**Official** U-19 World Cup 2004

[Tim]

None of the NZ U19 team have ever played FC or OD cricket.

 

[Craig]

The big shocks go to Zimbabwe and Nepal winning, but then NZ go and post nearly 400.

Amazing!

 

[Tim]

379 is a great score but earlier in the WC India had already posted 420 odd so Scotland's bowlers have been nothing special.

It's good to see though that NZ are capable of posting a score like that & it's also hopefully a sign that they're getting more used to the conditions.

 

[Tim]

NZ are looking pretty good to go through with India into the superleague at this stage.

India are 74/0 after just 13 overs.

 

[Vroomfondel]

excellent bowling by bangladesh in the last few overs. They've picked up Robin Utthapa and also brought down the Indian run rate from 6ish to 5.2

 

[Tim]

Someone who i've been disappointed in is Rayudu. For the all the big wraps he's received he's hardly made any impression on this tournament.

 

[Vroomfondel]

man, gaurav dhiman's amazing. 32* off 14

 

[Salamuddin]

Someone who i've been disappointed in is Rayudu. For the all the big wraps he's received he's hardly made any impression on this tournament.

Rayudu's scores so far have been 53 V Sco , 36 v NZ and 10 v Bang. He's certainly made some impression --- the 53 was a good score and so was the 36 given that it was a low scoring affair against NZ.

I haven't seen him bat so I can't comment on what others have said about him --- but lets give him more time --- the tournament enters the more important stage next week.

 

[Salamuddin]

Bangladesh are in trouble against India.

2-25 after 6.2 overs chasing 310 to win.

Why on earth did they put India in to bat ?

 

[Vroomfondel]

another fine spell by gupta. going at around 3 an over, and got both naeem islam and aftab ahemad out -- the two guys that looked dangerous.

I haven't seen him bowl, but his figures certainly look impressive.

 

[Salamuddin]

Bangladesh's RR is decent enough thanks to some superb hitting from Aftab but they have lost too many wickets.

Yeah Praveen Gupta has been bowling well along with RP Singh and Abhishek Sharma.

 

[Salamuddin]

India have beaten Bangladesh by 131 runs to top Pool C and qualify for the Superleague.

Best bowlers were Gupta 3-21, Sharma 3-39 and RP Singh 1-22.

 

[Salamuddin]

Aussies Eliminated

Australia will miss out on the Super League on run rate despite beating SL by 3 runs.

Pak beat WI and SAF beat Eng by 1 wicket to qualify for the super league.

Super League Pools

SL, RSA, WI, IND


ZIM, PAK, NZ, ENG

 

[SquidAU]

Re: Aussies Eliminated

Australia will miss out on the Super League on run rate despite beating SL by 3 runs.

Pak beat WI and SAF beat Eng by 1 wicket to qualify for the super league.

Super League Pools

SL, RSA, WI, IND


ZIM, PAK, NZ, ENG

and I await the Aussie bashing to begin......goddamn hopeless!

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

man, gaurav dhiman's amazing. 32* off 14

Raina hit 90 off 38 balls, which if you do the Maths is a better SR.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Re: Re: Aussies Eliminated

and I await the Aussie bashing to begin......goddamn hopeless!

Fear Nepal

 

[Tim]

The West Indies U19's talented enough with the bat to be bowled out for 88 by Pakistan?

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

What a stupid comment. I expected more from you Tim.

 

[Tim]

I was just responding to this quote:

Big talent in the West Indies U19 team, especially in the batting

I don't really see a problem with it.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

So basically you're saying that a good batting team is immune to failure. Very perceptive...