CWC 19 : Sri Lanka V South Africa

[Sarge]

A Sri Lanka sit 7 th in the table...a win over SA would improve their outside chance of qualifying for the semi finals

 

[Sarge]

A rare South Africa win would be helpful for England ... Sri Laanka win today would put them on the same amount of points ( and games played) as England

 

[Sarge]

SA won the toss and chose to bowl

Durham usually favours the team that is chasing

 

[Sarge]

first ball of todays play is a wicket

Karunaratne gone for a golden duck!

eventful opening over ...SL 6-1

 

[Sarge]

Avishka gone for 30

10 overs in 67-2

 

[Sarge]

Perera bowled out for 30 half way through 12 over... superb length that was

72-3 after 12 overs

 

[Sarge]

15 overs ... drinks/rehydration break

82-3

 

[unification]

Keep this going, Saffers. We’re rather relying on this!

 

[Sarge]

SL 100 runs up ... then Matthews goes for 11 .... SL 100-4 after 22 overs

 

[Foley]

111 for 5.
How on EARTH did England manage to lose to Sri Lanka?

 

[Gary Baldi]

That game was their WC Final. They've been awful inbetween

 

[Foley]

That game was their WC Final. They've been awful inbetween

Even so. They are awful.
I am more and more worried about England !

 

[Sarge]

15 overs left ....135-5

SA bowling been impressive , an abundance of dot balls ... and, SL struggling with SA pace bowlers

as @Foley said above, how on EARTH did England lose to Sri Lanka? .... & yes , youre probably right @Gary Baldi

 

[Sarge]

JP Duminy took a wicket with his first ball ! ...bad & costly shot choice by da Silva , bowled and gone for 24

11 overs remaining now 159-6

SL, the way theyve been playing so far today, will be hard pushed to get many more than 220 IMO

 

[Sarge]

Mendis went first ball of the 40th over, for 18 .... now down to the last 9 overs of their innings,SL currently 166-7

 

[Sarge]

Perara caught on 21 .... 188-8 ... 4 overs left

 

[Sarge]

invasion of the killer bees?

 

[Sarge]

Udana gone for a battling 17 .... then Lakmal dropped (on 3) ... 198-9 ... 6 balls left of the innings

 

[Sarge]

All out 203 .... 3 balls spare

England need SA to do a decent job with the bat next

 

[Sarge]

If the opening over is any indicator, SA should win this match .... 9-0

 

[Sarge]

20-0 after 3 overs

 

[Sarge]

Malinga gets De Kock out for 15 .... 31-1

 

[Sarge]

10 overs ...53-1

 

[Sarge]

!5 overs- 79-1 ... 125 to win (& 'help' England)

 

[tonyw]

It's possible that South Africa bungle this still, but not looking likely.....

…..which just further emphasizes that England had absolutely no business losing to Sri Lanka. They've been a rank bad team in every other game they've played. It was just a straight-up bottle job chasing a small total against one of the worst teams in the tournament, and there's a good chance that it costs us a place in the semis.

It does make me angry that England have been so good for such an extended period of time in this form of the game, but now - the only time when it really counts in a four-year cycle - they're screwing it up. If they don't beat India on Sunday, and do crash out of the tournament, then it's time for a mass cull of the one day leadership...….heads must roll!

 

[Sarge]

It's possible that South Africa bungle this still, but not looking likely.....

…..which just further emphasizes that England had absolutely no business losing to Sri Lanka. They've been a rank bad team in every other game they've played. It was just a straight-up bottle job chasing a small total against one of the worst teams in the tournament, and there's a good chance that it costs us a place in the semis.

It does make me angry that England have been so good for such an extended period of time in this form of the game, but now - the only time when it really counts in a four-year cycle - they're screwing it up. If they don't beat India on Sunday, and do crash out of the tournament, then it's time for a mass cull of the one day leadership...….heads must roll!

Public decapitation of Bayliss perhaps a good start point... should England crash out.... though a win against either India or NZ should see England scrape into the semi finals?

 

[Sarge]

SA reach 100 in the 19th over

 

[tonyw]

Public decapitation of Bayliss perhaps a good start point... should England crash out.... though a win against either India or NZ should see England scrape into the semi finals?

I don't think so.

I think Pakistan are playing well now, and will beat Bangladesh (as well as Afghanistan). Don't get me wrong, Bangladesh are a good side - but Pakistan have a much better bowling attack, and now seem to have remembered how to bat.

So I'm expecting them to end up on 11 points. Which means at a minimum England need a Win and a Tie or NR. And I don't see any rain in the current forecast!

 

[tonyw]

By the way, in case anyone hasn't seen this statistic, these are Pakistan's results from the 1992 World Cup (the only other one to have ever adopted this format):

Loss, Win, Rainout, Loss, Loss, Win, Win, Win, Win, Win - Champions.

And here's their results from this year's tournament so far:

Loss, Win, Rainout, Loss, Loss, Win, Win...…..


They'd have to win one more game this time round to repeat the feat (there's 10 teams vs. 9 in 1992) but it's spooky so far.

 

[Sarge]

23 overs in ...126-1.... 78 needed