1st Semi Final - ICC CHAMPIONS TROPHY - England v Pakistan at Cardiff June 14, 2017 - PAKISTAN WON

[TheParraboy]

Expect the poms to progress here, would love Pakis to spoil the party though

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Pakistan's pace bowlers were outstanding against Sri Lanka. The poms batting lineup still has a fragile look about it.

 

[TheParraboy]

Poms will probably end up winning the comp and then declare they have built a good platform for the ashes...

 

[TheParraboy]

Pakis won toss and sent poms in to bat, no sign of rain should get a full game in

Would have thought they would have batted, appears a 300+ deck, they aren't the best of chasers

 

[TheParraboy]

fun fact:

Pom v pakis have never played each other in the champions trophy other than today
last played each other in a ICC ODI tournament was the 2003 world cup

poms 1/51 in the 10th over
they need to get Root out soon

 

[TheParraboy]

Bairstow in for Roy this match, his first for the tournament
need to get him out soon too

poms 1/67 - 13 overs

 

[TheParraboy]

fun fact:

3 players have made their ODI debut in this tournament - all from Pakistan

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Aamir was a huge loss. Bairstow should have been in their side along time ago

 

[Bazal]

England are choking and it is beautiful to watch....of course they'll probably still scrape through given Pakistan are as consistent as an NRL refereeing performance, but still.

 

[Bazal]

Top bowling performance from Pakistan, England finish on a measly 211 all out.

Surely even Pakistan can get this.....surely......

 

[jargan83]

0/116 off of 20.2 overs.

If Pakistan lose from here there will be a match fixing investigation.

 

[TheParraboy]

35 more 100 balls, 8 wickets left

LOL POMS

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Poms smashed. Pakistan win by 8 wickets with about a million balls to spare.

 

[hineyrulz]

Mighty mighty Ungerlund!!!

 

[AlwaysGreen]

Stokes' contribution:

34 off 64 and 0/38 off 3.1

 

[Pommy]

Typical England sports team, cock teasing bastards.

Whatever the final is it's going to be a brilliant atmosphere with all three remaining nations having big communities in the UK

 

[Hutty1986]

Haha dont go changin, terrible poms

 

[Twizzle]

lol@poms

could we see Pakis V Bangers in the final ?

would love that to happen for the Bangers sake

 

[The Mad Hatter]

Yep. England's totally ready for the Ashes. ;-)

Now sing after me...

Oh I'd rather be a Paki than a Pom.
Oh I'd rather be a Paki than a Pom...
Oh I'd rather be a Paki,
Yes I'd rather be a Paki...
Yes I'd rather be a Paki than a Pom.

Put that in your Barmy Army bugle and smoke it.

 

[TheParraboy]

The pressure got to them, expectation to win

Against Australia it didn't matter if they won or lost they still made the semi final, so they played care free and tonked us (we had our own issues with picking some players that should not have been there plus this ongoing pay dispute)

I think an India v Pakistan has a lot of appeal (as much as id like Bangers to get there)
Its kinda like if Melbourne Storm made the NRL grand final, and they will play the winner of Parramatta or the gold coast. Sure be nice to see a fairy tale but we all know what would be more (spicy) appealing