[John_D]

Women's World Cup : Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:16 am  

Dramatic end to the England v Aus game, Australia sneaking it by 2 runs. The downside being the umpiring. Only two blokes on the field and they ruined it. Two lbw decisions that weren't hitting six stumps, let alone three. I don't know why they let men get involved in this game...

England looking a bit vulnerable if Edwards and/or Taylor don't fire with the bat and their destiny not now in their own hands

Re: Women's World Cup : Sun Feb 17, 2013 8:37 am  

I don't think I've ever seen 11 Australian women in the same place before and only fancied the one. What a set of munters.

Re: Women's World Cup : Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:59 am  

The Windies didn't exactly put up much resistance in the end, did they? Thought it was going to be over a bit earlier at one point.

[John_D]

Re: Women's World Cup : Wed Feb 20, 2013 11:30 am  

GT wrote:

The Windies didn't exactly put up much resistance in the end, did they? Thought it was going to be over a bit earlier at one point.

Aus got what they wanted in the final. I'm not for one minute suggesting they threw their final Super Six game, but to even allow that situation has to call the tournament format into question.
That's not griping because England would otherwise have made the final - they paid for stuffing up against Sri Lanka early on - but rather questioning the integrity of the competition.

Re: Women's World Cup : Wed Feb 20, 2013 1:47 pm  

I didn't want to be the one to say that.

It is a strange system and needs looking at. I've never been a fan of super-6 or super-8 style sections in tournaments.

[John_D]

Re: Women's World Cup : Thu Feb 21, 2013 9:01 am  

GT wrote:

It is a strange system and needs looking at. I've never been a fan of super-6 or super-8 style sections in tournaments.

It's uniquely cricket ain't it. Even UEFA scrapped a second group stage eventually. I've never been entirely sure what purpose it serves over straight knockout other than to give the bigger teams more chance of making the last four