The Unofficially Official India v Zimbabwe Thread

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As Hookesy would want, let's get back to the cricket

According to cricinfo:

weather is overcast, rain has been falling lightly but covers are now off and pitch is being marked.

There will be a minute's silence 10 minutes before play in memory of David Hookes who was tragically and unnecessarilly killed in Melbourne two days ago. Both teams and the umpires will wear black arm bands and flags are at half mast.

Teams TBA

 

[Russian]

India won the toss

 

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and are batting. Parthiv Patel comes in for Sachin Tendulkar, will keep and open the batting with Ganguly. Travis Friend comes in for Zimbabwe.

 

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Just to get my post count up...

India team:
*SC Ganguly, +PA Patel, VVS Laxman, R Dravid, RS Gavaskar,
A Nehra, HK Badani, Yuvraj Singh, IK Pathan, A Kumble, L Balaji.

Zimbabwe team:
MA Vermeulen, GW Flower, TJ Friend, SV Carlisle, DD Ebrahim,
*HH Streak, +T Taibu, SM Ervine, AM Blignaut, RW Price,
DT Hondo.

Disclaimer: These are the teams posted by cricinfo so you can be pretty confident at least one player is wrong

 

[CatManDo]

India:
SC Ganguly, +PA Patel, VVS Laxman, R Dravid, RS Gavaskar,
A Nehra, HK Badani, Yuvraj Singh, IK Pathan, A Kumble, L Balaji.

Zimbabwe:
MA Vermeulen, GW Flower, TJ Friend, SV Carlisle, DD Ebrahim,
HH Streak, +T Taibu, SM Ervine, AM Blignaut, RW Price,
DT Hondo.

 

[CatManDo]

Must have beaten me to it by a mili-second

 

[Fall Out Boy]

How many players did Zimbabwe bring out?

Interested to see their batting order, given Dean Jones and Hookesy (R.I.P) were in Geoff Marsh's ear about switching the batting lineup around to give Streak, Ervine and Blignaut more chances.

 

[Fall Out Boy]

0-8 so far

 

[ScouseCat]

Originally posted by phatandphreaky
Interested to see their batting order, given Dean Jones and Hookesy (R.I.P) were in Geoff Marsh's ear about switching the batting lineup around to give Streak, Ervine and Blignaut more chances.

Surely they'll open with Blignaut and give him a role similar to what Davison did for Canada in the last World Cup.

 

[Go_Doggies]

Its good to see the Zimbos batting lineup changing finally...

 

[ScouseCat]

India: 0 for 40 after 7 overs

Ganguly 19 not out
Patel 19 not out

 

[Go_Doggies]

That post above was my 100th
So with my 101st I'm going to predict a Zimbo victory... i know they havent taken a wicket left but i've just got a feeling about this one...

 

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Patel knocked over trying to smash Streak out of the ground, 1/41

 

[Fall Out Boy]

1/63 after 14.1

Not bad from Zimbabwe so far.

 

[Fall Out Boy]

What a catch from Douglas Hondo!!!! A screamer.

Bye bye Smarmy Sourav.

 

[CatManDo]

3/74 now, Zimbabwe doing well

 

[Macca19]

Absolute ripper catch by Hondo. One of the best catches ive seen.

Now Laxman is out as well. Zimbabwe might be in with a chance of keeping India down to a gettable total (200-230)

 

[Mog]

Originally posted by ScouseCat
Surely they'll open with Blignaut and give him a role similar to what Davison did for Canada in the last World Cup.

Travis Friend will probably get a gig up the order. If he's not 12th man...

 

[Seb]

3/163

36 overs.

Not a bad effort.

 

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6/255 from 50, Dravid 84, Yuvraj 69, Ervine 3, Streak 2, Price 1

 

[Fall Out Boy]

The Zimbabweans have a legitimate chance tonight, provided they put one or two of their big hitters at the top of the orders, and they come off.

 

[CatManDo]

A veritable blitzkrieg from Zimbabwe to start their innings: 0/0 after 2 overs.

 

[Fall Out Boy]

I hear the Indians are having a few arguments in the field.

 

[Fall Out Boy]

Fair shiner Vermulen has.

Nasty ball

 

[pazza]

Ganguly runs out Friend to make it 1/65...if Vermuelen can get back out there, it is still game on