2024 T20 World Cup (in USA and the West Indies)

They were never getting them but a decent effort nonetheless of chasing that by Namibia. Wait and see now for England. Rain Scotland's best hope but you never know.

I know it was a decisive must win game for England but it had the vibe of an exhibition….

Why the didn’t Namibia just allow Wiese to open the batting, instead of in a competitive World Cup fixture, an opening batsman retiring to allow him to come out and face a few overs…? farcical, poor form from Namibia…. Ok unlikely to win the game but jeez, it’s a World Cup. Standards !

Can’t see Scotland laying a glove on Australia, so I’d say England can rest easy.

Scotland are playing Australia

Hard luck for the Scots, strong performance against Australia but short.

the US put on an excellent World Cup in football back in ‘94..I got to witness it first hand…

But their cricket people on this occasion really didn’t do cricket, their / our sport any favours or justice ……dreadful pitches, terrible outfields, questionable facilities and total lack of crowds / atmosphere….. staff and fans wandering behind the bowlers arm, practically every match I watched that happen, seemingly no deterrent ……. Too many failures…. There has been exciting cricket at times too but the above has detracted from the overall enjoyment and experience…. You’d have to wonder what enabled the ICC to choose that bid. I’d say $$$ had a lot to do with it and ‘growing the sport’ there.

Pakistan vs Ireland later, we won’t win but be nice if it was a bit competitive… don’t see it happening…. Be nice if we could even put 160 runs on the board and take a few wickets…and just see..

I’d say confidence is pretty low and players would be just looking forward to getting on that plane.

Ah lads, thought I'd look in on this one - two down first over :(

160 did you say? Be luck to get 60!

Shocking side

5 down now for 28. Unbelievably poor

Yeah. You can blame the pitch all you want but some of these shots are horrendous. We're behind the lake likes of US and Canada.

This ranks as one of the most humiliating performances ever by a full member in a world cup. An associate nation would be embarrassed by these performances. This has to spell the end of the road for the openers in T20 Cricket. There's nothing to be achieved keeping them around after the. Go for young openers and let them develop. They couldn't do worse.

The top 4 have contributed 67 runs in 3 games at an ave of 5.6. Steller stuff from a very experienced top order.

Stirling's performance as a captain is indefensible. A 18 yr old debutante wouldn't play a shot like that at 4/2. Its all well and good for Tucker to score 3 50s in build up, buts he's disappeared when needed. As for Tector he's not a T20 player, brilliant 50 over player when he can play himself in, rubbish when he has less time.

All that said looking forward to seeing the exact same top 6 play the next game in Sept...

Don’t worry, the next collapse is only an over away

8 down