The Cricket Thread.

[Stuart Wallis]

And now we've just got to win the World Cup...

[Dirk Gently]

England are playing Bermuda in St. Vincent. It's a World Cup warm-up match.
currently 87 - 2 from 14 overs. Wickets were Joyce for 7 & Vaughan for 18

[Kaybee Bailey]

Bowlers looked decent enough, not that they were pushed too hard, but we shouldn't really have lost 8 wickets to that line-up. Dwayne Leverock... really?



Apperently he is a Bermudan policeman who lives in a flat above a curry house.

[Dirk Gently]

Oh I agree. I was hard pushed not to start swearing at the TV when we just seemed to give our wickets away.

And we seemed to struggle against a spinner when we did quite well against Warne in Oz.

Our bowlers hardly had any resistance but had problems with no-balls etc.

[Stuart Wallis]

No change there then...

[Captain Tancredi]

Apperently he is a Bermudan policeman who lives in a flat above a curry house.

Somebody needs to tell him to go down there himself rather than getting them to deliver.

[Dirk Gently]

Another One day warm up. England Vs Australia.
England are batting & are 20-1 after 5 overs.
Joyce out LBW, no ambiguity over this, totally out done for pace off Tate.

[Dirk Gently]

Michael Vaughan 31 runs from 27 balls. He's looking good.







You watch him get out.

[Kaybee Bailey]

Well, aside from Vaughan and Bell we all looked a bit crap today, frankly. Mahmood is very expensive to be playing one-day... selection dilemma over the bowlers is very difficult. When fit and available, our four best test bowlers pick themselves. Why is Hoggard not considered a one-day bowler? The same way Panesar wasn't? I don't understand at all.

[Dirk Gently]

I think I'm correct in saying that Hoggard has declared himself unavailable for selection for ODI's.
As for yesterdays performance... We really can't get it together can we? I don't know, we have some success in Oz & suddenly we think we can sit back & the win will come to us by right...I can't see England getting passed the Semi finals.

[Milky Tears]

Australia 334-6 (50 overs) bt Scotland 131-9 (40.1 overs) by 203 runs

Decent effort.

[Stuart Wallis]

By whom...? Australia got lucky!

The Blarney Army's playing Zimbabwe as we speak. Ireland batting, 17-1 after the fifth over.

[Larry]

Australia 334-6 (50 overs) bt Scotland 131-9 (40.1 overs) by 203 runs

Decent effort..

what for Australia, trying to beat the One Day record inning score..

[Milky Tears]

Decent effort from Ireland.

[Kaybee Bailey]

Loving the fact Ireland currently sit above Pakistan in the table!

[Larry]

Loving the fact Ireland currently sit above Pakistan in the table!

yep it was a fantastic result for the Irish -

as for England not a great start against New Zealand, we're batting and are currently 19-1 after almost 7 overs.

[Larry]

England now 138 for 7 this is almost as bad as watching The Web Planet.

[Dirk Gently]

171 for 7 after 46 overs.

And we finish at 209 for 7. Plunkett & Nixon partnership of 71 unbeaten.

[Milky Tears]

Bollocks!

[Stuart Wallis]

NZ 17-2, having been 3-2.

[Dirk Gently]

New Zealand 91 for 4 right now.

[Larry]

171 for 7 after 46 overs.

And we finish at 209 for 7. Plunkett & Nixon partnership of 71 unbeaten.

considering we were about 159 for 7 with 6 overs left we did very well to even reach the 200 mark.

[Milky Tears]

I take my "Bollocks!" back.

[Larry]

bottom of the group not a great start..

[Stuart Wallis]

Great start for the bowlers. They seem to have left the great finish in Australia.