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SniperHunter
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no actual live broadcast? How lame! I will stick with Cricket-365
It's going to be a really fun final. SL have the psychological advantage (if you can call it that) of beating them the last time they met. Going to be absolutely glorious though. Hopefully the Windies confidence carries into the final as well.
SL fans are going to be in for a treat. Win or lose, it's going to be an incredible match.
SL fans are going to be in for a treat. Win or lose, it's going to be an incredible match.
Nope, unless you access ESPN3:
The TV Listing for October 7th: http://espn.go.com/espntv/onair/index?start=10-07-12-9:00-AM
I think SL has an overall advantage over WI:
They have better bowlers and batsman compared WI who just have Narina and Gayle respectively... The rest are average...
crazy monkey
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Gayle you are just awesome.
WI is my favorite now.
WI is my favorite now.
SniperHunter
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what does that mean? West Indies won the toss, they probably inspected the pitch before deciding to bat first....
The 'one short' call didn't look one short at all as well.
Taufel's worst game is his last, such a shame for the best umpire in the world. WTF was that bullshit one-short call in the end.
There is a difference between playing to home advantage and playing one sided. The pitch looks horrendous by international standards, a test might have concluded in under two days. Its irrelevant when the Windies batted.
Exactly.
The bat has to CROSS the line. It didn't. He didn't crease.
:lol Sure.
I thought it crossed the line from the one replay I saw. Slightly, but it did.
SniperHunter
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oh right
India pulled same thing during WC. dead pitches that fav there Strenght of batting. Part of home cooking. Can't enjoy it when it helps than complain when it doesn't.
SniperHunter
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I don't understand this, why is that only India can bat well on "dead pitches?" the other side should also be able bat easily and score runs.
It did, just replayed it on my DVR. For a final and where every fucking run matters Taufel could have referred it.
:lol
SniperHunter
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what's so funny? I don't know anything about pitches, I am just a casual cricket fan.
I'm agreeing with you, that post you were responding to makes ZERO sense, as usual.
SniperHunter
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Right, I am glad we agree.
India's strength is it's batting. On a dead pitch they can outbat any team with not having to worry about threatening bowling. You could argue that in that case India should deserve to win on the strength of their batting but cricket is a game of bat and ball but they can prepare pitches where it's all about batting and even the best bowling can be powerless.
SniperHunter
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I don't know about this, all teams have batting and bowling strengths. If India can bat well on dead pitch, then any other team should be able to bat just as well and beat India. If this was true, all matches being played in India should be high scoring games with at least 500 runs being scored in any given match with minimal wickets taken.
You can't make statements like this without statistics and figures.
SniperHunter
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I hope West Indies wins, they have worked hard over the last year or so.
Same here.
SniperHunter
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only 3 wickets, West Indies need two more in quick succession.
All they need is Jaya.
SniperHunter
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I see, seems like it's starting to drizzle a bit. Sri Lanka need to get to 70 in 30 mins.
dropped...damn
SL need to get the par score as per Duckworth Lewis method. Hopefully gets full match and not a reduced affair.
India have an incredible batting line-up. I don't think there's any other team out there that can come close in terms of talent and class. Don't get me wrong - I'm not criticizing India. They play to their strengths and the pitches in that part of the world are naturally going to be a little 'deader' anyway. I just feel generally that the ICC should get more involved in controlling the competitiveness of pitches for the sake of test cricket and restoring the balance of bat and ball.
Anyway, I'm sure this will be discussed in greater detail come England's tour
Ugh, I hope this game doesn't come down to Duckworth/Lewis.
SniperHunter
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out hahahahah
SniperHunter
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Like I said before, you can't statements like this without statistics and figures. You are making generalized sweeping statement. India batting line-up depends on match to match and who cares about batting strength? The way you are putting it, bowling on Indian pitches is a futile attempt and they are only good for scoring runs. Bring the stats then we will talk.
SniperHunter
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Sri Lanka is falling apart, hahaha