New Zealand on a rampage

well, New Zealand kicked Pakistans butt today. Sorry Afridi. Did anyone have Ross Taylor? Cause he was doing alot of the kicking scoring 131 runs!! If you were a Pakistan fan then you should have had Gul, which unfortunately for me Anna did. And he's her captain so it rocked Anna right past me.

Yesterday saw Canada beat Kenya and the day before England triumphed over South Africa. Catherine was ecstatic, she even instant messaged Michael at 3am to tell him how exciting the game was. Michael was snoring peacefully in bed totally unaware of the cricket. I was up, I heard the message come in.....sorry I could respond Catherine I was feeding the baby. Try me again tonight at 3, you never know.

WORM WORM WE NEED A WORM. I know we need a worm and I've been recording results for Michael but he's been a little busy so you just have to wait. And besides it gets a little depressing seeing James line cruising along the top. But I know Bob wants to see his line surge as does Anna I am sure. And what about Suresh, he's coming up in the ranks as well. So hopefully some day soon we'll get another worm.

Tonight's match: India v. Netherlands

Go get your trades on.

Its raining, its pouring

it makes the cricket boring......

Sri Lanka was suppose to play Australia today but got rained out after 14 overs. So no result there. We were awarded points for the few things that did happen. Sangakarra managed 73 runs and Smith and Tait racked up some points for their bowling/ fielding.

Not much changed with us. James in the lead, Bob in second followed closely by Katy S and Moira. Ok, for all you middle of the packers (me included) NOW is the time for us to make our moves, We can not let these folks get to far ahead. It would be shameful, so get to trading and make em good.

Next up (assuming no rain) another double header (I'm making trades now so as not to miss out!)England will battle South Africa (Moira, Catherine - you two play nice now) and India takes on Ireland. After Ireland's win over England India shouldn't get to cocky.

Bob and the Irish surge

Well, well, Catherine's pessimism might not be so misplaced. England took a tough defeat to Ireland today. From what I've read their bowling and fielding was pretty shoddy. And apparently Kevin O'Brien was not to be stopped reaching a century in record time. SO Ireland beats England by 3 wickets.

In our humble tournament Bob is making big moves and has overtaken Katy S for second place! Watch out James your Dad is on the move. And check out Moira! Did you two have O'Brien??

baby crying.......gotta go.......two games tomorrow, get your trades in on time!

The Roach Coach is the Hottest Ticket in Town!

So today there we two games whose outcomes were exactly as predicted. But amongst all the boring there was some spectacular stuff going on. First Zimbabwe took down the Canucks. Zimbabwe batted first and put up 298, Taibu was only 2 away from a century - anyone have Taibu? Anyone heard of Taibu? I bet next time they play someone will have Taibu. Canada needed to do something in the opening inning worth mention so they conspired to get their bowler Balaji Rao and his leg-break googly bowling style to rustle up 4 wickets! Go Balaji Rao! But sadly the Canadians couldn't answer with the runs and went all out 175 runs short.

The second match had the West Indies pummeling the Netherlands. The West Indies opened and put up a respectable 330 runs. But when the Netherlands tried to answer that they went all out 215 runs short. The real excitement came from Roach in the 31st over. At that point he already had an impressive 3 wickets under his belt. Then 31.1 Seelaar out, lbw. 31.2 Loots out, lbw. 31.3 Westdijk out, bowled. That's 3 outs off three balls - also known as a hat trick. 6th hat trick in World Cup history. And for those of you who are bad with math, he had a total of 6 wickets for the match. Anyone have Roach? "I did, I did"

And now for something completely different, James is in the lead! OK, so its not different at all. I gained a bit with the Roach Coach but James is still disgustingly in the lead. Does anyone have some weed killer, my big house has a lupine infestation. Congrats to Bob and Moira who both had some big jumps up this round.

Tomorrow Sri Lanka takes on Kenya, good luck.

India and England tie!!!

After 100 overs, India and England tie with 338 runs a piece. Apparently this is only the 4th tie in World Cup history. Cric info summed it up like this:

Match tied Well well well. If it weren't for Munaf's short run from the last ball of India's innings India would have this game! Incredible match, Strauss's innings must rank as the best England ODI innings after Gooch's World Cup 115 in 1983. Fourth tied game in World Cup history. Breathless stuff, that game has twisted one way and another and again and another before ending up even. Ian Bell's Powerplay shot? India fluffing their last few overs with the bat? Misfields all round, all end up magnified.

What is left to say about it really. India were a bowler short, England a batsmen short and in the end it balanced to a perfect equilibrium.

Did you all see our worm? Thanks Michael. OOh by the way, after a few days of doing nothing with his team due to illness and work, he is back in action and has set his sites on beating Anna - watch out! (he just walked by and said, "I don't want to aim to high" - that is SO RUDE! Anna - I'd be pissed at him if I were you) Anyway, I have my sites set on James but he just seems to be getting further and further away, and where the heck did Henry come from???? I have to worry about him now?

Two games coming up next - neither of which should be as exciting as today's. Zimbabwe v. Canada and West Indies v. Netherlands

The worm is here!

Big Moves

well there have been some big moves around here.

First I didn't blog yesterday, sorry. And I didn't get our scores recorded either. So....when the worm appears (probably this weekend) we will be missing one day - ooh well, to bad. But in other news, South Africa bested the West Indies and catapulted Moira into 3rd place. Figures shed back the Protea. I'm guessing she had the two stand outs that led the team to victory, AB de Villiers (107 runs) and Tahir (4wickets) she might also have padded her team with Steyn who got 3 wickets. Whatever her strategy was it worked and the rest of us couldn't compare.

James still holds the lead in our competition and I'm wondering when he'll run out of trades so the rest of us can get in on the action?

Welcome to the new player, Cosmin. We all hope you fail. I mean, we wish you well, good luck, have fun.

OK, gotta go get my trades in before the early deadline - two games tomorrow New Zealand v. Australia. and Bangladesh v. Ireland.