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Its Summer! - the Fever Cricket Thread. (Part 1)

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183/9. Game set really barring a massive India collapse.
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That is what is happening. Chasing 216, India are 55/4, with Laxman injured. Need Dhoni Khan Sachin and Singh to get some runs
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Bangladesh are all out for 228. Not easy.
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India secure amazing 1 wicket victory, cricinfo has the game still going, fox sports aussie says
all over

India mustered a miraculous fightback to win the first Test at Mohali, winning by just one-wicket on another fluctuating day's play Australia claimed four wickets in the opening session to reduce the hosts to 8-162 at lunch on the final day.

But VVS Laxman held India together and score 73 not out, to guide India home by the narrowest of margins.

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Gutted that wasn't on TV here.

Typical Black Cap middle-order collapse has begun...

Fuck this stupid game

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The rain has come at a good time for us and a bad time for Bangladesh. Who knows how hard we'd have collapsed if not for the rain...
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Hahahaha shame you Aussie cunts. Take that.

Three for me, and two for them.

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After the delay a new target is set... this one's not looking very hopeful.
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I don't like the Duckworth-Lewis method anymore. 200/8 from 37 vs. 228 all out from 49.3 means we lose?

Alright then...
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DWL is stupid but we have had the run of the green with it before so fairs fair I guess.
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We shouldn't lose to Bangladesh anyway. No excuses.

Three for me, and two for them.

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Can anyone explain the point of picking Shannan Stewart? Why not pick Williamson? I know he failed dismally in Sri Lanka but at least he has a future if his present isn't quite there yet. Stewart isn't doing anything now and is even less unlikely to do anything in the future!

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Go the indians! And I agree 100% bopman, as an ND fan I'd love to see BJ and Kano get a spell in the team, Stewart and too a lesser extent Elliott are useless. I'm not too worried about the loss, it was the first game in a while for most of our players, and that D-L method was awfully strange
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N-Bomb wrote:
Go the indians! And I agree 100% bopman, as an ND fan I'd love to see BJ and Kano get a spell in the team, Stewart and too a lesser extent Elliottt are useless. I'm not too worried about the loss, it was the first game in a while for most of our players, and that D-L method was awfully strange
Elliott's 37 batting average and 22 bowling average disagree.
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I'm just surprised he got automatic inlcusion after injury, I figured only baz ryder dan and maybe mills got that treatment
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101/7.
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f**k me.


Agreed. This is awful.

B. McCullum - caught out for 0.
N. McCullum - bowled for 2.
Elliottt - bowled for 2.
Vettori - caught and bowled for 9.
Stewart - LBW for 14.

Ouch.
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Fuck we're shit.

Three for me, and two for them.

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Bets on how many overs it takes for Bangladesh to win by 8-9 wickets? I'm thinking 20 or so.
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A challenger appears:
Ross Taylor(rhb)     62
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and is quickly beaten
New Zealand 173/10 ffs
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dbart wrote:
A challenger appears:
Ross Taylor(rhb)     62


Decent surge, but in the end a target of 174 isn't really that difficult. It's gone from "hopeless" to "unlikely."
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We need Guptill and Kane, in for Stewart and Elliottt. Could we get any worse?
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Why drop someone averaging higher than Taylor for someone averaging 2? No problem with dropping Stewart.
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Meanwhile, the India Australia 2nd match is on. Day three India are 256/2 chasing 478. Tendulkar is on 117, that man is amazing. Real pity that this is only a two test series. Clashes between these two sides are always great battles. 
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We're going to lose this by ten wickets...
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Maybe 9

I know, I know, its serious!

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Turfmoore wrote:
Maybe 9


Maybe 7 or 8 now.

Right now I'm more interested in the fact that my friend and I who are watching made a bet on how many overs it would take to win, he guessed 34 and I guessed 39. The result is pretty much a foregone conclusion but I'm probably going to win the bet at this rate.
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cricinfo wrote:
So exactly 10 overs to spare for Bangladesh with 7 wickets in hand, a fully deserved win which means that this will be the first ODI series against a full-strength Full Member opposition that Bangladesh cannot lose.


Fucking disgraceful.

Three for me, and two for them.

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I'm starting to really hate the NZ cricket team.
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This match is far more interesting.
 
India 435 for 5 (Tendulkar 191*, Vijay 139) trail Australia 478 by 43 runs

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Tendulkar is a freak.

 
pretty poor conversion rate from 200-300 though? or for that matter from 200 - 250/ hes got 6 double hundreds but never made it to 250. choker really....
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Downey26 wrote:
Tendulkar is a freak.

 
pretty poor conversion rate from 200-300 though? or for that matter from 200 - 250/ hes got 6 double hundreds but never made it to 250. choker really....
 
I think that's what he said once, that his weakness was going from 250 to 300. I would not complain if a few of our boys had a similar issue... But they can't go from 25 to 30...
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Australia now 5th in the world.

Three for me, and two for them.

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Punter vs Warney. Fight, fight, fight, fight...
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Love the fact that Ponting is finally being exposed for the horrendous captain he is.  (Fantastic batsman though!)
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