Weird few moments. Aussies bowing, ball is unplayable. Lewis out to a snorter, Gayle can’t get near it unless they bowl it at his bat.
He’s out - Ct behind - Reviews - It hit the STUMPS!, 2 balls later OUT - LBW - he reviews, pitched outside Leg Stump missing by a mile.
Next over?
Biff Bang Bosh 15 off it, Gayle passes 1000 runs in CWC’s
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LBW, reviewed, Umpire’s call & Gayle is gone, now 31-2
Tale of 2 batsmen at the moment
Pooran 30 from 21 balls
Hope 12 from 40!!
75-2 from 14 overs. 214 required
Pooran gone, thought he’d hit it over Finch’s head but, no, the long arms of Aaron snaffle the catch.
99-3
Zampa to Pooran, OUT , caught at backward point! A one hander from Finch! Brilliant catch. It was full and drifting away from Pooran, he tried to drive with a flourish down the ground, sliced a thick outside edge high to backward point, Finch ran back and reached up with the left hand and it stuck! He didn’t get a long way off the ground Finch, but he held on!
N Pooran c Finch b Zampa 40 (36b 5x4 1x6) SR: 111.11
Hope still going with a strike rate of around 50
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149-4 Hetmeyer run out, good fielding from the 
's causes confusion amongst the batsmen and Hetmeyer is left half way down the track.
This just after Hope got his half century.
Maxwell to Hope, OUT , mix up and a run out! Shorter outside off, he gives room and punches wide of mid off, Hetmyer takes off at the non-striker’s but Hope stops running, sends him back, Cummins swoops and throws to Maxwell and Hetmyer is stranded! Hope might have cooked his partner there.
SO Hetmyer run out (Cummins/Maxwell) 21 (28b 3x4 0x6) SR: 75.00
Currently 230-6
If WI do win then DRS is nailed on for MoTM.
4 successful reviews for Windies. Umpires are Sunday Village standard
Holder gone 252-8
RRR now almost 9 an over. Gonna fall short.
Cottrell b Starc 1 (WI 256-9)
I will never shut the resident antipodean up in the morning.
Just wave a bit of yellow abrasive paper at him and tell him they are are bunch of cheating cunts.
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Hmm, methinks the author is prone to a flight of fancy, had it been a free ball it would probably have been bowled completely differently…
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Rain.
Lots of pre Gladto (hopefully) rain in Brizzle.
If it doesn’t rain anymore, the umpires will have an inspection at 2.30pm
2.35 pm: the promised inspection is happening folks, but is still underway.
2.45pm: The next pitch inspection will be at 3.15 pm , so in 30 minutes from now.
New table, 
down to 6th
| TEAM | M | W | L | T | N/R | PT | NRR | FOR | AGAINST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 New Zealand
|
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2.279 | 385/63.2 | 380/100.0 |
2 Australia
|
2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1.059 | 497/84.5 | 480/100.0 |
3 Sri Lanka
|
3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | -1.517 | 322/91.0 | 289/57.1 |
4 Pakistan
|
3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | -2.412 | 453/100.0 | 442/63.4 |
5 West Indies
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2.054 | 381/63.4 | 393/100.0 |
6 England
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.9 | 645/100.0 | 555/100.0 |
7 India
|
1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.302 | 230/47.3 | 227/50.0 |
8 Bangladesh
|
2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0.008 | 574/100.0 | 557/97.1 |
9 South Africa
|
3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -0.952 | 743/150.0 | 871/147.3 |
10 Afghanistan
|
2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -1.264 | 359/91.0 | 395/75.5 |
Just watching yesterdays highlights as I missed it.
When Gayle was eventually out it was “Umpire’s call”. In view of what had gone on earlier, how do they know the bails would have come off?
Smart, watchful start by England, after some early fuck-ups in the last two games. And now Roy’s got his eye in and turned a slow start into a quick 50. Good play, using the noggin.
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Roy gets his 100 and takes out the umpire into the bargain. Masterful.
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Root out. 205-2.
Bangladesh looked pleased until Buttler was pushed up the order.
Buttler could be LB first ball.
Not out.