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You know, given the abysmal start by Scotland, keeping England to 303 is a drat fine effort. I think they've got a chance on this one if they come out and smartly attack the bowling and break England's spirit early on.
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Feb 23, 2015 02:48
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This Coetzer guy is alright. Let's buy him.
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Feb 23, 2015 03:41
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Groundskeeper is a goon
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Feb 23, 2015 03:46
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Coleman didn't quite cut the mustard.
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Feb 23, 2015 03:58
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subroc posted:Groundskeeper is a goon For international viewers - since the quake Christchurch has a reputation for some of the most dynamic car parking solutions 
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Feb 23, 2015 04:02
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subroc posted:Groundskeeper is a goon What am I missing here?
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Feb 23, 2015 04:12
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Noxin of Shame posted:What am I missing here? It's happening
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Feb 23, 2015 04:13
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Noxin of Shame posted:What am I missing here? you cant see the grass goatse in the pic?
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Feb 23, 2015 04:20
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Scotland with nothing to lose blocking it out.
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Feb 23, 2015 04:40
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It's happening.
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Feb 23, 2015 04:49
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cpaf posted:you cant see the grass goatse in the pic? You joke, but that's what I was looking for :smh:
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Feb 23, 2015 04:58
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All hope is lost
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Feb 23, 2015 05:08
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I've woken up so surely the England collapse must be imminent. Good to hear the commentators encouraging bowlers to bowl nothing but yorkers. We've had not much of that lately.
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Feb 23, 2015 06:04
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Skinty McEdger posted:Its happening. It is not.
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Feb 23, 2015 06:14
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England really put the sword to Scotland. Impressive game, great stuff.
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Feb 23, 2015 06:15
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There is still over a month to go of this rubbish. Also, 3 games in the last week of the tournament. The semis are on a Tuesday and Thursday 
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Feb 23, 2015 07:33
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Airstream Driver posted:There is still over a month to go of this rubbish. When do the warmup games finish?
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Feb 23, 2015 07:41
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The 2019 World Cup in England will only have ten teams - all teams play each other once, top four go to semis - so hopefully it will be a more concise affair. Although actually counting it up now that means 48 games in 2019 vs 49 games in the 2015 tournament so never mind....
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Feb 23, 2015 07:54
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On the other hand the overall quality of those individual games will be much higher with all the minnows absent
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Feb 23, 2015 09:42
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cpaf posted:you cant see the grass goatse in the pic? It's a sailboat, one of those magic eye things
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Feb 23, 2015 09:50
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cpaf posted:On the other hand the overall quality of those individual games will be much higher with all the minnows absent Sorry to bring you the bad news, but England will be in CWC2019
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Feb 23, 2015 10:58
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tanglewood1420 posted:The 2019 World Cup in England will only have ten teams - all teams play each other once, top four go to semis - so hopefully it will be a more concise affair. The associates only add to the tournament, I reckon.
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Feb 23, 2015 11:45
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Associates are fine. There should be 2 matches every day in the group stages. This one week break between games for a country is absurd.
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Feb 23, 2015 12:55
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They should be getting test teams to generally play more games against a wider variety of associate nations. Stick them around the current tours, in place of a couple of the dull ODIs they bloat them out with, or a warm-up match.
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Feb 23, 2015 14:01
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re: Ireland, they'll never let them be a full member without a proper domestic first class and list a structure. If they'd had the type of money that has been donated to Bangladesh and Zimbabwe then they probably could've done by now of course, but we all know that won't happen.
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Feb 23, 2015 14:26
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Well hopefully SA got the choking out of their system. Hats off the India, but SA really seemed uninspired on the field and at bat on Saturday and India took full advantage of that. Still there was hope that SA could bat well but they were too busy throwing their wickets away and under performing.
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Feb 23, 2015 18:44
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Reset the clock. This thead has now gone 8 minutes without someone posting about South Africa choking while not understanding what it actually means.
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Feb 23, 2015 18:49
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scotland choked last night against england
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Feb 23, 2015 19:46
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Moeen Ali had a little choke as well when he got out to that one ball on which he choked like a big old choker
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Feb 23, 2015 20:13
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serious gaylord posted:Reset the clock. This thead has now gone 8 minutes without someone posting about South Africa choking while not understanding what it actually means. It's the SA cricket team. It wouldn't be fair to write about them in the world cup and not mention "choking".
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Feb 23, 2015 21:16
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England's big problem is that they overmanage their players, especially their bowlers. Finn is living proof of that: he went from being genuinely good around 2010/11 to being dropped, having his action "fixed" when all he needed to do was move a foot away from the stumps; is then dropped and called "unselectable" in the media by ECB people and is now bowling 5-10MPH slower than he was a few years ago which takes away the thing that he had. You're starting to see it with Jamie Overton: he was genuinely good and fast in 2013 then is called into the England squad last winter, doesn't get a game and serves as a glorified net bowler and wasn't the same last year - he ended up back in the minor counties, for christ sake. He is still only 20 and will probably have a long England career; but you shouldn't call a teenager into your squad unless you actually mean to bowl them at least in a warmup game. Basically the England national team doesn't seem like the place for a young player to be if they actually want to be a good cricket player. In summary, fire David Saker. You couldn't see Malinga playing for England bowling the way he always has, which is a real problem.
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Feb 23, 2015 23:11
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IceAgeComing posted:In summary, fire David Saker. You couldn't see Malinga playing for England bowling the way he always has, which is a real problem. That's not a recent problem though or a problem restricted to just England, all of the "anglo" countries are a lot more conservative with bowling actions than the likes of Sri Lanka and Pakistan. England does have more of a problem with set-in-their-ways coaching though, like the back and across movement drilled into every English batsman that people are starting to question. Saker probably does need to go though. I don't really give too much credit or criticism to bowling and batting coaches - cricket matches take a long time and at international level no one should need coaching on how to bowl every ball, but they do have some influence (bowling coaches more than batting coaches). He's been alright on the whole but it goes stale for everyone sooner or later.
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Feb 23, 2015 23:56
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Is Saker really the problem? Or is it the legion of idiots back at Loughborough that are constantly changing and 'adjusting' players techniques the second they get involved with the England set up. You're starting to see a production line of young batsmen with incredibly similar styles of batting all of a sudden.
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Feb 24, 2015 00:07
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Saker has said he'll be leaving in September when his contract is up anyway. There was talk of him looking at one of the state coaching jobs in Australia, but that was denied and he said he would definitely take a county coaching job if it was offered. Perhaps he can make a career of ruining young English bowlers.
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Feb 24, 2015 00:14
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Cricket has slowed down this week - I'm just going to play Don Bradman Cricket 2014 and make my own World Cup and choke my way to a Cup win. With Russia
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Feb 24, 2015 01:33
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IceAgeComing posted:England's big problem is that they overmanage their players, especially their bowlers. Finn is living proof of that: he went from being genuinely good around 2010/11 to being dropped, having his action "fixed" when all he needed to do was move a foot away from the stumps; is then dropped and called "unselectable" in the media by ECB people and is now bowling 5-10MPH slower than he was a few years ago which takes away the thing that he had. You're starting to see it with Jamie Overton: he was genuinely good and fast in 2013 then is called into the England squad last winter, doesn't get a game and serves as a glorified net bowler and wasn't the same last year - he ended up back in the minor counties, for christ sake. He is still only 20 and will probably have a long England career; but you shouldn't call a teenager into your squad unless you actually mean to bowl them at least in a warmup game. Basically the England national team doesn't seem like the place for a young player to be if they actually want to be a good cricket player. there seems to be a definite missing the forest for the trees trend happening with the management of the side. they seem to be so obsessed with screwing with each player that they havent actually come up with an overall plan for what they want the side to look like when they put all those players together as a team. boycott summed it up well the other day that this coaching team has been in charge for like a year or however long its been and they still dont know what they want the side to look and play like. you'd think in the tri-series against india and australia they would use that as a template to get the group playing together a certain way, but as soon as the world cup starts the first thing they do is gently caress around with the team lineup and batting order. it just reeks of incompetence and people who dont know what theyre doing
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Feb 24, 2015 01:43
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auzdark posted:Cricket has slowed down this week It must be the only sport where this can be said in the middle of a world cup.  but loving hell the scheduling is absurd.
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Feb 24, 2015 01:48
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I hear that the next world cup schedule is going to have India play Australia three times a week throughout the first round, just to keep the advertising revenue flowing in, while all the actual games happen untelevised.
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Feb 24, 2015 03:09
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that's not quite true actually there's a couple of India-Pakistan games in the middle of it
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Feb 24, 2015 03:17
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They will also give them automatic qualification to the final since they had to miss all of the round robin games.
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