Super Eight

[Swervy]

Sky reckons yer saffies will be chasing 160 to win. Unofficially.

lets hope we get an official target before half way through the SA innings this time.

I am sure these D/L targets are penalising the team batting first, my gut feeling is that really SA should be chasing around 170, because Ireland didnt know their innings was only going to be 35 overs long until after about 11 overs

 

[BoyBrumby]

Get in! Rankin strikes! Wide long hop cut straight to backwards point. 1-1. de Villiers the man to go.

 

[simmy]

De Villiers gone!! WAHAAYY!

 

[Scaly piscine]

I dont understand how losing wickets AFTER the rain stoppage can affect the D/L target?

It definitely does in some circumstances, like the time I remember Australia deliberately with Lehmann and someone else just picking up what they could without much slogging in a game before because it meant their score would be increased more for each extra wicket remaining.

That might have been before D/L tho, I don't think it was but it might have been.

 

[Swervy]

It definitely does in some circumstances, like the time I remember Australia deliberately with Lehmann and someone else just picking up what they could without much slogging in a game before because it meant their score would be increased more for each extra wicket remaining.

That might have been before D/L tho, I don't think it was but it might have been.

this is what cricinfo says:

You've been asking why D/L adjusts the target. Well, Ireland's innings was interrupted (and not just once, but twice). So, they thought they had 50 overs originally and batted accordingly. Given that in the end they only had 35 overs, the target is adjusted upwards - the theory being that if they had known from the start they had 35, they would have hit out earlier. Wickets are a factor, too - the more you lose, the lower the revised target is. It makes sense if you think about it

The thing is, to me it doesnt make sense that the score is adjusted for each wicket the first team loses after the interuptions...maybe I am just tired and cant see the logic, and normally i am good with these types of things, but tonight I just dont see it!!!!

 

[Swervy]

oh I would love to see Richards face if Ireland won this one!!!!

 

[BoyBrumby]

Rankin bowls a maiden to Kallis. I tell you what, he can be a serious bowler this boy. He's tall, gets bounce and looks like he can move the new white ball both ways. Not a run off the bat in his two overs so far. Went past Kallis's edge twice too & he's no mug, is Jacques.

 

[Swervy]

required rate 4.80...you can just see the collective South African windpipe slowly closing in on itself

 

[PY]

Rankin bowls a maiden to Kallis. I tell you what, he can be a serious bowler this boy. He's tall, gets bounce and looks like he can move the new white ball both ways. Not a run off the bat in his two overs so far. Went past Kallis's edge twice too & he's no mug, is Jacques.

Odds England try and sign him up......better than evens IMO.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Hope this doesn't turn out like the Netherlands' effort earlier, when SA were 6-1 after 5 overs or something and then SA completely smashed the bowling all over the place.

 

[Swervy]

trust kallis to score quickly against a minnow..what a dickhead

 

[PY]

Ahem, language please!

 

[Scaly piscine]

Looks like English to me. I'm no polyglot tho.

You have to wonder about Mooney's selection from Ireland's point of view.

 

[Scaly piscine]

The Witness is gone, Ireland desperately need more wickets tho.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Gibbs gone now, 85-3, come on Ireland...

 

[PY]

Haha, I'd laugh if Kallis slowed down now.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Noooooooo Kallis dropped by Rankin off his last ball of the match.

 

[PY]

Kallis dropped again by Trent. Ireland are losing this game themselves now.

He looks like he injured himself trying to make the catch too.

 

[simmy]

Eng v SL tomorrow. I am very excited.

 

[stumpski]

The thing is, to me it doesnt make sense that the score is adjusted for each wicket the first team loses after the interuptions...maybe I am just tired and cant see the logic, and normally i am good with these types of things, but tonight I just dont see it!!!!

I'm with you 100%. It was inevitable that Ireland would lose wickets in the closing overs of their innings, because just about every team does - it's the nature of limited-overs cricket. I suppose the reason that there was a fairly small adjustment to the target was that the rain break came fairly early in the Ireland innings. So in theory they had plenty of time to accelerate. If they'd been told at the 30 over mark that they'd only have 5 more overs, I'm sure it would've been a different story.