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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 17, 2011 20:58:11 GMT
England summoned their drinks waiters for their group match against the West Indies and the pair served-up vintage champagne, as the team managed a crucial win over the West Indies in another tense match. Until Thursday, James Tredwell and Luke Wright had not been sighted in full playing kit during this World Cup. But with Tredwell taking 4-48 and Wright making 44 at a crucial moment, they cast off their substitute status to play central roles in a victory that all but ensures their progress to the quarter-finals. The players will need to wait for the result of Bangladesh’s game against South Africa tomorrow and the West Indies’ match against India on Sunday, (wins by both West Indies and Bangladesh would scupper them), but the cricketing gods would have to be in foul mood to thwart them in such a way. If they do go through, and all the remaining games from both groups follow the form guide, a quarter-final against Sri Lanka in Colombo looks their most likely challenge.
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Post by alanseago on Mar 18, 2011 11:03:23 GMT
Be gentle with me Sadie! I live six months in Philippines and six months in France so I never get to see cricket. I used to watch Indian cricket here but the channel is no longer available and Skyman denies me access to anything in France. I used to listen to TMS on BBC but that seems to have disappeared too.
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 18, 2011 13:35:45 GMT
Ok.....gentle........so does that mean just half the score?
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 18, 2011 18:51:45 GMT
Ok....no scores....just some player news......
Dernbach, a player with the most tattooed arm in English cricket (presumably a counterbalance to having a most unfastbowlerly Christian name) is another addition to England ’s burgeoning brood of players born in Johannesburg. There are now three with another from Cape Town. Dernbach plays for Surrey, and is already on his way from the Caribbean to join England as they await confirmation of their progress to the quarter-finals, something dependent of the outcome of this weekend’s group matches. Strong, athletic and aggressive, like Shahzad, Dernbach, 24, has been touring the West Indies with England Lions following an impressive showing for the England Performance Programme in Australia. As Chris Tremlett’s new-ball partner at Surrey, he enjoyed a fruitful season, taking 51 first-class wickets at an average of 27, but it is his attitude and progress that have caught the eye of England’s selectors. “We’ve been following Jade’s progress for some time and he has impressed ever since he went on the fast bowling programme in 2008/9,” said Geoff Miller, the national selector, on Friday.
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Post by aubrey on Mar 19, 2011 9:53:46 GMT
Be gentle with me Sadie! I live six months in Philippines and six months in France so I never get to see cricket. I used to watch Indian cricket here but the channel is no longer available and Skyman denies me access to anything in France. I used to listen to TMS on BBC but that seems to have disappeared too. Oh, that's bad.
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 20, 2011 1:38:53 GMT
Cricket World Cup 2011: Andy Flower upbeat as England weigh up options for quarter-final challenge England’s pursuit of their third major trophy in twelve months remains on course after their quarter-final berth was confirmed following Bangladesh’s heavy defeat to South Africa.
They will not know their next opponents or destination until the result of the match between India and the West Indies, but team director Andy Flower says the team have no preferences. “Whichever venue we go to and whichever opposition we face we’ve got to deal with it,” said Flower in Delhi yesterday. “We’ve got to look whatever challenge we have straight in the eye and get on with it. “But this team relishes a challenge. I think they are turned on by the size of the challenge and the quarter-final of the World Cup is as exciting as it gets for everyone.” England won their last match against the West Indies largely through the contributions of two fresh faces, James Tredwell and Luke Wright. A third, Jade Dernbach, arrives soon as the surprise selection to replace the injured Ajmal Shahzad. “News from the Lion’s tour of the Caribbean is that Dernbach is reversing the ball and apparently he’s got good control of it,” said Flower. “He understands how to use it, and he has a good slower ball and bouncer. We think that his extra pace and variety will serve him well in these conditions and we see him as an attacking option.”
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 23, 2011 2:12:07 GMT
ENGLAND'S newest player is a South African-born fast bowler who has a girl's name and is covered in tattoos. Jade Dernbach is not your normal clean-cut cricketer and might have the old buffers in the Lord's Long Room spluttering into their gin and tonics.
But England's management do not care about his body art, his moniker or the diamond studs in his ears.
They are interested only in his ability to bowl in the World Cup - and he could even receive a shock call-up for Saturday's quarter-final against Sri Lanka.
It is impossible to look at Dernbach and fail to notice his right arm.
There is no bare flesh, just a mass of ink depicting everything from Chinese script to a fish. There is another tattoo on his upper left arm, with more hidden beneath his shirt - and he has not finished yet.
Dernbach arrived in Sri Lanka on Monday as replacement for injured Yorkshire quickie Ajmal Shahzad, who is out with a hamstring injury.
Surrey bowler Dernbach has been taking a bundle of wickets for England Lions on their tour of West Indies.
He bowls at a decent pace but also has a brilliantly disguised slower ball, which frequently bamboozles batsmen.
Dernbach, nicknamed 'Dirtbag' by his Surrey club-mates, reckons his tatts are merely a reflection of his personality.
He said: "Tattoos are something I'm really interested in. I'm quite an expressive character and I like to think they are an extension of my personality.
"There's a lot going on here on my right arm. I have some Chinese writing, which spells out my name, and the words 'strength' and 'power'. I have 'Carpe diem', which means seize the day.
"I have my birth fish and some good luck symbols. In fact, a bit of everything. At the top of my left arm, I have 'What counts is not the years in your life but the life in your years'. I'd like to think I'll have more. I have a few ideas."
Dernbach was born in Johannesburg to a South African dad and Italian mum. They lived in Durban for a while before emigrating to England in 2001, when Jade was 14.
He did not start playing cricket properly until he arrived in England.
Within three years, aged 17, he had become Surrey's youngest debutant for 30 years.
With the likes of Jonathan Trott, Kevin Pietersen, Matt Prior and Craig Kieswetter all born in South Africa, many believe the 'Englishness' of the team has been diluted.
Yet Dernbach insisted: "South Africa is not my home at all. I don't owe anything to South Africa. I was just born there, did a bit of schooling there.
"My whole cricket career has been based in the UK. I want to give everything I can for England cricket. That is the country I love and the country that has given me everything I have now.
"I started playing cricket when we moved to the UK. I was more of a rugby player before that.
"Cricket happened by chance really. I played for a local side and ended up getting a trial for Surrey.
"I started with the Under-15s and made my way up through the age groups. There has been talk about my slower ball and it has worked well for me.
"It took a lot of time and practice getting it right but now it is one of my weapons. One of many, I like to think. I have a few slower balls, a variety. The way one-day cricket is going, you need that. You can't just be a one-trick pony any more.
"The game is moving so quickly you need to develop on a yearly basis. Reverse swing is also one of my strengths."
And what about his name?
Dernbach admitted: "I know a few Jades and the majority are female. But I've got used to it and I like it. It's different. It was dad's choice. I think he likes the stone." Howztatt!
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Post by firedancer on Mar 23, 2011 15:27:30 GMT
Any particular reason the cricket world cup is on the football thread?
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 23, 2011 18:13:15 GMT
Well.....because I'm a little goofy sometimes....I will see if I can move it.
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 23, 2011 20:38:14 GMT
Here we are......in the right place.
Thanks for pointing that out. Hadn't even noticed it. It has been very windy here......sometimes I think it blows in one ear and out the other.....and takes a little more with it all the time!!
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 27, 2011 14:07:50 GMT
Sri Lanka humiliate England on route to semi-final meeting with New Zealand
It was all too similar to the last time England had played a World Cup quarter-final. In 1996 England had turned up for a World Cup in Asia, exhausted after a long winter and a 6-1 hammering in a one-day series, and had been absolutely pummelled by Sri Lanka. Last night it was the same again. England lost this quarter-final by the maximum margin of ten wickets, and missed out on the World Cup for the tenth time running, because of the enormous gap in the ability of Sri Lanka and England to bat against spin. Sri Lanka bowled it a bit better, and had more spinners to deploy, but the difference lay in the batting. After ten overs of their innings — half against spin — England were 32 for two and stuck in second gear, where they remained except for brief attempts at third by Eoin Morgan and Matt Prior. England faced 35 overs of spin — and hit only 12 fours, and no sixes, in their entire innings. In those 35 overs specifically from Sri Lanka’s spinners, England hit a grand total of seven fours. By contrast Sri Lanka rushed to 57 without loss after ten overs — even though Graeme Swann had opened the bowling — at which point they switched to cruise control, and there they remained until they had booked a home semi-final against the only non-Asian team left in the tournament, New Zealand. Upal Tharanga ran down the pitch in Swann’s second over to drive him for six, Tillekaratne Dilshan did the same when James Tredwell came on, and everything — or at least the runs — flowed from there. Why cannot England’s batsmen use their feet against spin? Well, Ian Bell can — which made his soft dismissal from a clip to mid-wicket all the more annoying after he had belatedly been promoted to open.
But essentially the English cricketer has yet to be born who could have regularly run down the wicket against mystery-spinners like Muttiah Muralitharan — not in his last international game, thanks to England’s wipe-out here — and Ajantha Mendis, although Marcus Trescothick might have slog-swept them. Footwork against spin is the last thing a coach can teach, because a batsman has to program his brain from an early age. England were even more embarrassingly bad against spin against Bangladesh in Chittagong, and against South Africa in Chennai, than they were last night — the slower the pitch, the worse they are. It is why young English batsmen need to learn against spin-bowling machines from an early age. Strauss, determined to set an example after winning the toss, came down the pitch three times: he middled once, and inside-edged twice. Thereafter England’s batsmen stayed at home, the result being a total about 30 below par for the steamy conditions. Don’t blame Jonathan Trott: if he had got out having a dip, England could well have been bowled out. Trott did what he could, pushing ones and twos into the gaps which Kumar Sangakkara was ready to leave. He needed someone else to accelerate — and Bell got himself out, Ravi Bopara has lost the exuberance of youth without replacing it with something more substantial, and Eoin Morgan needed a heap of luck - dropped three times off straightforward chances — to reach his 50. Factor in too, when assessing Trott, that the humidity was high after a stormy night. England’s subs were ferrying out drinks every other over at one stage — and neck-cloths to go around Trott’s neck, and fresh gloves, and more drinks. It took all of Trott’s singleminded devotion to batting for him to end the winter on a higher note than any of his colleagues. It is largely because of England’s failure to use their feet against spin — to go back as well as forward — that they have made a pig’s ear of every batting powerplay in this tournament, losing 16 wickets in seven powerplays of five overs a time. It was a relative mercy England lost only two wickets here in plundering all of 23 runs — Morgan trying to hit over the top and Swann, well, trying to be over the top. Mendis, in his two overs, conceded eight singles as if there had been no powerplay. The mystery-spinner that he succeeds, Muralitharan, bowled a bit too quickly and was relatively expensive but two of the chances offered by Morgan came off him. Now Murali has at least one more game, and probably two, before his international retirement. As the bands played and Sri Lankan flags waved, the only excitement lay in whether Tharanga or Dilshan would reach a century first. It was Dilshan, a brilliant dasher who got there first, then blocked to allow Tharanga — whose house was destroyed by a tsunami — to follow suit. Together they hit 23 fours and three sixes. There will be calls for Strauss to stand down as England’s one-day captain, but it would be wrong to implement them, at least straightaway. The main reason is that as soon as an England captain gives up the 50-over captaincy, his authority as Test captain is eroded: that was the experience of Nasser Hussain when he yielded the one-day captaincy to Michael Vaughan. Strauss also happens to be the only one-day opening batsman of proven competence that England have got, so if he retires England will be looking for two opening batsmen. There is no reason why Strauss and Cook should not open together in internationals as in Tests, with Strauss passing on the 50-over captaincy once Cook is established in this format. At a drinks break, when Sri Lanka were cruising, there was nobody at the end of this winter’s interminable itinerary to counsel Strauss, save for a quip or two from Swann. Paul Collingwood is on his last England legs, Stuart Broad had long since gone home, and James Anderson virtually so. Of the adventurers who set out in late October, only Trott and Prior, Swann and Bell have kept on going apart from Strauss, while Bresnan joined from the last two Tests in Australia. In this context, after five whole months on the road, it was a mild surprise an England team turned up at all.
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Post by Big Lin on Mar 27, 2011 16:50:52 GMT
It's been another inept performance by England. OK, if Broad and Shazad and Pietersen had been available we MIGHT have done rather better.
Even so, losing after a fight is one thing; failing even to make a serious challenge is another.
It's back to the drawing board again as (after our Ashes triumph made us all think we were better than we are) we have to bring in new blood.
I'll support New Zealand against Sri Lanka and India against Pakistan in the other semi-final.
I'll support whoever wins out of the NZ-SL match in the final!
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Post by sadie1263 on Mar 29, 2011 14:34:09 GMT
Sri Lanka v New Zealand: Muttiah Muralitharan’s last ball in Sri Lanka a World Cup semi-final wicket as Kiwis toil
Muralitharan dismissed New Zealand's top scorer Scott Styris (57) with the last ball of his 10th over. The 38-year-old world record holder for test and one-day wickets will retire from international cricket after the tournament. "This was my last game at home and I got my last wicket with my last ball," he said. "The same thing happened to me in Test cricket as well. Hopefully our boys will give me a good sendoff." Lasith Malinga took wickets at key stages, yorking opener Martin Guptill (39) and Kane Williamson (22) and deceiving Nathan McCullum (9) with a slower delivery which the batsman edged to Kumar Sangakkara behind the stumps. Asantha Mendis also took three wickets, dismissing New Zealand's last two batsmen Tim Southee and Andy McKay for ducks.
Styris added 77 from 106 balls with Ross Taylor (36) to take New Zealand to 161 for four from 39.1 overs. The pair found run-scoring difficult against the variety and accuracy of the Sri Lankan attack, with Styris getting some relief with a hook and drive for four off a Malinga over. The stage was set for a New Zealand run charge but Taylor hit Mendis straight to Upul Tharanga on the leg-side boundary and the New Zealanders never recovered.
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Post by Big Lin on Mar 31, 2011 14:19:27 GMT
India beat Pakistan so it's Sri Lanka versus India in the final.
I'll support Sri Lanka because I'd love to see Murali retire with the World Cup to his name!
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Post by Big Lin on Apr 3, 2011 22:23:09 GMT
India in the end. Sri Lanka posted a challenging 274 runs and Jayawardene played a superb innings but when India came to bat, in spite of getting rid of Sehwag and Tendulkar cheaply, Gambhir, Kohli and Dhoni scored the runs that gave India victory.
Poor Murali couldn't quite produce the magic and only Malinga bowled well for Sri Lanka but lacked support.
Four years to go till the next one in Australia!
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Post by sadie1263 on Apr 4, 2011 16:00:42 GMT
Cricket World Cup 2011: India 'given wrong trophy' The International Cricket Council has been accused of giving the wrong World Cup cricket trophy to India after their dramatic win over Sri Lanka in the final in Mumbai at the weekend.
The whole cricket-mad country was yesterday seized by the growing controversy as it was revealed that there was more than one trophy and that India was presented with a different one from that given to previous World Cup winners. While the final was being played, that original trophy was locked in a customs warehouse in Mumbai as £30,000 of duty had not been paid by the ICC for its release. Cricketing officials say that the Indian team was presented with a lookalike on Saturday night at the Wankhade Stadium. The ICC maintains that the trophy presented carried "the specific event logo of ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 and has always been the cup that the 14 teams were playing for". The one impounded in customs, the ICC said, was the "perpetual trophy" used for promotional purposes which is housed permanently at the council's Dubai headquarters. "It carries the generic ICC corporate logo rather than the logo specific to the 2011 event. That [perpetual] trophy will be reclaimed ... and will travel back to Dubai with ICC staff as was always intended." But cricketers and commentators disagreed, saying that under established custom the "perpetual trophy" was awarded to the victorious team after the final, albeit for a brief period. Thereafter, it was replaced by a replica with the ICC logo and the year it was secured. "Because the ICC declined to pay the customs duty for the cup despite earning such massive amounts from the tournament, the Indian team was deprived of being presented the real trophy," a senior cricket commentator said, who declined to be named. Officials said the ICC refused to pay the duty on the grounds that the trophy would later be re-exported while Indian Customs said the tariff was mandatory as it was entering the country even for a short period.
Atul Wasan, a former player, said: "It is absolutely outrageous that a replica was handed to the team." Another former cricketer, Arun Lal, added: "The ICC should have been able to get the trophy to Mumbai long ago. Whatever the problems they should have been sorted out months ago."
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