Yes, looked in great touch. We really lack players who know how to play good spinners though other than Kohli. Either we attack them or just prod along.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
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Well then, we may as well just have knockout rounds in 2023. Pointless having a super long group stage and one KO round.
Sorry it was the 9 overs from over nos 21-29 that we scored 15 runs. Smacked the 30th over for a beastly 7 runs!
Captaincy pressure?
This. NZ. England. Aussies is my preference.
In the end fecking aussies will win it though
Go and have a liedown. Genuinely.
Hard when we're not allowing any consistency by picking crap players and then chopping and changing.
Tell that to the ICC.
And Kohli himself is responsible for that given the fact that he's the most powerful captain we've had in a long while.
NZ or england winning will be good for the game. Australia winning would be too boring but have to say their mentality is just too good and won't be surprised if they just do it for the 6th time.
Am I living in some bizarro world or are we genuinely having this discussion?
NZ or Oz win please.
Hope England score 450+ tomorrow and the game then gets washed out completely.
Hope England score 450+ tomorrow and the game then gets washed out completely.
It's just strange to us being called too pessimistic and delusional at the same time. How's that possible
I mean... hyperbole fans are pretty common in all forms of sport.
If that happens we will see comments like ICC= BCCI again and it was a conspiracy against England.
That's disappointing. 2nd batting failure for 2 defeats.
Expected trouble looking at swing from our bowlers but not this bad. Hopefully NZ go get their first WC.
Expected trouble looking at swing from our bowlers but not this bad. Hopefully NZ go get their first WC.
Ball did absolutely nothing after about 8 overs . If India had played out the first 10 overs , this would have been a walk in the park
Don’t know what it is, but when it comes to cricket India has the worst fans! Tend to be arrogant and dish it out but can never take it when they lose.
I’m not even talking about this forum, but my mates who are great, become monsters when it comes to Indian cricket!
Makes me think maybe it’s the same for United fans, considering how so many other fans can’t stand us. Obviously not all the fans are like that, just seems to be a larger proportion compared to other teams
Agree. Batting effort was pathetic. Pandya and Pant batted superbly from. 10-20 and then threw it away.
Honestly this is one of the stupidest arguments I've ever witnessed. You're embarrassing yourself here. Do you really fail to understand the significance of KO stages?
Strange thing is that I feel that probably the extra day played into the mind of the top 3 even more. One extra day to kind of think about everything. Kohli specially looked like he was absolutely shitting it once Rohit was gone early
There seems to be some bitterness about the fact that India won the group stage then bottled the semi-final, and also some negativity towards England, the country where Manchester United play - the club around which this forum was created.
Think of the Champions League in football, if a team wins 6 games out of 6 in the group stage - it means absolutely nothing more than scraping through. In both scenarios all you've done is qualify for the next stage.
It's what happens next that matters, no point crying about the format just because India have thrown the match away today, the format of the tournament didn't make you 5/3 chasing a very modest target.
This is the same India that got to the final of the ICC in 2017 only to get absolutely hammered by a Pakistan side which plays well or badly depending on which way the wind is blowing.
Time to realise that however a tournament is played, it's the same for every team and the one which wins all of its knockout matches will be the champion.
Think of the Champions League in football, if a team wins 6 games out of 6 in the group stage - it means absolutely nothing more than scraping through. In both scenarios all you've done is qualify for the next stage.
It's what happens next that matters, no point crying about the format just because India have thrown the match away today, the format of the tournament didn't make you 5/3 chasing a very modest target.
This is the same India that got to the final of the ICC in 2017 only to get absolutely hammered by a Pakistan side which plays well or badly depending on which way the wind is blowing.
Time to realise that however a tournament is played, it's the same for every team and the one which wins all of its knockout matches will be the champion.
I like the fact that there's been more posters commenting about the Indian fans complaining about the world cup format rather than actual number of Indian fans complaining about the world cup format.
The above post really is a masterclass of selective reading.
The above post really is a masterclass of selective reading.
We all have our Di Maria's Angels to bear.
WHat's even more funny is we are delusional, pessimistic, bitter and arrogant. How can someone be everything
. Generalization at its best.Who cares anyway. Indians don’t like cricket anymore, all about hockey
WHat's even more funny is we are delusional, pessimistic, bitter and arrogant. How can someone be everything
Well there are 4 billions of you.
Love the assumption that we've to be always say something positive about England too given we support Man Utd. Next @ChrisNelson will be telling us to sing God save the queen too as long as we support man Utd.
Why are we being called arrogant? We've literally been calling ourselves a 2 man batting line up all tournament. Losing Dhawan was pretty much that for us.
20 pages on this thread today, yep it makes sense. India lost a match, everyone needs to get a dig in or two.
Put us back in the tournament!
Hey come on now, India fans weren't exactly reluctant to throw digs at England when we were struggling a few weeks ago.
And I'm sure if we lose tomorrow we'll get the usual abuse.
how can we be out? fecking cnuts..Doubt it. Shite happens. Just take it on the chin like an adult.
If we were 450 and Aus were 20 for 8 after 10 overs and the game got rained off you'd curse your luck but be proud of being in that position in the first place.
It would be one of them if 'only' moments that would take you into the next tournament with great confidence. Blaming the ICC for bad weather is just crazy.
Thats normal isn't it?
If they lose tomorrow then they'll be on the receiving end, today its us.
Ignoring the fact that atleast 75% of those pages are people discussing the match.