Hales storm.
ICC T20 World Cup 2022
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So England’s bowling/fielding in the power play doesn’t get any credit?
Bar the final 4 overs with the ball - absolutely brilliant by England.
One of the best white ball batting performances i've seen from us.
As for the Indian lads claiming they were proved right - talk about missing the point
You've got to watch the match play out. That's what we were moaning about.
You don't follow Indian cricket and hence lack context of India losing in big matches due to slow starts. Enjoy your victory but don't tell Indian fans about their team.
There's a wrist spinner sat on the bench, surely it should be a certain selection in T20 matches.
Plus all the money they throw at it too.Nasser
"The mighty India, with all the T20 cricket they play"
Nah, its just common sense, people were self combusting after 2 overs.
I'm doing exactly that - not making sweeping judgements and watching the match...You were posting like a child.
Anyway I'll leave it there.
It is like United. Throwing money and playing wrong players.
Probably England's best white ball performance since the 2019 ODI World Cup semi
The point was it was still silly to say game over after 6 overs. Why did everyone carry on watching after those 6 overs then if it was game over?
India literally faced Pakistan’s bowling with a near impossible task and ended up winning the match in this World Cup!
TBF, they should have self combusted seeing who was opening for India
I think this is recency bias. You guys get too caught on one off results.
Sometimes your openers also combust at the top, but that doesn't mean you should adopt a conservative approach at the top. England bat deep as feck. Malans been one of the best T20 3s for ages, and Livingstone is an envy for most teams at the bottom
It's not even been mentioned. Rashid's figures were great and the bowling as a whole apart from the last 4 were great.
Yep. It's pretty much like England and football.
The Hundred > The IPL.
To watch India get battered?
Maybe but the form has been mixed in the tournament and in the summer against India but this was exceptional stuff.
Really been impressed with Sam Curran this tournament, thought his pace might struggle in Australia but he has played well and cemented his place.
Yeah agree with that.
That was like England at our best under Morgan, absolutely fecking brutal.
Pakistan are the team I'd least want to face in the final, just hope we perform on the day because if we do I think we're better than them.
Both apt comparisons.
He's been excellent but his death bowling was poor today.
I don't think it was game over after 6 overs. Heck, I even was slightly optimistic after we reached 168 but the issue is deep inside we all knew butler and hales will take this away. We needed something special with the bowl. Just like we needed Kohli's masterclass against Pak. Let us not forget india were poor even in that game. That Kohli's innings and Pak choking from that situation does not happen regularly.
Yeah today it was but as a whole in the tournament he has done well.
We had people crying over the power play saying they would be lucky to get 140 and laughing at people suggesting they could still get 170 which they literally did. The ones having meltdowns would have snapped your hand off for 168 at that stage. Englands batsmen just blew them out of the game.
It is surprising when you think of the money India have and the quality of players they have, and how they're totally dominant in bi-lateral series , how poor they've been in big tournaments in the last decade.
I can't think why India don't play Chalal, he's always seemed a good player and every top team has a wrist spinner in the playing XI.
Why aren't they asking him why he batted at run a ball?
He seemed to say they've done well to get that total and hasn't mentioned they were short and he seems to be blaming the bowling.
India's only had one good performance this world Cup but they shouldn't be getting smashed like minnows in a WC semi.
I don’t understand how a professional Athlete who’s only job is to play and train cricket, can be so undedicated to getting fit. Rohit Sharma looks like someone who hasn’t burnt a calorie in his life.
Jos hasn't got the voice I expected
He was always a chubby feck. Probably why he struggled as a middle order batsman because he had to run a few runs, rather than see out dots and boundaries
Again credit to the Irish for warming us up.
I think it was after the second ball.
I find it difficult to believe that you don't see how the powerplay (that's six overs, btw - the time after which we knew we were in deep trouble) is what made the difference in the score you chased down. Perhaps it is easier to double down on your point than agree on the clear and obvious alternative conclusion which would mean giving credit to people who actually seem to understand their team much better.
Winner's narrative, so make of it what you please.
That said, no denying that it shouldn't have been so one sided, England should have been made to work for those runs, easy or otherwise, but India just gave up in the face of some fabulous batting.
Tbh, that was a very disappointing semi final to watch. Such an anti climax. One of the most one sided matches I’ve seen. Both teams having weakened bowling line ups too.
Both England and India are arrogant, but India more so. So this result pleases me.
You can pump in what ever money you want but if you play wrong players you will lose the clutch games. You look at someone like Rahul who have proven to bottle in big games even in IPL so not a surprise he goes missing in international cricket as well. Same with Bhuvi. Playing bilateral is the best they can do.