Zero Ducks Given

It's a fourth successive defeat for England in the World Cup as the tournament goes from poor to bad to worse to abysmal. They collapsed to a 100-run defeat to India in Lucknow, having won the toss and keeping the home side to 229 runs.

Dan Norcross picks over the bones.

India 229-9 (50 overs): Rohit 87 (101), Suryakumar 49 (47); Willey 3-45

England 129 (34.5 overs): Livingstone 27 (46); Shami 4-22

India won by 100 runs

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It turns out rock bottom has a basement after England's latest embarrassing defeat at the World Cup.

Finny, Dan and Toby react to another shocking performance and try and work out what the hell is going on. In lighter news, Grace Harris continues being a badass and there's been some decent sledging for once!

Plus the Danai Lama returns once again to help with those difficult conversations.

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Whisper it quietly, but Australia are looking good in the World Cup.

Glenn Maxwell hit the 4th fastest ODI century ever, David Warner made his second hundred of the tournament as Australia beat The Netherlands by over 300 runs.

Toby and Dan reflect on the game as well as looking ahead to England's crucial game with Sri Lanka.

Australia 399-8 (50 overs): Maxwell 106 (44), Warner 104 (93); Van Beek 4-74

Netherlands 90 (21 overs): Singh 25 (25); Zampa 4-8

Australia won by 309 runs

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England concede their biggest ever ODI total, fall to their biggest ever defeat and sit on three defeats from four in their World Cup defence (Thanks to Rory Dollard for that).

Dan, in a hotel room at the foot of the Himalayas, and Finny, in a bus, reflect on a capitulation in the heat of Mumbai.

South Africa 399-7 (50 overs): Klaasen 109 (67), Jansen 75* (42)

England 170 (22 overs): Wood 43* (17), Atkinson 35 (21)

South Africa win by 229 runs

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Dan and Finny, separated by a thousand miles, in India with Toby in London round up yet another busy week in cricket.

The World Cup is into its stride with two shocks, England's highest runscorer in Test cricket retires, and there was a record breaking T20 international, but not for the best of reasons...

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One of the greatest upsets in World Cup history as the reigning champions England were beaten by Afghanistan in Delhi.

Dan and Finny look back at a monumental win for one of the so called minnows in the tournament to leave England with a second defeat in three games.

Afghanistan 284 (49.5 overs): Gurbaz 80 (57), Alikhil 58 (66); Rashid 3-42, Wood 2-50

England 215 (40.3 overs): Brook 66 (61); Mujeeb 3-51, Rashid 3-3

Afghanistan won by 69 runs

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Well, this is like nothing you've heard before on Zero Ducks Given.

You've heard of the popular Radio 4 show "Just a Minute" where contestants speak on a subject for 1 minute with deviation, hesitation or repetition.

Welcome to Dan's version where he talks about (mainly) the biggest game in world sport, India v Pakistan, for 9 minutes without stopping. Yes, Dan's monologue is NINE minutes long...

Pakistan 191 (42.5 overs): Babar 50, Rizwan 49; Bumrah 2-19

India 192-3 (30.3 overs): Rohit 86, Shreyas 53*

India won by seven wickets

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After a few (non) daily World Cup episodes the ZDG boys are back together. Finny and Dan have been all over India whilst Toby is back in England. 

They react to what they've seen in the tournament so far including England's win over Bangladesh, how poor the Sri Lankan bowlers are and how good India are looking.  Plus we launch our social media campaign #DanOfTheDay

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Game 7 of the 2023 Cricket World Cup saw England comprehensively beat Bangladesh by 137 runs in Dharamsala, thanks to 140 by Dawid Malan in just 107 balls and 4-43 by Reece Topley

Finny and Dan look back at England's first win of the tournament.

England 364-9 (50 overs): Malan 140 (107), Root 82 (68); Mahedi Hasan 4-71

Bangladesh 227 (48.2 overs): Das 76 (66), Mushfiqur 51 (64); Topley 4-43

England win by 137 runs

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Game 5 of the 2023 Cricket World Cup saw the favourites India beat Australia by 6 wickets in Chennai, but it wasn't without drama and it needed Virat Kohli to steady the innings.

The fabulous Alex Hartley joins Dan to look back not just on this match, but also the others played in the last few days (if Dan can remember...)

Australia 199 (49.3 overs): Smith 46, Warner 41; Jadeja 3-28, Bumrah 2-35

India 201-4 (41.2 overs): Rahul 97*, Kohli 85; Hazlewood 3-38

India won by six wickets

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