Cricket (None Leicestershire County Cricket Club)

[leicsmac]

6 minutes ago, Angus Scott said:

That dolly drop by Brook has probably cost us the game

Bowling first against a team in good batting form and therefore putting no pressure on them likely cost us the game. 

 

The drop has just made it all the more likely. 

[RowlattsFox]

As much as playing in Sri Lanka helped us, probably hasn't prepared for fast scoring Indian wickets.

[UniFox21]

Really bad start this 

[leicsmac]

Looks like NZ will have to spoil the show as the Aussies did back in 2023, then. 

[Tommy Fresh]

That drop though 

[Ted Maul]

We've gone at over 13 an over since that drop. Criminal.

[leicsmac]

Really can't get over the decision to bowl first. Ludicrous. 

[UniFox21]

10 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Really can't get over the decision to bowl first. Ludicrous. 

We usually do better chasing than setting so I can understand the logic.

[UniFox21]

Can't tell if we're bowling badly, they're batting well, or this pitch is doing nothing

[STEVIE B]

8 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Really can't get over the decision to bowl first. Ludicrous. 

I really don't think it would've made much difference tbf. Although dropping Samson hasn't helped. It just isn't England's game today. 

[leicsmac]

1 minute ago, UniFox21 said:

We usually do better chasing than setting so I can understand the logic.

I can't in this case, mate. Not against a team in good batting form and where our own has shown frailty under pressure. 

 

It's allowed India the chance to put maximum scoreboard pressure on and they're doing exactly that. 

[leicsmac]

3 minutes ago, STEVIE B said:

I really don't think it would've made much difference tbf. Although dropping Samson hasn't helped. It just isn't England's game today. 

Perhaps, though him coming in chasing around 200 might have applied a little more stress than giving him a platform to run riot.

 

Though things in this tournament will have been planned in a way to give the hosts the biggest possible advantage, the truly great teams find a way, like (and I hate saying it), the Aussies in 2023.

Edited 5 March by leicsmac

[Lionator]

26 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

Bowling first against a team in good batting form and therefore putting no pressure on them likely cost us the game. 

 

The drop has just made it all the more likely. 

In t20 World Cup knockout games played at night, the chasing team has won something like 95% of the games over the last 5 tournaments or something daft like that so it was an easy decision. 

[CrispinLA in Texas]

This is brutal...India just want 6's & 4's **** the singles 

[Ted Maul]

74 off about 36 for Samson after the drop? Brook with some making up to do.

[leicsmac]

4 minutes ago, Lionator said:

In t20 World Cup knockout games played at night, the chasing team has won something like 95% of the games over the last 5 tournaments or something daft like that so it was an easy decision. 

That I did not know, thank you. 

 

But that being said, it clearly should have been only one part of the overall decision making here.

[leicsmac]

I wonder what is totally beyond England's reach here. 230? Anything above 200 will be tough, I think. 

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[Lionator]

17 minutes ago, leicsmac said:

I wonder what is totally beyond England's reach here. 230? Anything above 200 will be tough, I think. 

It’s such a road, we can chase 250 if Buttler (finally) and Brook turn up. 

[Ted Maul]

4 minutes ago, Lionator said:

It’s such a road, we can chase 250 if Buttler (finally) and Brook turn up. 

Think a lot hinges on whether Buttler and Salt are both in at the end of the powerplay. 

[Lionator]

1 minute ago, Ted Maul said:

Think a lot hinges on whether Buttler and Salt are both in at the end of the powerplay. 

It’s 4 overs v Bumrah to be cautious and then 16 overs of slogging against very poor and overrated trash bowlers. 

[SemperEadem]

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Edited 5 March by SemperEadem

[leicsmac]

8 minutes ago, Lionator said:

It’s such a road, we can chase 250 if Buttler (finally) and Brook turn up. 

 

3 minutes ago, Ted Maul said:

Think a lot hinges on whether Buttler and Salt are both in at the end of the powerplay. 

FYI, England's highest successful chase is 230.

 

I wouldn't put the house on a record breaker here, even if the wicket is a road. 

[RowlattsFox]

Top 5 will need to peform and get us to 150/160 and then hope the likes of Curran and Jacks can finish off. Someone got to go big though.

 

Genuine slogs go for 6, need to make our slogs don't find the fielder. 

Edited 5 March by RowlattsFox

[RowlattsFox]

Dawson has bowled so well, surely you have to back him to bowl a second over even if he took a tonking in his first.

 

Will Jacks bowing in the power play and the final over, he's done ok but they are some tough overs for a part time spinner.