*Official* Opening Match- England v New Zealand- October 5th, Ahmedabad

[number11]

England off to a rollicking start. Huge runs looks likely.

 

[Starfighter]

Yeah...I'm aware you can be a cynical bastard but this is not a good look for a big tournament, with a 130k stadium to have about 150 people there.

I don't know the area, the population, anything about Ahmedabad but this is poor.

A lot of those tickets will be in the the hands of cronies who won't turn up.

 

[Tom Flint]

Thing with stadiums this big that are in very hot countries is there may actually be 10000 people there, but they all sitting in the shade at the back of the stands where the cameras don't see them.
I don't mean this in a racist way btw, I mean the cameras don't actually see underneath the tier below

 

[OverratedSanity]

This isn't helped by the fact that the BCCI didn't release the final itinerary 2-3 months before the actual start of the WC and even then changed it a couple of times. It's caused a lot of uncertaintly, stress and financial losses for fans.

Travelling fans left in the lurch with World Cup schedule still under wraps

ESPNcricinfo speaks to three of the world's biggest cricket tour operators to find out how they're coping with this unprecedented delay

www.espncricinfo.com

You're too kind. The itinerary was finalized only a couple of weeks ago lol. It was a complete shitshow.

 

[Athlai]

Fascinating stuff Tom, anyway back to the game

 

[Bahnz]

Drop. Latham fast asleep for the quicker one.

 

[thierry henry]

oh ffs Latham. Malan batting like Henry Nicholls out there

 

[straw man]

NZ look really flat out there. I don't know if it's the heat or what, but this could get ugly.

Lacklustre start to the tournament with no crowd. A bit of energy from Henry (and England's batting) but otherwise Boult flat and a handful of misfields already.

... and Latham drops a sitter.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

definite nick

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

NZ missed the trick of playing Sodhi here

 

[Howsie]

Latham has always been a piss poor keeper. If his name was Tim Seifert he’d cop a lot more flack for it

 

[Groundking]

Did we really expect it to be a packed out ground at half 2 (local time) on a Thursday when people are working?

 

[Athlai]

Latham has always been a piss poor keeper. If his name was Tim Seifert he’d cop a lot more flack for it

Cos hed average ****ing 7 with the bat

 

[Starfighter]

A last

 

[thierry henry]

oh ffs Latham. Malan batting like Henry Nicholls out there

Don’t think I can really say ‘you’re welcome’ if I repeat it every 5 minutes tbh

 

[_Ed_]

Finally.

 

[Bahnz]

Latham has always been a piss poor keeper. If his name was Tim Seifert he’d cop a lot more flack for it

Lol, nah.

 

[straw man]

These are two of the bigger teams in the opening game - what's going to happen when Netherlands play Bangladesh for example?

149 fewer people?

 

[Molehill]

Load of rubbish from Malan, never looked right.

 

[Athlai]

Gooooone