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England v Netherlands, World T20, Group 2, Chittagong
March 31, 2014
A new low, a nether nether land
England lose to Netherlands for the second time in the World T20. Twitter explores with glee, sarcasm and schadenfreude.
The #Report on Cricinfo has been delayed due to the volume of tweets to sift through... #wt20
— Innocent Bystander (@InnoBystander) March 31, 2014
But we eventually managed to put some of the best tweets together. Here they are.
Mentally, England are already at cruising altitude, somewhere over the Caspian Sea. Nearly home boys, nearly home...
— Andrew Miller (@miller_cricket) March 31, 2014
Oh! Just caught up on the #wr20 #cricket scores and see that England got humiliated and reached a new low; a nether nether land.
— Mohan Krishnamoorthy (@mohank) March 31, 2014
What a way to finish of an amazing few weeks in Bangladesh!! Opportunities like this don't present themselves every day!! #T20WC #oranje
— Tom Cooper (@tomcooper26) March 31, 2014
English cricket is currently an Elton John album (without the top 40 hit). Too Low for Zero. #wt20
— Dileep Premachandran (@SpiceBoxofEarth) March 31, 2014
@NeilDrysdale Collingwood rethink pic.twitter.com/mTelPzcJfW
— Cameron (@Cameron1953) March 31, 2014
Always felt England had one more trick up their sleeve this winter.
— Alan Tyers (@alantyers) March 31, 2014
Would love to be the guy crafting a press release announcing Ashley Giles' appointment as head coach. You could really have fun with it.
— King Cricket (@TheKingsTweets) March 31, 2014
Downton, Feb 5th : "This is now a #NewEra." Broad, Mar 29th: "It's a #NewEra" Board, Mar 31st: "It's a bit of a #NewEra" #EngvNed #WT20
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) March 31, 2014
Nasser on Giles' job prospects: "You don't want to go into that meeting with a CV saying 'lost to the Netherlands last game'."
— Dave Tickner (@tickerscricket) March 31, 2014
Giles admits his mistake in asking team to "humiliate the boys in orange." Says he understands why they thot that meant themselves #SolarRed
— karachikhatmal (@karachikhatmal) March 31, 2014
RT if you think @StuartBroad8 can save ENG !
* Stu's mother closes the app and puts her phone down.
#ENGvNeth #Wt20 #wt20cup
— Fastbowler (@johnvdw) March 31, 2014
its looking like this tournament is going in the same place as the rest of the winter. In the "it never happened" bank in my mind #EngvNeth
— Mark Long (@MarkLong06) March 31, 2014
Stuart Broad: "England have lost players like @KP24." ECB had instructed him to be referred to as "He Whose Name Shall Not Be Spoken"
— Alternative Cricket (@AltCricket) March 31, 2014
Jesus, Broad just mentioned KP. ECB about to go into meltdown.
— The Old Batsman (@theoldbatsman) March 31, 2014
England's T20 record against the Netherlands (most recent first): L L #wt20
— Stick Cricket (@stickcricket) March 31, 2014
I miss the days when Ted Dexter picked the England team. At least that was just incompetence, rather than willful incompetence.
— Pavilion Opinions (@pavilionopinion) March 31, 2014
Their latest kit RT @karachikhatmal: Sacking KP or appointing Moyes?
Which was the worst British sporting decision of this millennium?
— Shaheryar Mirza (@mirza9) March 31, 2014
England are a happy cricket team. #TheOnlyWayIsEthics #EngvNed #WT20 pic.twitter.com/osgv6HNLen
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) March 31, 2014
What a World Cup it has been! We came, we saw, we fought, we learnt and in the end of it all we took away something we deserved! You beauty!
— Wesley Barresi (@Pepe_Barezi) March 31, 2014
Only way this could be more perfect is if KP found the Dutch guys tonight and tweeted celebration pics wearing orange. #EngvNed #wt20
— Andrew Fernando (@andrewffernando) March 31, 2014
ECB confirm three-man shortlist for head coach's job: Ashley Giles, David Moyes, Tim Sherwood.
— Dave Tickner (@tickerscricket) March 31, 2014
It never goes down well when you steal your opponents' colours
— Andrew Miller (@miller_cricket) March 31, 2014
Anyhow, enough of the minnows, now time for the proper cricket sides to play... #wt20 #engvned #slvnz
— Innocent Bystander (@InnoBystander) March 31, 2014
They could show the England innings again while the Sri Lankan national anthem is on...#NZvSL #WT20
— Freddie Wilde (@fwildecricket) March 31, 2014
England will have landed at Heathrow before the Lankan anthem has finished.
— Peter (@_Peter1082) March 31, 2014
@sambitbal @Gomorezvidinha England have been fun, but where do they go from here? Does anybody have a real plan for England? #wt20
— Innocent Bystander (@InnoBystander) March 31, 2014
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I liked Ricky Ponting's comments on Sky. England were on a decline when the Ashes series started end of 2013 and have not recovered and rebuilt yet. It will take time. If one looks back to England v India 2011, India went through similar problems with players past their peak after a period of huge success (world cup win, no 1 test team). Look at the generally successful Indian cricket now with its younger players!
That is what England should strive to do, let the younger players start to hold the fort in ALL formats of the game.
LOL
That last one was pure gold.
Also, will there be one of SL vs NZ?
Well done Ashley! As they say " Actions speaks louder then words"! Good luck for The Job.
why not netherlands hire KP as gun for hire. Then netherlands can beat Bangladesh and even west indies
I can just imagine people from the ECB with heads in hands when Broad mentioned Kevin Pietersen.
It is a HUGE MESS. The ECB has serious problems at the moment.
"We did 2 runs more than the Aussies did in the game that they were knocked out" - Broad and Giles grope around for a silver lining. *grin*
Congratulation Netherland
Why don't the associate teams get together and select an ``Associate World XI" side and pit this side against the top teams in tournaments. I think this would actually be a strong side and win more games against top sides. Also, this side will be continually changing because there is nice incentive for players to improve and compete to get into this side. If this team plays in a decent amount of games against the test playing nations then the improvement to associate players would happen at a faster rate than it is happening now. I also believe you will get better quality players produced from this idea.
Good job Holland. One bad day against the SL. Otherwise, almost beat the Saffers and now the English win. Want to see more of associates in T20 events. Maybe add an associate team in every bilateral T20 series to spice things up?
At the moment, if Holland opened the batting with Van Persie and Johnny Heitinga, they'd still beat us!!
Kevin Pietersen must be kicking himself. He should have signed up to play for the Netherlands team. He would have got his revenge today and NL may have made it to the semis.
Another proud addition to Giles Clarke's proud ECB legacy.
Orange goes pear shaped eh! Bring back KP as T20 captain.