South Africa top order crumbled - Australia into Finals
Exept winning the toss, 
South Africa failed in all departments of the game today.
We very well know historically SA leaves the world cup in an unusual ways mostly curse factor. This time the exit is normal.
Score was 27/5 after 10 overs , Can any one imagine SA can perform this badly ? I totally disagree with the fact that it is that Australia to be blamed because they play excellent cricket.Remember you cannot just blame sun for the heat.It is its natural process and one has to find ways to escape from its heat.
The only team in this tournament SA other than SL I felt can tolerate this heat stroke.
The first ten overs decided the match in favor of unstoppable Aussie.
9.5 McGrath to Boucher, OUT
9.4 McGrath to Prince, OUT
8.5 Shaun Tait to de Villiers, OUT
5.3 McGrath to Kallis, OUT
2.3 Bracken to Smith, OUT
Glenn McGrath, the front runner for the Player of the Tournament with 12 points broke strong top order of RSA.
In this world Cup so far the right teams have made it to the Semi finals.Yesterday we witnessed that the psycological advantage side of Sri Lanka winning the berth to finals between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
Today it is totally different.South Africa surrendered to Australia helplessly.
Proteans were deeeeeeeeeeeeeep in trouble and never recovered after first 10 overs.Who would saves the day for SA? It is not Gibbs.He is just a man of records.
Kemp is the one who played in crisis situation like he did previously with India [ When SA were reeling at 76/6 Justin Kemp and Andrew Hall orchestrated a remarkable comeback, and then the usual story, Team India choked and lost that match by 106 runs].
Kemp resticted Aus bowlers and gave decent fight for a decent total of 149.
Once SA batting is over match was totally one sided dominated by Australia.
Australia's Gilchrist struggled even in this match to regain his form.
All credit goes to McGrath and Tait for giving early match victory to Australia.
Can Murali, Vaas and Sanath of SL repeat 1996 and stop Ozzies ? I doubt.
South Africa failed in all departments of the game today.We very well know historically SA leaves the world cup in an unusual ways mostly curse factor. This time the exit is normal.
Score was 27/5 after 10 overs , Can any one imagine SA can perform this badly ? I totally disagree with the fact that it is that Australia to be blamed because they play excellent cricket.Remember you cannot just blame sun for the heat.It is its natural process and one has to find ways to escape from its heat.
The only team in this tournament SA other than SL I felt can tolerate this heat stroke.
The first ten overs decided the match in favor of unstoppable Aussie.
9.5 McGrath to Boucher, OUT
9.4 McGrath to Prince, OUT
8.5 Shaun Tait to de Villiers, OUT
5.3 McGrath to Kallis, OUT
2.3 Bracken to Smith, OUT
Glenn McGrath, the front runner for the Player of the Tournament with 12 points broke strong top order of RSA.
In this world Cup so far the right teams have made it to the Semi finals.Yesterday we witnessed that the psycological advantage side of Sri Lanka winning the berth to finals between New Zealand and Sri Lanka.
Today it is totally different.South Africa surrendered to Australia helplessly.
Proteans were deeeeeeeeeeeeeep in trouble and never recovered after first 10 overs.Who would saves the day for SA? It is not Gibbs.He is just a man of records.
Kemp is the one who played in crisis situation like he did previously with India [ When SA were reeling at 76/6 Justin Kemp and Andrew Hall orchestrated a remarkable comeback, and then the usual story, Team India choked and lost that match by 106 runs].
Kemp resticted Aus bowlers and gave decent fight for a decent total of 149.
Once SA batting is over match was totally one sided dominated by Australia.
Australia's Gilchrist struggled even in this match to regain his form.
All credit goes to McGrath and Tait for giving early match victory to Australia.
Can Murali, Vaas and Sanath of SL repeat 1996 and stop Ozzies ? I doubt.
Labels: Cricket, Cricket Match Review, semi finals
written by Kalyan @ 10:17 AM,
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Who will win first semi finals of world cup cricket 2007?
Sri Lanka vs. New Zealand
Both teams showed tremendous game over game improvement to reach this stage.If Flemming, Styris and McMillan doesn't hit big with bat tomorrow NZ will have a very tough day.NZ were lucky with the match against RSA where three catches of one from Styris and Two off Fleming is being dropped which turned match into their favor.
Patel was very economical in few matches and let us see if he restricts Sanath Jayasurya.McMillan did the bowling trick for Men in black in RSA match.NZ is a committed team like a team with no real big stars but committed players.
SL should improve their top batting order to have any chances to continue their winning streak in the semi finals and finals.Tharanga's poor form continues and his batting average is 14.00 with just 125 runs in this world cup. Only Jaya Surya and Mahila is having excellent run so far for SL in this world cup with 351 runs.SL just needed 2 or 3 big partnerships that would turn match to their side.Experienced players are there to pull team out of crisis .Maharoof if picked for semi finals is another crucial bowler that NZ should be looking for besides Murali, Vaas and Malinga.
I have listed here very few of basic strengths and weaknesses for each team.
Sri Lanka:
Strengths-
Previous World Champions
Good Bowling side (Murali, Vaas, Malinga and Maharoof)
Sanath,Silva and Mahila the best with the bat and are in form.
Weaknesses-
Not a stronger batting team.
New Zealand:
Strengths -
Styris is in superb form.Oram and McMillan are next players to watch out for.
Bond first spell dangerous for Sri Lanka top order which is weak.
Team makes more runs in the middle and slog overs
Weaknesses-
Never made it to finals.
Lost to Srilanka in Super Eights.
For bowling highly dependable on Bond and Vettori.
Who will win first semi finals of world cup cricket 2007? See yourself others results and your results by casting your vote below. {Not for any research just to see how others are selecting the semi finalists}
Enjoy the match!
Both teams showed tremendous game over game improvement to reach this stage.If Flemming, Styris and McMillan doesn't hit big with bat tomorrow NZ will have a very tough day.NZ were lucky with the match against RSA where three catches of one from Styris and Two off Fleming is being dropped which turned match into their favor.
Patel was very economical in few matches and let us see if he restricts Sanath Jayasurya.McMillan did the bowling trick for Men in black in RSA match.NZ is a committed team like a team with no real big stars but committed players.
SL should improve their top batting order to have any chances to continue their winning streak in the semi finals and finals.Tharanga's poor form continues and his batting average is 14.00 with just 125 runs in this world cup. Only Jaya Surya and Mahila is having excellent run so far for SL in this world cup with 351 runs.SL just needed 2 or 3 big partnerships that would turn match to their side.Experienced players are there to pull team out of crisis .Maharoof if picked for semi finals is another crucial bowler that NZ should be looking for besides Murali, Vaas and Malinga.
I have listed here very few of basic strengths and weaknesses for each team.
Sri Lanka:
Strengths-
Previous World Champions
Good Bowling side (Murali, Vaas, Malinga and Maharoof)
Sanath,Silva and Mahila the best with the bat and are in form.
Weaknesses-
Not a stronger batting team.
New Zealand:
Strengths -
Styris is in superb form.Oram and McMillan are next players to watch out for.
Bond first spell dangerous for Sri Lanka top order which is weak.
Team makes more runs in the middle and slog overs
Weaknesses-
Never made it to finals.
Lost to Srilanka in Super Eights.
For bowling highly dependable on Bond and Vettori.
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Who will win first semi finals of world cup cricket 2007? See yourself others results and your results by casting your vote below. {Not for any research just to see how others are selecting the semi finalists}
Enjoy the match!
Labels: Cricket, semi finals, world cup 2007, world cup cricket
written by Kalyan @ 4:06 PM,
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