Group 1 (Afghanistan, Australia, England, New Zealand, Sri Lanka, Ireland)

[Fuller Pilch]

What if SL smash England and go to six points and Aus get washed out? SL suddenly go through and England and Aus miss out. Would be hilarious

Any win for SL would see them through if that happened. They'd be on 6 points along with Australia and England stuck on 5, but Oz with 2 wins and 2 wash outs would be behind SL on 3 wins.

 

[Everton Seymour]

Might be a genuine tactic to not try and get guys like Finch, Bavuma, Nissanka, KW, Gulbadin etc out if their respective sides insist on playing them

I know Kane Williamson is a nice guy , but he definitely needs a reality check ...
man has just been coasting through international cricket last couple of years , barely played cricket and hasn't done well at this World cup ...Needs someone to fire him up cause right now he's NZ's weakest link .

 

[BoyBrumby]

Kane doing the interview wearing jandals/thongs looks ridiculous.

I know what Antipodeans mean by "thongs", but it never fails to assume.

I now have a mental image of him wearing a g-string so far up his crack it's basically garrotting his rectum.

 

[Prince EWS]

Haha I think you should check your numbers again here. For e.g. compare 1060 runs off 84 overs (i.e. 60 off 4) vs 1200 runs off 100 overs (200 off 20).

Haha I hadn't actually done any numbers, I was just working off intuition there, but given there's only actually one game left it's easy to do.

Assuming Afghanistan get rolled for 60 either way, Australia's bowling will be 554/80.0 - bowling first or second.

If they bat first and score 200, their batting will be 648/76.3 - giving them a NRR of +1.54.
If they bat second and chase down 61 in 4 overs, their batting will be 509/60.3 - giving them a NRR of +1.52.

They'd almost certainly actually qualify either way with that massive margin, but my way gives them a better NRR than yours, so there.

 

[Socerer 01]

I know Kane Williamson is a nice guy , but he definitely needs a reality check ...
man has just been coasting through international cricket last couple of years , barely played cricket and hasn't done well at this World cup ...Needs someone to fire him up cause right now he's NZ's weakest link .

serves him right for not doing surgery

 

[chris.hinton]

If you struggled with Sodhi, Hasaranga could have a field day.

There are 16 more overs

 

[Burgey]

Almost as funny if NZ-IRE gets washed out and England and Aus win their games. NZ will go out with just today's loss and likely the best NRR in the group. Of course if they lose to Ireland, won't deserve to make the semis anyway.

Kane of course will be the main talking point from the defeat, but the fielding let them down today as well.

The fielding cost them the game. Dropped Buttler twice, once very early. Been some woeful fielding this tourney

 

[ashley bach]

Funnier things have happened. Like losing to Ireland, for example.

Consistently too.

 

[Burgey]

Any win for SL would see them through if that happened. They'd be on 6 points along with Australia and England stuck on 5, but Oz with 2 wins and 2 wash outs would be behind SL on 3 wins.

Yeah but what if we hit more fours?

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I know what Antipodeans mean by "thongs", but it never fails to assume.

I now have a mental image of him wearing a g-string so far up his crack it's basically garrotting his rectum.

Not all Antipodeans.
We call them "jandals" (short for "Japanese sandals") in NZ, which sounds much better than both thongs and flip flops.

 

[straw man]

I actually think Australia's biggest hopes ahead of that may be:
1. Rain in either NZ v Ireland or Sri Lanka v England
2. Sri Lanka beat England

NZ v Ireland and Aus v Afghanistan is a double header in Adelaide, so there's a fair chance if one is washed out then the other is too. Forecast looks fine at present.
Eng v SL is in Sydney.

 

[Prince EWS]

NZ v Ireland and Aus v Afghanistan is a double header in Adelaide, so there's a fair chance if one is washed out then the other is too.

Oh that's a great point actually. Especially since Adelaide isn't really enduring the apocolypse like the eastern states are.

Sri Lanka beating England or an absolute demolition of Afghanistan might be better chances than rain in NZ v Ireland.

 

[Bahnz]

This innings has followed more the pattern of pre-tournament NZ chases. Just get too far behind the rate and leave too much to do. Williamson the culprit, as is blindingly obvious.

In retrospect it was an excellent innings from Buttler on a wicket that isn't dead easy to bat on. We probably took a little too long to assess that spin and off-pace was the go and so let Hales steal a march on us too, before we realized.

Makes the sitter that Mitchell dropped really hurt. Probably cost NZ 15-20 runs in the end. The KW drop a lot more forgivable, that was a great effort. Don't know what to say about KW's batting. The guy just shouldn't be in the side.

So long as NZ put Ireland away reasonably comfortably (by say 20+ runs) NZ should be safe for the semi's so that's something.

 

[ashley bach]

NZ in big trouble if Ireland beat them by 130 or more.

 

[Prince EWS]

NZ in big trouble if Ireland beat them by 130 or more.

Panic!

 

[ashley bach]

Panic!

I'm trying to but nothings happening.

 

[trundler]

I'm trying to but nothings happening.

Title etc

 

[Burgey]

Makes the sitter that Mitchell dropped really hurt. Probably cost NZ 15-20 runs in the end. The KW drop a lot more forgivable, that was a great effort. Don't know what to say about KW's batting. The guy just shouldn't be in the side.

So long as NZ put Ireland away reasonably comfortably (by say 20+ runs) NZ should be safe for the semi's so that's something.

If NZ win at all they make it easily. Their NRR is still far better than anyone else’s in the group

 

[Fuller Pilch]

NZ in big trouble if Ireland beat them by 130 or more.

NZ in big trouble if Ireland beat them by 1 or more.

 

[Spark]

Oh that's a great point actually. Especially since Adelaide isn't really enduring the apocolypse like the eastern states are.

Sri Lanka beating England or an absolute demolition of Afghanistan might be better chances than rain in NZ v Ireland.

The irony of this post is that had the double header been today instead they absolutely both would be washouts; we've had on and off blustery rain all day with a shower passing through every half hour like clockwork.