2007 Cricket World Cup (West Indies) thread

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Nope.

If we had lost to England:

a) We wouldn't have deserved to be in the semis in any case
b) England would have 4 wins, we'd have 3 => they would have gone through without referring to the NRR.
 
Lol they still ripping of India!!:p

Where do Indian batsmen perform their best?
In Advertisements.



When would Agarkar have 100 runs against his name?
When he is bowling.



What is the most proficient form of footwork displayed by Indian
batsmen?
The walk back to the pavilion.



How to increase the chances of Indian batsmen playing out the entire 50
overs?
Try giving them two innings to begin with, then try three and so on.



What is the Indian version of a hat-trick?
3 runs in 3 balls



India is a cricketing nation. It walks, talks, eats, drinks, breathes and sleeps cricket. Too bad it doesn't play it.



Pappu was at school and the teacher asked everybody what their fathers did. Typical answers came out: policeman, salesman, doctor... Pappu said, "My father is an exotic dancer in a gay club and takes off his clothes in front of other men.'' The teacher called him aside and asked if that was true and Pappu said, "No, he's in the Indian cricket team but I'm too embarassed to admit that.''



Why do Indian babies cry and complain all the time? They are practicing how to become Indian cricketers when they grow up.



Entire responsibility of India's loss in the first match of the World Cup goes to Mrs Indira Gandhi. How? It was she who created Bangladesh!



Manager: Hello!
Voice: Can I speak to Sachin?
Manager: Who's speaking?
Voice: This is his wife.
Manager: Sorry, he's just gone out to bat.
Voice: Okay, I'll hold on



 
Uugh, got the Cricket DT's. What's it been? Two days without a game?

Today I'm Sri lanka and you can all can me chiskopardenasuriya. :D
 
krycor said:
Dude.. if SA win on wednesday.. you must add "Protea fan boy" to your sig as punishment :p
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Dude, thats fine -we'll do it for a few weeks. And obviously if my team wins you can have " Ponting Fan Boy" .

That Ok with you?

lol.
 
I think SL will win today, but i'd really like to see NZ beat them.

Go Kiwis, go.
 
kiepie said:
Read in the paper about Smith maybe not playing... :rolleyes:

This an tactic before the big game?? :p
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Lol is he that scared??:D Lets see ... Bosman in for Smithers and Boucher/Kallis as captain??? Nah.... SMithers is an arrogant cow he will def wanna take the glory IF they beat Aus!!!
 
JK8 said:

Lol is he that scared??:D Lets see ... Bosman in for Smithers and Boucher/Kallis as captain??? Nah.... SMithers is an arrogant cow he will def wanna take the glory IF they beat Aus!!!
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Last night on the news Kallis was on, and at the bottom it showed "Captain". :eek:

I thought maybe I didn't read carefully and it was actually "vice-captain", well think it was "vc" and not "captain".

Smith playing mind games... :rolleyes: :D
 
Got this off cric-info, for those whom aint read it.


Ricky Ponting is hoping for a quick wicket in Wednesday's semi-final because he believes Jacques Kallis will score more slowly than the openers. While admitting Kallis is one of the world's best batsmen, Ponting wrote in his column in The Australian they have plans to restrict him in St Lucia.

Kallis was criticised after scoring 48 from 63 balls in the group-stage loss to Australia in St Kitts after Graeme Smith and AB de Villiers swept South Africa to 160 in 21 overs. "We feel [the openers] are the key to their chances," Ponting said. "But if we can get Kallis in there early, I don't think they can get off to the same sort of start.

"He is a very good player and has a great overall record, averaging 45.68 in one-day cricket, but against us it's not so great. I feel we have also had the better of him in Tests. If we get our plans right to him, we can restrict him. We all know that if we bowl a certain way and put him under pressure, we can keep him reasonably quiet."

Ponting has noticed Kallis, who has 480 runs at 96 in the tournament, has been playing more shots since the Australia game, "which may have been the result of a rev-up from their coaching staff". "Those runs, though, have come against bowling attacks that haven't had the pace of a Shaun Tait reverse-swinging the ball," he said. "The new ball is going to be key in this game."

Ponting also said Matthew Hayden might try a "repeat act" on Shaun Pollock, who went for 83 runs in ten overs in the previous encounter. "If we can take down the opposition's experienced players, especially in their bowling line-up, like Matty took to Pollock, then that puts extra pressure on other guys around them," he said.

South Africa are deciding how they will use Pollock after he went for the worst figures of his career. "We have a plan with [Pollock]," the coach Mickey Arthur said in the Sydney Morning Herald. "I suspect he will take the new ball, but if there's nothing happening, we will probably whip him off early and go for the pace of [Andre] Nel. It's something we learnt from the last game."

Arthur said South Africa were "owed a bit of luck" after their previous near-misses in the World Cup, including the tied semi-final in 1999. He said there had been no discussion in the dressing room about the match, which included the key men Kallis, Pollock, Herschelle Gibbs and Mark Boucher.

"When you get to the back end of these tournaments, you need your top players to have big games," Arthur said. "The teams are going to be quite close so it's going to be a bit of stability and a match-winning performance from one of them that could be the difference."
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Kallis stats against OZ

Mat Runs HS BatAv 100 50 W BB BowlAv 5w Ct St

unfiltered 256 9000 139 45.68 15 62 230 5/30 31.43 2 98 0
filtered(oz) 38 1142 104* 31.72 1 7 28 3/30 46.82 0 12 0

Average drop from 45 to 31 against Ponting and co.

Reading the article though, he is having a digg at Kallis, but at the same time he is telling the truth. In the first paragraph it mentions that Kallis will score more slowly than the openers - Digg, digg, digg. Kallis will read this and certaintly wont fell good about that, no batsman wants hear that. Anyway, let the Aussie mind games continue.

Go Aussie, Go.!!!!
 
The same goes for the Australian team - if SA dismiss Hayden & Ponting early...
 
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