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I can't see any cricket, and I've not found any webcasts. Sad. I'm sticking with Australia to win. There have been some real suprises, the poor performance of South Africa is mystifying.
Right now India are charging against Pakistan, they scored 27 off the first 2 overs!
India 139/2 off 19 overs !!!
With Sachin on fire like this maybe the match will be over in another 20 overs or so !!!
Sachin completes 12000 runs in ODIs !!!
Jeez, Pakistan is going to get a beating today. I feel sorry for them.
Personally, I hate this game. I feel it's only for the aged class. I don't have patience to sit for 8+ hrs to watch a single match, while the result can be judged in the very first few hours itself. But there are people who sit even 5 days continous to watch the Test matches of this game.
India has given a little over publicity to the players of this game, something they don't deserve. There is also overflow of money on this game here, while there are better games to be supported like football, there's profuse waste of money spent on this game.
>> result can be judged in the very first few hours itself. <<
whew ! maybe Nostradamus took a few lessons from you !
>> India has given a little over publicity to the players of this game, something they don't deserve. There is also overflow of money on this game here, while there are better games to be supported like football, there's profuse waste of money spent on this game. <<
face it dude. They are professionals like you and me. They go out for their job everyday and get paid for it. Where are people like you when these cricketers get injured and are out of sport for a season which makes them go without pay for as long as they turn fit and return to the side. Kumble from your town was injured and was out of cricket for over a year without pay. Did we see you raising hell over that ? ... I still do not figure out how you allege a 'waste of money' over here.
>whew ! maybe Nostradamus took a few lessons from you !
Pathetic sense of humour you have!
Most of the players in the Indian team are professionals/big shots. For instance, Ganguly is supposed to be a prince in his hometown, Kumble/Srinath is an engineer, etc. I'm sure none of them would die of starvation if they went out off the field even for years, because by now they are all millionaires.
>They are professionals like you and me
I never disagreed they were not professionals, but only said, they have been given something in excess, something they don't deserve even in the lowest quantity. Look at their play, look at the players, they all play for themselves, not for the team. What happened to the Match Fixing scam that was unleashed, where almost every Indian player was accused?
I don't have any hatred to their income from this game, nor do I envy their publicity, but because of people like you, who support things for no cause, this game has reached where it is today in India. It has become a religion, and their players their gods, what a shame.
>Kumble from your town was injured and was out of cricket for over a year without pay. Did we see you raising hell over that ..
He is still alive, neither was his life at peril due to lack of income. If you are so bothered about him, what have you done to help him?
Crores of rupees are spent on this game annually, if only these funds were transferred to some deserving charity cause, would have helped the needy very much.
Come on Man.. It is a game.. So what if it is given importance.. let it be if people like it... And the money is being spent by companies not by the govt... And lot of foreign Exchange is coming into India due to this game....Quote:
Originally posted by shaik786
>whew ! maybe Nostradamus took a few lessons from you !
Pathetic sense of humour you have!
Most of the players in the Indian team are professionals/big shots. For instance, Ganguly is supposed to be a prince in his hometown, Kumble/Srinath is an engineer, etc. I'm sure none of them would die of starvation if they went out off the field even for years, because by now they are all millionaires.
>They are professionals like you and me
I never disagreed they were not professionals, but only said, they have been given something in excess, something they don't deserve even in the lowest quantity. Look at their play, look at the players, they all play for themselves, not for the team. What happened to the Match Fixing scam that was unleashed, where almost every Indian player was accused?
I don't have any hatred to their income from this game, nor do I envy their publicity, but because of people like you, who support things for no cause, this game has reached where it is today in India. It has become a religion, and their players their gods, what a shame.
>Kumble from your town was injured and was out of cricket for over a year without pay. Did we see you raising hell over that ..
He is still alive, neither was his life at peril due to lack of income. If you are so bothered about him, what have you done to help him?
Crores of rupees are spent on this game annually, if only these funds were transferred to some deserving charity cause, would have helped the needy very much.
It is a religion i agree. so is foot ball..
With the departure of Tendulkar, the run rate has dropped to a crawl. Interesting match.
well i think they were playig safe..Quote:
Originally posted by adrianxw
With the departure of Tendulkar, the run rate has dropped to a crawl. Interesting match.
Any way India has won... I guess pakistanis have started to buy rotten eggs and tomatoes back home...:D
As I said on the other thread, not a single maiden over. Obviously a good batting track. Both Shoaib Akhtar and Ashish Nehra, who have played so well before went for over 70 runs from their 10.
An awful lot of extras from both sides as well. 55 in the match.
>How many of you watching Cricket?
I don't watch cricket. Not that I don't like it, but here in the Netherlands it is not a popular sport, so there is very little of it on TV, radio and in the newspapers. I have seen several small pieces of cricket-games on BBC, while zapping on TV, but I didn't understand it.
>>> very little of it on TV,
Not even when Holland are playing? I think the Holland v Namibia game on Monday will be quite entertaining.
Congratulations to India !!!! This is the 4th Time in WC.
Yeah, I do strongly agree with you. Considering time, Cricket is very expensive game (I guess most expensive). It Takes lot of time of lots of people, takes lots of space, time of media, etc. Most important is time of spectators. It's too much.Quote:
Originally posted by shaik786
Personally, I hate this game. I feel it's only for the aged class. I don't have patience to sit for 8+ hrs to watch a single match, while the result can be judged in the very first few hours itself. But there are people who sit even 5 days continous to watch the Test matches of this game.
Is it a true story that Hitlar killed the German Cricket Team long ago because of 5 day long test match ended without any result. :)
England needs the win against Australia.
I'm sure it will tough right now.
>>> (I guess most expensive)
Round the world yacht racing?
>>> Takes lots of time of lots of people
It's their time, if they want to spend it doing something they like, what's the problem?
>>> takes lots of space
Less space then a golf course for example.
>>> time of media
Who cares about that! If they weren't reporting on a cricket match, they'd be out creating trouble somewhere else.
>>> England needs the win against Australia.
Yes they do. I was reading Nasser Hussein's comments about the way to beat Australia, and that England would take the game to the Aussies. I had a smile on my lips when I read it.
So I open the BBC's ball-by-ball service and found England are taking the game to the Aussies by collapsing majestically after a rather fine start - odd, I don't remember Nasser saying anything about that in the plan!
England 204 for 8 off 50
Australia 0 for 0 off 0 *** yet to win sorry, I mean bat ***
Andy Bichel is 7 for 20 of his 10, what a performance.
Got to go out now, no more updates for the time being, expect game to be over by the time I get back, so I'll add "Congratulations Australia" now.
>Not even when Holland are playing? I think the Holland v
>Namibia game on Monday will be quite entertaining.
When Holland is playing, perhaps there will be a few minutes of the game on TV in the sport program in the evening. But most of the time will be on soccer and some other more popular sports here. Sometimes, especially when Champions League games are played (soccer), whole evenings are filled with soccer.
There are other Dutch sportpeople who don't get very much time on TV when they have to play. For some strange reason darts has become a very popular sport here on TV. Recently there were many, many hours spent on dartgames. Embassy, Dutch Open etc.
I think it has to do with money. Sports that aren't popular don't attract many people looking at the sport program, so advertisers won't be interested in the program. Cricket isn't very popular here, I really wonder how many people in the Netherlands know about cricket. The same is with the Dutch baseball team and other not very popular sports.
England r gonna win Ade.
114-7 off 31.5..... Aussies need 91 with 3 wickets remaining and we got 18 overs to get those wickets!
Sensational game - real drama. 6 overs left now, req run rate still 5. Whilst Michael Bevan is there they have chances.
The Criket world cup, have computer geeks really sunk this low (myself included) :):confused:
23 off 24 balls needed - I can't watch!!!
I don't like the way Nasser is changing the bowlers around, gives Flintoff one over then off again and back to Ashley Giles. Same for Andy Caddick.
17 off 18...
14 off 12...
Why on Earth did he give the ball to Anderson????? Already very expensive, and now likely to loose the game for us.
damn that michael bevan. Great innings on a bowlers track!
*shakes head in confusion*
So the Aussies win. I cannot understand why Anderson was given the ball when Caddick, or even Vaughan were less likely to concede runs.
Well done Australia.
Well done the Aussies.
Another monumental cock-up from the england boys.... 2 overs left. we send anderson on to bowl. Our most newbie expensive bowler. Michael bevan hit his first 2 balls for a six and a four. Flintoff bowled last over. first ball drops a c&b chance. 2nd ball is misfielded by vaughn and aussies get a run they shouldnt bringing bevan back on strike. Bevan boshes flintoff for 4 winning match.
Firing squad for Nasser Hussein now. Awful captaincy late in match and a stunning innings of 1. Why hasnt he dropped himself for the good of the team.
*still confused*
Sorry this is about cricket. Yanks cant seem to understand it. There is a link on the other cricket thread, that i posted that will go a long way to explaining the game.
I used to bowl mostly, and I always hated coming on for a single over, it takes a few balls to get properly loose again and to get your line and length right. What ever was going through Husseins brain? He should have bowled out Flintoff and Caddick when he switched, then let Ashley Giles on again at the end.
As you say SC that was a cock up of olympic proportion. Hussein should be out of a job.
lol us USA folk play nornmal sports, hockey, lacrosse, football baseball, basketball, and a lil soccer :)
good to see soccer is starting to take off in USA since soccer world cup where usa did exceptionally well. In fact we have several yanks playing regular first team football in the premiership in the uk now.
<---------great womens socer team
Pity the Dutch aren't watching their team. They've played a beauty, including Hollands first and second ever international centuries and recording hollands highest ever international score and the second highest score of the World Cup! Great effort.
Holland 314 for 4 off 50.
Namibia 250 a.o. off 46.5
Holland win by 64.
Good day for Feiko Kloppenberg, 121 runs and 4 wickets from his 10. Fairly dramatic collapse from Namibia going from 209 for 4 to 250 a.o. in 6 overs. Reasonable figures from the Namibian top order but no life in the tail. Hollands first World Cup victory - congratulations.
In todays second game...
Canada 196 a.o. of 47.
New Zealand 197 for 5 off 23
New Zealand win by 5 wickets.
John Davison knocks 75 off 62 to give an appreciable score to Canada.
Unsuprising victory. Some alarming bowling figures against the Canadians, Codrington going for 33 off 2 overs and patel only a little better going for 32 off 3.
In todays final game...
Sri Lanka 268 for 9 off 50
South Africa 229 for 6 off 45 *** in progress ***
South Africa must win today, however they are batting under the lights which seems to really be problematic during the Cup.
Attapattu's century coming off 113 balls. Attapattu, (124 off 129), and Da Silva, (73 off 78), both out within a few balls. Wickets tumbling now but SL can aford it and the score is still ticking along.
SA need 56 off 36, starting to rain - may go to Duckworth Lewis. Arrrgggh - raining hard now! If there's no resumption, SA go out.
SL 268/9 ... SA in trouble. I hope the top order clicks today. Lance Klusener will do the needful for the lower order :)
So Sri Lanka / South Africa goes to a draw under Duckworth Lewis, and hence SA go out. What a sad way for it to end. Good game otherwise, swung up and down, still think it unlikely that SA would have caught SL, but now we'll never know.
Yeah...Its a pitty. Hoped my country could have gone through to the super sixes. We only needed one run to win the match though!!
I have never seen such a tragedy. :(
I like to support SL but wanted badly SA in Super Six. I have observed last 3 World Cup (Including 2003), SA is never lucky.
>> So I open the BBC's ball-by-ball service and found England are taking the game to the Aussies by collapsing majestically after a rather fine start - odd, I don't remember Nasser saying anything about that in the plan!<<
It was a plan so cunning you could have pinned a tail on it and called it a fox......pity Nasser did not tell Bevan about it. Bevan saves the Aussies again in a world cup.
I think that is 12 in a row for the Aussies.
So away we go again. Important game for England this, as if Pakistan beat Zimbabwe, but not by a huge amount, England can still go through. Weather forecast dubious. Match reduced now, first to 46 overs then 44 then to 38 due to rain interruptions.
Pakistan 73 for 3 off 14 *** in progress ***
Zimbabwe 0 for 0 off 0 *** yet to bat ***
Match abandoned due to rain. 2 points each.
Pakistan won the toss and will bat first. Poor Inzamam is still in terrible form, surviving just 8 balls for 3 runs.
Australia, India and Zimbabwe go through to the next round.
Todays other game...
West Indies 246 for 7 off 50
Kenya 104 a.o. 35.5
West Indies win by 142 runs
Another short innings from Brian Lara. Lovely knock by Chris Gayle, 2 sixes and a 4 in the 46th over, finally out for 119.
Kenya all out for less thsn Chris Gayles knock, definitely not their day! Useful 5 wicket haul for Vasbert Drakes. Good performance from the WIndies, but too late to change the final table placings.
Sri Lanka, Kenya and New Zealand go through to the next round.
I have a gut feeling that the finals will see a tough contest between India and Australia
No games now until 7th.
Looking at the super six, I think also, an Australia/India final may be in prospect. Sri Lanka have had a few iffy moments but can never be discounted. I can't see any of the others making an impression.
It is sad that politics and the weather have had an impact on the first round. There has also been a lot of controversy over the day/night games, the day batting side do seem to have had the balance of the luck in those games, but who's to say.
Whatever, bad luck those teams going out, congratulations to the Super Six teams, and let's look forward to some great cricket yet to come.
Calendar...
Mar 7 Australia v Sri Lanka, Centurion, 0800 GMT
Mar 7 India v Kenya, Cape Town, 1230 GMT
Mar 8 Zimbabwe v New Zealand, Bloemfontein, 0800 GMT
Mar 10 India v Sri Lanka, Johannesburg, 0800 GMT
Mar 11 Australia v New Zealand, Port Elizabeth, 0800 GMT
Mar 12 Zimbabwe v Kenya, Bloemfontein, 0800 GMT
Mar 14 India v New Zealand, Centurion, 0800 GMT
Mar 15 Zimbabwe v Sri Lanka, East London, 0800 GMT
Mar 15 Australia v Kenya, Durban, 1230 GMT
Nasser Hussain resigns as captain of the England One Day squad! Jumped before he was pushed I say.
Go Sri Lanka!
I won't be watching any matches until after the super six. It seems very boring than the first round. I guess both Aus and India will win all their games; Srilanka, Zimbabwe and New Zealand will fight it out among themselves. ... yawn ! ... I'll just read the headlines for the next 2 weeks. (more yawns !!!)
Hands up if you picked Kenya to qualify second (or at all).
>>It is sad that politics and the weather have had an impact on the first round.
Pity, looks like it cost England a place.
what is this??????????
remember the time when sri lanka used 2 b on the TOP!!!
ahhhhhhhhh.... those were the days!!!
I guess Sri Lanka has better stability and chance to final.
Sri Lanka Vs Australia
Anyway.. lets see.
I think India started badly in the first round and slowly improved, Sri Lanka were up and down with some truly disasterous matches. I would never discount Sri Lanka, but on the performances in the first round, I think India are a bigger threat in the Super Six than they are, but what do I know, that is only my view of things to date.
I didn't follow the entire match but after reading this article i'm sure that you 'll agree when I say SA are jinxed for the last run !
http://www.indianexpress.com/full_st...ntent_id=19558
Ouch!
First Super Six game underway!
Australia win the toss and decide to bat.
Australia 319 for 5 off 50
Sri Lanka 233 for 9 off 47.4
Australia win by 96
Gilchrist run out on 99, stupid mix-up! Ponting's 114 off 109 balls. Fine score by the Aussies.
Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya has to retire hurt, reducing the batting side to 10. Jayasuriya has not, as was feared at the time, broken his arm.
Todays other game.
Kenya to bat first, India therefore under the lights later...
Kenya 225 for 6 off 50
India 226 for 4 off 47.5
India by 6 wickets
Late flurry of runs and wickets see Kenya rack up a respectable score. Swashbuckling 33 off 23 balls for Maurice Odumbe. Excellent.
Sachim tendulkar's first failure in the Cup. A true captains innings from Sourav Ganguly in all probability has saved India from what would have been a very significant defeat. Well played.
Superb game.
yeah ! It would have been quite a debacle if ganguly had not clicked today. Anyway, Australia proved why they are called world champions in a unique fashion; totally devastaing the lankan bowling. I really feel sorry for gilchrist. I expected him to finish his century in style.
Zimbabwe have won the toss and will bat.
Zimbabwe 252 for 7 off 50
New Zealand 253 for 4 off 47.2
New Zealand win by 6 wickets
Brilliant run flurry at the end of Zimbabwes innings, 62 runs coming from the last 18 balls to give a resprectable total. I wish I'd seen that!
Brian Murphy will not be able to play this afternoon as he was injured during lunch!
Natham Astle finishes on 102 not out.
As a total aside, I see Allan Donald has officially retired from international cricket. Good luck to the man, damn fine cricketter.
Indian_Fan: Are you really in OHIO ?!?!?!
I guess this round lost interest.
yes. How did you know that ? :confused:Quote:
Indian_Fan: Are you really in OHIO ?!?!?!
>>> How did you know that ?
You are not registered, (most registered people have their location field filled). I was curious as to where in India you would be, so I used an internet tool to locate you, and it returned Ohio.
I was so suprised, (that someone in the US would be interested in cricket), that I had to check, hence my message. I would have PM'd you, but, you are not registered so don't have a pm account!
Still, someone in America who knows his cricket - there is hope for us all yet!
Damn ! :D
It's no use trying to remain anonymous I guess :)
>>Gilchrist run out on 99, stupid mix-up! Ponting's 114 off 109 balls. Fine score by the Aussies.
Good effort by the Aussies. Still Sri Lanka has the ability to score 350+ but did not look like they wanted to play on the day.
Sri Lanka win the toss and decide to put India in.
India 292 for 6 off 50
Sri Lanka 109 a.o. off 23
India win by 183
Tendulkar holing out on 97. Excellent batting and bowling from India. A huge win.
Nightmare for Sri Lanka. Five ducks! Jayawardene, one of the ducks, has so far scored only 16 runs in the World Cup. If it hadn't have been for the last wicket heroics, Sri Lanka would have been out for less than 100.
Seems Sri Lanka is tired today. They will find difficulty if they lose today.
>>> Seems Sri Lanka is tired today
Indeed. The Indian run rate was over 7 for a while but has dropped back a little now, still over 5 an over though.
India beat Lanka by 183 runs !
I knew that was going to happen. I'm sure this time it will be India vs Australia in the finals and India will win the world cup :)
some one post the rules for cricket, i am tired of not knowing what is going on.
*goes and watches hockey*
This link was posted in one of the other cricket threads. It is not complete, but is a reasonable introduction.
New Zealand win the toss and will field first.
Australia 208 for 9 off 50
New Zealand 112 a.o. 30.1
Australia win by 96
A quite astonishing failure by the Aussie top order. Shane Bond finishing his 10 with figures of 6 for 23 - one hell of a session. Bevan and Bichel again!
Perhaps the pitch is playing oddly - we'll see.
What an extraordinary game.
>>Bevan and Bichel again!
Got to respect the depth of the Aussie side. Someone is going to fire up! Bevan always seems to come through when we realy need him.
Lee's spell where he took 5 - 3 off 15 balls was a killer.
Looks like we may push Kenya through to the semis unless New Zealand beats India. My money would be on India.
>>> the depth of the Aussie side
An inevitable failing of Englandwhen playing Australia is to do well against the top order, but the tail just wags and wags and ...
Anyway, to today. Zimbabwe win the toss and will bat.
Zimbabwe 133 a.o. 44.1
Kenya 135 for 3 off 26
Kenya win by 7 wickets
All going horribly wrong for Zimbabwe. Extremely tidy figures from all the bowlers, except perhaps Thomas Odoyo who has gone for 43 of his 10, not ragged, but a little heavy compared to the others.
Shah run out - very odd, a fluffed caught and bowled attempt ricochets onto Shahs wicket at the non-strikers end and finds Shah out of his ground!
Excellent result for Kenya. Some sloppy bowling from Zimbabwe, lot of extras.
I noticed the organisers have asked for some pitch changes after yesterdays game. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport3/cwc2003...00/2842309.stm
I found an unofficial "Live Audio" feed at Wisden, however, you need to sign up, signing up me saying yes to spam from a few places, and then it goes on to say that the commentators are not actually at the match.
I don't know why there aren't audio feeds, I guess some big media group has an exclusive, but whatever, I think that is a bit of a low shot from someone like Wisdens.
India in the finals !!!
I think it will be a Kenya vs India semi-final in which India will win and meet Australia in the finals.
I guess nobody thought about final :
Kenia Vs Australia
Don't be surprised.
I think is ts great to see Kenya doing well in the second round. They had their fair share of criticism in getting there.
It's good for the game that more countries are producing international teams capable of playing at top level. I would like to see more "friendly" games played to develop and encourage these teams. Unfortunately, the domestic seasons are usually to full with matches of commercial importance these days.
New Zealand put in by India.
New Zealand 146 a.o. off 45.1
India 150 for 3 off 404
India win by 7 wickets
Two ducks, one golden, in the first over. Some useful runs in the tail, but I suspect the total will not suffice.
Several early breakthroughs for NZ, India 21 for 3 off 5 at one point.
Another low scoring game.
Sri Lanka elect to bat first. Sri Lanka must win to go on.
Sri Lanka 256 for 5 off 50
Zimbabwe 182 a.o. off 41.5
Sri Lanka win by 74
Very low run rate for the first half of the innings, but a good pick up. Marvan Atapattu carries his bat and gets his century in the last over.
Zimbabwe played well at the start, but collapsed.
Todays other game, both sides have already qualified so a little academic perhaps.
Kenya 174 for 8 off 50
Australia 178 for 5 off 31.2
Australia win by 5 wickets
Quote by Ricky Ponting says it all realy...
"We didn't win as comfortably as we'd have liked"
I'd always tipped an India Australia final with Australia winning, but looking at the second round games, India would seem to be playing better. Really good cup this.
uuuuufffffff... at last Sri Lanka got the ticket for semi.
India wins the 2003 world cup !!!
... just an intuition ! :D ...
First semi starts on a dismal cloudy day. Already comments are being made about the quality of the pitch. Let's just remember, the pitch is the same for both sides.
Australia 212 for 7 off 50
Sri Lanka 123 for 7 off 38.1 *** in progress *** RAIN
Australia judged to have won by 48 (DL)
Golden duck for Michael Bevan. Andrew Symonds the Aussie hero, (91 not out). For me, Gilchrist is the real hero for walking.
Good partnership developing for Sri Lanka, but rain interruption now. If there is no more play, Australia will win under DL.
No one can predict about this game.
In a match as important as this one isn't it great to see real sportsmanship still alive...
>>>
Adam Gilchrist, who walked despite the appeal for caught behind being given not out by umpire
<<<
...a gent.
What, its started already..........bloody daylight saving.
Bugger, I'm off home.
SL, 43/4 off 11.4 overs !!!
This is the least I expected from SL. Oh, well ...
SL would have been a preferred opponent for the finals than the Aussies.