Can't help thinking SA screwed up by leaving only their worst bowler to bowl the final over.
Should have kept one over in hand from one of their better bowlers.
Piss poor batting performance today. Only Root and Stokes showed up.
Suddenly a semi final place doesn't look the certainty it was supposed to be with Australia, India and New Zealand to come.
I think we need 2 of 3 to be sureWe have to win one game and if we can’t win one against those 3 then we don’t deserve it anyway
I think we need 2 of 3 to be sure
Not sure myself, Sri Lanka have 2 winnable games and they can cause us problems. We have 3 very hard games!We don’t when you look at the fixtures
Not sure myself, Sri Lanka have 2 winnable games and they can cause us problems. We have 3 very hard games!
Headingley is a slower pitch which played to Sri Lanka spin and we didn’t adapt quick enough. There was arrogance there in that we tried to smash it when we didn’t need too, Ali was a great example of that where he hit a great 6 and then went for another and was caught, he just didn’t need to play that shot. Not the end of the world but we have given ourselves an up hill taskWas it down to complacency? Low total to get, we've been getting high scores for quite a while. It's the problem with having that kind of batting line-up - it's very explosive and when it works it works unbelievably. But when it doesn't there's not really anyone other than Root to provide a solid base. It's either smack it around the park or back in the pavilion after a few balls.
With so many players like that we can afford for one or two to have an off day, but if we've got a pitch that isn't suited to it it can come unstuck. Bizarrely we would seem to want the other team to be able to bat well and post a decent score because it means the pitch is good and we've got to back ourselves to beat it given the line-up we've got.
totally, they blow so hot and cold each game. They would be a force if they could string those results together!Pakistan are now an outside bet to qualify. They have fine players but seem so erratic - I can’t though believe New Zealand can keep getting off the canvas every game and scrape through and then they have the Afghans and Bangladesh
Would we well gutted if today is called off, this is our biggest gameLooks like some of those one pointers due to rained off games could come back to bite England.
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