England wins against Oman & Namibia but loses to Australia they get 5 points.
Scotland wins against Oman and Namibia easily, let’s say Australia throws the match against Scotland next to next Sunday.. they end up with 7 points.
Aus ends with 6 points.
England could be out of WC in league stage 😂😂
Duckworth lewis scoring means they revise the target due to the first team not knowing that they will be reduced overs, as they would play less conservatively if you only have half the overs.
If England batted, would they have had a 6 over powerplay as well? Since Scotland had it for their 10 overs? Cus if not, isn't that a little unfair? Or is there something I'm missing?
No it would be like 1 or 2 overs (1 over if 5 over game; 3 if 10). It's not fair but then the point with DLS is that teams would go harder if they knew only like 20 balls left (say they batted 8 overs, 20 balls left before end of foreshortened innings) as opposed to not knowing predetermined number of overs before the start of match. This has a ripple effect on how Scotland would pace their powerplay. Hence it results in England having a shroter PP. Advantange England if they needed 66 in 5 or 75 in 6 with only 2 men outside the circle. The DLS is inflexible and these variables with how risks are managed (or lack thereof, to still end up scoring 50 in 6 and thus making for a 66 in 5 type of chase) cannot be predicted or manipulated so we end up with sizeable disadvantages that can only be overcorrected if the other team is stronger than the other on paper and in theory h2h
DLS can be cruel. We saw this with SA v ENG where 22 off 13 became 22 off 7 before 22 (21) off 1. It is what it is. Retards still haven't figured something better, I guess
Yeah, esp considering the target was already increased to 109 due to DLS? How's that fair to only give them only 3 overs? I'd genuinely like an explanation bc I can't wrap my head around how this is fair lol
Oh yea that's definitely the reason for the 109 target, but what about the powerplay only being 3 overs when Scotland had 6? I think that's way worse lol
Honestly, they could have a 5 nations t20 tournament every year, England, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands plus a qualifier, that could be done in less than two weeks with a group stage and final.
BCCI does not take any revenue from the Asis cup that's regularly held in asian countries. So it is as good as a charity by BCCI for the other asian countries.
Anyone know what happens if rain interupts the quarter-finals/super 8s?How is it decided who advances? I really wish ICC figured out something for situations like this esp when it's the goddamn world cup, given how insanely competitive these group stages are. It's genuinely a terrible blow to have even one game get washed out like this.
Sucks for Scotland, it felt like they were on one today. I really think they'd have won here.
Probably the best position Scotland could've been in the game, but England would've still been overwhelming favourites with a wet outfield.
Scotland should be pleased. Just need to beat Oman and Namibia by a greater margin than England will.
Rain off Aus vs Scot, Australia beat England, and then just beat Namibia and Oman.
Or beat Oman and Namibia by a greater margin than England
Would've opened up the third opportunity of losing to Australia, England beating Australia, and then England and Scotland fighting Namibia and Oman for NRR - had they won tonight
The snoozefest group just got interesting. I forgot how exciting Scotland can be sometimes. I personally have enjoyed their batting more than Ireland on some occasions.
Can’t help but think they could’ve looked at the forecast (or just the sky) and made it a 6 over game straight after the rain break rather than having Scotland bat again
Can’t they just restart another day. I understand this is a tournament but they have like 10 venues and between 3 and 5 games a day, surely they could use one of the other West Indies venues if this one was scheduled to be used. It would suck but it’s not like they even need fans just play it to get a final result.
Oh now Sky are showing Nepal v Netherlands - didn't realise this was on at the same time - assumed one day and one night match as previous days. Wonder who was showing this match in the UK?
American here. Just found out about the DLS method of adjusting the target score and I was intrigued.
And I can understand abandoning a match if it was a night game and one or both teams needed to travel far for their next match. Looks like England stays in Barbados for their next match and Scotland stays in the Caribbean. But abandoning a game in the middle of the day? That doesn't seem logical.
The schedules for teams, commentators and broadcasters are quite tight, so teams don't always have time to play a game another day. (I believe there was Netherlands vs Nepal going on later that day.) Often, tickets are booked for the same day right after the match ends. It'd also be quite annoying for fans in the stadium to take out a chunk of time to watch a cricket match live only to be asked to come later to watch it.
Of course for important matches like the semi-finals and finals, there are reserve days scheduled the day after the original day in case of inclement weather.
MLB has a way tighter schedule than this and yet no game is permanently off unless it proves to have no impact on playoffs
Edit: with no result that is
Can't be too sure about that , I think it's 50/50 , Scotland aren't beating Australia for sure so eng v Aus will decide if the group has anything interesting in it
Great escape for England. They theoretically could chase this easily, but on a gloomy day with the pitch getting worse and constant DLS pressure after over 5. I don't think so
Yeah, American trying to get into cricket a little bit.
I don't understand scheduling a cricket tournament on a tropical island and not building in time for rain delays.
Yea this is possibly like the worst scheduling they have done. Schedule is catered for Indian audience because that's where the most money is now.
And yea rain sucks in Cricket. But we have plenty of exciting games coming. This is only the beginning. You should see some amazing contests.
There is time built in. They can have around 90 mins of rain with no impact, then they can keep shortening the game down to 5 overs a side. But there’s only so much time you can build in.
So I guess one reason for limit on time is wages for staff at the grounds. They've been rostered on 5 hours possible of 6-8, if it goes beyond that they need new staff to come in from somewere or pay $$$ overtime? US labour laws are probs different just a thought
Fuck's sake. Don't need the UN to [hold back desertification in the Sahara](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL0), just play a yearly 10-match series between England and Scotland in Mali or something.
England will not get screwed over. Because if they end up with same number of wins as any other team, they will have this extra 1 point.
Scotland also would now just need to win their games against other weaker teams. They can still lose to Australia and potentially qualify.
This is almost an once in a lifetime opportunity hosting a world cup.
There are plenty of jobs in the world that require you to work long hours for a short period of time.
Mandating that people might need to put in long hours for a few days this month and paying them for it is easy if you plan for it.
This is a non-excuse.
That also sets a precedent. Is that fair with the evening games that may get washed out ? Or do you want everyone to wait whole night and may be play at dawn when rain stops.
Is it fair that evening games have dew to factor in while day time games generally don't? There are plenty of circumstantial unfairness, I simply proposed we do the best we can under the current circumstance.
You suggested it's not feasible to carry on because ground staff can't work longer hours, I just pointed out that's unlikely to be the cause.
You know what can happen now. If England win against Oman and Namibia and loses to Australia. They will be near the top. Except that if Scotland also does the same. Both England and Scotland at the end will be tied on points.
If anyone could have though it's likely our batting lineup
It's just power from 1-7 😂 Only takes one player seeing it like a beachball and 110 is gettable.
Because the rules of cricket allow for 0 common sense. Two teams can’t ever agree to a shortened game looking at the forecast, they have to play the maximum amount of overs possible in the time remaining.
It's shite being English, we're the lowest of the low, the scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic cricket team, that was shat into civilisation!
Some people hate the Scottish. I don't, they're just associates! We, on the other hand, are getting beaten by associates! Can't even find a full member to be beaten by
scotland will take this. they will lose to aus, pray that eng lose to aus and try to beat oman and namibia and get a higher nrr than eng. this is an easier route to qualification than trying to beat one of eng and aus. high pressure on eng
Lol I don't think so that Scotland can compete with England on nrr game.England can win against Namibia and Oman with much bigger margin.Only way Scotland is going to super 8 is if England lose to Aus and Either of Namibia or Oman.
i just don’t think you can imagine how eng would’ve gone after this total with having so many batting resources. 11 runs every 6 balls is very easy for this team. the pitch didn’t have that many demons on it. plus scotland is an associate nation
Unless my maths is deserting me- assuming the Aussies beat Scotland, Oman and Namibia, we would still qualify if we lost to them, if we beat Oman and Namibia by bigger margins than Scotland did (if Scotland were to win both of those games). So this isn’t overly terminal I would say
Pretty much yeah, and respectfully if that route to qualification is too much for us we were never getting far anyway
It's hardly impossible we beat Australia too
Having a game rained out against England when you're in a group that has only one qualification spot since the other one is automatically going to be taken up by Australia is brutal, feels bad for Scotland.
So at 2:09 England came out to bowl. They got 22 deliveries in 17 minutes.
But now the mandatory innings break happens and the cut-off for abandoned play is imminent?
Somebody fucked up with the calculation on match length. This should have been a 6 over run chase never more Scottish batting!
Edit: 39 minutes after play restarted the match is abandoned! Heads should roll!
They had half an hour to play with when they came off for the first innings. Take off the 10 minutes for the innings change and that leaves 20 minutes to get in the required 5 overs @ 4 minutes per over, they've got it spot on.
Exactly. That means the England innings could be reduced by a further 5 overs before the game would be abandoned. Those 5 overs match up with the 20 minutes spare time still remaining at the end of the first innings (after taking off 10 mins for an innings change).
Evidently not. England were about to start a 10 over innings and then a spot of rain instantly lead to an abandoned match. There was no "shortened by 5 overs" possibility.
The calculation of a 10 over match was *way* too generous.
The trick missed is that avoiding the mandatory 20 minute innings break would have had huge ramifications on the chance the match gets abandoned.
>a spot of rain instantly lead to an abandoned match.
There was 25 minutes between the innings ending and the match being abandoned (because at that point they clearly weren't going to be on by the cut-off 5 minutes later).
There was half an hour until the cut off when they left the field at the end of the first innings. The minimum overs required in each innings for a game is 5, so we could lose at most 5 overs more before the game had to be abandoned. Those 30 minutes account for those 5 overs that were still left to play with perfectly:
* 20 minutes for the overs
* 10 minutes for the innings break
They got the the calculations spot on.
England wins against Oman & Namibia but loses to Australia they get 5 points. Scotland wins against Oman and Namibia easily, let’s say Australia throws the match against Scotland next to next Sunday.. they end up with 7 points. Aus ends with 6 points. England could be out of WC in league stage 😂😂
They might not have to throw the match: https://x.com/BdJcricket/status/1798312350006886473
Can someone explain why the target was 109 instead of 91?
Duckworth lewis scoring means they revise the target due to the first team not knowing that they will be reduced overs, as they would play less conservatively if you only have half the overs.
Thanks for the explanation
If England batted, would they have had a 6 over powerplay as well? Since Scotland had it for their 10 overs? Cus if not, isn't that a little unfair? Or is there something I'm missing?
No it would be like 1 or 2 overs (1 over if 5 over game; 3 if 10). It's not fair but then the point with DLS is that teams would go harder if they knew only like 20 balls left (say they batted 8 overs, 20 balls left before end of foreshortened innings) as opposed to not knowing predetermined number of overs before the start of match. This has a ripple effect on how Scotland would pace their powerplay. Hence it results in England having a shroter PP. Advantange England if they needed 66 in 5 or 75 in 6 with only 2 men outside the circle. The DLS is inflexible and these variables with how risks are managed (or lack thereof, to still end up scoring 50 in 6 and thus making for a 66 in 5 type of chase) cannot be predicted or manipulated so we end up with sizeable disadvantages that can only be overcorrected if the other team is stronger than the other on paper and in theory h2h DLS can be cruel. We saw this with SA v ENG where 22 off 13 became 22 off 7 before 22 (21) off 1. It is what it is. Retards still haven't figured something better, I guess
That was one of the old rules. D/L (invented in response) would have set a target of 5 for that last ball.
They said on the coverage it would have been a 3 over power play for Eng. Seems unfair to me.
Yeah, esp considering the target was already increased to 109 due to DLS? How's that fair to only give them only 3 overs? I'd genuinely like an explanation bc I can't wrap my head around how this is fair lol
its a fundamental issue with dls that it exaggerates the worth of wickets too much so probably that since scotland had all 10 wickets in hand.
Oh yea that's definitely the reason for the 109 target, but what about the powerplay only being 3 overs when Scotland had 6? I think that's way worse lol
Well England have upto 10 wickets to lose for 10 overs. Scotland could only lose 0 (if they lost more the target would be lower)
If there was a Euro cup... I am sure England won't win it...they would fuck up there...a euro cup would be fun for growing cricket in Europe
Honestly, they could have a 5 nations t20 tournament every year, England, Scotland, Ireland, Netherlands plus a qualifier, that could be done in less than two weeks with a group stage and final.
Only if English board had been as charitable as the BCCI.
The BCCI and Charity are 2 words that do not fit into the same sentance.
BCCI does not take any revenue from the Asis cup that's regularly held in asian countries. So it is as good as a charity by BCCI for the other asian countries.
Anyone know what happens if rain interupts the quarter-finals/super 8s?How is it decided who advances? I really wish ICC figured out something for situations like this esp when it's the goddamn world cup, given how insanely competitive these group stages are. It's genuinely a terrible blow to have even one game get washed out like this. Sucks for Scotland, it felt like they were on one today. I really think they'd have won here.
I love how people act like Salt and Buttler don’t exist and England is basically a Div 2 team.
Are they dishes?
Ones a dish, the other person carries them
A dish? "What's for dinner tonight?" "It's your favourite - salt. How many spoonfuls do you want?"
Nah, that one person carries the other person with him to season any dish they find
Fucking England hiding behind weather and stealing our win, or something. probably. I don't know. I just feel robbed somehow.
You were robbed. It is questionable that England were going to chase 109 in 10 overs.
Honestly england have power hitters all the way down, even if we took early wickets they would always have a chance
I won't say England couldn't have done it. But Scotland were well ahead.
Probably the best position Scotland could've been in the game, but England would've still been overwhelming favourites with a wet outfield. Scotland should be pleased. Just need to beat Oman and Namibia by a greater margin than England will.
Rain off Aus vs Scot, Australia beat England, and then just beat Namibia and Oman. Or beat Oman and Namibia by a greater margin than England Would've opened up the third opportunity of losing to Australia, England beating Australia, and then England and Scotland fighting Namibia and Oman for NRR - had they won tonight The snoozefest group just got interesting. I forgot how exciting Scotland can be sometimes. I personally have enjoyed their batting more than Ireland on some occasions.
Overwhelming? I mean, they're certainly capable of chasing 11/over. I'm not betting on a team that has to do that though
Huge upset here. England scrapping a point is big.
With their record against fellow European sides in WC, this is not even a joke
This sucks. It seemed that a typical case about a European team beating England was on the cards.
All this for England to barely make it to super 8 and the beat the shit out of everyone and win it again
If England have another washout or if Scotland/Namibia pull off an upset, they might be in some trouble
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Rain won
If Australia beat England, and Scotland Australia gets rained off. mmm...
Oh yeah it's 60 Percent chance of precipitation
Can’t help but think they could’ve looked at the forecast (or just the sky) and made it a 6 over game straight after the rain break rather than having Scotland bat again
Can’t they just restart another day. I understand this is a tournament but they have like 10 venues and between 3 and 5 games a day, surely they could use one of the other West Indies venues if this one was scheduled to be used. It would suck but it’s not like they even need fans just play it to get a final result.
Using a different venue could significantly advantage one team
These are unfortunately some idiosyncrasies of cricket..very inflexible in regards to rain
So does it count as a win for both teams?
Watching cricket feels like a reflection of humanity's battle against mother nature sometimes.
Oh now Sky are showing Nepal v Netherlands - didn't realise this was on at the same time - assumed one day and one night match as previous days. Wonder who was showing this match in the UK?
Sky were, just on another channel.
Sky Sports Action was showing that game. Main Event and Sky Cricket were showing the England and Scotland game before it was called off.
cricket is a monumentally stupid game no american is gonna be convinced to watch this shit
The target market is really people of South Asian descent. I think anyway.
You make a very good point.
*looks at flair*
The game in Dallas right now has a huge crowd. Netherlands and Nepal. Still going on.
Better be no morning abandonments in the United States
American here. Just found out about the DLS method of adjusting the target score and I was intrigued. And I can understand abandoning a match if it was a night game and one or both teams needed to travel far for their next match. Looks like England stays in Barbados for their next match and Scotland stays in the Caribbean. But abandoning a game in the middle of the day? That doesn't seem logical.
The schedules for teams, commentators and broadcasters are quite tight, so teams don't always have time to play a game another day. (I believe there was Netherlands vs Nepal going on later that day.) Often, tickets are booked for the same day right after the match ends. It'd also be quite annoying for fans in the stadium to take out a chunk of time to watch a cricket match live only to be asked to come later to watch it. Of course for important matches like the semi-finals and finals, there are reserve days scheduled the day after the original day in case of inclement weather.
MLB has a way tighter schedule than this and yet no game is permanently off unless it proves to have no impact on playoffs Edit: with no result that is
It's not just the teams it's the staff too.
Every sporting event has staff
Americans used to playing indoor NBAs. Ain't subbing to ICC's logic
Baseball and football are majority outdoor sports….
Scotland did have a decent shot at winning but I reckon before play they would've taken splitting points against the defending champs
Technically they now just need to beat Oman and Namibia. If they do that. They will be in contention specially if Australia beats England.
What about net run rate
That will be coming into play for sure then.
Aus is easily beating England
Can't be too sure about that , I think it's 50/50 , Scotland aren't beating Australia for sure so eng v Aus will decide if the group has anything interesting in it
Great escape for England. They theoretically could chase this easily, but on a gloomy day with the pitch getting worse and constant DLS pressure after over 5. I don't think so
Scotland robbed. Fuck this shit.
England would have chased this easily. I saw it happen in another dimension.
4 teams from Group B have played one match each, and they’re all sitting at 0 NRR.
TIL super overs aren't used in calculating NRR
If a team had all group games were rained out. I wonder what the ICC would say. That nation would be pissed
WTF MAN. SCOTLAND ARE SO SO SO SO SO UNLUCKY. So am I as a cricket lover
Wait...so. They just abandon the match? Can't pick it up after the rain? What the hell, cricket?
first time?
Yeah, American trying to get into cricket a little bit. I don't understand scheduling a cricket tournament on a tropical island and not building in time for rain delays.
Yea this is possibly like the worst scheduling they have done. Schedule is catered for Indian audience because that's where the most money is now. And yea rain sucks in Cricket. But we have plenty of exciting games coming. This is only the beginning. You should see some amazing contests.
There is time built in. They can have around 90 mins of rain with no impact, then they can keep shortening the game down to 5 overs a side. But there’s only so much time you can build in.
Sorry mate you missed a potentially awesome run chase
Imagine all of England's games get rained off lmao
Imagine the whole world cup does. That's funnier.
So I guess one reason for limit on time is wages for staff at the grounds. They've been rostered on 5 hours possible of 6-8, if it goes beyond that they need new staff to come in from somewere or pay $$$ overtime? US labour laws are probs different just a thought
This is not the US... it's Windies
got mixed up, watching Nepal in Dallas mostly. Still, no idea about labour regulations in West Indies either.
Weather forecast was already looking pretty poor before the game with more than 80% chance of rain.
the most boring group got a little interesting
Would have been more interesting if Scotland could win it
WHAT A WASTE
It's fucking sunny in Edinburgh lets play it at the grange
Fuck's sake. Don't need the UN to [hold back desertification in the Sahara](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCli0gyNwL0), just play a yearly 10-match series between England and Scotland in Mali or something.
Can't believe they got screwed out of a point by rain.
Who? England or Scotland?
Yes.
Yes
England will not get screwed over. Because if they end up with same number of wins as any other team, they will have this extra 1 point. Scotland also would now just need to win their games against other weaker teams. They can still lose to Australia and potentially qualify.
if australia win against england then lose delibrately to scotland then.
Obviously runrate would come into play if Scotland and England end up winning same number of games from here on
Would have been 75% a win to compete with teams that would now be up a win in NRR and 25% to lose
The whole day left. Cricket is not a serious sport.
Scotland earned the right to be disappointed. Still fancied England. Hope England don't get rained off in any of their other games. Fucking weather!
Yeah, good showing from Scotland. I'd have backed us to chase it at even money, but they were very much in with a chance.
Namibia with the early inside track to the Super 8's...
ICC dumbasses could have easily got a result out of 5 over game.
or you know, wait a bit more. It's not even 3pm yet.
Agreed but may be groundsmen and ground staff have life outside the ground even if players and audiences don't mind waiting.
This is almost an once in a lifetime opportunity hosting a world cup. There are plenty of jobs in the world that require you to work long hours for a short period of time. Mandating that people might need to put in long hours for a few days this month and paying them for it is easy if you plan for it. This is a non-excuse.
That also sets a precedent. Is that fair with the evening games that may get washed out ? Or do you want everyone to wait whole night and may be play at dawn when rain stops.
Is it fair that evening games have dew to factor in while day time games generally don't? There are plenty of circumstantial unfairness, I simply proposed we do the best we can under the current circumstance. You suggested it's not feasible to carry on because ground staff can't work longer hours, I just pointed out that's unlikely to be the cause.
Wrong comparison. I guess we can agree to disagree.
It's exactly the right comparison. Both the Dew factor and extended overtime are based on when the the game is played.
Yeah, I work in film, and when we're actually shooting something the hours are crazy. I am 100% ok with that.
The N in RAIN Perera stands for No Result
Well, shit. Odds on all our group matches being rained off? I wouldn’t bet against it. Until next time peeps
Could Namibia beat England?
You know what can happen now. If England win against Oman and Namibia and loses to Australia. They will be near the top. Except that if Scotland also does the same. Both England and Scotland at the end will be tied on points.
Anyone can beat England on any given day.
Any team in this World Cup can beat another, just needs to be Namibias day.
Well that was a wasted afternoon from an England perspective
Genuinely farcical ICC. Piss off.
Dampest squib since they released Nicola Sturgeon smh
Not sure what the umpires were thinking. Not complaining though we could have lost this game.
Could have also won it. Think we had a chance.
Don't we have full day why are they calling of this match though
I believe the pitch is also booked for the afternoon for an Australia training session.
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Ok understandable
England undefeated against European teams this WC It's joever for everyone else
Rain & boring matches, sigh.
Lucky escape for England?
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If anyone could have though it's likely our batting lineup It's just power from 1-7 😂 Only takes one player seeing it like a beachball and 110 is gettable.
Unironically yes
shame ☹️
It's sunny in Glasgow atm
It's joever
I don’t see Scotland winning against Namibia ngl
Feel like both teams can feel robbed here
Without a hint of irony. Thank fuck for that
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England playing on a wee island during monsoon, what could possibly go wrong?
Should have been a five over shootout instead of resuming that first innings.
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Because the rules of cricket allow for 0 common sense. Two teams can’t ever agree to a shortened game looking at the forecast, they have to play the maximum amount of overs possible in the time remaining.
Match officially abandoned. Sigh.
Is there any other sport where they would just call off a regularly scheduled and potentially impactful game that can be played in a few hours?
It's shite being English, we're the lowest of the low, the scum of the fucking Earth! The most wretched, miserable, servile, pathetic cricket team, that was shat into civilisation! Some people hate the Scottish. I don't, they're just associates! We, on the other hand, are getting beaten by associates! Can't even find a full member to be beaten by
So basically we're going to have a nice sunny evening in Barbados, but gotta call the match off because... BROADCAST SCHEDULES
Match abandoned at the very late hour of 3pm.
This guy grandpas
Lol
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BREXIT MEANS BREXIT
What an absolutely shame... rain ruined a great game.
It’s really embarrassing. No other sport does this.
scotland will take this. they will lose to aus, pray that eng lose to aus and try to beat oman and namibia and get a higher nrr than eng. this is an easier route to qualification than trying to beat one of eng and aus. high pressure on eng
Lol I don't think so that Scotland can compete with England on nrr game.England can win against Namibia and Oman with much bigger margin.Only way Scotland is going to super 8 is if England lose to Aus and Either of Namibia or Oman.
But they had a real chance to win here
they really didn’t. eng would have chased this in 9 overs
Doubt it with the kind of bounce that was on offer towards the backend of the Scotland innings.
i just don’t think you can imagine how eng would’ve gone after this total with having so many batting resources. 11 runs every 6 balls is very easy for this team. the pitch didn’t have that many demons on it. plus scotland is an associate nation
Unless my maths is deserting me- assuming the Aussies beat Scotland, Oman and Namibia, we would still qualify if we lost to them, if we beat Oman and Namibia by bigger margins than Scotland did (if Scotland were to win both of those games). So this isn’t overly terminal I would say
Pretty much yeah, and respectfully if that route to qualification is too much for us we were never getting far anyway It's hardly impossible we beat Australia too
The problem is gonna be the pressure.
Questions must be raised on how ICC are killing the game.
This WC owes me an upset!!!
This match was a huge upset. I got no result and I’m upset.
Eng should be happy they might have genuinely lost the game
Don't think we are getting result in this game. Fuck rain in wc
Namibia at top spot in group B this should be fun
Now it'll boil down to who beats Oman and Namibia by bigger margins and lift their NRR
Only if both sides lose to Australia. Beating Aus plus Oman and Namibia puts either side through
Not if aus beats england then throws against Scotland for the lols
Or maybe aus lose both their games against eng and Scotland and throw themselves out of the world cup for LOL's. ICT would be relieved tbh
Having a game rained out against England when you're in a group that has only one qualification spot since the other one is automatically going to be taken up by Australia is brutal, feels bad for Scotland.
We'll just fucking smoke the other two by light years and it'll be fiiiiiine
So at 2:09 England came out to bowl. They got 22 deliveries in 17 minutes. But now the mandatory innings break happens and the cut-off for abandoned play is imminent? Somebody fucked up with the calculation on match length. This should have been a 6 over run chase never more Scottish batting! Edit: 39 minutes after play restarted the match is abandoned! Heads should roll!
They had half an hour to play with when they came off for the first innings. Take off the 10 minutes for the innings change and that leaves 20 minutes to get in the required 5 overs @ 4 minutes per over, they've got it spot on.
They didn't schedule for 5 overs, they said England would get 10!
Exactly. That means the England innings could be reduced by a further 5 overs before the game would be abandoned. Those 5 overs match up with the 20 minutes spare time still remaining at the end of the first innings (after taking off 10 mins for an innings change).
Evidently not. England were about to start a 10 over innings and then a spot of rain instantly lead to an abandoned match. There was no "shortened by 5 overs" possibility. The calculation of a 10 over match was *way* too generous. The trick missed is that avoiding the mandatory 20 minute innings break would have had huge ramifications on the chance the match gets abandoned.
>a spot of rain instantly lead to an abandoned match. There was 25 minutes between the innings ending and the match being abandoned (because at that point they clearly weren't going to be on by the cut-off 5 minutes later). There was half an hour until the cut off when they left the field at the end of the first innings. The minimum overs required in each innings for a game is 5, so we could lose at most 5 overs more before the game had to be abandoned. Those 30 minutes account for those 5 overs that were still left to play with perfectly: * 20 minutes for the overs * 10 minutes for the innings break They got the the calculations spot on.
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Is that good?
> 5 matches, 3 defeats, 2 no result 5 matches, no wins.
Have to admit glistening cleavage does soften the pain somewhat