No Mendis?

don't worry, most of us didn't pick him. But well done to Henry and Anna for doing so. I suspect Abdullah picked Mendis as well but we don't know that guy. He's an interloper who snuck in before I made our competition private. So, we can all use him as a gauge of how we are doing, the other end of the gauge will be Sean. Yes Sean has created a team. His team was named by him - any guesses what he's going to be for Halloween? And he also choose all the players himself. I did not coach him in anyway. The only thing I did was to offer him only the players who were from squads playing in matches tomorrow. I had highlighted the batsmen in yellow and the bowlers in pink. He had to choose 6 yellows and 4 pinks. It might be helpful when using Sean as a gauge to know that he choose Harbhajan Singh as his captain because I had accidentally highlighted him yellow and then went back over his name in pink - creating an orange color. Any guesses what Sean's favorite color is? So there you go.

Anyway, Sri Lanka pretty easily beat Zimbabwe by 82 runs today and obviously Mendis was the man of the match. He had like 6 wickets, 43 runs, and was not out. so there you go. Tomorrow we see two matches. Australia v. Ireland and Afghanistan v. India. Australia and India should both win comfortably but you never know when there might be an upset. Should be fun to watch no matter what. Enjoy!

Ooh by the way, Michael will be bringing out the worm just as soon as we have a few data points to make it with so don't worry. I am diligently recording our scores in an excel spreadsheet for his use later on.

The Games have begun

please return your seatbacks to the upright position and stow your trays, we are taxing down the runway and about to take off. Zimbabwe is out on the field bowling to the host nation Sri Lanka. Dilshan and Munaweera, the starters, are currently not out and doing well. I now have to decide, do I try and keep up via cricinfo or wait until I have an opportunity to catch some of the actual game? Seems it will be broadcast via ESPN 3 which we get on the xbox! And since its on the xbox you can watch live or tape delayed. Oh, how to convince Sean and Imogen that this is what they want to watch??? Anybody in the area who wants to catch a game - come on over. And definately plan on a little cricket watching party for the finals. I'm thinking bloody marys and coffee cake............