2014 Cricket World Cup - Official Thread

[AW111]

Hales fails.

8 to go

[Gargamel]

Playing our usual brand of utter garbage, it is as if they never watch other teams.

23 overs gone, we need to be scoring at 6 an over to win. Current run rate 4.53.

Yes keeping wickets in hand is important, but if you are later going to rely on a bowler to be hitting 10 an over at the death because your top four are scared to hit it off the square then no wonder we lose close chases.

So many dot balls.

Bell is thinking, if we have 130/35 by 30 overs then we have a chance. this is awful. We should be way ahead of the curve, by sensible aggressive batting.

[anonymous-user]

Yup, starting to slowly slip away. England need to up this RR quick before they sleepwalk out of the tournament.

[Legend83]

Bell gone!

[Gargamel]

I mean - we will probably win this game, but the lack of aggression, the sheer insipid nature of our play, is awful.

Oh dear, The hammer of justice has gone.

[anonymous-user]

el stovey said:

Yup, starting to slowly slip away. England need to up this RR quick before they sleepwalk out of the tournament.

Cricket from the 1980s

[AW111]

Bell fell.

7 to go.

[Black can man]

fks sake

[Gargamel]

Utter Utter Utter ste

[AW111]

I can't think of a rhyme for Morgan, so no alliteration for this wicket.

6 to go.

[Gandahar]

Black can man said:

Gandahar said:

Assuming no traditional mid order collapse it is looking good so far. This is a smaller ground so once the batters get their eye in should be quite a lot of 4/6 you would think. Playing nice and steady currently.

I wished i had you're optimism.

Well perhaps mentioning mid order collapse was a bit like prodding the sleeping tiger. I am not quite as confident now I do confess.

The only good point if we do lose will be listening to the Boycott podcast.

[Amirhussain]

I thought Pakistan were bad

[BlackLabel]

England will fall across the line here - Bangladesh will bottle it imo.

[Black can man]

Unbelievable

[BlackLabel]

What a disgraceful shot.

[anonymous-user]

BlackLabel said:

England will fall across the line here - Bangladesh will bottle it imo.

The pressures all on England. 7 an over now required.

Against Bangladesh FFS

[Salgar]

lolmygod

[Amirhussain]

5 to go.

[Black can man]

BlackLabel said:

England will fall across the line here - Bangladesh will bottle it imo.

Are you serious ? Have you watched any of England's game in this World Cup ?

[spikeyhead]

We're out of this. Tis ste