T20 World Cup - all topics

[Wolverhampton]

TYPICAL FOREIGNERRR.

You don't read anything properly, you just think your right cause your Indian, all Indians think they're right.

[Tintinnabulate]

TYPICAL FOREIGNERRR.

You don't read anything properly, you just think your right cause your Indian, all Indians think they're right.

LOL. You fail.
Yes ... all Indians think they are right >.> You obviously know alot about Indians LOL.
I aint going to lower myself to your level as I actually respect the British. Like I say, its people like you who sometimes give the British a bad name. I am sure many will agree.
Now go get that eye test and a brain scan. And then get your self admitted to a psych ward.

[Wolverhampton]

Wow your insults suck so much I actually laughed at that one.

'Psych award'

Nice one.

[Tintinnabulate]

Wow your insults suck so much I actually laughed at that one.

'Psych award'

Nice one.

Learn to quote properly LOL.
I seriously love your posts. Making me and my laugh out loud.

I love how you said I seem to have no life outside of cricket (or something along those lines), while looking at your posts, it seems you have been online on habboxforum all day? Literally all day. Quite sad.

[Geraint]

Let's just shut up and base our arguments on England v India and India v South Africa, shall we?

[Tintinnabulate]

Let's just shut up and base our arguments on England v India and India v South Africa, shall we?

Kids never listen. Especially kids who dont seem to read properly.

Anyway India vs South Africa I am looking forward to and dreading.
Last world cup we beat SA, but this year they have improved alot, as they demonstrated today.

India vs England, I think the key for India will be to get early wickets or get KP and their openers out.
England will need to try and make a huge score as India has a great batting line up, although we are missing Sehwag.

I actually think England could win it if they bat really well because the only reason India won on 19th Sept 2007 was because of Yuvraj' 6 6's.

So basically anyone can win. Really cant wait to get home from my long bio exam tomorrow and watch India vs West Indies.

[Wolverhampton]

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[Tintinnabulate]

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Now I know for sure you are blind.
I just said a million times I respect the British and support the English Football team. Gosh you really act like an idiot.

So you are telling me, if you moved to Australia, you will start supporting Australia?

Shows your dedication towards your first home country ...

How old are you? You seriously cant be older than 13 with your attitude. 14 at the most. Any older then wow you have some behavioural problems.

Anyway for anyone who is interested, heres ESPN Cricinfo's bulletin for the match.
I havent read it but I will tomorrow.

South Africa put in a display worthy of their tag as pre-tournament favourites as they cruised to a seven-wicket victory against England at Trent Bridge after skittling the hosts for 111 in their first Super Eights match. Dale Steyn and Wayne Parnell set the tone with wickets in their opening overs and were backed up by impressive spin and fine catching, particularly Roelof van der Merwe's effort to remove Kevin Pietersen, and although the run chase didn't set pulses racing the result was never in doubt.

Only Owais Shah made a significant contribution for England as he made 38 off 33 with two sixes, but it was a forlorn effort as wickets fell regularly. When a scorecard reads as poorly as England's it's easy to criticise the batting - and some of the shot selection was poor - but South Africa were outstanding in every facet of their game. They could have charged down the small total, but chose to take their time on a surface that grew slower by the minute - a key factor in Paul Collingwood deciding to bat first - yet still eased home with 10 balls to spare as Jacques Kallis helped himself to an unbeaten 57.

Winning a rare toss was about the only thing that went well for England. South Africa started the match in perfect style when Steyn removed Ravi Bopara with his fifth ball as an inside edge crashed into off stump. Luke Wright then found that opening against a top-quality attack was a different proposition from the Netherlands or lacklustre Pakistan efforts. He was beaten twice by the impressive Parnell, as he tried to crash the ball through the off side, then edged another attempt to the keeper to leave England 4 for 2.

The scene was set for Pietersen, but it proved another case of KP failing and England failing with him. He opened his account by whipping his first ball from Steyn imperiously through midwicket and drove the next through mid-off as Steyn momentarily had problems with his run-up. Two more boundaries followed off Kallis's opening over, but the next bowling change was decisive.

Albie Morkel's second delivery was a low full toss and Pietersen hit it pretty well and fairly straight, but van der Merwe went airborne to his left at mid-on and got both hands to a stunning catch. It was a huge moment for both teams, deflating for England and completely uplifting for South Africa. Morkel's successful over was the first maiden of the tournament and England's tally of 25 for 3 the lowest six-over total so far in the event.

Shah and Collingwood had no choice but to opt for a period of consolidation as Graeme Smith quickly turned to his spinners. Shah injected momentary life into the innings when he launched a full toss from Johan Botha down the ground for six then he followed that by attacking van der Merwe's next over, launching him straight and taking two more boundaries through cover and midwicket, but the revival didn't last.

Kallis returned to the attack and after Collingwood paddled him for four past the diving Mark Boucher, Kallis responded by clattering the stumps as the batsmen backed away to give himself room and then greeted James Foster with a rearing bouncer.

Despite having been taken for 17 in his previous over, van der Merwe had the confidence of his captain and responded with an over which effectively killed off the innings. Foster tried to reverse sweep the first ball but just lobbed a simple catch to short third-man and Dimitri Mascarenhas lasted three deliveries before backing away to cut, losing his off stump.

The last hope of England setting anything competitive lay with Shah, but he was undone by a sharp delivery from Kallis that moved away a fraction and took the edge. It meant the lower order was left having to try and bat out the 20 overs and they couldn't managed it when Parnell gave himself superb figures by cleaning up Stuart Broad and James Anderson in two balls.

Smith fell early in the chase as he top-edged a pull and was well caught by Foster who ran towards short fine-leg. England actually bowled reasonably well, but the game had long since been lost during their innings. Kallis enjoyed the rarity of being able to bat within himself during a Twenty20 innings to reach fifty off 46 balls. This was an ominously slick display from South Africa but for the hosts, who lifted their game in the nick of time in the group stage against Pakistan, another huge improvement is needed to have a chance of progressing further.

[Wolverhampton]

What makes me laugh is the size of your replies, which is pretty simple psychology, it shows that you're trying to prove your point because your obviously in the wrong, and need to keep backing up your pathetic comments/quotes.

And btw, I could not be arsed to read your two page essay, waste of my time.

[Tintinnabulate]

Early reports suggest that Gayle will be playing tomorrow.

These are the probable teams.

India: (probable) 1 Gautam Gambhir, 2 Rohit Sharma, 3 Suresh Raina, 4 Yuvraj Singh, 5 MS Dhoni (capt/wk), 6 Yusuf Pathan, 7 Harbhajan Singh, 8 Zaheer Khan, 9 Irfan Pathan/Praveen Kumar/RP Singh, 10 Pragyan Ojha, 11 Ishant Sharma

Whose place does Gayle take? Simmons will be difficult to push out, which makes Xavier Marshall and Kieron Pollard the prime suspects.

West Indies: (probable) 1 Chris Gayle (capt), 2 Andre Fletcher, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, 4 Ramnaresh Sarwan, 5 Dwayne Bravo, 6&7 Lendl Simmons/Xavier Marshall/Kieron Pollard, 8 Denesh Ramdin (wk), 9 Jerome Taylor, 10 Fidel Edwards, 11 Suleiman Benn.