Pakistan Win the Cup!

and our little competition comes to an end. Pakistan played a great game. The bowled first and Razzak came straight out of the gates and got 3 early wickets. Then Sangakarra hung in there for a long time racking up 64 runs to give Pakistan 138 to chase. Pakistan wasted no time and no batsmen. Afridi sealed the deal with a half century and Pakistan won by 8 wickets with 8 balls remaining.

How did we do? well, Sandeeps Dream Team didn't wake up to all of the noise from Blair's Bombers, The smashing windows shattered glass onto Aussie rules footie, and Harts Gas let one fly right in the face of Lynda's Goggas. The Old Boggers were the ones who dusted the Dusters and Henry's Hobos put a hex on Bob's Chiloquin. Agnoman! the Flying Toasters beat them, Gonubie Chinas have Bubble gum on their shoes, and Arvinders Drag-ons left Team Jiminy off. Finally, The Great Gryllidae left Dr. Teeth nashing at their heels.

It's been another fun tournament. I hope you all have enjoyed yourselves. Take a break, do some research and we'll see you all back here in 2011 for the next World Cup!!

The final worm :-(

Worm, Actual Size, with Antioxidants

The Windies had a Gayle a blowing......

but Dilshan blew it out! The game was kinda boring except for two things. Dilshan was an opening batsman who went 98 not out! and then Matthews (anyone heard of him???) bowled 3 wickets in the first over of the West Indies inning! Other than that you just need to know that Sri Lanka will be playing in the finals against Pakistan. Plan and plot accordingly.

As for the worm? Don't know, Michael hasn't made one yet - he is afraid to see that I am still ahead of him. I do know that Anna didn't quite catch Arvinder despite Suliemanns great show and there was some movement in the middle - Catherine moved up I believe as did Katy Soucy and James. Last chance to knock out your rival on Sunday. I'm making eggs benedict so get here early!

Be Afridi, be very Afridi

Pakistan (or should I say Afridi) knocked South Africa out!! An unexpected outcome today as South Africa had been undefeated and was arguably the favorite to win the tournament. And Afridi was definately the man of the match performing both with his batting (51 runs) and his bowling (2 wickets). Kallis tried damn hard to catch up (64 runs) but after that a bunch of wickets fell and Pakistan's bowling wasn't giving up any boundaries leaving South Africa short 7 runs. This made me happy - only because I know a lot of you had South African captains and now you, like me, are without!

with everyone's teams pretty similar it came down to small differences and minor nudging in the worm. Arvinder has bumped Anna from 3rd - can she come back? there was much jostling in the 5-10 positions and Sandeep seems to have settled into last place. Two more games, make your moves, time is running out.

The worm strikes back

Who's Your Captain??

It looks like it just might come down to who your captain is. Looking over the teams there is not much difference between them expect for captains. Some unlucky folks like myself have a dead duck in the captain slot. Others with more foresight have big named SA's like G. Smith - seems like lots of Smith pickers. So we'll see what happens.

For those in the area Michael and I will be watching Fridays game after work. So avoid cric info for the day and come on by to watch the game. And of course we'll be up on Sunday for the Final match.