2015 Cricket World Cup

[TightEnd]

they have the talent

but from the top down the game is run by lunatics

We've contrived to be eliminated from a tournament where the group stages are formatted to stop this exact thing happening, by playing a brand of cricket seen in 1980s ODIs, not the modern game

this is down to management, culture and coaching

there is plenty of talent in english domestic cricket, just look at jason roy, sam billings, david willey etc play without fear in one dayers for their county. If it were aus, nz or safrican players doing that, they'd be playing for their country

 

[TightEnd]

Ian Botham ‏@BeefyBotham 1m1 minute ago

Well done Bangladesh ! England pathetic ! When are we going to pick the selectors to pick a team for the 1 day format ? Time for change !!

[tikay]

they have the talent

but from the top down the game is run by lunatics

We've contrived to be eliminated from a tournament where the group stages are formatted to stop this exact thing happening, by playing a brand of cricket seen in 1980s ODIs, not the modern game
this is down to management, culture and coaching

there is plenty of talent in english domestic cricket, just look at jason roy, sam billings, david willey etc play without fear in one dayers for their county. If it were aus, nz or safrican players doing that, they'd be playing for their country

 

We had, on paper, a really easy Group, it looked like a formality.

[tikay]

Ian Botham ‏@BeefyBotham 1m1 minute ago

Well done Bangladesh ! England pathetic ! When are we going to pick the selectors to pick a team for the 1 day format ? Time for change !!

God bless Beefy.

Camel & I love eveything about him. 

[DungBeetle]

My goodness that is embarrassing.  To be knocked out 1st round of a tournament in a format that was specifically designed to ensure that it was hard to happen.

Simply woeful.

[AndrewT]

England to begin campaigning to expand the 2019 WC to 14 teams so they have a chance of playing in it.

[TightEnd]

"i thought 275 was chaseable but we need to look at the data"

[DungBeetle]

Jeez - doesn't the guy read the papers and realise that people are constantly mocking for his constant referral to data and stats?

[The Camel]

Ian Botham ‏@BeefyBotham 1m1 minute ago

Well done Bangladesh ! England pathetic ! When are we going to pick the selectors to pick a team for the 1 day format ? Time for change !!

God bless Beefy.

Camel & I love eveything about him. 

Now I know he's one of those people who leave a space between the end of a word and an exclamation mark, I have even more disdain for him !

[tikay]

Ian Botham ‏@BeefyBotham 1m1 minute ago

Well done Bangladesh ! England pathetic ! When are we going to pick the selectors to pick a team for the 1 day format ? Time for change !!

God bless Beefy.

Camel & I love eveything about him.  

Now I know he's one of those people who leave a space between the end of a word and an exclamation mark, I have even more disdain for him !

I saw what you did there. Very good, very good Mr H.


And don't even THINK of starting me off on excessive use of exclamation marks. Abso does my head in.


http://www.mediander.com/culturemap/Proper-Punctuation-and-Its-Enemies/#!/connection/7

[Doobs]

Ian Botham ‏@BeefyBotham 1m1 minute ago

Well done Bangladesh ! England pathetic ! When are we going to pick the selectors to pick a team for the 1 day format ? Time for change !!

God bless Beefy.

Camel & I love eveything about him. 

Now I know he's one of those people who leave a space between the end of a word and an exclamation mark, I have even more disdain for him !

Way too many exclamation marks in that paragraph for me, the number plate is missing an apostrophe and 3 and E are not written the same way round; if he really intends us to read B33 fuck yourselves then fair play to him !

[kp24]

they have the talent

but from the top down the game is run by lunatics

We've contrived to be eliminated from a tournament where the group stages are formatted to stop this exact thing happening, by playing a brand of cricket seen in 1980s ODIs, not the modern game

this is down to management, culture and coaching

there is plenty of talent in english domestic cricket, just look at jason roy, sam billings, david willey etc play without fear in one dayers for their county. If it were aus, nz or safrican players doing that, they'd be playing for their country

 

Totally agree there is talent especially batting wise which is why its frustrating as a cricket lover seeing us bat like this we play with fear, I was worried about the bowling for world cup as we lack wicket takers especially in the middle overs,unfortunately Finn just hasn't been the same bowler since his hitting the stumps problems he's lost 10mph and leaving off broads op and leaving behind for sri lanka gave anderson little overs before world cup hasn't helped. There isn't a massive amount of quick bowlers coming through the ranks I like stokes and hopefully tymal mills move to Sussex will help him reach his potential,I have this arguement with my friend all the time that extreme pace wins you games at this level,he says preoccupied with pace but that's what makes top batters make mistakes

[Longy]

Cracking game of cricket. Unfortunately this World Cup has had too many one sided games, this wasn't one of them.

[TightEnd]

proper game that

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[TightEnd]

just when you thought English cricket was at its lowest ebb