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What’s happening? That isn’t rhetoric. Please: what’s going on?
England lose to the Dutch, thrash Netherlands, are put back in their box by South Africa and now throw everything at India, spanking them convincingly. These are not the results anybody expected; that India, the champions, are going home is difficult enough to comprehend. That it was England who did it, a team so laughably inconsistent, who play one-day cricket as though so little depends on it, is perplexing in the extreme. It’s wonderful, too, and not because I happen to be English; wonderful that this stupid format produces such ridiculousness. It encourages outlandish behaviour and cricket but the crucial essences of the sport still apply. A year ago, I don’t think you’d have accepted a captain suggesting to your team “let’s bounce them out”, even if that team is particularly inept at playing short-pitch bowling. If anything, Twenty20 encourages orthodoxy as much as unorthodoxy.
It’s all gone brilliantly bonkers. This time tomorrow, England might be in the semi-finals. Stop laughing at the back.
Tags: england, icc-world-twenty20, india, twenty20 |
Don’t you mean, “thrash Pakistan?”
But Enland’s bowling has really been pretty good. Sidebottom’s a tight limited-overs bowler, and Broad and Anderson have improved out of sight over the last year or so. Swann’s also been impressive. If they didn’t rely so kuch on KP with the bat, it might not be such a shock!
It’ll be interesting to see how India’s exit affects the popularity of the IPL next year!
“What’s happening?”
They are playing 20/20, not cricket. That’s whats’ happening.
This was an energised England team. The intent was there with the short pitched bowling at Gambhir and Jadeja. Message to Indian curators “Prepare sporting pitches”
Broad’s fumble at the death surfaced again and made it closer than it should have been.Redeemed himself with a well judged catch off Jadeja and Foster showed the value of a specialist with his stumping of Yuvraj. The defining moment of the game for me.
India wont be turning out en masse to welcome their team home. In fact some of them may not go home for a while. Brickbats and hurled shoes await them.
It all shows just what a load of luck is involved. The shorter the game, the greater the chance of an upset. But if it takes being booed by opposition fans to get England fired up and aggressive, how about we all put on canary yellow clothes and Neighbours accents and heckle them on every morning of every Test match? Book the bus to Trafalgar Square now.
Something thats irritated me no end is Collingwood’s outburst against indian fans.
So the english guys got booed on their ‘home turf’,the so-called ‘home’ of cricket.
Collingwood didn’t like it.Hussain,who is a commentator now,didn’t like it either.
Why?
British/English citizens should be cheering for England & not India.
True.Very true.
Here’s the important point though-Most of the indian fans you saw throughout this WC are indian nationals.Indian passport holders & not british citizens.Indians working in england & other countries close to england flew to england to watch.Include Indian students as well.British citizens of indian origin don’t know our national anthem.Yes,some of them support our team.Maybe they shouldn’t.But the guys that booed Collingwood & made the sensitive guy weep were all indian & I don’t think there’s anything wrong with a few boos.
Hyperventilation is allright,but upto a certain extent.
“spanking them convincingly” sounds quite ridiculous.
A convincing spanking by the humongous margin of 3 runs,eh??
Thats englands first win against India in ANY form of cricket in more than 2 years.
Congratulations.
Ohh & yeah,the Indian team plays short-pitched bowling a lot better than the english team plays full pitched swing bowling.If the indian team had such problems against the bumpers,how did they win the last WC in SA & come 2nd in the 50 overs WC in the same country?
They batted against guys who’re much better bowlers than the funny-named Broad & Side-Bottom too.
Congrats in advance for your next 5 victories in any form of cricket against the Indians.
Clearly I won’t be congratulating you for a decade.
Nice to see you in a cheerful mood for once, Sunny! How are your world beaters in all forms of the game going today? Did Graeme Smith say something to irritate you too? Come on, let’s hear about it!
I am surprised Sunny could come up with such a large post even after India’s ignominious exit losing to all meaningful opposition. England is crap in limited overs cricket. But, the supporters of a team that loses to even England better shut up than trying to justify the loss citing the margin. Also, as already noted in Cricinfo, who decided that India are red hot favourites for the title? We have lost more than we have won after the last world cup. Sunny bhai, for once, let’s agree that other teams have outplayed, outthought and outsmarted us. No harm in losing if it brings back our team of world beaters back to earth.
IanJ:He said something that should irritate you.Smith said all cricket fans are heterosexual.
JII:You clearly haven’t read my post.I’m replying to you purely because you claim to be Indian.If the length of this post irritates you,perhaps it served its purpose-
1)I am not your bhai.Just because I’m Punjabi you start using vernacular.Southern mutts.LOL.Calling you JII ‘anna’ from now on.’SAAAAR’ maybe?
2)If you could understand the english language,perhaps you would have noticed that I don’t justify India’s loss.Why would I?They deserved to lose.I’m smacking the poms for getting their panties in a bunch when the indian fans booed them.
3)Also,if you think england gave us a ‘convincing spanking’,you don’t even warrant a response.
4)England is close to crap in the test format as well.They weren’t in the top 5 till their home win against the windies.
5)I didn’t say India were ‘red hot favourites’ either.Are you drunk?
& finally,
I agree with you that other teams ‘outplayed………. us’.
Just coz I think England suck,doesn’t mean I can’t see the limp performance of the indian team in this WC.
The ICC rankings exist for a purpose.When India get to #1,they become world-beaters in my book.
Maybe you should look at them once in a while before springing to the defence of the pathetic english cricket team.England meanwhile continue to suck at ALL FORMS OF THE GAME(in capitals to irritate IanJ).
Vnakkam JII.
I don’t know, Sunny, even if they were Indian nationals, I think booing the opposition is poor, whether you’re Indian, English, Australian or South African. Of course, the fans shouldn’t give the opposition an easy time, but that should really be done more by cheering your own team rather than booing the opposition just for turning up.
And if you’re gonig to say somethnig about the opposition, you should be able to at least come up with something a little wittier and less personal than “Booo!” Some of the banter from the WACA that’s directed at opposition state/international players can be really amusing.
Basically, I think a true cricket fan should be able to support one team, but still acknowledge good play from the other side with some good-natured applause. It may be a bit of an old-fashioned idea, but what’s wrong with wanting to keep cricket a gentleman’s game?
What Marcus said. When watching cricket, you get better fun and value for money if you appreciate what both teams do. It’s still easy to support one to win. I will be delighted to see something special from Mitchell Johnson, Phillip Hughes or several others at Edgbaston next month, but I still want the other team to beat them. Ricky? Sorry, there are limits.
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