Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Someone pls tell Smith, that mathematically there is no way he can get a century in this game. I mean, seriously, the guy has gone berserk here. I like it! :k:
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
... and by the way, this World Cup's tradition of totally one-sided games continues!!!
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
157/1
Graeme Smith 89* finishes things off with a straight four
SA won by 9 wickets with 184 balls remaining!
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Well done ex-chokers. Good luck against Australia in the semi-final (You will need plenty of it)
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
I still can say, Ireland could have performed better than Eng against SA...
PS: But its okay... :) Life!
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Well done ex-chokers. Good luck against Australia in the semi-final (You will need plenty of it)
Australia will for sure squeeze the Choke... :D
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
One commentator (Botham, if memory serves) was overheard stating in one of England’s previous encounters that Vaughan will find his form one of these days and will go on to score a century, one of these days.
As of present…meh.
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Final
Aus V NZ
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Atleast England kept their record of never having won a world cup since 1975 intact
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Final
Aus V NZ
Aus v SLA if there's any justice in this world
for two reasons..
- SLA literally strolled to victory against NZ
- SLA did not play Murali, Vaas and Malinga against Australia yesterday, so even though I still think Australia would have prevailed over them it won't have been as easy as it turned out to be yesterday
Let's first see how NZ fare against Australia on Friday 20 April
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
The post mortem has already begun
Botham:
wants Vaughan dropped from the one-day side even if it means having separate captains for the two formats
Fletcher and Graveney should go
Bob Willis:
Vaughan, Fletcher and Graveney must all go
Planning for 2011 WC should begin now
Hussein:
Fletcher one of the best coaches England ever had - improvement in tests but not one-dayers.
English players need to approach ODIs like the present and not the past (1975, 1979) when it was ok to score sluggishly in the initial overs
English players were booed off the field and Vaughan was booed at the presentation ceremony.
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Lousy brits....
:D
Final SL vs AUS
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
English team is not that bad
Its this damn world cup
All sorts of weird results - mis'adventures and what not
Dont know whats going on...
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
wow that was easy!
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Aamir sohail once in the Singer cup did this with Saqlain. Pakistan had a small total to defend and SL was sure to hammer them away as they had in the last match. But with Saqlain, Pakistan got the win!
He even got Atta to bowl well in that game. What a match it was... Jayasuriya slammed the fastest 50 in that particular innings as well but it was downhill from that point on. I remember there being an opening stand of 70, off which Kalu scored a single run before getting out to Aaqib.
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Brilliant win for South Africa and great batting by Smith. Once again, the captain leading from the front.
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
replace sl with pak, and we have 1999 once over again. imo the similarity wont end there, as aus will thrash sl and complete a wc hatrick 
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Defiant Vaughan insists he will not quit
Captain Michael Vaughan says he will not retire from one-day cricket despite seeing England exit the World Cup after a nine-wicket loss to South Africa.
But he accepts that both he and coach Duncan Fletcher could lose their jobs.
He said: “I’m an honest guy who says my position is hugely in doubt due to my batting. But I still believe I’m a very good captain - I’m not retiring.”
Vaughan also defended Fletcher, saying he was an “outstanding coach” who still had a “tremendous amount to offer”.
Vaughan, 32, has scored just 130 runs in nine innings at the World Cup and has yet to score a one-day century.
And under his leadership, England have beaten just one Test side in the Caribbean - Bangladesh.
That statistic reflects badly on Fletcher, too.
Appointed in 2000, the Zimbabwean-born coach has guided England to second in the Test rankings but has come under increasing fire following the Ashes debacle, when his side were whitewashed 5-0 by the Australians. Now England’s World Cup demise will only increase the pressure on him to step down.
“It’s a massive tournament, in which I expected us to turn up and produce something,” said Vaughan following the loss to South Africa.
"I firmly believe that we have players with the talent and the attitude to do that on the big stage.
"We haven’t done that so we have to accept all the criticism that comes our way. It’s a very sad day for English cricket.
“We have to make sure we analyse what has gone wrong in the World Cup. It’s been a poor winter for us overall.”
England were booed off the field in Barbados after the crushing defeat at the Kensington Oval, and Vaughan said his team deserved to be barracked. “It’s a horrible feeling to have walked off the field and get booed by a lot of England supporters, but rightfully so from the performance we put in,” he said.
"I’ve been a supporter in a stadium, watched football teams that haven’t produced, and done exactly the same.
“I fully understand why they have given us that kind of reception. But full credit to South Africa. They deserve their semi-final spot.”
Andrew Hall was South Africa’s leading bowler, taking 5-18, including four in the space of five overs of reverse swing while England added just 10 runs.
But Vaughan said: "We knew exactly what Andrew Hall was going to produce. We know a lot about the South African attack. “We have faced that kind of bowling before so that’s no excuse. Players just didn’t adapt well enough.”
Vaughan defended the decision to bat first at the Kensington Oval, although there was more swing and seam movement in the morning.
He said: "It was always going to be a tricky decision but we just felt that by getting runs on the board the chasing team would struggle.
"If we had got 220 or 240 on the board we would have put pressure on South Africa. “But through some poor batting and some excellent bowling from them we weren’t able to do that. The batting is the real area we have to work on.”
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
Australia is going to win for sure....
Re: 17 April, South Africa v England at Kensington Oval, Barbados
bay sharam buhat hee dheet heay…
kutay kee dum …terhee kee terhee…:hoonh: