Cricket World Cup England & Wales 2019 (30/05 - 14/07)

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Yes it really spans over two months - fewer teams involved now but more matches.

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England are being built up as favourites, have won many ODI matches recently thus it will surely end in ignominy.

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First match:

England v South Africa, 30 May 2019 10:30 at the Oval.

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England play Australia today in a warm-up match. Bit weird but there you go.

Warner and Smith are back for the Aussies and sure to receive a torrent of abuse. :lol:

[Mac76]

According to your table they've already decided who's made the semis

Would i be right in saying this is what's normally referred to as a 'fix'...? :blink:

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:lol:

Perhaps it will end up exactly that way.

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Aussies win by 12 runs. :doh:

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England hammer South Africa, winning by 104 runs. :bow:

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I'm sure this will work out well. :lol:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/48478118

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NZ hammered Sri Lanka by 10 wickets.

Australia battered Afghanistan by seven wickets.

South Africa v Bangladesh today.

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Bangladesh post 330-6. :bow:

South Africa 196-3 in reply.

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Bangladesh beat South Africa by 21 runs!

Bangladesh. :bow:

South Africa. :haha:

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England need 20 from 2 balls to beat Pakistan.

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Pakistan win by 14 runs!

England. :doh:

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India beat Australia on the weekend but since then the weather has interfered and neither of the two other matches since were completed.

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India v Pakistan today.

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India win by 89 runs (D/L).

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Morgan hit 17 sixes for England against Afghanistan. :lol:

England won but they couldn't bowl Afghanistan out.

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Malinga is destroying England, again.

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Sri Lanka win by 20 runs.

Second defeat for tournament favourites England. :o

Australia, India and New Zealand next for a England. :rose:

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Afghanistan 7 wickets down but not many runs away from beating India. :popcorn:

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16 needed from the last over. Unlikely.

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12 from 5 needed!

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12 from 4.

Needs to belt it.

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Down goes Nabi. 213-8.

12 from three needed.

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Shami is on a hat-trick. 12 from 2 needed.

Afghanistan have to go for sixes. :popcorn:

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Hat-trick for Shami!

India win by 11 runs.

Great effort from Afghanistan though.

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England v Australia on currently.

Finch has posted a century. 215-4.

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Australia are about to win. :rolleyes:

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Australia won by 64 runs.

England have now lost three times and still have India and New Zealand to play. :lol:

Tournament favourites. :bow:

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Pakistan beat Afghanistan and go above England in the table.

England v India tomorrow.

New Zealand have a very good chance of beating Australia, hat-trick for Boult also.

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Or not, Australia hammer them by 86 runs. :blink:

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England are giving India a bit of a thinking so far.

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180-1, Roy going for 66 a while ago.

Bairstow is on 98.

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Bairstow gets his century! :bow:

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205-2, Bairstow puts on a stunning 11 more to his century. :doh:

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Morgan goes for 1 :doh:

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207-3, off goes Morgan.

Here comes the collapse. :bow:

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277-4, down goes Root.

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310-5, Buttler departs.

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319-6, Woakes is out.

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336-7, Stokes goes for 79.

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England post 337-7.

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India currently 93 - 1 off of 21

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148-2 now, Plunkett got Kohli.

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Run rate required nearly up to 10....

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Rohit gets his century.

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Rohit flails his bat at a slower one, off he goes.

198-3.

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Great catch at the boundary from Woakes.

Off goes Pants.

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267-5, down goes the Pandya!

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Unless India pull a Yuvraj out of nowhere, they haven't a hope in hell of chasing this.

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India really don't want Pakistan to advance. :lol:

Just nurdling it around for singles.

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Dhoni. :lol:

Just keeps missing the big swing.

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51 from 12 needed. :haha:

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Stokes fluffs one in the field, four.

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India need more than six sixes from the final over.

Old Man Dhoni forgetting this isn't a test match.

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England beat India by 31 runs! :bow:

Dhoni. :haha:

Also, no team is undefeated now.

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England v New Zealand today.

England still need a win to ensure they'll go through.

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England are on a Nelson for no loss.

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123-1, Neesham gets Roy.

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Root has a nosebleed.

Must be because he is going at more than one run per ball. :ninja:

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Bairstow gets another century!

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Root is given out, off it goes to third umpire.

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It stays out!

194-2.

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Henry bowls Bairstow!

Can't get a big score after 100, Strauss style.

206-3.

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214-4 off goes Buttler.

Collapse. :rose:

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248-5, down goes Stokes.

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259-6, off goes Woakes.

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272-7 down goes Morgan for 42.

Impressive collapse.

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301-8, bye goes Rashid.

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England make 305-8.

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New Zealand are 129-6 in reply. :lol:

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164-7, Latham goes.

Bairstow may have knackered his shoulder diving to save a four he was never going to be able to. Seems he'll be alright though.

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166-8, Santner goes lbw from Wood. Going to review.

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Wicket decision stands.

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181-9, Wood bowls Henry.

England assured of the semi-finals now.

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Stumping review.

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New Zealand all out for 186! England win by 119 runs.

Boult stumped for the last one.

England up to third in the table so they will play at Edgbaston. :bow:

Never in doubt.

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https://twitter.com/thecricketgeek/status/1146808915017064449?s=21

:haha: :haha:

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Australia are up against it against South Africa.

If they lose, they play England in the semi-finals, if they win they play New Zealand and England play India.

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Australia need 25 off two overs.

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301-8!

Off goes Khawaja, again. He retired hurt earlier.

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306-9, Rabada castles another one. Off goes Starc.

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18 off the last over required.

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11 from 2 needed.

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South Africa win by 10 runs!

England v Australia on Thursday. :popcorn:

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First semi-final: India v New Zealand today.

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Slow progress from New Zealand, only 134.3 off 35.2 overs.

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Serena breaks back.

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Rain stops play at 211-5 after 46.1 overs.

India chucking the ball around to gift some runs to New Zealand's paltry total.

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Play suspended for the day so the reserve day for tomorrow will be used, resuming from where they got up to.

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225-6 Taylor run out, direct hit from Jadeja.

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225-7 Jadeja now takes a great catch. :lol:

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232-8 NZ have no choice but to try and batter every delivery for six.

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NZ make 239-8.

Surely that won't be enough?

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India 5-2, down go Rohit and Kohli!

[dazthegooner]

Might be closer that we thought...

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5-3. WTF?

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30-4, Karthik went.

Unbelievable catch from Newsham!

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Up to 71-4 now.

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71-5, off goes Pant. :lol:

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92-6, Pandya lofts it in to the air.

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India need 62 off 35.

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208-7, down goes Jadeja!

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31 from 12 needed.

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Dhoni belts it for six!

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Oh direct hit!

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Dhoni is run out! 216-8!

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217-9! Ferguson bowls Kumar.

India. :rose:

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India all out for 221!

New Zealand make the World Cup final for the second time in a row!

India. :haha:

Topped the group stage and out in the first knock out game. Bonkers.

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Sky's programme for Australia v England in the second semi-final is on now.

:sick:

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Australia won the toss and will bat first.

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Australia are 13-2.

Archer getting Finch for a golden duck. :lol:

Woakes getting Warner.

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14-3, Woakes gets Handscomb! :haha:

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Archer bounces one on to Carey's jaw. :sick:

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157-5 currently.

Rashid got Carey and Stoinis. Stoinis for a duck lbw. :lol:

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157-6, Archer gets Maxwell! Next ball after a wide. :haha:

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166-7, Rashid bamboozling them. Cummins edges it, bit of a fumble from Root but gets it in the end.

Aussies. :haha:

Come on England!

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Archer bowls his allocated overs.

2-32. :bow:

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217-7 now.

Three overs remaining.

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Direct hit, goes to review on Smith!

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217-8!

Smith run out for 85. Great fielding from Buttler.

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217-9 Woakes gets Starc!

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Wood bowls Lyon.

Australia bowled out for 223.

Bowlers and the fielders have done their job. Up to the batsmen now.

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Come on England!

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Win predicter says 7% chance for Australia.

:sick:

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Roy belts it for six!

31-0.

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Lyon spanked for six off his first delivery :haha:

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Five wides. :haha:

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50 for Roy. :bow:

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Roy sends Smith for two sixes in a row!

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Sorry, three sixes!

HUGE HIT!

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124-1,Bairstow goes lbw. Looks plumb so of course he reviews it.

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Three fours from Root in his first over on strike.

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147-2, Roy given out fluffing at a high one.

He's having a whine but it's Bairstow's fault for reviewing one plumb.

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14 runs needed from 119 balls. :lol:

Morgan on 40 off 37.

Root 39 off 36.

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9 needed. Time to nudge and nurdle it down to to the last over. :bow:

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4 needed off 112 balls. :scarf:

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England hammer Australia by 8 wickets to reach their fourth World Cup final!

England. :bow:

Roy. :bow:

Bairstow. :good:

Bairstow. :haha: For the review.

Aussies. :haha:

Bad luck you Aussies. :haha:

Smith. :haha:

Warner. :haha:

Should've worked the ball a bit better. :ninja:

Punter. :haha:

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The final will be on Channel 4 also. :good:

[dazthegooner]

Cool though I have sky one on NOW TV so will watch it on that :cheers:

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Ah some of it will be on More 4 due to the F1.

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Aussies :haha:

Waugh :haha: what is he good for, absolutely nothing

Smith :haha:

Mitchell Johnson :haha:

Richie Benaud :haha:

Mrs Mangle :haha:

RICKY!! :haha:

England :bow:

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Highlights on 4 now :d

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Sky's programme is on now, on Channel 4 also of course.

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Beefy is in Spain. :lol:

[Mac76]

Maccy how are you going to keep up with cricket, tennis, F1 and of course netball? Four TVs? :lol:

[Mac76]

Kiwis choosing to bat first, seems to think the pitch is good, but with clouds England can get the ball to move and isn't it better to go second know the total you're chasing?

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NZ won the toss and will bat first.

Might not be a bad toss to lose as you infer.

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Maccy how are you going to keep up with cricket, tennis, F1 and of course netball? Four TVs? :lol:

I may have to sacrifice the netball.

The cricket is on most of the day so I'll probably just keep tabs on that from 2pm onwards. F1 on tablet, Tennis on TV.

[Mac76]

Now they're wheeling out ranulph fiennes ffs - seriously?? :rolleyes:

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First ball, wide.

Harmison. :bow:

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England appealing. Don't go a review.

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8-1, Woakes gets Nicholls.

Going to review.

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Decision reversed, going too high!

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BBC. :haha:

[Mac76]

Theresa may and piers morgan turning up like a couple of bad smells :thumbsdown:

[Mac76]

Someone needs to tell those India fans their team is out :lol:

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29-1 but going to review again.

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This one is plumb. Guptill has to be a goner.

[Mac76]

Kiwis really wasted that review

[Mac76]

If England get williamson cheaply it's game over

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Wood bowls two wides and concedes 7 in his first over :lol:

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England go to review.

[Mac76]

Williamson gone

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103-2 down goes Williamson!

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Get in

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Nicholls gets his fifty.

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Murali is there. :bow:

[Mac76]

Nicholls bowled

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:woohoo:

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Plunkett. :bow:

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Wood gets Taylor first ball back on

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Taylor gone - I think that was maybe going over but the kiwis wasted their review earlier :rolleyes:

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Neesham throws his wicket away

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NZ pass 200 now.

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England blow their review

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Buttler gives away four runs :lol:

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Another kiwi suicide

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NZ have climbed to a reasonable total.

[Mac76]

Yeah it's game on

Some metalhead doing the DJing at Lords btw :lol:

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Santner ducks under the final ball of the innings :haha:

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England to bat next, need to beat NZ' 241-8 :popcorn:

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Shane Warne's hair :haha:

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England survive 1st wicket dismissal by about a tenth of the width of the ball...

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England survive early chances and now breaking away

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28-1, Roy goes early.

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This looks a tough ask

[Mac76]

De Grandhomme drops Bairstow - letoff for England :o

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Bairstow dropped

[Mac76]

England have had all the luck in this match so far - feels like their day right now

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Root gone

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Root gone to de Grandhomme - game on :popcorn:

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59-2

New Zealand bowling brilliantly

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Bairstow chops on.

Shit

[Mac76]

Such a close match

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Ah shit.

[Mac76]

Morgan gone - what a catch

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[Mac76]

All down to buttler and stokes now

[Mac76]

And it's still down to buttler and stokes ...

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156-4.

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Watching this at the same time now.

[Mac76]

It's really close

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Great running.

182-4.

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Buttler gone, caught Southee

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45 from 27 needed.

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Woakes gone, england 203-6

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203-6, nearly dropped it but got it.

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34 from 19 needed!

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30 from 17!

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27 from 15!

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England need 2 a ball - unbelievably tight still

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220-7!

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16 from 8!

[Mac76]

Archer gone, holy shit

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Stokes belts it for six!

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NZ literally chuck it away!

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3 from 2 needed!

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Goes to a Super Over!

[Mac76]

Going to a super over, this is crazy, sport going mad today

[Letters]

The fuck is a super over?!

[Mac76]

The fuck is a super over?!

The closest cricket has to penalties

[Mac76]

England 15 runs

New zealand :rose:

[Mac76]

If i was a kiwi at the ground i'd leave now, this is so over

[Mac76]

Archer bowls a wide :lol:

[Mac76]

Nz need 7 from 4 balls - this is mad

[GP]

Oh dear...

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ENGLAND WIN THE WORLD CUP!!!!

Wow.

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YEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

[GP]

Mother of god!

[Mac76]

Unbelievable - feel sorry for New Zealand, had some really bad luck, and i still don't get why the kiwis needed to get more than england....?

[Letters]

Unbelievable - feel sorry for New Zealand, had some really bad luck, and i still don't get why the kiwis needed to get more than england....?

According to my nephew it’s something to do with us getting more boundaries

[LDG]

According to my nephew it’s something to do with us getting more boundaries

Correct.

We hit 22 fours and 3 sixes to their 14 fours and 2 sixes

[Marc Overmars]

Well done England! :bow:

This has to be one of the most enjoyable days of non-football sport I've had in a long time. Couldn't keep my eyes off this and the Tennis.

[Marc Overmars]

Those sixes England picked up in the last over were hilarious. Knew it was going to be their day after that.

[Letters]

I couldn’t give a shit about cricket but obviously on principle am glad England won and it sounds like of the genre it was a pretty special match.

[Mac76]

Correct.

We hit 22 fours and 3 sixes to their 14 fours and 2 sixes

Blimey seems a bit arbitrary, especially as England lost more wickets than NZ, it could just as easily have been done that way...

[dazthegooner]

And we have won the Football,Rugby and now the Cricket world cup.

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How many knighthoods? :popcorn:

[Letters]

And we have won the Football,Rugby and now the Cricket world cup.

I was alive for 2 of those, too.

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At least Lance Klusener and Allan Donald are finally exonerated from the most ridiculous way to lose a World Cup game. :lol:

[LDG]

That last over in normal time was incredible.

Fair play to the NZ lads for the sportsmanship too...

[LDG]

England :bow:

[Özim]

Amazing game, full of drama and tension, do think the rules of cricket are a bit ridiculous at times though, to give a team a win based on boundaries seems unfair, they should have done some sort of sudden death bowling instead.

[Mac76]

Amazing game, full of drama and tension, do think the rules of cricket are a bit ridiculous at times though, to give a team a win based on boundaries seems unfair, they should have done some sort of sudden death bowling instead.

yeah i agree, it's like awarding a World Cup in football for how many corrners and throw-ins you won... :rolleyes:

[LDG]

Champagne Superover :lol:

[Marc Overmars]

Amazing game, full of drama and tension, do think the rules of cricket are a bit ridiculous at times though, to give a team a win based on boundaries seems unfair, they should have done some sort of sudden death bowling instead.

Rewards more positive/exciting play I guess? Not that I’m an expert in Cricket.

[GP]

Rewards more positive/exciting play I guess? Not that I’m an expert in Cricket.

Cricket is usually deathly dull so that's no bad thing.

[Mac76]

apparently England should only have had five runs not six when it bounced off Stokes' bat...

https://www.news18.com/cricketnext/news/world-cup-final-umpires-made-mistake-in-awarding-england-six-runs-not-five-simon-taufel-2231407.html

[dazthegooner]

Well it was six so there :sulk: