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

Chicken Run

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #241

The Complete Badger said:

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.

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

 

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dangull

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #243

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.

 

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Pogue Mahone

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #244

The Complete Badger said:

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.

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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

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #245

dangull said:

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.

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Indeed we don't want to loose at a whimper

 

Pavilionaire

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #246

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

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #248

The Complete Badger said:

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

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

 

vegster

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #250

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

 

Gazwag

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Bexhill-on-Sea

• Jul 14, 2019

• #251

The Complete Badger said:

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.

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yes that just worked well didn't it

 

Triggaaar

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Goldstone

• Jul 14, 2019

• #252

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

 

Deadly Danson

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #253

The Complete Badger said:

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.

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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

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Haywards Heath

• Jul 14, 2019

• #254

We've lost this.

 

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #255

Pathetic

 

jakarta

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Sullington

• Jul 14, 2019

• #257

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?

 

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dangull

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #258

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

 

PILTDOWN MAN

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• Jul 14, 2019

• #259

The Complete Badger said:

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

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FFS he is a prick

 

Rodney Thomas

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Ελλάδα

• Jul 14, 2019

• #260

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!