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<p>Kohli was superb - you can't really say Aus bowled badly but Kohli was nailing yorkers with no problem. The 6 he hit over wide long off from Faulkner was astonishing - he wasn't in position, it was a good slower ball but his wrists adjusted and sent it 86m. Very few batsmen are good enough to do that. </p>
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<p>Kohli was superb - you can't really say Aus bowled badly but Kohli was nailing yorkers with no problem. The 6 he hit over wide long off from Faulkner was astonishing - he wasn't in position, it was a good slower ball but his wrists adjusted and sent it 86m. Very few batsmen are good enough to do that. </p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px;">Yeah, he was doing things with technique and skill that nobody else achieved on that wicket. He's actually the blueprint that Kane could emulate I reckon</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:12px;">You had to be watching but Sunny Gavaskar cast aside all pretenses at being impartial at the end and was just about yelling with glee - gave the other commentator, Slater, hardly any talk time</span></p> -
<p>Australia never really sorted out what its best batting combo is. Added to that, Warner and Smith had pretty poor tournaments with the bat - one good score between them. Nonetheless, it's good to see them gone.</p>
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<p>It's a bit of a crapshoot, but I think we've probably got the best allround bowling and fielding team. So we mainly need the batsmen to post a competitive total and the opposition not to have a batsman who goes beserk.</p> -
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<p>Fffffuckin spot on Bevan!<br>
Nice work.<br><br>
If we don't win it, it's gotta be the Windies. Fuck the other two.</p>
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<p>Damn right, cricket is better when they are strong. I've never had a major issue with the English cricket team ( unlike their other codes ) so they'd be third followed by India. Seeing them get all rabid would be extremely hard to take. Would be great if Darren Sammy and the boys could knock them over ( good old Sammy has done fuck all as a player this tourney, he's basically a specialist captain )</p>
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<p>Australia threatened as they always do but it's obviously a huge relief to see them pack their bags.</p>
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<p>I heard on the Radio this will be the BCs fifth different venue in as many games, whether that is an advantage or disadvantage is anyones fucken guess.</p> -
<p>Another advantage for England, thier women play on same pitch immediately before tonights game, no doubt will give a good pitch report to mens team.</p>
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<p>btw the pitch report showed an unusual pitch, pretty dry and green, but with plenty of cracks.</p>
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<p>I'm mildly worried that Morgan will have his 1 in 20 decent inings & take to the spinners while Butler takes 30 off one over from Anderson. But even then I assuming Kane will serenely guide us home. Probably with Satner looking more & more like Danny than ever.</p>
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<p>England are pigshit v spin (bar Root). So we should just open up with that.</p> -
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<p>England won the toss and will bowl.</p>
<p style="font-family:tahoma, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);"><b>England</b>1 Jason Roy, 2 Alex Hales, 3 Joe Root, 4 Jos Buttler (wk), 5 Eoin Morgan (capt), 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Adil Rashid, 9 Chris Jordan, 10 David Willey, 11 Liam Plunkett.</p>
<p style="font-family:tahoma, arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);"><b>New Zealand</b> 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Kane Williamson (capt), 3 Colin Munro, 4 Corey Anderson, 5 Ross Taylor, 6 Grant Elliott, 7 Luke Ronchi (wk), 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Adam Milne, 10 Ish Sodhi, 11 Mitchell McClenaghan</p> -
<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Glath" data-cid="568488" data-time="1459343855"><p>England won the toss and will bowl.<br><strong>England</strong>1 Jason Roy, 2 Alex Hales, 3 Joe Root, 4 Jos Buttler (wk), 5 Eoin Morgan (capt), 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Moeen Ali, 8 Adil Rashid, 9 Chris Jordan, 10 David Willey, 11 Liam Plunkett.<br><strong>New Zealand</strong> 1 Martin Guptill, 2 Kane Williamson (capt), 3 Colin Munro, 4 Corey Anderson, 5 Ross Taylor, 6 Grant Elliott, 7 Luke Ronchi (wk), 8 Mitchell Santner, 9 Adam Milne, 10 Ish Sodhi, 11 Mitchell McClenaghan</p></blockquote>strong lineup
