Wormy

Okay already, here's the worm.

India win but it wasn't pretty

India beat the Netherlands by 5 wickets but according to the commentary it was more of a Netherlands loss than an Indian win. They went in as huge favorites but had a shoddy performance. The Netherlands batted first and put up a measly 189, no one really stood out for their batting except maybe Zuiderent who went out for a duck, -10 if you had him. It took India 36 overs to polish off the 189 with the highest numbers coming from Yuvraj Singh, he got a half century. So 2 points to India and they are currently at the top of the leader board for group B.

James in the lead blah, blah, blah. But look, Bob is on the move. In fact he was doing some boasting today and apparently will have a full set of Sri Lankans for tomorrows match - watch out James. But Bob should double check his rear-view mirror every now and again cause Katy S is only 42 points behind. Can you smell her? If we had a worm I am sure it would be very tense for Bob to see how that line is just closing in.......... Anna and Suresh are also continuing to climb so no one should feel to comfortable in their places. Except maybe Kathy who is graciously keeping an eye on our collective rears.

Next match, Sri Lanka and Zimbabwe. Wouldn't it be fun if Zimbabwe surprised Bob with their first win of the tournament?

This just in, James made it to 94th place in the Global competition. If you want to show his name to your neighbor so that you can gloat that you know him.......hit the "home" button on the fantasy site - this takes you to the main page where you log in. Then in the top left corner you see a green box that says Top Managers. At the bottom of that box click on "more", select World Cup 2011 from the Current Global Competitions drop down menu. Scroll down to #94, see James, curse that its not you, call a friend and gloat, explain for 10 minutes what cricket is and why they should care, hang up feeling frustrated that they weren't as impressed as they should be, come back here and leave a comment.

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.