Fiery
Banned
Money (and Asian bullying of the ICC probably)
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Semi Finals
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Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Most likely Vettori, although personally I want to see Peter Fulton given a chance.
pasag
RTDAS
Top win for SL. The last 10 pages of this thread is why I like Murali tbh. What a champ.
Well done to NZ on a quality tournament. One of the best ODI sides in the world and losing a semi doesn't change that. I'm confident they'll go from strength to strength. Quality side.
Jayawardene though, stuff legends are made from. Career defining knock. For him to come good when SL were two of their best batsmen down, in a semi, is really awesome. Good luck to SL in the final, whoever they play.
Well done to NZ on a quality tournament. One of the best ODI sides in the world and losing a semi doesn't change that. I'm confident they'll go from strength to strength. Quality side.
Jayawardene though, stuff legends are made from. Career defining knock. For him to come good when SL were two of their best batsmen down, in a semi, is really awesome. Good luck to SL in the final, whoever they play.
Flem274*
123/5
We had a slight Murali problem......
Lots of sour grapes in this thread. Truth is, Sri Lanka are a better team than New Zealand. As I said earlier in this thread, I was suprised at the belief many people held that New Zealand could win the World Cup. Sri Lanka always struck me as a muh stronger team. And like I said, it's not a knock on New Zealand, it's just that Sri Lanka, Australia and South Africa look, to me anyway, as being clearly the three best teams in the world. And like I said, New Zealanders have problems playing the great Murali! Now it's time for Murali to win Sri Lanka the World Cup and etch his name deeper into history. To New Zealand's credit, they went as far as they could go and played some cracking cricket in some of the games.
Sri Lanka are just better. If the teams played 9 times, I'd estimate Sri Lanka would win about 6 of those games. That's just my opinion and the way I see it.
Sri Lanka are just better. If the teams played 9 times, I'd estimate Sri Lanka would win about 6 of those games. That's just my opinion and the way I see it.
Salamuddin
International Debutant
Jeez, show a kiwi a semi-final & they can't choke fast enough, can they?!
Havea feeling they'll go all the way in the other world cup later this year in France.
andyc
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
They didn't change the rules just for him though. Tests showed that almost every single bowler (except for, IIRC, that renowned legspinner Ramnaresh Sarwan) was throwing it according to the old rules, even people with classical actions like McGrath. And given that you've got solid scientific proof, how can you simply dismiss it as 'poppycock?'
Salamuddin
International Debutant
I said before all games began that Sri Lanka had a great chance to win this tournament and I'm glad to have been proved right.
Now comes the final and a likely meeting with Australia (I will be extremely surprised if the South Africans beat Australia in the other semi)
Australia will start strong favorurites but as I've always said, I think Australia fear Sri Lanka more thjan any other team - they are a side who do the ODI basics (fielding and running between the wickets excellently), they're good under pressure and they have a litle bit of subcontinental unpredictability - NZ and SAF are sides whose gameplans are very well understood by the Aussies.
STill think the Aussies will win unfortuinately but if anyone can spoil their party, it's Sri Lanka.
Now comes the final and a likely meeting with Australia (I will be extremely surprised if the South Africans beat Australia in the other semi)
Australia will start strong favorurites but as I've always said, I think Australia fear Sri Lanka more thjan any other team - they are a side who do the ODI basics (fielding and running between the wickets excellently), they're good under pressure and they have a litle bit of subcontinental unpredictability - NZ and SAF are sides whose gameplans are very well understood by the Aussies.
STill think the Aussies will win unfortuinately but if anyone can spoil their party, it's Sri Lanka.
Smudge
Hall of Fame Member
I bloody well hope so, otherwise it's going to be a painful year.Havea feeling they'll go all the way in the other world cup later this year in France.
Flem274*
123/5
A Patel century would have been classic. Patel to open the batting IMO10th AME Roberts & J Garner 71 WI Ind 1983 Old Trafford
I was definitely looking for Patel and Franklin to go all the way.
Fiery
Banned
Which suggests to me either there was a serious flaw in the old rules or in the "tests". I think it would be much better just to have a panel of humans deciding whether a player is chucking or not and do away with these rubbish "scientific" methods
Athlai
Not Terrible
He actually looked good.A Patel century would have been classic. Patel to open the batting IMO
Suspiciously good.
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Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Good one.
Flem274*
123/5
do you reckon the Sri Lankans would be claiming he was a cheat if he had gone on to win the game for us?He actually looked good.
Patel can be our opening batsman and opening bowler.
andyc
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Haha. Please, please, please tell me that's a joke
Fiery
Banned
To me, any scientific test that tells you Glenn McGrath is a chucker is a joke
