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I love a beer but they ain't returning to the days of people drinking full strength beer for eight hours a day and I don't think it's needed either. They do need to address prices though, it seems like half decent tickets are anywhere from $70 to $120 these days. Halve the price and you might...

You can’t have a group of death when all the opponents are ranked eighth and lower.

Kohli has an opportunity to make up for an otherwise underwhelming WC. Can he guide them through the middle overs and then accelerate when needed.

Times have changed since they heyday of 50 over cricket. There’s too many different entertainment options. Not many people are setting aside eight hours to watch cricket as I did when younger. Test cricket is a little different because you can put it on in the background and dip in and out over...

They should just play domestic T20 cricket year round, no bilaterals, Tests take precedence.

No, if you look further up, I'm arguing it's good and why I am happy with a T20 WC every two years as you will get a variety of results. If you had a 50-over WC every two years, the results would be very similar. In T20, a brilliant series by one or two individuals can shape the tournament, a...

Australia is one team, that doesn't account for the volatility in winners (Windies twice, England twice, no one else more than once, a trend that will continue if SA win). And will they be the best in two years?

T20 is fast food cricket, it doesn’t need the weight and heft of four years. But I also believe there should be little or no bilateral series. Just play the T20 circuits and WC. It’s also a more volatile game, subject to more changing fortunes, it’s not a ‘cream rises to the top’ form of...

Every three years means it would clash with a 50 over World Cup at set intervals. It looks worse because the 2020 WC was held in 2021 and the are having one in June now and Feb later. Every two years is fine.

Inglis does take a little bit of time to build and would have been perfect at number four in some of those matches. Might have also won the Afghan game as he would have been less likely to miss those couple of chances.

It's possible, but don't tell me Inglis and Green aren't international standard. The balance was wrong and the blame probably falls on selectors for the period leading up to the World Cup as opposed to the Cup itself. The criticisms that the side was old and declining is not hindsight, it was...

I mean, I prefer not playing them at all. Perhaps losing something that is valuable to them might make the Taliban think about not taking away things of value to women; you know, like education.

Is this officially the longest thread concerning Afghanistan vs Bangladesh on Big Footy, nay, the world?

It's actually quite easy to say something without sounding bigoted. This wasn't it though. The last cricket team to be shunned because of its politics was SA and I don't recall Islam being a factor there. It's not fair on the individual players but neither was it fair on the SA players at the...

Perhaps if they were a less problematic nation that didn't treat women as second-class citizens. Certainly not good for Afghanistan's women's cricket program. Bangladesh or USA getting through would be better for cricket than Afghanistan because most reasonable countries aren't playing them...

And can we win it, like Italty did.

Now I really wanna see them lose.

It's up to Das, he needs to double his score.

What the hell is going on? Is it gonna rain? Have Bangas got this if it does?

Probably. Not because of this though.

Amazon is one of the easiest services to justify. At $7.99 a month, it's the cheapest by far, has a decent amount of good content, and if you ever order anything off Amazon ever, you get free delivery.

And Bangers more likely to achieve a smaller target, greater risk of collapsing across the full 20 overs.

I'm not able to watch this, is the pitch full of landmines of the Afghans having a 'mare?

If the Bangers do us a favour, I wonder if they are bold enough to make several changes this late in the tournament. You could replace any of Wade, David and Starc for Inglis, Green or Agar. Or all three if you really want to throw the cat among the pigeons.

They listened.

T20 is a game where one freak innings can turn a match. So you never know.

Five sixes will do it.

There’s 176.

They need to go right now.