2015 World Cup Day 16 - Eng v SL, Pak v Zim

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22nd Match, Pool A: England v Sri Lanka at Wellington
Mar 1, 2015 (11:00 local | 22:00 GMT -1d | 23:00 CET -1d)

23rd Match, Pool B: Pakistan v Zimbabwe at Brisbane
Mar 1, 2015 (13:30 local | 03:30 GMT | 04:30 CET)

KevIRL

Fancy England for some reason, and Pakistan.

KevIRL

England win the toss and will bat

KevIRL

Love the never ending Sri Lankan anthem

pelevin

Every man wants to be Nick Knight.

HonalD

Bell's looking good/lucky.

pelevin

Ali just gone. Whether a delusion or not, before that wicket despite England's great start a bit of a sense of their momentum/intent slowing.

josip

Will Ballance's poor form continue?

pelevin

josip wrote: »

Will Ballance's poor form continue?

Yep.


His continued selection looking pig-headed idiocy.

josip

Ballance gone for 6.
Will we see him again this world cup?

pelevin

Have England batsmen got what it takes to grab back the momentum? Would be pretty typical if they don't.

josip

So what would England be expected to score from here? 250-270?
You'd suspect that Sril Lanka would be well capable of reaching that.

josip

Bell gone, I think they'll do well to make 220 now.

pelevin

Despite Bell's brilliant start he still ends up departing at less than a run a ball. Seems to kind of sum up England as a one day side.

Beasty

josip wrote: »

Bell gone, I think they'll do well to make 220 now.

Should still be looking for something approaching 300

Dan man

After the relentless chaos of previous games between test nations, it's hard to believe we haven't had to mention the word collapse so far tonight..... what's going on? :P

pelevin

Who the hell instigated that review?!

Beasty

Well done Joe Root - has really held the innings together and thoroughly deserves his century

Beasty

... and 25 in the over - can live with that!

257-4

KevIRL

Beasty wrote: »

... and 25 in the over - can live with that!

Indeed. Quality knock

pelevin

Fair play to Root all right. Has kept England right in it. You'd still expect with Sri Lanka's batting quality, England need to really go hard from here on. Doesn't look like there's any reason they'd be scared by a 300 or so chase.

Beasty

Taylor goes 259-5 with 4.3 overs left

Beasty

Mainga writes off Buttler's helmet first ball. Could have been very nasty but he's looking to continue

Pudsy33

Lakmal trying to kill someone

Beasty

England close on 309/6 - nice cameo from Buttler at the end with 39 off 19

Dan man

310 needed for the win.....I don't see Sri Lanka chasing down this total but I think they'll get close.

axe2grind

Buttler facing only 19 balls is bad tactics.
Great innings by Root

res ipsa

Sri Lanka doing well 73 for 0 after 13 overs.

Dan man

Pakistan 4-2 inside 4 overs..... this is good news for us so far. A modest Zimbabwe victory would be best for us, we don't want either of those 2 teams to improve their NRR by much.

COYVB

Dan man wrote: »

Pakistan 4-2 inside 4 overs..... this is good news for us so far. A modest Zimbabwe victory would be best for us, we don't want either of those 2 teams to improve their NRR by much.

Shouldn't we be wanting a Pakistan win there?

Dan man

COYVB wrote: »

Shouldn't we be wanting a Pakistan win there?

Definitely not I would say. If Zimbabwe win then it would pretty much set up a showdown between us and them for qualification. It won't be easy at all but personally I'd fancy our chances more against Zimbabwe than in a showdown against Pakistan.

Rjd2

Dan man wrote: »

Definitely not I would say. If Zimbabwe win then it would pretty much set up a showdown between us and them for qualification. It won't be easy at all but personally I'd fancy our chances more against Zimbabwe than in a showdown against Pakistan.

Would we not need to beat Pakistan as well?

I know they are muck these days, but they are still big favs against us.

COYVB

Dan man wrote: »

Definitely not I would say. If Zimbabwe win then it would pretty much set up a showdown between us and them for qualification. It won't be easy at all but personally I'd fancy our chances more against Zimbabwe than in a showdown against Pakistan.

I'd rather have both Pakistan and Zimbabwe 2 points behind us than have one of them level with us TBH

Dan man

Rjd2 wrote: »

Would we not need to beat Pakistan as well?

I know they are muck these days, but they are still big favs against us.

If Pakistan lose against Zimbabwe then they can't catch us if we beat Zimbabwe, which we'll need to do anyway. Assuming Pakistan don't shock South Africa.

Dan man

COYVB wrote: »

I'd rather have both Pakistan and Zimbabwe 2 points behind us than have one of them level with us TBH

Well that goes without saying. In an ideal world we won't want to rely on NRR.

COYVB

Dan man wrote: »

Well that goes without saying.

Yeah, but a Pakistan win tonight gives us that. A Zimbabwe win puts them level with us

Dan man

COYVB wrote: »

Yeah, but a Pakistan win tonight gives us that. A Zimbabwe win puts them level with us

But you're forgetting the wider picture.... Zimbabwe have played UAE and Pakistan have not. I'm not assuming anything but you would imagine Pakistan should see of UAE and could give their NRR a healthy boost to boot.

COYVB

That's also true enough - though I'd fancy UAE to surprise someone in one of their remaining 3.

votecounts

hows the england sri lanka game going as my livescores is onthe blink

Rjd2

COYVB wrote: »

That's also true enough - though I'd fancy UAE to surprise someone in one of their remaining 3.

A few UAE players tried to break into Pakistan first class cricket and couldn't get in due to politics, most notable was Khan, so they will be seriously up for that game. They won't trouble the Saffers and West Indies though.

Dan man

COYVB wrote: »

That's also true enough - though I'd fancy UAE to surprise someone in one of their remaining 3.

Yeah anything is possible and Pakistan are far from convincing. We need to beat Zimbabwe pretty much no matter what. I'm just hoping we won't have to beat Pakistan on top of that.

Dan man

votecounts wrote: »

hows the england sri lanka game going as my livescores is onthe blink

Sri Lanka are 172-1 after 32. 138 more runs needed, looking good so far for them but a long way to go yet.

Rjd2

Dan man wrote: »

Yeah anything is possible and Pakistan are far from convincing. We need to beat Zimbabwe pretty much no matter what. I'm just hoping we won't have to beat Pakistan on top of that.

Yeah, always were going to have to beat Zimbabwe no matter the results., although to be fair they would have been saying the same about us since the draw was made. Ideally the UAE and Saffers beat them as well.

Dan man

Pakistan 14-2 after 10 overs. That's way too slow they'll need to pick it up. I'm relatively pleased though :pac:

Dan man

18-2 after 12 overs!

Rjd2

Dan man wrote: »

18-2 after 12 overs!

They are very old school in their batting!:D

Very reliant on the likes of Afridi/ Akmal and King Masqood to go big towards the end.

Dan man

Rjd2 wrote: »

They are very old school in their batting!:D

Very reliant on the likes of Afridi/ Akmal and King Masqood to go big towards the end.

Yeah, way too cautious and way too reliant on Afridi. They're in trouble here.

COYVB

England are losing this. SL 242/1 off 39, requiring 310

COYVB

Pakistan 44/2 off 18

Sparks43

Getting so fed up with Sky going down ive grabbed a asian stream

Bloody ridiculous

Edit: And thats gone down as well

COYVB

Ton up for Sangakkara. That's both guys in the middle past the century - no need to hold back for either of them now, so I'd assume they'll open up a little