2023 ODI World Cup Discussion

[sloandog]

I don't think I've ever seen a batting line up like this in such flattening form. De Kock goes but how hard and flat did he hit that! Unreal batting from him.

[tgk]

That was probably the first close close game of the WC.

[TapsC2]

Finally a close game. They were so unlucky with that LBW review

[eugene]

Some more close games today, perhaps the tournament is starting to deliver?

[sam_ahm]

Thriller between Australia and New Zealand as well, unbelievable effort by the Kiwis but they fall just short.

The WC has finally got it's thrillers and no surprises that it has come at the business end of the tournament when every game has a lot riding on it. The intensity is different. First 20 games of this tournament were lifeless.

[sam_ahm]

Bangladesh struggling even against the Netherlands and may become the first team to be officially knocked out of WC today.

[secretzimbo]

Bangladesh struggling even against the Netherlands and may become the first team to be officially knocked out of WC today.

28 matches to eliminate 1 team

[Kriterion_BD]

Bangladesh have been abject this tournament but also for over a year now. Their form in Test cricket has been pretty poor stretching all the way back to 2018 and the blame lies at the feet of the board for their chronic mismanagement and incompetence but also with the players who keep making the same mistakes over and over.

[sam_ahm]

Bangladesh have been abject this tournament but also for over a year now. Their form in Test cricket has been pretty poor stretching all the way back to 2018 and the blame lies at the feet of the board for their chronic mismanagement and incompetence but also with the players who keep making the same mistakes over and over.

Easily the worst team of the tournament so far. They actually had a good team on paper and I thought Bangladesh would do reasonably well in this WC but this has been a disastrous campaign for them.

I wonder if we've seen the last of Shakib and Mahmudullah, may be even Mushfiqur in ODIs. I'm assuming Tamim Iqbal will make a comeback now after this disastrous tournament.

[sam_ahm]

If NZ lose all three games against RSA, Pak and SL then one of Pak, Eng and SL can still make the Semis. SL in fact have the best chance amongst those three.

Afg, Net are also in it but realistically they won't make it as far as the semis. Still a great tournament so far for Afghans and the Dutch.