2023 Cricket World Cup

[koptician]

He is the master jinxer

[koptician]

32 extras by SA

[Iftikhar]

@koptician

He is the master jinxer

Now imagine my agony

@Sithbare

I’d pick Bangladesh to do one over India.

[Bekloppt]

No more jinxing Bazza, you’re upsetting Ifti.

Has anyone told @Dutch about this historic win? Apparently it’ll be front page news…

'Iconic' Netherlands shock will 'make the front page'

[wyld.at.hrt]

@ILLOK

Bavuma taking his time really isn’t a big deal at this stage, SA have plenty of big hitters. What they don’t want is to lose a flurry of wickets

Yeah, that was pretty funny. I think the approach can be justified but it’s a tad too slow. It’s one thing allowing players around you while ticking along yourself fairly nicely but it’s another letting the pressure heap up on them just because they can move along a rate of knot while you’re waddling along. That’s not risk free cricket, that’s passing along the risk to someone else and of there’s a flurry of wickets all of a sudden you’ve not just lost the wickets but the run rate has ballooned leaving the new batsmen under even more pressure.

It’s a tactic more suited to when setting a target on a flat wicket than chasing down a reasonable score under lights.

[Sithbare]

@wyld.at.hrt

Yeah, that was pretty funny. I think the approach can be justified but it’s a tad too slow. It’s one thing allowing players around you while ticking along yourself fairly nicely but it’s another letting the pressure heap up on them just because they can move along a rate of knot while you’re waddling along. That’s not risk free cricket, that’s passing along the risk to someone else and of there’s a flurry of wickets all of a sudden you’ve not just lost the wickets but the run rate has ballooned leaving the new batsmen under even more pressure.

It’s a tactic more suited to when setting a target on a flat wicket than chasing down a reasonable score under lights.

It’s something that could be justified a couple of generations ago where someone could play the anchor role when batsman around them score the runs.

However for that to happen , the person playing the anchor role needs to take runs at a regular clip by rotating the strike. The 16 off 30 odd that Bavuma hit , there were 14 of those runs coming from boundaries which means Bavuma wasn’t rotating the strike.

I criticize Bavuma because I don’t see him as being an international level batsman in the short form. He’s got way too many flaws in his technique.

[Iftikhar]

Why don’t South Africa starts with Maharaja?

Afghanistan got the breakthrough.

[Bekloppt]

My two favourite non-England teams (sorry Ifti).

Supporting Afghanistan as underdogs today though.

[Sithbare]

@Iftikhar

Why don’t South Africa starts with Maharaja?

They should have batted first having won the toss.

Experiment when your place in the semis is guaranteed not when it’s still up in the air. Teams which lose 3 matches out of 9 might struggle to make the semis. Why would South Africa even want to risk that ? Bat first. Bat big. Win the match. The grandstanding etc can happen later.

[Bekloppt]

Afghani butterfingers

[Iftikhar]

Afghanistan is playing poorly.

[Iftikhar]

Afghanistan clawing back.

[Bekloppt]

Good over from Azmat

[Bekloppt]

Even better!

[Sithbare]

Teams world over seem to have forgotten the art of milking the spinners for runs.

I mean generally.

[Bekloppt]

Match in the balance. NZ rebuilding nicely.

[Iftikhar]

Bloody hell Mujeeb , that’s so casual.

[ShadesOfRed]

Shame the about the fielding. Game should have been a lot more interesting.

[Iftikhar]

Four dropped catches

[ShadesOfRed]

Fumbled a stumping as well.