T20 World Cup

It's on.

IIIIINNNNNGGGGGGEEEEERRRRRRRRLLLLLLAAAAAAAANNNDDDDDD.

Come on boys knock 'em over.
 
Disappointing performance really, never really recovered from a bad start (other than a few overs from Shah) and South Africa were ruthless. Recovered a little bit of pride in the bowling and fielding performance.
 
It will be a survival game imo. The loser of that game will be out of the competition because West Indies will beat you tomorrow. Should be a cracking game though, can't wait.
 
Utd heap said:
Looked mint today, how's he done in the tournament so far?

19 aswell :nervous:
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Not seen him in this tournament apart from yesterday, but I saw him bowl against the Aussies over the past 5 months.. he looked great.

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka and India vs Windies today..

I have a feeling Pakistan will beat Sri Lanka. They've called Razzaq up.
 
DanNistelrooy said:
I don't know the rules but it had to be a six didnt it? Stunning effort to stop it though, never seen anything like that.

Really enjoying this tournament, has been a massive exam distraction though! Reckon Sri Lanka are going to win it though, Dilshan is superb
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Mathews' fielding effort legal, says MCC


Angelo Mathews' acrobatic fielding effort in Sri Lanka's match against West Indies at Trent Bridge on Wednesday conformed to the Laws of Cricket, the MCC has said. Such "brilliant and quick-thinking" acts, it said, are good for the game and should not be deemed illegal.

Mathews was stationed on the wide long-on boundary when, in the 17th over of the chase, Ramnaresh Sarwan lofted Ajantha Mendis in his direction. He caught the ball on the right side of the line but, realising the momentum had taken him backwards, flung the ball in the air before his foot landed over the boundary. Looking up, he saw that the ball would land outside the boundary, resulting in a six, and so picked himself up, jumped and smashed the ball, tennis-style, over the rope and back into play.

It led to a brief hold-up in play with the two on-field umpires - Billy Bowden and Simon Taufel - consulting the third umpire Ian Gould and eventually West Indies were credited with only three runs.

John Stephenson, the MCC's assistant secretary, confirmed Mathews' fielding was deemed legal according to Law 19.3(a)(ii).

"The MCC Laws sub-committee had recently discussed fielding such as this and felt that such brilliant and quick-thinking acts should not be outlawed," Stephenson said. "MCC is happy with the Law as it is written and occurrences such as the one yesterday, while extremely rare, are good for the game of cricket as a whole. It is also pleasing that two of the committee's members were involved in making the correct decision on the field of play."

Law 19.3 (a) (ii) states: A boundary shall be scored and signalled by the umpire at the bowler's end whenever, while the ball is in play, in his opinion - a fielder, with some part of his person in contact with the ball, touches the boundary or has some part of his person grounded beyond the boundary

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I think this rule is stupid.

Imagine a fielder diving for the ball a good six feet away from the boundary line. He gets it in his hands, and due to the momentum of his dive, his body rotates, such that his feet touch the boundary line; but the ball is still a good six feet away from the line. According to the law, it is four runs. Reminds me of an electric current.
 
anver said:
I think this rule is stupid.

Imagine a fielder diving for the ball a good six feet away from the boundary line. He gets it in his hands, and due to the momentum of his dive, his body rotates, such that his feet touch the boundary line; but the ball is still a good six feet away from the line. According to the law, it is four runs. Reminds me of an electric current.
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Er, that happens in every match and it's widely accepted.
 
We have no one in the middle order capable of hitting boundaries on a regular basis. Could really cost us here. Hopefully our bowlers conjure up something special.
 
Wasim Akram is a pretty good commentator...get him on MOTD
 
Afridi out for a duck...its Sri Lanka's to lose now
 
Pakistan refuse to take a chance, they will lose the game as they are playing anyway, so try and smash a few 6s.
 
Contender for worst innings of the tournament so far there by Dhoni.

what was all that about, he's fecked off his natural game then?
 
Utd heap said:
Contender for worst innings of the tournament so far there by Dhoni.

what was all that about, he's fecked off his natural game then?
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He's always been shit. Massively over-rated player.

fecking cnut kept promoting himself and didn't give any chance for Raina and the others to get used to the conditions.

well done, Yuvraj and Yusuf.. Yusuf playing through the pain. Hope he's alright for the next game.

I hope we win this, haven't got much of a chance of qualifying from here if we don't.
 
these twats are damn lucky and combined with the incompetence of ishant sharma and dhoni are winning it.
 
Bravo was pure class - always was.

What a game it will be on sunday and i will be there to witness it :D

P.S my first match too
 
Hahaha. Brilliant. I can't wait for Sunday now, it will be brilliant when we knock out you Indians :lol:

I bet zing is crying right now!
 
South Africa are peaking too early everybody knows that. On Sunday we will knock you out and then beat West Indies on Monday and go on to win the whole thing. We haven't peaked yet so I would be worried if I wasn't English.
 
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