The All New World Cup 2023 Thread.

[sussexpob]

My god, Klaasen might get to 3 figures at this rate....

[Arthur Crabtree]

My god, Klaasen might get to 3 figures at this rate....

Will the curse work a second time...

[sussexpob]

My god, Klaasen might get to 3 figures at this rate....

Will the curse work a second time...

You bet.... out next ball

[mikesiva]

Klaasen out for a sensational 90!

[Arthur Crabtree]

I'm guessing that SA are on for the all time biggest WC win.

[Durhamfootman]

BD did quite well to spin it out until the 47th over. They lasted longer than England did at any rate

[Durhamfootman]

England can only dream of having a rearguard centurion in the side. Mahmudullah getting out on nelson after what I imagine was a very fine innings under the circumstances

[Durhamfootman]

also hard to fathom how SA managed to get themselves rolled over by the Netherlands

[mikesiva]

Bangladesh 233 all out

Mahmudullah 111

Coetzee 3-62

[bigfluffylemon]

I've seen some musings that the England malaise is symptomatic of the slow death of the ODI format in general - England aren't doing well because they aren't playing, because it isn't a priority. This tournament is not exactly being a scintillating advertisement for the game - lots of one sided, barely attended games, and a round-robin format meaning that any one result isn't particularly meaningful - even after losing 3, England can still make the knockouts, which don't start for another 3 weeks.

https://www.espncricinfo.com/story/odi- ... ma-1405153

[Arthur Crabtree]

There's not much international T20 cricket. Outside the Ashes, not much status for Tests. Feels like international cricket in general is in the doldrums.

[andy]

I wonder if Australia have thought about breaking up the Smith, marnus combo at 3 and 4....would like to see Maxwell batting a bit higher...wonder if he will get a chance today to do that

[sussexpob]

I've seen some musings that the England malaise is symptomatic of the slow death of the ODI format in general - England aren't doing well because they aren't playing, because it isn't a priority. This tournament is not exactly being a scintillating advertisement for the game - lots of one sided, barely attended games, and a round-robin format meaning that any one result isn't particularly meaningful - even after losing 3, England can still make the knockouts, which don't start for another 3 weeks

I am pretty convinced that a lot of this is wilful. It seems pretty obvious that cricket boards, gripped by the idea that T20 Franchise cricket is everything, are trying to tell us that the 50 over game is dead so they can reserve more of the calendar for slog-fests, and are doing everything possible to make it look like this is justified. England had 6 million people tune into the 50 over world cup final, and their response was to relegate the format to B team competition, and replace it with a tournament that sells less tickets than the one it replaced - but apparently the 100 is the saviour of the game, and 50 over cricket is worthless.

Nothing demonstrates this like the chaotic organisation at this tournament. Teams like Pakistan weren't even given visas till 12 hours before they were to depart for the tournament, so what was the hope of normal fans being able to travel? Zero. The ticketing has been a disaster, even the warm-up games pre-tournament had ticket sales released days before the matches. I read the India v England game in 4 days time still has 10,000s of tickets that have not been released, despite all selling out that have. They intend to put them on sale at 8pm the night before a 2.30pm match start.

So yeah, you can tell me the stadiums being empty is just fans not liking the tournament, but lets be frank - who the hell is spending 1000s on travel to India, going through the visa process etc, if its impossible to guarantee a ticket for the game? In some cases, games were only put on sale a couple of weeks before, which is quite frankly unacceptable.

What other major sporting tournaments does that happen in? The Olympics, UEFA or FIFA football tournaments, rugby world cup.... the schedule is confirmed a year before, and tickets are on sale for 12 months before the match. Why did the BCCI not release any tickets until one month before the tournament?

Hmmm... the only conclusion I come up with is, they didn't want to sell any. Without the hassle of hosting this stuff, they could add another 10 rounds of IPL matches bolted onto the end of a season.

[Arthur Crabtree]

Wee Davie turning on a bit of form recently.

[mikesiva]

Australia 399-8

Warner 104
Maxwell 106

Van Beek 4-74