ICC T20 World Cup 2022

I’d remove Woakes as I said before with England. Time and time again he’s proven not really capable of bowling in Australia and if you have Stokes in the side you don’t need another right arm medium fast swing bowler.

Stokes/Malan/Hales is also a bit of a muchness
 
Hakes should never have made the team. Buttler is a very poor captain and his decisions are costing the team
 
I've said this before, England's treatment of Root in this format has been criminal. Malan is a better and faster scorer in bilateral series' on flat pancakes designed for high scores. But Root is miles better on tournament pitches that always offer something for bowlers. Bar India, Root would be playing at 3 for every other country. You can't make the same point about Malan.
 
KM said:
Watching tomorrow's forecast and it seems that South Africa - Bangladesh might get rained off too. Thankfully India-Netherlands seems free of rain.
Melbourne's forecast for the next week looks awful.
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That really is brutal for SA. That could effectively knock them out of the tournament as they could still beat pakistan but have much inferior run rate.

It really is a farce having any games in Melbourne.

Melbourne is notorious for unpredictable weather. So why on earth would you schedule games there? Just play them in Sydney and Perth.
 
Chief123 said:
That really is brutal for SA. That could effectively knock them out of the tournament as they could still beat pakistan but have much inferior run rate.

It really is a farce having any games in Melbourne.

Melbourne is notorious for unpredictable weather. So why on earth would you schedule games there? Just play them in Sydney and Perth.
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Tbf tomorrow's matches are in Sydney. The rain is expected to clear by 4PM(Aussie time) according to google weather so they might get a 5over match which again defeats all the advantage that Saffers would have.
 
Why are they hosting a T20 world cup at this time of year in Australia? Surely you wait a month?
 
Stokes is a pretty average T20 player in all honesty, so far. Don't think they'd have the guts to drop him but he doesn't deserve a selection.
 
Chief123 said:
That really is brutal for SA. That could effectively knock them out of the tournament as they could still beat pakistan but have much inferior run rate.
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It's total wins before NRR so SA would be behind anyway in that scenario.
 
Dr. StrangeHate said:
That lefty who was amazing in the Pakistan series along with Brook was the better bet.
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Yeah Duckett was brilliant. However he seems to specialise against spinners with his sweeps and reverse sweeps. However, It looks like the pitches in Aus favour the seamers rather than the spinners.
 
I think Saffers will beat us and Pakistan in all honesty.
 
Skills said:
Why are they hosting a T20 world cup at this time of year in Australia? Surely you wait a month?
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It’s not even Australia weather. It’s mainly just melbourne. All the other venues have fine weather majority of time.
 
That's a shocker, what's with the tame batting? Same against Afghanistan.

Stokes or Malan need dropping, move everyone up one and play another bowler.
 
Samid said:
I've said this before, England's treatment of Root in this format has been criminal. Malan is a better and faster scorer in bilateral series' on flat pancakes designed for high scores. But Root is miles better on tournament pitches that always offer something for bowlers. Bar India, Root would be playing at 3 for every other country. You can't make the same point about Malan.
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At least on Australian pitches with wide boundaries.

Most of the English batters have feasted on small grounds with flat pitches.
 
Afg-NZ washed out would throw the cat amongst the pigeons a bit in this group. Means NZ can't afford a slip up against SL next or else they'll have to beat England in the following game.
 
FlawlessThaw said:
I’d remove Woakes as I said before with England. Time and time again he’s proven not really capable of bowling in Australia and if you have Stokes in the side you don’t need another right arm medium fast swing bowler.

Stokes/Malan/Hales is also a bit of a muchness
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Stokes is a far bigger problem with this lineup than Woakes. He isn’t good enough T20 batter to warrant his spot, particularly hindering Moeen and Livi’s time at the crease. If he stays in the team he should be way down the order where he becomes utterly pointless. Hell Woakes and Willey are probably better suited there as they’re used to swinging from ball 1.

It’s nonsense that they keep shoe horning him in.
Samid said:
I've said this before, England's treatment of Root in this format has been criminal. Malan is a better and faster scorer in bilateral series' on flat pancakes designed for high scores. But Root is miles better on tournament pitches that always offer something for bowlers. Bar India, Root would be playing at 3 for every other country. You can't make the same point about Malan.
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If Root wants to play T20’s then he should be in the side. There’s no question about it.

I’m assuming that he’s come to the decision that he doesn’t want to start again after giving up the test captaincy and wants that extra time with his family, because if he’s available not picking him is crazy.
 
SinNombre said:
At least on Australian pitches with wide boundaries.

Most of the English batters have feasted on small grounds with flat pitches.
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Yup with bigger boundaries you need smarter cricketers who can understand that running 2s every ball is easier and more effective than trying to muscle 3 boundaries per over. When you run regular 2s, boundary fielders will naturally come closer and you can hit over them. Root is a clever batsman, don't think Malan is that.
 
phelans shorts said:
If Root wants to play T20’s then he should be in the side. There’s no question about it.

I’m assuming that he’s come to the decision that he doesn’t want to start again after giving up the test captaincy and wants that extra time with his family, because if he’s available not picking him is crazy.
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He wanted to play last year. Has to be a case of them thinking he isn't good enough rather than him not being available. He was one of the best players in the 2016 edition and almost won that final single-handedly with both bat and ball.
 
Samid said:
He wanted to play last year. Has to be a case of them thinking he isn't good enough rather than him not being available. He was one of the best players in the 2016 edition and almost won that final single-handedly with both bat and ball.
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At the time he also said he wasn’t contemplating giving up test captaincy. A lot can change in a year.

If he hasn’t said no then those in charge of selection should have some serious questions to answer
 
Natural to question batting line ups/selection policy after a poor loss like that - but in reality this England team and squad is more than good enough to make the semi's, then it's anyones to win.

Just need to wake up and play Cricket with more spark. It's been timid.

Hard to see us winning Friday against pumped up Aussies. Looks like it will be raining anyway.
 
KM said:
Watching tomorrow's forecast and it seems that South Africa - Bangladesh might get rained off too. Thankfully India-Netherlands seems free of rain.
Melbourne's forecast for the next week looks awful.
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I can see SA v Bangladesh is being played in Sydney tomorrow. The weather forecast seems perfectly fine at the time of their match?
 
fecking rain ruining the tournament.
 
Chief123 said:
I can see SA v Bangladesh is being played in Sydney tomorrow. The weather forecast seems perfectly fine at the time of their match?
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14:00 start. Enough time for a 5 over match if it stops by 16:00. If there's still lightning in the area it could make it a bit tricky.
 
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14:00 start. Enough time for a 5 over match if it stops by 16:00. If there's still lightning in the area it could make it a bit tricky.
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My weather app shows a small chance of rain during the afternoon! Bloody weather apps.

Let’s see what happens.
 
ICC still lives in stoneage time. This is not the way a tournament should be held. We had the same moaning in 2019 wc when there were no reserve days. This is shocking.
 
Easy game for the Irish today all things considered. Looking forward to playing one of the bigger cricketing nations on Friday.
 
phelans shorts said:
Stokes is a far bigger problem with this lineup than Woakes. He isn’t good enough T20 batter to warrant his spot, particularly hindering Moeen and Livi’s time at the crease. If he stays in the team he should be way down the order where he becomes utterly pointless. Hell Woakes and Willey are probably better suited there as they’re used to swinging from ball 1.
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Currently Stokes is outperforming Woakes with the ball front on. At least Willey provides another left option and is still different to Curran. I’d put in Jordan or Mills in for Woakes though

The fact that Hales and Malan have been awful hasn’t helped. Malan has to stop doing his Aaron Finch impression, pretty much cost England any chance today. The point of having a deep batting line up is not to score 30 of 30
 
Utd heap said:
Just need to wake up and play Cricket with more spark. It's been timid.

Hard to see us winning Friday against pumped up Aussies. Looks like it will be raining anyway.
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Yeah agree with this point to be honest
 
Well played to Ireland truly deserved the win. My problem with England all year is throwing away early wickets. One wicket less lost and they would have won the match with 105. The thing is if Ireland had been better at catching England could have lost their 5 wickets even sooner. Again Well done Ireland.
 
Ireland were apparently 2 overs behind the rate, shows they were smarter. No point rushing if you know the game isn't going the distance, Little bowled his 3 overs quite early as well instead of being saved for the end of innings.
 
Saying it again.. this SA team looks very good. Can see Pakistan getting knocked out.
 
SA wasted so many years of Rossouw’s career.

They look the best team in the group so far albeit only played crap opposition to this point.
 
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