T20 World Cup Game 26 West Indies v New Zealand June 13 1000hrs @ Brian Lara Cricket Academy Trinidad and Tobago

[Nicho50]

Hosein is one of the best 20/20 Spinners in the world, factor in he pretty much bowls 2 or 3 of his overs in the powerplays.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Hosein is one of the best 20/20 Spinners in the world, factor in he pretty much bowls 2 or 3 of his overs in the powerplays.

Not just one of the best, he's easily the best one, and honestly it's not even close. Zampa is good, and a few others are too, but Hosein is unbelievable. We need to be content taking him for lets say 24 runs (no wickets when we play), and just take it and run. Not having him get 2 for stuff all is a win

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Charles dead set sucks

Get him off and replace him with a decent fielder

 

[Nicho50]

How is Shai Hope not playing. He has to be playing ahead of King, Charles or Chase.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

How is Shai Hope not playing. He has to be playing ahead of King, Charles or Chase.

Chase I'd play but not as a number 4/5...that's the issue. No idea why Hope isn't playing in these comditions

 

[yabsy]

NZ winning the toss and choosing to bowl first, this is pretty much a do or die game for both teams.

How is it do or die for the WI when they're 2-0?

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[LukeParkerno1]

If it wasn't gone it now is with Neesham gone

Send Boult in lol

 

[LukeParkerno1]

If they lost this game they would have needed to beat Afghanistan as NZ would probably beat Uganda and PNG.

Not quite do or die for them but it would have made it a lot tougher for them.

You really daren't saying they wouldn't have beaten Afghanistan are you? Windies are a bit up and down like a yo yo but they should be easily accounting for Afghanistan they have elite spinners themselves. Typical game Pooran would go off

 

[Taylor]

Who would have thought England and NZ might not make it through the group stages.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Who would have thought England and NZ might not make it through the group stages.

NZ surprise me more, actually thought they'd go close to winning it but they have been poor

 

[Nicho50]

Phillips is going down swinging.



My money would be on Afghanistan beating them.

Phillips gone.

I think WI will wipe the floor with Afghanistan personally.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

My money would be on Afghanistan beating them.

Windies should dead set smoke them if they are realistic, but they may be in a situation like Australia is where tanking that game takes the Kiwis out, haven't looked at it in their pool myself

 

[Gough]

Phillips gone.

I think WI will wipe the floor with Afghanistan personally.

I'd argue the Afghani bowling attack is probably a bit better than the Kiwis and the West Indies top order wasn't much today.

 

[LukeParkerno1]

Boult is still close to my favourite bat to watch lol

 

[Gough]

The Kiwis have had the sort of tournament I thought Australia might with an aging team going around once too often.

 

[ioppolo]

If only NZ's last two death overs weren't such a shit show.

 

[Plugger35]

If only NZ's last two death overs weren't such a shit show.

Yeah those last two overs pretty much cost us the match, we looked like chasing a target of around 130 before those two overs.

Credit to the Windies, they were the better team and deserved to win, hopefully they can do some damage in the Super 8 stage.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Charles dead set sucks

Get him off and replace him with a decent fielder

You can't break up the King Charles duo.

 

[BlakeyNoFlakey]

NZ lost this because they were short a bowler, and two overs from Rutherford against part-timers won them the game. But prior to Rutherford's batting efforts in the last two overs, NZ had them on the ropes. That tells me that when WI plays a side like India, Aus, or SA, who will have good bowlers to the end, they might struggle. Rutherofrd's inning papered over the cracks, IMO.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Does anyone remember what Rutherford was on before the last 2 overs?

 

[Moonwatcher]

Wow, Rutherford scored all 37 runs in the final two overs. Would have been 31 from 27 balls prior to that.

 

[icyflakes]

NZ lost this because they were short a bowler, and two overs from Rutherford against part-timers won them the game. But prior to Rutherford's batting efforts in the last two overs, NZ had them on the ropes. That tells me that when WI plays a side like India, Aus, or SA, who will have good bowlers to the end, they might struggle. Rutherofrd's inning papered over the cracks, IMO.

It's clear NZ are the better team but shitting the bed even for a couple overs is devastating in t20. You shit the bed for a few overs in ODI or Test and the better team will nearly always come out on top. It's why the minnows are bringing it to the larger teams here - thats not to imply Windies are minnows in any means but they weren't the better team here today.

I think its absolutely a net benefit for the tournamnent that WI are through as the hosts to the Super 8, should mean continued interest from the locals and better crowd atmosphere.

 

[Around the Wicket]

How is it do or die for the WI when they're 2-0?

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It was never a do or die for Windies but it guaranteed a Super 8 birth whereas if NZ won Windies more then likely would be playing Afghanistan for the spot along NZ.

 

[Around the Wicket]

It's clear NZ are the better team but shitting the bed even for a couple overs is devastating in t20. You shit the bed for a few overs in ODI or Test and the better team will nearly always come out on top. It's why the minnows are bringing it to the larger teams here - thats not to imply Windies are minnows in any means but they weren't the better team here today.

I think its absolutely a net benefit for the tournamnent that WI are through as the hosts to the Super 8, should mean continued interest from the locals and better crowd atmosphere.

Winning the toss and bowling is a conservative move, that pitch looked as though it was going to be tough to bat 2nd on but... they probably should have been chasing 90, they blew there load and bowled there good bowlers too early and the tail wagged.

 

[ioppolo]

Wow, Rutherford scored all 37 runs in the final two overs. Would have been 31 from 27 balls prior to that.

Sensible innings in the context of the game situation and the bowler rotations. If only the other Windows batsman had such thought processes.