Warm-up matches

[sohum]

The coverage and effort put into these warm up matches is poor. They do not even have a third umpire for the India Vs Netherlands match and there is no sign of coverage in the Aussie game.

Considering they're not even official games, I'm not surprised. In the photo of Bosman getting out on the Cricinfo homepage, you can see cars in the background!

Hope Bangla can pull this one out against New Zealand. And India have done well to overshadow their lackluster performance against Netherlands last World Cup.

 

[Leicester Fox]

If PC wants to send me and a few others out to the caribbean (all expenses paid obviously ) then we'll keep you all updated

 

[manee]

Nah Oram didn't amputate his finger, hes probably taking painkillers.

Lets be honest, that is ridiculously drastic action to think about amputating a finger. He does not realise that it is only a game and such an act is too drastic.

Maybe he can find a way to tape it up heavily to "get it out of the way" as it were when he is fielding and batting.

 

[Justcrazy]

now guyz this is the reason I want pathan in the indian lineup...he scored quick fire 25 at the death. India end up with huge 300/9 eventhough they kept on losing wickets...

 

[sohum]

now guyz this is the reason I want pathan in the indian lineup...he scored quick fire 25 at the death. India end up with huge 300/9 eventhough they kept on losing wickets...

Against Netherlands. Sure he can bat, but can he make more runs than he gives away? I think not.

 

[surendar]

Australia got 7/290 (Clarke 82, Watson 80)
http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,21339648-23212,00.html

I was wondering how come Aussies match didnt start as cric info has,

Australia
Zimbabwe
Australia won the toss and elected to bat first

Nothing other than this

Anyways, it was good score by Aussies and with that score, they shd win this one as there is no McMillan for Zimbabwe

 

[Justcrazy]

Against Netherlands. Sure he can bat, but can he make more runs than he gives away? I think not.

I agree with u on that...buh im talking about that hes a better batsman than DK...DK is just useless player in the indian side...lets not play him against big teams..give him a try against bangla n burmuda... n yeah pathan bowling sux these dayz n he needs to work on that..buh we can use him afteer dhoni in the batting lineup and as a 5th bowilng options as we know hes a very handy batsman so why we need KD?

 

[BigCrickNan]

Lets be honest, that is ridiculously drastic action to think about amputating a finger. He does not realise that it is only a game and such an act is too drastic.

Maybe he can find a way to tape it up heavily to "get it out of the way" as it were when he is fielding and batting.

He said it was a joke that was blown out of proportion which is fair enough the press is prone to do stuff like that.

 

[sohum]

I agree with u on that...buh im talking about that hes a better batsman than DK...DK is just useless player in the indian side...lets not play him against big teams..give him a try against bangla n burmuda... n yeah pathan bowling sux these dayz n he needs to work on that..buh we can use him afteer dhoni in the batting lineup and as a 5th bowilng options as we know hes a very handy batsman so why we need KD?

Pathan's pace is probably slower than most of the Netherlands medium pacers. I think he is very vulnerable.

 

[surendar]

I guess he might be handy to irritate the opponent batters with slow pace but still he needed that movement(his fav swing) & correct line to be effective.. Wrong line and length without any movement is sure to be smashed while playing bigger teams.

 

[manee]

He said it was a joke that was blown out of proportion which is fair enough the press is prone to do stuff like that.

Ok.

Pathan's pace is probably slower than most of the Netherlands medium pacers. I think he is very vulnerable.

For someone who once bowled 85, it is pathetic.

 

[evertonfan]

Sreesanth can bowl with a damn fine seam position. It's just beautiful to see the ball as straight as that.

And this better not be the commentary team for the rest of the tournament. What happened to the Benaud's, Healy's, Botham's, Lloyd's and Raja's of 2003? This commentary team is just pathetic and I hope it's only for the warm-up games.

 

[manee]

They will almost definately get a few more, no point in getting them for these warm up matches.

Sreesanth is bowling tremendous and deserves a wicket. Irfan Pathan seems to be feeling his way into the conditions but needs some extra pace to be dangerous.

 

[PhilD123]

And this better not be the commentary team for the rest of the tournament. What happened to the Benaud's, Healy's, Botham's, Lloyd's and Raja's of 2003? This commentary team is just pathetic and I hope it's only for the warm-up games.

Yeah I know what you mean, it's the same kinda thing as in the ICC CT earlier in the year. I mean come on, Allott and Willis, they aren't good enough for England summer internationals so why are they in the Carribean, get a bit of Bumble in! I was also under the view that the World Cup would have the same TV Overlay as the one in BLIC 07 (I thought that had been mentioned in the BLIC advertisement).

On the poor coverage of the Aussie game today, the same happened with the WI v Kenya game yesterday, hopefully its not a regular occurence.

 

[SaiSrini]

It was a good effort for India to post up 300 in a pitch in the West Indies. Tendulkar and Dravid played well, though I wanted Sehwag to score more runs.

Netherlands are batting awfully bad. Why the heck are they playing cricket? You got to positive at least at the beginning of your innings. I havent seen them being positive from the first ball (except for a few rare deliveries).

India should win this easily! They are not being pressurized at all. Wonder if Netherlands have got money from other countries who want to put India into overconfidence mode!lolz.....