World Cup Game Number 2 - Aussies v Kilt Wearers

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[Twizzle]

they are not gonna risk him this early imo

 

[IanG]

Scotland did win the ICC Trophy back in 2005 and won the first Intercontinental Cup.

 

[griffo346]

go scotland

 

[TheParraboy]

they are not gonna risk him this early imo

come on twiz get with it


Scotland won toss and are fielding


Australia team
ML Hayden, AC Gilchrist, RT Ponting, MJ Clarke, BJ Hodge, MEK Hussey, SR Watson, GB Hogg, NW Bracken, SW Tait, GD McGrath


Scotland team
DF Watts, RM Haq, RR Watson, GM Hamilton, DR Brown, NS Poonia, CJO Smith, CM Wright, GA Rogers, JAR Blain, PJC Hoffmann

 

[TheParraboy]

great first over by scotland

aust 0/1

game on

 

[Hutty1986]

Looks like Haydos was lucky not to be out LBW

 

[TheParraboy]

hayden very very lucky


Aust 0/13 - 3 overs

 

[aussies1st]

Shane Watson better hope he got his bowling sorted as after Hogg smashed 40 in 15 balls he could be the 7 and Watson replaced with a quickman.

 

[lockyno1]

Australia got 334. Ponting a brilliant 113, Hayden, Gilchrist, and Hodge and Hogg made usefuol contributions. Sunshine was great at the end. Michael Clarke looked way short of match play. Put Brad Hodge at 4 please.

 

[lockyno1]

Shane Watson better hope he got his bowling sorted as after Hogg smashed 40 in 15 balls he could be the 7 and Watson replaced with a quickman.

Watson made 18 off 11. He gave the strike to Hogg- exactly what a TEAM member would have done. Why don't you blame Michael Clarke who just stalled the whole damn innings. It aint as if any of the quickmen are any better than Watson anyway. If we had a 2nd spinner in our squad it would be tempting to consider that considering the nature of the pitches. We should have picked Hauritz in the ODI squad!

 

[aussies1st]

I'd take Clark over Watson anyday.

 

[lockyno1]

I'd take Clark over Watson anyday.

No thanks and at least Watson can bat. The tail is long enough with Tait, Bracken and McGrath. It would be ridiculously long with Stuart Clark in there as well!

 

[aussies1st]

A 20 plus 2/100 over a quickfire 20 plus 4/60 hmmm I wonder which is the better option.

 

[steveb69]

Does anyone know how many runs Australia got in their first over?

 

[Twizzle]

Scotland was crushed by reigning champions Australia in the second match of ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 on Wednesday at St Kitts.

Set a mammoth 335 to win, Scotland was never in the hunt and was all out for 131 in the 41st over to lose by 203 runs -- the second biggest margin of victory ever in the tournament.

In the middle overs Scotland dragged the match towards an end decided very early on in their innings by Australia's bowlers.

After 30 overs they had less than 100 runs on the board and had lost 6 wickets, five of them to the Aussie fast bowlers. Overs 20 through 30 were bowled without much result either by way of wickets falling or runs being scored -- and this set them apart from much of the match that was enlivened by the performance of the incumbent champions.

Aussie warhorse Glenn McGrath fired up his metronome and sent down a spell of accurate pace bowling that left Scotland in tatters at 42/5. McGrath took the last 3 of the first 5 Scots wickets to go down.

His third was a perfectly pitched ball that tempted Gavin Hamilton into a nibble that was devoured by 'keeper Adam Gilchrist.

Before that McGrath got Ryan Watson out caught hooking only to find Nathan Bracken. That was his second wicket. His first came when he bowled Fraser Watts, who played a ball from the great fast bowler onto his stumps.

Scotland lost three quick wickets before the 10th over, the first to a run out, the second to a delightfully fast ball from Shaun Tait.

Tait's scorcher flattened Navdeep Poonia's stumps in the 8th over, just two overs after putting paid to a promising innings from opener Majid Haq.

In the 6th over, with the score at 21, and Haq on 14, Shaun Tait sent down a ball that was driven to cover by Haq for a single. The resultant overthrow from

Michael Clarke gave him another run and he was run-out going for a third. Glenn McGrath sent in the throw from mid wicket that did Haq in, ending an innings that showed promise at 16.

In the same over as he was out, Haq played a gorgeous cover drive off Tait and looked comfortable against the fast bowlers in Scotland's chase.

Haq and fellow opener Fraser Watts faced the Aussie attack of Tait and Nathan Bracken, who opened the bowling. Veteran opening bowler McGrath did not get the new ball, something he had asked his captain for before the tournament began, given the absence of regular new ball bowler Brett Lee.

After Wednesday’s performance, McGrath might have a point.

http://cricketworldcup.indya.com/Di...?xf=news,Cricket,2007,March,News_20070314_129

 

[Twizzle]

Australia innings (50 overs maximum) R M B 4s 6s SR
wicket-keeper AC Gilchrist lbw b Brown 46 71 55 7 0 83.63
ML Hayden lbw b Haq 60 114 73 6 1 82.19
captain RT Ponting b Wright 113 144 93 9 5 121.50
MJ Clarke b Haq 15 29 20 1 0 75.00
BJ Hodge c Hoffmann b Rogers 29 62 28 3 0 103.57
MEK Hussey st wicket-keeperSmith b Hoffmann 4 19 6 0 0 66.66
SR Watson not out 18 23 11 3 0 163.63
GB Hogg not out 40 15 15 3 3 266.66
Extras (b 1, lb 2, w 5, nb 1) 9

Total (6 wickets; 50 overs) 334

Did not bat NW Bracken, SW Tait, GD McGrath

Fall of wickets1-91 (Gilchrist, 16.6 ov), 2-139 (Hayden, 26.5 ov), 3-193 (Clarke, 34.3 ov), 4-256 (Hodge, 43.1 ov), 5-274 (Ponting, 45.2 ov), 6-276 (Hussey, 46.1 ov)


Bowling O M R W Econ
PJC Hoffmann 10 0 57 1 5.70 (2w)
JAR Blain 4 0 29 0 7.25 (1nb, 1w)
CM Wright 10 0 58 1 5.80
DR Brown 9 0 86 1 9.55 (2w)
GA Rogers 10 0 52 1 5.20
RM Haq 7 0 49 2 7.00


Scotland innings (target: 335 runs from 50 overs) R M B 4s 6s SR
DF Watts b McGrath 9 40 25 0 0 36.00
RM Haq run out (McGrath/Tait) 16 23 22 2 0 72.72
NS Poonia b Tait 1 4 4 0 0 25.00
RR Watson c Bracken b McGrath 6 21 20 0 0 30.00
GM Hamilton c wicket-keeperGilchrist b McGrath 3 23 18 0 0 16.66
DR Brown c Watson b Hodge 19 55 37 3 0 51.35
wicket-keeper CJO Smith b Hogg 51 93 76 7 0 67.10
captain CM Wright lbw b Tait 4 12 21 0 0 19.04
GA Rogers run out (Hayden/wicket-keeperGilchrist) 6 29 19 0 0 31.57
PJC Hoffmann not out 0 1 0 0 0 -
JAR Blain absent hurt -
Extras (lb 9, w 6, nb 1) 16

Total (all out; 40.1 overs) 131

Fall of wickets1-21 (Haq, 5.5 ov), 2-27 (Poonia, 7.4 ov), 3-32 (Watts, 9.3 ov), 4-37 (Watson, 13.3 ov), 5-42 (Hamilton, 15.3 ov), 6-89 (Brown, 27.4 ov), 7-104 (Wright, 32.5 ov), 8-131 (Rogers, 39.6 ov), 9-131 (Smith, 40.1 ov)


Bowling O M R W Econ
NW Bracken 6 1 12 0 2.00
SW Tait 8 0 45 2 5.62 (3w)
GD McGrath 6 1 14 3 2.33 (1nb)
SR Watson 7 1 18 0 2.57 (1w)
GB Hogg 7.1 1 16 1 2.23
BJ Hodge 6 0 17 1 2.83

 

[Red Bear]

tait goes for almost 6 an over
No one else goes for over 3

Good performance tho.

 

[NK Arsenal]

Does anyone know how many runs Australia got in their first over?

nah. why does it matter? :lol:

 

[Spike]

That's what happens when Shaun Tait has a giraffe sticking out of arse during his delivery stride