World Cup 2011

mike65

Not an England freindly wicket.

booth70

C'mon England get your fingers out and use your feet against the spinners.....Bopara looks a walking wicket

booth70

Talk about wasting a review!......95 for 3

booth70

England beginning to motor now.....125 for 3 off 31

Royale with Cheese

Dreadful start to the powerplay for England

Royale with Cheese

230 to get. Gotta make Sri Lanka favourites with England's bowling attack.

booth70

Shaping up nicely for an India v Sri Lanka final next Saturday:)

Placebo

Yeah right. More like. PAk vs SRI

riffmongous

What a disappointing end for England. We knew they were inconsistent but that was an abject performance. Morgan did well though.

Royale with Cheese

Morgan should have been out 4 times on the way to this 50.

riffmongous

Royale with Cheese wrote: »

Morgan should have been out 4 times on the way to this 50.

Ah, well I missed the England innings, I was just going by the scorecard.

Harps

Only saw the highlights but crazy how lucky Morgan got, three very easy catches dropped. Terrible performance from the English bowling & fielding but not unexpected considering their up and down form.

Sri Lanka looking good but I still see India winning it, just seems written that Satchin will win it in the final. The Pakistan game should be a cracker though

positron

10 wicket win at quarter finals - this is unbelievable. Aus, SA, England all crashing out just like that. It's shaping up really tasty for the subcontinent - India - Pakistan match is going to be a cracker, and looks like the final would also be brilliantly tense. :cool:

Dozen Wicked Words

Supporting the Kiwis now, although don't think they have much of a chance, would be a much needed boost for the sport there.

spiralism

Rooting for an IND/SRI final myself... Sachin v Murali, it would be epic....

loosecannon

great little video featuring all the lads here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u184t9hQqgk

schemingbohemia

KevIRL wrote: »

Well that just opened it up for England imo.

England will beat an under pressure Sri Lanka tomorow then have a handy semi final against a weak and always flaky New Zealand

Pakistan will beat India in the other semi final in an epic game. But be so mentally wrecked after it will lose the final to England.

After all their close games, and even losing to us, England are gonna win this thing. Get on them at 13/2 imo

Hope you didn't put on too much!

I reckon the pressure will get to India and Pakistan will beat them and then beat Sri Lanka in the final - pity as I'd like to see Sachin win, everything about him is pure class including the fact that he walks.

Washout

schemingbohemia wrote: »

Hope you didn't put on too much!

I reckon the pressure will get to India and Pakistan will beat them and then beat Sri Lanka in the final - pity as I'd like to see Sachin win, everything about him is pure class including the fact that he walks.

I rather reckon the pressure will get the Pakistan. They have never beaten india in a WC match. i also think they have peaked too early.
India have this "lets do it for Sachin" attidude and I think that will get them through this.

positron

Ind/Pak semi final and Ind/SL final - that's how I think it's going to go, and I can't even begin to imagine the tension and excitement in India! Some world cup this is turning out to be!!

schemingbohemia

Washout wrote: »

I rather reckon the pressure will get the Pakistan. They have never beaten india in a WC match. i also think they have peaked too early.
India have this "lets do it for Sachin" attidude and I think that will get them through this.

See I just don't think there's any pressure on the Pakistan team, they've nearly over-achieved already having lost 3 of their best players before the tournament, not playing at home will make it easier for them.

In India it's like 1966 hanging over the English football team, they haven't set the WC alight so far and have snuck through a few games.

dfx-

On paper, Pakistan should win, on form Pakistan should win...so India will probably win..

I'm going for Pak still though - obviously an endless romantic no matter how many times they break your heart..:D

Speak Now

Poor effort from NZ at the end of their innings.

positron

dfx- wrote: »

On paper, Pakistan should win, on form Pakistan should win...so India will probably win..

Oh, have some faith! Cricketing Gods vs a ragtag team from a nearly-failing state! (yeah, get in there!!)

Proper cricket awaits us all, and India will win!!

booth70

Sri Lanka coasting.....will be hard to beat irrespective of who they play in the final

dfx-

positron wrote: »

Oh, have some faith! Cricketing Gods vs a ragtag team from a nearly-failing state! (yeah, get in there!!)

Proper cricket awaits us all, and India will win!!

Faith is all that's left when backing Pakistan! All rationale and cool calm reasoning flies out of the window :pac:

SL 161-1 to 169-4....still should make it

riffmongous

169/4 now, another wicket and this match might get interesting.

Pauleta

Starting to get very uncomfortable for Sri Lanka

Pauleta

And Sri Lanka are home. Would of been very interesting if the fireworks went off and the game was in its last couple of balls :pac: I think the umpire did the right thing though.

Placebo

i hope tomorrow is an absolute tense, nerve buster of a game.
Some nice cleans BOLDS and smashing SIXES.

hoping for pak to win but all in all hoping for a close fun game
Raining today in mohali so hope it doesnt even pour a drop tomorrow

srilanka may win the cup, very strong

Pauleta

Cant wait for this game. Losing is just not an option for India. There will be carnage if Pakistan beat them :pac: