Would you like it if on a fine morning KP and Swann decide to play for India just because India promised them million dollar contracts?
No, they definitely are. I'd bet my life on it. They always have been too. Imagine a team scores 250 in an ODI, then the team chasing scores 100/0 after 19 overs before there's a rain delay. Now I think we'll both agree that the chasing team is well ahead of the game because they thought they'd be chasing it down in 50 overs and they're going well above the rate with no wickets down. But now imagine that they're coming back out for one over - a T20 score the equivalent to 250 in ODI would probably be about 150.. surely they're not going to be expected to score 51 off one over!
Go and fiddle around with the online calculator and you'll see that the score counts.
It certainly doesn't look it. There wasn't any lateral movement, and if there was indifferent bounce it was extremely subtle- certainly nothing taking off from a length or shooting along the turf. The only real evidence that the pitch is bad is the fact that England batted so badly. So although I'm willing to accept that it could be a lot more difficult to bat on than it looks, we can't really say until both teams have batted. And given how badly Ireland are batting at the moment, maybe not even then.
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120 may still be enough on this pitch.
That'd be the case if they went off after 5 and then didn't come back on. If they go back on now and have to play until 5 overs it'll be about 40 I'd say.
England go through on NRR.
Yup, just checked that, England have a far superior NRR than Ireland, so if they don't get back on England goes through
Yep its England, that is what we are for.
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