Group A - India, England, Australia, West Indies

[adharcric]

Impressive stuff from Sehwag and Tendulkar here.

 

[aussie]

Pitch looks brilliant to bat on, high scoring game on the cards

 

[Dravid]

Sachin out

 

[pasag]

Glenn - legend.

 

[aussie]

Brilliantttttttt McGrath, hey he has been superb this morning on such a flat wicket, no way he's lost it..

 

[magsi23]

Mcgrath at its best, Pitch and conditions are perfect for ODI, i think we will have superb game today, Lets hope

 

[godofcricket]

Wasnt that boring between Mcgrath and tendulkar???? i know mcgrath is boring but tendulkar should have taken some risk, i was waiting for tendulkar to be more aggressive and come down the track or something, in the end tendulkar mananged less then what he averages against Mcgrath and lee.

 

[Dravid]

Sehwag looking good out there..hope I just didn't jinx him.

 

[Slow Love™]

Funny to see Ponting bristle at Rameez's comment about Australia being not very used to do or die situations. Every final is do or die, mate. (Plus, the Aussies tend to do pretty well in those situation in general.)

Not a bad call from Dravid at the toss, IMO. Probably having flashbacks to the WC final in '03 being over before they'd even batted. Even though the conditions aren't quite so batting friendly, I think India are better off trying to put together a substantial total and exerting pressure on the Aussies chasing.

Great stuff from Pigeon. Just a guy you can really count on, no matter what the conditions. Not bowling anywhere near as short as he was earlier in the tournament, either.

 

[Dravid]

Mongia needs to sstart rotating strike. Run rate is going down.

 

[Arjun]

What are your comments on Ramesh Powar's exclusion? I say it's absolutely foolish.

They've got Dinesh Mongia at three, and he's hogging the strike without scoring too many, and there's even more pressure on an out-of-form (but returning) Sehwag to step up the scoring rate. When the power plays are on, you'd expect the batsmen to score at a quicker rate, but we don't see that happening.

 

[godofcricket]

Sometimes i just love sehwag.

 

[pasag]

Sehwag looking brilliant, Johnson in a fair bit of trouble as is Mongia.

 

[Dravid]

What are your comments on Ramesh Powar's exclusion? I say it's absolutely foolish.

They've got Dinesh Mongia at three, and he's hogging the strike without scoring too many, and there's even more pressure on an out-of-form (but returning) Sehwag to step up the scoring rate. When the power plays are on, you'd expect the batsmen to score at a quicker rate, but we don't see that happening.

Yes I am really disappointed in Mongia

 

[irfan]

surely Yuvraj is better than D Mongia on one knee

 

[Slow Love™]

I don't think Watson so much missed a sitter there, in the runout attempt - it would have been fairly easy to miss - but I reckon he probably could have just outran Sehwag to the stumps. Hope it won't be too costly a mistake.

 

[Dravid]

Good bowling from Watson, India almost involved in a run out

 

[Mister Wright]

surely Yuvraj is better than D Mongia on one knee

Yuvraj would be playing if he wasn't injured.

 

[magsi23]

good battle between watson and sehwag

 

[Dravid]

50 for Viru...he shut all of us up.