1st Semi Final - India v New Zealand

[Prince EWS]

How's the OT drainage these days?

Drainage is typically uniformly awesome in all major English grounds. It's really apparent how true this is when you follow cricket in Ireland and see them abandoning games the night before.

 

[shifty_eyes]

Yeah if play is resumed today and then stopped again, tomorrow it'll be the DLS-altered game that resumes, but if it doesn't resume at all today then NZ will finish their fifty overs (rain permitting).

At times the way they've set this out seems really stupid, but having looked into it I guarantee you any alternative you could pitch would have an even stupider possible scenario attached to it. Cricket is just unavoidably stupid sometimes.

Rain won't be coming again most probably which leaves us with two possibilities, a complete DLS game today or a full game tomorrow.

 

[Arachnodouche]

Full resume tomorrow works fine from TV viewer pov. Got to watch cricket today, tomorrow again, and then an entire Aus-Eng game on Thurs. Win-win.

 

[Kippax]

Drainage is typically uniformly awesome in all major English grounds. It's really apparent how true this is when you follow cricket in Ireland and see them abandoning games the night before.

Yes I fully expect to see play three hours from now on the radar I'm looking at. That's why the 39-year-old Jeets has over 40 Div 1 wickets again already this season, after all. The modern English venues and their drainage.

 

[mr_mister]

Pretty funny that a slow, 4 rpo grind will require a 7 rpo 20 over bash to chase it

 

[weldone]

^And there starts people bashing DLS

 

[Prince EWS]

^And there starts people bashing DLS

DLS > Cevno watching on TV

 

[Spintolose]

Rain rain go away let's have a bishy bash today!

 

[mr_mister]

^And there starts people bashing DLS

For semi finals and finals may as well have infinite reserve days so fairness prevails. These things only come around every 4 years after all

 

[trundler]

Or don't play in a **** country with **** weather

 

[mr_mister]

Or don't play in a **** country with **** weather

That too but if you say that spark might ban you

 

[weldone]

DLS > Cevno watching on TV

Haha yes, but funny you remembered Cevno suddenly

For semi finals and finals may as well have infinite reserve days so fairness prevails. These things only come around every 4 years after all

timeless test matches were better

 

[Prince EWS]

Or don't play in a **** country with **** weather

Can I just check btw to see if this is actually a serious opinion? Like is the option you're putting forward here to just go and play every single World Cup in the desert so it never rains, or is it just a joke/troll? I like me a bit of never rains in England in June memery myself, but I'm growing increasingly concerned it's the former with some people.

 

[weldone]

tbh DLS must be one of things I like most about limited overs cricket - I love everything about it, including how clueless people react to new targets

 

[mr_mister]

Haha yes, but funny you remembered Cevno suddenly



timeless test matches were better

They were. Why'd they end again? Because some blokes missed their 6 week boat trip home? No longer an issue in the age of Boeings!

 

[mr_mister]

tbh DLS must be one of things I like most about limited overs cricket - I love everything about it, including how clueless people react to new targets

Eat a dick.

 

[trundler]

Can I just check btw to see if this is actually a serious opinion? Like is the option you're putting forward here to just go and play every single World Cup in the desert so it never rains, or is it just a joke/troll? I like me a bit of never rains in England in June memery myself, but I'm growing increasingly concerned it's the former with some people.

The latter. If you played in the subcontinent this time of the year you'd barely get a game.

 

[trundler]

Mostly it's the angry ex colonial within lashing out

 

[weldone]

They were. Why'd they end again? Because some blokes missed their 6 week boat trip home? No longer an issue in the age of Boeings!

now we are talking

 

[Spintolose]

I note that all current English County Championship games are in play.