🏏 🌍 ICC Cricket World Cup 2019

[Polski_Filip]

Unbelievable game of cricket.
Unbelievable bottle.
Name on the cup thanks to that 6 off a bad throw.
I was at both the 1st two WC Finals.
Unreal it became a game like this.
We were dead & buried.
Oh my God.
#tears

[Polski_Filip]

Brilliant cricket.
But also brilliant commentary by Ian Smith & Nasser Hussain at the end

[Barry-Sanchez]

I am a cunt and I don’t care, we are World Champions and thats it.

[saintbletch]

@Barry-Sanchez

We won because of many factors now be happy with the result.

I just can’t.

We’re a team of bottlers. We’ll never amount to anything.

I can’t help thinking about being knocked out in the semi-finals by the working class Australians and then getting our arse wiped in the final by the mentally strong Kiwis.

Discourse makes it easy to look at all the posts in a thread by specific inaccurate cassandra. Here’s a selection of your support for the boys.

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@Barry-Sanchez

Its going to be a high score this one, this is the most open WC I can remember, can’t pick between, WI, Pakistan, Australia, Sri Lanka, NZ, England or India, tremendous!

@Barry-Sanchez

This is the England I know, fucking shite, lazy shots, and selfish batting.

@Barry-Sanchez

This is dreadful, this is really shit and they need to be laid out for this, a fucking dreadful show, its been years since a performance has been this bad.

@Barry-Sanchez

Like football and rugby we’re a mentally weak nation when it comes to elite sport, James Vince is fucking wank and there is no doubt about it one of the worst to play for England in the last 10 years.
We’ve had 4 years to prepare after the nadir of our one day history in the last World Cup, you’d have thought the gutless cunts could serve up something better than this shite.
Bullies of some lesser teams and yet still get bullied by all when it matters.

@Barry-Sanchez

Its pure shite it really is, fucking chokers.

@Barry-Sanchez

When it matters we fail.

@Barry-Sanchez

83-5 to 237 all out, comeback of the World Cup, this is exactly where England need to be, talent is one thing heart, courage and desire are another.

@Barry-Sanchez

All done I should have wrote, what trophies did we get for those series victories, what wickets were they played on?
When it matters we fail.
Trophies count, being ranked number 1 means nothing if you don’t back it up.

@Barry-Sanchez

That’s because we’re hated, that should inspire not weaken resolve. We’re talented but that means nothing if the team has no heart, if our team was Australian they’d win this hands down. Its a mental thing and we’re weak, have been for years.

@Barry-Sanchez

Rankings mean nothing unless you win something, how many have Australia won and where are they ranked and how are they playing?
Thrashing Pakistan in a bilateral means nothing in a competition.

So if you’re saying it is valid then you must be totally underwhelmed with the performances? I half expected them. Plunkett, what does he have to do to get in the team? Vince? Is shite total and utter wank. Archer needs to be told to bowl full and off stump and his skills aren’t there yet to bowl rising deliveries, Morgan has a poker face but his legacy will be one of total and utter failure, home track, 4 years and abject failure with talent.
Players that said need to stand up and man the fuck up, as I said if this team were Australian they’d win it easily.
Mentally weak.

@Barry-Sanchez

The rain and damp weather has put paid to hard pitches and high scoring games, the soft cunts didn’t think of that yet this melt with a magners knew if it rained it’d slow us down considerably.

@Barry-Sanchez

Thats simply not true, play the game more intelligently and this wouldn’t happen, salty little bastard. (Bairstow)

@Barry-Sanchez

IIWinning style against whom, on what wickets and what trophy did we win?

I’d rather we lost all games for 4 years and won a World Cup, people and I am not being offensive here seem to know a limited amount about cricket and how it works. our big bat hard hitting style works on ECB prepared wickets, how are we abroad? How are we now on ICC prepared wickets that are slow?

We should have known this and how they made it neutral wickets which is only proper and correct, no excuses, I notice the West Indies are getting the same flack of Ambrose as well.

Wise up guys.

@Barry-Sanchez

Like I was saying rankings mean fuck all if it’s not backed up. No one gives a shit about them, the team we’ve had should have done better than what we’re currently achieving and that’s mental weakness not talent that’s causing it.

@Barry-Sanchez

Archer ironically named is about as accurate as Devon Malcom and Mitchell Johnson at the moment, needs to stop trying so hard and relax and simply put the ball on off stump, not those fucking attempted bouncers.

@Barry-Sanchez

You think! On the cards after the Sri Lanka debacle, mentally weak.

@Barry-Sanchez

When it matters we fail.

@Barry-Sanchez

I see NZ are keeping Australia in check? Are they a more talented team than us? No, are they more intelligent in game management? Yes indeed. Do they have more character? Fucking right they do.

@Barry-Sanchez

Seeing as they have space to breathe they aren’t really arsed concerning the Aussies, job done. Its the Kiwi’s I’m talking about, are you confident for tomorrow? At best I’m 50/50 and thats at best.
If we played India WHEN it mattered it’d go to 10/90 against us.

@Barry-Sanchez

Playing with heart, courage and pushing their skills to the limit, say that of England?

@Barry-Sanchez

It does but the issue is their bowler performed when needed and they restricted Australia, its still 50/50 as they have Starc who is top 3 best one day bowlers in the World. They perform when required and they’re winners.

@Barry-Sanchez

Pakistan, spirit when it matters.

@Barry-Sanchez

They still have to do it, Sri Lanka will live long in the memory of choking, and then Pakistan…Number one side my arse, prove it.

@Barry-Sanchez

If we don’t win this it’ll be confirmed that we’re a fucking nation of chokers, mentally weak and fucking soft.

@Barry-Sanchez

If they lose this there is no where to go, that doesn’t detract from a brilliant piece of play.

@Barry-Sanchez

He batted brilliantly, that doesn’t mean he hasn’t and isn’t a salty little bastard.

@Barry-Sanchez

So I didn’t? We’ve been mentally weak so far in this tournament when its mattered. Manning up was and is needed.

@Barry-Sanchez

No he is a hothead.

@Barry-Sanchez

Here’s the deal Bletch

We’ve been mentally weak for years but that doesn’t stop me wanting them to win nor the reality of them being mentally weak. I hope I’m wrong, but history is on my side.

@Barry-Sanchez

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.

@Barry-Sanchez

I think you misunderstand, those 2 games we’ve just played were great but they still don’t answer the questions of pressure chasing and playing on a slowing wicket.

@Barry-Sanchez

They just fucking never ever give up, they may lose, fuck they should have lost this hours ago, they are just so so hard to put away, no other team has grit like it.

@Barry-Sanchez

The theme here is the Indians are higher caste and so are most of the English players, the Aussies and Kiwi’s are working class lads in the main so have a strong grounded mentality,
The Aussies always have and its undeniable they’re mentally stronger than us in a whole swathe of sports.

@Barry-Sanchez

Great batting but piss poor bowling, mentally weak? If they lose it they’ll be called chokers for sure.

@Barry-Sanchez

Their batsmen will get it no doubt, we have a better team than them but they have 3 players better than what we have
Warner, Smith and Starc.
That could change over the summer but they’re 3 genuine World class players.

[Barry-Sanchez]

And? They’re opinions at the time and I stand by most of them and the ones where I am wrong I am happy to be so, stop being a killjoy.

[Polski_Filip]

As always it was the Dubai Saints coaching of the team that pushed us over the line

[saintbletch]

@Barry-Sanchez

And? They’re opinions at the time and I stand by most of them and the ones where I am wrong I am happy to be so, stop being a killjoy.

When it matters we fail

Twice I saw that in my summary.

How do you feel about the accuracy of those remarks now?

What does it say about your ability to unconditionally support a team - as opposed to jumping on the bandwagon (which is what you’re doing now, BTW)?

[Goatboy]

That’s a bit fucking rich you massive negative prat.

[Barry-Sanchez]

Just watch Sky now and see what they’re ALL saying, fuck me lads. The stars aligned and we won, thats amazing but it could have been so so different and then the knives would have been out, now I am stating the top people will still be looking at to why? Its the whys.

[Polski_Filip]

Just
Fucking
Enjoy
It.
16 years since we won a world cup in anything FFS
(And I was there for that one)

[Goatboy]

Actually, whatever. Fuck you Barry. I don’t think you know how sport works and you certainly don’t know what it means to be a supporter. I suspect you were picked last in P.E. and have held a grudge ever since. Your knowledge is second hand and second rate.

[Barry-Sanchez]

I knocked myself out on a pool table in Queentown when we won, couldn’t get a ticket for Sydney!

[saintbletch]

@Barry-Sanchez

Just watch Sky now and see what they’re ALL saying, fuck me lads. The stars aligned and we won, thats amazing but it could have been so so different and then the knives would have been out, now I am stating the top people will still be looking at to why? Its the whys.

[saintbletch]

@Barry-Sanchez

I knocked myself out on a pool table in Queentown when we won, couldn’t get a ticket for Sydney!

Who is “we” in that sentence?

[Barry-Sanchez]

What are you on about you degenerate? The rugby World Cup in Australia in 2003.

[saintbletch]

So “we” was your Town of Queens pool team?

The one team I know it wasn’t was England.

You haven’t earned the right to be one of “us”.

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[Goatboy]

You know them all by name do you?

[Barry-Sanchez]

I think the angle was boys not we but good effort son.

[Goatboy]

I’m older than you prick. Don’t give it the large one when you’ve spent weeks on this thread being a twat. Boy.

[saintbletch]

@Barry-Sanchez

I think the angle was boys not we but good effort son.