Cricket: International Discussion Thread

Double ton for Shahidi. Well batted young man. Zim are going to have one hell of a task now. Still, looks like a batsman's paradise so they have every reason to be confident of playing long innings as well.
 
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No chance that Zimbabwe is coming back from this one. Big deficit to remove and two days of play remaining. Perhaps a draw is possible. Unlikely. Come on lads!
 
1st T20I (N), Ahmedabad, Mar 12 2021, England tour of India

6.30pm: England win the toss and bowl, Eoin Morgan keen to chase as always. "Last couple of nights at training there's been a bit of dew around," he says. England have gone with pace in their attack, Jofra Archer and Mark Wood included alongside Chris Jordan, Sam Curran and Adil Rashid. "Five consecutive games on this ground, it's probably going to turn and slow up as the series goes on, so that's a part of our game we want to work on," Morgan adds.

Virat Kohli also would have liked to bowl, saying dew could be "a massive factor in the second half". None of the new boys get a run out in this game, with Shreyas Iyer in the middle order and three spinners picked. No Rohit Sharma, he's resting, with KL Rahul and Shikhar Dhawan the openers. "We were looking to do something like this a couple of games into the series, where we bat first and test our bowlers with the dew factor," Kohli adds, "because heading into the World Cup this is the only time we have to test areas where we need to improve." No time like the present, Virat!

England: 1 Jason Roy, 2 Jos Buttler (wk), 3 Dawid Malan, 4 Jonny Bairstow, 5 Ben Stokes, 6 Eoin Morgan (captain), 7 Sam Curran, 8 Jofra Archer, 9 Chris Jordan, 10 Adil Rashid, 11 Mark Wood

India: 1 KL Rahul, 2 Shikhar Dhawan, 3 Virat Kohli (capt), 4 Shreyas Iyer, 5 Rishabh Pant (wk), 6 Hardik Pandya, 7 Axar Patel, 8 Washington Sundar, 9 Shardul Thakur, 10 Bhuvneshwar Kumar, 11 Yuzvendra Chahal
 
KL, Kohli, and Dhawan out.

Team Delhi Capitals (Iyer and Pant) to the rescue.
 
England hammered India by 8 wickets in the "hit and giggle" with 4 overs to spare.

But for 67 (48) from Iyer, India would have been horribly embarrassed.
 
India Legends
Virender Sehwag, Sachin Tendulkar(c), S Badrinath, Yuvraj Singh, Yusuf Pathan, Irfan Pathan, Naman Ojha(w), Manpreet Gony, Vinay Kumar, Pragyan Ojha, Munaf Patel


South Africa Legends
Andrew Puttick, Morne van Wyk(w), Alviro Petersen, Jonty Rhodes(c), Loots Bosman, Zander de Bruyn, Roger Telemachus, Garnett Kruger, Thandi Tshabalala, Monde Zondeki, Makhaya Ntini

South Africa Legends opt to bowl
 
Zondeki to Badrinath, SIX, slogged agriculturally .. premeditating a slower one that Zondeki feeds in the slot, and quickly goes one-kneed to heave it flat over cow corner
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Do the farmers appreciate this phrase? :unsure:
 
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