if we bowl out zampa we probably win

to be fair kohli hitting wide yorkers for four was impressive.
Coulter nile bowled two perfect wide yorkers that went to the boundary
Wide yorkers are often considered the best ball to bowl at the death

Having said that if you bowl wide yorkers don't you usually have more fielders square to prevent the one shot you can consistently play against them?
The other mystery is why apart from watson we didnt use the regular yorker more often. Sure there is the scoop shot but if you bowl it at a couple of times an over mixing it up with bouncers to discourage scoop shots it can be an effective delivery

Our fast bowlers don't seem to know how to bowl in this format

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they are all completely different games and the variety in viewing experience is fantastic

spin has arguably become the most important art in 20 20

A world cup of good vision ? sounds ridiculous

The afghanis are right up for this one

3 wickets for 40 against the windies defending 120 something

I'm surprised how a leg spinner like Zampa is doing quite well in 20/20, but isn't playing much First Class cricket?

Totally agree, QF.

Funky Monkey doesn't though. He deleted one cricket thread I put up refusing to provide an explanation why it was deleted.](*,)

Straya on

Nah we are on Friday night.

England lmao :lol:

Are we on later tonight

England. :lol:

Excellent. We can resurrect the Test and F/C Cricket thread too.

To be fair, cricket being so varied, it's only fitting to have multiple threads about it in Extra Time.

Maxwell offered up dick tonight.

Fuck these reverse sweeps off ffs.

-PB

on the upside we got closer than india

west indies were very impressive
so were pakistan in spite of the week opposition!

Bag of dicks India.

Well in Kiwis

Dat Kiwi Spin.

Loving seeing the Indian crowd massively deflate loooooooooooooooooooool

-PB

Next one of these is in the year 2020.

Surely there's some obvious promotions to be made from that.

-PB

pretty big upset last night

pretty good bowling performance by Australia

south Africa were 68 runs off the first 6 but only got 32 off the next 6 or so. The surprising thing about this format is just how much bowling is important.

This is contrary to the critique of this form of the game that only batting matters. I would argue that bowling is more important than batting in this format

I thought the world cup was in 2022... oh wait you think there is another one that matters

pretty close match but bangledesh might have this

the rate these minnows are improving 20 20 could one day be like football with every country having a competitive team

the minnows are a lot more competitive in 20 20 then in 1 day or test!

sadly i missed the second innings but it looks like a close game
zim won by 14
also afganistan beat scotland by 14

8/158 of zims innings
screwed themselves with run outs but managed to get around what is probably a par score

Zim v Hong Kong open the tournament

Zim 1 for 25 off the first three

Probably deserves its own thread since its one of the biggest sporting tournaments in the world in terms of viewership crowds and length

The next two weeks we will have teams final warm up matches including australia's final game in south africa and the group a and b qualifiers with the minnows catching up very rapidly with the rest of the world

favourites would have to be india south africa and the windies who are dangerous in this form of the game with australia just behind

Australia have had a brutal warm up playing against arguably the two best teams in the world in india and south africa and have steadily improved throughout. But they definitely look weaker without starc and an in form faulkner. They have looked promising with the bat but have struggled with the ball

My strongest 11 actually includes a lot of all rounders since they have often done better with the ball

watson
finch
smith
warner
khawaja
maxwell
faulkner
marsh/agar
neville/wade
hastings
spinner (probably zampa)