: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:22 pm  

If the women win the final that will be 2 world cups in a few months,surely they'll be the team of the year in the BBC sports awards later on this year.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:52 pm  

Lord_Percy wrote:

So rubbish they beat Pakistan?

and lost to the mighty Holland.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 8:06 pm  

OrdsallRed wrote:

I don't think England showed any lack of passion at all, far from it at times watching Broad and Sidebottom.

What they did show was a massive lack of a batting game plan throughout the tournament which did for them in the end...and with Pakistan managing to get to the Final it just goes to show that if we'd have performed with the bat then it really was wide open for us.

Agreed.

We didn't lack effort or passion, we lacked runs and big hitters in the middle-lower order.

Our whole tournament was summed up from about over 11 until we had batted 19.4 overs against the West Indies in the Super Eights when we hadn't hit one boundary in that period!

Simply not good enough in this form of the game.

: Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:32 pm  

While I find it hard to get too worked up about T20, win or lose, I do think the overwhelming focus on The Ashes we have in England may well be to the detriment of the team.

It's almost as if nothing else matters, as soon as we lost the last series comment seemed to turn to this series, with everything in between as an afterthought. Yes the Ashes are prized by the Ockers too, but they don't make it the be all and end all, and seem to have a more focused, professional attitude to all their series' and opponents.

: Sat Jun 20, 2009 10:55 am  

Asim wrote:

While I find it hard to get too worked up about T20, win or lose, I do think the overwhelming focus on The Ashes we have in England may well be to the detriment of the team.

It's almost as if nothing else matters, as soon as we lost the last series comment seemed to turn to this series, with everything in between as an afterthought. Yes the Ashes are prized by the Ockers too, but they don't make it the be all and end all, and seem to have a more focused, professional attitude to all their series' and opponents.

Thats been a problem since 2005 when we won it over here.

Since then the players seem to have struggled to get themselves up for any other test series and have paid the price. They'll be bang up for this series coming up but that doesn't mean they'll get the win because they're up against a side that'll be determined to prove a few people wrong who've wrote them off.

I think KP is the prime example of this. He's the best batsman in the world quite easily imo but he just doesn't seem to be able to get pumped up 95% of the time and looks to have been waiting for this Ashes series to some round for about 2 years now.

He'll hit mountains of runs imo.

: Sat Jun 20, 2009 11:35 am  

we could get another 5-nil win

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:04 am  

NickyKiss wrote:

I think KP is the prime example of this. He's the best batsman in the world quite easily imo but he just doesn't seem to be able to get pumped up 95% of the time and looks to have been waiting for this Ashes series to some round for about 2 years now.

He'll hit mountains of runs imo.

The best batsmen in the world don't just perform when they want to, they do it all the time...ie Ponting, Jayawardene, Tendulkar, Chanderpaul to name but 4...KP has almost all the attributes to be the best batsman in the world but his concentration/decision-making at times stop him getting to the very top spot...in my opinion of course.

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:05 am  

The england women are paggering the kiwis

[Kosh]

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:51 am  

MrPhilb wrote:

The england women are paggering the kiwis

Superb performance so far.

: Sun Jun 21, 2009 3:29 pm  

Did Sri Lanka do well to pull their innings around, or did Pakistan just remember their instructions from the bookies?

Looked bleak for SL early doors but I think they'll do it now.