Twenty20 World Cup 2014

22 runs needed off a final over bowled by Steyn?  Best of luck with that...

20/3, adios England.

That England competed despite their bowling is credit to their batting

Damn, Bresnan bought it close enough.

furriner wrote:Damn, Bresnan bought it close enough.

Your appearance was way too late for them.

Great, just great. We had to go and moral victory it. We moral victoryed it to f*ck against NZ and the D/L - now we've got a narrow, yet essentially phoned in, loss today. Moral victories flying all over the place. Perfect for Ashley and his brave boys.

This batting line-up is starting to look pretty good, I think we need to go with it in ODIs as well and stop pissing about with Cooks and Bells.

Bowling and fielding though, a complete shambles. Dernbach must be the worst bowler ever to play this much international cricket. Bresnan is consistently a liability, the spin cupboard still empty and Broad not quite sure where to use himself as a bowler. Jordan the only positive really.

Still Holland to play, of course - I guess they will give the unused squad players a game. Tommy Cooper and co. will be hoping Jade stays in the side.

tricycle wrote:

furriner wrote:Damn, Bresnan I bought it close enough.

Your appearance was way too late for them. charisma stuns me.

Fixed.

furriner wrote:Damn, Bresnan bought it close enough.

Steyn took all the pace off the last 3.

Nasser just wrecked Dernbach. Still, he was like the selectors a few weeks back - he was a big advocate for Terdsach.

Good old Riggy Ponning: There's got to be better than Dernbach.

Brass Monkey wrote:Good old Riggy Ponning: There's got to be better than Dernbach.

How is the Aussie bowling attack going these days?

furriner wrote:

tricycle wrote:

furriner wrote:Damn, Bresnan I bought it close enough.

Your appearance was way too late for them. charisma stuns me.

Fixed.

Charisma...... so that's is what it's called nowadays, aye?

My only real interest in this pretend-cricket circle-jerk is (from an England perspective) whether it torpedoes Ghastly Piles' ambitions for the top job.

Of course it won't.

beamer wrote:Dernbach must be the worst bowler ever to play this much international cricket.

Brass Monkey wrote:Nasser just wrecked Dernbach. Still, he was like the selectors a few weeks back - he was a big advocate for Terdsach.

Just to reiterate the good news, incase you missed it a few pages back: with that wondrous performance, Dernbach officially became the worst bowler in T20i history (joint, with Jacob Oram) economy-wise, achieving the rare and much sought after double of being the world's worst bowler in two formats, having nailed the ODI title a while ago.

Nobody, in the history of international limited overs cricket*, has been as consistently taken to the f*cking the cleaners as that sack of shit. Fact.

* = there's some qualifying stat about bowlers having played more than x amount of games or bowled x amount of overs. I don't know. I don't care. I just see the headline and the details fade away. He's the pits.

I say it once again. Turdcrack is a donkey-raping sh!t-eater.

Merlin wrote:
 
Oh well - the Jaaarps will see Engerlund off to the plane on Tuesday.

 
As I forecast at 17:31 on the 27th  . . .
And to think ALL the Sky pundits nominated an England win.
Trouble is  - no one mentioned that to ABdeV !

This might sound awful.... but I took the 2's on offer at Laddie's for an outright Saffer win.
Far too tempting to walk away from (in a two horse race)!

Double post - ugh!

Looks like Dernbach reached new heights in profligacy overnight. You've renamed the WC after Gilly, how about renaming smorgasbord bowling after him? Leave it to Dello or Monkey to come up with the official term.  

Phew! One positive as Gashley's didn't sneak through to the semi-finals thus papering over the cracks of what is a pretty poor side, that got out of jail with a very good innings!

More shocking bowling and fielding, but at least their is a good spirit in the side, because that is most important!

Did anyone else notice in Broads interview he mentioned not having his best available side in the Tourney?

Oh and as an aside, AB Dev is an absolute freak! The man is insanely good!

Yeah, who else can smash 20-ball fifties in T20 and also block the crap out of it for a day in Tests if the situation demands it? In these days of pigeonholed specialists, he really is a man for any situation with the bat.

If Dernbach plays for England again it will be beyond a joke.

taipan wrote:

Brass Monkey wrote:Good old Riggy Ponning: There's got to be better than Dernbach.

How is the Aussie bowling attack going these days?

Not bad ... won 5-0 v England in the Ashes and beat your mob at home. I'll take it.

Dernbach is England's version of Australia's Glenn Trimble - it is a mystery that he has played more games.

Aftab Ahmed Ban 2 balls 8 runs 24rpo
V Sehwag Ind 1 over 20 runs 20rpo
AM Samad Can 2 overs 36 runs 18 rpo
P Hitchcock NZ 3 overs 43 runs 14.333 rpo
G Smith SA 4 overs 57 runs 14.25 rpo
J Ontong SA 5 overs 66 runs 13.2 rpo
P Awana Ind 6 overs 71 runs 11.83 rpo
J Stander Sco 13.3 overs 156 runs 11.55 rpo
S Mahmood Eng 14 overs 155 runs 11.07 rpo
D Briggs Eng 18 overs 199 runs 11.05 rpo
S Masakadza Zim 19.3 overs 211 runs 10.82 rpo
Farhad Reza Ban 26 overs 261 runs 10.03rpo
D Bracewell NZ 40.4 overs 391 runs 9.61 rpo
E Chigumbura Zim 45 overs 411 runs 9.13 rpo
J Dernbach Eng 117 overs 1020 runs 8.71 rpo
J Oram NZ 91 overs 793 runs 8.71 rpo

Poms with worse T20 economy rates that Dernbach
A Shahzad
PD Collingwood
SC Meaker
JL Denly
LE Plunkett
MS Panesar
CR Woakes
KP Pietersen
DR Briggs
SI Mahmood
CT Tremlett
JE Root
BA Stokes
JN Snape
RJ Kirtley