smalishah84
The Tiger King
Is playing bad due to the pressure of the ocassion a choke?
I much prefer classic choke to this new choke.CHOKE is now the official drinks of cricketwebdotnetforum
We needed one out of Guptill, Williamson & Taylor to go big (120+) and one of the three blasters (McC, Corey & Ronchi) to fire. Elliott played very well. If we'd finished the powerplay at 175/3 it was game on.It was an overrated NZ batting side.
Hint: Neither of the three sides ****ing choked. CW needs to lay off their obession.I couldn't help posting this after so many SA choke threads and then the question in the other thread asking if India choked
McCullum is just as likely to get out to Starc defending as attacking tbh. and he managed to smack him last time they came head to head, so he backed himself to do it again.I think you have to show a little more respect to Mitchell Stark than that. The chances of that coming off again were very slim indeed.
Take South Africa, my favourite team to watch in this tournament, New Zealand rattled them early. But Faf du Plessis anchored a great comeback. South Africa's run-rate was about 4 an over or a little above that when he got out. But he knew he couldn't do anything more than that against an on-fire Kiwi swing attack. Having got South Africa out of that situation, he got them into a situation where they probably would have scored about 330, before the rain ruined that aspiration.
I said it all week before the game, McCullum will go out in the first over. You can't play that style of cricket all the time and get away with it.
I mean, at the very least, shouldn't he have tried to make contact with the ball before tried to slog out? He has three air-swings, never got close to the ball, and threw away his wicket.
Anyway, I've said enough about McCullum.