England could be on for an unlikely win here

DAren't move here!!!

What a Yorker from Jordan. 19 off last come on

Bollocks

Poor Ben stokes

Sadly pressure got to him. 4 balls exactly the same, exactly in the slot but boy did that kid put them away

When we beat Sri Lanka we worked on wide Yorkers, this match we seemed to bowl them all on the stumps and in the slot for the batsmen to just swing through the line

Now the emotion is over its been a brilliant tournament overall with some great games. England have had a really good tournament and Root has cemented himself as the best all round batsman in the World for me. Still a pretty young team and developing as well.

Wouldn't like to be a bowler these days mind, the size of the bats and power of these lads is smacking dot balls from the 70's/80's and 90's into the 3rd tier

I remember my Dad playing on the Rec on a Wednesday Night .. sure it was 20 overs..

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At Seaton in the 70s and 80s we played in a Wednesday night "Reserve" league which was basically 20-20 cricket. Great for players who liked to get on with it (like me...my only two 50s came in this league) but shite for players like me Dad and Andy Dibbles Gloves who could take all fucking day to get 29 in the normal Saturday team.

The Leagues round here have played midweek cup
Cricket at 20 or 25 overs since time began. In the 80's and 90's Horden (when Derek Parry was pro) entered every cup going and literally in June and July used to play seven days a week I'm not sure how the players stayed married!

Brilliant tournament the World T20 like it deserved an end like that even though our very good side was on the wrong end of it.

Brilliant tournament but what the fuck was stokes thinking about with that last over? Especially the first two balls that would have been wides down the leg side as well as being shite please hit me for six rubbish.

Hopefully he will become less of a gobshite after that humbling.

Yet again root showed his class and morgan showed nothing.

Willey was outstanding too.

Suicide bowling given they needed 19 runs from that last over.
To get hit for six off the first ball then bowl the exact same length n line for the next 3 shows he has no tactical awareness.
Let his team mates down big style.

Whoa man.

I think you have misread the script here.

You are supposed to feel nothing but Stokes pain, and sympathise with him, not blame him.

Great player, but possibly the worst 4 balls ever bowled.

Stokes you useless twat

I totally refute the above.

Completely

100%

I am distancing myself totally from such outragous and ridiculous comments.

I would like to put it firmly on the record that I rarely, if ever, got anywhere near 29.

Let his team mates down!?
Suicide bowling!?
No tactical awareness?

You'd have though he was running up and bowling 20mph long hops.

It's very fine margins you're talking he wasn't trying to miss his length it's not as easy as it looks to run up and nail Yorkers in that situation miss your length by half an inch and it can go the journey. Also on line, the batsman don't stand still maybe the feeling was that he was going to give himself room by backing away. One of the main reasons we even got to the final in the first place was Stokes brilliant death bowling against Sri Lanka and New Zealand. Also how about some credit to the lad who hit four sixes in a row off someone bowling nearly 90mph to win his team a World Cup Final? An unbelievable effort. Anyone blaming Stokes doesn't understand the game.

Oh get over yourself PJ man.

Jesus.

PJ you can't say that Stokes didn't crumble under the pressure in the last over. 19 to play for he would have been better bowling as wide as possible outside off stump (bit like Jordan's last ball in the previous over). Risking a wide was a better solution than what he went for.

Tactically it was something they did in earlier games and were practicing for as well. To bowl one on the wrong line ok, to run up and bowl 4 in exactly the same place showed his head had gone. He wasn't the only one, Plunkets last over got tonked for the same reasons, he'd been bowling short of a length in his previous 3 and conceded next to nothing, went for full Yorkers and went the journey. Again strange as bs Sri Lanka he was bowling very wide Yorkers which were unplayable.

They had the skill and the tactics to do it differently but pressure got to them. I do agree that that kid smashed it miles but each ball was right in the slot for him to do it.

Sadly it also allowed that odious Samuels to gloat like the arsehole he is (shame as the rest of the Windies seem like a good set of lads)

So did we just bottle it again?

I wouldn't say that Tree. On the day a number of close run things just didn't quite go England's way. They showed they can fight back and compete in any match really which compared with a year ago is a massive improvement

The pressure did get to him to an extent but the way people are talking you'd think he completely lost the plot and was spraying it all over the place bowling wides and giving away chest high full toss no balls. The reality is he just missed his yorker by a matter of inches put under extreme pressure by brilliant hitting.

Braithwaite won the match Stokes didn't lose it, those balls still require a lot of skill to smash them out of the park.

PJ give over man why didnt he change even one of his deliveries? I would have put the second one round his face to give him something to think about but no he just did the same thing for four balls

He was trying to bowl Yorkers like he had at the end of innings against Sri Lanka and New Zealand a combination of the pressure getting to him and the batsman playing unbelievably well made him miss the block hole. He wasn't trying to bowl the same ball! I'm sure in hindsight he wishes he tried going short or a slower ball but that's also a big risk any bat on a short pitch delivery and it can go for four or six anywhere on the field almost. Like I said you are taking very fine margins when someone is smashing it like that.

Hi arse dropped out man. Do you ever not just see it like everyone else?

and that arse dropping came from the player with the most to say on the pitch.

It wouldn't have been such a close finish if Stokes hadn't taken 3 good catches on the boundary - Billings had a similar chance from Stokes' own bowling, ballsed it up completely and it went for four.

Really disappointing to lose in the last over out of 40, but what went on in the other 39 also had some bearing on the result!

We did very well to make it into the game it was because the score we set was at least 30 short of par.