Heard commentators tell that a single LED stump costs 4 lac INR (6500 USD). so 6 stumps = 39000 USD
Thats why we arent seeing players from winning team taking the stumps home anymore.
What a terrific game between Afghanistan and Scotland for excitement.
Indeed, You couldn’t write this stuff, number 11 hitting the winning boundary with only three balls left?
Scotland so near yet so far. Afghan deserved to win one close match after losing another close match vs SL
Once again - if you want to see thrilling games, watch the Associates. Wonderful for Afghanistan, but you have to feel for the Scots who have now lost 11 in 11.
In other news, SL show what they think of my predictions by monstering Bangladesh.
That was a heartbreaking game to catch up on this morning, but well done Afghanistan. Certainly more gripping than SL’s regulation mullering of Bangladesh. (Although it’s nice to see Sangakkara get a century in his 400th - that’s 400th - ODI.)
The talk here in Melbourne is that Aus will make 400 with the short boundaries and then NZ will only get 285-300. I do not know what world those people live in. I have watched a lot of games at Eden Park. Just because it has some short boundaries does not make it a batsmans paradise.
I predict a match total of 450 runs between the two teams.
And he’s not even the most-capped player on the team - Jayawardene has 444. Dilshan, who scored 161 at the other end, has a mere 310. I don’t know what the record is for the most-capped ODI team, but this one has to be in the running.
De Villiers goes mental and powers South Africa to 408 for 4. 78 off the last three overs, with de Villiers going from 100 to 150 in 12 balls. Incredible stuff.
It was a thing of beauty. And to think at the halfway mark, the SA team were thinking 310, 320 would be a good target.
Let’s see if Gayle can pull this out of the fire… bearing in mind SA is not Zim.
I guess not - out for 3. Thinks are looking good…
RSA are a mystery to me. If De Villiers they win (maybe Amla as well). Then Steyn, the best bowler in the world has off days which seems to happen when the batsmen don’t thump everyone.
However, I see RSA as the only team that will be able to out muscle NZ. Hopefully I am wrong.
And it is a debacle.
Was it? I’ve not seen it but just looking at the raw facts of it, it makes me wonder when we’re going to stop gazing in wonder at feats of batting prowess and start making the game a contest between bat and ball again.
Personally, I would love to see the ball hoop three feet at 90 mph on its way to cleaning up a bamboozled batsman’s leg stump. Bring back the bottle tops - let’s gouge chunks out of the ball to even things up because batsmen have things all their own way at the moment.
I’m being only slightly flippant.
I can’t disagree. Really, it is only driving practice for a decent batsman.
Without knocking Gayle (which I will) it is all meaningless.
For so long every change has been in favour of the batsmen. I’d love to see every pitch have some movement in it so that batsmen actually have to haave foot movement and (shock horror) being able to combat a seaming ball.
I applaud the sentiment.
Even easier get the groundsman to put the hose on the pitch and leave sufficient juice in it to last the game. Alternatively play on 4th day worn strips rather than 2nd day roads.
Fantasy league.
CWC final is won by team batting second who rolled the opposition for 125 off 30 overs. After a top order collapse they get home with the last pair at the crease in the 40th over. Highest score for game, 25. Wouldn’t that have the punters on the edge of their seats?
I know you are taking the mickey out of me- however I would like to see boundaries at the normal size, no runs from a leg bye, and a wicket that is not predictable. Something that would make captains, bowlers and batsmen think.
I’d also like a crystal ball.
I watched the last 10 overs of the South African innings, and it was great to watch, but the game as a whole was over by the break.
Still the last two nights I’ve been treated to thrilling close games by the associate nations so I’m not complaining.
Sorry, I have to disagree, that was a captain’s innings by AB, and no talk of it being strictly a batsman’s game is going to change that - The Windies’ poor batting performance straight after being the easy counter to that argument.
Suspect you’re looking at this through the prism of your fandom. They’d almost certainly have won if he’d scored 0 and, for the neutral, this game would likely have been more of an interesting contest had he done so. It’s possible for this to be a fantastic knock, a real achievement and entertaining, and it being a symptom of what is wrong with the game. That’s my position and I don’t blame AB at all. It’s not his fault the game has been skewed so much.