Official World Cup Cricket Thread

[Acido]

It's too early to write us off. Too much hype as per usual leading up to the tournament, nowt new theear, it's what we do in this country, build em up then tear em to pieces. Same shyte different spooart. Av sed it afooar, there's no great teams in this tournament, nowt really to fear in my opinion. Wiv still a chance if we can get some confidence guin.

Id go along with all of that Pass, but our last 3 group games were/are against the top 3 teams like Australia, New Zealand, & India.
And we choked big time didn't we against the Aussies. So where does that leave our chances of finishing 4th ?.

[pass_and_move]

Id go along with all of that Pass, but our last 3 group games were/are against the top 3 teams like Australia, New Zealand, & India.
And we choked big time didn't we against the Aussies. So where does that leave our chances of finishing 4th ?.

If we aspire to be world champions then we shouldn't be worried about taking anyone on. Instead of bottling it the players should rise to the occasion in these kind of fixtures.

[Ponte_Steve24]

If we aspire to be world champions then we shouldn't be worried about taking anyone on. Instead of bottling it the players should rise to the occasion in these kind of fixtures.

Just do the basics. Play straight.

[Hodger1957]

Unfortunately if you play straight you'd probably finish on 150 for 0.
50 over scores have doubled in the last 20 years with so many cross bat shots.

[pass_and_move]

Teks away excitement anorl. I'm a fan of some of the ingenuity they can conjure up these days although it's more seen in 20twenty rather than 50 over game.

[Romared]

A see piggy Michael Vaughan has ruffled Jonny Bairstows feathers , he's a nasty horrible 2hat , would like to see Bairstow knock him for 6 tommorow ,
going to be some game in more ways than one , heavily outnumbered home fans, 24k sell out ,
Dil Raj at Dodeth Sunday night anyone ? A must win game for us , Cummon England

[animallittle3]

A see piggy Michael Vaughan has ruffled Jonny Bairstows feathers , he's a nasty horrible 2hat , would like to see Bairstow knock him for 6 tommorow ,
going to be some game in more ways than one , heavily outnumbered home fans, 24k sell out ,
Dil Raj at Dodeth Sunday night anyone ? A must win game for us , Cummon England

The way I read it Roma Vaughan told em a few home truths and Bairstow couldn't take it .

[Romared]

The way I read it Roma Vaughan told em a few home truths and Bairstow couldn't take it .

That may or not be correct ? Bairstow IMO , spoke the truth regarding ,how our Nation loves to knock any of our National teams
At any event /sportswise , he is far from being perfect himself , I remember a Tarn centre bike race which he attended ( why ?) In the following interview , he was asked how good it was for Barnsley in General to have this event , he replied along the lines good , " they won't ever have a premiership team again tho , then laughed " total bellend

[animallittle3]

That may or not be correct ? Bairstow IMO , spoke the truth regarding ,how our Nation loves to knock any of our National teams
At any event /sportswise , he is far from being perfect himself , I remember a Tarn centre bike race which he attended ( why ?) In the following interview , he was asked how good it was for Barnsley in General to have this event , he replied along the lines good , " they won't ever have a premiership team again tho , then laughed " total bellend

I don't think that's necessarily true Roma , I believe we have a problem when the talent is there and we don't turn up .

This England cricket team reminds me of the football teams golden generation who spectacularly failed at major tournaments despite having some seriously good players .

The fact of the matter is we are the home nation and ranked number one in the world and struggling to qualify for the semi finals because they lost very winnable games .

Ain't anybody going to get away with that and not get criticised .

We all want them to fill their potential and put some pride back in the nation because we bloody well need it right now with what's going on .

[animallittle3]

Well it's do or die today against India , nothing but a win will do now .

Talk of Jason Roy back despite a big risk he could break down and miss the rest of the tournament , similar concerns with Jofra Archer .

Yes it's come to this , however I understand the gamble .

Let's hope we come through today and playing at Edgbaston is definitely a good ground for us historically .

Best of luck lads .