[Frankie]

Watched England tie with India today. 338 runs each. An exciting game with some great batting from Tendulkar and Strauss. Normally England would have won as India were all out when batting and England only had 8 wickets down. But for some strange reason that rule does'nt apply until the knockout stages. Stupid idea. Cant see the sense in sharing the points in limited overs competitions.

[old crust]

They have a good batting line up and are on home ground, but I would'nt be putting any money on India winning the Cup. Too many players to hide in the field.

[Frankie]

[quote=old crust;200417]Too many players to hide in the field.
/QUOTE]

Their fielding was poor against England and was probably the main reason as to how England got to 338. Based on that display the Indians are going to have to score 325+ every game against the top sides. I was amazed at how many two's could be run as fielders on the edge of the circle were incapable of moving quick enough.

A team are'nt under pressure to score boundaries against India there's a shed load of runs that can be scored by just placing the ball into gaps in the outfield.

[old crust]

The team has nothing to do with England its defo' Welsh today.

Cook is half Welsh by his Mum. The head of the Board, Huw Morris and the man who deserves a lot of credit (apart from today) is Welsh.

I've always found cricket to be popular in Wales. Two years ago I spent a few days at the Colwyn Bay Festival and plan to go there again this year.

[Fork Handles]

[penetrator]

Fucking colonel gaddafis let us down good and proper today

[Frankie]

Beaten by the Paddy's. Bit embarrasing. But as Kevin O'Brien scored the fastest century in Cricket World Cup history something was always liable to happen.

That's a win, tie and defeat for England. Wonder what the odds were on that happening?

Just wait till we play South Africa......................

[Frankie]

I didnt expect to beat South Africa so it was great to win such a tight game. I noticed in such a low scoring game that South Africa conceded 20 extras and England only 6. In fact Extras were Englands third highest run scorer. Yarpies only have themselves to blame giving that many runs away is piss-poor.

[Frankie]

England lose to Bangladesh. WTF?? Obviously England failed to set a good target. However when its your turn to do the business with the ball and 23 wides are bowled what else other than defeat can be expected.

Funnily enough extras at 33 were Bangladesh's third top run scorer. That's even worse than the Yarpies inflicted on themselves against England. Bangladesh only conceded the grand total of 10 extras when bowling.

Very amateur performance by England. Not even piss poor. School boys would be banned from playing cricket for bowling that many wides. Could be a crunch game against the Windies who are, like England, another shit or bust side who are capable of doing anything on the day.

Anyway it does'nt count as its only pyjama cricket. Unless we win of course............................

[bigphill67]

scraped a win against windies today they should of seen the match out and sent us home but if either the windies or bangladesh lose we go through look out abbo's your 34 win streak is looking like its coming to an end when we meet lol