posted Apr 26, 2007

Atleast the fact that Australia and Sri Lanka are in the final means that the Super 8s haven't been made to look completely ridiculous. Still the fact that the semis and finals will go by so quickly in comparison to the drawn out group stages is laughable on its own.

Anyway it's a sad state of affairs that there are only two above mediocre one day sides in the world. One day cricket was designed to give greater excitement and unpredictability to the game. Yet arguably it is now more tiresome both for players and fans than test match cricket. The West Indies never took one day cricket seriously neither did India or to an extent England or Pakistan. So why on earth are we taking up the energies of the best players with so many one day tournaments and internationals, scrap some of them so we can see more quality test matches.

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posted Apr 26, 2007

I agree sheep, good comments.

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posted Apr 26, 2007

It has been a poor world cup marred by the incident following the Pakistand-Ireland match. The only ray of sunshine is that the two teams that deserve to be in the final are in the final, no other teams have such balance throughout. I hope that it will be a very good game, but if the Australian's play aswell as they have been so far in the tournament, smashing the world number one team prior too the tournament twice, then I unfortunately don't really see that it is going to be much of a match. Hopefully the 20-20 tournament will be more exciting!

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posted Apr 26, 2007

Well done Australia and thanks South Africa for showing us the difference between winners and losers in every moment of the game.
South African team did not believe they are better than Australians and they self-imposed that pressure on them.I like them on this aspect on the view that they are honest deep within.

South Africa is dis-appointing me again not for losing but for the way they lost.
Smith's strategy is not working when the oppostion is changing in every match as in the world cup.The SouthAfricans struggle to make 300+ run in every match.They appear better than Australia in a match and they appear as if they are the worst recognized team in another match.But the fact is they don't have and can't deliver high standard of cricket in varying conditions.I conclude the current players lack "true talent" and the current selectors chose "hyped talent" instead of picking players like Kevin Pietersen.
Their cricket is like Indian cricket, shambolic.

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posted Apr 26, 2007

No doubt you're right about the 2 finalists being the best 2 teams edwindeva, & I hope, for the good of the game, that you're right about our 27 match winning run being tested. But I hope you're wrong about us being beaten, so we'll see wont't we?

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posted Apr 26, 2007

bring on the 2020 championship

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posted Apr 26, 2007

Thecolourfulsheep:

It was indeed dodgey - and a little bit suspect - of Sri Lanka to do that. 'Resting' your 3 best bowlers against a World Champion batting attack... Smells 'fishy' and not really in the spirit of a World Cup...

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posted Apr 26, 2007

People don't seem to want Australia to win on Saturday - but I hope we do. We DESERVE to win. No one else so far has played up to standard or without some kind of agenda.

Australia - let's make it 3 times in a row...

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posted Apr 26, 2007

ICC should cancel the membership of Australia, they are not playing cricket this is something else, they are giving no chance to any team, they have denied the luck factor and as far as I know, cricket used to be a game of chance. They are too good for any team to have a match.

Well done Australia

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