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2nd June - Group A - Australia v New Zealand

Who will win this match?

  • Australia

    Votes: 12 63.2%
  • New Zealand

    Votes: 7 36.8%

  • Total voters
    19

91Jmay

International Coach
Is this good for England or not? Doesn't really change the equation of win 3 to be in does it?
 

Scaly piscine

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Is this good for England or not? Doesn't really change the equation of win 3 to be in does it?
It is generally good in that one more win will definitely put them through now. There is no longer an eminently possible scenario where Bangladesh get beaten 3 times with England, Australia and New Zealand rock paper scissors each other and one of the trio goes out on NRR (NZ & Australia would typically beat Bangladesh by a bigger margin than England did)
 

Howe_zat

Audio File
Is this good for England or not? Doesn't really change the equation of win 3 to be in does it?
It's very good for England because they now need one win to go through. The team they beat will have a maximum of 3 points (by beating Bangladesh, who would have max 2), but England would have 4.
 

Pothas

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Had probably the best seats we have ever had at cricket and it went and rained for half the day.
 

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
Got up and read through the commentary in cricinfo, trying not to see the result, looked set to be a very competitive match until the commentary abruptly ended with rain. NZ would have been pleased to have 3 wickets but Smith still there so anyone's game at that point.

Also, NZ's lollapse from a massive platform would not surprise a single person that's followed this side in the last 18 months. That is exactly what this side does over and over again, with positions 5 and down stocked with players who at best take a while to get going, or are spuds that only score against poor bowling sides, or are just plain spuds. None have a clue how to approach things if they come in with 10 overs to go just as the scoring rate is supposed to be ramping up. De Grandhomme a slight upgrade over Anderson for the next match imo, but it will still be a weakness.
 

straw man

Hall of Fame Member
It is generally good in that one more win will definitely put them through now. There is no longer an eminently possible scenario where Bangladesh get beaten 3 times with England, Australia and New Zealand rock paper scissors each other and one of the trio goes out on NRR (NZ & Australia would typically beat Bangladesh by a bigger margin than England did)
I was thinking about this at the time and this is right.

However those permutations thrown out again if there are more rain-outs, which doesn't look unlikely.
 

tobe_ornot2

Banned
I feel so bad for the kiwis, at times they looked a level above Asutralia only for rain to save the Aussies. TUt tut tut
 

stephen

Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
So what does Australia do for the next game?

Hastings was better than Starc but I don't think we can drop Starc. Cummins was awful early on but seemed to be pivotal layer on. Haze was a legend.

Drop Cummins for Zampa.
Drop Henriques for Lynn.
 

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