“you just dropped the WC”
“No sir, YOU just did”
And so on…
“you just dropped the WC”
“No sir, YOU just did”
And so on…
England are lucky to even be at the Semi Final stage but great that someone with a bit of a voice on the international cricket scene is voicing this.
It’s all setup for their triumph after their embarrassing capitulations at the World Test Championship Final & ODI World Cup Final last year.
I can’t be having with the sooking, personally.
If we were good enough, we’d have won the thing. For some reason we put in a completely awful performance against Afghanistan, and that might have cost us the trophy.
shrugs But we do have a lot of trophies, so I’m not particularly cut up about it.
Generally, I think the selection was good. I think experience was the way to go. I certainly don’t have a problem with Warner’s series (10th most runs in the series and mostly very good fielding), and if he could have kept going like that I’d have been more than happy for him to continue in that format, but it’s probably as good a time as any to retire.
Marsh’s form with the bat was the most disappointing.
I guess I’m one of the few that will be hoping for an Indian win today. I genuinely like some of their players, while my feeling towards England players range from indifference to dislike.
And more whinging from the likes of Athers (good lord, do they ever, ever stop?) makes me want them to lose even harder.
Well said. Poms are by far the worst in cricket. Sanctimonious, holier-than-thou, hypocritical and love using mental gymnastics to absolve themselves of any blame for their own failures. Hoping the Saffas beat India in the final however!
I know I’m likely on my own here, and I understand that losing another final would like scar SA even more, but Indian supporters love their cricket, and there’s so many of them, so I just feel like a win would make so many people so blissfully happy.
I mean…I think this means more to them than probably any other country.
It means so much to them they need to manipulate tournaments to ensure they get the easiest path to the final.
I hope they get wiped off the park.
India should win comfortably I’d say
They absolutely embarrassed England today
Agreed sadly.
Exactly. Basically trying to fix the outcome of a tournament without actually paying for the result to be manufactured.
It always warms the heart when Jonny registers a globe, so nice of him to deliver in a WC semi.
Don’t you mean a moral 100?
Vi🐀 with another failure. Starting to decline?
Saffers have an awesome bowling line up and the best T20 finisher in the world. Maybe Klassen does what Klusner couldn’t?
India will be warm favourites though.
Sucks to lose, but no shame in losing to that Indian side. They are just so strong in every area
In the end we got two WC titles from this generation so I’ll take that every time
It’s time to refresh the lineup and get more youth into the side . Time for Mott to go and Buttler to continue on as a player but not as captain he just isn’t good enough tactically
Been great seeing Archer again, looks really good. Just build him up slowly so we can get him back playing tests at full fitness
I reckon the Poms are unders on silverware for their domination of the white ball formats over the last 8 years. But I guess 1 trophy from each format when historically you don’t win ■■■■ is a decent enough result.
Let me guess?
There is some BCCI rule in place to give India the trophy if the game is washed out?
I can see why some would see it that way. The only other one where we should of won it or at the very least made the final was the T20 World Cup in 2021. We were so dominant in that tournament but we completely botched the last 5-6 overs bowling in the semi final
The way I figure it, they re-wrote the book on limited overs cricket and were so far ahead of everyone for a long time, they really should’ve brought home more silverware than they did.
Fair call, can’t really argue with that