Cricket World Cup 2007

**mypost** · 23/03/2007, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by pete

Cricket not exactly the most taxing physically so can't see how the guys could be tired...

Rest?? They've just had 6 days of rest.

How many more do they want? This is the World Cup. Plenty of time for rest when it's over.

If they want rest after 2 matches, god knows how they would cope with playing 5-day Test match slogs???

**Dodge** · 23/03/2007, 12:55 PM

Unless they're injured. Which Johnstone is...

**onceahoop** · 23/03/2007, 1:04 PM

Originally Posted by pete

No one mentioned injuries. Its only 10 overs per game anyway & neither player bowled full complement last weekend.

Latest: Johnston is out injured & Rankin passed fit.

This is effectively the Super 8 at this stage so resting player for this game seems no different than first 'official' Super 8 game?

Sorry. Thought people new Johnston was injured. It's in his shoulder so he could easily do more damage . Better to have him for 6 out of seven games than none. The physio said the other day that a week should sort it out. Thank God for the red button on sky digital one of the many reasons for dumping NTL

**OneRedArmy** · 23/03/2007, 2:01 PM

Originally Posted by Dodge

Good news for those of you with NTL/Chorus. Sky have te Ireland game as the main game now...

Someone in NTL headquarters obviously pushed the red button.

Good stuff.

**Dodge** · 23/03/2007, 3:41 PM

Decent start by Ireland

60/1 after 14 overs. Porterfield out for a duck. Again

**bigmac** · 23/03/2007, 4:05 PM

70/2 off 19 overs. rate has really slowed down now - need to be picked up again to have any sort of defensible total.

**razor** · 23/03/2007, 4:11 PM

Niall O'Brien caught behind 76/3

**TheBoss** · 23/03/2007, 4:17 PM

Oh God, really struggling now, 82-4

**bigmac** · 23/03/2007, 4:26 PM

only good thing is that Powell and Bradshaw have each bowled 9 overs. Powell had Bray in particular in all sorts of trouble earlier on.

**Jerry The Saint** · 23/03/2007, 4:26 PM

Originally Posted by TheBoss

Oh God, really struggling now, 82-4

Reality Check.

Long overdue, to be fair.

**bigmac** · 23/03/2007, 4:45 PM

97-4 off 26 overs.

Not exactly capitulation but as usual, we need one player to make a big score to shore up the rest. Ireland aren't unusual in that respect and 97-4 at halfway could easily translate into a score of 230/250 which would be very respectable. Needs Botha and O'Brien to stay in through 35 overs I think though.

Anybody know why Ireland chose to bat first? are they expecting the pitch to start moving a bit later on or is there an expectation of a bit of rain that might get the ball zipping off the surface?

**OneRedArmy** · 23/03/2007, 5:13 PM

Originally Posted by bigmac

Anybody know why Ireland chose to bat first? are they expecting the pitch to start moving a bit later on or is there an expectation of a bit of rain that might get the ball zipping off the surface?

It could be as simple as reckoning only chance of victory was to post a decent total and then have a real cut at the Windies.

When we bowled first against Pakistan and put them out we huffed and puffed to get to a very low total.

Can't afford to lose another wicket soon if we want to get above 200, which has got to be the target in all our Super 8 games.

EDIT: As I type we lose another one.