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Ireland (157) shock England (105/5) to win by 5 runs DLS in Group 1 encounter

Never seen this England line up go on the back foot and try to rebuild an innings. Excellent bowling by the Irish
 
The pitches are good in this tournament holding batsman like Babar-Riz will become more important as tournament goes on.
 
Brook is a loss but fully expect Moeen, Livingstone or Malan to motor. This is not a big chase with wickets on hand? Woakes too
 
Xoib said:
The pitches are good in this tournament holding batsman like Babar-Riz will become more important as tournament goes on.
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How ? They can’t handle swing and bounce from 130 kph from bhuvi
 
Xoib said:
The pitches are good in this tournament holding batsman like Babar-Riz will become more important as tournament goes on.
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I agree with you. I know majority of this forum only sees "hit hit , six six" but 160 -170 will be good enough on most occasions with a good bowling attack.
 
Asif321 said:
How ? They can’t handle swing and bounce from 130 kph from bhuvi
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It's one game, they have handled well such bowlers in the past and will continue to do so 8 times out of 10.

Whats for sure hacks like Asif-Khusdil are surplus to the requirement here
 
Dont care much about this group. But a low level teaming beating top nation is always a good feeling.
 
Moeen should bat at 4. He has been in very good touch but as usual he is being underused
Poor from England management.
 
Such a poor show for world cricket. 1% of a 100k stadium is full
 
The upsets continue in this tournament. Ireland have this if they can't get back on.
 
The players must be back on by 18.56 local, 8.56 BST

Utterly ridiculous scheduling. Back to back on same ground??

England shafted
 
God’s an Irishman. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 are coming back into it and rain starts hammering down… Duckbill Platypus could strike again!
 
Nikhil_cric said:
When there's that level of swing, Indian bowlers are extremely lethal.

They destroyed Buttler and Co. earlier this summer as well with massive swing.
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Yeah they don't get it.

Whats most are unable to register is India had the better of the bowling conditions by a large margin yet they barely scraped through on the heroics of one man and some last over chokage.

Paksitan actually played a great game given loss of toss was a significant disadvantage.
 
Xoib said:
The pitches are good in this tournament holding batsman like Babar-Riz will become more important as tournament goes on.
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We have seen the importance of building an innings in this WC. Kohli was 12 off 21 at one point setting himself and the team up to go big in the later overs. Even England trying to rebuild today
 
Big set back for England . They played poor but would have most likely won this
 
SpiritOf1903 said:
The players must be back on by 18.56 local, 8.56 BST


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Nope. There was rain predicted before the game. England won toss and chased . They were behind on the dls. If they lose too bad- they knew what needed to be done to stay ahead on Dls
 
This is on England's management. Moeen should bat at 4 or maybe at 5
Harry brook is just a rookie and he struggled against Afghanistan as well. Moeen was the obvious choice at 5.
 
Well played Ireland. Well deserved win. Moeen's wicket and it was game over for England.
 
Aussies will rejoice. Lankans too. NZ game will probably be impacted too.
 
Oh what happend to the super-duper powerhitters?
 
These pitches are good for cricket promotion.
This group is very exciting as well.
Hopefully other teams upset India as well.
 
Another upset and another rain hit game robbing clear favorites from winning. Pak-Ind game ek taraf baaqi poora tournament ek taraf.
 
Asif321 said:
England have to beat nz and Australia now
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Beating Australia might be enough given Australia's poor NRR.
Also NZ vs Afghan has high chance of being a washout today and NZ will be playing Lanka at scg. No team is safe yet in the group.
 
And England keep making mistake of keeping Moeen Ali down the order
 
England being a good team always has trouble against Ireland. Well deserve win.
 
IAJ said:
And England keep making mistake of keeping Moeen Ali down the order
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Moeen can't handle bounce and swing. Can't play short ball either. His best is against spin and batting order is fine.
 
Buttler-Mott era has been quite underwhelming so far.

Why would you hide Livingstone at 7?
 
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Xoib said:
Yeah they don't get it.

Whats most are unable to register is India had the better of the bowling conditions by a large margin yet they barely scraped through on the heroics of one man and some last over chokage.

Paksitan actually played a great game given loss of toss was a significant disadvantage.
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I wouldn't say its a significant advantage- not like chasing in Dubai. Thd wicket itself offered help for the bowlers even if the swing reduced.

But yes . Toss did play a part in India's win. No denying that.
 
'Hugely significant win'

Eoin Morgan says: "You look back at the upsets in Irish cricketing history and this is right up there.

"The England team they were playing today is one of the most talented and versatile T20 teams we've ever put out so hugely significant win for Andy Balbirnie and his team.

"They've completely out-bowled and out-played England. They've been brilliant."

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Ireland have caused one of the biggest upsets in the history of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup by registering a five-run victory (DLS method) over England in Melbourne on Wednesday.

Melbourne's fickle weather halts England's progress

England were unable to gather much momentum during their chase of Ireland's decent total of 157 and will rue the fact they were five runs short of the par score when the rain hit late at the MCG.

The equation was 53 required from 33 deliveries when the players left the field and both teams would have been thinking they were well placed for victory when the heavens opened.

Classy all-rounders Moeen Ali (24*) and Liam Livingstone (1*) had just started to find the boundary with ease, while Ireland knew they were well placed and only had to hold their nerve to prevail.


Joy for Balbirnie and Ireland

It was a well-deserved victory for Ireland and skipper Andy Balbirnie has to take much of the credit following his quickfire 62 from just 47 deliveries and some inspired bowling changes in reply.

Perhaps on a high after his brilliant half-century, Balbirnie rotated his bowlers expertly and England's top-class batting line-up was never able to gather any momentum.

Pacer Josh Little (2/16) did the damage with the new ball by removing both Jos Buttler (0) and Alex Hales (7), while Fionn Hand (1/17) bowled well in his first appearance at the tournament.


Still hope for England

The good news for England is they can still recover and reach the semi-finals, but the bad news is they are likely to have to defeat reigning champions Australia at the MCG on Friday if they are to do so.

Friday's game looms to be a crucial encounter that will help shape the make-up of the final four and England will be hoping for an improved performance with both bat and ball.

None of their batters handled the MCG pitch well, while Livingstone (3/17) and fellow all-rounder Sam Curran (2/30) were arguably the pick of the bowlers.

Speedster Mark Wood (3/34) was expensive early as he consistently hit speeds greater than 150km/h and his match-up against David Warner, Aaron Finch and Co on Friday will be pivotal to the outcome of that clash.


Where to now?

While the loss by England was the major talking point to come out of the match, it would be unfair to Ireland not to mention how they now sit on their own road to a possible semi-final berth.

Ireland's net run rate is poor (-1.068), but the improving European side are now level on points with England and still in contention to pick up their own spot in the final four.

Their next game is against Afghanistan - also at the MCG on Friday - and that is a winnable contest for the Irish should they play with the same conviction they showed on Wednesday.

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What went wrong for England?

Captain Jos Buttler: "Especially in the first 10 overs with the ball, I thought we were poor. We were a long way short of where we needed to be and we let Ireland get away.

"I just don't think we were consistent enough. We let them score both sides of the wicket. There were some favourable conditions and we had everything in our favour. We won the toss electing to field knowing there was this weather was around but we didn't take advantage of that.

"Ireland outplayed us. The better team won today. We made a mistake here which has put even more pressure on us in a tough group but if you needed a game to get up for it, a must-win game, England and Australia at the MCG is certainly one of those."
 
England took Ireland to lightly and paid the price, They new the rain is around but still batted to slowly.
 
MenInG said:
Ireland have caused one of the biggest upsets in the history of the ICC Men's T20 World Cup by registering a five-run victory (DLS method) over England in Melbourne on Wednesday.

Melbourne's fickle weather halts England's progress

England were unable to gather much momentum during their chase of Ireland's decent total of 157 and will rue the fact they were five runs short of the par score when the rain hit late at the MCG.

The equation was 53 required from 33 deliveries when the players left the field and both teams would have been thinking they were well placed for victory when the heavens opened.

Classy all-rounders Moeen Ali (24*) and Liam Livingstone (1*) had just started to find the boundary with ease, while Ireland knew they were well placed and only had to hold their nerve to prevail.


Joy for Balbirnie and Ireland

It was a well-deserved victory for Ireland and skipper Andy Balbirnie has to take much of the credit following his quickfire 62 from just 47 deliveries and some inspired bowling changes in reply.

Perhaps on a high after his brilliant half-century, Balbirnie rotated his bowlers expertly and England's top-class batting line-up was never able to gather any momentum.

Pacer Josh Little (2/16) did the damage with the new ball by removing both Jos Buttler (0) and Alex Hales (7), while Fionn Hand (1/17) bowled well in his first appearance at the tournament.


Still hope for England

The good news for England is they can still recover and reach the semi-finals, but the bad news is they are likely to have to defeat reigning champions Australia at the MCG on Friday if they are to do so.

Friday's game looms to be a crucial encounter that will help shape the make-up of the final four and England will be hoping for an improved performance with both bat and ball.

None of their batters handled the MCG pitch well, while Livingstone (3/17) and fellow all-rounder Sam Curran (2/30) were arguably the pick of the bowlers.

Speedster Mark Wood (3/34) was expensive early as he consistently hit speeds greater than 150km/h and his match-up against David Warner, Aaron Finch and Co on Friday will be pivotal to the outcome of that clash.


Where to now?

While the loss by England was the major talking point to come out of the match, it would be unfair to Ireland not to mention how they now sit on their own road to a possible semi-final berth.

Ireland's net run rate is poor (-1.068), but the improving European side are now level on points with England and still in contention to pick up their own spot in the final four.

Their next game is against Afghanistan - also at the MCG on Friday - and that is a winnable contest for the Irish should they play with the same conviction they showed on Wednesday.

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Highlights

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Well done to the BIG. A shame that it didn't go to the end, could have been a close match.
 
What a farce ! it is Eng can do Italy of 2010 by holing out from group stage ridiculous divine help for Australia Event Organisers need to be lashed from MCG to Geelong :133:
 
2019 50 overs World Cup had 4 out of first 18 games that had no result and there were rain shortened games too.

But then the tournament picked up after that. Hopefully, this tournament will too.
 
Nikhil_cric said:
2019 50 overs World Cup had 4 out of first 18 games that had no result and there were rain shortened games too.

But then the tournament picked up after that. Hopefully, this tournament will too.
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Problem is, rest of the tournament has rain forecast written all over. We may even see teams getting knocked out because of rain
 
Melbourne forecast is pretty bad on friday as well. Hope Eng vs Aus is full 20 overs match.
 
T20 games are not one sided anymore.The lower ranked teams are playing good cricket so top teams shouldn’t take any game for granted.The weather is going to be a big factor to decide who goes to the next round
 
light said:
Problem is, rest of the tournament has rain forecast written all over. We may even see teams getting knocked out because of rain
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Can't complain if we atleast get shortened games like England - Ireland. But yeah , if more matches end up with a no result outcome, will be a bummer
 
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