2015 Cricket World Cup

[The Camel]

This one handed catch thing for $1,000,000 is all great fun, but blokes as fat as me are diving around out there like they are Jonty Rhodes.

If one fat bastard lands on a 4 year old kid, it could cause serious harm.

[KarmaDope]

Seriously Ireland, just bowl 6 yorkers.

[tikay]

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[tikay]

Not sure what page of the Coaching Manual you'll find this one.

[TightEnd]

very pertinent article

"Ireland seemed to mock a cricketing structure that has restricted them to only nine ODIs in the past four years against Test-playing nations and yet has the chutzpah to contract the size of the next World Cup to 10 teams on the grounds that, according to the International Cricket Council’s chief executive, David Richardson, only eight sides are “competitive”."

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/feb/16/ireland-gatecrash-international-cicket-council-west-indies-world-cup?CMP=share_btn_tw

[rinswun]

For all the great work Ireland did for the associate nations yesterday, Scotland making the ICC decision look half sensible. 12/4 after less than 3 overs.

[TightEnd]

Boult and southee would knock over most top orders swinging it like this at dunedin.serious Team nz this time round

[Woodsey]

Boult and southee would knock over most top orders swinging it like this at dunedin.serious Team nz this time round

Yeah, they are a very good ODI outfit currently. WI are way from their usual standards and were up for the taking.......

[gherkin]

I just read that the UAE have never played Zimbabwe - who the fuck have they been playing if they aren't playing the likes of Zimbabwe???

No idea what to expect from them, although having scrolled through their list of results from the past 18 months or so, tonight shouldn't be as one-sided as the bookies are suggesting.  I'm not in the habit of betting on a team I've never watched before but the 6.8 available on Matchbook has to be too big based on both teams results in the last year.  Zimbabwe have obviously done really well in the warm up games and their opening game but the 1.15 on offer seems a bit of an over-reaction.  Definitely some in-running potential on this one

[Longy]

The fact UAE haven't played Zimbabwe highlights the absurdity of the situation the associate countries are in. Ireland have played 9 odis against top 8 teams in the last 4 years, they cannot possible progress up the odi rankings as they never play enough games, it is even worse for the UAE as they are outside the world top 12 therefore aren't ranked and the only official odi they will ever play are at the World Cup as it currently stands.

[gherkin]

wp England

[Supernova]

Set my alarm an hour early this morning, so i could watch a bit of the England game.
Turned the telly on to find a 'Replay' going on.  Not a good sign!

[TightEnd]

bowled Shane

(he's probably not wrong)

[AndrewT]

I do hope someone's checked on KP today - make sure he didn't kill himself laughing last night.

[TightEnd]

I do hope someone's checked on KP today - make sure he didn't kill himself laughing last night.

if he did, it was from his private beach in Barbados, where he is during the world cup