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

[RightArmMystery]

**** me. Just gifting wickets here - dreadful shots from Bairstow, Brook and now Moeen.

 

[Skyliner]

"Unleash the part timers!"

England aren't up for it, the empty stadium and tepid bowling has messed with their heads.

 

[mackembhoy]

Pretty shocking from England

 

[Socerer 01]

Well you can't expect fans to turn up to watch other teams

they would if the ticketing process wasnt a **** show and the stadium experience was better

could have also made it easier for foreigners to visit the country and attend these matches which is the economic point of conducting a big sports tournament

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Oh man, if only we'd had some part-timer long-hop merchants for Lords' 4 years ago.

Should've bowled Guppy and Rosco in the final

 

[NZTailender]

They rested Sodhi the shark because they needed to feed Phillips the Piranha

 

[Fuller Pilch]

Sloggers gotta slog.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

Dreadful from Moeen.

 

[RightArmMystery]

Jos hundred off 40 balls incoming.

 

[NZTailender]

Should've bowled Guppy and Rosco in the final

If Rosco couldn't bowl a hoop down a hill, Guptill couldn't bowl a Jaffa down Baldwin St

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Southee's gonna be conveniently injured for Henry Nicholls' off spin.

 

[BazBall21]

One of the many excuses the Moeen Ali cult make for him is that he only averages 24 in ODI (19 since 2018) because he only gets a bat at the end and has to slog. Today, he got time to construct an innings and England needed 50+ from him. You can guess what happened. Hopeless.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Sachin bless him he tries

 

[BeeGee]

I can't even remember Su'a playing.

You didn't miss much.

 

[Athlai]

Southee's gonna be conveniently injured for Henry Nicholls' off spin.

Southee returns as a spinner

 

[straw man]

They rested Sodhi the shark because they needed to feed Phillips the Piranha

Rachin discovered Sodhi's SECRET WEAPON

(it's the long-hop btw)

 

[Socerer 01]

One of the many excuses the Moeen Ali cult make for him is that he only averages 24 in ODI (19 since 2018) because he only gets a bat at the end and has to slog. Today, he got time to construct an innings and England needed 50+ from him. You can guess what happened. Hopeless.

never understood the hype around him in odis

not a coincidence that England performed better once they dropped him and then won the world cup in 2019

 

[thierry henry]

Sachin saying ‘we have to imagine the people are with us’ is pretty apt

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

Sachin saying ‘we have to imagine the people are with us’ is pretty apt

Lmao

 

[BeeGee]

The watch-on-TV option is probably a heap more available and better than it was back then.

Especially when it's hot as ****.