West Indies set Bangladesh 322 to win: Cricket World Cup 2019 – live!

Updates from the World Cup match at TauntonCounty cricket – live! Follow the latest around the groundsAnd you can email Geoff here or tweet him here 2.52pm BST 1st over: Bangladesh 5-0 (Tamim 4, Soumya 0) And we’re away. Sheldon Cottrell, star of the mystifyingly popular television program The Big Bang Theory, will open the bowling for West Indies. Gets wided for a bouncer, so he doesn’t continue with that option. Hangs most of his over across the left-handed Tamim, who waits patiently until the fifth ball, a touch fuller, which gets the treatment through cover. All hands and eye, no feet. 2.49pm BST With all the rain around, and net run rate being a big talking point at this World Cup, here’s an interesting series of musings from an internet gentleman.Any sport in the world uses For and Against (Points Scored minus Points Conceded) as a tie-breaker for League/Group teams that end on equal footing. In cricket, this obviously doesn’t work due to 2nd innings chases being restricted by how many runs can be scored #CWC19This doesn’t take into account wickets lost. 180/9 off 20 overs is awarded the same ‘Dominance’, as such, as 180/0 off 20 overs, despite the first instance being incredibly close to losing the match altogether. #CWC19We could also use DLS to assess For & Against on second innings chase ‘domination’. If a team batting first wins by 89 runs, they are awarded +89 on F&A (the team losing -89). The corresponding DLS score for each ball of a 2nd innings that’s displayed on the scoreboard #CWC19Let’s say, 80 (again – guessing!). In that case, +100 F&A points awarded I don’t have the time or info to see how this would change the rankings on the current table, (and it’s unlikely to effect this World Cup), but it’s surely a better way of measuring dominance in a match. Continue reading…
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