[Cricket] Cricket World Cup Final: ENGLAND v New Zealand *** Official Match Thread ***

[Chicken Run]

Ridiculous, spineless batting from Root and England. Have they not learnt anything from this WC so far? We are only brilliant when we swing the bat at everything and go for it. What’s all this leaving it and nudging it around for singles? Get the **** on with it, try and win it inside 40 overs and we probably will. I know it’s a tricky pitch but the facts show we won’t chase anything successfully at a slow rate. At least our best player in terms of talent and balls is in there now. It rests on you, Ben.

Let’s hope he delivers a knockout blow...

 

[dangull]

Still have Butler to come. Yeah the strategy of test match batting is not working. Just go for your shots, that's what got the team to the final in the first place.

 

[Pogue Mahone]

Harsh to judge him on one over. Hopefully he’ll start hitting some shots soon because nobody else looks like they want to win a World Cup.

I know...and I don't, really, I have high hopes that him and Morgan, and Buttler, will get us over the line.

The way it's going, we'll get there in extras.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Still have Butler to come. Yeah the strategy of test match batting is not working. Just go for your shots, that's what got the team to the final in the first place.

Indeed we don't want to loose at a whimper

 

[Pavilionaire]

I think THIS is the key partnership. Stokes still hasn't got missing the Ashes monkey off his back, while Morgan has spent the last 4 years preparing for this day.

 

[Pavilionaire]

It’s disciplined, there aren’t any freebies. But it’s not blasting any side away. I think ‘brilliant’ is generous.

You don't need to blast sides away when you create pressure and the batsman succumbs and gets themselves out.

 

[vegster]

I think we can officially declare that we are ****ED !

 

[Gazwag]

Get the **** on with it, try and win it inside 40 overs and we probably will. I know it’s a tricky pitch but the facts show we won’t chase anything successfully at a slow rate. At least our best player in terms of talent and balls is in there now. It rests on you, Ben.

yes that just worked well didn't it

 

[Triggaaar]

Not sure why the win percentages have been so one sided, this is clearly the Kiwis to lose.

 

[Deadly Danson]

Ridiculous, spineless batting from Root and England. Have they not learnt anything from this WC so far? We are only brilliant when we swing the bat at everything and go for it. What’s all this leaving it and nudging it around for singles? Get the **** on with it, try and win it inside 40 overs and we probably will. I know it’s a tricky pitch but the facts show we won’t chase anything successfully at a slow rate. At least our best player in terms of talent and balls is in there now. It rests on you, Ben.

Such an easy thing to write when self evidently it's not that easy on this pitch. And lo and behold as I type this we attempt a big hit and get out.

 

[Blackadder]

We've lost this.

 

[Muzzman]

Pathetic

 

[jakarta]

Traditional England collapse then. Why didn't I put a tenner on New Zealand when they were 25-1 at the start of the Tournament?

 

[dangull]

Its a disgrace that the colonies can win World Cups, while the mother country bottle it again.

 

[PILTDOWN MAN]

Get this commentator off air ASAP. What a smug prick.

FFS he is a prick

 

[Rodney Thomas]

Oh yeah just hit it England you'll get there....

No, the best teams need different ways to win you idiots. If we win here it'll be winning slowly and ugly. Let's see if we have it in us!