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(apologies in advance)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6442107.stm

Can't really get worked up about it yet,sure it'll happen!At least this time its not being overshadowed by politic stuff though.

Only in the world of cricket, could you have an opening ceremony followed by a day off.

Not really, it's because teams needed to have time to travel back from the opening ceremony in Jamaica to the respective islands across the Caribbean where they will play their group games

Could they not just have played the first game in the same place as the opening ceremony, like the footie and rugby world cup?

i see the tournie organisers have done a great job  :D

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
I love you Reg :oops:

Did anyone actually watch any of the opening ceremony?And if so was it any good?

Yes for about 30 mins .. I found it quite dull to the point where I fell asleep watching it (it was on late tho and I was in bed!)

Woke up to see all the players coming out before nodding off again

I hope the matches are better

Im backing the Windies today ...

Yeah it was on about 11 pm wasn't it?Can't imagine it was that good,although Shaggy played i believe 8)

Yeah i'd back the Windies too,if for no other reason than the competiton needs the home country to do well.

They spend a fortune on it - soemthing like $2m, and now they can't even get the practice nets sorted at Sabina Park!  I think they've been living the Malibu lifestyle a little too much.

West Indies 58-1 (17 overs) v Pakistan

100-3 now

finished 241-9.

Pakistan are in trouble 5 down.

shit game but the result the world cup needed

it was south africa's early exit (and all the political bullshit) that really fucked up the last wc

Scotland vs Aussies today starts in around 20 mins. Scotland won the toss and chose to bowl. Also Canada vs Kenya in our group.

Riveting !!!

Indeed.

Aussies 97-1 after 19 and Canada 80-2 after 15.2

Australia 276-6 (46 overs) v Scotland

And ponting was dropped on 23, went on to make 112 or sumat...

Jimmy Anderson broken his little finger.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/england/6450799.stm

Scotland 126-7.

Games today are Bermuda [sonics favourite team :wink: ] V Sri Lanka and Ireland V Zimbabwe. Sri lanka will win obviously,but i'm not so sure about Zimbabwe.

Ireland will beat Zimbabwe today.

Earthquake in T&T
http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/72800/72861.jpg

not looking that way at the moment. Ireland 113-5 of 30 overs

Fair play Justin Bray of Ireland 115 no in 221-9
Bermuda 33-6 :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Zimbabwe just tied with Ireland 221 a.o each - crazy end to a game

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/6451145.stm

48th over: Zim 213-7
Nine needed, 12 balls left. Squeaky bum time at Sabina Park...

that was a mental game, awesome finsh

I caught the Ireland v Zimbabwe game (couldnt find the remote) and even I a complete Cricket Philistine thought that was ace.

Gave up about an hour before it finished,missed all the fun :(

The Irish should have won!

The last couple of overs were amazing.  We watched it up the pub, one minute Zimbabwe were cruising next minute they need 9 off the last over.  Fair play to the Irish fans they were superb!!!

They could not get it off the square. The Irish fans were brilliant.

Hershelle Gibbs is going nuts against the Dutch, 68 off 36 balls, including 7 sixes :D

he done a sobers 6 sixes in a over.

Ace!

He's out now though :(

353-3 of 40 overs :shock: . Interval now.
Kallis 128*
Boucher 75*

Oh Herschelle

to be fair I'm no cricketing expert but they were quite possibly the worst 6 deliveries i have ever seen.  David Blunkett would have got a few boundaries facing that bowler.

That bowler - Dan Van Bunge - played for a side in my league couple seasons back, being brutally honest he wasn't much kop then, no big scores/wickets. dont know how he's being touted as one of their 'ones to watch'

i saw from afar some dutch bowler on the highlights with perhaps the worst action ever. might be him. he was a disgrace.

proper pie chucker

India struggling on 40-3 against Bangladesh. Tendulkar just gone.

Pakistan 67-5 against Ireland  :D

106-8 now.  :D

All out for 132  :mrgreen:

Come on Ireland, fair play to the fella's!!!

And 29 of those were extras!

India all out for 192

Bangledesh 134-3


Pakistan 132 all out

Ireland 44-2


Two big shocks on the cards

Bangladesh are now 5 down. Ireland are 3 down. Both wins if they do win will be memorable.

Bangladesh only need 17 runs off of 7 overs!  :soapy tit wank:

2 runs of 3 overs :D

1 of 2 overs   :D

Bangladesh have beaten india by 5 wickets.   :D

Ireland  80 for 4 (27.0 overs)

I bet the bloke at work wont be very happy, he put money on Indai to win the whole damn thing.

I know it's only one game but if they lose the next match they're out of the World Cup.

Yeah if they lose to Sri Lanka on Friday week they are out. My mate is a Indian cricket fan he will not be happy.

hahaha. watch bangladesh win the whole thing now

Ireland vs Pakistan game is raining.  May restart tomorrow if it keeps raining today

It starts in 10 mins.

There's a woman commentating on the Ireland game on Radio 5  :shock:

Alison Mitchell. She has been doing commentary on cricket for a couple of years.

Yeh i couldnt believe a female was commentating on cricket :shock:

Is she fit?

The game finishes today according to the commentators on the radio

Atm, theres 1 more hour to play,  and Ireland are in control in terms of the D/L method

If she was fit she wouldnt be on the radio...

108-5   25 needed

15 more needed. 113-5.

113-6    should be good finish

113-7 :|

make that 113-7. Very Tense.

Gonna be tough now   crapski

13 runs needed

12 needed

I hate the Pakistanis after their "performance" last summer, this'll be a fucking beautiful win if Ireland limp home

10 runs to go

6 more to go

3 runs from 38 balls

1 run  :D

Finished it with a six.

Beautiful.

not a bad shot to win it

soapy tit wank Sweet   :D  :D  :D

Thought Ireland were going to blow it for a minute there. Nope!

Fully agree, and the fact that their best two bowlers, who failed drugs tests, get let off.

I think we should all drink a Guinness to the Irish tonight.

better still it means pakistan are out.

the o'brien brothers are true heroes

what a brilliant day for cricket

wish i was out celebrating this as opposed to revising

I thought the game against Zimbabwe was going to be "the result" to remember but tonights has surpassed it.

As you say Boeta the O'brien brothers are heros. :guinness:

I'm so glad i didn't put that money on Pakistan like i was going to the other week.

Well done Ireland.

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick: bye Pakistan! Ireland have a great chance of making the last 8 now. i can't see them beating the Windies but if the Windies beat Zimbabwe and then Zimbabwe lose to Pakistan they are through anyway.

Pedalo for Freddie?

I love Cricket.

Aussies beat Netherlands by 229 runs. Van bunge did not bowl for the Dutch after been hit for 36 in an over.

Fuck the cricket

I love Freddie

Just showed him pissed up after the Ashes win

He was worse than me and you put together mate

Did you see the catches they put down? ffs what a joke of a side.

Ponting was caught, then the Dutch Fella dropped it, caught it again mid air and just before it was firmly in the hands he went to celebrate and dropped it for the final and decisive time.  :mrgreen:

What a weekend!The sad news of Bob Woolmers death :( The amazing victories of Ireland and Bangladesh :beers: And the stoopidness of Freddie and his mates :-))(
Games today are West Indies V Zimbabwe and India V Bermuda.Don't think they'll be any upsets today.

Dwayne will skittle out the Indians with figures of 32-8.  8)

He just taken a hell of a catch.

One of the moments of the World cup so far for me,what a great catch and his reaction 8)  :soapy tit wank:

India beat Bermuda by 250 odd runs with india scoring 413-5. WI beat Zimbabwe by 6 wickets chasing 206. Lara hitting the winning runs with a mighty swipe of a 6.

I was about to look on cricinfo.com, you saved me the effort 8) good lad.

Glad to help sonic. Also posting highlights of some of these games on Youtube.

hemps 76 not is the only decent performance from an englishman in the world cup to date

some bloke just got 3 sixes in a row on the highlights..gayle i think his name was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdA0UPhrfBk

That is fucking amazing. I love him.

 Hemp was born in and spent the first years of his life in Bermuda....so is he an Englishman?

Chris Gayle West Indies Opener. they were huge sixes.

Saw the catch this morning - amazing stuff, he's had a boys own moment.

Great celebration!

I thought I felt the ground tremble at about 4.30!! :soapy tit wank:

That was the sound of STFC BART and Pookie falling out of your bed

sorry to disappoint you Foggy but unlike yourself I work during the day :-))(

nationality isn't necessarily limited to one country

however, hemp thinks of himself as an englishman - he didn't even think of playing for bermuda until dougie brown mentioned it to him, he also represented england 'a'

Good news that the Kiwis won,we needed it to happen!Even so i'm still not looking forward to our game Saturday,why is it that i never feel relaxed about England playing?I always feel like we are going to fuck up somewhere along the line :(  I keep on trying to gee myself up by thinking we don't want to peak too soon,but in reality i don't think we're going to peak at all!!Oh well,moan over :wink:

Sri Lanka V Bangladesh and Pakistan V Zimbabwe today.Be interesting to see the Sri Lankans play again,think they are the one Asian side who could win the cup.

Good win for the Pakistan on such an emotional day for them. Inzy last innings was a good little knock of 37 then go to see all the zimbabwe players shake him by the hand after he got dissmissed. Seeing him walk off after getting dismissed was quite sad. Still cannot belive Mohammed Yousuf got a wicket :shock: . Sri Lanka demolished Bangladesh by 198 runs.

Bllody hell this world cups going mad. Ireland AND Bangladesh gone through. There was me thinking india would win it .... :doh: . I wont be too suprised if kenya go through either  :(

Aussies made 377-6 off 50 overs. Hayden got the fastest Wc hundred of 67 balls. I'd go for a RSA win chasing 378 to win they chased more down in Joburg last year.

aussies have got about 25 more than a par score and would have to bowl very poorly to lose from here

SA wont win. that 400 odd win at The Wanderers was something special. doubt they will match that again

well i could be wrong. SA 160-1 after 21 overs!

De Villiers run out for 92.

1st game of the super 8's today. WI vs Aus in Antigua. Should be a cracker. Also ICC have demanded that Cricket highlights from the world cup 2007 should be taken off youtube due to copyright law.

Miserable wankers!

Hayden's terrifying me.

he's in great touch

but only powell out of the 4 new-ball bowlers in the last two games has bowled with any sort of consistency, and unless you get aus 2 down in the first 12 overs then one of them is going to go blitzkreig

Sri Lanka V South Africa today,read that the rain could intervene again though :(
Wonder what time the West Indies run chase will start?

Murali denied a Hat-trick with the most shocking decision by Daryl Harper with a bat pad to silly point.

Okay.

Malinga taken a hat trick. SA need 2 to win with 2 wickets left.

holy shitm 207-9 now

jesus christ. malinga the slinger. can he do it...

fucking hell 4 in 4 for malinga. South africa were half ago cruising.

Fucking hell listening to this via my mates mobile!!  Come on Sri Lanka!!

hahaha his action is quality

It is Unique. When he bowls his yorkers they are fucking lethal.

woah crickey. that was fuckin lucky

Jammy way to win thick nick through the slips.

well that was an anti-climax.

good match then? sounded it. always thought it would be a close one!

He'd make an ace Pitcher in MLB.

He'd make an ace English bowler too Spuddy, he's exactly the sort of bowler we need. Someone who takes more than 3+ wickets in an innings on a regular basis, even if he can be expensive, and a genuine inswing bowler.

great effort from malinga, another brilliant game. turning out to be the best world cup ever

So's his hair  :o

Yep, the WC has been highly entertaining so far :D
Shame the murder of Bob Woolmer is going to forever cast a massive shadow over the tournament and the game of cricket :(


West Indies V New Zealand today,feel a bit sorry for the Windies having to play again so soon.It'll be interesting to see how the Kiwis cope after their injury crisis.

West Indies struggling badly against Sri Lanka. 148-6 chasing 304. Ouch

Kiwis beat Bangladesh by 9 wickets today. Fleming scored a hundred his 8th ODI Hundred. They have to be favourites.

playing well well are the black caps. its hard to see anyone but Sri Lanka, The Aussies, South Africa and New Zealand reaching the last 4

I was enjoying it last week,loath to admit it but its dragging a bit now,i mean it could be me,but every time i turn it on it always seems to be either the West Indies or New Zealand.Least we're playing a couple of times this week,though i'm not sure how much fun that will be :(

Have to agree larwood, difficult to see any surprise results happening this week, all beginning to get a bit predictable after the shocks at the group stage.

We have to win at least one of our 2 games this week, and with the Aussies batsmen in such great touch, i can see them having a field day against our bowlers. Which leaves tomorrows game as a must win....

Cricket world cup is poor.  Especially when played in front of half empty grounds.

Crowds have been really poor. Tickets are $100 a monthly wage in Carribean. Lower the ticket prices and let the kids in for free to understand the Cricket in West Indies.

Agree with the tickets - probably less English there as many have had the winter in Aus too.  IMHO it was always going to be slightly inevitable that the results would be more predictable when the non-test nations made it thru.  It's great to see the small nations progressing but in the last eight it makes for fewer competitive matches than if perhaps India and Pakistan had got through.  Last four should be good - be nice to see a team beat the aussies, just for a change, and obviously out of principle.

So much for that then!

Go Tigers!

Sri Lanka beat NZ by 6 wickets. Bollocks wanted NZ to win that. To give us a slim chance.

we can still qualify if we beat SA and the Windies! but only on run rate.....oh errr we can't qualify then can we?  :soapy tit wank:

Ireland 12-4 against Australia. It could be over in a couple of hours.

this is amazing...the irish are literally falling apart