CWC 19 England v Afghanistan

[ZeroTheHero]

You get Root and Morgan out - and Buttler and Stokes turn up. Doesn't seem fair!

 

[Sarge]

You get Root and Morgan out - and Buttler and Stokes turn up. Doesn't seem fair!

lets see what they can do , with 18 balls to go

 

[Sarge]

Blimey! Buttler gone for 2!

362 -5

400 unlikely now ...i suppose?

 

[Sarge]

Stokes gone for 2!

378-6 .... 5 balls to face

 

[Sarge]

another odi record in this match ...probably unwelcome - Khan equalled the worst ever odi bowling figures

Khan 0- 110 in 9 overs
maybe his teammates will call him Khan't?

 

[Foley]

Moeen is doing a Morgan.
30 in 8 balls

 

[Foley]

397.
Wow

 

[Sarge]

400 unlikely now ...i suppose?

^ close that was.... 397

30 of 8 balls for Ali

 

[makv]

Root/Morgan stand - 189. Root - 43 [emoji50]

 

[Leysboy]

Great exhibition of brutal batting from Eoin Morgan, a brilliant innings. Ultra aggressive, and not often you see Joe Root play second fiddle.

A partnership of 189, and also shows how good Bangladesh were yesterday, because I believe Shakib AL Hasan and Litton Das also had 189 partnership yesterday.

Afghanistan will get nowhere near that score, and will be lucky to get 150. You have to be brutal against the lesser sides, because RR plays a part in the final standings if level on points.

 

[Marked Ox]

Feel a bit sorry for Woakes there as he isn't having a lot of luck with fielders in the last few games dropping catches. Although, he has dropped one himself.

Bangladesh going after Archer as well.

 

[makv]

Feel a bit sorry for Woakes there as he isn't having a lot of luck with fielders in the last few games dropping catches. Although, he has dropped one himself.

Bangladesh going after Archer as well.

Afghanistan [emoji6]

 

[Marked Ox]

Afghanistan [emoji6]

Oops. ?

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Required run rate over 9 already.

 

[Marked Ox]

Required run rate over 9 already.

Not far off 10 now.

 

[ZeroTheHero]

Yep - over 10 now. It was always going to be too much, they are trundling along at just over 4 an over. If they try to accelerate they will lose wickets.

 

[Marked Ox]

They've just lost their 3rd off a rank full toss by Rashid.

 

[Sarge]

140-3 ... 18 overs to bowl

fair play to the batsman Wood nearly floored.... whacks a bouncer back down the ground for 6 ... been quite a few sixes hit in this match!

 

[ZeroTheHero]

They've scored 27 in the last two overs including three sixes and a four. And that still isn't up with the rate.

 

[Sarge]

They've scored 27 in the last two overs including three sixes and a four. And that still isn't up with the rate.

theyre giving it go for sure

 

[ZeroTheHero]

There is some poor bowling by England at the moment. OK, perhaps it doesn't matter too much when you've got such a huge total and are facing Afghanistan - but there are warning bells ringing for me for when we come up against the best teams in this competition.

 

[Sarge]

There is some poor bowling by England at the moment. OK, perhaps it doesn't matter too much when you've got such a huge total and are facing Afghanistan - but there are warning bells ringing for me for when we come up against the best teams in this competition.

over did it with the bouncers methinks .... agree @ZeroTheHero should be more ruthless bowling ... that said this current Afghan pair are batting well

 

[Sarge]

Poor fielding as well as poor bowling from England

 

[Sarge]

At last a wicket Afghan gone for 44

198-4

 

[Sarge]

new batman Nabi slams a 6 off the first ball he faced .... fella in the stand trying to catch it was as effective as England have been in the field! :-o

 

[Sarge]

212-5 .... 7 overs to bowl (Nabi gone for 9)

 

[Sarge]

234-6 ...4 overs left

 

[Sarge]

234-7

then Ikram dropped on 0 ... shocking fielding from England today!

 

[Sarge]

235-7 ...3 overs to go

 

[Sarge]

England win by 150

Afghanistan had a proper go when batting , fair play to them too