[Cricket] T20 World Cup

[Steve in Japan]

As somebody said above, we were 20 or 30 runs short. That's what done us.

 

[Titanic]

Mitchell has finished it with those two maximums.

 

[Luke93]

Tactic to bowl short too often is too obvious. The ‘secret’ signals from the back room staff cannot be helping things, let the players adjust to the match situation.

 

[JackB247]

This has all gone a bit south

 

[jakarta]

Oh well...

 

[Kinky Gerbil]

Jordan's nightmare over has cost us

Looked like there was a catchable one that the fielders on the boundary didn’t even go for as well

 

[Pavilionaire]

Jordan plays the role of Stuart Pearce, Woakes playing Chris Waddle.

History repeating itself. Put this down in the annals of great English chokes.

Hopefully it will be a NZ vz Aus final and the Kiwis will win in dramatic fashion.

 

[Luke93]

Well played New Zealand. England got it horribly wrong at the depth. No plan B and woefully failed to execute a plan A.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Pooped their pants bigtime. Great stuff from NZ though, well played.

 

[Titanic]

Big finish

 

[Eeyore]

Well, if they were going to lose, thems the team to lose to. Hope the Kiwis win it now.

 

[Bold Seagull]

As somebody said above, we were 20 or 30 runs short. That's what done us.

166 should have been enough, well ahead with 4 or 5 overs to go, shocking death bowling at the end.

 

[Audax]

166 should have been enough, well ahead with 4 or 5 overs to go, shocking death bowling at the end.

Disagree - they were never well ahead. NZ kept it within 2-3 big hits all the way through. Sure they lost a couple wickets when the time came, but they had plenty in hand and were well within range to snatch the win.

 

[herecomesaregular]

Big finish

I watched the last 30 mins. Don't usually watch cricket but if it's that easy to whack sixes around then why does it normally take 5 days to finish a game?!!!

 

[studio150]

Thrown away

 

[Jeremiah]

Same old England at sport.

Rugby World Cup Final , Euro Final , T20 semi final - lost , lost , lost

 

[Steve in Japan]

Disagree - they were never well ahead. NZ kept it within 2-3 big hits all the way through. Sure they lost a couple wickets when the time came, but they had plenty in hand and were well within range to snatch the win.

That's how I saw it. 160 felt about par.

 

[Pavilionaire]

Same old England at sport.

Rugby World Cup Final , Euro Final , T20 semi final - lost , lost , lost

And yet in those tournaments we've beat the All Blacks, Germany, Australia, i.e. the ultimate challenge at rugby, football and cricket.

I just had a feeling at the beginning of the tournament we'd peaked too soon.

 

[essbee1]

2 overs where we needed to keep it tight and they f****d up.,

 

[timbha]

I watched the last 30 mins. Don't usually watch cricket but if it's that easy to whack sixes around then why does it normally take 5 days to finish a game?!!!

The 5 (or 4) day game is proper cricket whereas the T20 is just a slog designed for TV and those that can’t concentrate for more than a few hours.