Rally round the West Indies always gives me chills. By far my favorite sporting related song.
ICC T20 World Cup 2021
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Such a shame it was followed by the most buzzkill and dour anthem ever.
Expect this to be pretty high scoring given it's Dubai and these two teams.
Although apprently its a brand new deck, so who knows.
Although apprently its a brand new deck, so who knows.
Cmon Windies!!
Ignorant question - is it only in cricket the Caribbean islands play under one banner? Is there any other sport or elsewhere the West Indies identity exists?
Super catch
Damn. Great catch Mo.
Has Narine retired from T20's for the WI's?
Nah. Was available. Not picked.
I don't think WI care how normal cricket teams approach a powerplay.
Dots, wickets or boundaries. Doesn't matter how the field is set.
Dots, wickets or boundaries. Doesn't matter how the field is set.
Think Hetmyer is really over rated.
Windies in trouble
Some awful shot selection.
Mind you, still have firepower left with Pooran-Polly-Dre Russ.
Mind you, still have firepower left with Pooran-Polly-Dre Russ.
England look class.
england will still allow windies to post 130 odd.
Teams will need to assess conditions very quickly throughout this tournament, these aren’t blasting your way to 180-200 pitches.
Nevermind that it's T20s.. WI should have played Roston Chase simply since they're playing England. 
Yup only cricket. Everything else we have individual teams.
Staking our claim for most embarrassing performance of the tournament 
They’ll struggle to get to 100 from here.
Bloody hell, Windies are 6 down but still have Pollard and Russell out there
That's a big wicket. Windies shouldn't be able to set anything competitive from here.
60 all out
Terrible.
55. So poor. Threw half of those wickets away.
At a minimum should have played out the 20 overs. NRR could be huge in Group A and WI's NRR will now take a nosedive.
At a minimum should have played out the 20 overs. NRR could be huge in Group A and WI's NRR will now take a nosedive.
Some of the nations who didn't qualify would have done better. Diabolical performance, not a single player took responsibility, such casual shot selection.
Those that have been calling this the 'group of death' can't have watched much cricket in recent years. England apart it's filled with a lot of average teams.
The other group is easily more difficult where one of the top 4 ranked teams will miss out.
The other group is easily more difficult where one of the top 4 ranked teams will miss out.
Thought England were very good there, as obviously inept as Windies were.
That’s just simply not true at all. Whatever you think of any of these teams the fact is that all of them are capable of beating each other on a good day . 3 teams in the other group have 0 chance of qualifying
Wi bowling looks very ordinary. Rampaul, Hosein and McCoy were bowlers I had not seen. Two of them till now look normal. Rampaul 10 years ago was good.
Everything England tried paid off, not sure that could ever be replicable
More than half this Windies team are 33 years old or more.
Might be saved by the fact that Aus seem to have brought a team for the last World Cup.
What a catch!
Surely not another England collapse….
What a grab from Hosein!
England 4 down chasing 55
England 4 down chasing 55
Agreed.
Also this is clearly not the 150-160 surface we expected. Not straightforward to play on. Had Windies even done marginally better with the bat this could have been a closer game.
Hope we get better cricket tomorrow.
Standings after today.
Massive NRR of almost 4 for Eng. Sadly, I think WI will come to regret the extent of this loss.. hard to turn that around in just 4 games.
Weird omission, yeah. Like our selectors not picking Faf.