Cricket

Indian bowlers showing the guile that has been missing from the England attack.

De Kock's out again...

Fnaaar!

(classic Malinga yorker)

some perfect Amla shots. pure class

Bees stop play
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/cricket/48802347

Pakistan to brush aside Afghanistan,
and edge England out of the Top 4?

Come on you Afghan madlads!

I don't see Pakistan failing to make 228.

And,
the Kiwis showing how to deal with the Aussie openers.

Catching practice required though

Practice makes perfect then!

Well, it's not started particularly well

No-one suggested a 10-wicket victory.
Pakistan are bound to lose at leat 3 or 4 wickets.

No-one's doing England any favours today. Seems right that they'll have to do it off their own bat.

The Afghans are doing their best to help Eng.
Pak need 71 off 60 balls with just 4 tailenders to bat.

Stinks of fixing, those last few overs

Not just one awful decision from the skipper to bowl himself?

He was told time and time again by Afghan (former skipper) that spin not seam was the way to go; either he's a moron or there's something dodgy going on, perfect example of throwing a game away

Eng v Ind tomorrow?
Morgan wins toss, puts India in.
Headingley pitches after a couple days of intense sunshine offer encouragement to attacking batting. The guileless Eng bowlers concede 380 for 4.
Indian bowlers and the English batting mindset of
'Attack; someone lower down the batting order will play a steadying innings' result in Eng 235 all out.
And out of the World Cup.

Ok. I dipped in and out of it. That sounds much more odd than it seemed from what I saw/heard.

The TMS commentary team were openly laughing when Gulbadin brought himself back on for the 46th over that cost 18 runs.

Gulbadin did not make the calls that you would expect a captain to make, even in those pressurised circumstances.

Unfortunately, you'd expect the draw of fixing to be pretty heavy for the Afghan players. I find it to be best to just be ignorant of it.

Batted Jonny

Breathing a sigh of relief (so far)

Just need to up the momentum a bit. I’ve a feeling they’ll need all the runs against the Indian batting.