OK – the hype for this World Cup has been near BBC Grandstand proportions. You know the feeling, you look in the paper to see when the match starts, you read “3:00pm”, giving you just enough time to make some tea. You sit down, with a biscuit in a comfortable “I’m ready to watch the match now” position. Then, they talk and talk, you see footage of past matches, interviews, statistics, pretty pictures and it seems to be tomorrow before the game has even started. By which time, you have imbibed your drink, leaving you tealess and distraught before it has even started.This blog is rather like that.
So following on from soon-to-be-accurate predictions, I will give you a summary of today’s match straight to the point.
West Indies vs. Pakistan, Jamaica, 2:30pm GMT start.
Pakistan will win the toss and bat.
Pakistan will score 238. Inzamam-ul-Haq will score a useful 41, but Mohammad Yousuf and Mohammad Hafeez will top-score with 52 and 62 respectively.
The quicks will chip away, but Chris Gayle will do most of the damage taking 3-38 in his ten overs.
The Windies reply will start disastrously. Rapidly being reduced to 34-4, losing Brian Lara, Ramnaresh Sarwan, and Gayle for not much. However, Shivnarine Chanderpaul will hold the side together with a tremendous 109 not out. He will receive solid late-order support, with most players chipping in. Despite the efforts of Naved-ul-Hasan (2-34) and impressive spinning from Danish Kaneria (2-45) Chanderpaul will hit the winning runs on the third ball of the 48th over, with a nice flick through mid-wicket.
Winning the game by two wickets. Nice.
2 comments:
well. thanks for that!
I was planning on watching the game, but now I guess i'll just skip it, and just hit the pub and get drunk.
i can't believe you got the score right....the rest of the predictions were a bit off, but dammit. the score was almost exact.
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