Planet Cricket roll over Border for Meagre total!
Skipper scalps two and Balaji three as Border fold for 84!
The Border batting lineup folded like a house of cards in a tornado!
Harsha:Hello, and welcome to
Stumped, Sky Sports new end of innings show, where I and a couple of our experts meet together to discuss the match. Today we introduce our new guest for this World Cup, H.Arnold, the PlanetCricket XI's manager! Welcome Mr. Arnold.
H.Arnold:Thank you.
Harsha:Our other guests for today include Tony Cozier, Ravi Shastri and Navjot Sidhu. Good morning gentlemen. Now, onto the match-wonderful performance by this talented young side, wasn't it?
Ravi:Absolutely! They played superbly, from the very first ball!
Harsha:Speaking of the first ball, that was an amazing delivery from skipper Hemlani to trap Sudgen in front on the first ball of the match.Set the tone for the whole match didn't it?
Tony Cozier: Absolutely. Never let the pressure slip. By the seventh over they had been reduced to 22/3. Great stuff.
Ravi:Their fielding was sharp, and they reduced the flow of runs to the minimum. Their were a couple of edges which didn't quite go to hand, although if they did they would have been superb catches, but nevertheless they were brilliant in the field.
Harsha:The bowlers also bowled a tight line and length throughout. You must be extremely proud Mr. Arnold, your thoughts?
H.Arnold:Yes I am extremely pleased. Nitesh lead from the front, and that inspired spell by Balaji which destroyed the lower order was just perfect, just what you want from your most experienced player. The boys didn't drop any opportunities, and were very quick in the field-the two runouts proof of that. All the players pitched in, and you can only say such a performace must be attributed to great team work.
Navjot:If I may interrupt, I also believe that the Border batsmen lead to their own self destruction. They played across the line, misread the ball, and played foolish shots at the wrong times and to the wrong balls. Maybe it was over confidence, maybe it wasn't their day, but their batting folded like a card house in a tornado. Styradom and Boucher did provide some resistence, but apart from them no one else chipped in. A two year old infant holding a toothpick could have done better!
Harsha:All right Navjot, don't need to go that far *chuckle* but all together, a fine perforance by the PlaneCricket XI, and a poor batting display by the Border batsman. Lets view the stats for today:
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Harsha:As you can see, they never really got going once Sai Anand and Hemlani got the early breakthroughs, and it was downhill all the way, despite fine innings from allrounder Styradom and the experienced Mark Boucher. Now lets view the
Samsung Shot Of The Innings-This lovely backfoot cover drive from Styradom:
Wonderful shot. Now, lets view the highlights-we apologize for the lack of footage for the first 7 overs due to technical problems:
Highlights:
A beauty of an inswinger from Hemlani traps Ian Mitchell in front after a scratchy innings. Thats wicket number four and Planet Cricket are on their way!
Yes! Got 'em! The dagerous Pope is gone and Border are now 5 down and in serious trouble!
Styradom looks in good nick...
...until he plays one pull too many and top edges this one to Hemlani at backward square leg!
A fine innings by Boucher as wickets fall all around him.
A useful innings from Elworthy comes to an end as he holes out to the man at backward square leg at the edge of the ring! Thats Ramesh's 2nd wicket and Planet Cricket's 7th!
The sweetest sight for any bowler. Botha is clean bowled by Ramesh for a duck and the score for Border is now 72/8
You miss, I hit. Leggie and Vice Captain Satish Vaswani slips this quicker one through Zondeki's defences as he departs without scoring. 72/9 now, and it seems all over as Langeveldt walks in
When the going gets tough, the tough gets going! Langeveldt clearly isn't going to give up without a fight as that races away to the fence for four.
Its all over! Langeveldt just couldn't get the power or the elevation on that and finds the man at mid on. 84 all out and Planet Cricket are on top.
Harsha:Thank you for watching
Stumped. We hope you enjoyed our show. Join us in 10 minutes as we head off to watch Planet Crickets reply on Sky Sports!
I thought I was gonna be anchor!
anyway, now i really want to see the batting! :cool:
