T20 World Cup Game 48 Super Eight Australia v Afghanistan June 23 1000hrs @ Arnos Vale Stadium St Vincent

[Moonwatcher]

Yay, I found the 'ignore' option and my life is so much better

My trick is to put everyone on ignore until I've seen enough quality posts from them to take them off.

 

[Plugger35]

That's probably the greatest win in Afghanistan's history.

Even the Taliban will be dancing on the streets of Kabul right now.

 

[FreoGirl]

now they just need to allow their women to play

 

[BACCS]

In this case, it was the wrong decision based on the pitch conditions

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It is the same pitch conditions as our last match, sloppiness in the field cost us ~20 runs and that was the difference.

 

[Gough]

At the risk of coming over a bit Warne/Chappelli, the amount of support staff a modern team travels with is ridiculous.

 

[mouncey2franklin]

Good on em, they won, big deal tbh.

 

[Around the Wicket]

Not a single wide batting 2nd has won here all tournament including 108 and 115 not chased down successfully and we choose to bowl

 

[yabsy]

Well played AFG...Interestingly their NRR is still lower.

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[Santana]

The Afghan cricketers will be over the moon at beating us after our refusal to play them outside of world cups

They should probably be a bit more annoyed at their own government on why that is the case.

 

[PoopingHindi]

that smile

 

[yabsy]

It is the same pitch conditions as our last match, sloppiness in the field cost us ~20 runs and that was the difference.

Much different conditions

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[FreoGirl]

That's probably the greatest win in Afghanistan's history.

Even the Taliban will be dancing on the streets of Kabul right now.

at least cricket is something that brings certain regions of the world together

 

[Around the Wicket]

Why didn’t we play them? Women rights or something wasn’t it?

 

[Moonwatcher]

In professional sport you can't take your focus off winning. That's what we did for the Scotland match and we'll pay the price.

 

[Freezin]

gee, there's some posters on here who you would love to mingle with at a party (not)

Probably the same number on the Freo forum I reckon....especially after that WBD game last week

 

[Moonwatcher]

Why didn’t we play them? Women rights or something wasn’t it?

Taliban won't allow a women's team. The lack of exposure may have been a factor. We do play them in the BBL of course.

 

[Moonwatcher]

Maybe I'll be able to get my sleep pattern sorted again sooner rather than later.

 

[BACCS]

Much different conditions

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Not really, we just fielded way better against the Bangers

 

[Around the Wicket]

Taliban won't allow a women's team. The lack of exposure may have been a factor. We do play them in the BBL of course.

I don’t know enough about the state of Afghanistan to probably comment but it seems silly to punish the men’s side who all seem like good men, as if us not playing them will make them reconsider a women’s side lol

 

[Freezin]

dropped catches, misfields, missed stumping, missed run out and overthrows.
it’s very difficult to win with that performance regardless of whether you bat or bowl first.

Lazy effort sadly.

 

[Some Idiot]

They should probably be a bit more annoyed at their own government on why that is the case.

They aren't exactly patriots

 

[danielnajdek]

Might of beaten us but at least we let women play cricket in our country.

 

[Moonwatcher]

I don’t know enough about the state of Afghanistan to probably comment but it seems silly to punish the men’s side who all seem like good men, as if us not playing them will make them reconsider a women’s side lol

No way to tell if they're 'good' men.

 

[mouncey2franklin]

Dude was very happy, as he should be.

 

[Around the Wicket]

Afghanistan already have better spin bowlers then Australia lol, we’d lose a 3 match Test series against them on spinning tracks