Sir Steve Howard

Pakistan need to wallop Sri Lanka to get through ahead of NZ. 65 run win or chasing down within 13ish overs is my rough estimate

The only good thing about watching India this WC is the silence when opposition hit a boundary/take a wicket. Inject it. However we will inevitably lose to them and it would be unbearable so preferably Windies do the job for us, then I could actually enjoy the SF.

SF opponents Windies/India. Goes without saying but all WI aren't we

The reward was a bye to this round

Zimbabwe's bowling efforts in S8 so far: 254 vs WI 256 vs India Won the toss and bowled both times.

You can bet your bottom dollar that some new rules would be conjured out of thin air if India were about to be washed out of the tournament.

Even more painful to say that the City Ground is great, would also chuck in the Hawthorns

gets the ball, striker (who he can't see) is trying to head the ball off the deck. not taking the piss here, never a pen.

what, ever?!?

Hope Chelsea wallop them

Couldn't disagree more

who tf is going to our 'fan zone', looks like hell on earth

Obviously it's anybody but India

This is exactly why I love playing sunday league football. Bandit country.

This is absolute heritage. The goal, the commentary, the limbs. "and there's Marshall walloping it in"

Not sure if this is satire, shall we ban all Yanks while we're at it?

Fenerbahce for a start

I know it's out of character but Spurs won the Europa last year. Newcastle won the league cup. I understand the sentiment of only allowing clubs who've won stuff in, but this contradicts your above point on poor sides being allowed in. If we returned to European cup entry requirements, you'd have Real Madrid beating HB Torshavn by a cricket score over two legs

there are 4 more teams at this stage than there were previously, two of which being newcastle & villarreal. admittedly the latter have been dire but wouldn't say the prev method was noticeably better in terms of quality. what you're seemingly suggesting is more in line with Super League proposal. 18 of the same 'elite' teams would become so stale in my eyes. No more Bodo/////Glimt

this is a poor take

Woolen taunting penalty then is defending Puka for the subsequent TD play hahahah

NFC making up for it

swing and a miss for AFC

great to see Lord Gower on comms after the disastrous Ashes TNT effort