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First semi today. I fear for India's sake if India doesn't stop the ridiculous chase they set for the Kiwis of 398. Right now the Black Caps have a solid partnership forming, but they are 27 overs at near a 10 run rate away from their target. This would be quite something if they pull it off. India has owned this tournament.
 
Kiwis need about 12 an over in the last 9 (strike rate of over 200%). I think India batted that themselves in the last ten. It isn't likely, but it isn't over. Kiwi's biggest problem is with 9 of those overs, Shami has 2 to bowl.
 
India into the final. Daryl Mitchell fought the good fight, but India was able to win handily.
 
Today on, what is India waiting for to put on their pace bowlers?!

Also, the fans realize they can impact the game by cheering right? Like the Covid restrictions are back and the stadium is empty. Most noise they've made in an hour was cheering Head's century.
 
Aussies take the ODI. I don't get the lack of pacers and how the fans just seemed to feel entitled to an Indian Title thay when the team needed their energy, they were too busy sitting on their hands.

Team win here. Thry came out explosive. Gave up a couple wickets but put themselves in a good position.
 
The two superpowers of cricket clash, but there can be only one World Champion.
A number of excuses have been offered for India's loss:
Politics/match fixing - the dejected looks and behaviour of the Indian players shows that these are not men who intentionally lost.
The toss -Cummins surprised almost everyone when he chose to field; if Indian captain had won toss he would have chosen to bat, so no matter the result of toss India would open the batting, so the toss had no effect on match.
That India had won ten matches in a row, and was therefore due for a loss. Australia won eight matches in a row leading up to the final, so not much difference.

Some comments:
The Indian cricket authorities prepared the pitch for this match; they chose to make it slow believing this would help Indian side and disadvantage the Australians. This trap backfired, as Australia handled the conditions better.
Smith was given out LBW, and surprisingly didn't challenge the decision, if he had he would have stayed in. Later in the match his good friend Labuschagne was given a not out LBW decision that India challenged, and result was umpire's decision, so he stayed. If the umpire had originally given an LBW, Labuschagne would have been gone (too late to save India). So this was a balance.
It was the Travis Head show - two teams enter the Travisdome, only one team leaves victorious.
Negative fielding by India, they should have had men in slips positions.

There are claims that India was the better team (and therefore should automatically have won), but this match was to determine who was the better team, and it was not India. Earlier in the year (June) Australia won the World Test Cricket Championship final (also against India).
 
Spacetime Inhabitant said:
That India had won ten matches in a row, and was therefore due for a loss.
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Yeah, probability doesn't work like that, and the smart money is to bet on the team with a run of good form.

The fact that every team eventually loses in no way helps us to predict when they will lose, which is counterintuitive, but unavoidably true.
 
Why did Australia win? They played to win. They field with tenacity and they came out of the gate firing. It took the bowlers four overs to get things in line. Then they stopped using the pacers. And let a partnership form. India was going from the script, instead of reacting to what was happening on the pitch. They needed to burn through the pacers to get everyone out through Maxwell. I also think Shami was hurt and his effectiveness was greatly reduced. And I think the home crowd sucked the energy out of the team.

Finally, Australia also scored more runs than India, and that usually has a strong correlation with winning.
 
As I try to catch up, the big news is the ICC T-20 World Cup in... err... America? Oh wait, barely in America, mostly in the West Indies. They play in Texas, Fort Lauderdale-ish, and Long fucking Island, because NYC was too much to ask, they had to put it past NYC. The opening match was in Texas, because triple digit temps are awesome, between global powerhouses US and Canada. Wait... let me check my notes again....

...hmmm. Apparently it is the ICC T-20 World Cup, with the good teams... and the US and Canada... and Uganda? What, they open the field to 32 teams or something? *checks notes*

Kind of, 20 from 16 in 2022. Oi! What, T-20 wasn't pedestrian enough? Be like going to Wrestlemania and watching Cody Rhodes wrestle some local jobber.

So Canada lines up against the US. You'd be forgiven if you just assumed this was a hockey tournament. Canada's lineup looked like a mix of India and West Indies, and the US looked like a lineup of India. Canada opened up the bats and tallied 194 runs off of two half centuries and decent batting, and a late batting outing by Movva who got Canada up to the 190 range by the last over when 160s was looking to be the final total as the US bowlers were asserting themselves better.

The largest chase by the US in international play was 168 or there abouts. I think they said 195 would be the fifth largest chase in T-20 World Cup history. Of course, it'd be against Canada, so asterisk? Canada needed to get things going early, and on the second ball Taylor was bowled out. Patel out at 42-2, things were looking bleak in the 7th over. And then Gous and Jones open up a partnership of ridiculous proportions. Proportions that are what make T-20 hard to watch. Jones (94 from 40), Gous (65-46). Jones had 14 boundaries. That is a 35% strike rate for just boundaries! Canada's bowlers who had control in the first several overs were now seemingly doing batting practice for the Americans... for the remainder of the match.

Down 42-2 in the seventh over, winning 197-3 in the eighteenth over, effectively doubling the run output in the 10 plus over stretch.

Oman and Namibia went to a Super Over after sharing a score of 109. Namibia via David Weise easily took the Super Over and won their match.
 
US beats Canada. What is the world coming too?
Revenge for 1812 I suppose.

We will need to keep an eye of you yanks now Jimmy.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
As I try to catch up, the big news is the ICC T-20 World Cup in... err... America? Oh wait, barely in America, mostly in the West Indies. They play in Texas, Fort Lauderdale-ish, and Long fucking Island, because NYC was too much to ask, they had to put it past NYC. The opening match was in Texas, because triple digit temps are awesome, between global powerhouses US and Canada. Wait... let me check my notes again....

...hmmm. Apparently it is the ICC T-20 World Cup, with the good teams... and the US and Canada... and Uganda? What, they open the field to 32 teams or something? *checks notes*

Kind of, 20 from 16 in 2022. Oi! What, T-20 wasn't pedestrian enough? Be like going to Wrestlemania and watching Cody Rhodes wrestle some local jobber.

So Canada lines up against the US. You'd be forgiven if you just assumed this was a hockey tournament. Canada's lineup looked like a mix of India and West Indies, and the US looked like a lineup of India. Canada opened up the bats and tallied 194 runs off of two half centuries and decent batting, and a late batting outing by Movva who got Canada up to the 190 range by the last over when 160s was looking to be the final total as the US bowlers were asserting themselves better.

The largest chase by the US in international play was 168 or there abouts. I think they said 195 would be the fifth largest chase in T-20 World Cup history. Of course, it'd be against Canada, so asterisk? Canada needed to get things going early, and on the second ball Taylor was bowled out. Patel out at 42-2, things were looking bleak in the 7th over. And then Gous and Jones open up a partnership of ridiculous proportions. Proportions that are what make T-20 hard to watch. Jones (94 from 40), Gous (65-46). Jones had 14 boundaries. That is a 35% strike rate for just boundaries! Canada's bowlers who had control in the first several overs were now seemingly doing batting practice for the Americans... for the remainder of the match.

Down 42-2 in the seventh over, winning 197-3 in the eighteenth over, effectively doubling the run output in the 10 plus over stretch.

Oman and Namibia went to a Super Over after sharing a score of 109. Namibia via David Weise easily took the Super Over and won their match.
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T20 is a joke though. I cannot normally bear to watch it myself.
 
T20 is what you are left with while Test Match isn't on-going. And it benefits from being watchable over a three hour period of time, a period of time Americans are programmed to watch sports in, actually it was two hours, but thanks to commercials..., which oddly enough was the basis for VHS tape length.

The beauty of T20 is the rare match where bowling wins out in the end. Personally, I struggle trying to figure out how T20 can ever work and seem pure (said by a person who has only been watching the sport for 6 years... fuck has it been that long?!). I like the idea of wickets taking out pairs of batters. This could help put a cork in the circle jerk 250 strike rate batting. Also, get rid of the damn power play. Maybe force the batter to get the ball if it is a Six and he has 60 seconds, no help. It might not be as popular though if the scores are closer to Earth.

The instant problem I'm having with this World Cup, other than it is in the US but 8 hours, at best, away from me... they diluted the pool. Uganda, US, Canada, Oman, Nepal, Ireland, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, presumably Zimbabwe? Arguably none of these teams should be in the competition. Ireland (who are about tops of the second tier nations) was smoked by India, they didn't even get 100 runs, and there is nothing more boring than watching a chase for 100 runs if the teams aren't evenly matched.

The one cool thing is watching a bunch of American minorities at a Cricket match chanting USA during the USA v Canada match. It'd be enough to trigger the entire alt-right into stroke if they knew this was happening.
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
T20 is what you are left with while Test Match isn't on-going. And it benefits from being watchable over a three hour period of time, a period of time Americans are programmed to watch sports in, actually it was two hours, but thanks to commercials..., which oddly enough was the basis for VHS tape length.

The beauty of T20 is the rare match where bowling wins out in the end. Personally, I struggle trying to figure out how T20 can ever work and seem pure (said by a person who has only been watching the sport for 6 years... fuck has it been that long?!). I like the idea of wickets taking out pairs of batters. This could help put a cork in the circle jerk 250 strike rate batting.
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Jimmy Higgins said:
Also, get rid of the damn power play.
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Amen to that.
Jimmy Higgins said:
Maybe force the batter to get the ball if it is a Six and he has 60 seconds, no help. It might not be as popular though if the scores are closer to Earth.

The instant problem I'm having with this World Cup, other than it is in the US but 8 hours, at best, away from me... they diluted the pool. Uganda, US, Canada, Oman, Nepal, Ireland, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea, presumably Zimbabwe? Arguably none of these teams should be in the competition. Ireland (who are about tops of the second tier nations) was smoked by India, they didn't even get 100 runs, and there is nothing more boring than watching a chase for 100 runs if the teams aren't evenly matched.

The one cool thing is watching a bunch of American minorities at a Cricket match chanting USA during the USA v Canada match. It'd be enough to trigger the entire alt-right into stroke if they knew this was happening.
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Damn it NPR! Biggest victory probably in USA cricket history *SPOILED*.

In general, the US didn't make mistakes and Pakistan did, including gifting 4 runs in the Super Over. Pakistan almost pulled it off, US needed big haul in final over, but they pulled it out.
 
So the US didn't drop the ball while Pakistan played hot potato? I don't watch Cricket just sharing the general vibe I got from your comment.
 
The US managed to topple Pakistan (a 1b level team), they are currently facing India (a 1a level team). Things aren't going well early. Nor should they ever expected to.

Pakistan managed to defeat Canada, in a long drawn out chase. Bangladesh and South Africa had a tight affair that went down to the last over in Bangladesh's modest chase, with South Africa pulling off the victory.

I stomach T20 more so than others. But this expanded field is ruining the tournament. I'd be more interested in watching the Tier 1's and Tier 2's battle it out amongst themselves, than this 1&2 fait accompli fest with occasional drama. Watching Tier 2 battle each other on their own would be more compelling as the nations develop their own game (or benefit from immigration).
 
Gospel said:
So the US didn't drop the ball while Pakistan played hot potato? I don't watch Cricket just sharing the general vibe I got from your comment.
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Pakistan did drop a couple, but sometimes, it is about seizing difficult situations. Test Cricket is about batting failing to score all the time. In T20 cricket, it is about the fielding team failing to prevent the batting team from scoring all the time.

So in T20, it is highly beneficial to convert low percentage fielding opportunities. Taylor's snag on Rizran's edge was one of those moments. Physically possible, but not remotely easy.
 
Shaky start for the US, 3-2 and then 25-3, but the remainder generally held strike rates of 80 to 125%, and they finished with a respectable 110-8. India should easily win, but as I say that, India are 12-2 (3 overs), with Sharmas and Kohli being dismissed (Kohli for a one ball duck). India will win, because otherwise... the alternative is unimaginable.
 
India stand at 47-3 (10 overs). Now if this wasn't India and maybe a Sri Lanka, I'd be getting a little excited. Certainly it is closer than you'd think, but India has better than average batting out of their bowlers. So even if it came to them, they should be able to finish this out. One thing I've noticed is continents matter in cricket as the pitches clearly act differently based on the climate and soil.
 
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