Semifinals and Final

[jordox]

I think New Zealand have a bigger chance that what people are giving them to get through, but I still believe they are the weakest team left. I think Pakistan will get a win.

Australia vs India... I say flip a coin, Aussies need Hayden and Gilly to fire I reckon, they look a little flimsey down the order. India are pretty wishy washy and while they do have a big chance, I'm backing Australia.

If Australia does make the final, they'll win it I reckon, they'll either bow out now of win it. New Zealand won't win the tournament, but I think they may be able to scrape a win over the Pakis.

Should be excellent. Bit sad for South Africa, but that is the system, everyone plays under it and there should be no excuses. They choked plain and simple, once again.

 

[harishankar]

So if Australia wins, it's because they're the best and if other teams win, it's because they got lucky on the given day... :

Typical... keep on...

 

[King Cricket]

And that's why we've dominated International Cricket for the last 10 years?

If Jogiandar didn't play he'd look like a World-Class bowler after Gilly & Haydos are done with India's bowling attack.

Ya they will simply be "done". Just wait and see
"Please...
If Mitchell Johnson wasn't playing India would have absolutely no chance of beating us!"-

 

[anakwalajinn]

Oh, man! This is serious stuff... Even if Asif plays today, he won't be 100% fit. And I don't want him to deliver the kind of performance he did against Bangladesh
Why couldn't they just rest him against Bangladesh?

 

[irottev]

Here goes a great article for harishankar:
http://content-nz.cricinfo.com/twenty20wc/content/current/story/312010.html

I remember you making the point about it being hard to recover from bad starts.

I hope this semifinal is a good one. Go NZ!

I am hoping for a AUS-NZ final. If we can't beat Pakistan though I think it'd rather see PAKISTAN-INDIA.

It'll be good to see rivals going at it for the final.

 

[Damo01]

This start 2 am in the morning for AEST time for the Aussie and India, right?

 

[Leggie]

well the black caps are batting 1st, that could possibly backfire and result in pakistan bowling them out cheaply because it is quite overcast...

 

[aditya123]

Why did this game start early ?
It took me by surprise when I saw the game on air at 4.30 !

What time is the India-Australia match ?

 

[Gunner786]

that was a brilliant yorker by tanvir,
went under the batsmens feet but for some reason taufel called it a wide

 

[irottev]

And the ball after it, which was an actual wide, didn't get called. Very strange.

Safe start by us. I think both teams will be a bit disadvantaged. Pakistan because the ball might get wet and slippery. Us because we spent the time getting in and the disruption means more work to get going again.

I guess if I was the batsman, i'd wanna be inside in some nets keeping my eye in if thats possible.

Okay, collapsed kinda. I'd say we won't post enough runs. Pakistan only have to bat half decent to knock em off. 95% Pakistan win atm.

They bowled well, We wern't aggressive enough up front after the first few overs and Fulton was pathetic.

 

[Gilly Fan]

Why did this game start early ?
It took me by surprise when I saw the game on air at 4.30 !

What time is the India-Australia match ?

On in just over 3 hours.

 

[irottev]

143 isn't enough. Even though we have probably the best attack in the competition, Pakistan bat low. I think our spinners will halt Pakistan a bit, but i;m guessing they'll polish the runs off in the last few overs.

Pretty boring Semi. Crappy pitch, low score, poor crowd. No one wants to see 143 scored in a semi. Ideally it'd be 170-200+ set.

I think i'll go to bed.

 

[Leggie]

well pakistan off to a flyer, just creaming it through the covers for fun

 

[Dare]

wow the openers lasted more than 5 balls, its a freakin miracle.

 

[icyman]

Yes Yuvraj will come back.
But just in case Dhoni is not upto keeping,Uthappa will keep for today's match.
This is exactly where it pays to have 3 keepers in the side