Cricket World Cup thread

v_man · 1 Mar 2007 at 22:29

Heading out to Barbados from the 14th - 21st April supporting India all the way. Managed to get tickets for 2 games, can't wait!

Yas786 · 2 Mar 2007 at 00:49

Reidy said:
i fancy the west indies or pakistan to win!!!

LOL your optimistic arent you??

V-Man lucky so and so

, i wanted to go..tried to convince my boss to go with me but sadly hes not into cricket

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v_man · 2 Mar 2007 at 01:20

My boss was out in Aus for the ashes, he's been ranting and raving about it ever since he's come back. I told him to sign my holiday form, told him where i was off to, the look on his face was priceless

ringo747 · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:00

What a day so far for Ireland! They have South Africa on the ropes at 62/5 - Would love to see them pull off a win! I always was a keen England fan but I really have to support my home country when they are in the competition. Usually they don't get this far! Come on lads

Psycho Ned · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:09

Shame these games don't actually count cos they've got them 63/7 now!

Meanwhile England are 123-3 against Bermuda Pietersen and collingwood in atm.

weringo · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:09

Anyone watching the England - Bermuda game and seen that 19 stone bowler? He's huge!

Psycho Ned · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:12

weringo said:
Anyone watching the England - Bermuda game and seen that 19 stone bowler? He's huge!

lol I was going to post about him

Not very often you see a bowlers belly wobble as he trundles up to bowl spinners!

edit: though he's just got Collingwood out! Not bad for a fat lad..

e36Adz · 5 Mar 2007 at 15:26

weringo said:
Anyone watching the England - Bermuda game and seen that 19 stone bowler? He's huge!

He's huge alright, but hes on fire :eek:

lol

Has anyone seen the SA vs Ireland score? Ireland are giving the world no1 side a thrashing at the moment :eek:

Ireland are in Pakistans group aswel, I'm worried now lol.

South Africa 74/7 (21.0 ov)

JohnnyG · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:10

weringo said:
Anyone watching the England - Bermuda game and seen that 19 stone bowler? He's huge!

I think he's been eating all the pies instead of chucking them :eek:

Supercow · 5 Mar 2007 at 16:28

Does anyone know if there cricket world cup will by broadcasted live over the internet anywhere?
I only have rubbish TV channels, and unfortunately the UK's Cricket coverege is usually quite pants!!

Mr Nice · 5 Mar 2007 at 17:42

sup3rc0w said:
Does anyone know if there cricket world cup will by broadcasted live over the internet anywhere?
I only have rubbish TV channels, and unfortunately the UK's Cricket coverege is usually quite pants!!

Sky coverage is pretty good. England games would be on in most pubs.

ringo747 · 5 Mar 2007 at 18:44

e36Adz said:
He's huge alright, but hes on fire lol

Has anyone seen the SA vs Ireland score? Ireland are giving the world no1 side a thrashing at the moment Ireland are in Pakistans group aswel, I'm worried now lol.

South Africa 74/7 (21.0 ov)

Def not a bad display from the Irish lads but it kind of got away from them in the end with a big partnership. They still can do it as long as their top few batsmen hang around which is unlikely. 32-1 in reply so far!

Alibaba99 · 5 Mar 2007 at 18:58

sup3rc0w said:
Does anyone know if there cricket world cup will by broadcasted live over the internet anywhere?
I only have rubbish TV channels, and unfortunately the UK's Cricket coverege is usually quite pants!!

I suspect thst Sky will have full UK rights to the live coverage so no legit internet showing in the UK.

ringo747 · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:02

John Lewis on fire for England! 4 wickets 0 runs!

Supercow · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:03

Mr Nice said:
Sky coverage is pretty good. England games would be on in most pubs.

That's if you have Sky

I dont like watching cricket in the pub either ... 6hour games = no money left at the end of the Cup

Why on earth would a massive event like this not be on the Normo channels !

Supercow · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:04

sup3rc0w said:
That's if you have Sky
I dont like watching cricket in the pub either ... 6hour games = no money left at the end of the Cup

Why on earth would a massive event like this not be on the Normo channels !

Alibaba99 said:
I suspect thst Sky will have full UK rights to the live coverage so no legit internet showing in the UK.

Who said anything about legit

/jokes

.... but if you were to hear about not so legit streams, my email is in trust

Alibaba99 · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:05

sup3rc0w said:
That's if you have Sky
I dont like watching cricket in the pub either ... 6hour games = no money left at the end of the Cup

Why on earth would a massive event like this not be on the Normo channels !

Because our Government has decided that Cricket isn't important enough to be classed as a Catagory A sport and so doesn't have to be shown live on terrestial.

e36Adz · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:08

jonnyc747 said:
Def not a bad display from the Irish lads but it kind of got away from them in the end with a big partnership. They still can do it as long as their top few batsmen hang around which is unlikely. 32-1 in reply so far!

Yep, SA recovered well at the end and I think they will probably win it from here. Ireland will take away some confidence though, especially Langford-Smith who bowled both de Villiers and Kallis! They are not out of it yet though, currently 57/2 (14.0 ov) and well in the game. If they win this it will be a massive boost for them.

Bermuda struggling at 40-7. Game was over along time ago.

Psycho Ned · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:14

Alibaba99 said:
Because our Government has decided that Cricket isn't important enough to be classed as a Catagory A sport and so doesn't have to be shown live on terrestial.

Aye the cricket world cup is a category B event meaning that live coverage can be on Pay TV as long as they allow terrestrial to screen highlights.

Seems odd when the Football world cup is a category A event and cricket is meant to be our second sport.

Then again those lists don't mean a lot the ECB got England test matches taken off the category A to category B list then flogged them to Sky!!

e36Adz · 5 Mar 2007 at 19:33

Bermuda 45 all out, unable to put up any sort of a game really.

Ireland however are still in there with a chance against SA, 70/3 at the moment. Come on Ireland!