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Bangles clear favourites here and have all the momentum!
I can see one of the last 2 happening, but not both. SA should have way too much for the Bangles. Mind you it will all be immaterial once we've lost on Thursday....Matt the Shrimp said:Bangladesh have beaten the Dutch. That being so, am I right in thinking that, even if we beat the Windies, there's no guarantee we'll go through...? If the following results (which aren't beyond the realms of possibility) happen...
England beat Windies (just)
South Africa beat Ireland
Bangles beat South Africa
Windies beat India (just)
...then aren't you left with the following table:
Windies - 8 pts
Bangles - 8 pts
SA - 8 pts
India - 7 pts
England - 7pts
...and, seeing how we tied with India, then it's presumably down to NRR (*) - and theirs is better than ours. So, actually, aren't we rather relying on the South Africans doing us a massive favour by beating Bangladesh?
Pfff. Bring on the summer, and some Test cricket, since we're roooobish at this one-day lark.
(*In fact, NRR trumps the result in the game...)
Bangladesh have beaten the Dutch. That being so, am I right in thinking that, even if we beat the Windies, there's no guarantee we'll go through...? If the following results (which aren't beyond the realms of possibility) happen...
England beat Windies (just)
South Africa beat Ireland
Bangles beat South Africa
Windies beat India (just)
...then aren't you left with the following table:
Windies - 8 pts
Bangles - 8 pts
SA - 8 pts
India - 7 pts
England - 7pts
...and, seeing how we tied with India, then it's presumably down to NRR (*) - and theirs is better than ours. So, actually, aren't we rather relying on the South Africans doing us a massive favour by beating Bangladesh?
Pfff. Bring on the summer, and some Test cricket, since we're roooobish at this one-day lark.
(*In fact, NRR trumps the result in the game...)
I've an idea that KP may have blotted his copy book with Andy Flower so hell may freeze over first before he gets another shot at the captaincy with Flower in charge. Even though we won the T20 World Cup under Collingwood I've never thought he was a natural at the job. I think they will have to turn to Cook, or possibly Stuart Broad, I don't see much captaincy material elsewhere
Morgan would be my first name on the team sheet for the ODIs, has he got any experience with captaincy?
Ireland trying to do us a favour - SA 117/5....
Morgan would be my first name on the team sheet for the ODIs, has he got any experience with captaincy?