WC 41st Match: England v New Zealand - Chester-le Street 3/7/19 (Eng won by 119 runs)

[vvvrulz]

Went out for a bit and NZ must have had a good fight back to restrict England to 305.

Combination of that and average batting - slog or nothing only gets you so far.

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Excellent contest of cricket here.

Let’s go the Black Pads!

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

That guitar player:

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Polly wolly crappy

Needs to string up a GM Maestro. Bigger sweet spot.

 

[jargan83]

Can’t believe Nicholls didn’t review that

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Hey Kiwis. See that white ball they’re bowling at you?

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

Sweet straight shot from Guptill.

 

[jargan83]

Guptill is trash

 

[Sans Souci Sainter]

The Summer of ‘69 sucks.

 

[WaznTheGreat]

Guptill is trash

Bring back Mark Greatbatch bruh

 

[edabomb]

Inside word from the camp is there's a quick fix for our woes. Gary Stead hadn't realised WC games aren't 60 overs anymore.

Certainly explains our batting tone.

 

[hineyrulz]

FFS NZ!!

 

[vvvrulz]

Well that was just shit.

 

[KeepingTheFaith]

Glad I went to bed. Another typically urgent batting display I see.

 

[hineyrulz]

Glad I went to bed. Another typically urgent batting display I see.

Well when your two best bats get run out it can’t be good.

 

[vvvrulz]

And worst of all, Latham got going and looked like he would have supported Gup/Kane/Taylor quite well.

Neesh seems to have the appetite for a fight, but if Colin de Levers is coming out in over 25 you know you're pretty much screwed. Not sure what the hell MS Santner was thinking with a 30 ball 12.

The points table is about right, we're better than the bottom half but we're going to get picked off in the semi without much trouble. We missed Ferguson and might have made it a 250 chase, but what difference would that have made if we couldn't get 200.

 

[vvvrulz]

Inside word from the camp is there's a quick fix for our woes. Gary Stead hadn't realised WC games aren't 60 overs anymore.

Certainly explains our batting tone.

It's very obvious that Stead is no Hesson.

Our talent pool is a notch below 2015 but still a lot better than many World Cups we've been in. What's majorly lacking this time is our intensity and hunger, we have bursts of energy followed by misfields, half-volleys and batting for stumps.

When you think about it we barely escaped South Africa and the Windies, and got handed a point for the India washout we'd have probably lost.

Three team race.

 

[JJ]

FFS .... Go Pakistan, f**k this shit

 

[Tipster]

Kiwis just making up the numbers. Look out of their depth against the top teams.

 

[JJ]

Let's gone NZ

 

[Pommy]

Stokes, former Kiwi?

What is this?

Khawaja former Pakistani?