Pak fans are confident that Eng will win every game but I spoke to Eng fans and they saying they would avoid India and Aus ...Aus they think they have chance but against India they are not optimistic.

Weather as it stands is not great for India Vs Eng @ Bham.

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3 pretty good balls and 3 pretty bad ones in that over from Jof.

All you guys that comment every match every half an hour - don’t you fekkers work?

Fernando looks talented.

comment by Afridi14... ( ليدز_يونايتد )You gotta love it!! (U2805)
posted 1 minute ago
All you guys that comment every match every half an hour - don’t you fekkers work?
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Can get quite a lot done during the drinks breaks!

comment by TCM (U8959)
posted 2 minutes ago
comment by Afridi14... ( ليدز_يونايتد )You gotta love it!! (U2805)
posted 1 minute ago
All you guys that comment every match every half an hour - don’t you fekkers work?
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Can get quite a lot done during the drinks breaks!
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Not bad this Fernando fella, scored most of the runs so far.

comment by (kash) I'm the Mané - 6 Times Baby (U1108)
posted 12 minutes ago
Fernando looks talented.
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It's like he's batting on a different pitch. 46 from 34 balls by him. 9 from the others and a wide in the other 32 balls plus 2 wickets.

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Are England capable of bowling a team out, or is the plan just to restrict the runs

Yes as we bowled out West Indies and Bangladesh. It's a good pitch though and Mathews and Mendis are batting watchfully to try and set a platform.

Plunkett does seem to be a miss for these middle overs though as Moeen and Rash usually pick up wickets when batsmen go on the attack. Whilst they are being watchful and rotating the strike, it doesn't look like we're going to get a wicket.

They're not exactly hurting you with their current rate. They'll need to increase their tempo massively to get up to 300 and even that won't be enough.

Quite, and as they up the rate and take risks then Moeen and Rashid are more likely to pick up wickets, as Rashid just has!

Yessss
On a hat trick

There you go, 2 wickets just like that. Another team out of their depth in this tournament against the top 4.

Well bowled Mo.

Tight bowling from Moeen, didn't go for a single boundary in his 10. Seems to be quite a bit of turn in this wicket but SL don't look to be well stocked in the spin department.

Don't see the need to bowl Root here, he's not a big turner of the ball and it's not like we're desperate for a partnership to be broken in the middle overs. Final 10, get your gun bowlers on!

Still wont bowl them out

comment by Dave&Danny (U4428)
posted 2 minutes ago
Still wont bowl them out
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well they are playing extremely conservatively

Does it matter? They've only got 192 on the board with 36 balls left. Other than Fernando's enterprising knock in the first 10 overs, it's been a disappointing innings from them so far.

Lovely catch by Rashid!

comment by TCM (U8959)
posted 4 minutes ago
Does it matter? They've only got 192 on the board with 36 balls left. Other than Fernando's enterprising knock in the first 10 overs, it's been a disappointing innings from them so far.
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Yes because when we play Aussies, kiwis, India we will find it more difficult