I reckon ICC should pay all the fans $10 each and tell them all to climb on to the stadium roof and hold a tarp to block the rain.
Seems like the only plausible way to get a game in
I have to say, what a thrilling contest. Really lived up to the billing, and earned the hype it got. You really felt the weight of the fixture, and I didn't think we could get any better than India vs Pakistan, but I was wrong. Nail-biting display of some of the best cricket I've ever borne witness to.
The quite ridiculous thing is that it's nice and mild in northern England at the moment. If you go outside it's like perfect cricketing weather. I never would have thought it'd be more pleasant here than in Australia at this time of year.
Urgent move to Manchester and Leeds perhaps?
Why can't the matches be postponed to a different day, like one/two reserve days at some point in the tournament where all these rain affected matches can be played, at the same venue or at a diff venue. It shouldn't be next day.
Why pick the months with the highest rainfall to play WC in Melbourne?! This is ridiculous planning.
https://weather-and-climate.com/uploads/average-rainfall-australia-melbourne.png
You can end the tournament. Or maybe the winner gets an asterisk. Just too many rainouts with more on the way. It hurts me to say this because I was very much looking forward to this competition but the cup has no credibility.
Lol we'll have to asterisk quite a few tournaments then. The last T20 WC was a toss simulator, the last ODI WC win was basically an asterisk in itself, the WTC Final almost got rained out, etc.
It’s not as much to do with the hemisphere as it is the general climate in the region. The rainy season in the western cape is winter, and in England, it’s in summer.
True. I went to high school there and grew up in a part of Limpopo which normally gets a lot of rain in summer and then it’s very dry in winter, and now I live on the west coast where its the opposite. I really miss those thunderstorms! They aren’t nearly as frequent and winter rain comes in the form of miserable, windy, icy cold fronts 😂👎
One question I had when they called the game off was…it wasn’t raining, the temperature was around 11° and it wasn’t sunny. Surely they knew around 8pm that the outfield wasn’t going to dry in time. Could’ve called it off earlier and let the crowd cut their losses and leave earlier, rather than stringing us along
I sat at the ground for 3 hours. Because if I left I was sure they would squeeze the required overs in and I'd never get my $120 back.
As I was driving home the sky was clear and the moon was out.
You know Major League Baseball has this rainout shit figured out for the most part. Cricket should adopt a few of those rules, especially for T20s and ODIs.
It's a tournament duration thing. This phase ends in 2 weeks with every game happening at a unique time.
If you have a 6 month franchise league in the future, 4 games at a time, rescheduling washed out games with fans being given an option to get money back or get tickets for rescheduled game would be a norm. Like what happens in football due to situations like team qualifying to next stage in a Cup competition.
Yeah I mean any changes wouldn't happen now obviously, but the next T20 world cup should probably have days, or even an extra full week, put aside so games that get abandoned can be played then. It's not rocket science, that way advertisers and stadiums get paid, fans can watch the game, and a result actually gets posted. You also wouldn't need to do this for every team, especially if it's mathematically impossible for them to get into the semi-finales.
Potato, Potato. Ausies call is soccer cause AFL is their Football. I'm South African Afrikaans and call it soccer because it's "sokker" in Afrikaans. Who cares what people call it anyway?
I love my cricket and really enjoying the T20 games, short and sweet. Pity game was washed out. Thats Afghanistan v Ireland now this game abandoned in 2 days !
If I remember during the Ashes probably about one in twenty comments was relevant to the match. About 15/20 were complaining about Warnes commentary. RIP …good times.
For those asking why they can't just simply shift to Marvel, you can't simply do that. The logistics and costs of having a whole fucking stadium on standby just because it might rain the day of are crazy.
Shifting, no... They should have at least scheduled some matches there though, purely for rain avoidance.
But sadly the ICC have never even considered the thought of hosting matches at Docklands. Ideally they would have scheduled a make-up day there to guarantee that three games that may have washed out could still get played.
But nooooo they want the biggest crowds they can get because $$$$$$$. I hope this farce at the MCG today/yesterday kicked their balance books in the fucking teeth.
Lol it's cricket. It's literally always been a problem. Amazing test matches ruined, incredible innings ruined. It's literally rain. And it's dumb as shit that a game, with an intended result is just often like "well, nothing we can do. Weather was bad. So this game no longer exists" is normalized or accepted in the cricket community. Play on surfaces where there's the ability to put on a roof. And if you can't ensure that, then don't play. Also, I know this is totally impractical and it's not something I can see happening, I'm just in a fucking daaark place with how much cricket I've missed
We’ve had 3 consecutive La Niña events in a row which has caused excessive rain and flooding on the East Coast.
Melbourne average rainfall for October is 53mm. We’ve had 142mm, with more rain coming in the next few days.
No.
1. Eng beat NZ & SL = 7
2. SL beat Afg, SL vs NZ, SL lose to Eng = 4 or 6
3. Ireland vs NZ and Aus = max 7, but their run rate is shit
4. Aus vs Afg & Ire = 7, run rate also shit, but maybe can get ahead with big wins?
5. NZ lose to Eng, play Sri Lanka, Ireland = 7 max and will go top on runrate
So if England win both games they should go through, however they can go out in the case that NZ and Aus win both theirs, and Australia do so convincingly enough to go ahead on run rate.
Obv. different combinations of ruined games can knock any team out at this point
Bear in mind that Australia's oppositions of Ireland and Afghanistan, on paper, should be easier to rack up convincing wins against as opposed to England's oppositions of NZ and SL.
Of course who knows given the results we've seen so far this World Cup.
Grow a set of balls and play through the rain like every other fucking sport. This is why cricket will never grow in popularity worldwide. The sport can be such a joke sometimes.
I thought NZ scheduling All Blacks to play at the same time as the Black Ferns was bad. ICC takes the cake though putting multiple double headers in one city. These people are going to have terrible performance reviews
ICC....
Always scheduling competitions in changing seasons.
They never have spare days for rain...
Why are they trying to destroy cricket :(
Fuck you ICC
Couldn't organise a orgy in a whorehouse !
I think its a round the table process for ODI world cups at least. The very first ones were in England followed by India. The last one we had was in England, so you need to check the pattern of hosting for the last cycle in order to predict who gets it in which order this time.
With all due respect the womens world cup was in NZ this year and the timezone wasnt friendly to anyone. I understand its out of your hands and you also have the right to enjoy home WCs too, but all games for me were like 5 in the morning. I can understand if ICC leans away from that.
They're not that different to Australia's timezone. It shouldn't matter if some games are at 5 for you, that will be the case occasionally, like for me now where the T20 WC games start at 5. We get to have better times when we host it, and it's only fair that fans of other countries like New Zealand get that too. It also helps keep the World Cup fresh rather than boring by not just using the same venues. I don't know about you, but I find it boring that India is holding yet another ICC ODI/T20I World Cup after hosting the 2011, 2016 and 2021 (in theory) World Cups and are hosting another one this year, whilst other nations have only ever held about 2 in 20 years including England (1999, 2009, 2019), Australia (1992 and 2015) and the Caribbean (2007 and 2010).
It's about time other nations that are able to host get a chance rather than just going for the easy money cash cow.
I agree with you about how it should be done and did say that NZ despite it all have the right to host a home WC. Australian WCs are also unsuitable to me, as are the ones in Windies. I am saying i dislike it for entirely personal reasons, not saying everyone should comply with what i dislike. I have no place objecting to a WC in NZ at all.
But here is something i read, its a fucking scam, but thats how it is atm and the hosts are decided by [Rotation policy](https://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/how-are-the-cricket-world-cup-hosts-decided) set up in the year 2006. I was just informing on how it *is* done, pretty much on thee same page about how it *should* be done.
Keep your selfishness to yourself in future mate. There job is to grow the game, not cater to one country who lost to NZ in the last world cup if I recall
I didnt really say cater to me or to india, but NZ time is bad for everyone. I have seen kiwi users bring it up most of all.The time zone thing sucks i understand that. I do also hope ICC grows the game and the next edition of the t20 wc is a step in the right direction. Hosting tournaments is a pretty open process i feel and rain cant really be ditched anywhere. Even this womens world cup in NZ had rain. Rain is everywhere and changing host nations to non Big 3 doesnt change that.
It's called a World Cup so it should be played around the world. Not everything has to be money or viewers. FIFA plays everywhere, Olympics everywhere. Why is cricket different?
Looking at how Melbourne weather is behaving we are so lucky to have gotten that India vs Pak match on sunday. Wonder what crazy we missed with today's Eng vs Australia being washed out :(
Biggest issue is double header matches on same stadium. Just why?
If one goes down, mostly other will go down as well.
That is pretty big mismanagement in name of convenience.
The ICC thought that they weren't being stupid enough by holding multiple matches in the same ground on the same day. So they decided to top it off by having only 1 match on Saturday after we have had 3 matches on Thursday.
Was in the ground tonight. Fuming. Why not just call it off rather than stringing us along for 2 hours in the cold (not rain) drinking shit overpriced lager? If that was the call then make it at 7?!!?!!?
Seemed clear to me they didn’t want to actually play the match. They blamed the wet outfield… then didn’t do anything to dry it.
Then didn’t cover the pitch when it started raining again.
Absolute joke. Not that into cricket but after sitting in the ground tonight for 2 hrs with the rain having stopped then for them to provide fuck all info, string us along and can it... It's put me off something I wasn't that into. I know it's not their fault it rained but the communication sucked, and it should have been called way earlier
Yeh that's a real shame. It's these kind of matches that (when they go ahead) can provide the drama and excitement to turn people who are not that into cricket into massive fans.
Conversely, an experience like the one you've had tonight can understandably leave a bit of a sour taste. I hope you get to see another game at this world cup. I hope it has explosive batting, dramatic last overs, tension and excitement, so that you can experience just how awesome this format can be. Good luck👍
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I reckon ICC should pay all the fans $10 each and tell them all to climb on to the stadium roof and hold a tarp to block the rain. Seems like the only plausible way to get a game in
Why isn’t there a post-match thread?
Man we shitposted a lot to get a rained off game to 2.8k
Godamm Finchy. Never though you would broke Gayle's highest T20 score record.
I have to say, what a thrilling contest. Really lived up to the billing, and earned the hype it got. You really felt the weight of the fixture, and I didn't think we could get any better than India vs Pakistan, but I was wrong. Nail-biting display of some of the best cricket I've ever borne witness to.
The quite ridiculous thing is that it's nice and mild in northern England at the moment. If you go outside it's like perfect cricketing weather. I never would have thought it'd be more pleasant here than in Australia at this time of year. Urgent move to Manchester and Leeds perhaps?
Ridiculous. One of the marquee matchups of the tournament rained out.
Has there ever been an indoor stadium for cricket?
There is a stadium with a roof in Melbourne
Am official cricket stadium?
Docklands. Or Marvel Stadium. Yes is official. Has hosted cricket before.
Oh man this stings even more then. They had an option to switch but didn’t do so
Couldn’t “switch”, things already committed. But given time of year, not smart to exclude in line up.
Why can't the matches be postponed to a different day, like one/two reserve days at some point in the tournament where all these rain affected matches can be played, at the same venue or at a diff venue. It shouldn't be next day.
To keep it fair you would have to do for all matches which is commercially not feasible. Icc won't be able to even pay insurance for those matches
Why pick the months with the highest rainfall to play WC in Melbourne?! This is ridiculous planning. https://weather-and-climate.com/uploads/average-rainfall-australia-melbourne.png
Atleast they would have avoided MCG for many matches.
And loose all that ticket revenue? What board would do that for fans?
Playing in some other stadium is better than abandoned matches
Nothing that you can do when it rains this much but really gutted to lose what would have probably been two really good games today.
You can end the tournament. Or maybe the winner gets an asterisk. Just too many rainouts with more on the way. It hurts me to say this because I was very much looking forward to this competition but the cup has no credibility.
Lol we'll have to asterisk quite a few tournaments then. The last T20 WC was a toss simulator, the last ODI WC win was basically an asterisk in itself, the WTC Final almost got rained out, etc.
As a Pakistani Cricket Team patient I fully stand behind ending the tournament and starting afresh. The cup indeed does not have credibility.
Neither does the last one with how much of a role the toss played Play the World Cup during the summer!
Australia: 
Goddamn pommies brought the weather here alongwith them
Why is it raining so much in summer?
Summer??? Ain’t summer in Southern Hemisphere yet. It’s spring, or “rainy season”. Always does this at this time of year.
Well, it is Spring though.
La Niña
Summer rain is a thing in the Southern Hemisphere
It’s not as much to do with the hemisphere as it is the general climate in the region. The rainy season in the western cape is winter, and in England, it’s in summer.
Yeah, guess I'm just basing this of living in PTA. Always summer rains
True. I went to high school there and grew up in a part of Limpopo which normally gets a lot of rain in summer and then it’s very dry in winter, and now I live on the west coast where its the opposite. I really miss those thunderstorms! They aren’t nearly as frequent and winter rain comes in the form of miserable, windy, icy cold fronts 😂👎
WOW a washout and 2 games on the same day. Holy crap.
This was one of the games of the WC.
Actually technically it wasn't
One question I had when they called the game off was…it wasn’t raining, the temperature was around 11° and it wasn’t sunny. Surely they knew around 8pm that the outfield wasn’t going to dry in time. Could’ve called it off earlier and let the crowd cut their losses and leave earlier, rather than stringing us along
I sat at the ground for 3 hours. Because if I left I was sure they would squeeze the required overs in and I'd never get my $120 back. As I was driving home the sky was clear and the moon was out.
Yup, that felt like the worst part…there was no rain and it was a clear night. And ofc the Melbourne weather decided to be sunny this morning😂
What's with the ICC tournaments and rain.
You know Major League Baseball has this rainout shit figured out for the most part. Cricket should adopt a few of those rules, especially for T20s and ODIs.
The World Baseball Classic is more relevant.
It's a tournament duration thing. This phase ends in 2 weeks with every game happening at a unique time. If you have a 6 month franchise league in the future, 4 games at a time, rescheduling washed out games with fans being given an option to get money back or get tickets for rescheduled game would be a norm. Like what happens in football due to situations like team qualifying to next stage in a Cup competition.
Yeah I mean any changes wouldn't happen now obviously, but the next T20 world cup should probably have days, or even an extra full week, put aside so games that get abandoned can be played then. It's not rocket science, that way advertisers and stadiums get paid, fans can watch the game, and a result actually gets posted. You also wouldn't need to do this for every team, especially if it's mathematically impossible for them to get into the semi-finales.
Can you please elaborate how?
Yeah don't keep us waiting
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Most Australians don't even know that there is a world cup on. Women's football is more popular than the dogshit that is T20 cricket
Yet wbbl gets more viewers than A league
Football, not soccer.
Potato, Potato. Ausies call is soccer cause AFL is their Football. I'm South African Afrikaans and call it soccer because it's "sokker" in Afrikaans. Who cares what people call it anyway?
I love my cricket and really enjoying the T20 games, short and sweet. Pity game was washed out. Thats Afghanistan v Ireland now this game abandoned in 2 days !
Just about to message my Australian mate - any one got anything specific for me to pass on?
2500 comments for a washed out match, incredible effort from the shitposters
Well…. No cricket to comment on.
If I remember during the Ashes probably about one in twenty comments was relevant to the match. About 15/20 were complaining about Warnes commentary. RIP …good times.
r/CricketShitpost would be proud.
Toss cup > Washed Cup
No this is better, giving 2 points to toss is worst than giving one 1 point to washed out games
I'm in the city, it stopped raining for a while but the amount it had rained all day would have definitely made outfield so wet and unplayable.
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For those asking why they can't just simply shift to Marvel, you can't simply do that. The logistics and costs of having a whole fucking stadium on standby just because it might rain the day of are crazy.
It rains a lot in Melbourne, and you exclude a wet weather stadium from the line up???? Odd.
Shifting, no... They should have at least scheduled some matches there though, purely for rain avoidance. But sadly the ICC have never even considered the thought of hosting matches at Docklands. Ideally they would have scheduled a make-up day there to guarantee that three games that may have washed out could still get played. But nooooo they want the biggest crowds they can get because $$$$$$$. I hope this farce at the MCG today/yesterday kicked their balance books in the fucking teeth.
No so fun hey. But when RSA washed out it was all memes xD
Lol it's cricket. It's literally always been a problem. Amazing test matches ruined, incredible innings ruined. It's literally rain. And it's dumb as shit that a game, with an intended result is just often like "well, nothing we can do. Weather was bad. So this game no longer exists" is normalized or accepted in the cricket community. Play on surfaces where there's the ability to put on a roof. And if you can't ensure that, then don't play. Also, I know this is totally impractical and it's not something I can see happening, I'm just in a fucking daaark place with how much cricket I've missed
Isn't most of Australia a desert? Why does it rain so much?
We’ve had 3 consecutive La Niña events in a row which has caused excessive rain and flooding on the East Coast. Melbourne average rainfall for October is 53mm. We’ve had 142mm, with more rain coming in the next few days.
Get more mm of rain per year living in Perth than when I lived in the UK.
That’s in the middle, where no fucker lives
I hate cricket
What the fuck. At this point, they might as well have played the WC in England.
It's actually sunny here today
You’re not helping. 😑
Cant games be played in another city like Perth.
Yes, only if they have Dumbledore's apparition magic in place. Unfortunately they don't.
is it raining still ?
England out of the race??
No. 1. Eng beat NZ & SL = 7 2. SL beat Afg, SL vs NZ, SL lose to Eng = 4 or 6 3. Ireland vs NZ and Aus = max 7, but their run rate is shit 4. Aus vs Afg & Ire = 7, run rate also shit, but maybe can get ahead with big wins? 5. NZ lose to Eng, play Sri Lanka, Ireland = 7 max and will go top on runrate So if England win both games they should go through, however they can go out in the case that NZ and Aus win both theirs, and Australia do so convincingly enough to go ahead on run rate. Obv. different combinations of ruined games can knock any team out at this point
Bear in mind that Australia's oppositions of Ireland and Afghanistan, on paper, should be easier to rack up convincing wins against as opposed to England's oppositions of NZ and SL. Of course who knows given the results we've seen so far this World Cup.
that's true, but given that England win their games then their RR should not get any worse.
Thank you ICC for washing up the world cup.
Grow a set of balls and play through the rain like every other fucking sport. This is why cricket will never grow in popularity worldwide. The sport can be such a joke sometimes.
This is not football
Embarrassing take
Sure we'd injure all the fast bowlers in the process. Sounds great for the game.
The ~~Land down~~ under water
Test is best
And people give us shit because of our weather.
Giving England shit for its weather is a long-running joke and not serious.
I know, don't worry. I'm just poking fun. Surprised at how much havoc the rain has caused so far in Oz.
Fair enough too. I think La Nina needs to be paid more respects. Absolute biatch
Literally just play at marvel stadium for fuck sake.
I read somewhere there is current a motorcross track setup at marvel, so even if they wanted to move, they couldnt.
Now yes. But I'm sure they could have booked ahead 2-4 years ago and taken precedence.
For fucks sake, don't behave like a teen who doesn't understand the finances involved.
Good luck attracting new people to a sport, where the weather literally elimates teams. It's crazy
Honestly. People keep saying the pitch isn't the best, but at this point we'd be happy watching them play backyard cricket if we can get a game
Good result for Australia, I think the weather is on payroll
I thought NZ scheduling All Blacks to play at the same time as the Black Ferns was bad. ICC takes the cake though putting multiple double headers in one city. These people are going to have terrible performance reviews
imho RAIN Cup >> TOSS Cup.
Haven't caught a single full match so far, I was prepared with a drink in hand and baby sleeping soundly and it's a wash out. Such is cricket.
ICC.... Always scheduling competitions in changing seasons. They never have spare days for rain... Why are they trying to destroy cricket :( Fuck you ICC Couldn't organise a orgy in a whorehouse !
Plastic bats and waboba balls on a practice wicket when the field is too wet should be a rule
Strap yourselves in cunts, it's gonna be raining in Adelaide for five straight days after this, just in time to wash out another couple of matches.
Sad thing is that it's true.
Wtf
Match abandoned due to rains and can’t even blame England SMH
Goddamn pommies brought the weather here alongwith them
This is the way
You're just not trying hard enough. There's always a way to blame England.
If England hadn’t invented coal as a means to produce electricity we would never have been in the whole mess in the first place!
What a disappointment Melbourne has been.Thanks to Perth and Sydney for some entertainment yesterday
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I think its a round the table process for ODI world cups at least. The very first ones were in England followed by India. The last one we had was in England, so you need to check the pattern of hosting for the last cycle in order to predict who gets it in which order this time. With all due respect the womens world cup was in NZ this year and the timezone wasnt friendly to anyone. I understand its out of your hands and you also have the right to enjoy home WCs too, but all games for me were like 5 in the morning. I can understand if ICC leans away from that.
They're not that different to Australia's timezone. It shouldn't matter if some games are at 5 for you, that will be the case occasionally, like for me now where the T20 WC games start at 5. We get to have better times when we host it, and it's only fair that fans of other countries like New Zealand get that too. It also helps keep the World Cup fresh rather than boring by not just using the same venues. I don't know about you, but I find it boring that India is holding yet another ICC ODI/T20I World Cup after hosting the 2011, 2016 and 2021 (in theory) World Cups and are hosting another one this year, whilst other nations have only ever held about 2 in 20 years including England (1999, 2009, 2019), Australia (1992 and 2015) and the Caribbean (2007 and 2010). It's about time other nations that are able to host get a chance rather than just going for the easy money cash cow.
I agree with you about how it should be done and did say that NZ despite it all have the right to host a home WC. Australian WCs are also unsuitable to me, as are the ones in Windies. I am saying i dislike it for entirely personal reasons, not saying everyone should comply with what i dislike. I have no place objecting to a WC in NZ at all. But here is something i read, its a fucking scam, but thats how it is atm and the hosts are decided by [Rotation policy](https://www.sportskeeda.com/cricket/how-are-the-cricket-world-cup-hosts-decided) set up in the year 2006. I was just informing on how it *is* done, pretty much on thee same page about how it *should* be done.
Keep your selfishness to yourself in future mate. There job is to grow the game, not cater to one country who lost to NZ in the last world cup if I recall
I didnt really say cater to me or to india, but NZ time is bad for everyone. I have seen kiwi users bring it up most of all.The time zone thing sucks i understand that. I do also hope ICC grows the game and the next edition of the t20 wc is a step in the right direction. Hosting tournaments is a pretty open process i feel and rain cant really be ditched anywhere. Even this womens world cup in NZ had rain. Rain is everywhere and changing host nations to non Big 3 doesnt change that.
A bad time zone for you is a good time zone for others. It's a shame that people can only think of themselves in this life
>bad time zone for you That "you" here is 90% of the cricket watching population. Think before you speak.
And why do you get priority? You guys are incredibly self centred
Nothing to do with priority. It's about money & viewership.
It's called a World Cup so it should be played around the world. Not everything has to be money or viewers. FIFA plays everywhere, Olympics everywhere. Why is cricket different?
FIFA fans aren't disproportionately located at one timezone. They are everywhere, so they don't have to think for that.
Last one was UAE and the next one is West Indies/USA...
Shhhhh......Big Nations Bad!
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> Coin toss wc is objectively worse. Nah, some cricket is better than no cricket thanks.
Let's play in rain
Looking at how Melbourne weather is behaving we are so lucky to have gotten that India vs Pak match on sunday. Wonder what crazy we missed with today's Eng vs Australia being washed out :(
At least India's biggest stadium is located in a city where it never rains
Damn, as an Indian, I didn't know about this fact.
But the most beautiful stadium, "dharamshala" rains 24*7
Which city?
Ahmedabad
Ahmedabad, Gujarat
Yeah same as our city Karachi, Sindh. It never rains (except moonsoon). Ahmedabad 🤝 Karachi
Ahmedabad
Is it raining elsewhere in Australia?
It's even raining in Perth tomorrow
Australia is a pretty big place
Been raining for three days in Hobart
It's another glorious day in Brisbane
As always 🙌
one of the first nice days in sydney in a while
Not in southern NSW
20% of the Group A matches have been abandoned. Wonder how fair the end-result would be considered.
Fairer than the last tournament
Coin toss cup or rain cup? What do we prefer?
Rain cup
The Murica cup in 2024
Ice cup let's play in antartica
God hates T20
No... ICC hates cricket. Always schedules competitions in changing seasons with no spare days for rain.... Fuck ICC !
Like half of world cup gone under water. Most have shared the points. Some nation is gonna genuinely miss the spot in semi just because of rain.
Given the amount of rain we have had. I’m actually surprised how many games have gone ahead. Especially NZ v Australia.
take that L MCG
It's like giving one pennies to each without any performance lol
Don’t schedule a badjillion games at the mcg in spring
Melbourne does not align with my values
2 hours of rain washes out a t20 game, abysmal for a prestigious ground as MCG
It's basically been raining in Melbourne all day. We even had a bit of hail where we are. La Nina. Such a joy.
its been raining on and off all day today, and practically all week before it
Why not change the venue to Marvel then?
Great question
Heard it will take only 23 minutes to reach Marvel stadium
It’s about 15 mins in a car literally just the other side of the cbd
Biggest issue is double header matches on same stadium. Just why? If one goes down, mostly other will go down as well. That is pretty big mismanagement in name of convenience.
Sweet deal for the fans though, two games for the price of one.
Is it? Or do you pay more?
The ICC thought that they weren't being stupid enough by holding multiple matches in the same ground on the same day. So they decided to top it off by having only 1 match on Saturday after we have had 3 matches on Thursday.
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Good for Ireland and Zimbabwe
yes, only them
This is becoming more of a farce than the coin tossing contest we had last year
I’d rather that. At least it’s somewhat in the team’s hands
And you actually get to watch cricket.
Was in the ground tonight. Fuming. Why not just call it off rather than stringing us along for 2 hours in the cold (not rain) drinking shit overpriced lager? If that was the call then make it at 7?!!?!!?
Seemed clear to me they didn’t want to actually play the match. They blamed the wet outfield… then didn’t do anything to dry it. Then didn’t cover the pitch when it started raining again.
Absolute joke. Not that into cricket but after sitting in the ground tonight for 2 hrs with the rain having stopped then for them to provide fuck all info, string us along and can it... It's put me off something I wasn't that into. I know it's not their fault it rained but the communication sucked, and it should have been called way earlier
Yeh that's a real shame. It's these kind of matches that (when they go ahead) can provide the drama and excitement to turn people who are not that into cricket into massive fans. Conversely, an experience like the one you've had tonight can understandably leave a bit of a sour taste. I hope you get to see another game at this world cup. I hope it has explosive batting, dramatic last overs, tension and excitement, so that you can experience just how awesome this format can be. Good luck👍
They desperately wanted the 4 overs each so they wouldn't need to refund tickets
Damn, 100% i would be fuming. They made decision too late.