Cricket World Cup 2019

[Kevin S]

Nine gone, lovely slow ball does for Malinga, and I don't think SL will be batting out the innings.

[Kevin S]

Oof. SL all out for 201. What a collapse. But what a performance from Afghanistan!

[Kevin S]

187 the revised target in 41 overs, which is a pedestrian 4.5/over. Sri Lanka will be desperate for early wickets then.

[Satchmo Distel]

I'm not sure why the target is only reduced by 15 given Afghanistan have lost 9 overs of their 50. Moreover, SL didn't bat out their 41 so why not reward Afghanistan for the bowl-out?

[Kevin S]

Pull shot comes up short and is caught. Sri Lanka have a third and the pendulum starts to swing back the other way a little.

[Ray de Galles]

Excellent catch that too, wonder if it's the turning point.

[Levin]

I'm not sure why the target is only reduced by 15 given Afghanistan have lost 9 overs of their 50. Moreover, SL didn't bat out their 41 so why not reward Afghanistan for the bowl-out?

D/L does take wickets into account. I'm fairly sure that if the innings had been curtailed by rain at 36 overs and SL had still had 8 wickets in hand then the par score would have been much higher.

[Kevin S]

Advantage SL, in a big way now. If the weather holds until the twentieth over.

[Satchmo Distel]

Malinga is in his 4th World Cup. I can't think of anyone else except Gayle who played in 2007.

[Southport Zeb]

Tamim Iqbal played in 2007

[Gangster Octopus]

Just came on to say that I hadn't realised that he was still going.

[Gangster Octopus]

Er, Malinga, that is.

[Kevin S]

Odds have just updated on PP; they are both 9/10. I'm putting my 20p on N. Zadaran to be Afghanistan's top run scorer.

Let's hope it stays dry,

This penny-punt is working out well so far at least.

[Greenlander]

Tamim Iqbal played in 2007

A couple of others from Bangladesh; Shakib Al Hasan and Mashrafe Mortaza were in the squad.

MS Dhoni was around back then too.

[Greenlander]

And if Zimbabwe had made it, it'd be highly likely they'd have had at least six players who were around in 2007.

[Hot Pepsi]

What does the number/41 mean in the score?

[longeared]

Off the top of my head Amla, Morgan, Plunkett, Taylor and Shoaib Malik all played in 2007. The latter has the longest gap between World Cup wickets according to Andy Zaltzman on TMS yesterday.

[Greenlander]

What does the number/41 mean in the score?

Number of overs actually bowled/ Maximum number of overs that can (could) be bowled

[Hot Pepsi]

Thank you.

How do they decide the number of overs to play based on the delay? And what if the rain is coming but it’s not certain exactly when it will arrive? How much rain is too much to play in?

[ursus arctos]

They get reports as to when "bad light" (from it getting dark) will mean that play is no longer possible and work back from that in terms of the number of overs that can be completed given the pace of play so far (allowing a significant margin).

Cricket is more susceptible to rain than is baseball, largely because deliveries generally pitch (bounce) on the wicket. Matches in process normally aren't stopped until rain actually falls, unless the sky is so dark that the match is suspended for bad light.

[Kevin S]

Picked up the shopping on the way home and they chucked in one of the leftover copies of their weekend magazine/paper thingy. This column from Aggers hasn't aged brilliantly.

[Hot Pepsi]

They get reports as to when "bad light" (from it getting dark) will mean that play is no longer possible and work back from that in terms of the number of overs that can be completed given the pace of play so far (allowing a significant margin).

Cricket is more susceptible to rain than is baseball, largely because deliveries generally pitch (bounce) on the wicket. Matches in process normally aren't stopped until rain actually falls, unless the sky is so dark that the match is suspended for bad light.

I take it they never just switch to a white ball and turn on the lights.

[Ray de Galles]

It's a white ball from the start and floodlights are used when needed.

I'm not sure Agnew's said anything in that article that's been proved inaccurate really, he acknowledges the potential for an "upset" or "rogue defeat" after all.

It's very simplistic but I presume that's because it's for an audience who are far from avid cricket watchers.

[ursus arctos]

"Universally preferred system" is a bit of a porker, no?

[Ray de Galles]

Yeah, fair point. I was more thinking of anything that "hasn't aged brilliantly".