Men's Cricket ICC World Cup 2023

[phelps 8,402]

12 minutes ago, Dragon said:

Sadly  291-5 lost to  293-7 

Glenn Maxwell, who got injured early in the game, scored 201.

Probably one of the best performances in any sport of this year.

I don't believe what I just saw! (the great Vin Scully, cit. )   

 

 was dead and gone, already 7 wickets fallen and all their best (on paper) batsmen out, win probability down to 6% according to AI and then comes Glenn Maxwell...

 

he didn't start full gas, he was miraculously saved twice by  missed catches and twice by VAR (the last one I don't think it was really how the AI reconstructed the bounce of the ball, I don't trust it at all), then he was cramping in all of his body and maybe injured in his lower back...

 

but suddenly he started to hit boundaries like there's no Tomorrow (and actually there wasn't Tomorrow for  at that point) and finally he won the match (almost by himself) in style by posting an unbelievable double century (201 from 128 balls/not out), best individual performance of the 2023 CWC so far (and most likely it will stand until it's all over)

 

game #39,  beat  by 3 wickets

 

 posted 291/5 in 50 overs,  answered with 293/7 in 46.5 overs

 

game details

https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102779

 

 

Tomorrow the 8th gameday ends with game #40, the useless matchup between  and  at 9.30 a.m. in Pune

[phelps 8,402]

@hckošice

 

a friend just made me notice a Hockey comparison between the Maxwell and Cummins partnership in Today's match and the Gretzky brothers' point record in the NHL...

 

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"Together, Wayne and Brent hold the NHL record for most combined points by two brothers - 2,857 for Wayne and 4 for Brent"

   

Edited November 7, 2023 by phelps

[Dolby 755]

Insane innings by Maxwell. Surely one of the best ODI knock of all-time. Tough luck . Their inexperience showed in the later stages of the game when they didn't have any idea about how to stop Maxwell who could not even run. 

 

A football analogy I read about Maxwell's innings was "This was like a player scoring 8 goals in last 10 mins of a game after pulling a hamstring and when his team is down 7-0"

[phelps 8,402]

game #40,  beat  by 160 runs

 

 choose to bat first and posted 339/9 in 50 overs, score that proved to be clearly out of reach for the  that in fact only managed to score 179/all out in 37.2 overs

 

game details

https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102780

 

 

so, now the gameday #8 is over, only one match per Nation is left on the schedule

 

we already know 3 of the 4 teams qualified to the semifinals (  ), meanwhile the fight for the 4th and last spot in the top 4 is still on between   and , all tied with 8 points, which means that most likely the decision will go down to some tie-breakers (number of total wins or NRR)

 

standings after gameday #8

https://www.cricketworldcup.com/standings

 

 

Tomorrow, game #41 is scheduled between  and  at 9.30 a.m. CET in Bengaluru

 

 have the chance to post a score that would improve their NRR almost out of reach of  and  even if they would defeat their respective rivals in the last match of the round robin play and get tied with them in the total number of wins

 

on the other hand, if they miss this chance, they expose themselves to a possible comeback by the Asian teams, leaving their destiny in other teams' hands

[Siddhartha Talukdar 248]

8 hours ago, phelps said:

 

 

 

Tomorrow, game #41 is scheduled between  and  at 9.30 a.m. CET in Bengaluru

 

 have the chance to post a score that would improve their NRR almost out of reach of  and  even if they would defeat their respective rivals in the last match of the round robin play and get tied with them in the total number of wins

 

on the other hand, if they miss this chance, they expose themselves to a possible comeback by the Asian teams, leaving their destiny in other teams' hands

 vs  will be interesting as rain is forecasted in Bangalore. Already its overcast in the morning with thick grey clouds

[phelps 8,402]

6 hours ago, Siddhartha Talukdar said:

 vs  will be interesting as rain is forecasted in Bangalore. Already its overcast in the morning with thick grey clouds

luckily, now it seems that the weather is good enough to play

 

and if things continue like that, it's gonna be a very short match, as  wickets are falling one after another (they're already at 8)...

1st inning is almost gone 

 

now they could boost their NRR to a level that  and  can't go whatever it happens in their respective matches in the next days

[phelps 8,402]

 ended the 1st inning with 171/all out in 46.4 overs (they've been very good to resist for so long, when they had already 8 outs after less than 20 overs)

 

 just started batting, the weather seems to give the match a chance to finish "naturally"

[phelps 8,402]

probably the shortest match of the entire CWC 2023 (on the clock, not in terms of overs completed)...

 

game #41,  dismantled  by 5 wickets

 

as written earlier,  posted a very modest 171/all out in 46.3 overs, then it took just 23.2 overs to to overtake that score and go 172/5 

 

game details

https://www.cricketworldcup.com/match/102781

 

so, mission accomplished by the New Zealanders, they won and they did it by a big, comfortable margin that allowed them to improve their NRR to +0.743

 

 are currently at +0.036 (and  even worse, as they currently have a negative NRR), which means that they need not only a win, but a record breaking one next Saturday vs  to try and make their NRR better than 's

unlikely, very unlikely...

 

 

Tomorrow, game #42 features  vs  at 9.30 a.m. CET in Ahmedabad

 

before Today, it might have been a match to follow, but now I think  have no chance at all to overtake  in the standings, therefore I don't know how they're gonna play Tomorrow, with what attitude? 

[Dragon 2,059]

 

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