Group F - Ireland, Pakistan, New Zealand, Sri Lanka

[shivfan]

Because McGlashan is a keeper and a batsman and McCullum is a keeper and a batsman. Either can keep.

Yeah, but wouldn't NZ be better off player one keeper/batsman, and get in another specialist bat?

I can understand Uppercut's point about McCullum not wanting to keep wicket while captaining the side.

 

[_Ed_]

Damn, no 50 for Guptill.

 

[headhunter]

Johnson bowling well here at the close. More of what we're used to.

 

[GGG]

grrr Franklin

 

[nz0003]

Guptill is a machine, 4 sixes, 0 fours.

He's played well.

NZ end up on 198 - 4

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Yeah, but wouldn't NZ be better off player one keeper/batsman, and get in another specialist bat?

McGlashan would play as a specialist bat if McCullum was keeping.

 

[Redbacks]

Johnson bowling well here at the close. More of what we're used to.

good to see one aussie left in the tournament

 

[Uppercut]

Well played New Zealand, never gave us an inch. Peter Connell only bowls one over- that selection looks even more bizarre.

 

[nz0003]

Rankin would of troubled Redmond, hes not the best against quicker bowling.

 

[Athlai]

Irish are pretty good in the field. Their effort puts the likes of West Indies and Pakistan to shame.

 

[Uppercut]

Irish are pretty good in the field. Their effort puts the likes of West Indies and Pakistan to shame.

Nah they're not much good. The West Indies and Pakistan are just beyond a joke sometimes.

 

[shivfan]

McGlashan would play as a specialist bat if McCullum was keeping.

He's that good a batsman?

I suppose it's like South Africa and the Boucher-deVilliers situation, then....

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

He's that good a batsman?

I suppose it's like South Africa and the Boucher-deVilliers situation, then....

Same same, but different.

He's a T20 specialist of sorts.
Lots of reverse sweeps and paddles.

EDIT: ****ty way to go, that.

 

[Uppercut]

Ah jesus. Not what we needed.

 

[nightprowler10]

irish Cricket Chief exec (or something similar) just been interviews on Sky. Sounds English to me. If he is, cheeky robbing Irish ****s, taking our officials

Wish they'd take ours tbh.

 

[shivfan]

That was a poor dropped catch by Butler!

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

That was a poor dropped catch by Butler!

Really?
I thought he did well to get to it, looked like he was gonna make a great catch, but it just bobbled out as he was coming down.

You make it sound like it was a sitter.

 

[nz0003]

**** over from Butler.

 

[Fusion]

Irish are pretty good in the field. Their effort puts the likes of West Indies and Pakistan to shame.

A club side would put Pakistan's efforts on the field to shame.

 

[Uppercut]

Wilson takes the overkicks.