@PaulWhite Hi! Just curious whether you were awake at the time of the final or just slept through it. ;)

@AJ I slept through it

Good then.

I might have stayed up if we'd been playing Pakistan as I had hoped

ohh

Will you be watching today's game?

Gonna be too late for you

What's on today?

It's Ind vs NZ T20 today.

I couldn't get my hands on the tickets for today's game.

It was all sold out very quickly.

Oh really. Yes I will definitely try to catch that!

Thanks

No Kane 🙁

Yep. Southee will be the captain I think.

@AJ Now we lost the toss and James Neesham is unwell.

Not to forget Devon Conway but that was silly and self-inflicted.

@PaulWhite Still you get to bat first. This pitch is well-suited for batting.

@PaulWhite Rachin Ravindra is in the squad at his place, I think.

@AJ Well Tim said he would also have chosen to bowl first because dew might well be a factor later.

It's still not a bad team, but I don't know how well this is going to go.

Well, this pitch has almost the same conditions as Dubai's

In case it lights things a little, both teams will be playing at this pitch after a long time.

Dhoni has scored his best ODI score here.

Well so long as it is an entertaining game I will be happy

Well, at least you can go to bed after watching NZ's batting. ;)

Oh no if I'm going to watch it I'll watch the whole thing

Not much point otherwise

Ohh

Wouldn't it be too late then?

I'll live

I will go to bed if we get bowled out in ten overs for 50 runs though

How many T20 CWC matches did you manage to watch?

I kept an eye on most of the main ones. Even the smaller games when I was free.

It wasn't an ideal time of day though

It's almost morning there, right?

I guess. It is currently 2:30am Thursday

You shouldn't have missed the Eng vs NZ semifinal. It was quite entertaining.

Still feels late rather than early.

@AJ Yes I regret that.

But that's easy for me to say in hindsight

I had lost hopes till the 10th over, but it came back after watching their batting in the death overs.

A few more runs in the final would have made NZ won, but unfortunately they lost wickets in the last few overs. I hoped for more than 200. It would have been very hard to chase.

Kane's innings was very good (with a bit of luck)

he missed his century.

I think I read it was a record total for a T20 WC (set, not chasing obv)

Yep

I don't mind losing to most teams, but Australia is an exception

To be fair, they played better cricket on the day

Yeah, they snatched two WCs from you.

I just don't like their style very much

@PaulWhite couldn't disagree. they played aggressive from the beginning.

yeah

Off to a great start 4/1

yeah, not a good start

Good innings from Martin Guptill

True

What does ANZ mean? It's written on their t-shirts

It's a bank

anz.co.nz/personal

Ohh

Not a bad score

Would have liked 180

But it might be enough to make it a bit exciting

We will need to bowl very well

Yes RR > 10

Trent is not having a good time

21 runs off that over

Southee gave 15 runs as well.

Perhaps Santner can take six wickets

Would love to see six wickets off six consecutive balls

Wouldn't that be great

yep

the record is 4 I think. Perhaps Malinga.

If India had played this way in the CWC from the beginning, they would have won the cup.