Warm-up matches

[Kev]

For those of you who can't watch the Bermuda v England warm up game, I highly recommend the live text commentary of the game on CricketEurope. The bloke whos doing it is someone known to you all.

I dont suppose you are flying out to commentate are you

If not you can always turn the central heating up and drink a bacardi to get into the spirit.

 

[Sureshot]

I can, seen as it's on Sky Sports.

So you think joke matches where teams will be able to use all members of their squad should count towards official stats? Now that's stupid.

seing not seen, surely?

Also is that person you? If so well done.

 

[Cricketman]

Another game against WI? I think we (both India and West Indies) are sick of seeing each other for a bit!
At least it will get us a feel for the conditions against the people who play best on them
Usy, i like ur avatar

 

[cric_craze]

if the games counted then afridi's ban wud have been over till the world cup

 

[irottev]

if the games counted then afridi's ban wud have been over till the world cup

They arn't offical ODI's so i'd say they don't.

Would be cool to have a big upset somewhere (unless it's at our expense.).

 

[andrew_nixon]

Would be cool to have a big upset somewhere (unless it's at our expense.).

New Zealand are the only one of the ten Test teams not to have lost to a non-test team, so you have a good record there!

 

[Insomniac]

But NZ have never made it pass the semi final...

 

[irottev]

But NZ have never made it pass the semi final...

You know, i'm kind of prefering the record andrew pointed out to making a World Cup final.

Infact, I don't even think we have lost to Bangladesh. I think we lost a few ODI's to Zimbabwe though. Back when they wern't bad.

 

[icyman]

Another game against WI? I think we (both India and West Indies) are sick of seeing each other for a bit!

Wonder what you'd say after the World Cup when India plays Australia 21 times from June-Jan

 

[anandbatra]

Wonder what you'd say after the World Cup when India plays Australia 21 times from June-Jan

We'll lose 20 of those and that'll be the end of Dravid as a captain, thankfully.

We need a captain who can go out there and be aggressive.

 

[cric_craze]

they shud try arafat and sami against canada as well as akmal as opener

 

[Sureshot]

Wonder what you'd say after the World Cup when India plays Australia 21 times from June-Jan

We almost certainly don't even play 21 ODIs in that time.

 

[Chimp132]

this is a bit of a random thing to know, but its sumthing some people might be interessted knowing lol - in the warm up matches and throughout the world cup, i think flintoffs using the woodworm globe, he was in the sports section of the newspaper that we get, and his kit bag was open and he had a couple of woodworm globes in there.

 

[Leicester Fox]

All woodworm players are using the globe in the WC apparently

 

[Chimp132]

thats seems a bit strange, do you know if theres a reason for it