Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Mon May 03, 2010 6:45 pm  

Asim wrote:

I'm actually feeling a bit sorry for Ravi Rampaul here.

Don't, they have put England to the sword plenty of times over the years!.

Eng 172/4 (18)

Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Mon May 03, 2010 7:06 pm  

Big score for England but this games not won until they get Gayle out.

Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Mon May 03, 2010 7:07 pm  

England post an impressive 191/5.

It will take some getting but there is the Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard element.

Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Mon May 03, 2010 7:12 pm  

airliebird9 wrote:

England post an impressive 191/5.

It will take some getting but there is the Chris Gayle and Kieron Pollard element.

With rain forecast to be on the way again we have to make sure we stop them getting the run rate going, some disciplined bowling please.

Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Mon May 03, 2010 7:17 pm  

Asim wrote:

With rain forecast to be on the way again we have to make sure we stop them getting the run rate going, some disciplined bowling please.

As Sidebottom goes for 15 off over 1!!

Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Mon May 03, 2010 7:39 pm  

Asim wrote:

As Sidebottom goes for 15 off over 1!!

Thank god the rain came when it did!!!

43 from the 1st 5 overs seems a little low when chasing 192 from Mr Duckworth and Mr Lewis???

Especially when the 1st 6 overs are the fielding restrictions too

Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Mon May 03, 2010 9:55 pm  

Second time in a row England have been handed a huge disadvantage by D/L, against the Windies.

30 runs from 22 balls with all 10 wickets to use is automatic.

Needs a major revision that system.

Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Mon May 03, 2010 10:01 pm  

MSH wrote:

Second time in a row England have been handed a huge disadvantage by D/L, against the Windies.

30 runs from 22 balls with all 10 wickets to use is automatic.

Needs a major revision that system.

It works quite well in 50 over cricket, but maybe needs some tweaking for T20, having said that if Sidebottom hadn't been tonked for 15 off the first over who knows what might have happened - after all it still went to the end before the Windies won.

That was probably England's best ever batting performance in this format I'd say - anything similar tomorrow and qualification won't be an issue.

Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Tue May 04, 2010 11:52 am  

Asim wrote:

It works quite well in 50 over cricket, but maybe needs some tweaking for T20

The weighting needs to be changed to reflect the fact it's a shorter game and wickets lost don't disadvantage the batting side as much as in the longer form of ODIs.

Re: 20Twenty World Cup : Tue May 04, 2010 11:58 am  

D/L might work better in T20 if they took off the amount of wickets the team batting second gets, say the overs are reduced to 10, then the wickets they have should be halved to to take into account the game is half as long then chasing say 60 in 10 overs is harder when you only have 5 wickets in hand.