Amazing.
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Realised that I would prefer Australia to win this and don't feel good about it.
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I also feel like that. It's strange. I need to have a word with myself.
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Why? I've largely stopped following cricket over the last decade due to a lack of broadcasting and occupying myself with big shiny North American sports, but since when did India become less liked as a cricketing nation than Australia?
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Not sure they have. I was just saying how I weirdly felt about it.
India deserve to win it for their overall play to be fair. And actually, I don’t give too many fucks either way. -
The Indian players are less objectionable, it's just the whole tournament has felt like a stitch up to deliver an Indian victory and it'd be funny for a record crowd to silently file out as australia won in front of nobody.
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There is never any excuse for wanting Australia to win. You should feel utterly disgusted with yourself. I would have more respect had you slept with Suella Braverman.
That said, playing the final in the Narendra Modi stadium and India getting truly spanked while he watches on does have a big lining of silver.
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I can see the argument that an interminable tournament, teed up for india to win, is going to be more funny if they corpse in the final.
It's never going to be enough to overcome the first rule of sport: "Anyone but Australia".
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Fucksake India.
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I feel ashamed. If it helps in mitigation, by the end I’d reverted to type and was hoping Australia would do the big collapse.
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Although not hanging around to see the trophy be awarded makes a case against that.
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154 off 188 balls for Keaton Jennings against India A for England's reserves. (Lions is a dumb name.) He's 31 now, they presumably wouldn't bother with him if they weren't considering him, at worst as a reserve, for the grown-ups tour.
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What other crickets are going on? Perhaps they struggled to put a side together?
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England pick three spinners and Wood as the only seamer for the first test. Wonder if that means Stokes is fit enough to bowl a bit.
1 Zak Crawley, 2 Ben Duckett, 3 Ollie Pope, 4 Joe Root, 5 Jonny Bairstow, 6 Ben Stokes, 7 Ben Foakes (wk), 8 Rehan Ahmed, 9 Mark Wood, 10 Tom Hartley, 11 Jack Leach
Haven't really followed the story but Shoaib Bashir appears to have had difficulties getting a visa to tour and been turned away at the airport because his parents are from Pakistan. That's really not good but I saw a comparison with England calling off the SA tour because of Basil D'Oliveria, which seems over the top, unless India outright refuse him.
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Not according to this www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/68078567
