Thread: Cricket scores around the world

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20/20 on now between

• Aussies and Sri Lanka ... Live Cricket Streaming - Live Cricket - Watch Cricket Online - Free
• India and WI

Oz falling to pieces here, they're like an English team but with the WC T20 sliverware in their trophy cabinet.

Won easy in the end with Hazlewood taking 4 wickets.

2ND 20/20 on in 10 mins

Australia vs Sri-Lanka

VenueSydney Cricket Ground, Sydney

No rain is predicted. Currently 23C


Sri-Lanka won the toss and decided to bowl first.

Aussies won after match tied and an over a side bash.

It's still just hit and giggle, aint it?

3^rd Australia vs Sri Lanka 200/20 on soon.

Australia won the toss and decided to bowl.

Canberra, 28C, warm, no rain predicted.

NZ: Black Caps eye first test win over South Africa in 18 years after memorable opening day
February 17 2022

Cheered on by Sir Richard Hadlee at his Hagley Oval home, 30-year-old seamer Matt Henry enjoyed career best figures on the opening day of the first test against South Africa on Thursday.

Henry’s stellar 7-23 tied Hadlee’s mark for the third-best test figures in an innings by a New Zealand bowler with South Africa skittled for 95 after being sent in.

Played in front of a restricted crowd of 800 with pods of 100, the limited spectators inside the ground were treated to a bowling masterclass from the Cantabrian.

Scoreboard
At Hagley Oval, Christchurch:
South Africa 95 (Zubayr Hamza 25; Matt Henry 7-23) met New Zealand 116-3 (Henry Nicholls 37no, Devon Conway 36; Duanne Olivier 2-36)

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I see the old farts still rule the MCC.

The prospect of having university women playing at Lords was too much for them so they've cancelled the Oxford/Cambridge and Eton/Harrow matches at Lords completely.

Lord's dumps Oxford v Cambridge, Eton v Harrow cricket matches

That's fucked.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

That's fucked.

200 years of tradition out of the window because of a load of sexist fucking dinosaurs.

Australia's cricket team is in Pakistan for the first time in 24 years. Here's how local authorities plan to keep them safe

In Pakistan, cricket is practically a religion.
The nation has bred some of the world's best players, Prime Minister Imran Khan was a World Cup-winning captain and generations of kids play the game on every street corner, trying to make it into the big leagues.

But no major cricket nation has staged a full tour of the country in decades because of the threat of terror attacks.
The situation has sidelined a country that is both obsessed with the sport and worried about its reputation politically on the world stage.

The Australian cricket team is now in Pakistan for its first tour of the country in 24 years, preparing for a fully-fledged bilateral series that begins today.

Pakistani authorities aren't taking any risks, deploying 4,100 security personnel, army snipers and road closures for the players.
"The Australian team has been granted the status of state guest," Omer Saeed, City Police Officer for the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, said.

Here

Starts in 90 mins. Pakis are slight favourites


Oh, as Harry mentioned elsewhere, Rod Marsh passed overnight. He had a heart attack recently.

Aussies lost the toss.

^ This is why Pakistan is batting first.



This is a bat first and bat long deck, and the Aussies will need to be patient to prosper.

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The teams are in

Some interesting moves for Australia - no room in the XI for Ashes hero Scott Boland.

Mitchell Starc tends to tire after a few tests and hopefully Boland gets a go.

Australia:

• Usman Khawaja
• David Warner
• Marnus Labuschagne
• Steve Smith
• Travis Head
• Cameron Green
• Alex Carey
• Pat Cummins
• Mitchell Starc
• Nathan Lyon
• Josh Hazlewood

Pakistan:

• Imam Ul Haq
• Abdullah Shafiq
• Azhar Ali
• Babar Azam
• Fawad Alam
• Mohammad Rizwan
• Iftikhar Ahmed
• Nauman Ali
• Sajid Khan
• Naseem Shah
• Shaheen Shah Afridi

Weather looks good.

Winter in Paki land 23C

Precipitation: 0%
Humidity: 54%
Wind: 18 km/h

Some chance of showers on Monday

Looks like the rain is early Monday so hopefully won't affect play.

^Never saw your mob saying that once in 5 matches in the Ashes thread, quite the opposite

Fuck me ... like watching paint dry or enduring Geoffrey Borecott batting (lesser of 2 evils?).

2.78 rpo ... dead flat, batting paradise in Pakistan

2-369, deep into the second session on day 2.

What ever happened to 'an even contest between bat and ball'?

^ Its Test match cricket.

The English spoilt you lot over xnas and now you are back to whinging.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

What ever happened to 'an even contest between bat and ball'?

Get it back … just needs a bit of sandpaper.

I thought the Pakis had set an ambush with this wicket in that the Australian bowling attack wouldn't be able to get anything out of it (a big ask when there's guys like Gary, Stark, and Cummins in the team) but they'd have had tons of time to practice on such a flat-track and know exactly how to get something out if it. How wrong I was, if this keeps up it could be the most boring Test in history. I can't watch it anymore

And to think Shane had a heart attack watching it.

^At least he had heart, unlike you serial fucking losers that shit yourselves every time some bottle is required..

Originally Posted by Headworx

if this keeps up it could be the most boring Test in history.

You clearly didn't watch Eng in the 80s, whole days could pass without a run being scored