India v Australia, 2nd Quarter-final

[Seagull over NZ]

Ponting wins the toss and will bat first. Good toss to win as the pitch is expected to take turn later on.

Come on India, would love to see an India v Pakistan semi final.

 

[Trigger]

Watson has gone, clean bowled, 49/1 off 12 overs.

 

[seagullondon]

An india pakistan semifinal now that would be a nightmare for the indian police and their wooden batons

 

[Titanic]

Aus 122-2 (27 overs)

Punter 37* Clarke 4*

Looks like they are going to post a decent total.

 

[Titanic]

BIG wicket for India... Clarke slogs Yuvraj and is caught at cow corner.

140-3 (in the 31st over)

 

[Titanic]

Zaheer cleans up Mike Hussey... 150-4 (in the 34th)

 

[Titanic]

and again Zaheer pegs them back just when they look like they might cut loose... White c&b for 12

Aus 190-5 (in the 42nd)

Punter 84* (and a real gritty captain's knock it is too)

 

[Titanic]

Aus 226-5 (46 overs)

This is going to be a good contest.

 

[Titanic]

Ricky Ponting 100* (113 balls)

That's a classy way to answer your critics.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

What a legend Ponting is. Love to hate him but you have to applaud the man, what an innings. 260+ is a competitive total, depends if Sehwag gets a flyer I guess.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

There is talk of Ponting retiring and ending his days on the county circuit in England. Back to Somerset or will Hampshire have the readies available?

 

[Titanic]

Ponting goes reverse sweep/slogging.... 104

245-6 (in the 49th)

 

[Simster]

I do hope Australia win this. I really don't like India in the cricket.

 

[Seagull over NZ]

There is talk of Ponting retiring and ending his days on the county circuit in England. Back to Somerset or will Hampshire have the readies available?

He said that it doesn't fit with his schedule this season but if he retires from international cricket (or has that decision taken for him) then he could well come over.

 

[Titanic]

Australia's innings closes on 260-6 from their 50 overs.

Both teams are in this. Should be an exciting chase.

 

[Trigger]

Thank God that whiny little pin eyed bitch is out.

I think that is a reachable target if Tendulkar, Sehwag & Gambhir fire at the top today, the middle order looks like it should see India home hopefully...

 

[Titanic]

Decent start from Sehwag and Tendulkar....

India 40-0 (7 overs)

 

[Titanic]

Sachin Tendulkar 'The Little Master' reaches 45, and with that he passes an incredible milestone of 18000 runs in ODI matches,

with an average of 45.2, 48 hundreds and 93 fifties, in 440 innings and 451 matches.




Oh... and India are 70-1 (14 overs)

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Sachin Tendulkar 'The Little Master' reaches 45, and with that he passes an incredible milestone of 18000 runs in ODI matches,

with an average of 45.2, 48 hundreds and 93 fifties, in 440 innings and 451 matches.




Oh... and India are 74-1 (14 overs)

Wow.

I do enjoy looking at the cricket stats.

Sachin Tendulkar | India Cricket | Cricket Players and Officials | ESPN Cricinfo

Over 32,500 runs for India.

 

[vegster]

India seem a little becalmed at the moment, they need to push on rather quickly from here..

On a different note, the format of this World Cup certainly needs tinkering with. After such an interminable long drag of quite often meaningless matches, we face one of the favourites for the competition out at the quarter final stage with indignamt haste.