[Cricket] ICC CWC: England v South Africa at The Oval

[Titanic]

South Africa have won the toss and will bowl first.

England 1 Jason Roy, 2 Jonny Bairstow, 3 Joe Root, 4 Eoin Morgan (capt), 5 Jos Buttler (wk), 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Chris Woakes, 9 Adil Rashid, 10 Jofra Archer, 11 Liam Plunkett

South Africa 1 Hashim Amla, 2 Quinton de Kock (wk), 3 Aiden Markram, 4 Faf du Plessis (capt), 5 Rassie van der Dussen, 6 JP Duminy, 7 Andile Phehlukwayo, 8 Dwayne Pretorius, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Lungi Ngidi, 11 Imran Tahir.

 

[Pevenseagull]

we bat DEEP

 

[Titanic]

With a 10:30 start.. the first hour could be a bit tasty.

 

[Is it PotG?]

Poor decision to lose the toss on a pitch where we know you should bowl first.

Useless tosser.

 

[doogie004]

Come on England !


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[Titanic]

Imran Tahir into the action straight away for SA with the new ball... targeting Jason Roy?

 

[Taybha]

Are we out yet

 

[Titanic]

Bairstow GONE!

turned away... bit of a lunge... outside edge... snaffled by de Kock... England 1-1 (0.2 overs)

 

[Ex-Staffs Gull]

Well this is going well..

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[studio150]

Another WC and the usual England performance already, lots of people being fooled by the favourites tag

 

[Mellotron]

Obviously haven't been paying attention to the England football team, and are carrying on with our fine and noble tradition of being dogshit in tournaments after looking like world beaters outside of them.

 

[vegster]

Surprised to hear Aggers is on TMS this morning, thought the BBC might leave him " resting " for a while after recent events ?

 

[Mellotron]

Bit more like it now, ticking along nicely.

What's a good one day score nowadays?

 

[Titanic]

Roy 17*(13) and Root 21*(22) have steadied the ship for England

39-1 (6 overs, RR 6.5)

 

[Titanic]

Bit more like it now, ticking along nicely.

What's a good one day score nowadays?

The way batsmen destroy bowling attacks these days, it is very hard to say!

Anything under 300 is likely to be short. There is little doubt that teams will chase down 350+ to win in some of the matches... so who knows what is 'enough' ??

 

[big nuts]

Bit more like it now, ticking along nicely.

What's a good one day score nowadays?

906/4 tends to be competitive

 

[Titanic]

England 60-1 (10 overs, RR 6.0)

Roy 28* (25 balls, 4 fours) and Root 31* (34 balls, 4 fours)

Steady as she goes.

 

[Titanic]

Jason Roy 50* (48 balls, 7 fours)

England 100-1 (17 overs, RR 5.88)

 

[zeetha]

And theres 50 for Roy, and Root shouldn't be far behind.

Good to see the team settled down after that early wicket. Steady current runrate of 6 an over gets us to 300, but we will need to push on at some point to get a more defendable score

 

[Titanic]

Jason Roy 50* (48 balls, 7 fours)

England 100-1 (17 overs, RR 5.88)

Apparently that was a leg bye (missed on both TV and Cricinfo)... and his fifty comes up from 51 balls