The ICC T20 World Cup 2016 thread

Arthur said:
Good question.

My own view is we shouldn't make too much of things like World Cups. These global title tournaments are a recent invention, designed mainly for TV in order to extract more money for the professional bureaucrats who make a living off the sports/wo/men. It's all done through, with and in the media, and in my view it's overhyped, overblown and overwrought.

Cricket has a venerable history that long antedates tournies like World Cups. It's the tours and tests that are the mainstay that keeps us entertained.

Personally, I'm not much impressed by World Cup titles. The games are fun, of course. But I quickly forget about World Cups in any sport.

What do we have to show for it, you ask? Plentsh fun & games. World Cup titles? Don't matter to me.
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Cricket world cup has been around since 1975, would hardly call that recent.

I view like this to use a football anology tests are like the league while world cups are like the champions league. Both equally important but the best side doesn't always in the cl while the best side always wins the league.

Our players lack bmt for world cup/knockout tournaments till they solve that hurdle they won't win a world cup.
 
SinghDude said:
Yeah....few necessary changes needed.....I was surprised with Willey....did really well opening. I have no idea why Jordan is in the team....not good enough IMO.
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Poor Jordan the only West Indian in the final not to receive a winners medal.
 
I love how the WI snatched the game from the English. Much better way to win than a straight forward one sided affair.
 
That was some hitting from Brathwaite in the final over. Like Sammy said they believe they have 15 match winners. I am glad that they won without any contribution from Gayle. Marlon Samuels stood up when the team really needed him with a mature innings. The bowlers did a good thing restricting the english to 155.
 
The English must be gutted. Game was won until the last over.

Stokes will spend the next 2 years thinking about where he should've placed those 4 balls.
 
I remember watching Australia playing an odi at world cup 2011 and they had Shaun Tait , Mitchell Johnson and Brett Lee in their team that day. The three men could easily bowl +145km/hr and were all fast bowlers not fast medium.

Morgan should have used the black guy to bowl the last over or Willey.

If you have 8 batsmen and three +145 bowlers at the 20/20 WC its only upto to you not to win the title.
 
WaxLyrical said:
The English must be gutted. Game was won until the last over.

Stokes will spend the next 2 years thinking about where he should've placed those 4 balls.
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It's only going to be once every 4 years from now on. So the next T20 World Cup is in 2020. The next 50 over World Cup is in 2019. So quite a large break.
 
I think this stat sums up this World T20. Win the toss and you had a huge advantage.

18-5 Win-loss record for teams that won the toss since the start of the Super 10s. The two semi-finals and the final were all won by the teams which won the toss and chose to chase. The five matches where teams won the toss and lost the game were Afghanistan v Sri Lanka, Bangladesh v India, Sri Lanka v England, West Indies v Afghanistan, and Australia v India. When captains decided to bat first, they had an 8-2 win-loss record, while in chases their record was 10-3. In the qualifiers, though, the teams winning the toss had a 3-7 record. The overall tournament record of 21-12 for teams winning the toss was still the best among all World T20s.
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If you look deeper, it's only these three matches out of the 23 that went against the grain where the team winning the toss did not win the game:

Sri Lanka v England, West Indies v Afghanistan, and Australia v India
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In the other two matches (Afghanistan v Sri Lanka, Bangladesh v India), India and Sri Lanka were clear favourites and the toss doesn't matter much. The West Indies vs Afghanistan match is a big anomaly though.


http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-world-twenty20-2016/content/story/995259.html
 
CRICINFO's Team of the tournament...

1. Mohammad Shahzad (wk) - 222 runs, 140.50 strike rate
The Afghanistan opener's pugnacious hitting played an important role in his team making the Super 10s, where his assault on a hapless South African attack was one of the most memorable moments of the tournament. Shahzad may not be the sprightliest fielder so he'll take the wicketkeeping gloves.

2. Kane Williamson (capt) - 123 runs, 105.12 strike rate
Won all his tosses in the group stage, read pitches with precision, was ballsy enough to leave out Tim Southee and Trent Boult, and scored his runs in the toughest batting conditions any team had to face. Under Williamson's leadership, New Zealand were the best side in the Super 10 group stage, until they lost the semi-final to England. He's here for his captaincy - was a poor tournament for captains, wasn't it? - having just pipped Jason Roy to the second opener's slot. You can't pick a player who didn't captain in the tournament as captain, can you?

3. Virat Kohli - 273 runs, 136.50 average, 146.77 strike rate
Fearsome numbers. So far above his team-mates. Master of the chase. Let's move on.

4. Joe Root - 249 runs, 146.47 strike rate
Runs batting first, and runs batting second. Elegant runs, and fast runs. Stunning catch to turn a must-win group game, and two wickets in an over in the final. He did everything England could have asked of him.

5. Jos Buttler - 191 runs, 159.16 strike rate
Activate beast mode, and there are few more fearsome batsmen at the moment than Buttler. With him at the crease, England can score anything.

6. Andre Russell - 91 runs, 142.18 strike rate; 9 wickets, 7.87 economy
Smashes the ball as hard and far as anyone, bowls a brisk pace, and is swift on the field. Dumped favourites India out of the tournament. Russell now has a second World T20 title, to go with his IPL, BBL, BPL, PSL and CPL trophies.

7. Carlos Brathwaite - 57 runs, 203.57 strike rate; 4 wickets, 8.05 economy rate
Six. Six. Six. Six. "Carlos Brathwaite! Carlos Brathwaite! Remember the name!" roared Ian Bishop. "History for the West Indies."

8. Mitchell Santner - 10 wickets, 6.27 economy rate
Bamboozled India. Was an integral part of New Zealand's unbeaten run in the group stage, taking key wickets and curbing the run rate. Santner's left-arm spin helped him edge Ish Sodhi out of the XI, because another legspinner had no rival.

9. Samuel Badree - 9 wickets, 5.39 economy rate
A legspinner who barely turns his legbreak. Deadly accurate. Often bowled in the Powerplay. Delivered in every game.

10. Mustafizur Rahman - 9 wickets, 9.55 average, 7.16 economy rate
Slower cutter, faster cutter, fuller cutter, shorter cutter. The Fizz foxed them all. A shining light in a dark campaign.

11. Ashish Nehra - 5 wickets, 5.94 economy rate.
Took 1 for 20 three times, worst figures of 1 for 29, and went for only 1 for 24 when West Indies were pulverizing India at the ****hede. Bowling during the fielding restrictions, 36-year old Nehra used all his smarts to escape a thrashing. David Willey lost out by one vote.
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