The Warm Ups

[Perm]

Cheers mate...where are you following the score because cricinfo has stopped at 9 overs?

Hmm, seems odd. Must be having technical issues. www.cricbuzz.com is usually pretty quick, but it seems to be stopped also.

 

[no1_gangsta_786]

Cricinfo has restarted but thanks anyway. Rehman gets another.Bowling Sugi.

 

[Perm]

Kenya all out for 92, shocking effort. Younis Khan picked up 3 wickets and I've noticed that he's been getting a bit of a bowl during his stint with Yorkshire, is he any good?

 

[Jungle Jumbo]

Kenya all out for 92, shocking effort. Younis Khan picked up 3 wickets and I've noticed that he's been getting a bit of a bowl during his stint with Yorkshire, is he any good?

He used to be very poor - IIRC Craig McMillan took 26 off him in one Test over - then didn't bowl for years. At the start of the summer, perhaps because of the lack of a decent second spinner in the Yorkshire side, he suddenly bowled a lot of overs and was pretty successful. Not sure about limited-overs stuff though. And he doesn't look the most natural.

 

[TT Boy]

Nazimuddin seems to have come out of nowhere... Did he have much success at lower representational levels for Bangladesh, Jumbo?

 

[Perm]

Good effort from Shoaib Malik.

 

[Raghav]

Waiting for the warm-ups to start today. Aus vs NZ and SAF vs SRL will be cracker of the games today...

 

[Raghav]

WI vs KEN: Ken bats first
PAK vs ZIM : PAK bats first

 

[TT Boy]

Kenya 155/5 (Mishra 43, D Smith 2/32) West Indies 30/0 of 4 overs
Pakistan 181/6 (Malik 64, Elton 3/24) Zimbabwe 41/2 of 6 overs (Gul 2/7)

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Kenya 155/5 (Mishra 43, D Smith 2/32) West Indies 30/0 of 4 overs
Pakistan 181/6 (Malik 64, Elton 3/24) Zimbabwe 41/2 of 6 overs (Gul 2/7)

Criminal stuff by WI here. First Rampaul hands away six wides and then Chanders spends ten balls getting off the mark...

 

[TT Boy]

Criminal stuff by WI here. First Rampaul hands away six wides and then Chanders spends ten balls getting off the mark...

His ticking now, going at quicker than a run a ball but the West Indies still need 97 of eleven, could be a tight finish...

 

[TT Boy]

West Indies cruising home now... Samuels has gone El Loco on Tikolo, 2 overs for 42…

 

[TT Boy]

Samuels currently 61 of 26, has hit six maxiums.

 

[TT Boy]

Zimbabwe finish at 127 for 8 off their 20, with only Masakadza (41) and Taibu (34) in the runs - Gul and Afridi finishing with three wickets apiece.

 

[TT Boy]

West Indies 156/4 (Samuels 63, Chanderpaul 43*, Ongondo 2/21) beat Kenya by six wickets.

 

[TT Boy]

South Africa v Sri Lanka, Australia v New Zealand and Bangladesh v Scotland all kick off in under an hour’s time. First two games should be good...

 

[TT Boy]

Sri Lanka have won the toss and elected to field, New Zealand won the toss and elected to bat and Scotland have done the same.

 

[TT Boy]

According to Cricinfo, Abdur Razzak is opening the bowling for Bangladesh. Interesting.

 

[Raghav]

Oram and McCullum gone early for NZ.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Aussie's 5th and 6th bowlers getting murdered - that's their problem as far as I'm concerned, get after Hogg early and he's vulnerable and Symonds' bowling isn't good enough in Twenty20 to avoid getting smashed most of the time. So they're likely to be relying on Watson, Hogg and Symonds (Clarke would be better in my opinion anyway) to get through 8 overs - that's assuming the front line seamers bowl all their overs.

One of the main things about Australian sides that made than virtually unbeatable was their constant pressure from all areas, if you can break the hold against 1/2 bowlers it makes a big difference and that goes for any format of the game.