Match #45- Super Eights, England vs South Africa(D), Darren Sammy Cricket Stadium, Saint Lucia-- June 21st- Group 2

[wpdavid]

Classy as ever from Ironic. Just enjoy a good win mate?

 

[BazBall21]

Should still go through. Only need to beat America convincingly. But feel this is a good but flawed England team. If they're gonna win it, a few of the big players will have to seriously turn it on.

 

[MW1304]

Don't imagine it would have made a difference, but yeah, weird choice. Lame end but puts us in a good NRR position I guess

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Curran not taking the single is wild.

I don't mind it, he was more likely to hit boundaries than Archer.

Problem was him not dispatching the slot ball that followed.

 

[GIMH]

Win against US should take us through given the NRR advantage over the Windies

 

[Stefan9]

Poor over from baartman but SA do well to recover from it to get over the line.

 

[wpdavid]

Curran not taking the single is wild.

I dunno. Curran hitting two 4s to tie the match was still likelier than Archer doing that.

 

[Gob]

Won't be the worst thing if South Africa goes on to win the whole thing. They've done amazingly well holding their nerves in all but one close games

 

[number11]

Better to get the shocker out of the way.

 

[wpdavid]

Should still go through. Only need to beat America convincingly. But feel this is a good but flawed England team. If they're gonna win it, a few of the big players will have to seriously turn it on.

Yes, we need two of the four batsmen to make large contributions and that won't always happen.

 

[King Kane]

Baartman would be relieved, he did his best to choke that for South Africa with a horrible over of pies but England let him off the hook.

 

[TT Boy]

I dunno. Curran hitting two 4s to tie the match was still likelier than Archer doing that.

Archer has probably not had a serious bat in years, but I would consider him the hitter of the two. Curran's SR is under 120.

 

[Molehill]

Decent game, if England had a batsman instead of Wood they might have won.

SA not safe though, if Eng beat USA and SA lose to WI, Eng look almost certain to be ahead of them on NRR.

 

[wpdavid]

Archer has probably not had a serious bat in years, but I would consider him the hitter of the two. Curran's SR is under 120.

I suppose the bottom line is that it didn't work. But I can see why he did it.

 

[Molehill]

Should still go through. Only need to beat America convincingly. But feel this is a good but flawed England team. If they're gonna win it, a few of the big players will have to seriously turn it on.

Forecast for Sunday not great though. Might need SA to beat WI to go through if it’s rained off.

 

[Red_Ink_Squid]

Decent game, if England had a batsman instead of Wood they might have won.

Would've probably improved our batting and bowling today if they had.

Good game though.

 

[BazBall21]

Yes, we need two of the four batsmen to make large contributions and that won't always happen.

Yes. I think we can still win it but it can go badly wrong too.

 

[GIMH]

Yes, we need two of the four batsmen to make large contributions and that won't always happen.

Think this is a tad harsh on Moeen and especially Livingstone.

 

[Stefan9]

Kinda throws out the accepted line of thinking that chasing 2 runs/ball in the last 8 or so overs is imminently doable in T20s. Can't afford to let the required rate go much above 8 rpo at all.

It is on pitches were you can hit through the line. Not on slow pitches were it takes time for new batsmen to find their groove.

 

[Kenneth Viljoen]

I thought England could chase anything ?