I mean if the group stages were shortened and we had more KOs then yeah I'd say I was wrong. But what the hell was the point of 9 GS games?
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
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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?
Indian exits are always great fun on here 
"We deserved to win the tournament because we won the groups"
"We won the group so should have had two chances to reach the final like in the IPL"
"We deserved to win the tournament because we won the groups"
"We won the group so should have had two chances to reach the final like in the IPL"
Yeah they are. Kohlis already arguably the best ODI batsman of all time - 3rd best at worst behind Viv and Sachin. Nobody else in the current era makes the top 10. Williamson certainly doesn't.
I'll say this: we're fast becoming the new chokers.
You said we deserved to win the world cup. We lost in SF. Both of things don't compute.
Was about to post that.
Literally only one person is saying that.Indian exits are always great fun on here
"We deserved to win the tournament because we won the groups"
"We won the group so should have had two chances to reach the final like in the IPL"
When most of us were criticising the team when we were winning, this thread was all about how Indians fans love to moan etc. And now it's the complete opposite and it's about how we are delusional etc or something of that sort. Pick a side ffs.
I think he'll probably retire now though he could move up the order.
I was on about the way Ganguly was eulogising about him rather than his innings that was winding me up.
No no no - we always expect to win the tournament. I don't know why, we don't check form/stats anything, just expect to win. Foolish i know.
Then when the team wins a game, it just helps re-affirm that belief. Then when they lose, they always flop dismally. It's the dismal flop you guys will relate too. Apart from Jadeyja - rest were rubbish.
Only one person said that and to which almost 3 or 4 indian fans have responded and ridiculed the post, but hey let us generalize all the indian fans.Indian exits are always great fun on here
"We deserved to win the tournament because we won the groups"
"We won the group so should have had two chances to reach the final like in the IPL"
Indian exits are always great fun on here
"We deserved to win the tournament because we won the groups"
"We won the group so should have had two chances to reach the final like in the IPL"
Where's @Sultan?
They should have a 3rd place play off so India can win something I guess
Listening, man.
Kohli looked completely distraught in that press conference.
Only has himself to blame for it though. He got everything that he wanted in his team, despite some of it defying logic.
Only has himself to blame for it though. He got everything that he wanted in his team, despite some of it defying logic.
20% chance of rain every hour. So showers likely.
You went life and death with Afghanistan and got handily beaten by NZ who were the whipping boys of the other semi-finalists. That isn't domination, mate.
None of that seems like it matters. Bit like your opinion of England's form coming into the World Cup itself if we failed to win it.
I miss the Kohli that used to boss every run chase.
I really hope England win now and get rewarded for their brave approach to the game. India's cowardly, defensive, stable but boring approach was painful to watch for most of the tournament.
The top 2 try and put you to sleep in the first 10, the lower order can't really hit out in the last 10 and their bowlers (outside of Shami - who unsurprisingly got dropped) are run-containers rather than wicket-takers.
The top 2 try and put you to sleep in the first 10, the lower order can't really hit out in the last 10 and their bowlers (outside of Shami - who unsurprisingly got dropped) are run-containers rather than wicket-takers.
I was talking about this game, everyone knew Dhoni is an anchor not a finisher anymore, Sending Pandya and Kartik to Anchor the innings was stupidity.
Dhoni leaves it too late and puts pressure on the opposite partner to do it all himself, why put him in that situation in the first place, he's 38 blaming him does no justice. Poor management by the Indian team.
I still think England are the favourites now.
Well yeah, again, whats the point in being so dominant for the whole tournament and losing in the shitty way that we did? I get that we have ourselves to blame at the same time. And actually, @Samid, theres nothing wrong with the finals format in the IPL - it actually rewards the best team.
All indian fans are delusional @KM
Why not have two finals then if the team that tops the group stages loses.
The point is if you lose in the shitty way we did we have no claim to being the best. England blasted us and we’ve lost chasing peanuts against good ol plucky NZ
You beat a lot of shit teams, well done. So did Australia and NZ. But no one wins a World Cup by just beating the fodder.
When playing NZ, Australia and England, you ultimately lost twice. Even that doesn't matter. At the end of the day, when it mattered most in the business end of the competition, you lost. That is knockout competition - no point being bitter about it.
A feck it... just give India the WC.
Yeah I'd have played him higher up especially when the big 3 at the front of the innings got out for 5. The one thing about Dhoni is that he's hard to get out. He could have helped rebuild the innings from there.
Thats where winning mentality comes to play and we have been bottling lot of important knock out games under Kohli era. Since 2013 CT win all we have done is bottled be it T20 finals in 2014, 2015 SF(although it was against Aus), 2016 SF , 2017 CT finals and now this. We are becoming like SA of old and they also deserved nothing much like this Indian side.
Also, with that middle order we deserved absolutely nothing. It was about time when it would bite in our ass and it happened today. Hard luck to us but well played NZ and they deserve to play in the finals.
The real Kohli never turned up this tournament. Bizarrely put himself into a backseat role when every man knows that he's good when he dominates.
No it doesn’t matter, only winning does. You don’t get an award for being the best group team. Same goes for world cups in other sports. You can be great as you want in the group stage, that’s all about getting through to the SF. Then it’s all about winning your 2 games. India have failed that.
Every fan base has their own of that kind. It just doesn't help that India's population is big and so that 2% is amplified.
He is an over confident lad who underestimates the opposition too much in crucial periods.
Seriously hope that the ICC doesn't go to the IPL format . The knockout games should remain knockout
KL Rahul played 5 less balls than Kohli in the tournament. Which genius came up with the idea of hiding your best player for most of the tournament, behind a slow opener
I'm probably just too pissed and emotional at this moment.
I'm probably partly wrong but just given this format, the eliminator wouldn't be half bad.
It's the way how knockouts work ffs.
I won't call him over confident, in fact he sometimes gives too much respect to the opponents. He has played a backseat role this Wc. Not scoring one century is a proof of that. I think India became over dependent on Rohit and that backfired. Rahul was always going to fail when under pressure so we were playing with fire.
It's just strange to us being called too pessimistic and delusional at the same time. How's that possible