Another point to consider here: why so many games in Wales and the West Country, where the weather is always dodgy? It's not like Cardiff's a cricket hotbed anyway is it.
ICC Cricket World Cup 2019
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They're just using the 11 international grounds in the country though aren't they? No secret that they wanted to use the London Stadium too, but not sure what other options they had. I suppose some of the County grounds could have been fitted out with temporary seating.
Fair point Fletch. They haven't used Birmingham yet though have they? Or Lord's? Imagine the idea is to go round the country in stages but putting so many games in the west right at the start of summer seems a strange idea.
Just looked at the forecast and it seems very unlikely we'll get any play anywhere until Friday at the earliest. What a farce.
Dhawan ruled out for 3 weeks
Rahul opening? Who'll replace him?
feckS SAKE.
Day 13: Bangladesh vs Sri Lanka
Is this going to be another abandoned match?
Weather forecasts she rain for most of the day.
Weather forecasts she rain for most of the day.
You can’t predict the British weather months in advance.
How were people to know that we would have a prolonged spell of rain like this one.
Terrible. Our chances just went down significantly.
Not sure if anyone will even replace him if its 3 weeks. DK to bat 4 till then. If they tell him to go home then probably fly in Rahane or Pant.
Yeah. Weather moaners are going to be out in full force this week. Match tomorrow and India NZ looking tough.
I dont mind. It adds to the Englishness of the WC. I love English conditions
I dont mind. It adds to the Englishness of the WC. I love English conditions
99 WC did not have a single abandoned game.
Would be madness to keep him in squad if he is out for 3 weeks. He will barely be able to play semis if we qualify.
Yeah. But the temptation will be there. Think it would be wise to fly in Pant and make Rahul open. But the fact that they havent announced it already means they will do further investigations.
English conditions are good, yes. Buta washed out games add feck all to the tournament though. The whole point is to see as much cricket as scheduled.
Feel the NRR is going to play a big role in this tournament.
If we bring in Pant, I don't think we'll be weakened. I'd hate to see DK or Shankar starting.
Agreed. What I meant was that it is, has been an inevitable part of the package. Reserve games may be a solution if scheduling can be done better but until then it's better to assume the uncertainty of the weather and roll with it.
Climate change/global warming?
They had reserve days in 99, I remember India England being completed on the second day
This is the worst world cup ever
This is terrible from start to to the finish. Lack of reserve days, poor planning/scheduling, everything.
England play close to double digit home ODIs every summer yet Taunton has never hosted any ODIs outside of World Cups. Reason: It's not big enough to host England in ODIs. So how come a historical fixture like Aus-Pak is being hosted at such a miniature stadium?
Why isn't the entire ground covered when it rains? One game has already been abandoned because of 'a wet patch' despite no rain for two hours and sun shining.
Not many positives to take from this tournament so far.
England play close to double digit home ODIs every summer yet Taunton has never hosted any ODIs outside of World Cups. Reason: It's not big enough to host England in ODIs. So how come a historical fixture like Aus-Pak is being hosted at such a miniature stadium?
Why isn't the entire ground covered when it rains? One game has already been abandoned because of 'a wet patch' despite no rain for two hours and sun shining.
Not many positives to take from this tournament so far.
Because we have one every year?
At least if you staged the tournament in mid-late July/early August you'd give yourselves more of a chance.
Also, as others have said, the lack of rest days is ridiculous and some weird stadium choices have been made. Are the matches being held in different parts of the country by stages? If not, it's hard to see why so many games are being held in Wales and the West Country.
Exactly.
The TV schedulers are happy to put two games side by side at weekends. They could surely do that during the week too. Just have Sky Sports Mix as the reserve channel and use it to host the rearranged games when needed.
Tomorrow's weather for Taunton seems fine to at least get a result. Thursday's for India-NZ is more dicey since there is a strong chance of rain by the time second innings has just started.
I'd love it if Sri Lanka make it through by just getting draws from washed out games
Huge tournament after 20 years, biggest sporting event in 7 for the UK and cricket puts on this shambles. The largest stadium in this country matches the smallest in India.
I was excited for this WC until Jatt Ji's injury. Now I couldn't care less if the rest of the tournament experiences Mumbai rains.
What a fecking horrible world cup its been. Not forgetting that I already think one days are a bore and the worst form of cricket out of the three, but this world cup has been a bunch of damp sh*te. Not likely to get a game tomorrow as well, whopdidooo.
Yeah agree with this, they are trying to host a weather dependent tournament in North Europe without any reserve days or moving it further into the summer where there is less chance of rain. But the Ashes are seen to be more important so playing it early, England shouldn't have got it in an Ashes year imo.
Yep, completely agree. Ashes should have been postponed until next year.
Started yesterday with thunderstorms. Took my umbrella to office and not a drop to be seen anywhere
Someone correct me if I'm wrong but if England got WC 15 and Australia got WC 19 they wouldn't have had to mess with the scheduling of the ashes at all (like they did for the last WC)
July and August have higher average precipitation than June.
What's the point of hosting world cup games when half of the matches get washed out.
Not sure how anyone can defend ICC for this. Absolute shambles. SriLanka already have two washed out games, what good does it do. Aus/Pak played in Taunton ffs. Half of the big games are midweek but we have Afg v. NZ on sundays. And to make matter worse, Dhawan is injured.
So if they had a reserve day, Sa and WIndies match could have been completed today as it is not raining in Southampton today. Great job ICC.
Started yesterday with thunderstorms. Took my umbrella to office and not a drop to be seen anywhere