decided to put up an objective comment on the Caribbean beach
tournament. Firstly, SABC3 have taken us up the tradesman's without
KY, all non-SA super 8 games are delayed broadcast. So they given us
crud like Scotland vs Holland live, but today's Windies/Aussies match
starts at 11pm. Expect a tired workforce in the next three weeks.
Now there's doom and gloom around the result of us losing to the
Aussies on Saturday. I didn't see much of the game as I was at a
bachelor's week-end in Eland's Bay(no report - what happen's on tour,
stays on tour). Yes they do have eskom power and dstv at the hotel,
but after 10 hours of solid boozing the result is almost all that I'm
remembering now. The good news is that we're still #1 baby, and if we
beat Sri Lanka on Wed, then we get a truckload of cash from LG before
the April 1 cut-off. The simple point is that Saturdays result is
inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. The way that game
swung, I don't think we can discount any Karachi involvement either,
'retired hurt'/'skilpad kallis'? tu and tu equals four.
With no Pakis/Hindus the road to the final is all the easier. There's
four crunch games in the super 8, and we only need to win three to
guarantee a spot in the semis. Then we're just two games away from
doing the job.
Here's my selection for Super 8 log standings.
<strong>Aus</strong> (looking good)
<strong>Sri Lanka</strong>/SA (to be decided on run rate)
<strong>SA</strong>/Sri Lanka
<strong>NZ</strong>/Windies (to be decided on run rate)
<strong>Windies</strong>/NZ (home team never excels at WC)
<strong>England</strong> (they're just crap)
<strong>Bangers</strong> (party's over)
<strong>Ireland</strong> (no O'Driscoll, no more magic)
It's pretty hard to chart with a few upsets along the way and some
serious chances of rain affected results. But the top 3 are decided,
it's a bun fight for number 4. The games likely to topple this pack of
cards are:
SA vs SL – 28 Mar
NZ vs WI – 29 Mar
WI vs SA – 10 Apr
SL vs Aus - 16 Apr
Aus vs NZ - 20 Apr
The man to watch with the ball is Muralitharan, the batsmen who might
get up on the right side of bed are Gayle and Flintoff. Forget about
KP, anyone who brings out a biography after playing only 6 test
matches is a tool.
Just don't follow Dangerous Dave's betting advice…he put money on
Andre Nel to be top wicket taker, all he's had so far is share a few
puffs of Hersch's jay with Loots.
1 comment:
Good on the SABC - never thought I'd say that. We only now have the Aussie games 30min delayed on TV, with the only SA game being broadcast against the kiwi's. I had to resort to watching the last match through 3G on my phone and Smith still didn't look any smaller. Although the jerking video feed did make "skilpad" Kallis look almost alive.
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