Story Big Hitting T20 WC - Sri Lanka [BLIC07]

[Pakistani Army]

The batting was superb from the Aussies, backed up by the bowling aswell. Sad to see Gayle did not get any support from his team mates. Great works Treva. This is a great story mate. Looking forward to the next update. Rpes for your hard work.

 

[freddiw]

Pontinng got what he wanted,
absolutely smashed them
Sri Lanka may be worried

 

[westindies2007]

Australia vs West Indies @ Newlands, Cape Town

Australia do as the captain ordered by anhilating the West Indies at Cape Town. Gayle sparked in a gloomy Windies display with Ponting leading the fight for anhilation, scoring an incredibly comfortable 67.

The West Indies captain Ramnaresh Sarwan won the toss and elected to field first. A full capacity crowd watched on to see the might of Australia brush aside a weak bowling attack. The first wicket came at 22/0 and that of Matthew Hayden. He made 12 from just 5 balls before being trapped LBW by an inswinging Taylor delivery. Gilchrist was next to go with a slightly scratch 17 in 23 balls. Bravo bowled him to leave West Indies in the driving seat early on. Then a partnership of 96 between Ponting and Clarke provided the platform for some lower order hitting. Ponting was a class above the rest hitting 67 in just 38 deliveries. Clarke went first bowled by Bravo and Hussey also followed by hitting a six, then being trapped LBW by Bravo. Ponting finally went, caught Edwards bowled Powell, to an outstanding ovation from the Cape Town capacity crowd. Hogg made a 2 ball duck being cleaned up by Powell but Lee and Symonds provided the impitous to take Australia passed 200. Symonds cruched 38* from 17 balls and Lee 29* also from 17 balls. The biggest score of the tournament so far of 204-6 tallied by Australia. Gayle, Samuels, Bravo and Taylor were all very expensive, but Bravo claimed 3 wickets. Edwards was economical and Powell picked up 2 wickets.

The West Indies needed to get off to a flier to chase down this monster score, and did via some awesome hitting from Chris Gayle. He crunched most of the 50 runs before the first wicket went down, that of Devon Smith for 8 caught by Symonds from Clark's bowling. Gayle's magical hitting came to an end with a silly run out. No need to take the risky single with him hitting the ball how he was and a direct hit by Hogg saw the back of him. An amazing 61 from 19 balls broke the international twenty20 record for quickest 50. From then on the West Indies crumbled, not getting a partnership of 12 runs or more. Symonds rounded off a fantastic knock picking up the wickets of Samuels, Chanderpaul and Sarwan. Bracken and Johnson also took 2 and Hogg 1. An incredible collapse of 70/2 to 103 a/o in just 9.4 overs. Australia picked up an 101 run win to increase their chances of qualifiying for the semi-finals.

Gayle blew a gail as the Windies were blown over by Australia

Unbelieveable.
But it's a typical West Indies Style. you can't judge them. one day they may perform the next day they are big loser. :help

 

[voldemort]

Sri Lanka may be worried

how dare you say that

 

[Left_Hander]

Huge win for Australia. Lee batted really well. Symonds would be my man of the match.

 

[freddiw]

hahaha, yea but with aus playing like that they may be unstoppable

 

[ivanvdm15]

Good Story

 

[treva]

Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe - Tonight!

 

[Pakistani Army]

Nice. Looking forward to it Treva. I am loving this story due to the following reasons:
1) The detail is superb.
2) Presentation using BLIC07 is very difficult.

Great works. Bangladesh will win I think

 

[treva]

Bangladesh vs Zimbabwe @ Newlands, Cape Town

Zimbabwe Changes: Sibanda out, Dabengwa out - Williams in, Strydom in

Bangladesh come out on top thanks to some glorious top order batting by Nafees and Iqbal. Alok Kapali also restricted Zimbabwe to a smallish total with 3 wickets in 4 balls.

Bangladesh won the toss and wanted to make the most of a good batting track by putting themselves in. Nafees and iqbal really set the tone early on crunching a number of boundaries in their opening stand of 70. Iqbal was the more aggressive of the two and he fell first. 4 away from a well deserved half century he was bowled by Chigumbura looking for the boundary to bring up his 50. Nafees then became the aggressor putting on 65 with Aftab Ahmed before Aftab was dismissed by Brent caught at long on by Mupariwa. The captain Mohammad Ashraful only lasted 9 balls for his 14 before he was stumped by Taylor off his opposition number's bowling. Nafees finished off with 79* from 58 balls hitting 5 sixes and 7 fours. Hasan finished with 5* at a run-a-ball. Chiugumbura was the pick of the bowlers with 2 overs, 1 for 6 and it was a surprise to see him given just the 2 overs.

Zimbabwe lost 2 wickets in the first 2 balls of their innings. Williams went caught behind by Rahim off Mortaza and the Mortaza got the direct hit very next ball running out Chibhabha. Taibu went next for 3 run out by the keeper Rahim from a superb quick throw. Zimbabwe finally got a partnership going with Taylor and Matsikenyeri putting on 56 together. Then another run out cost Zimbabwe, Rahim with alert thinking to throw to the bowler with Matsikenyeri strolling back. He went for 27 (17) and things started going downhill again. Strydom went for 10 to Alok Kapali and that started the rot. Very next ball Masakadza went caught by Rasel from Kapali and then 2 balls after that Chigumbura was bowled by Kapali for 0. Taylor went for a fabolous 54 from 29 before being bowled by Rasel. The captain Utseya made just 1 and even a 19 run partnership at the end couldn't save Zimbabwe. They fell 43 runs short in under 15 overs. Kapali took 3-11 and Rasel 2-16. Bangladesh have strong chances of qualifiying for the semi-finals now.

 

[freddiw]

solid win for the bangys

 

[treva]

All match links updated onto first post

 

[westindies2007]

nice win by Bagladesh

 

[treva]

Poll now added. I think i'll vote for my 4 as well

Thanks for your comments

 

[westindies2007]

I Vote for West Indies.