CWC 2019 Match 25 | New Zealand vs South Africa | Edgbaston, Birmingham | June 19th, 2019 | Match thread

[nitinbwj]

11 minutes ago, maniac said:

He had one fluke innings where our spinners were not able to grip the ball. He got an IPL contract based on that one fluke innings while someone like a Ross Taylor or Joe Root doesn’t get one

Everyone has their moment against us. Too many of them. Marillier in 2002, Olonga in a league match, Turner smashing 84, Malik bashing us for a long long time, Faulkner hitting Ishant. We have a habit of producing heroes from nowhere ..

[Stan AF]

Munro spankin Rabada.

[nitinbwj]

1 hour ago, maniac said:

Boult has been average today in the field and with the ball

He is NZ’s clouderson.

Edited June 19, 2019 by nitinbwj

[Stan AF]

Get a good opening partnership and game is done. Similar to us chasing 220 two weeks ago.

[nitinbwj]

Kabada ho gya !

[Ankit_sharma03]

2 good shots by munro

[poi]

Simulated scenarios if NZ win:

 

 

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If RSA win:

 

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If NZ win, the top 4 for Semifinals is pretty much set (unless Bangladesh has miracle, which isn't likely against all those strong teams left in their schedule).

If RSA win, things flatten out a bit. For RSA, needless to say, this is a must win. All other non-top-4 teams should be rooting for RSA to win.

[Frustrated]

How come our batsmen struggled so much against rabada?   Munro is absolutely smashing him, right from the 1st over.       PS : Just as I finished typing ,. Rabada takes his wicket.  

Edited June 19, 2019 by Frustrated

[Stan AF]

Munro gone

[Franco Vazquez]

Looks like NZ is playing to lose.

[nitinbwj]

3 minutes ago, Frustrated said:

How come our batsmen struggled so much against rabada?   Munro is absolutely smashing him, right from the 1st over. 

Playing on reputation plus the bowl was doing something.

India’s strategy would always be to defend in the first 10, not lose a wicket and bang bang later on. With our lower middle order and a non existent tail, this is the right strategy. NZ bat deep and they have Taylor and Williamson to steady innings and lower order hitters to accelerate. Has been the blueprint of NZ and Eng. Aus also lack a lower order basher ( May be Carey ? )

[Franco Vazquez]

If IPL is the reason for Rashid Khan's sudden rise then I guess Canada GT20 should be the reason for Rassie's rise as he played in that tournament before any other franchise T20 League.

[rageaddict]

Another wicket and this could get very very interesting. 

[WorldCup 2019]

15 minutes ago, nitinbwj said:

Kabada ho gya !

Baach gaya saala 

ye bhi Baach gaya 

Leg ...........mein 

[Stan AF]

Ngidi was badly missed.

[Stan AF]

Three 4's. Get Going Gup T

[WorldCup 2019]

Southafrica should try 6 overs of imran(36 wickets now) tahir vs "real pare" of KW and Rossco>> Immu only 2 wickets away in breaking allan donalds (37 wickets ) southafrican record in world cup

 

Imran's only 19th game today compared to 31 or more games by Donald

[WorldCup 2019]

15 minutes ago, Franco Vazquez said:

If IPL is the reason for Rashid Khan's sudden rise then I guess Canada GT20 should be the reason for Rassie's rise as he played in that tournament before any other franchise T20 League.

bhai

you can not Judge rashid.Its happen in cricket he had bad one day at office.He may win game for Afg vs india on sat.

 

i doubt india allows Pant to play vs Afg ,so shankar ( Bhuvi out for next 2 games) will play but on june 30 pant will play vs england

[putrevus]

We should have won the test series against SA.

[WorldCup 2019]

Afg declined because their domestic cricket need drastic improvments & Changes.They should play more ODI or longer format games oftenly than 40 games of t20 in shorter time.