Cricket World Cup thread

[ASSE]Hinchy · 11 Apr 2007 at 17:06

31st over: WICKET - Hasan c Strauss b Panesar 0, Bang 113-8
New batsman Rafique is toast, lollipopping a shot to Strauss at mid-off. Made a bit of a meal of it, Straussy, the little drama queen. Monty now has 2-7 from his four overs.

Mr Nice · 11 Apr 2007 at 17:12

Monty is bowling well;
O M R W
M S Panesar 5.0 2 16 2

Mad old tory · 11 Apr 2007 at 17:17

Struggling to kill em off now, still they managed 250 against the saffas so we're not doing too badly. Bit of perspective though, this pitch suits our bowlers perfectly hard and fast with good bounce, instead of the subcontinentish wickets seen early in the tourney.

Mr Nice · 11 Apr 2007 at 17:23

Lets just hope we have more than 2 players getting double figures with the bat.

el_dazza · 11 Apr 2007 at 18:57

Ladbrokes offering "will vaughan score 50+?"

11/8 yes
8/15 no

I'd wager no, because he's bloody crap.

lemonkettaz · 11 Apr 2007 at 19:05

Vaughan should get a 50... its a long time coming

lemonkettaz · 11 Apr 2007 at 19:23

Strauss LBW...

48 - 2

lemonkettaz · 11 Apr 2007 at 19:52

70 - 3

Vaughan, he had to go sooner than later

... gone for 30

Pigeon_Killer · 11 Apr 2007 at 20:06

We could be in trouble now. Pietersen gone for only 10 runs. Really hope we don't throw this away. 85/4

Psycho Ned · 11 Apr 2007 at 20:20

No problems from here just another 37 runs required with 6 wickets in hand....glad we didn't need much more than 143 though else we may have been in the doodoo!!

On the plus side it's giving Freddie a chance to get his eye in a bit in a non pressure environment.

edit: or maybe not!! Freddie bowled 110-5.

edit2: oh ooooh Bopara out now 110-6 :eek:

Pigeon_Killer · 11 Apr 2007 at 20:32

Never doubt our ability to turn a winning position in to a losing one

el_dazza · 11 Apr 2007 at 20:37

el_dazza said:
Ladbrokes offering "will vaughan score 50+?"

11/8 yes
8/15 no

I'd wager no, because he's bloody crap.

What a bet that was. Bugger.

el_dazza · 11 Apr 2007 at 21:08

christ almighty.. 3 maidens, 7 overs to go, we only need 7 bleeding runs, come on lads, put us out of our misery!

One More Solo · 11 Apr 2007 at 21:22

This'll be the game that knocks us out, we really had to smash the runs off in this game to stand a chance.

Big Kev · 11 Apr 2007 at 21:39

We made very hard work of that, but at least we didn't lose, but we must improve for the games left in the Super 8.

Rosbif · 11 Apr 2007 at 22:50

I see Vaughan has finally found a way to score runs, which is to play ODI as a Test match at a snails pace.

He might be able to get away as a test batsmen by waiting for crap balls but he certainly isnt off ODI standard which requires much more skill and ability.

lemonkettaz · 11 Apr 2007 at 22:54

england failed at winning

e36Adz · 12 Apr 2007 at 03:57

Englands next game is against SA on the 17th, and that looks likely to be the decider, with the winner going through to the semi's.

Dave · 12 Apr 2007 at 13:38

e36Adz said:
Englands next game is against SA on the 17th, and that looks likely to be the decider, with the winner going through to the semi's.

. . . can you imagine us chasing down a 350 score if SA get in full flow again?

(maybe if we had 130 overs)

Yas786 · 12 Apr 2007 at 15:45

Hmmm another 50-60 runs for Bangladesh and England would have been in serious trouble yesterday. Was very impressed with the Bangladeshi bowlers, they really had England at one point but too many few runs on the board meant they really werent going to win it. I can now see why Vaughan decided to bowl first, imagine England batted first :eek:

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