Welp rain is here and probably done for the night. Those back to back wickets will knock out Australia
The cramp surely got better for him to take the wicket. What an unexpected nailbiter with all the drama around rain and qualifications
What a fucking car crash of a match but somehow, Afghanistan pull it through!! Rode their luck but madlads are in the semis. Tough luck paulski
I reckon a decent percentage of Australians are happy that Afghanistan got through. We didn’t deserve it. Our fielding was atrocious.
Yes and no. You're right we didn't deserve to go through - we simply weren't good enough against Afghanistan and India. But I'm not particularly happy AFG got through, for a couple of reasons. There's all the stalling in the last match when they were ahead on run rate - pretending you're cramping & that kind of rubbish is really poor and you certainly wouldn't see that from the top sides. It's basically cheating in my book. The big one though is the players' refusal to acknowledge the treatment of women & girls' sport under the Taliban. All this bleating from Rashid about how Aust won't play a series against them and his basically pulling out of the Big Bash competition because of it... you know full well what the problem is, mate - stop pretending otherwise. It's just left a really bad taste in the mouth - I've got no great love for the Bangers but I would have rather they went through instead.
So, by my calculations, we have the following semis: India vs England South Africa vs Afghanistan Not what I would have guessed before the tournament. Golden opportunity for SA to make that first big final.
Just saw the scores in today's match - I'm still laughing my ass off. Well done, SA - now please show up in the final.
Think my favorite part of cricket is any time someone fucks up. No matter the degree of difficulty, or who is at fault, someone out there is doing the what the fuck shrug.