Group E - England, India, South Africa, West Indies

[Shri]

No - the point is that with 9 overs you can bat like muppets (as the Windies, except for Sarwan and Chanders, have done) and still have no real risk of running out of batsmen. That changes the dynamic so much that you should be looking at more like 95 off 9 imho

Mind you I would NOT be saying this if England were chasing

82 off 10 overs and the chasing side should be asked to nominate 6 players. The loss of 5 wickets should be considered as an all out.

 

[four_or_six]

We was robbed.

Oh well, pleased with how we've played since the Netherlands. And I don't buy all the stuff about our batting being rubbish, not the best but we've put down decent scores.

Bring on the Aussies.

 

[jimbles]

my thoughts too metalic. They wouldnt of won!

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

COMPLETE JOKE.

Bloody match engine, totally ****ed.

 

[Smith]

Yes England batted badly at the end, but they still outplayed West Indies.

England have been totally cheated out of this game by a completely farcical DL total. That total implies 82-0 after 11 overs is par.

COMPLETE JOKE.

Can someone shut up this troll please? Has been spouting the same **** again and again. Well for starters, England oughta known that DL is indeed applicable for the competition. If they can't agree with it, should not have competed in the first place.

 

[Shri]

Nah. Sarwan and Chanders just need to bat sensibly and they'll make it with 4 balls to spare

Legend.

 

[roseboy64]

chanders and sarwan at 6 and 7

 

[Beleg]

Can someone shut up this troll please? Has been spouting the same **** again and again. Well for starters, England oughta known that DL is indeed applicable for the competition. If they can't agree with it, should not have competed in the first place.

he's less of a troll than you are mate.

 

[zaremba]

Nah. Sarwan and Chanders just need to bat sensibly and they'll make it with 4 balls to spare

Cold comfort, but at least Nostradamuzaremba still has the old magic

 

[steds]

England's team selection lost us this tournament.

England with 2 Frenchmen in the team: 2 losses
England with 1 Frenchman in the team: 2 wins and 1 loss

The trend shows that if we'd have gone into every game frog free, we wouldn't have lost a game.

 

[zaremba]

Can someone shut up this troll please? Has been spouting the same **** again and again. Well for starters, England oughta known that DL is indeed applicable for the competition. If they can't agree with it, should not have competed in the first place.

A really poor post, Precam. You're capable of writing sensibly, why not do so? And when it comes to trolling, bear in mind that you've been banned and (AFAIK) scaly hasn't.

 

[steds]

Cold comfort, but at least Nostradamuzaremba still has the old magic

I'm impressed.

 

[kingkallis]

Well done Windies! So glad to see them doing this after losing 5 for 45...

 

[Scaly piscine]

Can someone shut up this troll please? Has been spouting the same **** again and again. Well for starters, England oughta known that DL is indeed applicable for the competition. If they can't agree with it, should not have competed in the first place.

You are the one trolling after England have just been cheated out of the semi final and it's pretty much the consensus not just my opinion.

 

[Uppercut]

Colly's fault for choosing to bat.

I really hope they sort the DL out in future though. The better team lost today.

 

[zaremba]

Sticks in the craw a little bit seeing Gayle choked with the magnitude of his team's achievement despite being so thoroughly atrocious with the bat, except for competent little cameos from Ronnie and Chanders at the end.

 

[wpdavid]

Well cant say England have shown anything which makes them deserve to go through.

Very true. More the fault of some braindead selections than the players themselves, but given we invented twittytwatty, we really didn't have a clue how to put a side together. When you've got one opener patently out of his depth and nothing of note batting wise after number 4, we were never serious contenders.

It's been said before, but what a shame Pak couldn't have been competent last Sunday and spared us this nonsense.

 

[GIMH]

We was robbed.

Oh well, pleased with how we've played since the Netherlands. And I don't buy all the stuff about our batting being rubbish, not the best but we've put down decent scores.

Bring on the Aussies.

Yeah, only once have we actually posted a total that I would consider to be poor, even though it's seemed crappy we've managed to jumble the runs together generally. We'd have had enough runs had it been a 20-over game, but hey, not the Windies' fault it rained or that the DL is flawed for the format, so be it.

Hope the Saffies win tomorrow, can't be doing with finishing bottom of the group.

 

[Adamc]

Can someone shut up this troll please? Has been spouting the same **** again and again. Well for starters, England oughta known that DL is indeed applicable for the competition. If they can't agree with it, should not have competed in the first place.

What a ****ing ridiculous post. You don't have to be an one-eyed England supporter to think that the D/L target was unfair. Your suggestion that England should have pulled out of the tournament because D/L is less than perfect is idiotic.

 

[Smith]

Yeah, only once have we actually posted a total that I would consider to be poor, even though it's seemed crappy we've managed to jumble the runs together generally. We'd have had enough runs had it been a 20-over game, but hey, not the Windies' fault it rained or that the DL is flawed for the format, so be it.

Hope the Saffies win tomorrow, can't be doing with finishing bottom of the group.

A sane post. Fully agree.