Cricket World Cup

[tackle-bag]

Really appalling bowling from Rankin there towards the end. In his final few overs, he gave away more than 20 cheap runs against tail-end batsmen. At least Johnston was taking wickets when he was conceding runs. I hope the sloppy finish doesn't come back to haunt us.

[Sea_point]

206 to win. It seems like a slow pitch but it's certainly gettable.

Really should have been 30 less if they had managed the bowlers better, seven batsmen getting to double figures, four to 30+ and another bonus with the Extra's.

Have a look at Rankins bowling on the Cricinfo Hawkeye feature, use the Beehive PLacment to get the best idea of how loose his bowling was. Compared to Johnson & Mooney he was all over the shop...

http://www.espncricinfo.com/icc_cricket_worldcup2011/engine/current/match/433566.html

Sixty-four thousand dollar question.....who's going to be the one to anchor the innings though...??

[tackle-bag]

Sixty-four thousand dollar question.....who's going to be the one to anchor the innings though...??

Ed Joyce to score a cheeky 100 on his return. Porterfield, Stirling and the O'Briens to clean up the rest!

[nelly the elephant]

Mrs Deco got an Ireland cricket polo shirt from the main sponsors. Neither of us has much interest in the CWC so if any of you sados want it I can bring it to the game tonight.

BNWT. Medium. 40" chest.

I take a medium......yes please.
Will pm you my mobile number.

[Darce]

f%~k it. Stirling gone. He's a loose cannon if he doesn't start quick.

[Sea_point]

Mrs Deco got an Ireland cricket polo shirt from the main sponsors. Neither of us has much interest in the CWC so if any of you sados want it I can bring it to the game tonight.

BNWT. Medium. 40" chest.

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I take a medium......yes please.
Will pm you my mobile number.

That's me out, me and Medium go a long way back. A long. long way back....

[Sea_point]

f%~k it. Stirling gone. He's a loose cannon if he doesn't start quick.

Skipper gone too with 40 on the scoreboard, 166 to get. Cue much finger nail chewing....

[Darce]

Joyce looks steady and assured. Hopefully he'll prove to be the anchor. Once five or six lads don't go for 3's and 4's and we get a couple of good scores we'll be okay

[Sea_point]

Joyce looks steady and assured. Hopefully he'll prove to be the anchor. Once five or six lads don't go for 3's and 4's and we get a couple of good scores we'll be okay

We've got decent bating strength down to eight, Dockrell and Rankin woudl struggle to get double figures....

[Sea_point]

Joyce looks steady and assured. Hopefully he'll prove to be the anchor. Once five or six lads don't go for 3's and 4's and we get a couple of good scores we'll be okay

Joyce gone for 16 with 18 overs gone, not exactly the contribution we needed.

18.1 Mohammad Ashraful to Joyce, OUT, huge wicket! Joyce has gone and Ashraful is celebrating wildly! Nothing shot, Joyce just turning the bat against the spin, took a leading edge and popped back to the bowler. The celebration was delirious. Bangladesh are all over this now!

EC Joyce c & b Mohammad Ashraful 16 (35b 0x4 0x6) SR: 45.71

We're a long way from home Toto...

[West Brit]

Joyce looks steady and assured. Hopefully he'll prove to be the anchor. Once five or six lads don't go for 3's and 4's and we get a couple of good scores we'll be okay

I blame you Darce!

[Sea_point]

Doing their best to blow it now, White out for bugger all. The O'Briens will have to dig us out, CONTROLLED AGGRESION please Kev....

24.4
Mohammad Ashraful to White, OUT, Ashraful is dancing again! You'd think he's just won the tournament. As it is he snared White who played back to a ball he should have got forward to. Hung his bat out in defence and it spun back past the inside edge onto off stump

AR White b Mohammad Ashraful 10 (27b 1x4 0x6) SR: 37.03

[West Brit]

Now we're in trouble...

[dod]

Now we're in trouble...

We in deep deep trouble now.. Need Kev to hang around for a bit with the lower order..

[Sea_point]

You'd better believe we're in the s*it now, O'Brien senior gone....

27.4
Shakib Al Hasan to NJ O'Brien, OUT, what a catch! Get the celebrations going again, Tamim is the man! Niall O'Brien tried to chip a single to square leg, got too much on it and Tamim, haring in from the boundary, dived forward full length to scoop the ball inches off the turf. Crucial wicket that, could be the one that takes the game

NJ O'Brien c Tamim Iqbal b Shakib Al Hasan 38 (52b 3x4 0x6) SR: 73.07

[Broken Wing]

Great over by O'Brien and Botha. 144/5 now. Need just 62 from 97 balls.

[tackle-bag]

I have to say that, if we don't win this, the bulk of the blame has to rest with Porterfield and Rankin. The latter's bowling was all over the place and well below the standard which one would expect of one of the full-time players in the team. Almost a third of their runs came from his 9 overs. Porterfield, as captain, should have taken steps to alter the attack, which could probably have kept Bangladesh down around the 180 remark.

Joyce also has to take a certain amount of flak too, given mis meagre contribution (which was achieved very slowly). As a senior player, in a game in which the run rate was never going to require urgency, he shouldn't have attempted such a shot.

Anyway, calm heads required now. The run rate is just 3.93 with 15 overs to go. If wickets are preserved, the runs will come.

[Darce]

We're just creeping ahead of the run rate now.

If we hold our nerve we can still do it. Remember, we can bat all the way down to TJ

[sarah_lennon]

[Mackman15]

Oh poo poo.