How Farcical Is This ?!

[PlanetCricket]

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For those of you who don’t know, I despise Twenty20 cricket in any way shape or form. But the World Twenty20 has sunk to a new low this season.
Not only is it’s exceedingly minimal amount of meaning being astoundingly diminished by this tournament being the 3rd in 3 or 4 years (compared to a proper World Cup every four years), but the peculiar case of the English side has just absolutely destroyed the tournament’s credibility.

Yeah, yeah, the English side have carried the hopes of a nation on their shoulders, blah, blah, whatever other B.S. the pro-Twenty20 media spew out. But has anyone stopped to consider the manner in which the English side has qualified for the final?

To qualify for the second round (Super 8s or some rubbish) out of their group, England didn’t win a game. They had a no result and a loss on the Duckworth/Lewis method. And now, if you subscribe to such trash, they are the best/second best international Twenty20 side in the world. But look, on the rules, the English should have qualified; they got a point for the no result and had a superior run rate to the eliminated team in their group (Ireland), but it makes no logical sense. How can a team qualify past a group stage without winning a game!? What a joke. What an absolute joke.

But you know the worst part of this whole saga? For some extremely sad individuals out there in the big wide world, the World Twenty20, by it’s proper name- not the Twenty20 World Cup or World T20- is the most important tournament in the world. And what a farcical█exhibition of semi-cricket it is.



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[pcfan123]

I enjoyed the rant like any cricket purist would but I have to point out that England is hardly considered the 2nd best team in Twenty20 cricket. They might be considered the 2nd best team in this specific tournament, but not in overall Twenty20 cricket.

The group stage was hardly anyone's fault and the two best teams (WI AND ENG) from that group advanced. In a way it might have helped as majority now realize D/L system will not work for Twenty20. That should put the gears in motion for a new system or at least some rain days in the next edition.

 

[kirby]

I enjoyed the rant like any cricket purist would but I have to point out that England is hardly considered the 2nd best team in Twenty20 cricket. They might be considered the 2nd best team in this specific tournament, but not in overall Twenty20 cricket.

In theory though, this tournament is used to figure out the "best Twenty20 teams" is it not?

 

[riz7khan12]

In theory though, this tournament is used to figure out the "best Twenty20 teams" is it not?

you're right, but it'll be snowing in the sahara before england wins this tournament. how did they fluke their way into the finals

 

[pcfan123]

Ahem, fluke? England have annihilated everyone they have played so far. They deserve to be in the final as much as Australia.

 

[riz7khan12]

^ there lies the question, how??

 

[superfreddie]

you're right, but it'll be snowing in the sahara before england wins this tournament. how did they fluke their way into the finals

You obviously didn't see any England games then, probably not the one where we spanked your team either.

I'm not even going to waste my time commenting on what that complete and utter tool KIRBY has written.

 

[riz7khan12]

spanked

what are you on about, you barely won that.

 

[superfreddie]

Barely won it my ass! It was just as comfortable a win as the Sri Lanka game.

 

[riz7khan12]

have a look here 22nd Match, Group E: England v New Zealand at Gros Islet, May 10, 2010 | Cricket Scorecard | Cricinfo.com. Good luck against the aussie pace attack

 

[superfreddie]

I don't need to look mate, we had five balls to spare, pretty comfortable if you ask me.

Oh BTW while your on Cricinfo, take a look at Englands T20 record against NZ.

Very Nice

superfreddie added 10 Minutes and 47 Seconds later...

Got a quick tip for Kirby too, if you hate T20 so much then

A. Don't watch it.
B. Don't comment on it.

 

[barmyarmy]

You might also point out that England haven't really lost a game either.
They scored a massive total against WI and were screwed by D/L and would have beaten Ireland.

 

[King Pietersen]

We smashed West Indies bowling attack for 191 iirc, before getting royally done over by D/L. There was no way WI would have failed to make the adjusted score in 7 overs, and the fact that taking wickets didn't affect the required score was laughable. Then in the Ireland game we recovered well to get to a par score on that wicket, and were then dominating Ireland with the ball before the rain came. To say the way we got through was a fluke or a farce is frankly laughable.

 

[superfreddie]

We smashed West Indies bowling attack for 191 iirc, before getting royally done over by D/L. There was no way WI would have failed to make the adjusted score in 7 overs, and the fact that taking wickets didn't affect the required score was laughable. Then in the Ireland game we recovered well to get to a par score on that wicket, and were then dominating Ireland with the ball before the rain came. To say the way we got through was a fluke or a farce is frankly laughable.

Yessss! Couldn't have put it better myself, thanks King:hpraise

 

[Kshitiz_Indian]

IMO this whole 3 teams a group system is a joke. They should go back to the 2003 WC style, 7 teams per group stuff. Much more interesting.