20/20 World Cup (cricket thread)

[flipside]

Watching the Ireland vs Bangladesh match.
138 for the Irish to win.

Weird that the best two Irish batsman have gone to England(Joyce & Morgan) and Bangladesh have had test experience, but it looks like Ireland will win.For the second tourney in a row.

Does make you wonder whether Bangladesh should be a test nation, if Ireland should be, or if a second tier set up with Ireland, Bangladesh, Holland, Kenya and Zimbabwe is the way forward

[classical_hero]

Who cares? TI is an overhyped tournament that should be left to states and the like, not internationals.

[Cort Haus]

Pakistan are capable of **** ups as well.

They certainly screwed up against England today.

[duke o' york]

Aussies' position?

Having an equally rubbish team, but with arrogance and expectation on top?

The Windies' batsmen did have a fantastic day against the Aussies though.

[flipside]

Netherlands out-played England and deserved their win.
Poor decision-making in the middle order batting, playing Rashid rather than Swann and Sidebottom rather than Dimi all cost England and shows the lack of REAL quality in their cricket.

Still ,with a pretty much even RR, a win will qualify them ..so their fate is in their hands.

I'd rather be in that position than the Aussies position.

[Dauphin]

Pakistan are capable of **** ups as well. Remember the ODI World Cup loss to Ireland.

[Maquiladora]

I didn't even know England were hosting a world cup until today.

The game looked exciting, but it's just not (my kind of) cricket.

[duke o' york]

So England lost to the Netherlands in the first game, and now have to beat Pakistan to get through to the next round. So they're out then...

I can't see anyone but India winning to be honest. Their reserve side could probably give a good game to most Test nations after the IPL's 'must have 6 Indians' rule has meant a massive surge in the game in that country.