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staryu-valley t1_itg5vej wrote

Pakistan snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

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Swathe88 OP t1_itg630z wrote

Somebody check Nawaz' paypal

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SABJP t1_itg7fbr wrote

Babar is at fault too. Why would you save your last over for a spinner who went for 20 runs in same match? That was stupid move.

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SHYtAN_KD t1_itgbftk wrote

For me it was Ravi Ashwin! Man played the last ball with 1000 IQ

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Big-Shtick t1_iti9i2z wrote

Thanks to Jomboy, I have a great idea of what’s going on. Guy explains the sport well.

Congrats fam.

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kroxigor01 t1_ith2qkf wrote

It's better to put your worst bowler last.

Imagine they're chasing 24 from the last 2 and you bowl the crap bowler first and they tonk him for 20. Now your good bowler is defending 4 runs and he can't do shit.

Contrast to bowling the good bowler first, the batsmen will definitely try to score more than 4 runs and maybe they'll get out, making the shit bowler have a worse batsmen at the crease and maybe now he won't leak so many!

I think this is broadly true for the whole innings, not withstanding fielding restriction (powerplay) specialists and specific batsmen match ups (spinner against a batsmen bad against spin). You'd prefer to bowl your best bowler in the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th over.

The best case scenario is that your best 3 bowlers finish the job, taking 10 wickets lol. Then they never even get to look at your 2 worst bowlers!

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we_all_gon_die_ t1_ithp9nx wrote

Happened twice to Bhuvaneshwar in Asia Cup. Gave away 18-20 runs in second last over. Left 6 and 7 runs for Arshdeep to defend. Which he tried to defend brilliantly.

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imnotmarvin t1_itiwz0y wrote

As an American trying to get into cricket, I have no idea what you just said but it sounded smart.

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shivaenough t1_itkivi8 wrote

Let me try to explain in different way. If you are at exam and you are trying to score as much as possible. You see you have 5 minutes remaining with 5 questions 3 easy, 2 tough problems.

if you will start with trying to solve easy ones first then going for tough one. You will have better chances of scoring.

Or if you will try to solve tough ones first, then maybe due to time pressure you might make mistakes and have to re-do solutions midway. Scoring less because you couldn't do easy ones too because no time left for them.

Here same with bowling team, if they would send their less experienced bowlers first, they are giving batters chance to score much because this bowler might not perform well under pressure or batters can read them well.

But if you send your best bowler first batters will still try to hit him, but they would also feel the pressure and maybe make mistakes while trying to maximize runs and gets out.

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Picaloco86 t1_ithdslp wrote

Nawaz bowled the 13th over, where he got smashed...what I guess Babar was looking for was one his fast bowlers to take a wkt, preferably Kohli, and then reintroduce Nawaz as soon as that happened..since we didn't lose a wkt, Babar had little choice but to leave Nawaz with the last over.

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-Not-Racist- t1_ithw6sk wrote

Because India's specialist finisher DK Popa is not good against spin

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bharat4ever t1_itirczf wrote

For me it was the right decision. He was trying to shape the innings in Pakistan's favour before it reached the last over. He was hoping the fast bowlers could get wickets which didn't happen.

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WaynneGretzky t1_ithexop wrote

If this comment is a joke, then funny.

But Nawaz is no where at fault. It wasn't a mammoth score on his tab to defend. Then bowling in death and he didn't get battered by some tailenders, it was Virat Kohli. Bowling the 20th over as a spinner on a pacers' pitch wasn't meant to be. Babar fucked up, big time.

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Haffaith t1_ithszde wrote

Neither of them fucked up. Babar felt, justifiably so, that if Virat bats 20 overs, he’ll win it for India. So I gotta get my best bowler in to get him out. He just got out batted by Virat. Nothing you can do other than go back in time and bat better

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catdogfishfrog t1_itipy85 wrote

He bowled a waist high full toss and multiple wides it's definitely his fault

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downtimeredditor t1_itgvx8j wrote

They probably shouldn't have watched a motivational video made by the Atlanta Falcons

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Chief-_-Wiggum t1_itjyae9 wrote

Was thinking this exact same thing while watching last night... They did everything wrong to allow India to even get close to win..

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SABJP t1_itg73m9 wrote

What a match. Kohli played like a madman. One of his greatest innings.

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Swathe88 OP t1_itg7g8a wrote

He was seeing it like a beach ball. Didn't matter where they put it he sent it over the fence. The amount of composure and ability to drag that deficit back is just unfathomable.

I can't remember seeing anything like it.

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ducky7goofy t1_itg9dzd wrote

Insane one of the best t20I matches I've ever seen with one of the best innings. Cricket is very healthy with Ind v Pak games as competitive thrillers.

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Every-Citron1998 t1_itga2z9 wrote

Hilarious the Melbourne Cricket Ground played Kashmir during the epic final over. Such a crazy finish with drama that would be hard to match in any sport.

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mccrrll t1_itgpln5 wrote

Dying laughing at the apparent trolling.

Did my due diligence and asked the internet: Melbourne Cricket Ground, T20, Kashmir. No luck though. Hopefully someone will come through with a vid because that’s just too rich.

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awkward2amazing t1_ithpam1 wrote

Can you explain what happened?

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razor_eddie t1_itiqf6z wrote

India and Pakistan aren't fond of each other.

One of the places it comes to a head is in the disputed province of Kashmir. It's a gorgeous, mountainous region that is currently being disputed between India, Pakistan and China.

Until this recent unpleasantess in Ukraine, it was my personal pick for "most likely place for a nuclear war to break out".

So, playing Kashmir, the Led Zepplin song can be seen as an excellent troll by the Australians (who are hosting the match) to both sides.

(you may know the riff from Puff Daddy (as he was then) sampling it for the theme to 1998s Godzilla movie)

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Mahameghabahana t1_itk5o4n wrote

Why would indians mind though? Kashmir is an indian state.

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razor_eddie t1_itk9gv1 wrote

I mean this in the nicest possible way.

You need to go outside, and have a walk.

(This particular inanity actually took longer than I expected. Maybe people are maturing?)

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Mahameghabahana t1_itke35z wrote

My guy indian think kashmir is the state of their, indian states have different ethnicities, culture and language. Many indian states also have a trend of sub-nationalism or state nationalism. The problem of Indians isn't kashmir but the separatists i kashmir.

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razor_eddie t1_itkjd8l wrote

My guy, just MENTIONING Kashmir has trolled the hell out of you.

I didn't even mean to. All I was doing was pointing out that Kashmir is under dispute.

As long as you don't nuke anyone, I don't give the tiniest fuck what happens there. I find the entire thing incredibly stupid, everyone involved with it equally stupid, on all sides, and a complete and utter waste of time to even think about.

I have spared 2 minutes to type this out, but that's about as much as I care about it.

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agoia t1_itjth7q wrote

Hear my cry, hear my call.

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razor_eddie t1_itjuduv wrote

The Tommy Dorsey song?

I don't get why, mind you.

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philster666 t1_itgorwg wrote

I heard that too, i thought i was imagining it. Thinking there was no way they’d do that .

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garytyrrell t1_itgqmlj wrote

Anyone have a link to highlights? I don’t watch cricket, but lots of people saying it’s the best game they’ve seen - would love to get a glimpse.

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A-British-Indian t1_itgtgby wrote

Unfortunately the 5 minute highlights don't do it justice, misses out a few important points. If you happen to have ESPN+ I believe the full match replay is there, and it might be worth watching through the second half of that.

Edit: unofficial but significantly better.

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atherw3 t1_itgsu4r wrote

Here's the final over

If you're confused about the terms I've explained some in layman...

No ball = Ball went over the waist height of the batsman (in this video)

Free hit = Basically an extra life for the next ball only (batsman can hit as he wishes)

Wide = The ball was bowled far away from the batsman

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ispeakdatruf t1_ith3vgw wrote

> Here's the final over

.... aaaand just like that it's taken down. Any other sources?

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gaseous_defector t1_itgxp6t wrote

I’ve had this question for a while now: I see a ton of balls that are above the batters waist, why are most not considered no balls?

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atherw3 t1_itgyenn wrote

if the ball bounces off the ground and goes above waist it's a fair ball... but if the bowler throws it directly as if he wanted to hit the player it's a no ball

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HUGE_MICROPENIS t1_itgymq3 wrote

If it bounces it can go up to the batters head, it only has to stay below the waist if it’s on the full

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diuturnal t1_itifs94 wrote

Just give it another hour, jomboy will have a full breakdown.

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Nizzleson t1_itktanc wrote

There are internet denizens here who will have links for you, but all I can offer is a bit of advice.

A truly great cricket match is a journey. Highlights are fine, but I really do recommend a leap of faith with a game like this.

World cup on Aussie soil. 90,000+ in attendance at the massive, hallowed MCG. One of the great rivalries. Established legends on both teams. And you already know it's a fucking trip of a game.

Just say "fuck it."

Grab six beers and some snacks.

Make an evening of it. It's worth it.

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See_A_Squared t1_itgcqjq wrote

Insane game of cricket! It went from being reported to be washed out due to rain to being one of the greatest games in T20 cricket. Incredible.

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lokesh1218 t1_itgxfak wrote

Those 2 sixes by Kohli off Haris in 19th over should be the best shots ever played by a cricketer.

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GamerA_S t1_itg6jeu wrote

King Kohli

I mean I don't even care what anyone says He is always there to carry us He is my goat

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RijDuck t1_itglqjo wrote

Just watched the highlights, what a fucking game

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TimeTraveller2022 t1_itgvoyy wrote

Highlights will not do justice to the monstrosity that I have witnessed today

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tahajc t1_itgg0ub wrote

I won't say too much about Nawaz because this just wasn't his day and man was crazy nervous. But Kohli is Kohli, and as always, he is the one who carries Team India. Ifti Chacha chewed the highest quality niswar for todays amazing batting. Pandya being a literal bro to Kohli and stood by him. Rauf was unlucky with 2 sixes from Kohli but man was on fire. This was perhaps the best cricket match I have ever seen. Stadium atmosphere, the drama, the heartattacks, the match heading into the last ball. BEST. CRICKET. MATCH. EVER.

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evolvedapprentice t1_itj4004 wrote

>Rauf was unlucky with 2 sixes

This was the turning point. Up until then I thought Pakistan had it in the bad, even with a spinner in the final over. Such a shame for Rauf, he had such an amazing game up until then. If he only concedes 4-8runs off those last two balls, then I think Pakistan win. But Kohli pulled it off

Great game

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tommypopz t1_itgq96n wrote

That’s the greatest t20 match I’ve ever watched

The king is back. Kohli is the greatest white ball bat of all time

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ryemigie t1_itgsxxr wrote

The celebrations were nuts in Parramatta lol

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what_it_dude t1_itgty5s wrote

I’m going to need Jomboy to breakdown this game for me so I can fully appreciate it.

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Savings-Secretary-78 t1_ithxu37 wrote

Fucking the greatest t20 match ever, you can even say what is going to happen in next ball,

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treycartier91 t1_itgy1fj wrote

A game so exciting it could trigger ww3

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wasbatmanright t1_ithoaj0 wrote

So following are the rules and explanation . 11 players play from each team and 2 players " bat" and all 11 in opposition "Field ! Pak batted first and made 159 points .. let's call them runs! They also lost 6 players out their 11 in the process! India had to make 1 run more to win....so 160 runs in just 120 opportunities which we call balls!
They made it after an insane finale on the last ball all thanks to one of the Greatest modern players "Virat Kohli". India and Pakistan have relations as friendly as Israel , Palestine or Ukraine and Russia! Needless to say more than 1.8 billion people were invested in probably the fiercest sporting rivalry ever and India came on top this time!

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Dz4 t1_itjelku wrote

Over 90,000 fans at the ground on a Sunday night. I've literally never heard the MCG so loud. Unreal atmosphere

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swagzzuu t1_itghdae wrote

Best game i ever watched

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Daybreak_99 t1_itgj5d6 wrote

That was a beautiful game. Enjoyed it till the end.

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h3isenburg t1_itgwf16 wrote

Those last 3 overs were wbaaaaaaaa

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Jcod47 t1_ith9yu8 wrote

What a freaking game

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flossdog t1_iti4h3m wrote

I take it the 160 and 159 is the final score (total runs). What do the 6 and 8 refer to?

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MikeLilPauseRodick t1_itiytao wrote

How can I watch this? In USA if it helps.

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nasadiya_sukta t1_itmcuup wrote

ESPN+ has it, and will keep it up for a few days to be replayed. Other than that, not sure.

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shivaenough t1_itkjxrg wrote

If you want to watch World Cup live then might try willow (check before, they stream most of tournament, but still better to check before).

Hotstar is available is US, I guess, so you can check that too. Highlights are free for every sports, so if you want to watch highlights then hotstar should be your option.

Other options for highlights:- Aus cricket (YouTube channel) , ICC TV (most of the time they don't upload on same day though, they might have uploaded by now ) .

ESPN+ too (not sure about it though)

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shadowknight094 t1_itmn673 wrote

Willow doesn't have world cup. But you get promo code for sling. If in usa espn plus is what I would recommend. Also you cannot cancel willow subscription by yourself. You need to email them etc.

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thegreatbrah t1_ithvjf8 wrote

Idk how cricket works. Why is there two different numbers for the scores?

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-Not-Racist- t1_iti1kl4 wrote

Cricket has 3 formats, this one is called T20 and is played over two innings.

Both teams get 120 balls (pitches) in 20 overs of 6 balls each to score as much as they can with 10 outs. One player can bowl 4 overs at Max and can not bowl consecutive overs. Batter once out can not bat again in the game.

Scoring is done by hitting the ball and then running in between the two wickets on the ground. If you hit the ball and it goes aerial outside the boundary circle you get six runs, if the ball Crosses the boundary circle after hitting the ground you get 4 runs.

After the 120 balls are over or all 10 outs are done the inning ends for the team batting first and then other team comes to bat. The team batting second has to score as many runs as scored by the team that batted first, the match ends if they outscore the first team.

The top 7 players can bat properly, after that it is the bowlers who can not bat that well as 5 of them bowl 4 overs each to complete the 20. In some cases there are all rounder players who can bat and bowl but most players do only one thing.

Here Pakistan Scored 159 in their 20 overs losing 8 batters and india scored 160 in their 20 overs losing 6 batters. Winning on the last ball possible.

This match was great because Pakistan have Babar and Rizwan, two of the best batsmen in this format in recent times, both of them failed to score. Other batters took them to 159 which is not that High a score.

India's batting struggled a lot , but we have King Kohli, the absolute Best Batter in the last decade at this sport , who sadly had been going through a rough phase in the same time as the two Pakistani batters rose to the top. Not today evidently as he single handedly with very little support won us the game.

We needed 28 runs of the last 8 balls, which is something that is not happening 99 percent of the time. But Kohli hit 2 sixes , both of them were shots that looked so fucking good. Absolute shots of the tournament already , no matching them. Then with 16 needed of the last 6, we lost a wicket on the first ball. 1 run on the second, 2 runs on the third. Now needed 13 runs in 3 balls, one good ball and india would have lost. The ball was shit so Kohli hit it for another six, now 7 of 2 But wait, the Pakistani Bowler Mohammad Nawaz bowled a no ball, a no ball is an illegitimate delivery which gives the batting team one run extra and the ball is not counted but the runs are counted. The ball after no ball is a free hit, which counts but you cannot get out on that ball.

So now it's 6 off 3 plus it's a free hit. Next ball is a wide, a wide is a ball that is outside the reach of the batter, gives one run and does not count. Now 5 of 3, still a free hit. Next ball Kohli misses and it hits his wickets, normally that means you are out but it is a free hit so they run across 3 times and get 3 runs. Now 2 needed of 2, India certain to win celebrations up and running. Dinesh Karthik faces the next ball, and is out. Fucking hell

Now Pakistan is right back in the game, new batter Ashwin faces the final ball. 2 off 1, if he scores 2 we win of he's out Pakistan wins, if he scores 1 it is super over. Pakistani Bowler bowls a wide, horrible bowling at such a key stage made me and my friends literally jump up with excitement laughing at him. last ball Ashwin plays it as he does every single thing in his life, ethically and takes india home.

Thanks for Reading 🎇, Happy Diwali

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ismh1 t1_itirh1z wrote

Amazing write-up! Thank you.

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vouwrfract t1_ithzerv wrote

The first number is the actual score (the runs). The second number indicates how many batters were out trying to get that score (you can lose a maximum of 10 batsmen after which your team can no longer bat). So for the purposes of determining the winner you can ignore the second number, but it reveals probably how exciting the game must have been, etc.

For example, if India had got 160/1 chasing Pakistan's 159/8, you know that Pakistan never really managed to get many Indians out (only one), so it was easy for India. Here it's more of a parity with India getting 8 Pakistani batters out and Pakistan getting 6.

But of course nothing can tell the whole story as just watching the game - you normally feel a 3-1 victory was easier than a 1-0 victory in football in general, but it could've been a late-stage comeback from 0-1 to 3-1, etc., which you wouldn't know unless you watched the game.

Edit: Also don't mind the downvotes. We don't learn without asking.

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Risc_Terilia t1_ithyh6o wrote

The number of runs the team scored and how many wickets ("outs" I think they're called in baseball) they conceded. It's actually somewhat anachronistic in this form of cricket since the amount of overs gone is usually more important than the amount of wickets you're down. It's just that these are the usual factors in longer and older forms of the game.

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jaysmoove42 t1_ititiql wrote

Removal of recency bias if possible but how does this compare to the Australia v South Africa world cup game?

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pulsarian_13 t1_itlm5dl wrote

One of the best game of cricket I've ever seen

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shahoftheworld t1_ithm5jq wrote

I don’t know much about cricket. How do I read that score? Is the second number a denominator?

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JagsFraz71 t1_ithuxl3 wrote

Runs / Wickets.

So each team has 120 balls to bat in T20 cricket (An “over” is 6 balls so 20 overs, hence T20). If a team has ten batters out then the innings ends regardless of balls bowled.

So 100/2 for example would mean that the team had scored 100 runs with 2 batters out.

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NotABCDinFL t1_ithv0y9 wrote

It's the wickets that Pakistan was able to take. Wicket = Number of Indian batsmen that played and were ousted.

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vouwrfract t1_ithyq8r wrote

Number of batsmen out. As long as it's less than 10 you can ignore it to determine who won.

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SavoryBagels t1_itirxl6 wrote

Ahahahahhahahhahahahahagagagagagaggaaggagagag

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sescobreezy727 t1_itjmqsk wrote

Let’s not emanate this anymore. @advancepublications

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Reddit_Pastor_4676 t1_iti0k35 wrote

Help me, Cat Rescue and Release, How is it working?

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NavyNUCa t1_ithiaz2 wrote

Any stampedes yet?

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McNugget63 t1_itgxwdj wrote

Can someone explain in NBA terms

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Ngothadei t1_ithdb3c wrote

India down by 30 points in the final quarter and ended up winning the match with a buzzer beater and their best player (LeBron?? of Cricket) showed up today with an absolute master class.

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atherw3 t1_ith3jhn wrote

Toronto Kawhi's game winning shot over Embiid

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stash0606 t1_ithl306 wrote

But add about 75 years of political, geographical, religious, nuclear tension to it.

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chackosama t1_ith5pyp wrote

India scored a buzzer beater to take the dub over their fiercest rivals.

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trtryt t1_ithwphy wrote

India down by 15 with a minute left and Kohli hits three 3s in that minute

(8 balls, 28 runs to get)

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lachjeff t1_itgec0m wrote

Great game. Shame it was ruined by a shocking umpiring call in the final over

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anzababa t1_iti2oyr wrote

don't know why you're being downvoted. umpiring was atrocious in the last over

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cinred t1_ith6zr9 wrote

I don't follow soccer but that's gotta be the worst soccer/world cup/tournament icon ever. It looks like it belongs on a juice box from the 1980s.

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