Australia v Scotland Report Card

Featuring Antigua rain, muddled comic premises, George Bailey's dog, failed dunks and national traitor, Marcus Stoinis

Antigua Rain
Grade: B-

Before we got to the all-important Australia-Scotland match that would decide whether Scotland or England joined Australia in the Super Eights, there was the all-important England-Namibia match that would decide whether the all-important Australia-Scotland match would, in fact, decide whether Scotland or England joined Australia in the Super Eights.

For a long time, things looked bleak for England, with rain bucketing down and threatening to wash out the match. Fortunately for England, coach Matthew Mott has experience in incredibly rainy, will-knock-the-defending-champions-out-of-the-T20-World-Cup matches. But was captain Jos Buttler as powerful a weather god as Meg Lanning?

While Buttler’s ability to disperse rain clouds was being tested, he and Mott also found the time to entertain the crowd with a little skit they’d conjured up in their dressing room spare time.

MOTT: (sad) The rain continues

BUTTLER: (happy) The reign continues!

MOTT: No, no. The reign looks to be done. 

BUTTLER: We’re done with the rain!

And so on, and so forth.

Look, it didn’t really work when performed, what with all the homophones. But at least they gave it a crack.