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    1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

    Just one wicket pretty much ends it
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    1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

    Henry going for 4 in the over is very good in the context of this game; where India already have to factor in Ferguson and Boult overs at the death. Quality stuff
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    1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

    Funny thing is I don't think its the pitch (though its far from a road). It's just been a mix of batting pressure and great bowling. Boult and Henry used the swingning conditions excellently, Ferguson has been hostile and Santner has been very tight. Excellent stuff from NZ
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    1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

    Tbf confident/arrogant indian fans are pretty much omnipresent on digital and social media platforms. Really quite fascinating sometimes to look at the comments on a random tweet that might only be subtly related to India at all, or on a youtube video (England's yt channel is pretty much a...
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    Your Ideal Scenario for the Final

    Ideally England bowl New Zealand or India out for 0 and chase it down with 10 wickets left off the first ball Realistically we don't even make it
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    Sky showing final free to air

    FTA highlights of football are definitely more popular and well put together than cricket, but my main point is that viewership of live premier league games, locked behind a paid subscription, still garner massive views. Subsequently what this shows is that there are many, many viewers who can...
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    2nd Semi Final - Australia v England

    Just to say that the rain forecast currently seems not to be heavy, all day match abandoned rain, but DLSish rain, which interestingly could make bowling first an advantage. If the game were to be shortened to say 35 overs or less I would actually say it ends up suiting England more, as our...
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    Best XI of the 1st round

    Almost too many options for no.3 in a Best XI of the tournament so far. You could put Shakib, Root, Williamson or Babar there and there wouldn't be much argument against any of them. Root is there for me instead of Williamson as he simply isn't as good lower down the order. Sharma Bairstow...
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    Role of rain in semi final line-up

    For the sake of argument, I think you could ultimately say that prioritising the result between the two teams over NRR when they have the same amount of points is more unfair. Obviously teams have good and bad days and maybe NZ's bad day just so happens to have fallen against Pak; whereas one of...
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    Sky showing final free to air

    Yes but the point I'm making is that Cricket in England would be in the state it is now even if it was still on FTA. It would still be as popular as it is. The problem isn't that people aren't being exposed to the sport but that there are a sizeable amount of people who just don't enjoy...
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    Sky showing final free to air

    Couldn't they feasibly just make one of their own channels FTA for the WC final timeslot? I seem to remember BT Sport doing a similar thing for the champions league final a few years back
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    Sky showing final free to air

    They are but the actually premier league stuff, and champions league for that matter, are locked behind paid subscriptions; Sky and BT sport respectively. My point is that the perceived declining interest in the game is not a consequence of some people not being subscribed to the channels that...
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    43rd Match - Pakistan v Bangladesh

    Decent shout actually. There will be a lot of players in this current lineup who will be reaching the theoretical prime of their careers
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    Sky showing final free to air

    Nice that the final will be on FTA if England make it there. I don't buy into this idea that the cricket being locked behind a paid subscription has been a bad thing for the game though. For my mind, anyone looking to attribute declining interest and general lack of awareness of the World Cup as...
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    Man of the tournament?

    As some people have pointed out, no batsman has really ran away from the rest in terms of runs. There's quite a lot around the 500 mark so far, which is interesting as you could argue batting hasn't been great this tournament; especially when sides are chasing. Theoretically then, there's...
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    41st Match - England v New Zealand

    Relieved that we actually made the semis. Felt for sure that we'd f***ed it after the Australia game. Now we arguably go into the knockouts with the best possible momentum, beating comfortably two of the other semi-finalists. Whatever happens next, I'm just happy that we're competing with the...
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    41st Match - England v New Zealand

    Looks like NZ aren't really going to go for the win from here, which is probably the right decision. Just make sure they absolutely can't get knocked out
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    41st Match - England v New Zealand

    Kiss of death
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    41st Match - England v New Zealand

    Just don't think he's had 100% fitness throughout this tournament unfortunately. It seems like most games that he hasn't been able to complete his 10 0vers because he hasn't been good enough. At this point I think you at least know what you're getting with Ali. Hope Rashid finds some form this...
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    41st Match - England v New Zealand

    Big game for Rashid. Bad performance here and you feel Ali could replace him as first spinner (and only spinner if we continue with four seamers into the semis if we make it)

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