International cricket thread

Can’t believe how poor NZ have been. Most of them have been playing in the Hundred and for counties all summer too.

India vs Pakistan in the Asia cup tomorrow. BT or whatever it’s called now are showing it. It will give an idea of how strong they are going into the World Cup. Favourites by a lot of people for it. Rain could ruin it though.

watched it… some atmosphere…. The rowdy elements were the English ? Or both ?

NZ finally turn up in the series, 202 on the board, Allen did most of the damage. Interesting chase in prospect.

Impressive start with the ball too. One wicket taken and keeping England well under the required run rate.

England really are banking on it being alright on the night this time. Having finally won it they’ve pretty much abandoned one day cricket since. Domestically and internationally it’s been an after thought. They went into the last World Cup as the clear best team and then Archer came in last second to make them even stronger.

England 226/7 from a reduced over total of 34 due to weather. Liam Livingston scoring 95 from 78 having come in at number 7. 👀. Some going he just ran out of deliveries for a deserved century. Having been 55/5 that’s some going.

think 34 overs is seriously conservative recalculation considering the Ageas bowl is floodlit.

England were in serious trouble without that Livingston innings. You'd expect NZ to get this total given the recent for they've shown.

That’s a big turnaround in form for Liam Livingston. He had a bad Hundred and Blast and people were starting to question his place, it was his bowling that was keeping him in the conversation. When he doesn’t try to hit every ball over the roof he’s a good player.

Excellent response by England since the loss of those early wickets. 50 for Malan..Stokes on the verge of 50 too.

Massive win for England, mainly down to Stokes. Agree the NZ bowling was poor Boult aside, Ferguson was atrocious.

Another lacklustre effort of chasing by New Zealand. It’s like they regressed as the series went on. It’s a pity Williamson was playing to get a better picture of where they are for the world cup.

England used the games to tick a few boxes. I didn’t realise the Ireland series was so close to the World Cup and they have a whole different squad for that.

And as is so often the case in freak innings like that, the other team went and got the runs none down.

Australia manage to lose the series in South Africa after going two nil up. Beaten well in the three games they lost. Not full strength mind. South Africa look good, semi finals might be in reach if they play like that.

England have added Brook to the world cup squad in place of Roy. Tough on Roy but right call.

Australia looked world beaters in the early part of the South Africa series, really aggressive and batting deep, but this is now their fifth odi lose in a row. Zampa’s form will be a worry for them.

This popped up in the list of results today on Cricinfo, I had to double take when it said it was a 20 over match. Then had a look at the scorecard out of some kind of freak show like interest:

427 off 20 overs 😱

64 no balls 😱

One bowler bowled one over that went for 52 with 17 no balls 😱

I was on the end of a few hidings when I used to play at the lower end of the Leinster cricket leagues, nothing quite like that though.

64 no balls with 17 of those no balls in one over 🤪 that’s either someone drunk or more probably bowling to some ‘ arrangement ‘ ……I’ve never bowled a single delivery in my life barring as a kid in the garden but I’d be willing to bet I’d be able to bowl 4 overs with max 1 NB an over….