Cricket World Cup updates from the match at Lord’sEngland qualify for the semi-finals – The Spin podcastAnd you can email or tweet Adam with your thoughts 2.53pm BST The players are back on the field. Pakistan need to rock and roll Bangladesh for seven to progress. I’m looking forward to that being out of the way. Sarfaraz the skipper has the gloves, despite the whack he copped to the arm earlier. To be fair, as Simon Doull notes on telly, they don’t have another ‘keeper so he didn’t have much of a choice. Tamim, who has a Test ton at HQ, will take the first ball. Hafeez, the 38-year-old offspinner, will take over one from the Nursery End. PLAY! 2.47pm BST Brian Withington has dropped me a line. You can too. “Prompted by febrile Net Run Rate angst, I was intrigued to see in the Cricinfo league table that Australia is reported as having an NRR of exactly 1,” he says. “On closer inspection it would appear that there is some rounding down going on in the fourth decimal place, so that the figure should perhaps more strictly be presented as 1.000 (correct to 3 decimal places) – pleasingly I see that the Guardian adopts said convention.”We aim to please. Continue reading…
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