooded. If you've picked a guy, you need to stick with him. Couple of innings isn't enough data to make a change.
We are saying the same thing.
Mine was a general comment as well - there are people in this thread who didn't want Rohit and dhawan at the start of the tournament. There are people still complaining about the pace we play at in the power play. Jadhav is a reliable player, but we have people complaining about him as well.
Then why even have a tournament? let's ditch the whole thing and have semifinals based on odi rankings.
You are overstating format's impact for teams like Afghanistan. Even in a group of 7 teams, even if a team loses first first 3-5 matches they are out of contention more or less. So best case scenario is some upset victory. If anything this format allows team to qualify despite a bad start. Pakistan for example qualified in 1992 from exact same position they are in now. Problem with format is that some games towards the end lose value. Schedulers also fecked up by putting some big games between higher ranked teams at a late stage.
I said the best performing teams make through in this tournament, nothing to do with the rankings. The 4 teams that will go through to the semis will be the best 4 teams in the WC and won't be there down to a single upset or fluke.
It is mostly one poster who complains about all this.....
With Shankar it is kind of a strange situation. He was picked on the back of very few innings so it can go in any direction and it comes down if you back him to make it or not. Personally I don't think he will come good this WC and more importantly think a player like Pant coming good would increase odds of us winning much more given the nature of most of the pitches in England.
Isn't kartik more mature than pant?
WI NZ shaping up to be a good game. They need a bug hundred from either Gayle or Hetymer though. Gayle dropped! 
Gayle dropped twice in an over!
Hes also half as good.
I'm firmly on the side of associate teams on this. It should have been 16 sides with the inclusion of Zimbabwe, Ireland, Netherlands, Kenya, Nepal and PNG.
Saying that though, I still think that this format is good as it really does allow the best teams to rise to the top.
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I think 16 teams in 4 groups followed by quarters would work the best. Every game would matter, genuine hope for smaller countries but enough opportunities for quality to shine.
I don't even think there are 16 countries that play the sport.
2007 had that format (except Super 8s instead of quarters) and it didn't end well.
I honestly think Rohit could work at 4 - obviously not now but we could always have had a different set of openers.
I doubt it. Rahul is the next best cab off the rank and he's playing like dogshit.
Hetmyer is hitting some beautiful shots. Anyone watching?
Gone
Here we go. Collapse incoming. Fecking idiots
What was Hetmyer thinking
That's it, folks.
West indies just know how to play t20. Should stick to that. Ridiculously bad.
West Indies Just can't be fecked to run between the wickets can they?
They still have 25 overs left .
Stuck in T20 mode.
. Stuck in T20 mode.
Oh, West Indies. Why you no grow up?
Rahuls got two hard working 30s and a slowish 50 - hes not been dogshit.
And another one trying to smash it out the ground. Do they have somewhere to be?
Imagine how destructive WI could be if they had someone like Kohli/Smith/Williamson/Root to calm them down as a captain and anchor their innings.
Wow
They're about 1 batsman short on top of that.
Too many all-rounders, not enough specialist batsmen.
WI are great entertainment, as long as you don't apply any logic to the way they play
Windies still have a slight chance to do this...
Nah Boult will finish them off.
Windies could have won this if they didn't want to finish within 30 overs.