Cricket Thread: Indian Summer

[GROTTO]

Shows you why fielding is so important in T20 cricket, Pakistan dropped easy catches and missed some run outs..... Wade gets his chance and for once takes it.

Have to play better than that to beat the Kiwis.

T20 can be like that.

I thought Pakistan lost that match in basically two balls, first one being a no ball six by Warner, that led to being 9 runs off two balls and helped accelerate the run rate and the drop catch before Wade's hat trick of 6s.

Hell if that bowler could have prevented the last two 6s possibly, it would have made for an interesting final over.

 

[1990crow]

CA website article says Hunt in the frame for test opener.
Two Redbacks in the top 6 of the test team!

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[GROTTO]

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Would also help negate any potential dew for the team bowling second and not make the toss so critical.

If I am not mistaken the majority of teams that have won the games starting in the evening have been the team chasing.

 

[FR0GGY]

Would also help negate any potential dew for the team bowling second and not make the toss so critical.

If I am not mistaken the majority of teams that have won the games starting in the evening have been the team chasing.

Is it the dew or are teams just good at pacing them self when chasing?

 

[Mego Red]

Is it the dew or are teams just good at pacing them self when chasing?

It's either the dew or the swing conditions or SOMETHING - almost every game has been won by the side chasing.

 

[FR0GGY]

It's either the dew or the swing conditions or SOMETHING - almost every game has been won by the side chasing.

Let’s hope finchy is practicing his coin tossing during the week.

 

[GROTTO]

Is it the dew or are teams just good at pacing them self when chasing?

No, definitely 100% dew in the later games. The ball gets wet and is difficult for the fielding team in the 2nd innings.

 

[GROTTO]

Let’s hope finchy is practicing his coin tossing during the week.

He has got 50% of getting it right I reckon.

 

[FR0GGY]

No, definitely 100% dew in the later games. The ball gets wet and is difficult for the fielding team in the 2nd innings.

Don’t most games played at night around the world have dew though?

 

[GROTTO]

Don’t most games played at night around the world have dew though?

Depends on the country and its exacerbated more so in some than others. In India, its massive.

Not to mention the later the game finishes (starts in the evening) the worse it is.

 

[GROTTO]

Its why also in the 2nd innings, some captains will try and bowl their spinners out early before the dew can set in.

 

[FR0GGY]

Fair effort

Staggering photo emerges after World Cup semi-final thriller

Mohammad Rizwan was in ICU before Pakistan's clash with Australia in the T20 World Cup semi-final. Read all the details here.

au.sports.yahoo.com

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[spenze]

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Ears make me think Tex

 

[hey shorty]

Got me stumped.

 

[hey shorty]

Aaron Finch ??

 

[GROTTO]

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Maxwell

 

[glitch01]

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Only issue is that Sunday is a work day here (Friday , Saturday weekend).
Playing it at 6pm here means they get a full crowd.
Should have been played Saturday afternoon.

 

[FR0GGY]

Wade, Warner and Marsh World Cup heroes, sheesh

 

[hey shorty]

First Matt Wade, now Mitch Marsh......

I feel so conflicted.

Anyway, we've got that trophy, well done.

 

[jenny61_99]

Wade, Warner and Marsh World Cup heroes, sheesh

People write players off way too early IMO. Cricket and in footy!

 

[FR0GGY]

People write players off way too early IMO. Cricket and in footy!

Not so with these they’ve been playing for 10+ years and aren’t far from retirement.

 

[1990crow]

Not so with these they’ve been playing for 10+ years and aren’t far from retirement.

T20 cricket is very different to real cricket (test and ODI).

 

[MarcusP2]

T20 cricket is very different to real cricket (test and ODI).

Gayle was still contributing at 40.