Was just thinking that after that drive and the flourish.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2015
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In the latest episode of the United Hour Podcast, Nik @Rood and Imran @Annihilate Now! start with the good news by celebrating Manchester United Women's emphatic FA Cup win over Spurs at Wembley and the future of manager Marc Skinner.
Then it's the bad news and the ever worsening form of our Men with losses to Arsenal and Palace.
Finally the main debate - ETH Out now or keep him until the end of the season - if not longer. Are you Team Nik or Team Imran?
Two double hundreds this tournament so far. Anyone called that? Warner could easily have had one as well
How cool is Gayle, things would be a bit different if he was 100%
Could be two today
Amen to that!Could be two today
8th over with Boult, high risk captaincy here and WI have done well to score well with Boult on, although not on his bowling. They've lost four though.
Thats that then.
Meh
Awwww feck
Game over
Done, good night
Bowled. Pure pace that.
Boult finishing his quota, imagine if that is his last over this WC
feck, they need another 40 odd just to be at the half way mark
Sammy there on Boult's last ball 
Very likeable the West Indians. Always have been. Shame they are not so good at playing anymore.
Very likeable the West Indians. Always have been. Shame they are not so good at playing anymore.
At least they are going down swinging
Some lovely hitting for a losing cause.
West Indies beat Martin Guptill by 1 wicket. First and only upset of the quarter finals.
Wish one batsman held their innings together. This has potential
It looked like he got done for pace
Oh Windies, never disappoint
We will have a new team in the history of WC finals.
I have nothing but admiration for this NZ team. True professionals. Hope they go all the way.
As long as the Aussies are out, I'll be ok with whatever outcome now. Good on NZ.
India SA final with SA winning it
Surely they don't do bronze finals in CWC?
Oh how many times has 300+ been chased this WC?
Cricket is just too much of a batsman's game now. I feel sorry for the bowlers. This world cup has proved it over and over again, I think there needs to be some adjustments to the rules in order to make it a but more competitive again.
Haha - you posted that just as I was in the middle of composing this :
"The 50 over game has actually just become boring. For 20/20 read 50/50. It's just a game of who can smash the ball the hardest and there's absolutely nothing in the game for bowlers. There's absolutely no justification for any batting powerplays now."
World Cup has largely been crap. Too many one sided pointless games. Unless ICC gives bowlers something to work with (bring back the old ball and reverse swing, reduce power plays), 50-over cricket will die.
A bowler terrorizing a batsman and a batsman eventually overcoming it is so much better viewing than a batsman smashing the feck out of everything.
Yes, far too many teams to start with. It took 5 weeks to get to any meaningful games.
A batsman who could barely walk scores 60+ runs against a top bowling attack... It just shouldn't be possible, even if that man is Gayle. Not necessarily ICC's fault, mind. Yet just shows how much batsmen dominate.
Agreed. World class bowlers being made to look like clueless idiots and Finn being made to look like...............Finn
That's more to do with poor scheduling. To maximise revenue they scheduled all of India's games on the weekend and we saw a prolonged group stage. Ideally we should have four groups or at least two games every day. But that's not great for commercial interests. So no deal.
Amazing by Guptill.
I think 3 times. Some other scores were run close a couple of times and India/NZ chased down 280+ but in general bat first, put up a score and win has definitely been a theme of this WC.
Only three? Which games? My memory is ropey thesedays...
Pointless being a bowler thesedays. Why don't teams play 7 batsmen and 4 bowling machines? Save a lot of man power...