Cricket World t20 - England have a chance?

[vegaslover]

Finn's a big miss imo, cut above the current line up.
I don't know what's happened in the past but Morgan deffo not having Anderson or Broad anywhere near the team.

England seemed to want to bat all the way down,so pick bowlers who can both. Of course in T20 in shouldn't be necessary to bat that deep, top 3 tend to win you games. If you are relying on 8-11 to get you runs, then you got bigger problems imo.

[TightEnd]

Anyone watching kolkota? Either a fantastic or terrible pitch. Turning square and bouncing loads .Impossible to score on

[maldini32]

Anyone watching kolkota? Either a fantastic or terrible pitch. Turning square and bouncing loads .Impossible to score on

Don't get Pakistan picking Shami, surely you go with the extra spinner (wasim)

I actually think 120 will be a good score on here

[TightEnd]

Pakistan are playing 4 quicks! 18 overs of spin would make 100 a tough chase

[maldini32]

They've got malik and afridi, hafeez is banned. Do not get the thinking at all, shamis last game v Bangladesh in Asia cup he bowled absolute tosh in what was effectively a knock out.

Horrible wicket for a world cup game this

[maldini32]

I've seen fifth day test match wickets on the sub continent with less turn than this

[WotRTheChances]

Crazy to think this pitch is a slow turner. It's not like KKR have a team full of spinners (Mishra, Hogg, Shakib etc.) and never go for more than 150.

[maldini32]

Mohammed Amir absolutely different gravy

[maldini32]

Kohli's a bit special, played on a different deck to everyone else

[vegaslover]

Kohli's a bit special, played on a different deck to everyone else

This ^^^

[KarmaDope]

Hahahaha, talk about perfect timing.

Watching AUS vs BAN and the commentator, Ian Bishop I think, is going on about Steve Smith and his strike rate in comparison to the rest of the Australia batting line up, and says something along the lines of "Australia have these players who have strike rates of 140+ in World T20. Steve Smith is not one of them."

As he says the words "One of them", Smith walks down the track and hits a 90 metre six off the left arm offie.

I can see why he's saying it though, how is the No. 1 ranked player in T20 (Aaron Finch) carrying the drinks? MBN to be Australia if they can casually leave him out.

[TightEnd]

you have 5 batsmen to fit into the top 4

khawaja has been in great form for 6 months and can only open

watson is a valuable bowler on slow surfaces, can't leave him out. bowled at the start and the death today,

smith is the captain

warner is one of the first names on the sheet

finch is no 1 ranked

one has to miss out. if he wasn't captain it would be smith (in this format) at the moment

i think next game we might see warner 3 and smith 4

for now finch can't get back in, which i think is understandable

[KarmaDope]

Surely you open with Finch and Khawaja, Warner 3, Watson 4, Maxwell and Smith 5 and 6. No need to play Mitchell Marsh - there's enough bowling in there already. Faulkner, Hastings, Coulter-Nile, Watson, Zampa, Maxwell and IIRC Finch/Warner can also bowl an over or two if needed.

[TightEnd]

Surely you open with Finch and Khawaja, Warner 3, Watson 4, Maxwell and Smith 5 and 6. No need to play Mitchell Marsh - there's enough bowling in there already. Faulkner, Hastings, Coulter-Nile, Watson, Zampa, Maxwell and IIRC Finch/Warner can also bowl an over or two if needed.

think they are reluctant to rely on watson/maxwell for the 5th bowler overs. all about options and the all-rounder balances the team more than a sixth batsman. this is because (until today possibly) they weren't able to trust zampa and/or agar to bowl, say 4-0-30-x. agar and zampa were odd picks, it has to be said 

[fatcatstu]

Would people consider a few changes to the England team v Afghanistan?

I think dropping Topley (from a great height preferably) for plunkett is a must, and I would probably look at bringing in Dawson for Jordan if the wicket is agreeable and looking at Vince or Billings and resting Morgan.

Although saying all that, Afghanistan aren't a push over, so maybe it's not the game to?

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Roy
Vince
Root
Buttler
Stokes
Ali
Willey
Rashid
Plunkett
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