After wining the toss England captain willing to field first wisely and their bowlers bowled well enough to bound south africa's batsmen and get some quick wickets. England Bowler made key breakthrough at regular intervals under the Newlands lights, but their fielders let them down with four catch misses in the outfield in crucial time, as South Africa fought their way to a competitive total of 154 from 8 in their vital Group E encounter. But at one stage everybody thinking SA will be bound under 140. But Albie Morkel made the distance by some massive hits, 3 fours with 4 massive sixes, where two ware record breaking in length 106 and 102 meters to make in total of 154 for 8 wickets.
In bowling action south africa's bowler are inspired by Shaun Pollock for his extremely good bowling spell. Pollock gave the early breakthrough for South Africa with the controversial run-out of Kevin Pietersen when he clashed with pollock to make a run.
At last England made 135/7 in 20 overs and South Africa win b 19 runs.
JA Morkel of South Africa judged as Man of The Match.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
South Africa 19 Runs Win After Making a Competitive Total
Bangladesh Lose Against Australian Bowlers
Good toss to win for Australia and then Good short of length bowling and quick changes of bowling action, four seamer's within five overs and didn't allow the openers to settle. And Bangladeshis could not use the power play effectively. After the Powerplay period, Ponting deployed a double spin attack with Andrew Symonds and Michael Clark and still Bangladesh couldn't free their arms. Nazimuddin who made some good innings in practice match again unable to lengthen his inning and scooped a low catch to Ponting at cover and Tamim Iqbal, who dealt mainly in singles and twos, sliced a skier to point to push Bangladesh further back.
And then expectation of good innings from Aftab and Ashraful increases. But there were a couple of boundaries - Ashraful slashed Mitchell Johnson over backward point to made 7 from 6 balls before out, Aftab smoked a rare full delivery from Lee over cover and Shakib Al Hasan slog-swept Clarke over deep midwicket - but it was too little and too late.
And then the 17th over, historic part of the game to clinch a first ever Hat-trick in Twenty20 international match. He cramped Shakib into edging a intended cut to the keeper, yorked Mashrafe Mortaza to bowled out and trapped Alok Kapali with one that nipped back in and got clean Lbw. Australia had climbed all over Bangladesh. And AUS bound BD to 123/9.
Mathew Hayden and Adam Gilchrist make the target as a little task and imposed themselves to power Australia to a nine-wicket win at Newlands. Hayden disrupting the mediumpacers by walking imperiously down the track to heave the length deliveries away and swept and swung the mediumpacers, disorienting them completely, while Gilchrist took the spinners to the cleaners. Australia clinched the win in their style. Lee was judged as Man of the match.
T20 Super Eight India Lose By 10 Runs
What a heart thrilling game it was! The game was on till the last over. After maiden 190/8 in 20 overs by NZ batsmen India is behind ten runs in 20 overs and New Zealand have won the first Super Eight's match and gained two valuable points. Daniel Vettori was judged as Man of the match for his masterclass of left-arm bowling. Vettori's spell of 4 for 20 that turned the tide in New Zealand's favour.
Earlier McCullum counterattacked after the fall of Lou Vincent, driving Sreesanth nuts with three gorgeous drives before square-driving and pulling RP Singh to the boundary. Bringing in Harbhajan Singh in bowling action New Zealand batsmen are tied up and fall some quick wickets. But later from 16th over(Yuvraj 25 runs from that over) of NZ innings Craig McMillan and Jacob Oram effected some violent late-order hitting to take the total to a healthy 190 but it almost proved inadequate against the openers of Indians.
In Indian innings they start with fly and reach 76 in seventh over. And then they lose their first wicket of Virender Sehwag who hit some massive stroke to made 40 of just spending 17 balls. After that Vettori varied his flight and pace cleverly to choke the run-flow, increase the pressure and eventually lure the batsmen to their demise. Vettori prised two wickets in the 17th over to effectively seal the game. Mainly after losing the Gambhir wickets India lost their way to win. Again Yuvraj Singh the stroke maker of India fail to meet teems requirements with an awful mix-up between Mahendra Singh Dhoni and Dinesh Karthik found Dhoni short of the crease shortly after depart of yuvraj which makes the game in favour of NZ.
After all the match was so exciting to dance till the end.
Saturday, September 15, 2007
ICC World Cup Twenty-Twenty Super Eight
Well, this is ICC world championship for Twenty-20 limited over match and the tournament on 2nd round, super eight. The team which will take part on super eight are:
Super Eight groups
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