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Indian fans are quite strange.

Looking like a tired pitch, could be low scoring for both sides. Not my ideal T20 wicket but it is the sort of thing England often struggle with, so a good test!
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Pant very very watchful, then out. Not the innings his team needed.
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Such a bizarre innings - it is like some of them can't be bothered.
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Quietly excellent innings by Iyer has given them a real chance here.
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JM2K6 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:08 pm Quietly excellent innings by Iyer has given them a real chance here.
Yep - shows runs can be scored on it.

Interesting to see how the Indian spinners go on it.
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JM2K6 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:11 pm Indian fans are quite strange.

Looking like a tired pitch, could be low scoring for both sides. Not my ideal T20 wicket but it is the sort of thing England often struggle with, so a good test!
It's a fascinatingly different sporting culture. Losing it over every single etc I just can't imagine ever doing. Wonder how they perceive Western crowds.
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Paddington Bear wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 3:36 pm
JM2K6 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 2:11 pm Indian fans are quite strange.

Looking like a tired pitch, could be low scoring for both sides. Not my ideal T20 wicket but it is the sort of thing England often struggle with, so a good test!
It's a fascinatingly different sporting culture. Losing it over every single etc I just can't imagine ever doing. Wonder how they perceive Western crowds.
Yeah, obviously I think they're really odd but I do appreciate that it's not just more of the same that we get from Western crowds, and there's a whole heap of valid reasons why it's so different. They are pretty hilarious at times though.

Then again when you get down to it the Yanks are just as odd, so... vive la difference?
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I went to a college football match in Austin once - so odd. Firstly the mere fact that 100,000 people were at a college game. Then most of them packed up at half time and went to the car park to watch it on the TVs they had in the back of the SUV so that they could have a beer.
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So.....apparently the Indians were just rubbish in their innings after all.

Pretty easy stuff really.
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Thor Sedan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 12, 2021 4:17 pm So.....apparently the Indians were just rubbish in their innings after all.

Pretty easy stuff really.
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Yeah, expected us to struggle, but no, not a bit.
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So England favourite for the T20 world cup then.....
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india off to a flying start.

superb bit of fielding from Jordan :thumbup: :eek:
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Buttler and Malan well on course chasing 225

101/1 after 9.2
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143/5 pressure bringing wickets
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Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 4:15 pm Buttler and Malan well on course chasing 225

101/1 after 9.2
Graham Swann's pronunciation of Daywood Milan is a bit comical.
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didn't even know there was an ODI on until now.

Ind posted 317/5
England cruising until just now. Bairstow dies on 94 (66) - 169/3

CRR: 7.68
RRR: 5.32
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Was well within reach but Morgan gone early so 4 down now.

Not sure how Billings is batting since he's meant to have dislocated his shoulder whilst fielding earlier.

{EDIT} Buttler gone 3 balls later. Classic Eng collapse in full flow now.
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Eng fall apart the second I start looking. :eh:
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RRR: 5.89

Eng are still in control, this partnership needs to last.
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look away. :mad:
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Stokes, unfortunately, shoulders some of the blame there. As soon as Roy got out, Stokes should've just been tapping some singles and letting Bairstow continue to do his thing. Instead he starved him of the strike without scoring any runs himself, then Morgan did similar and Bairstow ended up trying to smash one having barely put bat on ball for several overs.
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JM2K6 wrote: ↑Tue Mar 23, 2021 4:09 pm Stokes, unfortunately, shoulders some of the blame there. As soon as Roy got out, Stokes should've just been tapping some singles and letting Bairstow continue to do his thing. Instead he starved him of the strike without scoring any runs himself, then Morgan did similar and Bairstow ended up trying to smash one having barely put bat on ball for several overs.
That's kinda true-ish but Eng were well up/ahead of RR and so there was no need for Bairstow to do that when he did.
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2nd ODI on now.

India 82/2 ~19 overs
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Slow going.
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speeding up

Last 5 overs 49/0 (9.80)

225/3 with 9 to go
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England looking a bit one-paced. It's a much lesser team without Archer and Wood, and Woakes is much better than Tom Curran or Topley. And we'll have to chase without Morgan and Root! Forget it Jim, this'll be a caning.

Some shitty umpiring so far, India doing well to review.
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Getting a little ugly
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Curran spanked for 22 runs in the over,

Pant 50 from 28
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Insane_Homer wrote: ↑Fri Mar 26, 2021 11:01 am Curran spanked for 22 runs in the over,

Pant 50 from 28
Commendable trying variation: just not very good at it!
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Big Sam, bless him, is a canny bowler, a bit of a golden arm, and a good option at the top of the innings... but he is not the guy who want bowling when a big hitter is on a charge.
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293/4 with 4 to go.

Pandya now teeing off with Pant.
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Pant really is an astonishing player
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Not sure bowling full tosses is a good plan. Esp ones which offer width. :wtf:
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6,1,6,1,6,1.... a bit of a pattern forming.
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pattern broken Pant dies for 77 off 40 :clap:
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Well, that was one of the strangest reviews of a catch I've ever seen. Kohli's bitching about England celebrating catches having its intended effect, presumably.
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Buttler with his second dropped catch of the day. An absolute stinker.
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FM. T Curran determined to offer width. Someone should tell him, he's not in the bedroom.
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The Currans just love bowling runs, don't they
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