Pakistan Vs Windies
Australia Vs India
South Africa Vs New Zealand
Sri Lanka Vs England
Australia Vs India
South Africa Vs New Zealand
Sri Lanka Vs England
ICC Cricket World Cup 2011
- Thread starter The Taurean
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I reckon the semi finals will be Pakistan v India and SA v England.
Pakistan v England final.
Pakistan v England final.
England wont make the final. Or for that matter even New Zealand or WI. They might come up with a shock in the QF's but certainly wont make the final.
I'm nervous about Thursday's match against Australia, they're always very difficult opponents regardless of form and even the state of their team. I have belief in our team though, we've done quite well so far but still have aspects that need improving. I do fear a bit for our bowling, we'll really have to have the tactics spot on.
Also, absolutely brilliant to see Yuvraj Singh doing so well; 3 fifties, 1 century, a 5 wicket haul and wickets/decent economy rate in every match so far. I think the difficulties and injury/form problems of last year have made him re-evaluate his own game more, he seems to be respecting each delivery more and playing himself in. He's always been one of my favourite players so great to see him performing so well on the biggest of stages. We do need some of the other batsmen to step up now though, a couple of other match-winners to surface and make the difference.
Also, absolutely brilliant to see Yuvraj Singh doing so well; 3 fifties, 1 century, a 5 wicket haul and wickets/decent economy rate in every match so far. I think the difficulties and injury/form problems of last year have made him re-evaluate his own game more, he seems to be respecting each delivery more and playing himself in. He's always been one of my favourite players so great to see him performing so well on the biggest of stages. We do need some of the other batsmen to step up now though, a couple of other match-winners to surface and make the difference.
1992 rerun, bold prediction. Check your PM harry.
Hopefully Brett Lee continues on his good form because he's the key to Australia's bowling line up. One last push Bretty!
Same as this based on group stage performances that I've seen.
If I had to pick a surprise QF result I'd go for WI to beat Pakistan.
Feck me, looks like all of Dhaka's shown up for this quarter final. There's hardly an empty seat in the house.
That's probably half the match won by Pak.... Gayle gone
Why can't the west Indies ever play sensible cricket?
Now 2 down.
Now 3 
Great stuff from Hafeez.
this is turning into an anti-climax.
Wow, submitting quicker than usual.
How sad.
As I said... Bangladesh would have been a tougher opponent than Windies for Pak
Seems so. Theres no fire and no intelligence. Whatever happened to rotating the strike and working the ball around for singles?
Sarwan dropped. Oh joy, more idiotic batting.
What's with the support for Pakistan? Have lot of Pakistanis travelled for this or are the locals just supporting them?
Meltdown ! Meltdown ! WI to not even reach a 100.
Another one bites the dust, 69-6.
Oh dear
69/6. Barring a major collapse from Pakistan, this is all over.
Shockingly poor match.
Wow, are the windies trying to prove they are utterly incapable of playing this sport ? Never seen such a spiritless/spineless performance from a team in a WC QF.
This is hilarious
Must be painful to watch for the WI greats of the past.
You'd think these WI batsman have never come across spin bowling in their lives before today.
Is it too late to call the tigers in ? I'm sure Pak would appreciate a better game.
Its painful for everyone who's watching. But yes, Lara, King Viv et al must be contemplating genocide.
Really sad to witness the Windies like this. I know it's been this way for quite a well now, but to put up such an embarrassing showing on the biggest stage. That batting line up is just awful. Pollard is woeful. Dissapointed by Darren Bravo, thought he'd have showcased his talents better at the World Cup.
Take nothing away from most of Pakistan's bowling so far.
Er, Spin? What's that?
Disgraceful performance this. It's a strong word but you don't expect this kind of shoddy display in the knockout stages no matter what the team is. Ireland would have done better.
Disgraceful performance this. It's a strong word but you don't expect this kind of shoddy display in the knockout stages no matter what the team is. Ireland would have done better.
They don't seem to have planned what to do if Gayle holed out early. In fact, they don't seem to have had any sort of gameplan throughout this innings.
France could do quite well at this point too...
Its like watching a team of baseball players trying to play cricket. Home run or nothing.
What I don't understand is that EVERYONE says this, and yet they seem to play unintelligent cricket time and time again. And how can a team that's been a test playing nation for forever be so so bad against spin? Spin has played a huge part in cricket always.
Yes, inexplicable indeed. The whole model of WI cricket needs to be questioned. But then again, we're talking about the age of 20-20 cricket, why would these players slog the whole year round to play in alien/toiling conditions whereas they can slog nicely in T-20 game for a couple of hrs, and collect a bigger paycheck.
Playing spin is just one of the glaring problems in WI cricket. I might be wrong, but to me, they dont even look arsed to improve their ways which if true is the biggest problem of all.
112 All out. Game, set and match.