*Official* Cricket World Cup in Australia, CWLand and New Zealand

[thewizard1o1]

Liam/Hakon

Im going to be away till next week as of 2nite, thus wont be responding to any selections.. Im sure you can work the team without me

Surely pickup would be on hand to help Hak and Liam if a decision needed to be made?

Have a good week away Blewy

 

[Magrat Garlick]

so live sim of the semi tonight?

Nah, tomorrow night. Australia v West Indies tonight (which won't be live)

 

[cbuts]

might be there. we got our season launch for our club. so may not be home. if not, good luck boys, lets get some revenge over pak, for the controversal win in the super 8s

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Cricket Web XI v Pakistan

Liam is supposed to be doing Australia v West Indies at some point.

Anyway, the team:

Markus
Camps
*Goff
Butler
Dauth
Robbins
+Chaulk
Halsey
Hoy
Pickup
Patrick

Must look familiar by now.

Live sim to start in 30 minutes.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Was supposed to do Aus v WI before I left for England, but got swamped on the day. In England now. Will get it done within 24 hours hopefully.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Yer a bit late, Camps.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

A bit late at the mo. This PC has a problem with the CD/DVD drive, and the files I need are on CD.


....unless Haakon can upload them somewhere for me... or email them to me.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

A bit late at the mo. This PC has a problem with the CD/DVD drive, and the files I need are on CD.


....unless Haakon can upload them somewhere for me... or email them to me.

Struggling to remember your email address at present. The Trinidad/Tobago one probably will reach your parents.

Edit: If you don't reply with your email within, say, two hours, I'll sim it myself. Need some moving on here.

Final date tentatively set for Thursday, 2pm GMT (that's 3pm London time, midnight Sydney time).

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Semi-Final: Australia v West Indies
at Auckland

Scorecard
Ball By Ball

Elated Australian fans could see their team set up the dream World Cup final, with the two top teams of the ICC World Rankings facing off in what is to be a legendary game. Judging by today's performance, Australia seem to be on top form, though if Fidel Edwards hadn't been marginally called for overstepping when he bowled Phil Jaques for a potential golden duck who knows what would have happened.

Instead, Edwards was taken off after his opening spell was credited in the scorebook with 4-0-33-0, Jaques made a creditable 49 and steadied the Australian innings after Collymore had Gilchrist caught at slip for six, and built the platform from which Ponting, Martyn and Hussey launched themseelves into beautiful innings.

Martyn was particularly good, though he only struck five fours in his 83; solid West Indies fielding saw to that. He still took plenty of runs off the West Indies' bowlers, as no one received really creditable bowling figures - bar possibly Collymore, who eventually had him bowled and then struck to remove Symonds the next ball.

West Indies were always behind the 8-ball, especially with Shaun Tait striking to remove both openers, Gayle and Chanderpaul. A huge task fell to Lara, who failed to take the strike often enough against Gillespie and Tait, but from 157 for four with Bravo run out, there really was little to be done. The lower order faltered to Gillespie and Bracken, and Australia recorded a comfortable 41-run victory.

Australia 290 for 6 (50 overs) beat
West Indies 249 all out (48.5 overs) by 41 runs
Man of the Match: Damien Martyn

 

[thewizard1o1]

Ohhhh the big final against Australia...should be a cracker of a match.

 

[Blewy]

Couldn't have scripted it any better... Looking forward to it..

 

[Nate]

Awesome, can`t wait. Should be HUGE.

 

[Nate]

LOL @ Bravo`s diamond and Mohammed`s not-out.

 

[dinu23]

can't wait.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

The big World Cup Final to starts in 15 minutes.

CW XI unchanged, while Australia play

+Gilchrist
Jaques
Ponting
Martyn
Clarke
Hussey
Symonds
Lee
Gillespie
Bracken
Tait

 

[PY]

To the bar.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

To the bar.

Or to the thread.

Mind, there doesn't seem to be too many around at present, so maybe postponing it for a bit is in order?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

"It's a question of mental toughness. I think they have to prove they're made of the right stuff."

Ricky Ponting comments candidly during a pre-match training session.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Ricky Ponting: chimpish git.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Full stats for Cricket Web XI:

                    M   I NO Run  HS     Ave     SR 100  50 Ct St
I Markus           11  11  3 604 144*  75.50  94.52   2   4  2  0
LA Camps           11  11  1 515  84   51.50  73.46   0   4  3  0
BJ Goff            11   9  4 510 108* 102.00  92.89   2   3  3  0
CR Butler          11   8  0 209  93   26.12  67.63   0   1  4  0
RJ Dauth            7   5  2 157  74*  52.33  88.70   0   2  2  0
MJ Robbins         11   7  2 125  43*  25.00  81.69   0   0  7  0
AP Chaulk          11   5  1  79  36   19.75  89.77   0   0 11  0
TC Halsey          11   4  2  69  27*  34.50  75.00   0   0  6  0
NS Hoy             11   3  2  45  23*  45.00  93.75   0   0  2  0
MW de Silva         4   3  0  28  12    9.33  84.84   0   0  2  0
NS Pickup          11   2  1   9   8*   9.00  90.00   0   0  1  0
NL Patrick         11   1  1   1   1*   n/a  100.00   0   0  3  0

                    O     M    R   W    Ave    BB 4w 5w    SR  Econ
NS Hoy             93.1   5  360  25  14.40  4-41  3  0 22.36  3.86
NS Pickup          90.2   1  385  20  19.25  6-41  0  1 27.10  4.26
LA Camps           73.4   5  295  12  24.58  3-37  0  0 36.83  4.00
TC Halsey          75     2  321  11  29.18  3-22  0  0 32.72  4.28
NL Patrick         84     2  394  10  39.40  4-51  1  0 50.40  4.69
MJ Robbins         49     1  222   5  44.40  2-19  0  0 58.80  4.53
I Markus            5     0   27   0   n/a   n/a   0  0  n/a   5.40