Any worm could do it.

 

A Whole Lotta Converging Going On

 New Zealand Beat Afghanistan and Pakistan beat Scotland.  So the Semifinal games are set.  England will play New Zealand on Wednesday, then Australia will play Pakistan on Thursday.  But don't forget that there is a match tomorrow as well.  India play Namibia for no reason whatsoever, but someone will score points so you may as well make some trades.

In our friendly group the worm is starting to look like there's only three lines, everything is converging.  It's tight, real tight. How are you planning to separate yourself from the others?  Can't all pick the same people.  What big plans do you have?  Planning on a captain change or two?  Banking it all on one team? What are your secrets?

Worming our way in.

 

Getting down to it

 South Africa beat England today, it was their first loss.  I'm not sure what happened with England's bowlers, they let SA put up 189/2, yes, 2.  van der Dussen with 94 and Markram with 52.  They did manage to claw back 179 of those but if my maths is correct, that's 10 short.  3 wicket haul to Rabada.  Other than a bruised ego England didn't suffer for their loss and still end the round at the top of their group.  SA unfortunately misses out and will be going home, they did finish with 8 points but lost out to Australia on net run rate.

Australia meanwhile secured there berth in the semis by beating the West Indies.  Although from what I hear, it was more of a party atmosphere rather than a hard fought cricket match.  International cricket will be saying goodbye to the Windies Bravo and Gayle.  I don't know much about cricket but I did get a chance to see them both play in person and Gayle cracked a 6 that smashed a window.  So congrats boys on you careers, you will be missed.

meanwhile in group 2 Pakistan is through (I think there is a very small chance that if the stars aligned just so they would go through  but ...) there are 3 teams however that could feasibly take the 2nd spot, New Zealand, India, and Afghanistan.  NZ has the best chance but they are playing Afghanistan tomorrow so it won't be easy.  

Has your captain gone through?  Do you have enough trades left? Lots of worming left to be done

The worms go in and the worms go out.

 

A Worm and a Cricket walk into a bar......

 

When First We Practice to Up Weave

 There's been much up weaving and down weaving going on around here lately.  Sri Lanka beat the West Indies by 20 runs in a ho hum game it seems (I didn't watch it so maybe it was super exciting) but there was a major blowout going on the other game between Bangladesh and Australia.  Bangladesh went all out after 15 overs, only putting up 73 to chase.  Zampa earned a 5 wicket haul for that inning.  It took Australia a mere 6 overs to run that total down and win with 8 wickets to spare, sending Bangladesh home.

Closer to home, Missy's revenge was not so sweet today as she forgot to confirm her trades, dropping her down to 4 place.  Things are tight, real tight.  Only 150 points separate James to Anna and again to Mom.  Meanwhile Catherine is back on trade game and closing in.  Henry hung on but Michael can smell victory from 70 points away.  We're getting down to the end, so its now or never folks.

Tomorrow New Zealand / Namibia and India / Scotland