Warm Ups

[TT Boy]

If Floyd Reifer wins the toss in any of the group games, he can't bowl first under any circumstances.

 

[stumpski]

Settled for 388 in the end - they would have got there if Boucher had stayed though. Scored mainly in singles after he was out.

 

[roseboy64]

Let's go South Africa. Should make the 400.

No 400.

 

[Naumaan]

Pak 306/8 from 50 overs
Kamran Akmal 82 from 78 balls, 11 4's & 2 6's
Misbah ul haq 72 from 85 balls, 3 4's & 2 6's
Umer Akmal 67 from 51 balls, 8 4's
Afridi 36* from 24 balls, 6 4's

KMDN Kulasekara 8 0 46 3 5.75
SL Malinga 8 0 55 1 6.87
KTGD Prasad 10 2 46 1 4.60
AD Mathews 4 0 13 1 3.25
M Muralitharan 8 0 43 2 5.37
BAW Mendis 7 0 54 0 7.71
T Thushara 5 0 39 0 7.80

Don't know if it's a competitive total cuz didn't see the match cuz there's no tv coverage, & don't even know the pitch conditions

 

[Faisal1985]

Its very confusing even cricinfo is messed up, they have stated that Mohammad Asif was also playing.....and after Aamer's first over ...Misbah bowled the second one...????? no clue why....but as a latest......SL will lose struggling at 133/5 ...........Ajmal keeping it nice and tight.....

 

[Naumaan]

Its very confusing even cricinfo is messed up, they have stated that Mohammad Asif was also playing.....and after Aamer's first over ...Misbah bowled the second one...????? no clue why....but as a latest......SL will lose struggling at 133/5 ...........Ajmal keeping it nice and tight.....

lol yeah i also noticed that, i was following Cricinfo from my mobile phone, it was confusing but if u noticed, they corrected their mistakes after some 3 overs everytime lol
By the way, 108 runs victory to Pakistan
but it was only a warm up match

 

[Migara]

Some serious concersn for SL. They keep under estimating Umar Akmal every time. FFS get Murali, Malinga and Thushara on him and bowl ultra-aggressively and see what happens. Same with Afridi as well. Don't pitch up unless it's a yorker and let him smell some leather as well. Lankan bowlers certainly has pace to do that on this SAF pitches.

 

[Uppercut]

JP Duminy must have buffed out a bit in the off-season. Hit five sixes in his 49-ball 80. He's only hit ten sixes in his ODI career.

 

[DIRK-NANNES]

JP Duminy must have buffed out a bit in the off-season. Hit five sixes in his 49-ball 80. He's only hit ten sixes in his ODI career.

His ODI career of not playing the WI 23697th XI

 

[Naumaan]

His ODI career of not playing the WI 23697th XI

LOL Wl 23697th hahahahahahhahahahahahhaha

 

[Naumaan]

Some serious concersn for SL. They keep under estimating Umar Akmal every time. FFS get Murali, Malinga and Thushara on him and bowl ultra-aggressively and see what happens. Same with Afridi as well. Don't pitch up unless it's a yorker and let him smell some leather as well. Lankan bowlers certainly has pace to do that on this SAF pitches.

but the pitches of South Africa does help ball to come on to the bat as well, you can paly your shots

 

[Athlai]

Was just about to say that NZ started off well and McCullum is out. 33/1 after 5.4

 

[Raghav]

58-1 in 8 overs. Good start even though we lost McCullum. Guptill gets off the mark with a SIX!! BANG!!!

 

[Athlai]

Guptill is certainly a big six hitter.

 

[Athlai]

Ryder puts 50 up in less than 12 overs. Hope he turns it into a big hundred.

 

[Athlai]

After a bit of confusion cricinfo has decided that Ryder is out. Rats.

 

[Raghav]

Everytime NZ batsman gets the runs at the top, NZ looks brilliant in the field & bowling. It all looks everything is okay with team. But, its too early.. We need to get atleast 310 from here to carry some momentum to the main matches

 

[Athlai]

Hope Taylor continues his fine recent strain of form today.

 

[Raghav]

Neil Broom getting some boundaries here NZ 239-6 45th Over Broom 36* (33b 3x4 1x6)

Awesome Over

46.6
Sharma to Broom, FOUR, worked off the legs with power racing away to the boundry
44.5
Sharma to Broom, 2 runs, ondrive, good fielding on the boundry
44.4
Sharma to Broom, 2 runs, yorker dugged out towards to square leg
44.3
Sharma to Broom, SIX, Huge one over square leg! Full and straight and picked off his legs. High and mighty!
44.2
Sharma to Vettori, 1 run
44.1
Sharma to Vettori, 2 runs, wild swing, ball rolls to short 45

 

[Raghav]

Wish we had live telecast of this..

Broom helps NZ go past 300 runs.