Final - England v New Zealand

[straw man]

Things you never would've expected - Colin De Grandhomme to bowl 10 overs and take 1/25 in a world cup final.

 

[slippy888]

Things you never would've expected - Colin De Grandhomme to bowl 10 overs and take 1/25 in a world cup final.

All those years he under performed we can forget now

 

[White Ball]

Who are favourite now or 50-50

 

[Spintolose]

Win predictor has NZ at 58%

England need to get to 160-4 to get back in the game.

 

[slippy888]

Who are favourite now or 50-50

Game is in England favour I think with buttler and stokes batting New Zealand need a moment of brilliance

 

[ImpatientLime]

yeah its essentially all on buttler now

stokes has been in superb form but this is the ultimate anti stokes strip

 

[Spintolose]

Using the infamous doubling the score after 30. England lose by 11 runs.

I hope they can at least take it that close. Keep everyone in it.

 

[vandem]

Eng slightly ahead at 4-115 / 30. A wicket soon and NZ is ahead,

240 target is low enough that a 50 from Stokes or Buttler and some 15-20s from the bowlers gets them home. In comparison, at 30 over mark India were 5-95 in the semi final.

Edit, also can't see Stokes or Buttler doing a Dhoni and letting the RR req get to 9s.

 

[Meridio]

Buttler's batting on a different pitch at the moment. Picking up singles at will.

 

[slippy888]

Just need 1 more moment of magic from Boult to blow this game wide open for New Zealand

 

[ImpatientLime]

Eng slightly ahead at 4-115 / 30. A wicket soon and NZ is ahead,

240 target is low enough that a 50 from Stokes or Buttler and some 15-20s from the bowlers gets them home. In comparison, at 30 over mark India were 5-95 in the semi final.

Edit, also can't see Stokes or Buttler letting the RR req get to 9s.

stokes at timing **** here

he needs pace on the bat

 

[straw man]

Boult bowling 135-140 without much variation suddenly looks easier to face that wobblers at 125ks. Maybe try a few variations.

 

[Burner]

Using the infamous doubling the score after 30. England lose by 11 runs.

I hope they can at least take it that close. Keep everyone in it.

It doesn't work as well when the score is so low, I don't think.

 

[mr_mister]

If only they got a few more at the death they'd be totally in the box seat. Worried about butler

 

[GIMH]

This is perfect from these two. Another 5-7 overs of this and we are in the boxseat for me

 

[OverratedSanity]

Buttler has looked a level above every batsman so far.

 

[thundaboult]

Boult not looking a wee bit threatening.

 

[straw man]

Who will Dhoni/Jadeja it for England?

Stokes is Dhoni anchoring and Butler is the guy who looks like he's playing a different game, like Jadeja.

The commentators clearly need to rave more about Stokes and what a master of the chase he is.

 

[Member Berry]

Buttler's batting on a different pitch at the moment. Picking up singles at will.

never seems to struggle for timing

 

[ImpatientLime]

just worry that he hasn't made a score since Pakistan