So I just dug out the scorecard from Brian Lara Cricket 2005:
Huge fan of so many of those, Guisseppi is my favourite though.
Huge fan of so many of those, Guisseppi is my favourite though.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
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My favorite was EA Cricket 07. Shocking game in the way it played but was strangely amusing to play for a little bit of time.
I reckon India alone would rake in enough money to fund the renovation of one stadium. Its why the ECB were charging £150 for tickets to the Australia game at the Oval.
Its not the FIFA World Cup but it'll attract huge revenue from broadcasting where you can assume, at worst, most India matches will bring in viewers in 100 millions. What ECB choose to do with the money is their choice.
As a fan, its disappointing that the Oval game was sold out and all they could provide was around 15,000 tickets and that too at an extorniate price.
Roy out 
At least it was Phehlukwayo - who's also in my team
At least it was Phehlukwayo - who's also in my team
Was just about to say pacers look toothless.
Lets see how this new England react to this situation.
Maybe, but that's the issue. India might, and England might too. But beyond that? Can't imagine many Aussies are getting up to watch. So how then do you decide which ground gets renovated? Surrey are by far the most minted county, so counties would (rightly) complain that money is being spent by the ECB on improving the Oval, when counties like Northants are perpetually on the verge of going out of business. Better to spend the money that will be made hosting the tournament (which I very highly doubt is significantly higher than they'd make from a bilateral India tour given that some matches won't make money) on grassroots and growing the game.
As I say, they wanted to use the London Stadium for the two big rivalry games but couldn't make it work.
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Let’s see what Stokes can do with the bat, not been great the last couple of years
Remember you have 3 powerplays per round. I see me and samid activated it for this game.
Warner(C) and Finch(VC). They are playing afghanistan so figured one of the two will go off big.
I'm going super fours today, bowling machine with Boult+Southee and triple captain de Kock.
Right, remember to activate triple captain on Warner.
I went with De Kock and Amla. Thought I'd get two shots at it with SA playing 2x this round.
What's triple captain? Okay something to do with power plays will look into it.
Ah that's smart! Wish I had done that with de kock, only south African I have
Basically for 3 matches in each round you can use one of those powerplays.
You can select the matches now - for example like samid said stick triple captain on the Aus match as Warners your captain.
The other two are super fours (you get extra points per boundary scored by one of your players in that game).
And bowling machine (extra points per wicket taken by one of your players).
Thanks, its only allowing me to choose freehits for west indies vs pakistan match weirdly
Morgan with the hammer down much needed from the England with Buttler time coming up
Same.
You're on your phone? I think the site is shit on mobile. I'm sure I could select it for any game when I was on my laptop last night.
No checking from laptop, maybe you can select for all matches before the round begins. Not sure.
It's a horrible website to navigate.
Think it only allows you to select from matches starting within 24 hours. So you've got to wait a couple of days for the Australia one.
Aye, not enough from Stokes as of yet.
Best thing about the coverage is the more frequent use of the fielding radar.
Absolutely nuts to me that we barely see it normally.
Absolutely nuts to me that we barely see it normally.
If Roy has a very good World Cup, let’s say average over 50, does he get picked for the Ashes?
It made me realise I pick nobody from Pakistan vs west indies which was a mistake. Babar will score 80 and one of their all rounders will go off.
What's your team name?
England need to put the hammer down now.
Agreed. Game still in the balance here if England lose wickets and don’t accelerate effectively.
The stump mics need turning up big time.
Shit. England look shaky here.. Buttler needs to bring it on the big occasion.
They back deep. Stoke needs to keep going for it IMO
They're shaky if they lose Buttler cheaply, but they're going ok at the moment. Stokes has done very well and needs to stay in for big score with Jos.
That partnership between Stokes and Morgan was only England's 10th 100 partnership in World Cup history.
Christ Buttler 
9th was the 100 between Root and Roy
Old Man Amla at midwicket Get him milked
Get him milkedActually, you're right, that was the 10th. This was the 11th.9th was the 100 between Root and Roy
First time England have ever, and I mean EVER, had more than one hundred partnership in a WC tournament. Managed 1 a tournament before today.