Congratulations to India on their win and also for qualifying for the super six.
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Congratulations to India on their win and also for **qualifying for the super six.*
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NOT YET!
Group A
Team Played Won Lost No Result Tied Points Run Rate
Australia 4 4 0 0 0 16 +1.77
India 5 4 1 0 0 16 +1.28
England 5 3 2 0 0 12 +1.07
Pakistan 4 2 2 0 0 8 +0.39
Zimbabwe 4 2 2 0 0 8 -0.09
Holland 4 0 4 0 0 0 -2.02
Namibia 4 0 4 0 0 0 -2.81
Oops nearly then. Yes it could still come down to RR.
See how England's runrate is dropped dwon from 2.05 to 1.07
Thats why Net Run rate can fluctuate big time in case of a win or loss.
Anyone knows the current standings on NRR ??
Makes me think...had England not forfeited that match against Zimbabwe...(and instead beaten them to get 4 more points)...Waqar & Co. may have been packing their bags now.
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Makes me think...had England not forfeited that match against Zimbabwe...(and instead beaten them to get 4 more points)...Waqar & Co. may have been packing their bags now.
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Not quite, because that would have meant England would now have 16 points and then if Pak won both its remaining matches it would have been down to the better RR between India and Pakistan. :)
Congrats to India once again :k: Thanks to the D/N matches → whoever wins toss wins the game (of course batting first).
Lets see what “mathematics” brings to us now. What majic/luck does to Pakistan’s chances…
I am really against playing Inzimam in match against India. Replace Inzimam with Afridi … at least he will give 4-6 runs for the wicket (more than Inzi) and bowl and field.
India is almost through unless…
India looses to Pakistan and PAK And ENG has heavy wins against ZIM and AUS respectively.
So many things happening simultaneously is really tough.
Anyway Great bolwing by Nehra…Though wicket was assiting but he stuck to basics..Great job…
:k: :k:
So I guess it is again safe for Indian Cricket team to come back to India after the tournament is over. No more pathrao and effigy burning for now.
Waisay, kamal hai.. the big guys can lose two critical matches and all they need to do is to win against ONE major team, and they are almost through to the next round (based on NRR). I am defining the term 'major/big guys' loosely and am only including Aus, Eng, Pak and Ind in this group. Zim, Nam, Hol are proly there only to get a whipping from the big guys and allow them a good dose of positive NRR.
Well played India. Their key was batting and to remain focused to get 250. Being D/N, the English batting took care of it by themselves. Thats sad though.
Any chance, the organizers can move the D/N semi-final to Day only? Playing D/N matches in South Africa is just a joke. If they insist on playing a D/N, then it will be sad semi-final, I can see that.
It give me immense pleasure to see how all the pakis are constantly whining about the D/N matches as the reason for their loss and India’s loss. Yesterday it was the Umpire and now the D/N games.
You guys are so predictable. 
PS :- I heard that some pakis have started a petition for giving Inzamam and other out of form Paki batsmen two chances in every innings.
I was wondering how people here would have reacted if Pakistan had won or India had lost???
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I was wondering how people here would have reacted if Pakistan had won or India had lost???
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Miracles happen rarely.
What is miracle here??
PAk win or India’s loss…
Suddenly, everything is turn around! Good to see Dravid back in his form. :k:
Difficult for England to progress for the Super Sixes stage. Highly doubtful! Aussies are the only the team who never let go a single game. The way they are currently playing, seems like gonna win another World Cup. Par kya karein bhai, heart says No. Head says Yes for Aussies.
Best part of India-England game: Nehra bhai stole the pleasure of James Anderson. 
For Pakistan, we have to win two matches. If we rely on the progress of others teams, we’re out of the tournament. I hope, our management take that into consideration. It’s likely, Pakistan will bat first if win the toss. Till then, wait for March 1st. 
Caddick makes a meal of his own words
Post-match press conferences are usually about as interesting as watching a Madagascar giant tortoise chewing a blade of grass. “We should have bowled better.” “They were the better team on the day.” Yawn. Bring on the giant tortoises.
The pre-match jousting, though, seems to have taken a few leaves out of the handbook of hype-maestro Don King. With the action on the field blowing hot and cold in this World Cup, the India-England clash at Kingsmead, Durban, was set up quite nicely. Both teams needed the win desperately, yet both teams could go through to the Super Six even if they lost. So it was little wonder that Andrew Caddick decided it was the best time to take a dig at the Indians.
Speaking to journalists at practice sessions before the big match, Caddick suggested that India hadn’t really come to terms with themselves in the World Cup. “India hasn’t been up to the mark…both their batting and bowling have been unimpressive,” said the 34-year old medium-pacer.
Perhaps he was right. India had lost disastrously to Australia, managed to sweep Zimbabwe aside, beat Netherlands only apologetically, and then got into something approaching form against Namibia. But there were sure signs that the Indians were turning things around. “India should not take pride in scoring 300-plus against Namibia. They were aided more by the nimble-fingered Namibians than their batting strength,” said Caddick, perhaps a touch more outspoken than usual.
The Indian camp would have taken quiet note of this, make no mistake about that. India and England have played each other often enough in the last year, and there has always been plenty of needle in the contest. The Indians, however, would have ordinarily been no more worried by Caddick’s remarks than by his bowling in the subsequent match.
But then came the pippin.
“Even Sachin did not play well despite his century. Sachin’s just like another batsman in the Indian team, and there are a lot of others in the Indian side.”
Quoting statistics - Tendulkar has scored 34 one-day centuries, over 10,000 runs at an average of just under 45 - could prove that Tendulkar is not just like “any other batsman,” but the statistics are hardly needed. Even a little child on the streets of India could tell you that.
Indeed, few people have dared to take verbal liberties with Tendulkar. Glenn McGrath has, and he has succeeded - but then again, he’s Glenn McGrath, backed up by years of performing phenomenally at the highest level. Caddick has not, and he is no McGrath either.
Word has it, then, that Tendulkar walked out to bat with a quiet determination to settle a score of sorts with Caddick.
That Tendulkar did so, in the most emphatic fashion imaginable, was proved beyond doubt on the day. There was one cover drive that even left the normally garrulous television commentators gasping. There was an on-drive that could have easily been written into batting textbooks. For good measure, Tendulkar then unfurled the straight drive, placed impeccably between the bowler and mid-off.
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Fans in the stands were on their feet. Caddick huffed, Caddick puffed, and Tendulkar blew his house down. Seeing a short ball early, Tendulkar rocked back, shifted weight from one foot to the other perfectly, and essayed a pull shot that sent the ball soaring over midwicket, over the stands and straight out of the ground.
There was something about the shot that appeared larger than life. There are enough and more good, clean hits in one-dayers, but the brutality of this particular stroke far surpassed willow hitting the cover off a leather ball. It was more like a guillotine coming down unerringly on its mark.
Caddick, in a nutshell, was summarily dismissed from Tendulkar’s presence.
That was only the beginning. A man famous for bowling brilliantly in the second innings of Test matches and yet being flat in the first was brutally taken apart and ended with 10-0-69-3,* the three in the final column all coming in the last over when the Indians were caught out in the deep slogging. At Durban, Caddick registered his most expensive figures ever in one-day cricket.
Then again, it was all hardly a surprise. As not a few bowlers have found out over the years, this is the price to pay by testing the anger of a patient man. Tendulkar was angry, got India off to a flyer, enabled them to reach 250 and then beat England comprehensively, cantering to a win.
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Any more comments, then, Andy? **
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I'd like to see ENG beaing indians :) That be fun :)
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Hummmmmmmmm..Khwahish puri nahi huyeee...England aur NAM dono ne mayun kiya aapko..
now, You will have to wait till 1st March now...
In the given circumstances and current form of Pakistani batting i.e. Pak chasing a target with ball moving around, yes it would’ve been a miracle.