And Oz getting rolled was exactly as I predicted weeks ago, so I'm not disappointed
If you dont pick your best players, you won't win - simple as
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Semi Finals/Final - Australia, Sri Lanka, England and Pakistan
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If you dont pick your best players, you won't win - simple as
Sir Alex
Banned
Still the core is intact right? The guys will be carrying a bit of grudge which is so nice for such a rivalry. IIRC, in 2005, a similar English T20 win started off what culminated in the best Ashes I've ever watched.
BoyBrumby
Englishman
Fair point, tbh; Symonds for Clarke and it's a diff ball game.
Jarquis
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Yet when England pick their best available players....
Agent TBY
International Captain
Isn't your team full of deported Englishmen?
G.I.Joe
International Coach
Don't forget the Dutchman and the ogre.
Sir Alex
Banned
PhoenixFire
International Coach
Yeahh, so pleased we won this. Don't give a crap about whether it's T20, it's a World Cup and we played awesome cricket and beat Australia.
ret
International Debutant
With its win over Aus, Eng becomes the 7th team to hold some kind of a WC title. Let's see how the teams stand wrt world titles:
NZ needs to open its account .... while Ind is the only one to have all 3 at some point under its belt
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Team Test #1 ODI WC T20 WC
Aus [COLOR="Navy"]Yes Yes[/COLOR] No
Eng No No [COLOR="Navy"]Yes[/COLOR]
Ind [COLOR="Navy"]Yes Yes Yes[/COLOR]
NZ No No No
Pak No [COLOR="Navy"]Yes Yes[/COLOR]
SL No [COLOR="Navy"]Yes[/COLOR] No
SA [COLOR="Navy"]Yes[/COLOR] No No
WI No [COLOR="Navy"]Yes[/COLOR] No
ret
International Debutant
yes, this is wrt official titles and rankings .... WI, too, in 70s-80s was undisputed test champ
Life on Limbrick
School Boy/Girl Cricketer
Dame Edna Everage, Mick Dundee, Mark Bosnich, Nicole Kidman, Rolf Harris, Joe Mangle, Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Steve Irwin, Bouncer, Kevin Bloody Wilson, Jason Donovan and John Farnham, your boys took one hell of a beating!
Good to see Ravbop at the forefront of the celebrations!
Good to see Ravbop at the forefront of the celebrations!
King Pietersen
International Captain
Cheers for that
Goodnight CW
Has prompted a change of avatar. Just a shame there's no KP in the picture really.
Top_Cat
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Yeah he has. Having him as the 5th bowling option and not giving Duss a go was just, well....... Batting Clarke and Haddin next to each other in the order was a bit ordinary too.
That said, England were just too good. The Aussies have two systemic problems (Clarke and lack of back-up for Nannes/Tait with the ball) and England played accordingly. Reckon they really should be happy with this win, good contributions from all their key players.
Massive psychological boost for the Ashes, don't buy that the players won't care because it's hit-and-giggle. Really isn't any more and they'd have been going hard to win. Big, big signs from Smith that he's landing them well too. Getting excellent drift, drop and turn and that's reflected in not just how many wickets he's taken in this tournament but how he's gotten them. If Hauritz doesn't bowl the house down against Pakistan, his Test career is over I reckon.
Smith. And he'll own at least one Test.
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