Sunday, March 18, 2007
Pakistan got return ticket by Minnows (Ireland)!
Looks like this world-cup will write its own history! First to be hosted by West-Indies, this one is writing pages of history as curtain falls every day! We are still afresh with Gibbs slaughter of 6 sixes in a over against Netherlands and looks like we got more to talk about!
Ireland and Bangladesh - the two minnows (as Ricky Ponting said in the beginning of world-cup) beats two former world-cup champions on same day in different matches!
While India still have two matches to play before packing-up their luggage, Ireland booked return tickets for Pakistan by defeating them by 5 wickets!
In truly champions manner Ireland ended match with a six! What I felt at that point their scored reached to 133. While D/L put revised target of 128 in 47 overs in answer to Pakistan 132 all out, they first reached to 127 and then hit a six to make their total to 133. So no out-of form paki player on way back flight can say we could have bowled them all-out if rain did not interrupted!
Sportingo writes,
Ireland and Bangladesh - the two minnows (as Ricky Ponting said in the beginning of world-cup) beats two former world-cup champions on same day in different matches!
While India still have two matches to play before packing-up their luggage, Ireland booked return tickets for Pakistan by defeating them by 5 wickets!
In truly champions manner Ireland ended match with a six! What I felt at that point their scored reached to 133. While D/L put revised target of 128 in 47 overs in answer to Pakistan 132 all out, they first reached to 127 and then hit a six to make their total to 133. So no out-of form paki player on way back flight can say we could have bowled them all-out if rain did not interrupted!
Sportingo writes,
"Ireland's part-time cricketers achieved the impossible after their improbable tie with Zimbabwe - by sending the world's fourth-ranked team home on St Patrick's Day..."
Labels: Bangladesh, Cricket, Defeats, India, Ireland, Pakistan, World Cup, World Cup 2007
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