Love how players blame the sun despite wearing a cap and sunglasses when failing to catch sitters.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
- Thread starter Samid
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Vince is never an international batsmen.
At some point he has to stop being given chances.
At some point he has to stop being given chances.
The main man Root is here!
If Roy is out for the rest of the World Cup I'd bring Hales back.
A rusty Hales is still a better opener than Vince or current Moeen.
A rusty Hales is still a better opener than Vince or current Moeen.
Going along nicely in face of good Afghan bowling. Maybe time to start upping the rate a little with wickets in hand, test that sloppy field.
Bit surprised at that run rate. Are afghans bowling well then?
It is gripping with the spinners so they have been tricky with some deliveries. The rate is now 5.5 so not bad. Setting up a good platform for a surge later on. England knocking it around well.
Rashid Khan will quickly become a victim of playing for a rubbish team. Put him in the England team instead of his namesake and he'd dominate the next decade in all formats.
Agree, think he would be a big threat when teams are chasing big totals which Afghanistan can't set. Still a quality player though.
Bairstow has got to be one of the most improved players in recent years.
England should comfortably get 350 here. Wickets in hand with Morgan and Buttler to come.
Roots on 41/44 with just 2 fours. That's how you anchor an innings with minimal risk
Bairstow gone for 90. Interesting to see if Morgan or Buttler will step out next.
Noooo Bairstow gone 
Crazy to see so many empty seats. Guess the Manchester traffic doesn't discriminate between football and cricket.
Disappointed for Johnny, should have got a 100 there.
Should be butler
Let's hope England promote Buttler.
Should have sent Buttler ffs.
Bairstow thrown it away again.
Got to be Buttler in next.
Got to be Buttler in next.
Stokes in next please
Is Dickwella even in the SL squad?No shit.
It's the walking wounded with England at the moment.
Catch that ffs.
That fielding.Shocking fielding from Afghanistan. Dropped catch goes for 4. Next ball goes for 6.
44 from 30 and starting to accelerate. Irish wasteman indeed.
Get this Irish wasteman out already.
He's got butler in his fantasy team.
fair enough.Buttler will be in next surely. He has a terrible record against Rashid Khan anyway.
Just what I want to hear. His captain root is costing me some major ground on him so far today
Get this Irish wasteman out already.
He often sneaks under the radar in this England team but he's a pretty fine batsman in his own right, and a good captain too.
As the tournament goes on, I feel like my comments about adding more associate nations being pointless is being vindicated. This tournament, other than the big games, is an utter borefest when watching as neutral. Other than Pakistan beating England, as a cricket fan, none of the other games have been remotely interesting. Eoin Morgan is destorying the best of the associates who, in all honesty, have been a travesty so far.
Tbh the way Morgan's going we're fine as we are. You can't do better than six every ball!
@Samid made a great point couple days back about Ireland being better in these conditions and would have done better in the tournament overall than Afghanistan. Given the tournament is being held in England, surely it would have made sense for the Qualifiers to be held there as well instead of in Zimbabwe.
Good point. Never understood why it was held in Zimbabwe.
Rashid khan is getting a major twatting
100!
England's fastest ever?
England's fastest ever?
Don't agree with that tbh. Afghanistan have got three stars of the IPL in Rashid, Mujeeb and Nabi. Yes they've underperformed but many people will have expected them to beat Sri Lanka and even claim a bigger scalp.