Warm Up Games

[Prince EWS]

Smith's bowling has long been underrated in ODIs, was very handy around 2011 or so.

He spent a lot of time working on it during his break too; he has a totally different approach to the crease now.

 

[Daemon]

He spent a lot of time working on it during his break too; he has a totally different approach to the crease now.

Yes his action is a lot smoother now that he isn’t carrying the weight of covering up systemic cheating on his shoulders

 

[Spark]

Yes his action is a lot smoother now that he isn’t carrying the weight of covering up systemic cheating on his shoulders

I can't tell if this is a joke or not because it still works if serious

 

[vcs]

Seeing as we only have three batsmen, if they need some time to play themselves into form, it doesn't look too good for us. We start off with a lot of tough matches.

 

[trundler]

Come on, Shimron!

King Kohli looks like a commoner these days

 

[Starfighter]

Just watching the highlights of the Aus-SL match, what is it with Sri Lankan batsmen and head butting good length balls? Are their home pitches really that dead?

 

[Prince EWS]

Just watching the highlights of the Aus-SL match, what is it with Sri Lankan batsmen and head butting good length balls? Are their home pitches really that dead?

Yeah pretty much. They actually play on their fair share of seamers in domestic cricket some seasons, but even those are low-bouncing seamers.

 

[Daemon]

Good to know our batting is reaching peak shitness on the cusp of the WC.

 

[TimAngas]

A lot riding on Bravo coming good at the right time for the West Indies. Hope is now a certified OD gun but they need a guy to back him up and join in the strike rotation if they lose a few wickets in the power play. Right now I see them making over 350 several times in the tournament but with a few capitulations thrown in. Who knows who will be on the receiving end of what.

 

[SillyCowCorner1]

Hope is in another world rn

 

[vcs]

Rahul seems to be in good touch today. Definitely need some sort of contribution from Grandpa MSD in these kind of situations, otherwise he's literally useless.

 

[ajdude]

**** it i’m on the windies bandwagon

 

[BeeGee]

This is some superb striking from Russell!

 

[TimAngas]

Looks like IPL Russell has been successfully transplanted into the Windies lineup. Scary

 

[ajdude]

windies’ bowling concerns me, holder and brathwaite are gonna go for plenty and nurse is a bit ****

 

[trundler]

Jesus the #7 and #8 just collectively scored 100 off 53!

 

[ajdude]

**** off boult you ruined everything

 

[Howe_zat]

If this were a real ODI we'd be looking at the highest ever all out score here - current record is the Windies' 371 all out earlier this year

 

[Burgey]

The White Wasim and his mates copping a ****ing pasting

 

[mr_mister]

Dre Russ randomly having some insane WC would be hilarious. Totally devalues the ODI format to have the ultimate t20 mercenary come in and dominate but I'd love it