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Semi Finals/Final - Australia, Sri Lanka, England and Pakistan
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Athlai
Not Terrible
Mascarenhas or Napier?
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Napier a good call, but Dimi's bowling is fodder at this level.
four_or_six
Cricketer Of The Year
What's going on? Just missed a few balls to start cooking and they're on 125!
Jarquis
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Napier has a pretty horrific T20 batting record bar one, albeit remarkable, innings.
Dimi's a fair shout though.
Edit : Just looked at Bres's actual record. WTF, assumed he had actually experienced some success with the bat at some level in T20s. Apparently not.
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wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Hardly a prerequisite when Yardy & Swann are in the side. That ebing said, Bres has been OK for most of the tourny.
Can't see why Wright was taken off after one over - captaincy by numbers afaics. Surely would have made more sense to give him another.
King Pietersen
International Captain
I just don't like the way Bresnan looks so unco-ordinated when he approaches the crease. Seems to be all over the place, running in all different angles with no real speed across the ground in his run-up. Seems to work ok for him, but it doesn't look pretty.
Broad getting slapped around a little. Doesn't seem to have a tactic at all. Why don't England ever stick to just bowling conventional yorkers? There's a reason that 90% of death bowlers don't bang it in half way down at the death, it doesn't work.
Liking the calls of Napier. Best T20 bowler available to us outside Fred. Not much worse with the bat than Bresnan either, just move Yardy to 7 and have Napes at 8.
Broad getting slapped around a little. Doesn't seem to have a tactic at all. Why don't England ever stick to just bowling conventional yorkers? There's a reason that 90% of death bowlers don't bang it in half way down at the death, it doesn't work.
Liking the calls of Napier. Best T20 bowler available to us outside Fred. Not much worse with the bat than Bresnan either, just move Yardy to 7 and have Napes at 8.
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Nate
You'll Never Walk Alone
Not to me tbh.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Aye - for all his strengths as a comentator, he's not beyond being a bit of a tosser from time to time.Chappelli pointing out how much of a cry baby Broad is
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Got a little bit of tap in the semi too, tbf. He's gone well tho, yeah.
Jarquis
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Our worst bowler by some distance tbh.Hey Bres has had a great tournament FFS, fickle or what.
Oz turning it round like we all knew they would
Jono
Virat Kohli (c)
If you're on Chappelli's bad side, reckon you are for life.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
One bad over wasn't it?
Can't help thing these last few balls are going to seem like an eternity for England supporters.
Furball
Evil Scotsman
We do, we've just decided to leave him in the dugout all tournament.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Do him and Chris Broad have history? Seems very down on Broad fils.
King Pietersen
International Captain
Broad better not bowl the last over. He is not a good death bowler. Bowls both sides of the wicket and generally just bangs it in half way down. Wright should bowl the last one AFAIC. At least you can set a field to him, as he runs in, keeps it simple and tries to bowl yorkers.