Kicks off tomorrow I think? Anyone care?

Haven't watched to much cricket lately but ill have a go at some predictions

Winners: Australia
Losing Finalist: South Africa
Player of the tournament: Steve Smith
Losing Semi Finalists: New Zealand, England
Dark Horse: Sri Lanka
Surprise Packet: Ireland
Big Call: India won't get passed the group stage.

When I check Google last week it said it was today haha but it is actually tomorrow.

Keen for it.

-PB

Hopefully the dominance of the Australian team this tournament confirms the vindication of the dominance of the sport for the generation in the nationalist identity

In times of war, unemployment, the certainty of the dominant winning Australian cricket team is the one certainty in times of uncertainty

lol Australia will do well but NZ will probably do us in the final imo.

-PB

They very nearly got dicked by Scotland in a warm up match last night

South Africa definite favourites imho. Hope we do well but you can never tell with this squad. NZ for dark horse.

NZ definitely the dark horse. I think they might win.

Calling New Zealand a dark horse is severely under rating them.

Their batting line up is scary

Edited by scotty21: 13/2/2015 01:30:28 PM

Yeah NZ can't be a dark horse when they're third favourites.

Winners: Australia
Losing Finalist: New Zealand
Semi Finalists: South Africa (can't be taken seriously until they win one), Pakistan
Player of the Tournament: Michael Clarke
Dark Horse: Pakistan
Surprise Packet: Zimbabwe
Big Call: West Indies won't get out of the group

Edited by 99 Problems: 13/2/2015 01:39:00 PM

Not sure if Ireland will be a surprise packet they just got pumped the other day by Scotland.

Agree that NZ aren't a Dark Horse they've got a very good side.

A shame that the groups are uneven Bangladesh and even Scotland would be kicking themselves that they're not in Group B.

I just heard on the radio a Kiwi made a robot which could predict the winner.

It picked out Afghanistan :lol:

New Zealand off to a good start agaisnt Sri Lanka 0-25 off 4

Cricket venues in NZ >>> Cricket Venues in Aus.

Maybe Malinga should stop bowling full to McCullum

This Sri Lanka pace attack is one of the worst in ODI history

NZ 0-102

Is this a new ground in Christchurch? Looks mint (Y)
Also shows how good a packed hill in Newcastle would've looked for the Asian cup, silly AFC

South Africa vs New Zealand final.

NZ off to a wonderful start as expected.

-PB

This Sri Lankan is just dull.

This tournament's going to take forever unfortunately

A change in scheduling and format is needed

Pakistan vs India sold out in adelaide with over 100s of millions expected watching on tv

One of the biggest rivalries in world sport. Actually, just the world in general. Will be amazing to watch. SA v Zim could be interesting as well, if Zimbabwe get the right conditions they could easily knock off a big nation.

Australia was unreal yesterday. And to think out of our 3 best batsmen one didn't play and the other two failed and we still made 340 is terrifying. IMO it has to be Watson that comes out for Clarke

South Africa go from 4/83 to 4/339. Wow. Biggest 5th wicket partnership in ODI history

Incredible stuff!

There are plenty of decent hitters around the teams, but for me only three teams have a decent bowling lineup for Australian conditions. Australia, New Zealand and South Africa should all go well for this reason.

Australia bat all the way to number 10 when Starc plays. The bowling attack of Johnson, Starc, Hazlewood, marsh, Watson, and Maxwell with Doherty and Smith on standby should do the business across the games.

New Zealand have got Boult, Southee, Vettori and some other handy bowlers - Milne, Mcleneghan, Mills being good examples. Plus their batsmen are in form - Williamson, Taylor, McCullum, Ronchi, Anderson... All good hitters.

And South Africa have Steyn, Morkel, Tahir, Philander, plus a few more.

I don't think anyone else will go close. England have decent bowlers but they can't bowl at the death and don't have the big hitters. India have the batsmen but a very poor bowling attack. Sri Lanka the same. West Indies don't have Dwayne Bravo or Pollard. Pakistan have beaten Australia recently in tests, but they are untested in Australian conditions, and are without Ajmal.

Another hundred to Kohli. What a player

Not a bad effort from Zimbabwe. They might cause an upset and make the semis.

India vs Pakistan is setting up for a cracking finish

I get more excited watching the minnows take each other on. Gets a bit boring watching the same 9 teams play each other

Care factor is zero for me.

West Indies in all sorts vs Ireland

5/121 in the 33rd

Cricket World Cup - Merrylands RSL Brawl, India Vs Pakistan

Oh you sillies, we all know this pointless tournament is going to go to the Australians

Edited by condemned666: 16/2/2015 12:52:09 PM

Ireland chased down 304 to beat the West Indies with 4 overs to spare. Was going to say it's hardly an upset but when I backed them yesterday they were amazingly paying over $4.

There have been 6 successful chases of over 300 in World Cup history and Ireland have 3 of them.

New Zealand destroying England in one of the biggest bloodbaths in World Cup history

At the Ireland-UAE game. Safe to say it's an electric atmosphere

Anyone watch Gayles innings yesterday?

That was brutal

Especially considering he should've been out first over, then was caught off a no ball. No team will want the Windies in the quarters though in case he does something similar

It's pretty quiet here at the Gabba today, bar the occasional barbs between the Catholics and proddies in the Ireland end. Mixed team is more trouble than it's worth.

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Is this thing still going? Only hear about the Australian games.

Have there been any Australia games?

narh just "**** to replace watson at 3" jokes

De Villiers is having a field day, 105 off 52 balls and a 4 followed by a 6 to get the century

Jason Holder looks like one of those young men who keeps getting given the jobs that no-one else wants to do

Wow. Just wow.

Few teams in any sport have ever been more genuinely deserving of winning a tournament than this NZ team at this WC.

Lucky for us the group stage in this tournament is completely meaningless.

Not if Australia doesn't make it out of the Group Stages :lol:

-PB

Like that's going to happen :lol:

Edited by mcjules: 28/2/2015 05:12:27 PM

Australia are gonna win this world cup, I'm now convinced.

The fact that we nearly put NZ to the sword chasing that rubbish on their own dinner plate of a field, was telling.

We learned that both teams have a bowling lineup capable of ripping through the other. Australia probably have a better batting lineup, but today they didn't perform.

Starc is, IMO, the best ODI/T20 fast bowler in the world right now. He is awesome at bowling those fast Yorkers- he hits them again and again.

The ball swings better over there so it helped him too. Absolutely deadly today. Think with the extra bounce we have here in Aus our attack is better than theirs.

Absolute definition of cricket porn on here.

Afghanistan taking an absolute pummeling.

I'm finding this world cup a bit boring to be honest, the fielding restriction changes have just swayed it even further in the batsmen's favour. It's entertaining but also a bit bland seeing 400+ scores being posted regularly now.
My favourite games have been some of the lower scoring ones. (UAE v Ireland, obviously Aus v NZ, Afghanistan v Scotland)

Afghanistan actually aren't all that bad a side. They have some decent fast bowlers but they'll probably get reamed by about 200 runs, maybe more.

Great game brewing here.

Will go down to the final ball.

Injuries, drama, this has it all.

-PB

Holy fuck that run out for Jordan, has to be one of the biggest calls this World Cup.

Massive massive call.

England on the edge of being knocked out here.

-PB

As much as it will fill me with glee to see them knocked out, that was a horrible call.

Edited by mcjules: 9/3/2015 10:32:58 PM

That was one of the most exciting ODIs I've watched in recent times.

-PB

We still believe.

Theyre going home, theyre going home THEYRE GOING! Englands going home.

That was a much better game of cricket, there's been a few of them, but too many where the team batting first has a massive total, which is great to watch and all, but much less exciting to watch the chasing teams get no where near it. As for England, I'd be mildly frustrated if it weren't for the fact that A. I find it impossible to give a shit any more, and B. it's pretty fucking funny :lol:

My god this is a new low for English cricket.

I don't watch a lot of cricket like I used to, but damn I wish I had seen this game:lol:

It was far worse when they lost to Ireland in 2011. Bangladesh are a good side and could give India a problem in the quarters. To think this time 2 years England were clearly a far superior team to ours, and the difference between then and now is amazing.

Could help them come Ashes time though. Some dead wood will be gone, they'll have favourable conditions and most importantly for them KP is almost a certainty to be back.

Does he want to come back? Is this as certain as you think?

Any team can have a bad day, or a minnow play the game of their lives. That can be excused.

But this failure to qualify for the QFs has gotta be a new low for english cricket.

Yup, it was all the other losses that make it worse than the one last night.

-PB

It's still highly unlikely. For that to happen he needs to first find a county that'll have him, and then Moores needs to get the chop, and then he actually needs to play well enough to actually warrant selection ahead of one of Ballance, Root and Bell. He doesn't just walk into the fucking team FFS, Root and Ballance had excellent summers last year and Bell's never going to be dropped in a million years. The petulant little child's far more trouble than he's worth and if we're talking about batsmen making a comeback then I'm far more enthused about a potential return for Trott. There aren't even that many problems with the test side other than who opens with Cook, and will Cook himself ever find any sort of form ever again. Now just watch them lose the test series to the Windies in April.

If he does play county cricket, he'll be there. Apart from maybe Joe Root, he's still comfortably better than any other English batsmen. If any player feels that strongly about it that they can't play with him, then that's their problem and they can piss off. He shouldn't have been dropped to start with. You can't drop Pietersen for being toxic and keep Prior, Broad or Anderson in the team FFS.

He doesnt want to play county. Theres no crowds and its dull as fuck. He loved the big bash.

Soooooo he wont be aying.

Yeah but nothing would make him happier than proving those who kicked him out wrong, so if he does get told he's a chance to be picked again, he'll definitely play it for a season. England wouldn't have fucked that chase last night with him in the middle order.

Honestly how good is Sangakkara? One of the greats.

Kumar Sangakarra. As good as Tendulkar, Lara and Ponting. True legend. Would take him over any other batsmen at the World Cup any day of the week.

Two of the QFs have basically been sorted. India will play Bangladesh at the MCG.

Australia will play either Pakistan or the West Indies in Adelaide depending on results today.

Winners of both games will play the SF in Sydney. So it could be an AUSvIND game.

Tipping Bangers for the upset.

-PB

South Africa vs Sri Lanka will be a cracking quarter. Tipping the Lankans to knock them out.

We'll play Pakistan or Ireland, West Indies can't finish third.

Don't shoot the messenger :)

:lol:

Mccullum.

No just no.

Still a great player. Not as good as those listed but just on the next level down.

South Africa have made a great start. Sri Lanka made a bad call opening with a slogger. Kumar and Mahela now up against the new ball. Disaster for them.

lol Sri Lanka destroyed.

-PB

Tensions escalating

That spell from Wahab last night was as good as any ever bowled in Australia in a ODI. Stoked we won since I'm flying down for the final. The game against India will be an epic though, just hope we can make it through.

guptil makes 200 for nz great showing

I was in that thread when it was posted :lol:

Edit: Still alive https://boards.4chan.org/sp/thread/57341560/pakistan-players-cried-in-the-field-after

Edited by 433: 21/3/2015 05:35:07 PM

Lol

SA are being cornered massively atm.

Faf DP has been incredibly quiet.

-PB

SA will be looking to make 350 from here. Massive task to chase that for the kiwis

One of the all time great semis going right down the wire.

It'll be a tie

Holy shit this game

bloody good game.

What a fucken game

Those 2 run out opportunies that they cocked up + the catch dropped as well... SA only have themselves to blame

One of the best games in cricket history. NZ should be proud of their team and the tournament. Feels good to know worst case scenario I'll be flying down to cheer them on. Fucking hope Australia are there though.

Massive lol on South Africa again. It gets funnier every time

Just watching my recording, up to the 40th over but know the outcome.

Massive win by NZ!

-PB

Was some great fielding on display until the messed up catches and run outs lol.

-PB

Thats what she said.

This is the best NZ Cricket team I've ever seen. They have two genuinely excellent fast bowlers, a great spinner, two deadly opening batsmen, a strong middle order, a useful wicketkeeper and a great captain. They also seem mentally tough.

As much as SA stuffed up, they were also beaten by a better team. For me NZ have played the best cricket all tournament.

Hopefully Australia get through. A final between Aus v NZ would be epic.

Edited by lastbroadcast: 24/3/2015 11:36:34 PM

Mr Duckworth and Mr Lewis didnt help South Africa too. Have had it in for them for a long time!!!

Australia fighting back. Another epic semi so far

It's time!



-PB

Starc clean bowls McCullum for a duck 1/1

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