And Award goes to

**Ladies and gentlemen, the awards go to…
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South Africa may have dropped out of the World Cup at the first stage itself but you can’t argue about one thing: it had to be one of the best organised tournaments. The facilities have been immaculate, the planning almost perfect and the security so tight that there have hardly been any serious or scary incidents.

The same, though, cannot be said about the cricket. While there have been brilliant hundreds and sensational spells, there were too many one-sided matches to excite the world. As we enter the final leg of the Cup, let’s look at some of the dubious records set and some of the winners:

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Fastest bowler in the world (awarded by Shoaib Akhtar): Shane Warne. For becoming the first player to go home from South Africa.

Smartest messenger award (sponsored by Sri Lanka): Nicky Boje. For passing on the wrong score to Mark Boucher in their crucial match.

Most ingenuous protest (given by Henry Olonga): Andy Flower. For continuing his protest against the Mugabe government by wearing black wristbands.

Dirtiest player (presented by Allan Donald): Lance Klusener. For being involved in two World Cup muddles.

Luckiest cricketers (awarded by Sunil Valson): Sanjay Bangar and Ajit Agarkar. For bringing much-needed good fortune to the Indian team.

Best runner in the Cup (sponsored by Sourav Ganguly): Inzamam-ul-Haq. For taking two very quick half runs where there were none. And still getting out.

Costliest bowler (sponsored by Andrew Caddick): Shoaib Akhtar. For saying he will make the Indian batsmen quiver. The quicker he bowled, the quicker he went out of the stadium.

Cleanest hitter (awarded by Rahul Dravid): Kumar Sangkarra. For waving his hands over the stumps, with ball in hand, and Gilchrist almost five metres short of the crease.

Biggest miss (awarded by Nasser Hussain): Stephen Fleming. For not going for the match in Nairobi. It helped Kenya into the semis and also kept South Africa and West Indies out of the Super Six.

Most popular men in South Africa (awarded by Shaun Pollock): Duckworth and Lewis.

Best question (awarded by a WSN lady reporter): Did you lose because you were complacent (after England were thrashed by India in a preliminary match). (Nasser Hussain’s answer, incidentally, was: ‘‘Yes, we were very complacent.

We knew that this wasn’t an important match. Thank you for asking the question.’’)

Best answer (given by Jayasuriya): Yes, We won the toss (when asked if apart from Murali’s entertaining batting, Lanka saw anything else positive in the defeat against India).

Best meal in South Africa (awarded by Inzamam): Suji with Burger.

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This WC has been crap, everything has gone wrong from matches being played in non favorable conditions in day night matches to rain seasoned matches. Both England and New Zealand not going to Kenya and Zimbabwe, which took the fun out of the competition. And had undeserving teams like Kenya and Zimbabwe qualify for the super 6s.
Major teams like Pakistan and South Africa eliminated, was another turn off.

I would give this WC 6 out of 10. :nook: :nook:
Even the 99 WC was alot better then this one.

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Major teams like Pakistan and South Africa eliminated, was another turn off.

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They are eliminated because they played bad.they sucked and deserved to be where they are.
AUS,IND,SL,NZL after all managed to go to Super Six.
SA and APK were over-rated before the wordlcup.
Pakistan being the most overrated team.

Pakistan were pathetic no doubt.
South Africa I don't thinks so, they were screwed by D&L on 2 occaisions, specially against Sri Lanka, instead of telling the team what score they needed to win, instead they told them what score to tie.

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*Originally posted by UMAIR316: *
specially against Sri Lanka, instead of telling the team what score they needed to win, instead they told them what score to tie.
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Whose fault was..D&L,or SL or Shaun Pollock..
huh huh

D&L defintely, South Africa were screwed, they could have gone on to win the WC, or atleast reach the finals.

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*Originally posted by UMAIR316: *
D&L defintely, South Africa were screwed, they could have gone on to win the WC, or atleast reach the finals.
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Oh really..
same Sheet is given to jaysurya and pollock.
jaysurya reads it well and Shuan poolock screws and its D&L's fault.
Comeone show some inteligence which I know u lack anyway

How would Pollock know if he was batting at that moment, D&L told both captains the score needed to tie the game incase of rain, not win it.
Even Jayasuriya wasn't sure till the umpires called of the play and his team was declared the winner by 1 run.

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*Originally posted by UMAIR316: *
How would Pollock know if he was batting at that moment, D&L told both captains the score needed to tie the game incase of rain, not win it.
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Pollock should have known it and wrong message shouldnot have been sent.He is professional and should know this.
Jaysurya knew that DL's gave score to tie.

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Even Jayasuriya wasn't sure till the umpires called of the play and his team was declared the winner by 1 run.
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he was sure.Srilankans were celebrating when match was called off.

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How would Pollock know if he was batting at that moment, D&L told both captains the score needed to tie the game incase of rain, not win it.
Even Jayasuriya wasn't sure till the umpires called of the play and his team was declared the winner by 1 run.
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the coach and others in the dressing room have to bother about the calculations. it should not matter if the captian is batting or not.
the DL method told the wcore needed for a tie. the calculation of a winning score is then trivial. dont say that it is not the captian's job to do these calculations.
DL is the fairest rule for a rain affected match. no use blaming it.

Munna.

Nicky Boje:hehe:

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*Originally posted by munnabhai: *

the coach and others in the dressing room have to bother about the calculations. it should not matter if the captian is batting or not.
the DL method told the wcore needed for a tie. the calculation of a winning score is then trivial. dont say that it is not the captian's job to do these calculations.
DL is the fairest rule for a rain affected match. no use blaming it.

Munna.
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I don't think its the fairest, one moment a team needs 20 runs off 13 balls and next moment the same team needs 20 runs of 1 ball, you call that fair?

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I don't think its the fairest, one moment a team needs 20 runs off 13 balls and next moment the same team needs 20 runs of 1 ball, you call that fair?
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And when did that happened???

Re: And Award goes to

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

:biggthumb

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And when did that happened???
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92 WC Semi final between SA and Eng due to D&L rule.

Dude , you were talking abt WC’03 as a failure :smiley: and now you are giving example of WC’92 :hehe: means WC’92 was a failure or DL-method or WC’03 :wink:

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92 WC Semi final between SA and Eng due to D&L rule.
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Get your facts right.
It wasnt because of D/L method.They had some other weird rule in Wc'92.