England cricket 2023 & 2024

[SydneyBridge]

First 20/20 against WI and we are showing how bad the non ashes players are, 10-3

[Macroni18]

Terrible opening, hopefully Morgan can play a blinder.

[spikeyhead]

Doomed, nothing can go right from here

[Macroni18]

This is utterly bizarre!
Knowing WI though even 100 might be enough

[thegreenhell]

We'll be lucky to bat out the full 20 overs here.

[Gargamel]

M. Ali doing it for the team again. FFS how does he keep getting picked.

[Macroni18]

Jordan on fire!
Ali does spectacular in 1 match and then goes missing for the next 10.

[Murph7355]

Oh.

Morgan feeling sorry for Root so wanted in?

[SydneyBridge]

Miles better tonight, 171 from 20

Edited by SydneyBridge on Sunday 23 January 21:38

[ChocolateFrog]

The umpire looks like he's been bought, 2 absolutely plum LBW's and he waves them away.

[RichB]

ChocolateFrog said:

The umpire looks like he's been bought, 2 absolutely plum LBW's and he waves them away.

Slight smile on his face as he was told to overturn his decision on the 2nd one.

[ChocolateFrog]

Well, a win but they conspired to try and lose it.

28 off the last over, first time I've seen that Mahmood, not that impressed.

[Macroni18]

oh wow had switched off after 7 WI wickets thinking they will be all out. 1 run win

[Murph7355]

Ali and others reckoning England dominated....

9wkt wins in T20 is dominating. A 1 run win.... Not so much.

[thegreenhell]

They dominated for 3/4 of the match, then took their foot of the gas and let the WI back into it at the end. They should have killed the game dead long before the final over.

[Murph7355]

thegreenhell said:

They dominated for 3/4 of the match, then took their foot of the gas and let the WI back into it at the end. They should have killed the game dead long before the final over.

There are no prizes for dominating 3/4 of a game. If they'd lost by 1 run, they'd still have been getting pelters.

I'm surprised at Morgan tbh.

Let's see what happens next

[TheAngryDog]

Hopefully this is a complacency wake up call.

[thegreenhell]

This is going to be a big target for an inexperienced squad to chase.

[suthol]

thegreenhell said:

This is going to be a big target for an inexperienced squad to chase.

And fail to succeed

[spikeyhead]

suthol said:

thegreenhell said:

This is going to be a big target for an inexperienced squad to chase.

And fail to succeed

It was always a big ask, but I don't mind losing when we score over 200 runs. I've not seen the game but it does sound like we had a decent whack, even if we let them score more runs than we should have done.