England in the Finals!

England crushed South Africa today. There is really no other word for it. South Africa went all out after 38.4 overs with only 175 to show for it. Well done to the English bowlers and their wicketkeeper (who by the way I had picked early on to be one of my stars and then he proceeded to do NOTHING, so I dropped him in favor of de Villiers who goes out for a duck - such has been my tournament). Anyway 56 was the biggest run total from Miller and 3 wickets a piece to Broad and Tredwell. It only took England 37.3 overs and 3 wickets to take South Africa down. 82 not out for Trott, probably would have gotten a century if they had had a little better target. Anyway, well done England, you guys are looking good.

Tomorrow should be a good match between India and Sri Lanka.

Have you all checked out the worm? If you think the battle for first is tight check out the battle for 3rd. Seems like each day a new person takes over the 3rd spot. 5 people all within 300 points of each other. Who's still got trades???

For those in the area we are planning on watching the game here Sunday afternoon after Ethan's Birthday Party like around 2 or something, we can see how the party goes and play it by ear. So, if you are planning to come here don't spoil it for yourself by checking scores early. If you're watching live from some other part of the world don't spoil it for us by "what's apping" the results. Enjoy the cricket!

Battle On

Into the Semis We GO!

sandwich

Corn Salad

Moira, the above links are the two vegan recipes I made. Our guest liked the corn salad so much he had 3 helpings and asked for the recipe. I thought the sandwich was also very tasty. James, the veggies didn't do anything to me but I'm an equal opportunity kinda gal.

Back to cricket............Sri Lanka beat Australia. I'm assuming you knew that by now. So, tomorrow England will take on South Africa and then on Thursday India will battle Sri Lanka. Have you all made your trades? Don't forget. I for one am planning on really turning on the heat in these last few matches. I might even change my captain. Missy has been overheard boasting about having full teams lined up. Michael is still trying to figure out who is playing. Bob is beside himself that Sri Lanka are going through. James is shaking in his boots watching Katy S rise through ranks. What is up with you?????

Good Luck tomorrow.

Catherines Delight

England moves on! In a limited overs game (due to D/L) Engalnd bested New Zealand and moves on. New Zealand is not totally out of it but it depends on the game today which currently looks like Australia is struggling a bit to catch Sri Lanka. Anyway, back to England. Michael actually saw some of the game while I prepared our vegan lunch - which was quite tasty by the way. Engalnd batted first and their opener Cook got a nice total of 64. No other real batting standouts and the finished their overs with 169 to chase. As for the bowling, hats off to McCleneghan (3 wickets) and Mills (4 wickets) pretty impressive with limited overs. When New Zealand came on to chase they did ok (Williamson with 67) but dropped to many of their early order and just couldn't make it. They fell 10 short. 3 wickets to Anderson and 2 a piece to Broad and Bopara.

There was almost no movement in our competition except Michael who overtook Bob and Moira and Katy S who overtook Henry and I. Whose in for a late surge? Anyone? Anyone? Beuller?

As I said Sri Lanka is currently battling Australia for the last spot in the semis and then we have a rest day tomorrow. The first semi on Wednesday will be South Africa vs. ? (probably England) and semi 2 will be on Thursday with India battling ?

Too close for comfort

Fruit, fruit, the magical fruit.........

Sorry about the lack of a blog this last day, I have been up to my eyeballs in fruit. Picking, jamming, pieing, and eating. All that fruit also leads to some other time consuming issues. Anyway, with all this fruit around I barely had time to hit a 4 year olds birthday and plan a vegan lunch. So what has been going on? Well, a whole lot of rain. Both of the last games have been effected by the rain and ol duckworth lewis had to rear his ugly head. Don't know what/who duckworth lewis is? Neither do I but it has something to do with rain and how you shorten and decide on a winner in the game of cricket. So, today India beat Pakistan by 8 wickets with 17 balls remaining in a pretty boring game. Not much of note there. Pakistan was out of it anyway. India moves on. and the day before well it was a nail bitter. I was just rereading the commentary so I could set you all up for the drama but honestly I am just confused. Seems the target to win changes every over when you are under the spell of ol duckworth. But It all came down to one wicket and the Pollard was the poor sucker who dropped it. So, South Africa and the West Indies tied. But South Africa has a better net run rate than the West Indies so they will be moving on.

Tomorrow England and New Zealand play. A win for either one will ensure they move on, a loss and you have to look at what happens with Australia and net run rates and all kinds of weird things. So lets hope they play and someone wins.

Our tourney is all about jockey for position these days. Seems like at this point you are either on the top, in the middle, or on the bottom with not much change. However, do not give up hope, the end is near and this is when your trade management may come into play. So, battle on folks, battle on.