WC 14th Match: Australia v India - London 9/6/19 (Ind win by 36 runs)

[undertaker]

What to bet that he’d just have a laugh about it if it happened to Virat Kohli?

He'd wear a skirt and hold the pom poms if it were Kohli

 

[undertaker]

Bhuvneshwar Kumar is Waleed Aly's doppelganger

 

[Sphagnum]

Do these merkins realise how many they are chasing?

 

[jargan83]

These two are batting for stumps

 

[Hutty1986]

India only made 40-odd from their first 11 overs. Key difference being their attack outside the two front-liners is stronger than park cricket standard

 

[undertaker]

India only made 40-odd from rheir first 11 overs. Key difference being their attack outside the two front-liners is stronger than park cricket standard

Yeah, Starc/Cummins in those first 7-8 overs were bowling just like Bumrah/Kumar are doing at the moment.

The sustained pressure fell apart once Coulter-Nile/Maxwell/Zampa/Stoinis came on, and it's a big worry in regards to Australia's World Cup title hopes that there's a massive gap between Starc/Cummins and the other bowlers.

 

[Sphagnum]

That's better

 

[jargan83]

Don’t stare at the batsman when you bowl poop Pandya

 

[undertaker]

Those dot balls are a killer. Need to at least be trying rotating the strike when the required run-rate is nudging up to 8 an over.

 

[jargan83]

Warner has been picking out fielders like a laser guided bomb

 

[yobbo84]

Strike rate under 50 and runs out his captain!

 

[blaza88z]

These 2 need to get 5-6 an over until about the 30th over at least with no wicket loss

 

[Sphagnum]

Smith just walks out and gets a single every ball. Wtf is warner doing?

 

[yobbo84]

I'll tell you what I didn't miss these last 12 months - Warner undoing and redoing the velcro on his gloves every f**king ball...

 

[undertaker]

I'll tell you what I didn't miss these last 12 months - Warner undoing and redoing the velcro on his gloves every f**king ball...

didn't miss the LG OLED tv ads as well.

Strike rate under 50

Tubby Taylor and Geoff Marsh would be proud of him!

 

[undertaker]

if Warner can't up the scoring rate, he should just 'retire hurt' and bring Coulter-Nile to the crease instead.

 

[The unknown]

Does warner realise we are chasing 350?

 

[undertaker]

Mr chu....sorry, meant sidearm maestro comes into the bowling attack.

 

[undertaker]

Does warner realise we are chasing 350?

The first Ashes test has started 8 weeks early for him.

 

[undertaker]

I could excuse Warner with an opening batsman's strike rate of 66 in a run chase if this was 20+ years ago facing Ambrose/Walsh/Bishop/Wasim/Waqar/Donald on a bowler-friendly pitch in Australia (as was common in the '90s) with full-size boundaries/no ropes and bats less than half the width or so of his current Gray Nicholls.

But even though Bumrah/Kumar are very good-quality fast bowlers, strike rate of 66 on a batter-friendly wicket with much shorter boundaries than average, requiring 353 runs to win is simply unacceptable. And then running out Finch on top of that....Finch probably wishes he was still opening with Khawaja.