*Official* Warm-up Matches Discussion

[James]

Discussion surrounding the World Cup warm-up matches as listed below.

Sat Feb 12
Kenya v West Indies
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Sat Feb 12
Sri Lanka v Netherlands
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Sat Feb 12
Bangladesh v Canada
Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium, Chittagong

Sat Feb 12
Ireland v New Zealand
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur

Sat Feb 12
South Africa v Zimbabwe
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Sun Feb 13
India v Australia
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Tue Feb 15
Ireland v Zimbabwe
Vidarbha Cricket Association Stadium, Jamtha, Nagpur

Tue Feb 15
Kenya v Netherlands
Sinhalese Sports Club Ground, Colombo

Tue Feb 15
Bangladesh v Pakistan
Shere Bangla National Stadium, Mirpur

Tue Feb 15
Australia v South Africa
M Chinnaswamy Stadium, Bangalore

Tue Feb 15
Sri Lanka v West Indies
R Premadasa Stadium, Colombo

Wed Feb 16
Canada v England
Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah

Wed Feb 16
India v New Zealand
MA Chidambaram Stadium, Chepauk, Chennai

Fri Feb 18
England v Pakistan
Khan Shaheb Osman Ali Stadium, Fatullah

 

[xanderbiscuits]

Do you think that the sides will play their first 11 for the warm ups or will they rest some players?

 

[Zinzan]

Anyone aware whether any TV network is covering the warm-up games?

 

[NUFAN]

Do you think that the sides will play their first 11 for the warm ups or will they rest some players?

It's weird. The Windies match is 12 a side while the Sri Lanka match is 14 a side with only Murali absent.

 

[howardj]

Anyone aware whether any TV network is covering the warm-up games?

I can confirm that Foxtel are covering the Australia v India game tomorrow night!!!

 

[Noble One]

I like what Cricinfo has done with the player profiles. It is nice to see a players World Cup statistics without playing with the filter tabs.

Warm-up games have rarely been an indication of how teams are performing. Most teams have only arrived in the SC in the last day or two so will take some time to settle.

The current game between Sri Lanka and Netherlands might be carnage, but judging by the stacked team for Sri Lanka I think they are just looking for time in the middle

 

[Mike5181]

The West Indies team haven't exactly started well against Kenya.

 

[alvarez]

Cricinfo scorecards reckon Alex Obanda is bowling. Im assuming its actually Elijah Otieno.

 

[Migara]

Tharanga 46(52) against NED. Pathtic to say the least. I'd take 35(25) over that.

 

[alvarez]

Bravo and Sarwan doing good for the Windies.

 

[Mike5181]

I'm guessing these games don't go towards player records of any sort do they.

 

[vcs]

RtD is the most expensive Dutch bowler.. isn't he rated quite highly here?

 

[Spark]

I'm guessing these games don't go towards player records of any sort do they.

Not an ODI, so no.

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I'm lazy and my memory isn't working, anyone got a good idea of India's lineup for tomorrow?

 

[alvarez]

I'm guessing these games don't go towards player records of any sort do they.

Correct.

 

[Mike5181]

RtD is the most expensive Dutch bowler.. isn't he rated quite highly here?

Yeah, probably the favourite associate player among most tbh.

 

[alvarez]

Pretty good show by the Kenyans, but will be interesting if they can handle the pace of Kemar Roach.

 

[andruid]

Please Kemar Roach be nice. Decent enough bowling from Kenya. I hope we do not get one of those mass, collective panic attacks lat leave Kenya 0/4 facing the typhoon pace of chris martin

 

[Migara]

Sanag wanting Crapoo badly in the team ahead of Perera. The latter was not batted, but Kulasekara batting ahead of him. It will be a major miracle if SL wins the WC

 

[alvarez]

Typical Obanda, off the mark with a 6.

 

[Stapel]

RtD is the most expensive Dutch bowler.. isn't he rated quite highly here?

Yeah, but he is a batting all-rounder.... Never mind he got out for a single run.....