Story World Cup 2008

[Roofrom50]

Hey Roo, when is the Kiwi line up coming

When they are batting, b4 their innings, i will post out their team

 

[Roofrom50]

Game steadily in balance (21 overs gone)

The 2nd game of England's World Cup journey has started off well. Vaughan won the toss and elected to bat 1st on a good hard pitch. Alastair Cook came in for the dissapointin Ed Joyce who didnt make a run in the 1st match, and would want to impress to keep his position. It was Cook and Strauss to get things kicked off for England. England looked settled at the start of the match, but it was Alastair Cook the man that hasnt played a senior match for 8 weeks, that was out for England. Making 14 runs from his return, was bowled by Tuffey and caught by McCullum. It was a thick edge that Cook got, and the ball looked to past 1st slip and go past the keeper completely, but McCullum and his fit body, jumped for the ball about 3 meters away from him, and caught the ball in the one glove. New Zealand had their breakthrough, but little did they know, this was the worse thing they could do.

Brendon McCullum catches Andrew Strauss

New Zealand celebrate a great partnership broken

Out came Captain Michael Vaughan from the change rooms, while Andrew Strauss was playing pretty badly up the other end, he just couldnt find the ball on bat, and just blocked whatever came towards him. Vaughan didnt take long tol get going, for instance, he hit a brilliant four on the on side of the 2nd ball that he faced. Vaughan then thought he would out-smart Bond, and ducked for the bouncer, it suprised everyone even keeper McCullum and went over his head for four, and Bond wasnt happy.
The Partnership was a good one for England, it was 100 with Vaughan making his way to 50 on the way. But Strauss was the one that let the Partnership down being run out on 29, just failing before the line.

Michael Vaughan reaches 50


England Scoreboard

A. Cook: c. McCullum - b. Tuffey - 14
A. Strauss: run out - 29
M. Vaughan: not out - 59*
K. Pietersen: c. McMillian - b. Butler - 3
A. Flintoff: not out - 3*

Extra's: 18
Total: 126
Fall" 21, 104, 116



New Zealand Bowling (Runs-Wickets)

S, Bond: 44 - 0
D. Tuffey: 28 - 1
I. Butler: 28 - 1
D. Vettori: 18 - 0​

 

[plympilgrim]

nice score after 21 overs, but they need to keep wickets in hand

 

[Roofrom50]

Hey guys, just letting you know that i wont update as much as i used to on this story, because i have another story going on in the Other Gaming Stories Board. I used to update alot in the one day, but now it will probably be only once or twice a day now

 

[Pak_cricketer]

Thats still good. If you can make the updates big than one or two updates a day should be great!

 

[Roofrom50]

Thats still good. If you can make the updates big than one or two updates a day should be great!

Yeah ok, so bigger then the ones i have already been producing lately?

 

[Roofrom50]

England vs New Zealand

World Cup

Pool Match @ Barbados


Day - Hard - Sunny - Humid


England 11

1. A. Cook
2. A. Strauss
3. M. Vaughan
4. K. Pietersen
5. A. Flintoff
6. I. Bell
7. P. Nixon
8. A. Caddick
9. S. Harmison
10. J. Anderson
11. M. Panesar​

 

[Roofrom50]

Just reached 500 posts for the story. Thanks to everyone who has followed me through this journey so far, and the wonderful comments. But it's about to get better, there is a big twist to happen at the end of the 2008 season

 

[Ponting22]

why is bell batting quite far down the order?

 

[Roofrom50]

why is bell batting quite far down the order?

I dont know, maybe because there are alot of good batsman ahead of him. I was thinkin of havin Belly open the batting with Strauss and bring in another bowler, because Pietersen is getting alot of good bowling time in these matches, because we dnot have any other good bowlers which we havent used up yet. So maybe someone like Lewis could come in for Joyce at the top order, have Bell and Strauss open the batting so it works both ways. Bell gets to bat up the order plus we have an extra bowler to fill the hole that Pietersen would usually fill

 

[surendar]

Congrads for 500 posts in the story Also this shd be an interesting match.. may be Bell could have been moved above KP which wud be handy in rotating strikes in middle overs.

 

[plympilgrim]

hopefully you should win roo, good luck

 

[Roofrom50]

Michael Vaughan sets up England

England have elected to bat 1st on what looks to be a good pitch today at Barbados against the New Zealand team for their 2nd match of the World Cup. Michael Vaughan elected to bat to try and post a good score for New Zealand to chase, and who they have been known to chase down massive scores around 350 against Australia in the Commonwealth Bank Series just last month.
England come into the side with just 1 change to their previous team, with Ed Joyce coming out of the squad after a shocking start to the World Cup, and in comes Alastair Cook, who hasnt played a senior match for over 6 weeks.
But again it was England batsman they really let them down. Just 10 minutes and 21 runs later that New Zealand got their 1st wicket of Alastair Cook, who got a massive edge onto the ball and was caught by McCullum the keeper who took arguably the catch of the season so far.

Brendon McCullum takes the catch of Cook, and New Zealand celebrate

Michael Vaughan came out into the attack and it didnt take long for him to find some form. Is leading Englands runs so far in this tournament by a long way next would be Andrew Strauss, so the 2 top scores were at the crease for England. Michael Vaughan playing some good shots, although alot of them were stopped by fielders, you can sense that Vaughan was about to explode into dominatnt mode anytime soon. And thats what happened, 4's were the go for Vaughan, smashing 6 to reach his half century. Michael Vaughan made his half century, and didnt show any signs of stopping their, he was looking to be the 1st England player this year to reach 100 in a World Cup match, but he was stopped, after a great field performance by Butler, hitting the stumps before the tired Vaughan could get to the crease, Vaughan was run out on 72, just a brilliant innings by Vaughan, and something England really needed from their captain.

Images of Michael Vaughan making his way to 50 for England

Nothing really went right for England since the Vaughan wicket. Flintoff couldnt execute only making 15 also being run out this time by Vettori, but Ian Bell, the man that has been hardly done by the England team, batting at number 8 on the lists as he is a quality batsman, he found some form, although he only did make 25 being balled by McMillian, he still did look like he was enjoying his time at the middle, and was finding the ball with the bat good. Andrew Caddick helped England with 14 runs of his own, and James Anderson scored 11.

Andrew Caddick was playing well, but unlucky ran out, with his back foot, just infront of the line


England End Scoreboard


A. Cook: c. McCullum - b. Tuffery - 14
A. Strauss: run out - 29
M. Vaughan: run out - 72
K. Pietersen: c. McMillian - b. Butler - 3
A. Flintoff: run out - 15
I. Bell: b. McMillian - 25
P. Nixon: c. Fleming - b. Astle - 9
A. Caddick: run out - 14
S. Harmison: not out - 7*
J. Anderson: c. McCullum - b. McMillian - 11
M. Panesar: c. Sinclair - b. Butler - 0

Extra's: 26
Total: 225
Fall: 21, 104, 116, 154, 154, 180, 195, 207, 224, 225




New Zealand Bowling (Runs-Wickets)

S. Bond: 61 - 0
D. Tuffey: 28 - 1
I. Butler: 39 - 2
D. Vettori: 29 - 0
C. McMillian: 40 - 2
N. Astle: 15 - 1​

 

[plympilgrim]

not too bad a score though they could improve

 

[Jaztheman]

Bad start from the openers but goodscore too be honest