CWC 19 : England V Australia

[Sarge]

Wish you were right!

me too

 

[Sarge]

England playing the old (cricket) enemy at 'home' (lords being the home of cricket)... sell out crowd, yet the volume has been on mute for best part of this match so far? maybe if the England support made some real noise it might help ?

 

[Sarge]

20 overs left ...162-1

 

[Sarge]

that bouncer from Stokes rattled Finch ...lets have more of the same, instead of short deliveries that are getting picked off and smashed

 

[Sarge]

YESSSSS .... Khawaja gone.... bowled (by Stokes)

 

[Sarge]

the Lords crowd woken up ..... 'lovely' welcome for sandpaper smith

 

[Foley]

Stokes is a really useful 6th bowler.
He's been our best bowler to date by a distance.

 

[Sarge]

good over that from Archer

this comment re Sandpaper smith going to bat from a BBc reporter at Lords made me smile

I reckon Smith copped more boos than Warner. Not because he's more disliked, it's just that Warner, as an opener, always has the cover of his partner, fielders and umpires arriving with him. Smith has nowhere to hide. Whether Eoin Morgan's words had an effect or not, Smith was bombarded there. So unusual for Lord's. The electricity for his first ball could have powered Swindon.

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

Stokes is a really useful 6th bowler.
He's been our best bowler to date by a distance.

Won us the game with the bat vs South Africa as well and would have done vs Sri Lanka if someone had managed to stick in with him

 

[Sarge]

!5 overs left .... 183-2 ... keep Aus below 320, or even better 300 and England should be in with a decent chance of a win?

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

!5 overs left .... 183-2 ... keep Aus below 320, or even better 300 and England should be in with a decent chance of a win?

Below 300 and I’d be very happy

 

[Sarge]

C'mon Archer give us a few wickets

 

[Sarge]

Finch gets his ton.... and gone next ball ... yeeessssss! Archer bowled caught by Woakes .... Cmon England

 

[Sarge]

Archer is currently the leading wicket taker in this world cup with Finch's wicketputting him up to 16


was unlucky with his first ball to Maxwell too... shame it didnt carry

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

Come on, let’s skittle them! 250 all out?

 

[Foley]

This is a huge part of the game.
Four down. A couple more wickets now....

 

[Sarge]

great bowling from Wood to get Maxwell before he did too much damage

 

[Sarge]

good over from Rashid .... stat fact , Rashid has got sandpaper Smith out 5 times in ODI cricket (out of 9), no other bowler in ODI has got him out more than 3 times

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

Run out!!

 

[Foley]

Fantastic to see 2 Aussis at one end there.

 

[unification]

Time to rip through the rest, England.

Smith still there though and Carey is a decent bat.

 

[Sarge]

Stonis runout ... maybe Aussies will boo sandpaper Smith too after that?

 

[Sarge]

'whispering'... has the match turned in England's favour?.... taken 4 wickets for 55 in under 10 overs

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

'whispering'... has the match turned in England's favour?.... taken 4 wickets for 55 in under 10 overs

Whatever the score I wouldn’t say that until we’ve seen at least the first 10-20 overs of England’s reply!

 

[Sarge]

Whatever the score I wouldn’t say that until we’ve seen at least the first 10-20 overs of England’s reply!

thats why I 'whispered' it

 

[Isle of Wight Yellow]

thats why I 'whispered' it

Still too loud for me ?

 

[Sarge]

30 balls left .... limit the convicts to 280 or less England

 

[Foley]

Whatever happens, England have done really well after the excellent Aussi start.
I think that Morgan has juggled his bowlers really well.
It looked as if Aussis would get 340, but hopefully less than 300 now?

 

[Sarge]

Cheerio sandpaper cheat

 

[Essexyellows]

259 for 7.................