[Cricket] 2019 Cricket World Cup

[Milano]

I don’t think 300 (if we limp there) is too bad a total on this pitch. Time will tell.

 

[Pavilionaire]

We should post a score of 300+ and with Archer, Wood, Stokes, Woakes, Plunkett all steaming in with their lives depending on it I still fancy us.

 

[pasty]

Psychological 300 passed

 

[Titanic]

Jonny Bairstow 100* (95 balls, 14 fours, 1 six)

England 194-1 (30 overs)

#backtobacktons

England limped to 305-8 (50 overs)

111 from 20 overs with 9 wickets in hand... dismal.

 

[BensGrandad]

Disapointing total after the start given by Roy and Bairstow.

 

[Bold Seagull]

I think it's a really slow pitch that New Zealand took 25 odd overs to figure out. Hopefully England having batted won't need that time, and we see lots of taking the pace off. I don't think this is a bad score.

 

[cardboard]

Pitch slowed a lot so first 20 overs key for NZ - we need to be tighter than their bowlers at the start

 

[CHAPPERS]

England 1/3 on for those that have written them off. Fill your boots.

 

[Easy 10]

New Zealands highest score this tournament was 291/8 against the Windies.

Make of that what you will.

 

[dazzer6666]

I think it's a really slow pitch that New Zealand took 25 odd overs to figure out. Hopefully England having batted won't need that time, and we see lots of taking the pace off. I don't think this is a bad score.

On reflection I think I agree..................couple of early wickets would be good though. Can't help recall the Gupthill innings I saw at Southampton a few years ago - he utterly destroyed us.

 

[Simster]

New Zealands highest score this tournament was 291/8 against the Windies.

Make of that what you will.

Well NZ were 3.5 on the exchanges before the game, and they're now around 4, so they are slightly less likely to win than they were before the coin was tossed.

 

[Titanic]

Perfect start from Woakes

Woakes to Nicholls, OUT, pinned on the pad-flap and the finger is up before the appeal is out! No messing from Woakes, or Umpire Ravi. He was back on the crease, hit him above the knee-roll on an off-stump line... might have been clipping, but golly!

HM Nicholls lbw b Woakes 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00

2-1 (0.5 overs)

 

[Easy 10]

Well NZ were 3.5 on the exchanges before the game, and they're now around 4, so they are slightly less likely to win than they were before the coin was tossed.

At the moment I'd file it under "unlikely but far from unviable".

 

[Titanic]

Going over

 

[Rodney Thomas]

Early crack at Williamson is just what we need.

Get him with the new ball and NZ are really struggling!

 

[Titanic]

Cracking catch from Buttler off of Jofra Archer

Archer to Guptill, OUT, utterly sensational from Buttler! That was a fat glance down the leg side, taking a deflection off the glove, but Buttler's footwork was already on the march, a cartwheeling take, stretching fully to his left and clinging on in a single glove!

MJ Guptill c †Buttler b Archer 8 (16b 1x4 0x6) SR: 50.00

14-2 (5.2 overs)

 

[hans kraay fan club]

What. A. Catch

 

[Badger]

Time for Taylor and Williamson to PILE on the runs.

 

[Beach Hut]

NZ struggling but need Williamson out to be certain

 

[Pavilionaire]

England limped to 305-8 (50 overs)

111 from 20 overs with 9 wickets in hand... dismal.

Yet up until 2 weeks ago a score of 305 would have been the second highest international one-day total on this ground, just 2 runs off the record.