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Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 7:58 amby ianp1970
dan08 wrote:ianp1970 wrote:3 groups of 5 is the ideal format.
Not really as you don't get an even number of teams from each group. Not ideal to go for two best 3rd placed teams.
The beauty of having best 2 third places qualify is that every match would matter.
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 8:00 amby ianp1970
Alviro Patterson wrote:dan08 wrote:ianp1970 wrote:3 groups of 5 is the ideal format.
Not really as you don't get an even number of teams from each group. Not ideal to go for two best 3rd placed teams.
3 groups of 5 still amounts to the same total of tournament matches played (31) but takes longer to complete due to the extra group stage match and a team sitting in a round of matches.
True enough, maybe better suited to 50 over World Cups then...
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 10:52 amby dan08
Fantastic start for Afghanistan.
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:00 amby Durhamfootman
you'd better hope that Zim win this, because England will lose to Afghanistan, I reckon....... they are one of the minnows who England haven't lost to yet, but only because they haven't played them
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:07 amby dan08
Really slow pitch.
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:11 amby dan08
Big collapse. Zimbabwe back in it.
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:17 amby Durhamfootman
Afghanistan having to rebuild
largely self inflicted it would appear
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:44 amby dan08
Great recovery. Shows how much Afghanistan have developed over the last few years. They used to just go down slogging.
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:55 amby Durhamfootman
England would have just go on slogging
expressing themselves
counterattacking
positive cricket
otherwise known as panic ridden, brainless cricket
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 11:57 amby Durhamfootman
Afghanistan have just won this... they'll get 180, I reckon
Zim won't get close. 140 might have been in reach, but not a big score like this is going to be
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 12:07 pmby mikesiva
Nabi 52 from 32 balls....
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 12:08 pmby dan08
Afghanistan make 186/6!
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 12:36 pmby Alviro Patterson
Durhamfootman wrote:you'd better hope that Zim win this, because England will lose to Afghanistan, I reckon....... they are one of the minnows who England haven't lost to yet, but only because they haven't played them
England played Afghanistan in the 2012 World T20 and smashed them, Luke Wright scored 99 not out.
http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-world-t ... 33277.html
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 12:51 pmby Durhamfootman
fair enough
Re: World T20 champs, first round, March 8-13
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Sat Mar 12, 2016 12:52 pmby Durhamfootman
lets see if England smash them in a week or two