Thats the upside of having 2 world class batsmen like Smith and Clarke in the middle, if one goes cheap, you can rely on the other to consolidate. Commiserations Rebs, Wahab has had 6 dropped catches from his bowling, which is the most in the World Cup so far.

Cricketer12

United States13959 Posts

March 20 2015 14:31 GMT

#242

Expected but still sad

Rebs

Pakistan10726 Posts

March 20 2015 16:27 GMT

#243

On March 20 2015 19:57 Ultimo Hombre wrote:
Thats the upside of having 2 world class batsmen like Smith and Clarke in the middle, if one goes cheap, you can rely on the other to consolidate. Commiserations Rebs, Wahab has had 6 dropped catches from his bowling, which is the most in the World Cup so far.

Dude if I made a montage of all the catches that were dropped of our bowlers that were absolute dollies (especially in the slips)

Imran Khan had it worst. He probably lost atleast 50-60 wickets to dropped catches. Wasim about the same. Waqar prob less like 20-30 odd. In all formats test and ODI

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I play cricket in alumni tournaments when I go home on holidays. I dont play much compared to the rest of my batch who play pretty much every weekend and are very good for amateurs.

But do you know why I always get picked to play ?

Because I am a good fielder. Look you can lack talent in bowling or batting. Some are better than others. But fielding. Fielding is something anyone can be good at. All you need is some athleticism (+ Show Spoiler +

which you should have as a professional anyway, otherwise wtf are you doing there) and

At an amateur level with a hard ball I save more runs than more people score and I dont drop catches. And that is all stuff Ive retained just from hard work in high school + Show Spoiler +

i played varsity soccer and basketball not the most popular sports here

But lets be honest, except that spell from Wahab we were at no point the better side and that showed today. Our batsmen were impetuous and retarded as usual and the one time Misbah decides to not hunker down and share responsibility they dropped that responsibility over and over again into Aaron Finches hands and gave Hazelwood of all people a 4 for

.

The game was over at 213. The rest was just us trying to pretend we were involved. Yeh maybe if those catches were taken the game would have been a bit hairy. But we were never winning it after Misbah and Harris got out. That was it.

I expected to lose but my hope was that if we lost it would be because Australia beat us.

Australia didnt beat us today. They just showed and took what we gave them happily.

"Wato you struggling ? Here let me pummel you with fire and brimstone so that you edge one and my team mates drop it. In form now? Awesome ! Cheers mate.

The problem is that we lose because of whats in our heads.

Everything considered I am just happy we made the top 8. Other teams have it worse *cough* England *cough*

Imagine if Australia didnt have Mitchel Starc, Johnson and Faulkner/Maxwell/Wato.

That was the state of our bowling lineup. Wahab Riaz was a 4th choice seamer and probably wouldnt make the team if Irfan, Junaid Khan and Saeed Ajmal were in. So to that end it was a decent world cup.

But you knowsome things were clear

These fuckers like Fukmal and Maqsood dont even train in domestic cricket because now that they are in the national team they are too good for it. These guys need to get the boot and thats it. Done, unless they go and play domestic and work hard and learn to score big they dont get a way back in no matter how many games we lose. Problem is if we as a people were that far sighted and nothing more than bullshit nepotism and politics.. oh who am I kidding.

tehh4ck3r

Magrathea7020 Posts

March 21 2015 04:52 GMT

#244

That was an amazingly impressive innings from Guptill

Talaris

Switzerland747 Posts

March 21 2015 05:13 GMT

#245

oh yeah, that was insane... he was going for it in the last 15 overs, but (almost) never overhit the balls. Great control

Ultimo Hombre

Australia1436 Posts

March 21 2015 07:51 GMT

#246

well that was a thrashing

Phredxor

New Zealand15076 Posts

March 21 2015 10:42 GMT

#247

On ya Guppy. Onwards to SA!

Greg_J

China4409 Posts

March 21 2015 11:29 GMT

#248

Some big hitting last Night. Guptill was a whole long list of superlatives. Great to see those 8 6's fro Gayle in reply. He's almost better when his backs playing up he can't run. Just stands there and hits them.

metzninja

New Zealand626 Posts

March 21 2015 11:46 GMT

#249

Can't wait 'til Tuesday.

Day off from work - check
In Auckland - check
Acquire tickets - next step

Cricketer12

United States13959 Posts

March 21 2015 18:23 GMT

#250

I really hope the winner of SA NZ wins the whole thing

RowdierBob

Australia12799 Posts

March 22 2015 06:39 GMT

#251

Going to be some really good semis. Def have the best four teams. It's a real coin flip from here.

GTR

51326 Posts

March 22 2015 13:35 GMT

#252

237 is insane for a 50 overs innings.

Rebs

Pakistan10726 Posts

March 22 2015 15:18 GMT

#253

On March 21 2015 20:46 metzninja wrote:
Can't wait 'til Tuesday.

Day off from work - check
In Auckland - check
Acquire tickets - next step

All check. Man that was a long ass flight.

On March 22 2015 03:23 Cricketer12 wrote:
I really hope the winner of SA NZ wins the whole thing

Yeah I reckon nearly all neutrals feel that way.

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

March 24 2015 03:41 GMT

#254

de Villiers is starting to get his groove on vs NZ >.> seems like it's going to be a struggle for NZ from here on out unless we can get him out

CometNine

New Zealand87 Posts

March 24 2015 03:47 GMT

#255

As an dual national South African and New Zealand... This game is both exciting and demoralising... I get a team in the final but lose one in the process -.-

The SA duo of Faf and AB seem to have gotten into a groove now... Looking like a 320ish score imo.