honestbharani
Whatever it takes!!!
you know it is a poor joke when you have to explain Dickensian references over here...
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*Official* Quarter Final 4 - Sri Lanka v England
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Burgey
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Not my fault if it's a crap audienceyou know it is a poor joke when you have to explain Dickensian references over here...
Burgey
vcs
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Batsman in averaging less if you took out his highest score shocker.
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
Your yardstick is one amazing innings. If that is it, fair enough.
But your argument regarding Sachin and Strauss having the same quality of tournament if Sachin goes out cheaply in the semi based purely on average is unbelievably poor. Would have thought you know to look further than numbers.
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Well, let's agree to disagree. 334 runs is not a forgettable WC IMO. Kohli has only 238 FWIW.
smash84
The Tiger King
will go with jono on this one. One big inning in one match of a world cup and pretty much **** in the rest of it isn't exactly a great world cup
Congrats to England, they put out far more entertainment and surprises than was expected. The fact that they failed in their last match should not detract from their prior efforts. If anything, this should serve to remind management that sportsmen are human and will get exhausted after strenuous tours
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Well yeah, clearly there wasn't much to write home about after that India match. Still I would say he had a pretty good outing overall.
Woodster
International Captain
Recorded the majority of this game and did everything I could to avoid the result (including slapping my hand over someones mouth in the curry house that was about to unwittingly reveal all! He did tell me I'll enjoy the cricket, little did I know at the time how sarcastic he was being) and watch it today, kind of a wasted effort really as the result never seemed in too much doubt throughout.
We were clearly outplayed in all facets, and it is not really a surprising end to a disjointed tournament for us. You always hope despite the performances that have gone before, that everything clicks in the next game, but the SL game highlighed all our deficiencies and a thorough thrashing was the result.
We battled hard to make 229, there was no real fluency and prolonged periods of consolidation following a lack of any authoritative partnerships. The no-fear approach we have adopted in ODI's over the last 12 months or so was sadly lacking, and our continual problems in playing positively against slow bowling persists. No aggressive footwork and proactivity means we are restricted to pushing and prodding hoping for 3 or 4 singles per over.
However it obviously wasn't all about how bad we were, as SL made it exceptionally difficult for us to play anywhere near our best cricket. Their bowling attack is very difficult to dominate such is their variations and general skills in those conditions. While our attacks look predictable and unthreatening on these flat pitches, SL have that something extra (as does a team like Pakistan).
Prior to the game I thought if we removed Sanga and Jayawardene cheaply, we could have a real chance. We never even got them to the crease!!
We demonstrated great heart at times in this competition and battled very hard to make it through to the quarters, we also embarrassed ourselves on occasions, thus making it so hard to qualify for that phase. Changes in players, strategies, structure and maybe even skipper could help erase memories of this thumping in the months ahead.
We were clearly outplayed in all facets, and it is not really a surprising end to a disjointed tournament for us. You always hope despite the performances that have gone before, that everything clicks in the next game, but the SL game highlighed all our deficiencies and a thorough thrashing was the result.
We battled hard to make 229, there was no real fluency and prolonged periods of consolidation following a lack of any authoritative partnerships. The no-fear approach we have adopted in ODI's over the last 12 months or so was sadly lacking, and our continual problems in playing positively against slow bowling persists. No aggressive footwork and proactivity means we are restricted to pushing and prodding hoping for 3 or 4 singles per over.
However it obviously wasn't all about how bad we were, as SL made it exceptionally difficult for us to play anywhere near our best cricket. Their bowling attack is very difficult to dominate such is their variations and general skills in those conditions. While our attacks look predictable and unthreatening on these flat pitches, SL have that something extra (as does a team like Pakistan).
Prior to the game I thought if we removed Sanga and Jayawardene cheaply, we could have a real chance. We never even got them to the crease!!
We demonstrated great heart at times in this competition and battled very hard to make it through to the quarters, we also embarrassed ourselves on occasions, thus making it so hard to qualify for that phase. Changes in players, strategies, structure and maybe even skipper could help erase memories of this thumping in the months ahead.
Bun
Banned
wait they played five tests and seven one dayers in three and a half months. what is so herculean abt that!?
Bun
Banned
no tougher than for say Pakistan who had played many more away from home games as compared to Eng, in the last six months. And still they dont have a home advantage.
Woodster
International Captain
Probably not much between the sides in terms of days of cricket played, but I think they will have had the luxury of more than three days at home in the last five moths or so. Also the amount of preparation and pressure that goes into an Ashes series is incomparable to most Test series. That said, this is not the main reason for a below par WC performance, merely contributory factors.
Jacknife
International Captain
Add to that, 3 first class warm up game and that one day game against the Presidents XI, I think like Woodster said it's the time on the road that hasn't helped and the effort put in to do what they did in Australia. I think, both England and Australia, would have benefited from playing less ODi's after the tests and should have got to the sub continent earlier.
smash84
The Tiger King
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Woodster
International Captain
The seven ODI's in Australia from a cricketing perspective was unnecessary. Maybe if we had a clearer picture of what our best ODI XI was going to be in this WC, we could have sent those that played the Tests home for a couple of weeks and to get out to the sub-continent in time for enough good preparation. The problem was they weren't sure of our best XI and used it as another chance to battle for places.