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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!!!

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

among the useful flags (at least for the forum's aim), I'm still waiting for the Hawai'ian one (in Surf Hawai'i compete as an Independent Nation)... p.s. and FRP has only the waving flag option active not the still one...

option C: always on Satellite...@ 7 ° East there's the clean feed with all the games in brilliant (well, maybe not so brilliant ) High Definition (this feed is encrypted, but with a not so effective system -biss- and in fact the keys are well known ) in any case, tonight's program is already over... and in the last match of the day Italy easily beat Australia (the final score, 11-9, does not give the exact idea of how bad the Australians were in the second part of the game, after a good 1st quarter)...

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)...

yes, surely it is... but only for what concerns the team sports...on the individual sports we have some more matchable taste, I guess...

option A: FinaTV (pay) https://www.finatv.live/en option B: Hungarian NT matches are live on Duna World and also have some replays late at night on M4 Sport you can find them for free on satellite @ 9 ° East or in streaming here: https://www.mediaklikk.hu/musorujsag/ (just click on "Elò" right on top of the page to go to the live streaming of each channel)

Stage #4, Margaret River Pro (Margaret River, AUS) Gold: Lakey Peterson Silver: Tatiana Weston-Webb Bronze: Carissa Moore & Sally Fitzgibbons Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/wct/2914/margaret-river-pro/results?resultsType=prizes

Stage #4, Margaret River Pro (Margaret River, AUS) Gold: John John Florence Silver: Kolohe Andino Bronze: Caio Ibelli & Julian Wilson Full Ranking: https://www.worldsurfleague.com/events/2019/mct/2913/margaret-river-pro/results?resultsType=prizes

I guess you don't like Baseball, also... meanwhile in my personal ranking, it's second among team sports after Hockey (the only Hockey that deserves to be named that way, the one played on the ice! )... and if you like Baseball, you can't dislike Cricket, too...even if there's some significant difference and the pace of the game is normally slower than baseball (which already is considered "very slow")... but I like all those tactics, stats and projections those 2 games are based on... however, I must admit that Cricket can get really anti-climatic in certain situations, when you understand quite early that the match you're watching is going to be one-sided... on the other hand, it can give you a longer than average excitement when you understand that the game is just on the line and 1 single run scored at any point could make the difference in the final result...

good question... normally, I cheer for the underdogs, no matter where they come from... then I usually have a soft spot for really small States (San Marino above all, for obvious reason)... among the other Nations, I always have a positive feeling for "my neighbours", Switzerland... on the other hand, I don't have any sympathy for those big Countries that already win a lot and feel the unstoppable need to do it with arrogance or cheating (and here we have the "greats" of the world in the front row: USA, China, Great Britain, Russia more than others...but in general, all the "serial cheaters" are not among my favourites)... then I should say also something about my feeling for those Nations making their dirtiest interests at expense of Italy...but this has nothing to do with sports and would clearly be off topic in this thread...

Pakistan that was unexpected... England bowlers gave up no less than 348 runs (in full 50 overs, with only 8 eliminations) to the Asians and then they couldn't make up for that with the bats in their hands...in fact, they scored only 334 runs in 50 overs (9 eliminations)... therefore, Pakistan win by 14 runs (official score: PAK 348/8 b. ENG 334/9)... now the chances of making the top 4 after the epic fail of 4 years ago are getting slimmer and slimmer for the Host Nation...

Calder Cup, Game #2 Recap Checkers bounce back, even Finals with Game #2 win The Checkers didn’t let this one get away. Tomas Jurco‘s tiebreaking goal late in the second period proved to be the difference as Charlotte defeated Chicago, 5-3, in Game #2 of the 2019 Calder Cup Finals at Bojangles’ Coliseum on Sunday evening. Tied at a game apiece, the series now shifts to suburban Chicago, where the Wolves will host Game #3 on Wednesday night (8 ET, AHLTV, NHL Network, NHL Network Radio). Chicago got an early power play in Game #2 but it was Charlotte drawing first blood as Nick Schilkey beat Oscar Dansk on a breakaway at 3:50 of the opening period. It was Schilkey’s first goal of the postseason and the Checkers’ fifth shorthanded tally in their last five games. The Wolves pulled even just 53 seconds later as Keegan Kolesar found himself alone in front and he slipped the puck past Dustin Tokarski for his sixth goal of the playoffs at 4:43. Charlotte struck twice in a 14-second span to grab a 3-1 lead early in the middle period. Nicolas Roy was credited with his fourth goal of the playoffs at 5:34 when Haydn Fleury‘s shot hit him and redirected past Dansk, and Stelio Mattheos chipped in his third playoff goal at 5:48. But just as they did a night earlier, the Wolves erased a 3-1 deficit and tied the contest back up. Gage Quinney scored both goals, banging home a feed from Jake Bischoff at the 7:00 mark and then getting behind the Checkers defense and backhanding a shot over a sprawling Tokarski at 11:13. The Checkers took their third lead of the night with 1:07 left before the second intermission as Jurco, a Calder Cup champion with Grand Rapids in 2013, took a shot from the bottom of the right-wing circle that just crossed the goal line behind Dansk. Charlotte held Chicago to just four shots on goal in the final period, and iced the win on Andrew Poturalski‘s empty-net goal with 59.6 seconds to go. Tokarski finished with 20 saves on the night, improving to 11-0-0 in 11 starts as a member of the Checkers. Dansk made 26 saves in the loss for Chicago. NOTES: In addition to Tokarski getting the call in place of Game 1 starter Alex Nedeljkovic, each team made one lineup change: Jesper Sellgren drew in for Bobby Sanguinetti on the Charlotte blue line, and Ryan Wagner replaced Tobias Lindberg for Chicago. Tokarski is now 5-0 all-time in Calder Cup Finals games; he backstopped Norfolk to a sweep of Toronto in 2012. Chicago went 1-for-3 on the power play, scoring their first power-play goal since Game 1 of the Western Conference Finals vs. San Diego. Charlotte was 0-for-3 with the man advantage. The Checkers have not played from behind yet in the series; the Wolves’ only lead came thanks to their overtime goal in Game #1. Attendance was 8,378. Highlights https://theahl.com/ahl_videos/wolves-vs-checkers-finals-game-2

and together with the NHL Finals, also the 2nd tier North American League, the AHL, is running their Final series, also known as the Calder Cup... here's Game #1 Recap Matteau! Matteau! Matteau! Wolves win Game #1. Stefan Matteau scored his second goal of the night with 5:30 gone in overtime to give the Chicago Wolves a come-from-behind 4-3 win over Charlotte in the opener of the 2019 Calder Cup Finals on Saturday evening. After Nic Hague kept the puck in at the point, Matteau took a shot from the left-wing boards that eluded Alex Nedeljkovic to give the Wolves their fourth win in as many trips to overtime this postseason. "Like father, like son!" The series started with the Checkers drawing an early power play and converting at 2:19 of the opening period when Trevor Carrick took a shot from the point that deflected off a Wolves defender and got past Oscar Dansk. Chicago tied it at 5:54 when Griffin Reinhart wristed a shot from the left point that Matteau redirected home for what would be his first of the night. The Checkers regained the lead at 15:47 when Martin Necas got a piece of Roland McKeown‘s shot from the center point, then upped the lead to 3-1 with 56.7 seconds left in the opening frame when Andrew Poturalski‘s shot from the right circle squeezed past Dansk. The Wolves clawed back in the second period, with Zac Leslie wristing a shot through traffic from above the right-wing circle at 11:27, and Zach Whitecloud beating a screened Nedeljkovic from the blue line with just 5.7 seconds remaining in the stanza. Charlotte owned a 17-7 advantage in a scoreless third period, but weathered a major storm midway through the frame when the Wolves spent two minutes and 55 seconds continuously in the offensive zone. Dansk (10-5) finished with 35 saves on the night, stopping all 25 shots he faced after the first intermission. Nedeljkovic (8-4) stopped 32 shots in the loss. NOTES: It was the first career playoff overtime goal for Matteau, whose father, Stephane, scored one of the most memorable goals in Stanley Cup Playoff history for the 1994 New York Rangers. Chicago has won four straight games since falling behind 2-1 in the Western Conference Finals vs. San Diego. Three of Charlotte’s last four games have required overtime. The Checkers were 1-for-3 on the power play; the Wolves were 0-for-2, including a chance early in OT. Attendance was 8,465, the largest for a Checkers game in four seasons since the team moved into Bojangles’ Coliseum. Game #1 winners are 63-19 all-time (.768) in Calder Cup Finals series. Highlights https://theahl.com/ahl_videos/wolves-vs-checkers-finals-game-1

so far, one of the most disappointing Stanley Cup Final Series I've watched in the last few years... sloppy play, way too many defensive mistakes (especially by STL), basically a mess all around the ice...and in game #1 there wasn't even any sort of physical play (but in game #2 and #3 at least some of that did make its appearance on the ice )... but that was the risk we already examinated before the series started...with 2 teams playing almost the same style (and that specific style) of hockey, the entertainment wasn't to be searched in the "beautiful hockey", rather in the details and in the tactical aspects of the game (which unfortunately we haven't seen yet, either)...

me too... and today I have to watch yesterday's world cup race in Fort William (yesterday there were too many other events to follow)...

just another awful day for Italy, with the young C1 girls who didn't repeat the good performance in the qualifying round also in the semifinal race and Giovanni De Gennaro and Zeno Ivaldi reaching the final of the men's K1, but then failing once again, not going even close to the podium places...

Men's K1 Gold: Vit Prindis (93.67) Silver: Dariusz Popiela (94.44) Bronze: Quentin Burgi (94.91)

Women's C1 Gold: Mallory Franklin (109.95) Silver: Nuria Vilarrubla (120.15) Bronze: Kimberley Woods (125.39)

naaa...the difference is clear to me... sports where the results are determined only by personal judgment and by politicians = good for the X-Games sports with men (and women) going against each other (but separately, not in mixed competitions ) or against the clock (the only really fair judge...well, with a few notable exceptions, see Swimming, Phelps vs Cavic in the men's 100m fly in Beijing or Alpine Skiing in Crans Montana earlier this year...) = sports good for the real Olympic Games

I agree...they could have easily chosen to keep 12 teams (IRL and ZIM are good enough), with 2 groups of 6 and the top 4 in each group qualifying for the quarterfinals, so to have more decisive matches in the group stage and more knockout matches in the final stage... but the International cricket Board is really hard to understand most of the times (it's the same with the Olympic participation issues)...

just another disappointing South African outing...way too many runs given up by their bowlers... they don't even look focused at 100% on their game...there's no fire in their eyes... probably/most likely their CWC is already over, at least for what concerns any ambition to get a good final placing...

Anybody who's had great past success, but he/she's not a medal candidate anymore and doesn't have any sort of "political intent" connected to his/her nomination...

Final Medal Table FRA, 2 / 2 / 0 GBR, 2 / 1 / 0 GER, 1 / 1 / 0 ITA, 1 / 0 / 0 POR, 0 / 1 / 1 SUI, 0 / 1 / 0 BEL, 0 / 0 / 2 AUT, 0 / 0 / 1 HUN, 0 / 0 / 1 NED, 0 / 0 / 1