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#141 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:09 pm

50 with a Chinese cut!
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#142 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:19 pm

59-2 not good.
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#143 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:37 pm

71-3 Bairstow played on.
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#144 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:40 pm

It would be at this point in our school staff games against others when the next batsman in would be our history master who had opened for combined universities, or when bowling we would hand the ball to our former Gloucestershire fast bowler. The aim being to ensure victory, but not by much ;))) That way, amateurs like me who tended to get a blacksmith's innings of two boundaries and out could still be on the winning side.

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#145 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:51 pm

NZ definitely on top, BUT England still need less than a run a ball.

With one day field setting it is not a bad target.
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#146 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 3:56 pm

86-4
Capt Morgan gone.
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#147 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:02 pm

Rum do

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#148 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:22 pm

115-4 after 30, usually work on doubling the score from here.

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#149 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:36 pm

Good steady batting but not fast enough. How do they make out England's chance of winning is improving?

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#150 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:48 pm

Not losing wickets, so they can afford to have at it in the last 10 overs.

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#151 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:50 pm

And lose wickets?

93 from 78 balls

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#152 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jul 14, 2019 4:51 pm

On the worm graph, England are only a gnat's cock below the NZ curve with one wicket less gone. NZ second string bowlers are very vulnerable. My money would be on England at this point; still tight though, and a couple of quick wickets would swing it NZ's way.

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#153 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:09 pm

Its nail biting.
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#154 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:10 pm

68/53 still 15 short.

How to give 69% chance I don't know. For my money the batting is so accurate - straight to the fielders.

If we lose it will be the NZ fielders who won.

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#155 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:15 pm

42nd over: England 177-4 (Stokes 47, Buttler 44) The Win Predictor has England at 69 per cent.
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#156 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:18 pm

Ian, they just aren't getting boundaries.

Still 46/33

196/5, now what?

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#157 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:27 pm

WICKET! England 196-5 (Buttler c sub b Ferguson 59)
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#158 Post by Pontius Navigator » Sun Jul 14, 2019 5:34 pm

No chance, now 38% as they need 10 x 4 and only 13 free balls.

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#159 Post by ian16th » Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:02 pm

Super over!
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#160 Post by Fox3WheresMyBanana » Sun Jul 14, 2019 6:10 pm

England will win on boundaries hit if the Super Over is a tie.
NZ are 1/4 in super overs in T20, England 1/1. NZ matches have gone to super overs two and a half times more often than any other team now.

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