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20 hours ago, peasy23 said:

Another cracking win for the Netherlands today, scoring 229 batting first but then dismantling Bangladesh for 142 with them never having a sniff as they were always behind the run rate as the wickets fell early.

Was gutted I had to leave for the football and miss the end of Australia v New Zealand, it was shaping up to be a cracker and ended up that way.

Absolutely delighted with this. After the hammering by Australia, they picked themselves up and then had this performance, especially the bowlers did great. And that direct hit by Van Beek was a great one.

The Dutch media seem to finally take notice of the cricket team too, that media attention has been really lacking so here is hoping it will pick up, this team deserve that.

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1 hour ago, peasy23 said:

England's bowlers finally show up and limit India to 229-9. On the evidence of this tourney and also how the Indian batsmen struggled on this pitch, I still wouldn't fancy England to chase that down.

India keep getting dot balls and Stokes has just been bowled, 33/3 after 8 overs. You'd fancy India now, especially with Stokes gone.

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4 minutes ago, die hard doonhamer said:

Zero bottle in this England batting line up

Yep, the bowlers did well today, but their batting is awful. It doesn't help though that the ECB have relegated the domestic 50 over game to a glorified reserve league whilst the stars play an unnecessary tournament in a format that nobody else plays...

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9 minutes ago, rowsdower said:

That woakes dismissal had big "screw you guys, I'm going home" energy.

The inquest into this shit show will be fun.

Changes in coach and captaincy are a big factor along with just sheer lack of practice in the format.

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3 hours ago, Marten said:

Yep, the bowlers did well today, but their batting is awful. It doesn't help though that the ECB have relegated the domestic 50 over game to a glorified reserve league whilst the stars play an unnecessary tournament in a format that nobody else plays...

Stokes hasn't played a domestic ODI since something like 2016. People will blame the hundred but the problems are rooted deeper than that. 

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1 hour ago, Uncle Psychosis said:

Stokes hasn't played a domestic ODI since something like 2016. People will blame the hundred but the problems are rooted deeper than that. 

Oh, I agree the problems go deeper, but the Hundred definitely made it significantly worse. It's a tournament that adds nothing yet relegates domestic 50 over cricket to some kind of second string tournament.

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6 hours ago, peasy23 said:

How many teams qualify automatically for the next tournament, is it 7 or 8? Could we hilariously see England having to qualify?

It’s not done using this World Cup. The next one is expanding to 14 teams. The hosts (South Africa and Zimbabwe) will automatically qualify along with the top 8 sides in the ODI rankings on 31st March 2027.

Namibia are also co-hosts, but have to go through qualifying because they are an associate member. 

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19 hours ago, peasy23 said:

How many teams qualify automatically for the next tournament, is it 7 or 8? Could we hilariously see England having to qualify?

This World Cup is used as qualification for the 2025 Champions Trophy in Pakistan, 8 teams will take part which is the top 8 of this tournament (or top 7 + Pakistan as hosts if they fail to finish in the top 8). Hopefully we can stay ahead of England and qualify at their expense. 🙏

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