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*Originally posted by Peoples Champ: *
Naimbia, Holland and Canada deserve their place in Cricket's prestige tournament.
How do you think the Indians and Pakistani's felt when the "white supremecy" didn't allow them to be a test nation. When England played Pakistan, they laughed their heads off, thinking it would be a waste of time.
Now look at us ;)
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This completly different when Pakistan started playing test they had talents like Kardar and Hanif Muhammad who were world class, and they gave challnge to almost all the test nations they played for the first couple of years, they actually defeated the first ever meeting against Australia. It took Srilanka a long time but they were competitive from their first match. I can understand the inclusion of Bangladesh and Kenya in the World Cup but Namibia, Holland and Canada is ridiculous. Canada might have beaten Bangladesh today but these minnows will only create records for below avg batsmans like Craig Wishart whom I never heard of before.
This completly different when Pakistan started playing test they had talents like Kardar and Hanif Muhammad who were world class, and they gave challnge to almost all the test nations they played for the first couple of years, they actually defeated the first ever meeting against Australia. It took Srilanka a long time but they were competitive from their first match. I can understand the inclusion of Bangladesh and Kenya in the World Cup but Namibia, Holland and Canada is ridiculous. Canada might have beaten Bangladesh today but these minnows will only create records for below avg batsmans like Craig Wishart whom I never heard of before.
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i think the way pakistan played yesterday, they will allow players like Symonds to make records, whom i never heard of before ;);)
India innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4 6
*SC Ganguly c Smits b Lefebvre 8 39 32 0 0
SR Tendulkar c Smits b de Leede 52 91 72 7 0
V Sehwag c Zuiderent b Kloppenburg 6 15 10 1 0
+R Dravid b de Leede 17 45 38 0 0
Yuvraj Singh not out 7 16 0 0
M Kaif not out 7 14 0 0
Extras (lb 1, w 5, nb 1) 7
Total (4 wickets, 30 overs) 104
To Bat: D Mongia, A Kumble, Harbhajan Singh, J Srinath, Z Khan.
FoW: 1-30 (Ganguly, 11.5 ov), 2-56 (Sehwag, 14.6 ov),
3-81 (Tendulkar, 23.3 ov), 4-91 (Dravid, 25.6 ov).
Bowling O M R W
Schiferli 7 2 31 0
Lefebvre 6 1 11 1 (1w)
de Leede 8 0 27 2 (2w)
Kloppenburg 8 0 31 1 (1nb, 2w)
Adeel Raja 1 0 3 0
31.5 Adeel Raja to Kaif, OUT: Kaif dances down the track and Raja bowls
it fuller and to leg. Kaif tries to adjust and flick it away on
the legside, but he cannot keep the ball down, and Lefebvre at
short midwicket takes a fine, fine diving catch to his right
Yuvraj dropped on the boundary and the ball runs for 4.
33.3 Adeel Raja to Yuvraj Singh, FOUR, on the off, slow swept to
midwicket, Schiferlie runs along on the ropes and dives valiantly
but can't hold the catch
D
holland doing a great job!
Sorry, you are probably right, Nescio. i don’t know - i’m reading this BBC website (they just updated their scores):