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Any other knick fans watching this? It's going to be a pretty good tournament this year. I don't follow the sport as much but I guess Australia is favored! India just rocked Bangladesh today. I am hoping for good games against South Africa and England. Can't wait for Australia to play their first match.

Cricket sucks.

Silverfuel wrote:Any other knick fans watching this? It's going to be a pretty good tournament this year. I don't follow the sport as much but I guess Australia is favored! India just rocked Bangladesh today. I am hoping for good games against South Africa and England. Can't wait for Australia to play their first match.

Go India. I went to a World Cup match when I was in India - 9 or 10 years ago. While I love baseball, the 1 day cricket matches are far more exciting. Constant hitting and action. The crowds are huge and wild, totally into the game.

I never been to a game in person unfortunately but yeah, 1 days are fun and the 20/20 are unreal entertaining. Kenya got smoked by New Zealand and Canada is getting run over by Sri Lanka. I cannot wait for some of the real games coming up soon.

Well what a frickin game yesterday. Dunno if you guys watched the England-India game but man, it had everything. Truly phenomanal. Final score, draw at 338 each. Shahazad, Bresnan and Swann hitting big sixes in the last 2 overs, Strauss 158, The Little Master yet another hundred. Just had everything.

firefly wrote:Well what a frickin game yesterday. Dunno if you guys watched the England-India game but man, it had everything. Truly phenomanal. Final score, draw at 338 each. Shahazad, Bresnan and Swann hitting big sixes in the last 2 overs, Strauss 158, The Little Master yet another hundred. Just had everything.

Oh hell yeah! Dude, I cannot believe that powerplay backfired like that for you guys! I never knew Strauss had the 158 in him and if he had kept playing his game at the wicket, England would have won the match very comfortably. Thank god for Zaheer and those two wickets that fell back to back. The last two overs were some of the best I have seen in the last 20 years I have watched the sport. I gotta tell you though firefly, if Yuvraj wasn't robbed off the lbw on Bell, it could have been a completely different game.

Good times man. Good luck to you guys against South Africa this week. We have a weak one against Ireland.

Silverfuel wrote:

firefly wrote:Well what a frickin game yesterday. Dunno if you guys watched the England-India game but man, it had everything. Truly phenomanal. Final score, draw at 338 each. Shahazad, Bresnan and Swann hitting big sixes in the last 2 overs, Strauss 158, The Little Master yet another hundred. Just had everything.

Oh hell yeah! Dude, I cannot believe that powerplay backfired like that for you guys! I never knew Strauss had the 158 in him and if he had kept playing his game at the wicket, England would have won the match very comfortably. Thank god for Zaheer and those two wickets that fell back to back. The last two overs were some of the best I have seen in the last 20 years I have watched the sport. I gotta tell you though firefly, if Yuvraj wasn't robbed off the lbw on Bell, it could have been a completely different game.

Good times man. Good luck to you guys against South Africa this week. We have a weak one against Ireland.

Straussys been a totally different player since he was dropped from the one-day side. Veeeery aggressive, almost like Trescothick. And Bell wasn't out, it's just an obscure cricket rule that doesn't come out very often because spinners tend not to bowl halfway down the track!!! If the ball impacts 2.5m down the track, there is no LBW.

It's a shame Indias bowling isn't any good or they would have a good shot of the trophy with their awesome batting. As it is I wold take SA, Sri Lanka and even England before India because they NEED to hit so many runs just to defend a total. Just please god don't let Australia win. Sour, angry bastards, all of them.

Hey Silverfuel ... met Ajay Jadeja n Delhi last month... quite a guy, and a beautiful wife... He has a daughter who is about the same age as Martin's niece. That and Martin and my trip to India last year got me interested.. Watched some this year. Go India...

UKDad wrote:met Ajay Jadeja n Delhi last month...

Oh wow, thats awesome man!! Jadeja is royalty if I remember correctly and supposedly a class act. How was he to talk to? I never really met any players in real life.

This is one of the biggest world cup tournament I can remember and I cannot wait for the knockout stages to start. What firefly said is right, our bowling kinda sucks but we have the best batting lineup in the world and i'm hoping for a world cup victory so I'm glad you are pulling for the Indians. They need all the fans they can get.

Really a cool guy. Now he is broadcasting all the national team matches for NDTV.. Does a great job from what I hear. He is very down to earth, and keeps himself there through his kids. He lives not too far (walking distance) from my daughter. She met his wife and they are very good friends.

Go Ireland!!

knickslions wrote:Go Ireland!!

Ireland played an amazing match against England. I cannot believe they successfully chased 327! O'Brien destroyed all sorts of records with his century. They are going to have a tough time today. 184 for 8 and having to defend against the Indian batting order will be very difficult.

Go India!

Vmart wrote:Go India!

That was close! I was worried until Yusuf came in and decided to blow the doors wide open with 16 off the first 6 he faced.

Did anyone get to see the England v. South Africa match? Went down to the wire with the English bowler getting 2 wickets and winning it for them. Group A is no joke! The knockout rounds are gonna be tough.

Damn, Australia up next.

Silverfuel wrote:Damn, Australia up next.

Dunno if anyone else was following this but they just took out Australia! The mother of all matches coming up next week.

Silverfuel wrote:

Silverfuel wrote:Damn, Australia up next.

Dunno if anyone else was following this but they just took out Australia! The mother of all matches coming up next week.

Are you Indian? I am definitely getting up at 4.30 tomorrow then calling in partially sick...

BTW what's a good link for streaming?

loweyecue wrote:BTW what's a good link for streaming?

Yeah, Indian. I paid the $140 for the willow tv tournament package but http://cric24u.net/ is supposed to be decent. You will have to close the ads and go fullscreen mode and then have a decent quality feed. I'm up at 4:30 too. I can't get out of work tomorrow but I am definitely watching at work.

Glad to see fellow Indians at UK! Thanks for the link. I was joking about calling in sick, I wish I could though.

Wow, this game is seriously important.

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The prime ministers of India and Pakistan are attending the World Cup cricket semi-final between the two countries in the Indian city of Mohali.

This is the first time the two sides are playing each other's soil since the 2008 Mumbai (Bombay) attacks.

Relations between the nuclear-armed neighbours hit a low after Pakistan-based militants attacked Mumbai.

The match in Mohali is expected to be watched on television by more than a billion people.

Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has been invited by his Indian counterpart, Manmohan Singh, in what is being described as "cricket diplomacy".

The two leaders have arrived in Mohali. After watching the game together, they are due to return to their respective capitals, Delhi and Islamabad, reports say.

It is not clear whether the two leaders will hold any talks on the sidelines of the game.

"I am going to watch the match. It is too early to expect anything else," Mr Gilani told reporters ahead of the game.

The meeting between the two leaders comes a day after India and Pakistan agreed to let their officials visit each others' countries to investigate the 2008 Mumbai attacks.

The breakthrough followed talks between the two sides in Delhi.

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The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder in Mohali says that with only half of the stadium's 28,000 tickets open to the public, there are none to be had except on the black market.

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Pakistan has declared a half-day holiday to allow fans to watch the match, while many offices in both countries said they would shut for the occasion.

"This is a more important event than any other event in Pakistan this year," one fan, Karachi-based fund manager Omar Ehtisham Anwar, told Reuters news agency.

"There is no way I would miss even a second of this match - I will try to not even blink during the game."

In India, many will return home early. Giant television screens have been installed in markets and restaurants for people to watch the match.

"We do not have any animosity towards the Pakistan team," Indian cricket fan Ravi Ansal told the AFP news agency.

"They are a fine team and if India go on to lose the semi-final, I will cheer for Pakistan in the final."

The match is being held amid tight security and authorities have imposed a ban on flights over the stadium.

Reports say over 2,000 police and paramilitary forces have been deployed around the venue.

"We are leaving nothing to chance. The security will be multi-layered," local police chief GPS Bhullar told reporters.

In February, the two countries agreed to resume peace talks "on all issues". Peace moves were put on hold after the 2008 attacks, although the sides have met a number of times in the past year.

Pakistan's foreign minister will visit India by July to review progress in the dialogue.

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