Boring Week day Matches Vs Interesting Weekend Matches at world Cup, perhaps this statement is going to be true till the world cup matches proceed to the knock out stage (Quarter finals). For instance you can see this weekend there were two interestign matches first one Pakistan vs Sri Lanka and Second one India Vs England on Sunday. Both the matches were interesting but as the week started today there were two boring matches played whose summary is as below:
Zimbawe Vs Canada - Another boring match which again raises the quesdtion of associate nations of ICC participating in the tournaments like world cup. Canada was all out at 123 while chasing 299 to win. Interesting Netherlands also made 115 runs.
West Indies Vs Netherlands: I doubt if this was the same team that fought so well against England the other day. Perhaps the team had a bad day today I wish the Netherlands team good luck for next match. I want this team to win atleast one match beffore leaving home from the world cup.
Some boring matches you can catch this weekdays:
Sri Lanka v Kenya : Tomorrow day nigh cricket match. Kenya team once have gain some respect among the opponents but this Kenyan team looks much like other associates. Sri Lanka wont have any problems in this one sided match. Lets see how many records will be broken or created tomorrow.
England v Ireland - 2-March: Another one sided match, Ireland team has a long distance to travel before they canhope of competiting and winning matches against these test playing nations.
March 3 : two matches will be played amongh; Netherlands v Sth Africa & Canada v Pakistan. Once again pretty one sided games.
March 4: N Zealand v Zimbabwe and Bangladesh v West Indies . These two games can be worl cup turning matches in case Zimbawe or Bangladesh win the matches.
some good matches will be on 5 and 6 march I will post about those later.
World Cup India Vs England Match Live
Well tomorrow Shahid Afridi once again bowled a magic spell and helped Pakistan defeat Sri Lanka. Shohaib Akhar also looked in good form and bowled superbly. Now Pakistan cricket team definitely looks like moving to the quarter finals easily.
Now wheather India will move to the next round i.e quarter finals of the world cup easily will be decided by todays match against England. Any of the the team who will will definitely be making and easy way to the world cup quarter finals.
Match was previously scheduled to be played at Eden Gardens Kolkata but later moved to Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore due to delay in construction workd at Eden Gardens. Now let see if this change of venue will prove lucky to team India or not. For India batting is the strength and it won't really matter if they bat first or bowl first in today match. Batting first they will require to post a total of somewhere aroung 300 and in case they are chasing any score less that 290 will be easily chased by team India.
Catch the live action of the match in 3 hours from now. Till then bye bye.
Now wheather India will move to the next round i.e quarter finals of the world cup easily will be decided by todays match against England. Any of the the team who will will definitely be making and easy way to the world cup quarter finals.
Match was previously scheduled to be played at Eden Gardens Kolkata but later moved to Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore due to delay in construction workd at Eden Gardens. Now let see if this change of venue will prove lucky to team India or not. For India batting is the strength and it won't really matter if they bat first or bowl first in today match. Batting first they will require to post a total of somewhere aroung 300 and in case they are chasing any score less that 290 will be easily chased by team India.
Catch the live action of the match in 3 hours from now. Till then bye bye.
New Zealand and Ireland lost their matches
New Zealand lost to Australia and Ireland lost to Bangladesh. the only difference is that Ireland being an underdog in the tournament played very well and were on the verge of winning the match before poor batting and problems playing spin took match away from them. New Zealand on the other hand never looked like a test playing nation and now people can belive that this is the team that lost to Bangladesh and India without winning nay match before the world cup. I doubt when will ICC take some action and take away test playing nation cap frm both Bangladesh and New Zealand. Both the teams are not playign to the potential of a team that have won the right to play test matches for ICC.
Another thing common in both the matches played was both were low scoring matches only 200+ runs was the target. Let see what will happen in an exciting match tomorrow between Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Another thing common in both the matches played was both were low scoring matches only 200+ runs was the target. Let see what will happen in an exciting match tomorrow between Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Another century at worlc cup - AB de Villiers Century Maker
Every day there is a century scored in this world cup so I can say this is going to be a world cup of centuries. Majority of the matches have been high scoring excluding few like one between Kenya and New Zelaand alongwith tooday's match between South Africa and West Indies.
Snce I am supporting West Indies as winners of this world cup, I will take some positve from this match as they were in command in patches for this match. Lets hope they will improvise in the matches to come and move on to the querter finals easily.
One of the surprise element of this match was a spinner openign the bowling for West Indies, remember this was the team who once have 5 fast bowlers feared by batsmen all over the world.
For tomorrow there are 2 matches one is between minnows and second between title contenders. So tomorrow catch the live soce of matches below at ICC Cricket blog:
- Australia v N Zealand
- Bangladesh v Ireland
Australia and New Zealand are arch rivals and it will be interesting how New Zealand will fight against Aussies. regarding the seond match it will be interesting to see how Ireland team will play and what level of cricket do they play as it is the first match of the Ireland team. Thus both matches are worth watching.
Pictures from the match:
Pakistan Steady despite early wickets
Today it was a different team in the ground. Yes I am talking about Kenya crciket team who take on Pakistan in their second match of the world cup. Pakistan won the toss today and elected to bat first. Unlike their previous match Kenyan bowlers bowled superb openign spells and Pakistan lost two early wickets in first 10 overs with score less than 40 runs.
Now the middle order batsmen Younis Khan and Kamran Akmal are batting and both are building the partnership well. They have managed to stablize the Pakistan innigns now. Scoreboard now reads Pakistan 65 for the loss of 2 wickets in 16 overs.
Now it'd be interesting to see how game proceed from here. In case Pakistan manage to build some partnerships game will turn their way and in case Kenya keep on bowling the way they are, they can create the first upset win of the worlc cup 2011.
Pic of the moment from the match:
Thomas Odoyo making an appeal in his superb opening spell
Now the middle order batsmen Younis Khan and Kamran Akmal are batting and both are building the partnership well. They have managed to stablize the Pakistan innigns now. Scoreboard now reads Pakistan 65 for the loss of 2 wickets in 16 overs.
Now it'd be interesting to see how game proceed from here. In case Pakistan manage to build some partnerships game will turn their way and in case Kenya keep on bowling the way they are, they can create the first upset win of the worlc cup 2011.
Pic of the moment from the match:
Thomas Odoyo making an appeal in his superb opening spell
World Cup Updates - Match Reviews and Forecasts
All of us who have watched today's world cup match between Netherlands and England would definitely say that it was most interesting match of the world cup 2011 so far. Also many will not forget to praise for the the Netherlands team, who gave a tight fight to England team.
So for this was the best performance from the underdogs in the tournament. Especially brilliant performance from Ryan ten Doeschate from Netherland who not only scored a century but also took 2 wickets giving just 47 runs. ten Doeschate was also awarded Man of the Match, which he definitely deserved today. I am sure this Netherlands team will give tough time for other teams in the group too.
Coming on to tomorrows match between Pakistan and Kenya. Kenya who lost their first match badly to New Zealand will be looking to forget the nightmare performances that day but I don't expect much from the Kenyan team and all I want is to wish them good luck and hope that tomorrows match will not be one sided match.
Excitement begins day after tomorrow when South Africa will take on two time champions West Indies. Will write about that match later.
Below are wallpapers of Ryan ten Doeschate man of the match for today:
So for this was the best performance from the underdogs in the tournament. Especially brilliant performance from Ryan ten Doeschate from Netherland who not only scored a century but also took 2 wickets giving just 47 runs. ten Doeschate was also awarded Man of the Match, which he definitely deserved today. I am sure this Netherlands team will give tough time for other teams in the group too.
Coming on to tomorrows match between Pakistan and Kenya. Kenya who lost their first match badly to New Zealand will be looking to forget the nightmare performances that day but I don't expect much from the Kenyan team and all I want is to wish them good luck and hope that tomorrows match will not be one sided match.
Excitement begins day after tomorrow when South Africa will take on two time champions West Indies. Will write about that match later.
Below are wallpapers of Ryan ten Doeschate man of the match for today:
New Zealand won by 10 wickets
This is what you call a completely one sided match. Right from the first ball of the tha match till the last, Kenya never looked really in the match and New Zealand won the match with 10 wickets and more than 40 overs yet to be bowled. Remember this is the Zew Zealand team that completeley lost their recently one day series to India and Balgaldesh. At that time there were doubts of if New Zealand team will qualify for the next round of the tournament. Perhaps this vistory will boost the teams confidence and make there way for the world cup success they have yet to achieve.
Below are the statements of both the captain in the post match presentations:
Vettori: "Wicket had a bit of variable bounce, which our seamers exploited. some big games coming up, good to start like this. With Mills coming back, there might be some changes for the next game. Nathan has done brilliantly as well for us."
Kamande: "Don;t think it was the wicket. It was the areas NZ bowled. We got to be more positive in whatever we do. NZ came very hard at us. We have to learn from this performance today. There are some more games coming up for us."
In just two hours from now the thirs match of the world cup will begin between Sri Lanka and Canada once again between one world cup favorites and a minnow team.
Oneintersting fact here is that the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium hasn't hosted any international match yet so the pitch condition are complete unknow to both the host and the Canadian team. Though it wil be a hard task for the Canadian team to beat Sri Lanka yet we need not to forget that the Canadian team consists of immigrants from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistasn and Banlgladesh thus this team can be considered to give some tough moments to Sri Lanka in the match.
Below are the statements of both the captain in the post match presentations:
Vettori: "Wicket had a bit of variable bounce, which our seamers exploited. some big games coming up, good to start like this. With Mills coming back, there might be some changes for the next game. Nathan has done brilliantly as well for us."
Kamande: "Don;t think it was the wicket. It was the areas NZ bowled. We got to be more positive in whatever we do. NZ came very hard at us. We have to learn from this performance today. There are some more games coming up for us."
In just two hours from now the thirs match of the world cup will begin between Sri Lanka and Canada once again between one world cup favorites and a minnow team.
Oneintersting fact here is that the Mahinda Rajapaksa International Stadium hasn't hosted any international match yet so the pitch condition are complete unknow to both the host and the Canadian team. Though it wil be a hard task for the Canadian team to beat Sri Lanka yet we need not to forget that the Canadian team consists of immigrants from India, Sri Lanka, Pakistasn and Banlgladesh thus this team can be considered to give some tough moments to Sri Lanka in the match.
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