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Fantastic game. Great finish.
In the end it was all down to Stokes, still with 40+ runs to get and no partners left in the shed, and he was looking like he was going to do it. With ease too, which was all the more impressive. I was gunning for SL but felt sorry for him at the end, and Wood.
Yet again an awful delivery gets a key wicket, in Root this time. I thought that the appeal was overly optimistic but once again the technology came to the rescue showing that there *was* the faintest of nicks. Result. Then things started to get interesting.
Good bowling and fielding by SL.
Can we have more matches at Headingley please? Or at least the kind of pitch they had here.
Sri Lanka’s first two matches were shockers, and the two washouts were cruel, but they were absolutely cruising against Australia and could have won that easily. There might yet be more to their tale this tournament.
Sri Lanka stun England in World Cup boilover
How about just ditching the finals altogether? Barring matches abandoned due to rain the group stage is a fair evaluation of who the best side was over the whole tournament. Whereas all it is now is a contest to see who manages to go through to a completely different tournament, one where a bad day or some poor luck sees you gone.
The one major mistake at this Cricket World Cup
Truly amazing. Even in the slow motion replays last night I still couldn’t believe that he managed it.
Sheldon Cottrell shows stunning reflexes to produce amazing run out off his own bowling
Milli Vanilli essence. Bravo, sir. Bravo.
A billion people watched the Cricket World Cup opening party? For cricket's dignity, let's hope not
Well done Afghanistan. 200 was a respectable score in light of some of the other matches so far.
Finch! A few months ago there were doubts that he should be in the team. Man of the Match for me.
Hassan was very good.
Stoinis went for 21 off of his last over thanks to an entertaining cameo from Rashid. Up until then he’d gone for 16 off 6 overs (2.7 rpo) plus the wickets of the two guys providing the resistance up until then.
Take out the runs he scored from some free hits and Warner was travelling at about a 40% SR for a good chunk of his time out there. There would be global condemnation if that had been Shaun Marsh or Stoinis.
Maxwell: 400% SR. Keep it up, son! Seriously though, net run rates are even more important now after those NZ & Windies blazes, so Australia should have put the foot heavily on the pedal toward the end there.
Who can I speak to about having Slater removed from the commentary?
Aussie bowlers rusty in World Cup opener
Smith also scored at a low run rate in those last matches, if memory serves. Will he play the same way in the World Cup? There’s a big question mark over his head for me. And I’m not sure that his IPL results would provide a reliable answer. That’s a game where you must go hard; success there would only prove that he can go hard. But what is his mindset when back in a 50 over game? Protecting his wicket is more important than in 20-20. Will his run rate be poor as a result? Leaving alone the offstump deliveries? Bowlers would figure that out soon enough and then happily rack up the dot balls.
Shaun Marsh has a proven, recent record in England. Where the WC is to be played. And yet many people are excluding him from their line-up wishlists.
After some long overdue success, how will Australia front up at the World Cup?
Do we also get to vote on the presence of ads on the shirts?
Cricket Australia letting fans vote on next retro ODI jersey
I just watched the BBL final at a house that has Fox, so we had two channel choices. Warne and no ads, or ads and no Warne. We chose the latter. That Ponting was also commentating on Seven was just a bonus.
In a perfect world the ABC would have the cricket, and I would have veto powers on the commentators. Or, just as good, a button on the remote that mutes the commentary but leaves the stump and crowd mics on.
Iconic commentator slams Shane Warne over 'disrespectful' coverage
Finals. What a strange beast they are.
We’ve spent the past two months watching every team play every other team twice, one home one away; no unfair advantages with luck of the draw and no question of any team having more than their fair share of home games. Whoever ends up at the top of the ladder was the best team of the tournament. Dare I say, the winner of the tournament.
But no, now half the teams ‘go home’ and the rest play a couple of matches to decide the winner. One off day and you’re knocked out at the first hurdle, reduced to watching the final between two teams who you may very well have soundly beaten twice each in the tournament.
Finals/knockouts are exciting. But it begs the question of the need for so many games in the tournament proper.
What I do like is how the ladder dictates where the semis and final are played. CA could easily have gone the AFL route there and named the MCG as the perpetual final ground. Well, maybe not easily, because that would start a war with NSW, and choosing the SCG instead would start one with Victoria (and even worse: Eddie MacGuire).
Anyway, my commiserations to Hobart. I was hoping they would go on to win the flag. The Stars did to them what the Hurricanes did to the Scorchers last year: snuck into the last four and knocked out the ladder leader in a semi. Boom! …Karma.
So that Heat/Thunder game where the lights went out… The chances were very high that the Thunder would have won that one. Which would have put them in 4th at the end, having a better NRR than the Stars. It could have been Thunder knocking out Hurricanes and now into the final. And that situation might have changed the outcome of the Stars-Sixers match too, where Stars under pressure of needing an absolutely massive win to jump ahead in NRR could have imploded and lost the match (or not won it by as much) meaning that the Sixers now got a home semi. It could have been a Sydney derby final instead of a Melbourne one. Because of the lights. A lot of “mights” and “could haves” there, of course.
Well done Renegades. I had written them off three or four times during that Sixers semi.
Great ending, edge of the seat stuff. For the winning ball the Sixers had loaded up the off side inner circle with seemingly twenty fielders. Richardson still got it through. But when there’s only one man in there the ball goes straight to him seemingly 80% of the time. Cricket.
BBL semis: Hobart’s consistency against whatever the other three can throw up
“Australia must surely have learned this lesson in the last Ashes when express bowlers Starc and Mitchell Johnson were ineffective… [Siddle] was easily their best bowler…”
Judging by the articles and comments here recently I feel that this lesson has been forgotten, or never learnt. Some have mentioned it but precious few. The thought process seems to be typically: “Ashes coming up … we need to sort out our batting … for bowling we have the big three so they’re a lock … Siddle should be nowhere near the team.”
The fact that Siddle is near the team is, I hope, because the selectors have not forgotten. That they plan on using him in England. If so then his success is not guaranteed, of course, but at least Australia is going in with a better bowling strategy. Hopefully the strategy begins at the first Test.
Well done to Jhye Richardson. I hope he goes far. An “easy” debut perhaps but then why did Starc only pick up two tailenders in the whole match? Maybe that says more about Starc than Richardson. Still, glad to see someone else have a crack in the Aussie side to see what they can do. I would have liked some of that in the Indian series. Tremain in Melbourne, for example.
How did Hazlewood perform in the last England Ashes? Serious question, I don’t recall.
Richardson now an Ashes frontrunner
There was more than an average dose of luck on display in this match. Dropped catches and some crazy looking shots that could easily have ended badly.
Yep, if it is an Aus vs NZ semi then Aussie beware! At 5/90 Australia were gone. NZ could do that again and next time might not turn out so well. And NZ probably learnt more from this match than Aus did.
Australia recover from slow start to hammer New Zealand at Lord's