Originally Posted by Amazulu (Post 11578893)

I'm no longer really into ODI cricket as it's kind of pointless so pretty ambivalent to this (although I reserve the right to change my mind if we continue to do well!)

An impressive performance given that we scored over 260 runs in the last 20 overs and were on track at one point to triple our 30 over score, but some of that bowling was ordinary beyond belief - even Anderson and Broad could have done better! Sure ABD was on fire but even I could have belted most of those shin height, full tosses he was getting

It is obvious that SA had a strategy to start slowly, see off the new ball/best bowling and then launch but if the WI realised this, they did nothing to counter it. They played to SA's tune

All good, but when we played a decent team (India) we fell apart

We'll see

Meanwhile NZ giving Australia a hard game

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 11581464)

Sat next to an Irishman who is sobbing into his Guinness, specially as he has just forked out for a flight to Adelaide to watch his team play Pakistan! i reckon England must have been giving the Irish lessons over the last couple of days :ohmy::eek:

Originally Posted by Alfresco (Post 11581525)

:D

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 11581528)

Thought you'd be loving it! The poor Irish guy gave up watching after the 5th wicket, said he couldn't take any more pain :unsure: Wonder if he cancelled his flight to Adelaide!

Originally Posted by Alfresco (Post 11581535)

I'm not watching it live. Only on cricinfo for updates. :)

Originally Posted by Pollyana (Post 11581547)

Ireland have survived longer than I thought they would, given their appalling start, but i don't think there was any way they could reach that SA total.

Originally Posted by Alfresco (Post 11581577)

Yep, no chance methinks. They did pretty well. 210 was still very respectable. :thumbup:

Originally Posted by Beoz (Post 11582380)

It would be fair to say a couple of these Afghanies can bowl really well.