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lifeskyblue · Mar 30, 2016

That was a great innings by Roy. Hopefully set up the platform

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xcraigx · Mar 30, 2016

Oh crap. I take full responsibility...

CCFC88 · Mar 30, 2016

We bat long, even if it comes down to Rashid and Big Mo I'd be confident from here. I start to worry when Plunkett is padding up though.

lifeskyblue · Mar 30, 2016

We will be ok. Come on root and butler

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lifeskyblue · Mar 30, 2016

Get in there. And a six to finish.

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superskyblue · Mar 30, 2016

Amazing performance. Looking forward to Sunday.

Gazolba · Mar 31, 2016

What does Morgan have to do to get dropped? He seems to get a duck in almost every innings. He cannot bowl and never seems to take catches. Is there a reason he plays?

Otis · Mar 31, 2016

Gazolba said:
What does Morgan have to do to get dropped? He seems to get a duck in almost every innings. He cannot bowl and never seems to take catches. Is there a reason he plays?

samrickettsyndrome

Captains are immune to prosecution.

CCFC88 · Mar 31, 2016

Gazolba said:
What does Morgan have to do to get dropped? He seems to get a duck in almost every innings. He cannot bowl and never seems to take catches. Is there a reason he plays?

His field settings yesterday got us a couple of crucial wickets and his strategic planning with the bowling line up has been almost perfect throughout, its not like football where your performance on the pitch is 95% of the role. To suggest a captain that has steered his team to the world cup final should be dropped is absurd.

Yes he has had a couple of golden ducks, but his knock against Sri Lanka, rotating the strike allowing Buttler to go mental got us out of the group stage.

You cant judge a cricket captain by a number next to his name on a scorecard, especially not in a short form knockout competition.

Otis · Mar 31, 2016

CCFC88 said:
His field settings yesterday got us a couple of crucial wickets and his strategic planning with the bowling line up has been almost perfect throughout, its not like football where your performance on the pitch is 95% of the role. To suggest a captain that has steered his team to the world cup final should be dropped is absurd.

Yes he has had a couple of golden ducks, but his knock against Sri Lanka, rotating the strike allowing Buttler to go mental got us out of the group stage.

You cant judge a cricket captain by a number next to his name on a scorecard, especially not in a short form knockout competition.

Yep!

Exactly the same as we don't see Sam Ricketts organising the defence when we're not looking.

Covstu · Mar 31, 2016

Another top performance and cannot wait until Sunday now!

I would disagree with Morgan being dropped, he could lead us to victory! I would potentially move him down the order so someone like Stokes can be 3 or 4 and can do some early damage. It was a great decision to bowl first which with the condition of the pitch was a great decision despite the amount of people saying we should have batted.

scroobiustom · Mar 31, 2016

not the biggest fan of t20 but this world cup has been genuinely exciting!

England having some real players helps!

just for the record Morgan vs. Colly in t20....

	Games	Runs	Average
Collingwood	35	583	19
Morgan	61	1394	20

Not a huge difference really and colly won a world cup! (with Morgan as a batsman)

stick with him!

CCFC88 · Mar 31, 2016

He is our most experienced T20 player, having played in India, Australia and at home, anyone who thinks he should be dropped clearly doesnt understand the game.

I think he learnt a lot from our ODI series with NZ last year and I understand he is good freinds with B McCullum, a grandaster of limited overs cricket, who will have passed on words of advice.

Back to Sunday, who would you rather we face in the final?

WI, I think if you can get into an injured Gayle early they have shown that they are brittle and very beatable. Also their bowling lineup doesnt worry me as much as India's, especially on a slow pitch.

India, Not looked great throughout really, shouldnt even be here following the Bangladesh debacle, a packed stadium could work against them if we can get on top but in Kohli and Dohni they have real match winners.

Captain Dart · Mar 31, 2016

scroobiustom said:
not the biggest fan of t20 but this world cup has been genuinely exciting!

England having some real players helps!

just for the record Morgan vs. Colly in t20....

Games Runs Average
Collingwood 35 583 19
Morgan 61 1394 20

Not a huge difference really and colly won a world cup! (with Morgan as a batsman)

stick with him!

Average isn't as important in T20 as in longer forms of the game. In T20 either you get decent runs or blow out in the attempt, the frequency of the good scores that contribute to a winning total is more important in my opinion, getting a few ducks/single figure scores is not unlikely. So getting 20 every match it is not as good as getting 2 40's and 2 0's.

Gazolba · Apr 1, 2016

I think whoever bats last will win the final. Knowing how many runs you need is key.

Covstu · Apr 1, 2016

CCFC88 said:
He is our most experienced T20 player, having played in India, Australia and at home, anyone who thinks he should be dropped clearly doesnt understand the game.

I think he learnt a lot from our ODI series with NZ last year and I understand he is good freinds with B McCullum, a grandaster of limited overs cricket, who will have passed on words of advice.

Back to Sunday, who would you rather we face in the final?

WI, I think if you can get into an injured Gayle early they have shown that they are brittle and very beatable. Also their bowling lineup doesnt worry me as much as India's, especially on a slow pitch.

India, Not looked great throughout really, shouldnt even be here following the Bangladesh debacle, a packed stadium could work against them if we can get on top but in Kohli and Dohni they have real match winners.

Yep bang on. Glad we have the Windies even though we list to them earlier. We are shit with spin so didn't fancy taking India on in the home turf.

Otis · Apr 1, 2016

Covstu said:
Yep bang on. Glad we have the Windies even though we list to them earlier. We are shit with spin so didn't fancy taking India on in the home turf.

Just need to get Chris Gayle and then another 9 wickets early and we have a good chance.

Covstu · Apr 1, 2016

Otis said:
Just need to get Chris Gayle and then another 9 wickets early and we have a good chance.

That's what India thought too Otis!! Put them into bat first, both teams weaknesses is the bowling attack so going to see some decent scores I would say.

Gazolba · Apr 1, 2016

So long as we can keep their batsmen reasonably in check we'll be ok. But as soon as we allow anyone to unleash their fury our bowlers will get rattled. Need to hold any catches we get and at least one of our batsmen needs to get a big score.

Otis · Apr 3, 2016

Wow! England giving this a real go!

154 for England. West Indies 11/3.

lifeskyblue · Apr 3, 2016

This could be very close

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lifeskyblue · Apr 3, 2016

Going down to the wire. Come on England.

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Jack Griffin · Apr 3, 2016

Dot ball dot ball ...

lifeskyblue · Apr 3, 2016

Anything other than a boundary will do.

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lifeskyblue · Apr 3, 2016

13 from five. Hold on emgland

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Jack Griffin · Apr 3, 2016

Arghhhh...

lifeskyblue · Apr 3, 2016

No no no. Heartbreak for England. But well done Windies.

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CJ_covblaze · Apr 3, 2016

Feel for Stokes. Four bad balls (slippy ball) but his contribution helped put us in a winning position in the first place.

Grendel · Apr 3, 2016

CJ_covblaze said:
Feel for Stokes. Four bad balls (slippy ball) but his contribution helped put us in a winning position in the first place.

It was a poor decision to leave him to the end. Willey had to be the death bowler.

We should have slipped another over or two by root or Ali when the West Indies were rebuilding. Stokes and Plunkett are easy meat at the death. Stokes repeatedly bowled attempted Yorkers which ended up as full pitch deliveries all at the same pace.

Morgan as a batsmen looks out his depth at world level and he's no captain of note. Time to go.

Ian1779 · Apr 3, 2016

Grendel said:
Morgan as a batsmen looks out his depth at world level and he's no captain of note. Time to go.

Agree. Time to make Root captain in this format as he consistently leads from the front.

oucho · Apr 3, 2016

Classic, team has lost so let's change the man in charge, will CCFC fans ever learn?

Grendel · Apr 3, 2016

oucho said:
Classic, team has lost so let's change the man in charge, will CCFC fans ever learn?

He's failed.

Ian1779 · Apr 3, 2016

oucho said:
Classic, team has lost so let's change the man in charge, will CCFC fans ever learn?

Morgan was revered as the great hope in the shorter format. And the whole time if we are honest - he wasn't a patch on KP and now Root. He doesn't contribute to the team anymore, and there are better T20 players that aren't getting in.

Covstu · Apr 3, 2016

I think the boys did well but that short total was always going to get chased Down. These things happen and we were beaten by the better team. Don't blame Morgan for this, we have had a great tournament where no one expected us to get out of the groups

Gazolba · Apr 4, 2016

Anyone who can hit four sixes off the last four balls deserves to win, and anyone who bowls four balls that can be hit for six in the last over deserves to lose.

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