2007 Cricket World Cup (West Indies) thread

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chiskop said:
feo- Smith has played well, but hasn't I think captained well. He has been unable to change course when we've been under pressure (Aus, NZ, Ban). He hasn't been able to dominate or take the game away from the oppostion when we've been ahead (WI). We have a good team, but our tactics really are predictable.

krycor - I picked ntini for man of the tournament. :o More out of optimism than anything else.
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Ok Smithers started of well but the last few games he didnt do all to well.
I think the other teams have sussed him out already.
 
Well no point in saying who's a good captain and who not now..the final four are decided and we gotta have faith that Smith and the guys will have a CLEAR game plan tomorrow and not fall apart if things start to go wrong. I support SA all the way but really we gotta get a killer instinct installed in our boys like Aus. I mean that match against the Windies really p1ssed me off. Smith was too cocky in the end and bowled the last few overs and Powell (of all people:eek:) nearly got a stinking 50. If we do manage to get on top of the Aussies early on we shouldn't relax, but theres no point saying it here (unless the boys browse these forums and are reading this:)haha).
 
dude.. the only reason they did that was due to 1. over rate and 2. Game was basically won[apparently]. Anyways I don't see them doing that again cause there's no point to.
 
Super 8 stats - Aussie batting average way above every one else, Nearly double that of Saffers. And OZ's bowling average also much better.

Australia 70.94 18.21
South Africa 37.26 25.02


There were 24 matches and the team whom batted first won 10 times, so team batting 2nd won 14 times.
.....And Australia chased 4 times and won all 4.

http://content-rsa.cricinfo.com/wc2007/content/current/story/292075.html
 
NaZKuL said:
Didn't the Aus play on better wickets?
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Fair question, i'd like to look into that a little further.

But, what about the bowling then?

It would be fair to say that slower/difficult pitches would yeild better bowling figures... would they not?

Therefore, assuming for this discussion that aussies had better pitches, it would be reasonable to say that aussie bowling figures should be a lot worse than the stats show.....
 
Boodles said:
It would be fair to say that slower/difficult pitches would yeild better bowling figures... would they not?
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nah.. the Aussies took loads more wickets and cleaned bowled teams more than any other team... SA didn't take as many wickets, prob cos they didn't strategise or create opportunities for wickets.. Aussies attacked throughout the tournament with there bowling, apart from opening partnership SA had against them... SA played defensive bowling in almost every game...
 
The Cricinfo website seems to be down, hopefuly they can get it up before the start of the match. Just in case anyone know of another on-line scoring website?
 
I'm used to 15h30 as well, and was about to go off on a rant about SS and SABC not broadcasting a semifinal :D
 
Jayawardene wins toss and decides to bat.

/chiskop decides to pack up and go home, stopping only for refreshments on the way home.
 
So after 64 games, including those lovely warm-ups, we've reached the highly anticipated first semi-final of the 2007 World Cup. I'm Jamie Alter, and together with Siddhartha Vaidyanathan and Sriram Veera, will be bringing you the live commentary of today's humdinger, New Zealand v Sri Lanka in Jamaica.

Pitch report:
Neither side has played at Sabina Park during the tournament, where the pitch is expected to provide extra bounce. No one's sticking their necks out too far, but even the bits of wear and tear on the surface should really come into consideration as the day progress. Muttiah Muralitharan told Ian Smith that it looked like a "real Sri Lankan surface". Interesting, very interesting.

Toss: Mahela Jayawardene won the toss and decided to have a bat. Both sides are at full strength with Shane Bond and Jacob Oram back for New Zealand and Lasith Malinga returning from an ankle injury. Jeetan Patel keeps his place in the side. So does an out-of-form Upul Tharanga.

Both sides expect to be at full strength today. As Dileep Premachandran, one our men at the venue, pointed out yesterday, Sri Lanka are boosted by Lasith Malinga's return .

New Zealand have been here before - four times, in fact - and will be have to be at their best to get past a well-rounded Sri Lanka, who've played some excellent cricket to get here. New Zealand started out brilliantly, but struggled against the two favourites, Australia and the side they're up against tod
 
We're minutes away from the start. The umpires, Rudi Koertzen and Simon Taufel, are at their positions. The New Zealanders are taking their places. The Sri Lankan openers are walking out.

From the ground, Andrew Miller buzzes me: "Not a lot to report just yet, except the crowd is truly dismal. World Cup fever just hasn't resurfaced since West Indies left Jamaica last month
 
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