cricket stuff

[weasel]

Who's your money on for the Twenty20?

The Aussies are looking pretty good ATM, but I just worry they haven't had a dodgey performance yet and what happens if Shane Watson has an off day?

PS, England will do well to make the semis, the team is a pale shadow of the one from 2 years ago.

 

[poncho]

i would of said india at the start of the tournament but after oz crushed them i now reckon oz will win, england havnt played well but have some explosive batsmen in hales and wright who are on form so who knows............

 

[weasel]

Windies have some batting line up as well. Although it looks like they are doing their best to buck it away against the Kiwis!

 

[poncho]

chris gayle is imense he could destroy any attack!

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

England dont derserve to go to the next stage

Dermbach Patel too Expensive

Top Order shocking :x

Its just too little too late :roll:

 

[weasel]

The Aussies are looking pretty good ATM, but I just worry they haven't had a dodgey performance yet and what happens if Shane Watson has an off day?

Got my answer!

 

[Dark Sith Lord]

Yep! The Windes were immense tho! Gayle was awesome even with a side strain

 

[weasel]

Twenty20 suits that Windies side down to the ground. Their top order are all, to varying degrees, **** or bust players. They don't like playing safe, they go out and go for it from the start. So far this tournament it has come off for them, and fair play! It's nice to see one of the smaller cricketing nations making a final.

 

[poncho]

its gonna be a interesting final.....i think the windies have the edge going in

 

[weasel]

Missed the SL batting but sounds like a bit of a farce/choke!
Fair play to the Windies though, imagine the party those boys had.

 

[poncho]

sri lanka's batting has always been hit and miss there like pakistan when they play there batting is brilliant or awful! i think the windies deserve a trophy they havnt won a major competion for years and paticulalyr gayle who has been one of the top odi batsmen for years now im pleased for him. there batting has been woeful in recent years especially in tests its only chanderpaul that keeps there score look semi respectable.

 

[weasel]

They won the Champions Trophy in '04

 

[poncho]

oh yeah, i stand corrected still a while ago. now the wait is on for the winter tours its gonna be tough for england on the subcontinent! and aus are playing sa in aus that'll be good wish i had sky

 

[weasel]

England will lose in India. They have no idea how to play spin and with Peterson as popular as Harold Shipman in an old people's home, morale won't exactly be sky high.

SA V's Aussies, should be great to watch though.

 

[poncho]

Peterson as popular as Harold Shipman in an old people's home

:lol:
hes sorted out is issues i believe and coming back for the tests after new year! maybe.............england will get there ass kicked! tendulkar last series maybe? from what i read in the dailymail! im sure he will get one last century and on home soil. your right england will suffer against spin wasnt it last winter they were all at sea against the pakistani finger spinner

 

[weasel]

Tendulka will still get picked if he's 97, blind and needs a wheel chair!
The man is a god in India. There's not a selector brave/stupid enough to drop him. He'd be lynched in 5 mins.
I suspect Tendulka has already gone on too long, but then who can blame him. He lives for and loves his Cricket and if he wants to keep playing so be it.

Who else do England play this winter?

 

[poncho]

the have nz in nz in march that should be a easy victory for england! kp may also be selected by then

 

[weasel]

Ahhh that's rite, i'd forgotten about that. Yeah, you'd expect England to win the games on that tour quite easily, especially as Brendan Mccullum, Daniel Vetori etc will be away at the IPL.

 

[poncho]

love him or hate him KP has been recalled to the squad for test series in india! lets just hope de doesnt play daft shots against the slow bowlers :?

 

[weasel]

England's most naturally talented player by a mile (even though he's South African, lol), but he has a huge issues with left arm spinners and a tour to the sub continent is gonna be a huge challenge for him. Mind you given how badly, he and the rest, did last year against Pakistan, I doubt it'll matter who they take, they won't get close to winning the series.