2019 Cricket

[Piece]

Windies being slapped all round the park. Not much saluting from Shelly today 😂

 

[fundy]

Sounds like Roys injury may be worse than England want to admit, seems hes definitely going to miss a few games but may be worse than that. I see Morgan isnt ruling Hales out lol, wouldnt be like the ECB to backtrack would it

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Haven’t really seen it before but what a lovely little ground Taunton is

It’s brilliant - always a great atmosphere there , proper local one and the fans are excellent, played a number of games there and loved it and had many a great afternoon evening there

 

[Dando]

Haven’t really seen it before but what a lovely little ground Taunton is

Played there years ago and it’s great if you’re a batsman

 

[Deleted member 1740]

Rumour is theyre planning to use this wicket again for England v Afghanistan on Tuesday. Rashid Khan might be a real handful if so!!!

He's quality, I missed the 50/1 yesterday for him to be Top Afghan Batsman, had a piece of the 30's thst was lingering about this morning

 

[fundy]

Well Morgan doesnt seem to rate Rashid Khan lol, his back must be ok too

 

[Piece]

Quality striking by Morgan. Afghans chasing lots of leather.

 

[Dan2501]

57 ball ton for Morgan. So good!

 

[Papas1982]

What a knock this is by Morgan. Can he get 1 more and make 102 from sixes?!

 

[Kellfire]

Ireland are batting really well today.

 

[Dan2501]

Ludicrous knock that. 17 sixes, most ever in an international innings. In his last 14 balls (one of them got him out), he scored 47 runs. What an innings.

 

[fundy]

top stuff Rashid Khan, ton up in the 9th over

Edit: Mick Lewis distraught he didnt bowl a 10th

 

[Deleted member 18645]

Last time Afghanistan got wiped out like this was when the Russians invaded in 1979/80.

 

[Dan2501]

Most sixes in an International innings from Eoin Morgan.
Most sixes in an International innings from England.
Most runs conceded by a bowler in the World Cup from Rashid Khan.

Not bad.

 

[IanM]

ok, no messing about. Good stuff!

 

[HomerJSimpson]

Most sixes in an International innings from Eoin Morgan.
Most sixes in an International innings from England.
Most runs conceded by a bowler in the World Cup from Rashid Khan.

Not bad.

All fine stuff and it was a great performance but lets not get carried away here. Look at the opposition and you have to question the validity of having the likes of Afghanistan in matches like this where it serves no real purpose. Aside from their game with Sri Lanka they have been demolished all round

 

[fundy]

All fine stuff and it was a great performance but lets not get carried away here. Look at the opposition and you have to question the validity of having the likes of Afghanistan in matches like this where it serves no real purpose. Aside from their game with Sri Lanka they have been demolished all round

Couldnt disagree more, whilst they arent at their best currently Afhgans have offered a lot in recent years and are here on merit, nothing to question at all for me. Can only improve from being involved in tournaments like this than being excluded and left on the outside. Just a shame that the likes of Ireland arent here too! This England batting side will destroy plenty of attacks, they got 10 or so more than they did against Bangladesh, should Bangladesh not be here either?

Or like the BCCI and ICC would you prefer this was just a triangular tournament between India Australia and England with them each playing each other 10 times

 

[Dan2501]

All fine stuff and it was a great performance but lets not get carried away here. Look at the opposition and you have to question the validity of having the likes of Afghanistan in matches like this where it serves no real purpose. Aside from their game with Sri Lanka they have been demolished all round

We smashed the 3rd ranked bowler in the world for over 100 runs in 9 overs. He'd never conceded more than 2 sixes in an ODi innings, today he conceded 11. Afghanistan aren't great, but Rashid Khan is one of the best bowlers in the world and he got absolutely hammered.

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Couldnt disagree more, whilst they arent at their best currently Afhgans have offered a lot in recent years and are here on merit, nothing to question at all for me. Can only improve from being involved in tournaments like this than being excluded and left on the outside. Just a shame that the likes of Ireland arent here too! This England batting side will destroy plenty of attacks, they got 10 or so more than they did against Bangladesh, should Bangladesh not be here either?

Or like the BCCI and ICC would you prefer this was just a triangular tournament between India Australia and England with them each playing each other 10 times

Exactly That - Khan is one of the best bowlers in the world and was destroyed today

The WC should have the likes of Ireland , Scotland , Zimbabwe, Kenya , Bermuda etc - the fact they manipulated the qualifying to ensure they weren’t there is poor

All those countries in the second tier have provided shocks over the years and it’s poor they aren’t at the tournament. ICC and BCCI clearly just want the likes of India and Australia in the last four - they couldn’t take the risk that a smaller nation would provide a shock to knock them out

 

[Piece]

All fine stuff and it was a great performance but lets not get carried away here. Look at the opposition and you have to question the validity of having the likes of Afghanistan in matches like this where it serves no real purpose. Aside from their game with Sri Lanka they have been demolished all round

A viewpoint valid so many years ago. Not in today’s cricket. The Windies were worse yesterday, should they be questioned why they are here?