No huge complaints. Think we should have batted first but I’m not sure it would have made too much difference. India are much better than us currently and there’s no shame in losing to a good side. But bat first, and have Moeen bowl the overs Curran did, maybe a couple more, and you never know. But the best two teams are in the final, there’s no doubt.
No shame in getting to last 4 in defence of our title. Made a decent fist of it after a bad start and just not good enough when it came to the crunch.
He was given another chance after a very poor showing in last years 50 over World Cup when we finished 7th in the group. OK we got to a semi this time but, as everyone has said, we lost 3 games in total ! Mott should resign as coach and Buttler as captain.
Only beat one good nation too. The rest of the wins were associate nations. I hope South Africa can finally win something. They are the nearly men in all three forms of the game. They have had so many quality players over there years that they should have won something already. The two seasons of their own SA20 has really helped them. They are pretty skint and would have really struggled to survive without it. They got slated for taking a reserve test side to New Zealand, but it was the right decision. To make money they have to have their best players playing in the SA20 so it doesn't make sense to weaken it by having them play in the middle of the night local time on the other side of the world. It's helped them produce some new stars like Baartman. You could make a pretty good South Africa side with the players who haven't played in this tournament. Bavuma, Brevis, Breetzke, Ngidi, Van Der Dussen, Ferreira, Pheklukwayo, Shamsi etc.
Butler has done well with the bat and keeping. Not sure who would be good for captain if he were to be replaced?