Lionator

Don’t think it’s a given Iran can’t get a shock here. They’re not a bad team on their day

Iran are a much better team than Saudi Arabia, Saudi barely qualified.

You’d think there’d been a game 5 days ago where a team showed how to set up how to defend about Spain.

Cape Verde are making it out of this group, they’ll beat Saudi and that’ll be enough. Reckon they might even sneak something from Uruguay tonight.

This sounds like a crazy stats considering we’re bottom, but we have the joint most batting bonus points in the league and only Notts have more bowling bonus points, so it’s clear we’re just not quite going the distance with teams.

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Fantastic all round win, puts us back in the shout and hopefully gives us belief we can compete at this level.

Reminds me of these tall South African test freaks they keep producing, Ngidi, Njortje, Jansen (other arm).

If we could’ve got those two stupid bloody runs it’d be a max victory but at least we’ve put ourselves back into it

Archer just got an absolute pea roller there haha

Completely outplayed us at Wembley too which is a very rare thing over the past decade or so

I think New Zealand just ooze class players. They’ll never have the budget of the Aussies but look as soon as KW retires, Nicholls comes in and plays a test match winning knock. And Kelly really wouldn’t be far off test level either should they get an injury, he’ll have just had to compete with the likes of KW, Taylor, Ravindra, Nicholls, Mitchell etc etc over the years. No shame. Compared to Weatherald he looks a much safer pair of hands at the crease and really when you consider his t20 40 odd v Yorkshire two weeks ago, he’s won us two games already.

Maybe Richard Rae can commentate on that instead!! 😂😉

I think Burnham could actually be fairly popular as he seems to have got some charisma about him and I want him to rule like that too, and not turn into a robot. Get the Hillsborough law through, get compo to the infected blood scandal victims immediately and there’s two easy wins. Sadly though the bureaucracy of this country will always get in the way.

Absolutely pathetic showing by Ecuador so far considering how well they did in qualifying and the fact they have a decent squad.

That stat about Netherlands not losing a World Cup game in 90 minutes since 2006 is wild. Even then they’ve only lost one in 120 minutes once since too (2010 final).

Looks like Starmer is going to resign this week

We’re literally at a stage where our fans would take Putin as our owner over Top tbf.

Come on then. 6 teams that have really impressed you so far: England USA Mexico Netherlands Argentina Japan

Keith Stroud on for Sweden

If Dutch can tighten up at the back then they are going to win it I think. They look ELECTRIC.

Haha that goal was literally Ahmed Musa v Barca

You can roughly work out a bunch of 3/4 teams we could play but otherwise you just have to wait

Said it earlier in the thread the Dutch and Japanese are going a long way, two of the most impressive teams. And actually with decent coaches.

32 off 7 for full bonus points 😁😁😁