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[JSRAW]

Hilarious! Rain is playing spoilsport in USA vs Ireland match which is good news for Pakistan while it's bad news for the Americans who were probably focusing on comfortably winning this one.

So damn annoying whenever rain interrupts important matches like this one, India vs Pakistan etc.

Rain interrupting the match is not good news for Pakistan.

If this match sees a complete washout then USA will get 1 free point and they will automatically qualify for the Super 8 with 5 points. Pakistan can only reach 4 points (only 1 match left) so they would like this match to continue without any delay and hope the USA loses.

[Haunebu]

Rain just helped USA secure entry into the Super 8 which is epic for them considering this is their first World Cup tournament while Pakistan got knocked out officially. Their politics keep messing them up again and again.

Also, NZ decimated Uganda though it was too late while Nepal just choked against the almighty chokers(South Africa).

Rain interrupting the match is not good news for Pakistan.

Yeah. I miscalculated and realised later on that Pakistan would get screwed by rain.

[jasonjm]

Rain just helped USA secure entry into the Super 8 which is epic for them considering this is their first World Cup tournament while Pakistan got knocked out officially. Their politics keep messing them up again and again.

Also, NZ decimated Uganda though it was too late while Nepal just choked against the almighty chokers(South Africa).

The USA team did exceptionally well to reach Super 8 considering this was their first ever T20 World Cup appearance. Pakistan panicked against the USA team and lost the match. They also put India under pressure, but thanks to India's strong middle order, they won comfortably, in the end.
New Zealand's win doesn't mean anything now and South Africa choked against Nepal. SA's top order is out of form and their middle is winning them matches.

Rain interrupting the match is not good news for Pakistan.

Yeah. I miscalculated and realised later on that Pakistan would get screwed by rain.

Pakistan screwed themselves. They lost against the USA when 12 runs were needed on 3 balls. And against India, they required 47 runs on 47 balls, and their middle order choked. The USA might have won against Ireland if they played the match. 

[JSRAW]

Read someone saying (don't remember which thread) in the gist that Proteas might roll over in the Super 8 group because they fumbled against the likes of Bangladesh and Nepal and were about to lose if their opponents kept their nerves in check.

While it's true but IMO it could be a blessing in disguise for them because they got tested enough in the group matches and sometimes it's good practice before big encounters, unlike others who got an easy outing.

[Haunebu]

Another potentially entertaining match got washed out thanks to rain. ICC are seriously shit at scheduling big tournaments and this will probably never change.

Read someone saying (don't remember which thread) in the gist that Proteas might roll over in the Super 8 group because they fumbled against the likes of Bangladesh and Nepal and were about to lose if their opponents kept their nerves in check.

While it's true but IMO it could be a blessing in disguise for them because they got tested enough in the group matches and sometimes it's good practice before big encounters, unlike others who got an easy outing.

Agreed. They were quite lucky against several teams and clawed their way to the super 8 which is why I am hoping for their luck to continue for as long as possible. Fingers crossed and hoping for the best.

[Alone055]

For the first time in cricket history, Pakistan and New Zealand wouldn't be a part of the Super Eight stage of a World Cup contest.   This is surprising and saddening at the same time. The competition would have been tougher and more enjoyable if these teams could make it, but what can be said? Their performances weren't up to the mark and the teams that have advanced deserved it without a doubt.

[libert19]

For the first time in cricket history, Pakistan and New Zealand wouldn't be a part of the Super Eight stage of a World Cup contest.   This is surprising and saddening at the same time. The competition would have been tougher and more enjoyable if these teams could make it, but what can be said? Their performances weren't up to the mark and the teams that have advanced deserved it without a doubt.

Some bad performances for sure but I would have liked it better had matches weren't spoiled by rain and fair advancement happened.

ICC needs to look into this 'abandoned due to rain' matter and find some alternative, it's world cup and matches are getting abandoned, it just doesn't look right IMO.

[LDL]

For the first time in cricket history, Pakistan and New Zealand wouldn't be a part of the Super Eight stage of a World Cup contest.   This is surprising and saddening at the same time. The competition would have been tougher and more enjoyable if these teams could make it, but what can be said? Their performances weren't up to the mark and the teams that have advanced deserved it without a doubt.

Some bad performances for sure but I would have liked it better had matches weren't spoiled by rain and fair advancement happened.

ICC needs to look into this 'abandoned due to rain' matter and find some alternative, it's world cup and matches are getting abandoned, it just doesn't look right IMO.

A number of teams have been unwittingly benefited by the abandonment of several matches in this year's ICC Men's T20 World Cup, particularly the USA this time as rain ended Pakistan's chances of qualifying for the Super Eight.
Moreover, most of the matches in the hosting country are being abandoned only because of rain, thus the whole image of the World Cup is being spoiled and the attraction of watching the match is gradually decreasing. Therefore, the ICC authorities have to decide whether to take any alternative measures without abandoning it due to rain, otherwise the attraction of the spectators to the World Cup matches will continue to decrease.

[Farhan99]

For the first time in cricket history, Pakistan and New Zealand wouldn't be a part of the Super Eight stage of a World Cup contest.   This is surprising and saddening at the same time. The competition would have been tougher and more enjoyable if these teams could make it, but what can be said? Their performances weren't up to the mark and the teams that have advanced deserved it without a doubt.

Scotland gave the big target of 180 runs against Australia excellent batting by McMullen played 60 runs inning Scotland gave the highest target by an association nation in T20 World Cup history against Kangaroos. The Australian team is on the way to chasing the big target they had lost their three wickets on just 86 runs in 12 overs travis head with 46 runs on the crease and Australia winning hope was alive they needed 95 runs in the last 8 overs. I think this is do or die match for Scotland's team if they won they would be in the Super Eight while in case of loss England's team would qualify because their run rate is much better than Scotland's Australian team already qualified for the Super Eight. Scotland bowlers need to take the wickets to put more pressure on Australia batsmen.

[jasonjm]

For the first time in cricket history, Pakistan and New Zealand wouldn't be a part of the Super Eight stage of a World Cup contest.   This is surprising and saddening at the same time. The competition would have been tougher and more enjoyable if these teams could make it, but what can be said? Their performances weren't up to the mark and the teams that have advanced deserved it without a doubt.

Scotland gave the big target of 180 runs against Australia excellent batting by McMullen played 60 runs inning Scotland gave the highest target by an association nation in T20 World Cup history against Kangaroos. The Australian team is on the way to chasing the big target they had lost their three wickets on just 86 runs in 12 overs travis head with 46 runs on the crease and Australia winning hope was alive they needed 95 runs in the last 8 overs. I think this is do or die match for Scotland's team if they won they would be in the Super Eight while in case of loss England's team would qualify because their run rate is much better than Scotland's Australian team already qualified for the Super Eight. Scotland bowlers need to take the wickets to put more pressure on Australia batsmen.

Australia won the match by 5 wickets. Scotland gave a decent target of 181 runs, but the Australians were too good for their bowling attack. They put pressure on Aussies batters in the first 10 overs of their innings, but Head and Stoinis steered them toward victory. England qualified for the Super 8 after Scotland's defeat. I feel for the Scottish players, they played exceptionally well against Australia, especially McMullen. He played an entertaining inning of 60 runs. 

[Haunebu]

Scotland screwed up themselves by dropping some game-changing catches. Head was dropped on 15 or something and he went to score 60+ runs. They really need to improve their fielding.

Anyway, England went through to the super 8 thanks to Australia and all spots are filled except for Bangladesh/Netherlands for the final spot which Bangladesh should take pretty comfortably.

[Unknown Op]

For the first time in cricket history, Pakistan and New Zealand wouldn't be a part of the Super Eight stage of a World Cup contest.   This is surprising and saddening at the same time. The competition would have been tougher and more enjoyable if these teams could make it, but what can be said? Their performances weren't up to the mark and the teams that have advanced deserved it without a doubt.

Scotland gave the big target of 180 runs against Australia excellent batting by McMullen played 60 runs inning Scotland gave the highest target by an association nation in T20 World Cup history against Kangaroos. The Australian team is on the way to chasing the big target they had lost their three wickets on just 86 runs in 12 overs travis head with 46 runs on the crease and Australia winning hope was alive they needed 95 runs in the last 8 overs. I think this is do or die match for Scotland's team if they won they would be in the Super Eight while in case of loss England's team would qualify because their run rate is much better than Scotland's Australian team already qualified for the Super Eight. Scotland bowlers need to take the wickets to put more pressure on Australia batsmen.

Australia won the match by 5 wickets. Scotland gave a decent target of 181 runs, but the Australians were too good for their bowling attack. They put pressure on Aussies batters in the first 10 overs of their innings, but Head and Stoinis steered them toward victory. England qualified for the Super 8 after Scotland's defeat. I feel for the Scottish players, they played exceptionally well against Australia, especially McMullen. He played an entertaining inning of 60 runs. 

Great match was played today both sqauds Scotland and Australia sqaud both squads created many trouble and displayed superb performance with each other but victory always goes to one sqaud and this time, Australia squad emerged big victorious because Scotland managed big scores Defeating target for Australian sqaud. After losing this match Scotland squad against Australia squad, Scotland squad is no more available in this competition and also eliminated from this next round of Super Eight. Their is very tough competition among these sqauds England and Scotland sqaud but Scotland sqaud performance is much better than Scotland squad both have equal points 5 but and both squads played same number of matches but these sqauds have major difference in their runs rate and if Scotland squad emerged victory in this match with high runs rate so their squad have chance do qualification but now this is not possible.

[Haunebu]

Pakistan truly didn't deserve to go to the super 8 stage after almost losing against Ireland whose target was so small. On the other hand, Bangladesh were brilliant against Nepal even though they provided a small target.

All super 8 slots have been filled and I am really excited primarily for West Indies vs Afghanistan tomorrow. Here we go!

[Bitcoin_people]

In today's match Bangladesh team won against Nepal even with a small target which was interesting. Although Nepal could have beaten the Bangladesh team if they had batted well but they failed to beat Bangladesh due to which the Bangladesh team managed to fill the void in the Super Eight. If Nepal team could have won then maybe Bangladesh team would not have qualified but since Bangladesh won they got chance to play. If the Bangladesh team lost in today's match then there was a possibility of going to the Sri Lankan team but the Bangladesh team took advantage of the opportunity and they successfully went to the Super Eight. But the next round match against Bangladesh with Australia is sure to be more exciting and interesting.

[JSRAW]

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All super 8 slots have been filled and I am really excited primarily for West Indies vs Afghanistan tomorrow. Here we go!

I didn't watch many matches from Windies's leg so not sure what to expect from our team, i guess a lot of it will depend on the pitch. There we had some low scoring matches where you have spin friendly wickets and then some 180-200 run pitches.

Windies will definitely have a massive home advantage, but Afghans will also give tough fights to everyone because if i am not wrong, their matches are scheduled at spin track.

[cryptoWODL]

In today's match Bangladesh team won against Nepal even with a small target which was interesting. Although Nepal could have beaten the Bangladesh team if they had batted well but they failed to beat Bangladesh due to which the Bangladesh team managed to fill the void in the Super Eight. If Nepal team could have won then maybe Bangladesh team would not have qualified but since Bangladesh won they got chance to play. If the Bangladesh team lost in today's match then there was a possibility of going to the Sri Lankan team but the Bangladesh team took advantage of the opportunity and they successfully went to the Super Eight. But the next round match against Bangladesh with Australia is sure to be more exciting and interesting.

Today's match was incredible to watch especially I was impressed by the bowling performance of both the teams.When the Nepal team was bowling against Bangladesh, their bowlers regularly took Bangladesh wickets against the opposition. As a result Bangladesh team got all out against Nepal with very few runs. None of the Bangladeshi batsmen could bat very well against the Nepalese cricket team. Bangladesh's opening batsman Tanjid Hasan Tamim was dismissed for 0 runs.

We might have been afraid that the Nepalese team might win today given their brilliant bowling performance against Bangladesh. However, when Nepal team needed 22 runs from 12 balls to win, Mustafizur Rahman played an incredible role. In the 19th over, Mustafizur Rahman picked up a wicket for no runs which knocked the Nepal team out of the game completely. Shakib Al Hasan put the final nail in Nepal's coffin by coming to the over, i.e. he took two wickets in the last over and bowled out Nepal.

[Nalain420]

For the first time in cricket history, Pakistan and New Zealand wouldn't be a part of the Super Eight stage of a World Cup contest.   This is surprising and saddening at the same time. The competition would have been tougher and more enjoyable if these teams could make it, but what can be said? Their performances weren't up to the mark and the teams that have advanced deserved it without a doubt.

Scotland gave the big target of 180 runs against Australia excellent batting by McMullen played 60 runs inning Scotland gave the highest target by an association nation in T20 World Cup history against Kangaroos. The Australian team is on the way to chasing the big target they had lost their three wickets on just 86 runs in 12 overs travis head with 46 runs on the crease and Australia winning hope was alive they needed 95 runs in the last 8 overs. I think this is do or die match for Scotland's team if they won they would be in the Super Eight while in case of loss England's team would qualify because their run rate is much better than Scotland's Australian team already qualified for the Super Eight. Scotland bowlers need to take the wickets to put more pressure on Australia batsmen.

Australia won the match by 5 wickets. Scotland gave a decent target of 181 runs, but the Australians were too good for their bowling attack. They put pressure on Aussies batters in the first 10 overs of their innings, but Head and Stoinis steered them toward victory. England qualified for the Super 8 after Scotland's defeat. I feel for the Scottish players, they played exceptionally well against Australia, especially McMullen. He played an entertaining inning of 60 runs. 

This is a great achievement for the Australian team.  That his batsmen fought hard and won the match by a margin of 6 runs.  Although they were given a target of 180, they played with good pace and scored 186 runs to win the match.  Scotland's batsmen had given a good and big target in 20 overs but their bowler could not stop the runs and would lose the match.  His team performed well but luck did not favor them and they lost the match.  That is the thing that pressure was not put on their bowler.  Had they worked harder at the end, they could have stopped the run.  But the Australian batsmen did not let the pressure on them and achieved the target with 2 balls to spare and would win the match.

[Haunebu]

Looks like another match is all set to get washed out thanks to rain. Not really a big deal though since it's a dead rubber match between NZ and PNG, but it still sucks for them thanks to poor ICC planning.

Wonder how many crucial encounters in the future will get screwed by rain. Brainless ICC turds!

Windies will definitely have a massive home advantage, but Afghans will also give tough fights to everyone because if i am not wrong, their matches are scheduled at spin track.

Yeah. It's 50-50 in my opinion which makes the match even more exciting and thrilling.

[JSRAW]

Windies will definitely have a massive home advantage, but Afghans will also give tough fights to everyone because if i am not wrong, their matches are scheduled at spin track.

Yeah. It's 50-50 in my opinion which makes the match even more exciting and thrilling.

I forgot that it's dead rubber and both teams are already qualified, both of em will have some practice before the Super 8 schedule kicks on.

So far so good but i don't want to witness any rain interrupted match in the last leg of the WC and hope there is no scenario of sharing points.

 

[Haunebu]

I forgot that it's dead rubber and both teams are already qualified, both of em will have some practice before the Super 8 schedule kicks on.

I actually thought that this is the first match from the super 8 stage and not a dead rubber match which surprised me. Anyway, West Indies just thrashed the Afghans really, really badly to march forward.

Pooran was spectacular and seriously deserved a century. Also, I have no clue why there are 4 matches in a single day and just 1 match on another day. Weird  scheduling!