Arena Cricket T20 World Cup 2022

It has begun.The tournament is dual hosted in Australia and New Zealand.

http://www.icc-cricket.com/cricket-world-cup

Opening match NZ vs Sri Lanka. NZ have posted a decent 331, Sri Lanka run chase to begin in 30 minutes.

A hilarious live commentary by a bunch of NZ Comedian cricketing enthusiasts can be heard here.

http://www.iheart.com/live/alternative-comntry-collective-6693/

If you don't have coverage on your local sports channel, you can usually battle the pop-ups on crictime.nl to find live video (going fullscreen helps keep the ads away).

Go the mighty NZ Black Caps!

 

Anderson, what a beautiful man.

McCullum ain't half bad either

Glad they bowled Malinga the full 10.

Unfortunately it's now 2:11am and I'm not gonna see the chase. :/

 

2 huge wins to the host nations. NZ beat Sti Lanka by 98 runs, and Aussie slaughtered England by 111 runs.

Today 2 neighbourly grudge matches South Africa v Zimbabwe, and India v. Pakistan.

 

Australia should be expelled for that last ball.

 

Was it an underarm?

 

lol @ England

Morgan's form is really something at the moment

 

The umpires should be expelled for that, not the players.

 

Yes but I have a biased illogical hatred towards Australia.

 

That's terrible. It should be a logical hatred toward Australia like mine.

 

India V Pakistan starts in 3 hours.

 

I think I put you wrong, it's in a couple of hours from now.

http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc-cricket-world-cup-2015/engine/match/656405.html

Forgot "local time" on espncricinfo.com meant local where game is playing (which is Adelaide, 2 hours behind NZ).

 

whatever, halibottom and jaypes. We all know who's favoured to win this. And Jaypes, you win at rugby, so don't be greedy.

Halibum, you guys don't win at anything sorry.

 

Zimbabwe were doing so well when they had South Africa at 4 wickets for 83 runs but a massive partnership between Duminy and Miller took the game away from the bowlers with the total blowing out to 339!
Zimbabwe have begun their innings...

India doing well at the moment. Listening to the game on the radio, the atmosphere sounds fantastic! No doubt they will post a massive total for Pakistan to chase.

 

Zimbabwe chasing pretty well, though, to be fair.

228/5 off 39. Big ask for last 10 overs though.

 

All out, but hardly disgraced. Should handle the associates.

India Pakistan pretty good, great couple of overs by the Pakistan bowlers to finish.

 

http://www.smh.com.au/sport/cricket...-fans-at-sydney-rsl-club-20150215-13firt.html

Cricket is serious business.

 

West Indies v. Ireland today. Not a classic matchup...

 

Oh the Windies... how the mighty have fallen so so far

 

And another wicket! 5/87 in the 24th over.

Commentators are suggesting it may have been worth a challenge but lost that opportunity due to the previous wicket being incorrectly challenged.

 

from espncricinfo.com: "From wobbling on 87 for 5, West Indies have managed to rally back to finish with a sizable total of 304 for 7, thanks largely to the 154-run stand for the sixth wicket between Lendl Simmons and Darren Sammy. Sammy fell 11 short of what would have been his maiden ODI ton, but Lendl managed to press on to get to the mark. Dockrell was the pick of the bowlers with his spell of 3 for 50, while the other Irish bowlers chipped in as well."

Gonna be a big ask for Ireland to claw this back.

 

After ten overs Ireland have 61 runs without loss. Doing a good job keeping even with the required run rate.

 

99/1 now off 18 overs - run rate 5.5, required is 6.5, so they're right in this.

 

This is shaping up to be a goodie...