ICC Cricket World Cup 2015

Samid said:
Pakistan squad

Misbah-ul-Haq (C), Ahmed Shehzad, Mohammad Hafeez, Sarfraz Ahmed, Younis Khan, Haris Sohail, Umar Akmal, Sohaib Maqsood, Shahid Afridi, Yasir Shah, Mohammad Irfan, Junaid Khan, Ehsan Adil, Sohail Khan, Wahab Riaz
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no fawad alam is a joke.
 
KM said:
Nope not at all.

We are a pretty good one day unit and always tend to up our performances in World Cups.

Apart from Stuart Bunny, that's pretty much a perfect squad. Akshar Patel will make his mark in this tournament.
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I hope they prove me wrong and this tri series in Australia would provide us some clue on where we are.
 
South Africa squad:
AB de Villiers (capt),
Hashim Amla (vice-capt)
Kyle Abbott
Farhaan Behardien
Quinton de Kock
JP Duminy
Faf du Plessis
Imran Tahir
David Miller
Morne Morkel
Wayne Parnell
Aaron Phangiso
Vernon Philander
Rilee Rossouw
Dale Steyn
 
KM said:
Nope not at all.

We are a pretty good one day unit and always tend to up our performances in World Cups.

Apart from Stuart Bunny, that's pretty much a perfect squad. Akshar Patel will make his mark in this tournament.
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1996 - Average descending to absolute shit by the semis in extremely helpful conditions against teams battling a variety of issues in the subcontinent.. Held up by individual performances through most crunch occasions. 5/10

1999 - Pathetic performance in the Super 6 rounded off by a much deserved defeat at the hands of Zimbabwe. We probably fixed half our matches in that tournament. 4/10

2003 - Played very well all the way through only to capitulate abysmally in the final. Excellent team though. 7/10

2007- :lol: 1/10

2011 - Great performance, aided by some suspect Pakistani fielding in the semis. 9/10

2015 - I see a semis exit at the hands of the Saffers.
 
Should be some type of a Super Over (or multiple overs up to 5) if there's a tie.

The end to the 2007 final was a farce.
 
That would be such an unsatisfactory conclusion. Would fans/players truly be able to celebrate a shared triumph? I don't understand why they ditched the super overs idea.
 
I think a bowl-out would be better tbh. Have the trophy be decided on bottle rather than a mixture of talent and luck. Imagine the scenes in a bowl-out.
 
Kazi said:
I think a bowl-out would be better tbh. Have the trophy be decided on bottle rather than a mixture of talent and luck. Imagine the scenes in a bowl-out.
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Yep.

Never quite understood why they scrapped bowl outs in T2's either. Great fun.
 
IMO,World cup finals should be decided by best of three.
Like previous B&H series in Australia.
 
Ffs! Just realised that all these games will be played in the middle of the night in the UK. Annoying!!
 
Kazi said:
I think a bowl-out would be better tbh. Have the trophy be decided on bottle rather than a mixture of talent and luck. Imagine the scenes in a bowl-out.
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That's seriously the dullest way to decide a cricket match, especially a World Cup final. Cricket is a contest between bat and ball, then why on earth scrap the batting part if the game ends in a tie? Cricket has always been about outscoring the opposition with the bat and the Super Over is a lot fairer and more relevant way to decide a game than the bowl-out.

This video sums up why there shouldn't be bowl-outs. In what world would Sehwag and Robin fecking Uthappa win a WC game with the ball in their hands? Uthappa has bowled two international deliveries in his career!

 
^Umar Gul always cracks me up in the video. Can bowl a deadly yorker(or used to bowl a deadly yorker) and still bowls a ridiculous delivery in the shoot-out.
 
Michael Clarke (capt), George Bailey (vice-capt), David Warner, Aaron Finch, Shane Watson, Steven Smith, Brad Haddin (wk), Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Marsh, James Faulkner, Mitchell Johnson, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins, Xavier Doherty.

Too many options in that team.

I would go: Warner, Watson, Smith, Clarke, Bailey, Maxwell, Haddin, Doherty, Starc, Johnson, Hazlewood
 
Unlike in the subcontinent, part time spinners will get tonked here. That was a big plus in the last WC for us, spinners just keeping it quiet. Can't see us winning unless the batters are just amazing.

If we don't, would really like SA to win this one.
 
Misbah will retire from ODIs after the WC. Good guy, but I'll never forgive him for that pathetic showing against India.
 
ha_rooney said:
Misbah will retire from ODIs after the WC. Good guy, but I'll never forgive him for that pathetic showing against India.
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Which one? The stupidity in the WT20 final or the shambolic captaincy in the chase at Mohali? The Indians must love this guy, he's gifted them two big trophies in the past 7-8 years.
 
Samid said:
Which one? The stupidity in the WT20 final or the shambolic captaincy in the chase at Mohali? The Indians must love this guy, he's gifted them two big trophies in the past 7-8 years.
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They're both bad but the semi-final game was a new level of ridiculous. Even the Indian commentators couldn't believe what he was doing.
 
Ali, Bell, Taylor, Root, Morgan, Buttler, Bopara, Woakes, Broad, Anderson, Finn

Looks decent to me, depending on the pitch you could see Finn for Tredwell but I think Ali's a good enough spinner to do most of the 5th bowlers job on these pitches. Looking forward to this tournament again with no Cook.
 
NinjaFletch said:
Ali, Bell, Taylor, Root, Morgan, Buttler, Bopara, Woakes, Broad, Anderson, Finn

Looks decent to me, depending on the pitch you could see Finn for Tredwell but I think Ali's a good enough spinner to do most of the 5th bowlers job on these pitches. Looking forward to this tournament again with no Cook.
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Lacking one innings builder type player, imo.

KP would have been perfect in that team.
 
From a neutral P.O.V, Younis Khan has to take a lot of blame for that World Cup semi final. Was it 15 off 40 balls? Innings completely came to a halt when he was at the crease.
 
Boycott said:
From a neutral P.O.V, Younis Khan has to take a lot of blame for that World Cup semi final. Was it 15 off 40 balls? Innings completely came to a halt when he was at the crease.
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Younis was poor that day (in fact he's been rubbish in ODI's for 5-6 years now) but even when he got out the game was well in control. Wickets in hand and a RRR of around 5 in these T20 days is usually a piece of cake. It was Misbah's entrance that was the turning point in the game. He should have nudged it around for 1-2's but instead he completely killed the game with his blocking. The RRR kept increasing and by the time he started hitting it was all too late.

Misbah is the most frustrating player in cricket. With him it's 10x block and the 11th ball is smashed out of the park and then repeat. There is actually a reason he never has scored an ODI hundred. He doesn't build his innings properly, nor does he rotate the strike which puts pressure on both his partner and himself. The fact that this guy has the joint fastest TEST century ever sums him up really.

Misbah's mystery innings

Misbah-ul-Haq's strike rate at the end of his innings was 73.68; Tendulkar's rate for his 85 was 73.91. That, perhaps, is as good an example as any to illustrate the fact that stats without context is meaningless. Misbah's inexplicable go-slow through the first half of his innings resulted in the asking rate climbing to unmanageable proportions, and it also forced the other batsmen to take risks that might otherwise have been unnecessary. He tried to make up for it later, but apart from helping him reach a personal landmark and improving his strike-rate, his late hits counted for little.

Overall, Misbah played out 42 dot balls, which was the most among Pakistan's batsmen. In his first 42 balls, he scored only 17 and played 27 dots. During this period, Pakistan's asking rate went up from 6.07 to 8.45. Younis Khan's sluggish innings didn't help either - add his 13 from 32 balls to Misbah's 17 in his first 42, and Pakistan have every reason to feel their two most experienced batsmen didn't serve them well: in those 74 balls, the two batsmen got a grand total of 30 runs, with no boundaries. Even with the power-hitters to follow, that was a bridge too far.
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If I was the selector Misbah and Younis would never have been in my 15 man squad. A complete joke that Fawad Alam is left out.
 
He's medium pace.. or at least was, when I saw him in the u-19 WC.
 
Pakistan kit

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Pietersen's just putting Morgan in a bad place with all this "We're great mates, I know for a fact he wants me in the team.". If you were great mates, you should stfu about that. It just undermines the team.
 
zing said:
Pietersen's just putting Morgan in a bad place with all this "We're great mates, I know for a fact he wants me in the team.". If you were great mates, you should stfu about that. It just undermines the team.
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He's acting like a right twat. Obviously the Aussies will love it and encourage him, but this nonsense that youngsters are texting him asking advice and Morgan would love to have him is fecking annoying and has to stop. And I'm not even an England fan!

Great player, cnut of a person.
 
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