Yesterday, England and Pakistan won the women’s and men’s T20 World Cup titles.Both teams played excellently throughout the tournament, and really peaked when it mattered - in the semi and the final. The England women’s team was unbeaten in the tournament (and in fact set a record for the highest successful chase in Women’s T20 internationals) while Pakistan’s men los...
Group B contains two teams that are usually considered as dark horses. Or in New Zealand’s case, sheepguys. No, not really, but they are the teams that are always said to have a chance of winning, but are never the favourites. There, I just defined ’dark horses’.
Zimbabwe is also in this group. (it had to be on a new line or no one would pay attention. I barely did)
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This has been a dull couple of weeks cricket-wise. A few ODI series winding down, but none really indicating anything more than what’s already known. Australia refuses to be written off. They have combined well against England. The latter are the strangest team of the lot. They are T20 Champions and just thrashed Australia in the Ashes. But they appear to be an ODI dud. It’s hard to im...
The Kiwis.
They may have lost a lot of games and series, including a 4-0 drubbing at the hands of Bangladesh, but come World Cup time, they’re back as the eternal underdogs/dark horses. The batting, while inconsistent, is packed with quality game-changers, that looked like being in some form against Pakistan. The bowling was sort of harmless, but then they were playing on some pretty flat p...
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