Official ICC Cricket World Cup - Summer 2019 One Dayers

[biggbn]

croyde said:

The Dodgers, formerly from New York, are who I saw but I had imbibed so many large GnTs at the time and was with a beautiful woman so I didn't really care

Is that you Swiss Tony?

[biggbn]

Good article..

Diversity is one of our strengths and it helped us win the World Cup

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/15/dive...

[XCP]

garyhun said:

I’ve been to baseball games in the US, now that is a boring game.

Agreed.I went out to buy a buy a hotdog during one of the breaks between the innings at a game in Pittsburgh. The lady serving asked me what the score was. My reply ' I'm very sorry but I have absolutely no idea' delivered in an English accent, got a laugh from the queueing fans.

[anonymous-user]

biggbn said:

Good article..

Diversity is one of our strengths and it helped us win the World Cup

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jul/15/dive...

It's a nice piece but I find it quite sad that in this day and age we still have to 'promote' diversity when it should be as normal a part of life as breathing air.

Anyway, not to derail the thread.... fantastic match and I've only watched it three times now along with the 'last hour of TMS'

I'll never get bored of, or stop welling up at, that final run-out.

[Gandahar]

I think the viewing figures were one off. Compare to 4 years back for the Ashes.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/jul/12...

Also, what were the viewing figures for the last world cup in NZ/Aus? Or listening on TMS?

It's a flash in the pan to be honest. Too many other sports now competing for market share in England and younger people not really being caught by the charm unless their dad did it. And dads are not doing it, they are off on their bikes ...

A bit like golf is going.

Having it all on Sky is not helping golf or cricket in the long run, and what 17 year listens to TMS on the radio?

Dead in the water. I'll enjoy it whilst it is still just a big minority sport and not a little one. Outside the sub continent.

[Gandahar]

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[warch]

garyhun said:

I'll never get bored of, or stop welling up at, that final run-out.

I love that run-out, but the Steve Smith 'nutcracker' is the one I keep watching again and again.

[Vaud]

garyhun said:

I'll never get bored of, or stop welling up at, that final run-out.

It is an (near) unbelievable moment in sport.

[anonymous-user]

Vaud said:

garyhun said:

I'll never get bored of, or stop welling up at, that final run-out.

It is an (near) unbelievable moment in sport.

I keep watching it and getting worried that the decision screen to change to ‘not out’!

[warch]

Incidentally who put the throw back in to Buttler? Perfectly accuracy and timing under unbelievable pressure.

[FourWheelDrift]

warch said:

Incidentally who put the throw back in to Buttler? Perfectly accuracy and timing under unbelievable pressure.

Roy, the one who fumbled the earlier one. That's pressure.

[warch]

I thought it was Roy. Everytime I see the slow motion replay I'm worried the bat will creep over the line before Buttler flattens the stumps. This is what years of sporting underachievement does to a man.

[ralphrj]

Gandahar said:

If teams hit the same number of boundaries is it the most number of sixes?

No, a team that scored 18 sixes and no fours would have lost to a team that scored 19 fours and no sixes.

There are lots of alternative tiebreaks including some that have been used in the past:

1. Number of wickets lost (NZ would have won but arguably England not have had 2 run outs in the final over).
2. The result in the head to head match in the group stage (England won).
3. The higher team in the table after the group stage (England finished 3rd, above NZ in 4th).

[Murph7355]

ralphrj said:

Gandahar said:

If teams hit the same number of boundaries is it the most number of sixes?

No, a team that scored 18 sixes and no fours would have lost to a team that scored 19 fours and no sixes.

There are lots of alternative tiebreaks including some that have been used in the past:

1. Number of wickets lost (NZ would have won but arguably England not have had 2 run outs in the final over).
2. The result in the head to head match in the group stage (England won).
3. The higher team in the table after the group stage (England finished 3rd, above NZ in 4th).

I suspect boundaries are chosen as it's those the ICC are trying to encourage. Big 4s and, especially, 6s get the crowd going.

[warch]

Murph7355 said:

I suspect boundaries are chosen as it's those the ICC are trying to encourage. Big 4s and, especially, 6s get the crowd going.

This. This form of decider was introduced in 2012 in order to favour aggressive attacking play.

[FiF]

FourWheelDrift said:

warch said:

Incidentally who put the throw back in to Buttler? Perfectly accuracy and timing under unbelievable pressure.

Roy, the one who fumbled the earlier one. That's pressure.

Plus wasn't it Roy who also fielded the very next ball and threw it to the "wrong end" when Morgan was screaming "MY END, MY END!"

[FiF]

Incidentally why are the TMS 'podcasts' of play eg the last hour special, only available to stream for 27 days and not download. The proper TMS podcasts, eg review programmes can be downloaded. Presumably it's some sort of licensing issue or I'm a numpty and the download button on BBC Sounds has moved.

[Cheib]

GloverMart said:

ralphrj said:

Compare Guptill's attempted run out with Archer's fielding of the penultimate delivery. Archer made no attempt to run out Neesham as the an overthrow could easily have cost them the Cup.

If Archer didn't get a shout from a team mate saying not to throw, that was an incredibly cool-headed thing to do. I'd have put everything into throwing down the stumps, regardless of the outcome, probably missed and cost the country the victory. Archer was very clever not to throw.

It would have been fking stupid to throw rather than clever not to....he’s got to turn steady himself and throw knowing that nobody will have made the ground required to be at the stumps.