Men's Cricket ICC World Cup 2019

[phelps 6,860]

by the way, today we had our first match disturbed by the weather conditions (rain delay)...

 

but finally, Afghanistan and Sri Lanka could complete their effort in any case, even if on a slightly shorter distance (the socalled DLS method)...

 

and Sri Lanka did make up for their first poor outing by beating Afghanistan with some margin (34 runs in the adjusted scoring system, which I'm not going to spend time to explain, as it's too complicated also for those who follow Cricket on constant bases )...

 

tomorrow we should have (depending on weather, of course) 2 matches: India's debut in this CWC against South Africa (in Southampton) and Bangladesh vs New Zealand (in London @ the Oval)...

Edited June 4, 2019 by phelps

[Dragon 1,700]

Day Seven

 227-9 Morris 42  Chahal 4-51

lost to 

 230-4  Rohit 122*

 

 244 Shakib 64 Henry 4-47

lost to

 248-8 Taylor 82

 

Edited June 6, 2019 by Dragon

[nitinsanker 179]

india doing well to get SA out for 227

[phelps 6,860]

finally, yesterday we saw a couple of really entertaining matches at the 2019 CWC...

 

first India had to rely on a monster performance by Rohit Sharma (122 runs scored) to edge out South Africa, who did play a lot better than in the previous outings, especially in their bowling inning (Morris, Rabada and Pehlukhwayo all playing really, really well)...

and if it wasn't for that heartbreaking missed catch by Miller followed by a disastrous bowling over by Shamsi in the late overs of the second inning, maybe today we would be here celebrating a big upset...

official score: RSA 227/9 (50/50 Overs); IND 230/4 (47.3/50 Overs)...IND win by 6 wickets

 

in the other match from yesterday, instead, New Zealand had their troubles to beat a very good team from Bangladesh, but finally their batting power emerged...

official score: BAN 244 (all out @ 49.2/50 Overs); NZL 248/8 (47.1/50 Overs)...NZL win by 2 wickets

[phelps 6,860]

and today there's the big match between the reigning world champions, Australia, facing the West Indies (Trent Bridge, Nottingham @ 11.30 a.m. CET)...

 

let's go Windies!!!

[Dragon 1,700]

DAY EIGHT

 

 288 Coulter-Nile 92 Smith 73

beat

West Indies 273-9 Hope 68 Holder 51 Starc 5-46

Edited June 7, 2019 by Dragon

[dcro 10,179]

West Indies flag needs to be added immediately. I bet it would be more useful than  Zanzibar.

[phelps 6,860]

288 all out in 49/50 overs for Australia...

Windies need a great inning to overtake the Aussies' score...

and CG looks well determined to put on a good show (even by taking some unnecessary risk, I fear)...

[phelps 6,860]

noooooooooo!!!!! Gayle is already out!

and now it's gonna be difficult for the West Indies without their emotional leader so early in the offensive inning...

Edited June 6, 2019 by phelps

[phelps 6,860]

5 hours ago, phelps said:

noooooooooo!!!!! Gayle is already out!

and now it's gonna be difficult for the West Indies without their emotional leader so early in the offensive inning...

 

and in fact...

Australia saved themselves thanks to a frustrating and disappointing offensive inning by the West Indies...

they've been in line to win it despite the early elimination of their superstar Chris Gayle, but they had a really poor final phase (when instead AUS had a strong finish in their offensive effort) and finally AUS took the match home quite comfortably (they won by 15 runs)...

tbh, I didn't like the attitude of some of Windies' batters at all...what's the good of having a half century on almost double the balls played, mr. Hope?