13 off Boults come back over 4 to go 272-6
Thats just fucking stupid, he never got hold of that.
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Stopped on him with the cross seam.
We cannot just bang the ball in, have to use brains
He’ll look at that and think what the fuck, slower ball coming onto the bat and he tries to hit it over, fucksake, one bit of pressure and we fold, if this wasn’t a World Cup we’d be smacking the shite out of it, flat track bullies.
It’s almost like it’s not a competition between batsmen and bowlers. Plus the pitch has changed, even the commentators are saying it’s harder to bat on this pitch…
I think we can grasp that but how many balls have got the batsmen out? And how many balls have the batsmen got themselves out?
Great end to the innings however, its messy but theres some runs on the board now, hopefully 310 ish.
27 run partnership
13 off penultimate over
299-7
1 to go
Good bowling from Southee to remove Rashid, seems like the death yorker is back in fashion.
301-8, 3 balls left
Rashid goes 301-8 3 balls to go
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Question, when the 3rd umpire is speaking is that broadcast to the crowd as well…
305-8, good fight back from NZ
Nasser says England will be pleased with their 305, I defer to him, me I’d be slightly disappointed…
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This is going to be very close, we well fucked up in the last 20 overs.
2 very poor umpire reviews for run outs towards the end. Each time batsmen were level with the bloody stumps.
Poor & time wasting.
A par score for this World Cup.
Only 1 team ever chased down more runs than this at Durham
That didn’t look out ha ha I’ll take it!
Nicholls out 1st ball in 1st over
2-1
No review
Looked a bit high to me.
Woakes to Nicholls, OUT , pinned on the pad-flap and the finger is up before the appeal is out! No messing from Woakes, or Umpire Ravi. He was back on the crease, hit him above the knee-roll on an off-stump line… might have been clipping, but golly!
HM Nicholls lbw b Woakes 0 (1b 0x4 0x6) SR: 0.00
Good grief, that Woakes lbw was missing the top of off! I thought it was a shocker on first sighting… it at least deserved a split-second of thought from the umpire!
It was ha ha, poor review and if they were in form they would have appealed.
Guptil gone, down the leg side and it brushes his glove, excellent diving catch to his left from Buttler.
14-2 (5.2)
What a catch by Buttler. Guptill gone 14-2
Caught down leg side off Archer
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