ireland v Zimbabwe(cwc)

digitally-yours

christophicus wrote:

Cheers man those sites are cool

No Problem My Pleasure .

why is he not bowling him a bowncer ! hit him with the ball it works

KevIRL

Bermuda 78 all out. Massive win for Sri Lanka by 243 runs

DMC

Powerplays are fielding restrictions in one day matches, where the fielding side must have all their players bar two inside the 30-yard fielding circle (the ring right around the middle of the picth) There are 3 sets of powerplays; 1st powerplay is the first 10 overs, which have to be taken straight away; Powerplay 2 and 3 are two sets of 5 overs a piece, which can be taken at any time by the fielding side, but generally, they choose overs 11-15 and 16-20, to get them out of the way early. In cases like this, you often don't use the powerplay if a spinner is bowling, the spinner or other slow bowlers appear in the 21st over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerplay_(cricket)

HTH.

digitally-yours

daveym wrote:

lads, I know the ins and outs of the rules, but powerplays are new to me.
what the feck are they and when did they come in??

Full Info here

DMC

Ireland are drifting in the odds market. At the start of the Zimbabwe innings, they were evens, but now they are 15/8. Kinda reflects Zim's run rate.

Royale with Cheese

Way too late with the powerplay info.

Ireland need some wickets here

digitally-yours

they need to scare batsmans there

Zimbawians look very comfortable there and those drop catches definately boosted their confidence

Irish are not changing tactics here

copacetic

DMC wrote:

Powerplays are fielding restrictions in one day matches, where the fielding side must have all their players bar two inside the 30-yard fielding circle (the ring right around the middle of the picth) There are 3 sets of powerplays; 1st powerplay is the first 10 overs, which have to be taken straight away; Powerplay 2 and 3 are two sets of 5 overs a piece, which can be taken at any time by the fielding side, but generally, they choose overs 11-15 and 16-20, to get them out of the way early. In cases like this, you often don't use the powerplay if a spinner is bowling, the spinner or other slow bowlers appear in the 21st over.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powerplay_(cricket)

HTH.

cheers, the older rule seemed fine to me, or change it and only let 2 outside for the whole game? seems a bit over the top to me, its like a pisstake of american sports.
This wouldn't have been the same with these rules:

"we are at the top of powerplay 2 at the moment, the batsman's Holding the bowler's Balls"

DMC

Royale with Cheese wrote:

I'm not exactly sure of the fielding restrictions but you have to have so many of your fielders inside the inner circle making it easier for the batsmen to hit boundaries. Not too sure how long they've been around. A year, maybe 2?

The term Powerplay has been around a couple of years, but fielding restrictions have been around since the 1983 World Cup. It used to be only the first 15 overs.

zuutroy

We're hanging in there in terms of run rate even if the wickets aren't falling....Raging I dont have sky.

christophicus

Yeah , its not inducing much confidence though that we havent managed to get anyone out in a good while.

mikeruurds

Evening guys

The game's looking pretty finely balanced.

C'mon Ireland!

Mike

DMC

With the slowing of the run rate, we need wickets to slow it even further.

digitally-yours

looks like the game is drifting away from us.This partnership must be broken

zuutroy

Odds on Betfair are very skewed in Zimbabwe's favour....4 for Ireland 1.3 for them.

super_furry

This is a pretty conslusive begineers guide for anyone interested http://www.rte.ie/sport/cricket/features/beginnersguide.html

Good to see they've slowed Zimbabwe down, got to keep them on the back foot for the next hour or so and build on that.

mikeruurds

Strangle the run rate. Force them to hit out and take chances.

The wickets will come.

copacetic

digitally-yours wrote:

looks like the game is drifting away from us.This partnership must be broken

we are putting some good fielding in and staying in touch, 4.6 is what they
need at the moment. do need a wicket soon though.

ohhh, that was close..

zuutroy

Keeping them below 100 for the first 25 would be a very good start IMO....

mikeruurds

Damn... so close.

That has to go to the batsman.

super_furry

YES! Got to give that out

mikeruurds

Yep. Thought so.

Not out

Edit: We want to keep Chibaba in anyway. He bats slooooooooooow.

digitally-yours

that was close calll

super_furry

Not given. Very, very, very tight decision. Probably just about right. Just.

pwd

zuutroy wrote:

Odds on Betfair are very skewed in Zimbabwe's favour....4 for Ireland 1.3 for them.

silly odds imo. might bet

christophicus

Looks like we are starting to loose it, they are starting to score again.

mikeruurds

Chibaba gone. Nice catch!

zuutroy

mikeruurds wrote:

Chibaba gone. Nice catch!

So thats why the betfair odds went crazy!

mikeruurds

Irish fans doing a conga line behind a guy in a Leprechaun suit.

Class!

DMC

zuutroy wrote:

So thats why the betfair odds went crazy!

Roffle!