The FINAL, Australia v New Zealand (THE BATTLE OF THE MITCHELLS) at the Ring of Fire, Dubai-- 11/14 Sunday (N)

[sunilz]

Now, you know why Neesham didn't celebrate SF victory. Because he knew the final result.

 

[Spark]

Going by those numbers, in white ball cricket MMarsh über alles

He should have played the 2019 WC

 

[OverratedSanity]

Why?

They've been rested for a marquee test series after playing two long t20 tournaments.

 

[sunilz]

He should be awarded MoS for scoring match winning 39 of 34 balls in SF and not winning a single MoM in the group stage ?

 

[sunilz]

?

 

[Burgey]

He should have played the 2019 WC

Weirdest selection ever was omitting him from that tourney but selecting him for the Ashes series straight after.

 

[honestbharani]

Toss played 'a big part', admits Aaron Finch, but so did Australia aggression

Australia emulate West Indies in lifting trophy despite not winning a single game batting first

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Good honest man, that guy.

Congrats on winning the World Toss Cup, Finchy.

But on a serious note, ICC really have to ensure if they are playing in dewy winter conditions, especially in Asia, they have to start games at 7:30 or 8 PM so as to ensure the dew is at least somewhat the same for both sides. In ODIs, it is still ok if they start games at 1:30 PM coz then the second innings will start around 5:30 and you get a solid 90 mins to 2 hours before the dew settles in and good teams can still break games open in that time.

 

[sunilz]

Toss played 'a big part', admits Aaron Finch, but so did Australia aggression

Australia emulate West Indies in lifting trophy despite not winning a single game batting first

www.espncricinfo.com

Good honest man, that guy.

Congrats on winning the World Toss Cup, Finchy.

But on a serious note, ICC really have to ensure if they are playing in dewy winter conditions, especially in Asia, they have to start games at 7:30 or 8 PM so as to ensure the dew is at least somewhat the same for both sides. In ODIs, it is still ok if they start games at 1:30 PM coz then the second innings will start around 5:30 and you get a solid 90 mins to 2 hours before the dew settles in and good teams can still break games open in that time.

Problem is ,ICC depends on 1 country to generate bulk of the revenue. So matches were held in our prime time for TV viewership. Logical decision would have been to hold more Day games.

 

[Calm_profit]

He should have played the 2019 WC

Along with Hazlewood

 

[sunilz]

Drinking beers from shoes ??

 

[Flem274*]

Along with Hazlewood

Could have sworn haze did

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Could have sworn haze did

Nah, was left out of the squad. Dorff, NCN and KRichardson were the other seamers in the squad

Haze was seriously underrated as a limited overs bowler until quite recently imo. He didn't suddenly get good, he always had that ability but just didn't have as many oppurtunities to show it

 

[ankitj]

Congrats Australia ?

 

[Burgey]

But on a serious note, ICC really have to ensure if they are playing in dewy winter conditions, especially in Asia, they have to start games at 7:30 or 8 PM so as to ensure the dew is at least somewhat the same for both sides. In ODIs, it is still ok if they start games at 1:30 PM coz then the second innings will start around 5:30 and you get a solid 90 mins to 2 hours before the dew settles in and good teams can still break games open in that time.

Would be better off just not playing games there at all tbh.

 

[Burgey]

And of course I say that as a supporter of a country which routinely wins WCs everywhere, across all formats.

 

[Moss]

No. NZ didn't lose the game with the bat. They lost it with the ball. And if Guptill went slowly, part of that is on team selection where they went in a batsman shy and were more conservative than they might otherwise have been.

NZ's bowling really let them down. Boult (and Milne tbf for three of his overs) aside, they were terrible. Put under pressure by good batting, but just didn't respond at all.

Agree completely with this. Guptill is on the wane a bit, but the go-slow was quite deliberate - think it was noted that crease occupation was very much the strategy till the halfway point after which they could go beserk. It may be seen as negative thinking not to go hard from ball one, but most teams would jump at the chance to defend 170 in a WC final and NZ did have the attack for it, apart from Boult they just didn't turn up.

 

[Flem274*]

The next one is in like 12 months so we don't have the time of a normal WC cycle, but I'd like to quietly suggest to Sodhi he'd enjoy making goobers of Australian domestic cricketers with his wrong un long hops much more than international cricket and give Phillips and Finn Allen more prominent roles.

After the next one I really hope all of KW, Southee, Boult and Conway retire from the format to preserve them for real cricket but we know that won't happen and we'll probably lose at least one to early retirement because of workload.

 

[sunilz]

And of course I say that as a supporter of a country which routinely wins WCs everywhere, across all formats.

Which is why post-match celebrations didn't make sense to me . Was surprised to see Australian cricketers crying ( 5 times ODI WC champions)

 

[honestbharani]

And of course I say that as a supporter of a country which routinely wins WCs everywhere, across all formats.

The plurals dont match the reality.

 

[TheJediBrah]

IND vs PAK Cricket Scorecard, Final at Johannesburg, September 24, 2007

Live Cricket Scoreboard: Get India vs Pakistan Final, cricket scorecard, ICC World Twenty20 2007/08 dated September 24, 2007.

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This is probably very harsh, but Michael Clarke wasted everyone's time in the final where they lost to England.

More than harsh. They were recovering form 3 for 8 lmao. A run a ball knock was fine