We were looking set to win this one quite easily when the game got hampered by rain so I don't take your say that the Africans deserved to be in the semis more than the Windies. I really want this Duckworth?Lewis method to be phased out of cricket. Not because we lost of it but at times it gets too unrealistic. For an instance, South Africans would still remember 1992 world cup against England at the SCG when McMillan did well down the order to have the RRR in the reach (22 runs required off 13 balls) only to gift the final berth to England thanks to D/L method which had the equation reduced from 22 off 13 to 22 off 1. I have heard Sunil Gavaskar saying that Indians have developed some other way to curb the unrealistic aspects of the D/L and if its true, ICC should think over it. Coming back to yesterday's match. I believe the players will be disappointed to lose the game without having played bad cricket.
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Sad that West Indies have not made it to the semifinals. Felt they deserved it more than SA. In hindsight, one might say Pollard lose the tournament for the West Indies, but that'd be hard and unfair on him. Frustrating to see rain affect games like this.
Yes. At the least, it should happen in the multi-nation ICC events like Champions Trophy or World Cup.
No pressure tomorrow for the rival clash, which is great. Would be interesting to see Dhoni's approach. Personal preference - I want him to treat this as a warmup clash, giving opportunities to the benchers. That way, he also brings down the hype on an India-Pakistan clash. But as Epic and other people say, Dhoni might also want to treat it as a 'momentum game'.
For a record, Pakistan has a 100% record against India in Champions Trophy. Another interesting thing you would like to know is, every time India has won an ICC Trophy, they have never won all the games throughout the tournament. Their best show in terms of being unbeaten being the 2002-'03 of edition of this very tournament were they had 100% record right through the tournament until the final against Srilanka was washed off. Rain doesn't fall everyday so I would really like to know if Indians would like to take a leaf out of history and grab (yes, grab) the defeat today just for the superstitious cause? Nah, don't think Dhoni is Steve Waugh.