ICC World Twenty20, Super 8s, Group E

England
India
South Africa
West Indies

India (if they are a reasonably harmonious team) and SAf must be the favourites.

Group of death -as far as England and the Windies are concerned.

England must win...

It would be nice, but it's as likely as icebergs floating up Severn Estuary in August.

The titanic will sink before England win a proper tournament.

DJ_Smerk wrote:The titanic will sink before England win a proper tournament.

FFS Smerfy ... are you calling this circus a "proper tournament" ?

Well, maybe it is deep in The Valleys where any distraction from sheep molesting is a welcome relief ....

England are underdogs but lets not forget we're playing at home and have won home series against all 3 group opponents in their last attempt, albeit ODI's not T20.

No doubts we have another Dutchie type performance in the locker somewhere...

England will have to play out of their skin, that's for sure. Barring the batting display against New Zealand the other night, the South African's have been ultra professional so far. Especially in the field.

The titanic already sunk. They even made a film about it with a nude Kate Winslet.

It's nailed on then!

A nude Winslett might distract them though ... it would me!

England to win in a canter....

I am in a real conflict situation here. Every time I hear Nasser open his mouth, I hope he gets a cactus up his.........and every time I hear Sanjay Manjrekar, I hope the other end of the cactus is rammed up his.

Purely on performance I think SA and IND will go through in that order, but I could still hope for IND and ENG. If only ENG could bring off an Oirish today. Swann and Rashid must both play.

doremi wrote:The titanic already sunk. They even made a film about it with a nude Kate Winslet.

There was a ship in the movie?

taipan wrote:

doremi wrote:The titanic already sunk. They even made a film about it with a nude Kate Winslet.

There was a ship in the movie?

Otherwise known as Kate Winslett's arse.

England will win this group.

tee hee haw ha ha he he tee hee ta hoo ha ha like that's ever f*cking going to happen you bunch of qunts.

England win toss and elect to bat. I'd take 160-170 now against their attack.

Can't wait to see Wright try and hack Steyn....

Eng 112ao is my prediction. Luke Wright 3 b Steyn.

Pietersen 9 b Kallis c Qunt*

* - I know what you're thinking - all eleven players cannot catch him at once.

Chivalry Augustus wrote:Eng 112ao is my prediction. Luke Wright 3 b Steyn.

Pietersen 9 b Kallis c Qunt*

* - I know what you're thinking - all eleven players cannot catch him at once.

Tis a possibility - we're only playing 4 specialist bats after all.

Chivalry Augustus wrote:Eng 112ao is my prediction. Luke Wright 3 b Steyn.

Pietersen 9 b Kallis c Qunt*

* - I know what you're thinking - all eleven players cannot catch him at once.

You have as much faith in England winning as Pakster fans have of Pak team doing anything useful!

JKLever wrote:

Chivalry Augustus wrote:Eng 112ao is my prediction. Luke Wright 3 b Steyn.

Pietersen 9 b Kallis c Qunt*

* - I know what you're thinking - all eleven players cannot catch him at once.

Tis a possibility - we're only playing 4 specialist bats after all.

Looking at their boys averages compared to ours (in all t20s rather than t20Is), we're virtually playing none. Our esteemed captain's average could drop below 20 today by the look of things. Only Shah averages over 30 whilst three Saffers average 32+.

filosofee wrote:

Chivalry Augustus wrote:Eng 112ao is my prediction. Luke Wright 3 b Steyn.

Pietersen 9 b Kallis c Qunt*

* - I know what you're thinking - all eleven players cannot catch him at once.

You have as much faith in England winning as Pakster fans have of Pak team doing anything useful!

But we're usually right, us negativos. Look over on PakPassion and it's all about letdowns.

Chivalry Augustus wrote:

JKLever wrote:

Chivalry Augustus wrote:Eng 112ao is my prediction. Luke Wright 3 b Steyn.

Pietersen 9 b Kallis c Qunt*

* - I know what you're thinking - all eleven players cannot catch him at once.

Tis a possibility - we're only playing 4 specialist bats after all.

Looking at their boys averages compared to ours (in all t20s rather than t20Is), we're virtually playing none. Our esteemed captain's average could drop below 20 today by the look of things. Only Shah averages over 30 whilst three Saffers average 32+.

filosofee wrote:

Chivalry Augustus wrote:Eng 112ao is my prediction. Luke Wright 3 b Steyn.

Pietersen 9 b Kallis c Qunt*

* - I know what you're thinking - all eleven players cannot catch him at once.

You have as much faith in England winning as Pakster fans have of Pak team doing anything useful!

But we're usually right, us negativos. Look over on PakPassion and it's all about letdowns.

Will pop over there when I get home, will miss most of the match flippin travelling!

"Anthem watch (SA) Several players adopting the Americanised signal of patriotism (right hand on heart). All pretty quiet - but wait, Boucher and de Villiers are pulling it out of the bag here. There's Botha - good volume from the lanky spinner, and Smith is understandably belting it out, but Kallis lets the side down with an emphatically muted rendition. 7/10"

http://www.cricinfo.com/wt202009/engine/current/match/356004.html

Two wickets gone already. Bumble said the crowd are stunned. is anyone here stunned?

Stoned.

Giving away maidens in this format is unforgivable. May as well slog and be all out for 60 than stutter to 120, either way the game is lost.

Shah in particular needs to step it up, he's been a complete waste of space in this competition so far, someone should tell him you have to score off every ball to be competitive. It's no good hitting a few boundaries and still only ending up with a strike rate of around 100.