World Cup results/reaction thread

Golcar CC · Bezalgo

World Cup results/reaction thread

joel · Findin' Fundin

Good grief, what an amazing catch by Collingwood.

And Lara goes, a bit craply

-- Edited by joel at 17:03, 2007-04-21

Muppet · Je suis l'état et l'état c'est moi

Golcar CC wrote:

Surrey require another 379 runs with 3 wickets remaining ... for all you Yorkshire fans out there, looks like an away win open the county championship account this season! Champion, indeed.

Yep, that won't please Surrey on their home ground. biggrin

Meanwhile, over in Taunton, the captain of Somerset, a certain J Langer, has been rather splendidly taking the p1ss against Middlesex. In reply to Middlesex's 600/4 declared, he himself chose to declare after they'd made their way to the princely total of 850/7 (Langer 315).
He played just one first-class innings for Somerset last season, against Surrey at Guildford, which I had the pleasure of watching in absolutely baking heat. On that occasion he made 342, so he's obviously got a real problem with getting out just after reaching 300. A mental thing, I reckon.

Oh, and apparently England have beaten some team by 1 wicket with a ball to spare in some cup match or other.

El Presidente · Disco Brad

First of the semi-finals today. I'm feeling that it may just be a Sri Lanka day today, but then again wouldn't be surprised if either team romped home. I think Jayasuriya is the danger man. If he scores Sri Lanka should win. Hopefully it will be a classic battle. New Zealand's bowling (although without Bond and Oram) looked rather fragile in the last game. Sri Lanka with Murali, Vaas and Malinga should be a much tougher threat than Bond, Vettori and the others.

El Treasurorio · Senior Member

Jayasuriya out bowled. Brad, you really should stop cursing all these players! biggrin

El Presidente · Disco Brad

(reverent pause)

"That was a ****ing great over from Malinga."

El Treasurorio · Senior Member

South Africa have choked far too early strategically speaking. 54-5 off 14 surely cannot be part of any plan?

biggrin

Muppet · Je suis l'état et l'état c'est moi

Positive Spin award of the day goes to Liam Plunkett for this one:

"We finished fifth, which is higher than our current world ranking of seventh..."

Maybe we should be cheering them on their return after all!

-- Edited by Muppet at 17:36, 2007-04-26

Date: Apr 28, 2007

I picked them. We won. Yesssssss!!!!

Goodbye McGrath, you legend!

El Presidente · Disco Brad

Anonymous wrote:

I picked them. We won. Yesssssss!!!!

Goodbye McGrath, you legend!

I'm at home now. I claim the above post.

Muppet · Je suis l'état et l'état c'est moi

El Presidente wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
I picked them. We won. Yesssssss!!!!
Goodbye McGrath, you legend!
I'm at home now. I claim the above post.

Yeah well I don't think anyone else was gonna claim it!
And thus the end to a pretty disappointing tournament overall -

would have been nice if just someone had threatened the Aussies, even if only briefly. But anyway, congratulations. It was certainly deserved.

Scary thought: imagine if Warne and Lee had been playing...

El Presidente · Disco Brad

joel wrote:

Has anyone ever gone through a WC playing every game match but never batting?

Thinking that neither Anderson or future England no. 8 Monty Panesar have batted yet.

Glenn Mcgrath and Shaun Tait didn't put the pads on once. Nathan Bracken was rested for one match but didn't bat in the other ten. (Stuart Clark replaced him and didn't bat either)