2nd ODI final

[Twizzle]

Asutralia winn the toss and bat. Unchanged lien up.

Indians drop Kumble.

Australia off to a flyer 0 for 42 off 6 overs.

 

[Mr Angry]

Not bored are you ?

 

[ozbash]

gillys going a bit sluggish,, 16 off 19 balls :roll:

 

[Iafeta]

This is a little bit off the topic, but, I'm becoming seriously pinged off at umpiring standards. One day cricket is too much in favour of the batsmen. An example was when Matt Hayden ran down the wicket and two foot to the offside, the Indian left armer put it one foot outside his front foot (which happened to now be outside those silly painted lines) and the umpire called a wide. Hayden freely let the ball go. I'm sorry, but that is definitely not a wide. He could have cover drove, cut, defended, anything. The bowler followed him. If Hayden goes to the edge of the pitch, the bowler should be allowed to fire it half a foot into the grass. As soon as Hayden moves so far to the off, the offside wide has to be lengthened by as far as he moves. Its not just happening in this game, its happening all over the show. Umpires hardly give leg befores anymore because they're getting too defensive, and hence we're seeing huge scores. Punters two huge hundreds came off the back of absolutely dead leg before not outs on 10 and 12 respectively.

Just my opinion, but the standard of umpiring is becoming bewildering. We all like to see runs scored, but an objective game played as well. Start giving leg befores, re-evaluate the position the batsmen get themselves into as far as wides go and "Play ball".

 

[ozbash]

they need billy back in oz feka.

you watching north v south ?

 

[Iafeta]

Na bro, can't get that over here in Australia.

 

[wittyfan]

Go Symonds!!!!!!

66 from just 39 balls!!!!!

 

[Dr Crane]

I'm getting seriously annoyed with legside wides too. How can a ball that could be easily clipped off the pads for four be called wide? Anything down leg is wide. Stupid.

 

[SirShire]

Andy Symonds is ready for test cricket!

One of the cleanest hitters in the game!

 

[aqua_duck]

He's a very good one day batsman but not ready for test cricket, in test matches a well made 130 is more valuable than a quick fire 60 with clean hitting.

 

[SirShire]

I think Symonds is capable of well made centuries.

Lets hope that the bowlers can back up well this evening.

 

[Tupac Shakur]

Symonds was timing them nicely all the Australians have played well tonight so far.

Go Brett Lee!

 

[SirShire]

6-68

 

[SirShire]

Pathan the prick is batting with that ugly bugger Badani.

Hope Pathan cops a Gillespie bouncer to the helmet, smartarse.

 

[SirShire]

India innings (target: 360 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4 6
V Sehwag c Lee b Gillespie 12 13 7 1 1
SR Tendulkar c Lee b Gillespie 27 38 40 4 0
VVS Laxman c & b Lee 5 30 7 1 0
*SC Ganguly c Symonds b Harvey 3 31 15 0 0
+R Dravid run out (Martyn) 0 17 11 0 0
Yuvraj Singh c Gilchrist b Harvey 4 19 15 1 0
HK Badani not out 9 15 0 1
IK Pathan not out 2 9 0 0
Extras (lb 7) 7
Total (6 wickets, 19.5 overs) 69

To Bat: M Kartik, L Balaji, A Nehra.

FoW: 1-22 (Sehwag, 2.6 ov), 2-49 (Tendulkar, 8.5 ov),
3-49 (Laxman, 9.1 ov), 4-52 (Dravid, 12.5 ov),
5-56 (Ganguly, 14.2 ov), 6-59 (Yuvraj Singh, 16.5 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Gillespie 7 1 26 2
Lee 6 1 21 1
Williams 3.5 1 6 0
Harvey 3 2 9 2

 

[SirShire]

Dizz is bowling well, good to see him get some scalps.

 

[SirShire]

Andy Symonds has run out Badani. 7/99

 

[aqua_duck]

Gees that was riveting stuff watching Dravid score 0 runs off 11balls, what a superb technical innings, much better than seeing Gilchrist score 176 runs off 120 balls.
Laxman's innings was thorough excitement as well, what was it 4 runs, he played every shot in the book for those runs. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

 

[SirShire]

:lol:

India all out for 131.

Brad Williams bowled good - 2/12. But I was impressed by Dizzy and Bingo too. Good fielding all round.

 

[SirShire]

India innings (target: 360 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4 6
V Sehwag c Lee b Gillespie 12 13 7 1 1
SR Tendulkar c Lee b Gillespie 27 38 40 4 0
VVS Laxman c & b Lee 5 30 7 1 0
*SC Ganguly c Symonds b Harvey 3 31 15 0 0
+R Dravid run out (Martyn) 0 17 11 0 0
Yuvraj Singh c Gilchrist b Harvey 4 19 15 1 0
HK Badani run out (Gilchrist/Symonds) 18 43 27 0 1
IK Pathan b Lee 30 53 41 6 0
M Kartik c Gilchrist b Williams 23 32 25 3 0
L Balaji b Williams 2 16 10 0 0
A Nehra not out 14 5 4 2 1
Extras (lb 7, w 4, nb 2) 13
Total (all out, 33.2 overs, 155 mins) 151

FoW: 1-22 (Sehwag, 2.6 ov), 2-49 (Tendulkar, 8.5 ov),
3-49 (Laxman, 9.1 ov), 4-52 (Dravid, 12.5 ov),
5-56 (Ganguly, 14.2 ov), 6-59 (Yuvraj Singh, 16.5 ov),
7-99 (Badani, 24.2 ov), 8-123 (Pathan, 29.4 ov),
9-136 (Kartik, 31.6 ov), 10-151 (Balaji, 33.2 ov).

Bowling O M R W
Gillespie 9 1 52 2
Lee 10 1 39 2 (1nb, 2w)
Williams 6.2 1 12 2
Harvey 5 2 30 2 (1nb)
Symonds 3 1 11 0 (1w)