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Now 13 days ago world cup. has started.Now by seeing until now it is likely that aussies are likely to take hat trick.
And now let us take overview of all performances of major team.
West Indies: I donot think they will make semi final. They are little confused team.Lat match they play 8 batsman and he gets there at no. 9. Also they open the bowling with Dwene smith who has not bowl in the last match.Also Brian Lara should bat at no.3 so he can control the game.Also Sarwan and Gayle and Chanderpaul should support him.But no mistake they are dangerous side.Also this die situation and vs SA ,they often bought best in WI.If they reach semifinal on roll with luck script canbe changed.
England:I think England has a very little chance to win world cup.Now also they have Andrew Flintoff is injured.Still they have world no.1 batsman Kevin Peterson and utility player like collingwood.In top order there is no one who will play ig inning.But with fragile top order and confused bowling line up ,I donot think they will get semi final spot.
SriLanka:SriLanka has a great chance to win this world cup.They have strong bowling line up.They have strong bowling attack which consist of ever green Chaminda Vaas and then attacking Malinga .Also their ploy of playing Fernando instead of Mahroof also very good because it gave more attacking option.In spin department they have experience spin duo of Muthaiyya Murlidharan and Sanath Jaysurya. But their main problem is lack of power hitter in middle overs.So if they have to score excess of 275 ,Jaysurya must play 35 overs.So opposite team have good chance in this departments.But semifinal will be sure.
South Africa:South Africa is very strong and attacking outfit.They are very fit side.They have aggressive outfit under aggressive captain Greme Smith.They have strong allrounder outfit which has allrounders include Jaques Kallis,Shaune Pollock,Mark Boucher,Andrew Hall and Justice Kemp.But their worry is lack of form of Shaune Pollock and Makhaya Natini.But bright spot is form of Charles Langerdevt.Also their middle order failure is worry.But their main concern that lack of spinner and ability to play spin if turning track encountered in latter stages.But i think semi final spot is sure.
New Zeland:New Zeland has started this world cup very well.This Fleming lead side can go all the way.Shane Bond is tournament's fastest and best bowler.Also he is threat to quality sides with old ball.He is main weapon in Fleming's armory.They possess all condition bowling attack.In swing condition they have Shane Bond ,James Franklin and Jacob Oram.Also for spinning track they have experienced and best Left Armer Daniel Vettori and also they have quality off spinner Jeetan Patel .Also they have good part timer Scott Styris and Craig Macmillan.Also they have good fielding side.They possess great lower middle order.They have Craig Macmillan,Jacob Oram and under rated Brandon Macmullum .Also they have all rounders like Daniel Vettori and James Franklin.Craig Macmillan and Jacob Oram are hardest hitter and bottom player in international field.Captain:Fleming is longest and experienced captain.And whole team backs him up.
Their top order consist of Stephen Fleming,Lou Vincet and Rossy Taylor is not still convincing against top attack like they found in champions trophy.Again Rossy Taylor fitness is important. They will likely go to semifinal .But there is chance that this tournament can be their.
Australia:They have a very chance to take hattrick.With hayden and Pointing in top form.Also Gilchrist is warming.Also waiting in the wings if these are out of form then Michael Hussey and Clarke and Symonds.Also bowling attack looks good under leadership of Macgrath.But Watson injury can be dangerous for balance of the team.Also their fortune depends upon how Bradd Hogg is bowled.It shows on his and aussies performance in NewZeland.

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Treat for Sri Lankan Fans! Enjoi Malingas outstanding performance who almost win match for Sri Lanka!
While chasing target of 210, South Africa required once 4 out of 32 balls with 5 wickets to spare!
This blow changed the target to 3 out of 22 with just 1 wicket left to spare!

Enjoi another world-record footage from world-cup 2007!

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For indian fan ,this is happy news that after Sri Lanka's win over Bangladesh on Wednesday, India now just needs to beat Sri Lanka without worrying about the net run-rate.

Bangladesh has done no good to its chances to qualify for Super-8 after being thrashed by 198 runs by Sri Lanka. Its net run-rate has come down to -2.0018 after that game.

Sri Lanka now heads the Group B with a net run-rate of +4.5937. India is second with a net run-rate of +2.507.

A victory by even one run (batting first) or off the last ball (batting second) over Sri Lanka will take India through to the next stage.

Suppose Sri Lanka scores 250 and India successfully chases the target off the last ball, then in such a scenario Sri Lanka will end up as the Group leader with a NRR of +3.0136. India will end up with a NRR of +1.6730.

Since Bangladesh will be playing its last league match against Bermuda after India-Sri Lanka game, theoretically it will have a chance to better India's NRR, but to do this Bangladesh has to produce something unimaginable.

If India beats Sri Lanka under the circumstances mentioned above, then to beat India on NRR the target for Bangladesh in the match against Bermuda will be:

If Bangladesh bats first
Bangladesh has to score 600 and restrict Bermuda to 168
Bangladesh has to score 550 and restrict Bermuda to 117
Bangladesh has to score 500 and restrict Bermuda to 67
Bangladesh has to score 450 and restrict Bermuda to 16

If Bermuda bats first
Bangladesh can not overhaul India's NRR even if it bundles out Bermuda for a total of 50 and achieves the target in first over itself!

India's NRR will remain around +1.65 even if it registers a win over Sri Lanka off the narrowest margin possible - batting first or second.

There will be a slight change in Bangladesh's target in the last league match depending upon the victory margin for India, but it is obvious that the target will only become more difficult for Bangladesh as the victory margin for India increases.

India can still make it to Super-8 despite losing to Sri Lanka on 23rd. But for that Bangladesh has to lose to Bermuda.

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In this video madhavnayak wishing Team India all the best!
Are you too with Indian Team??



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a tribute video to pakistan coach bob woolmer who died suddenly while in west indies at the cricket world cup 2007 (By Asjid)




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The Cocktail Clip is a high impact mix of the best of Sri Lankan cricket to celebrate the onset of its campaign to win the 2007 World Cup in the West Indies. It is set to the music of the Beach Boys (Kokomo) from the movie - Cocktail.



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Eureka... Finally I found the 18 sixes in a single clip! Treat for Indian Fans and for all violent cricket lovers who enjoys massacre of bowling (like my kid bro ;)



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This is for all Bangladesh who delighted when India wickets fall in their first World Cup 2007 match!




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This is for all Indian fan who missed the record 413 scoring Indian inning in this world cup 2007!
As of this time we could find only 49th over! Anyway hope you will enjoy this!

(p.s. Let us know if u want more :-)



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According to Geo tv in Pakistan,Bob Woolmer may have murdered.According reports, marks were discovered on the Pakistan coach's neck . Woolmer was found unconscious in his hotel room on Sunday and died shortly after in a Jamaica hospital.According Pak press,He has been murdered with the aim of match fixing.

According to reports,He has given poison.And his body is found with vomitting and blood.Also from reports , there was poison found in body.Before An autopsy completed on Tuesday was inconclusive and further forensic tests were ordered to determine the cause of death.Pakistan team have been retained in Jamaica by police.If these reports true,then this is shame for pakistan and cricket.

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Yesterday a great cricket man died.He was 24-7 cricket man.According to him he was never a great player. But He was among the best to make the transition from being a player to a great coach. That's probably what he'll be remembered for the most.Always great player makes a good coach is not true.prime example is Kapil Dev .
Bob Woolmer was also a good player.His array of gloriously timed off-side strokes made him look a better batsman than he was, he had a disappointing Test career -especially for a man who, in only his second Test, saved England as they followed on against Australia by holding out for 499 minutes against Dennis Lillee and Jeff Thomson to score 149. Although he added two more hundreds, also against Australia, he first interrupted his Test career by signing for World Series Cricket in 1977, then ended it forever by joining the rebel South African tour of 1981-82.
His coaching career started at Warwickshire, and he immediately made an impact as the county won a string of trophies in the early 1990s. That led to him being appointed by South Africa in 1994. In his final season with Warwickshire he witnessed Brian Lara make 501 not out for Durham - as a schoolboy at Lahore he had
been present when Hanif Mohammad set the previous record highest score for 499.He has glorious coaching stint with South Africa. He turned the bunch of inexperienced young side into fighting,fearful and all conquering side except Australia .He was instrumental in shaping of careers of Allan Donald ,Jonty Rhodes and Jaques
Kallis.He turned these South Africans to modern Greats.He was very close to Hansie Cronje and that was well documented.After a spell as the ICC's high-performance manager, he was announced as Pakistan's new coach in June 2004, and signed a contract to remain in charge until the 2007 World Cup. But the tournament was, tragically, to be his last; after Pakistan were sent home from the World Cup by Ireland, And he didn't get any chance to brighten his portfolio as a coach because life didn't give him another chance.

As a coach, his pioneering use of computers to show, for example, where opposing batsmen scored their runs may have stemmed from an experience of his own, batting against Mike Brearley's Middlesex. "Knowing I liked he cover-drive, he had Mike Selvey bowling at me wide of off stump, with two slips and two gulley's. In 45 minutes, I scored 12. Then I chased another wide one from Selvey and was caught at second slip."
Woolmer was creative and adventurous. But his coaching was based on a simple premise: the more enjoyable he could make the game, the better his players would respond. No two fielding practices were alike when Woolmer was in charge.He understood players, what worked and didn't work with them.Coaching is man management skill.Most famous example is Shoaib Akhtar which was his biggest challenge.To which I think he was successful by seeing his performances against England at home.But Shoaib madness and his injury problem robbed pakistan chances.And black spot has put on Woolmer coaching career
He was Best coach of our generation along with Dave Whatmore,John Buchhanan.He stood there at the top in coaching.Due to this men basic man can understood the importance of coaching in cricket field.Anyway in cricket before that no one knows about coaching methods and startergies. Now a days coach is important part in team due to those men. Thank you Bob for that.And we cricket lovers salute you for your preciously cricket contribution

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Bob Woolmer, the Pakistan coach, has died in a Kingston hospital after being found unconscious in his hotel room hours after his side's elimination from the World Cup. He was 58.

A team spokesman said: "We saw him last night but having not seen him early today two of our officers went to his room and with the help of hotel staff entered. He was found unconscious there. It is too early to say whether he has suffered a heart attack. We are awaiting medical reports."

Born in Kanpur, India, Woolmer played 19 Test matches for England, scoring 1059 runs at an average of 33.09. But his international career was affected after he joined Kerry Packer's World Series.

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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'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

Set- 1

Year 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes
4. Pope Died
2 years later India won the world Cup!!!

Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married (again)
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe (again)
3. Australia lost the Ashes (again)
4. Pope Died (again)
2 years later will India win the world Cup???


Set -2

1982 Football World Cup won by Italy
1983 Cricket World Cup won by India

2006 Football World Cup won by Italy
2007 Cricket World Cup: INDIA???

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End of over 10 (maiden) - India 24/2 (RR: 2.40)

SC Ganguly		5* (35b)		Syed Rasel		5-2-8-0
SR Tendulkar		0* (7b)		Mashrafe Mortaza		5-1-16-2

It looks like Indian players are not getting feel of world-cup! But what will if this match ends with Bangladesh as a winner???
Will history repeat itself?
What history I am talking about?

Well enough of suspense!!!
I am talking about last world-cup! India lost only two matches in that world-cup 2003.
Both with Australia and guess those were India first and last matches in that world-cup!
Moreover the second was world-cup's final!!!

Now if u smart or rather say too optimistic, then guess this is India's first match in this world-cup!
If Bangladesh wins this, it will meet India again in world-cup final and history will get a chance to repeat itself!

Labels: Cricket, History, World Cup, World Cup 2003, World Cup 2007

Yesterday,Holland bowling was destroyed by South Africa. Like mad butcher who go on rampage in killing animals they destroy each bowl after each bowl of Holland for sixes. Poor Dutch they didn't know what had hit them. They are totally bamboozled by last assault. I think their neck should be also paining by seeing up in the sky so often.But Holland had fairytale beginning.If anyone had told me at the start of the match SA would be struggling at 4 for 1 in 5 overs I would definitely slap him.But due to brilliant fielding and discipline bowling this happen.Also they had several chances to run out Jaques Kallis but sadly they didn't take it. If they took then it would be different story.
After that Grame smith 'bully' and Jaques Kallis hunted like starved dogs against medium pacers by charging down the pitch and normal service was resumed.Jaque Kallis played his normal inning to perfectly.But it was Gibbs who stole the limelight for hitting Dan Van Bunge for 6 sixes in an over and winning million dollar price.For a cricketer who has a colourful career that has encompassed match fixing scandals,racism charges and dope smoking and who always rise from phoenix. He is a power hitter and always remembered for his drives.Only in contampory cricket only Michael Vaughen plays off drive better than him.But lofted front foot and back foot drives no one plays better than Gibbs.I still remember first when i saw him in India hitting Ajit Aagarkar for hitting 2 sixes over the cover.
Now this colorful cricketer Gibbs will always remembered for the first batsman who has hit six sixes in an over in international match.There is no denying fact that.He will stand still along with sir Garfield Sobers and our own Ravi Shastri who had achieved this feat.Also Gibbs also be remembered for his incredible batting in Wanderes match when he help SA to win that amazing match while chasing over 430.Also he is famous man who dropped world cup by dropping Steve Waugh in super six match.He has a chance to erase this name by helping
to team to win this world cup to SA.

Now Dutch has 2 sleepless night in store before meeting with Aussies.Now I understand why Andrew Symonds was itching to play aginst Dutch.But for rest of supposed super eight team, their sleep was robbed by SA's yesterday performance.
Here are some of records that happened on that day
Wet weather delayed the start at Warner Park, but when play did get underway it rained fours and sixes as South Africa amassed a monumental 353 in 40 overs. Here are the highlights from the game.

# Herschelle Gibbs made history by becoming the first batsman to hit six sixes in one-day internationals. The earlier record for most number of runs in an over was 30, which Sanath Jayasuriya managed twice, against Aamer Sohail (in Singapore in 1995-96) and Chris Harris (at Sharjah in 2000-01).

# Gibbs's seven sixes in the innings was only one less than the World Cup record for a single innings - Ricky Ponting had slammed eight in that memorable 140 not out in the World Cup final in 2003.

# Gibbs was at his violent best, but by no means was he the only one to wreck havoc. Mark Boucher slammed 75 from 31 balls, and on the way notched up the fastest half-century in World Cups: he got to the mark off 21 balls, bettering Brian Lara's 23-ball effort against Canada at Centurion in 2003. Boucher's half-century was also the first by a South African wicketkeeper in World Cups.

# South Africa's total of 353 for 3 is their highest World Cup score and the best total in a 40-over match, while it was also the fifth-highest by any team in all editions of the tournament. Their run-rate of 8.82 is the fourth-best in a World Cup innings, but the highest by a team batting first.

# The 18 sixes that South Africa slammed in the innings is an ODI record too, going past the earlier record of 16, which had been achieved twice: New Zealand got that many against Zimbabwe at Bulawayo, while New Zealand were themselves at the receiving end against the Australians in the Chappell-Hadlee Series match at Hamilton
earlier this year.

# This was also the first time there were three century stands in a single innings of a one-day international. After AB de Villiers's second-ball dismissal, Graeme Smith and Jacques Kallis added 114 for the second wicket, Kallis and Herschelle Gibbs put together 105 for the third, while Kallis and Boucher added 134 for the fourth.

# South Africa's 221-run victory is now the third-largest victory margin in World Cups. In fact in the last three days, there have been three games which have been won by a margin of more than 200 runs.


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(story by Cricinfo)

Herschelle Gibbs's six sixes off Dan van Bunge's fourth over was a record for international matches. Cricinfo's ball-by-ball commentator Sriram Veera captured all the excitement and action as it happened in this ball-by-ball description:

Herschelle Gibbs was in a murderous mood at Warner Park. This is his third six, smashed over long on © AFP

29.1 van Bunge to Gibbs, SIX, Violence! Gibbs charged down the track and hoicked it over long on.

29.2 van Bunge to Gibbs, SIX, Murder! Floated on the leg and middle stump line and Gibbs sends it soaring over long-off.

29.3 van Bunge to Gibbs, SIX, Carnage! Flatter one this time but it makes no difference to Gibbs. He just stands there and delivers. This one also has been sucked over long off

29.4 van Bunge to Gibbs, SIX, Wah Wah! Low full toss and guess where this went Yep. A slap slog and it went over deep midwicket! He is going to go for 6 sixes in this over!

29.5 van Bunge to Gibbs, SIX, Short in length, on the off stump line and Gibbs rocks back and swat-pulls it over wide long off. SImply amazing. What a batsman. This is pure violence!

29.6 van Bunge to Gibbs, SIX, He has done it! One-day record. No one has hit six sixes in a row. GIbbs stands alone in that zone. And the minnow bashing continues! Full and outside off and bludgeoned over deep midwicket

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Contest For bloggers: As its Cricket's World-Cup 2007 time, People are suffering from cricket-fever all over the Indian subcontinent as well as other cricket playing nations! To cash the event, Google had started contest for all bloggers who is cricket addict!
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This world-cup don't miss anything out there!
Well if you claim to be a cricket fan and don't know about world-cup then I suspect your claim!
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