The Cricket Thread

As soon as India passed 200, it didn't look like Pakistan could do it. When Afridi got out, it was clear that India was going to win.

Pakistan are one of the worst bottlers when chasing.

Scuba Steve wrote:India/Pakistan ICC World Cup Semifinal

What the fuck am I looking at -- what should I know?

you figure it out?

Waking up at 3 AM for India - Pakistan was completely worth it! Our bowlers really won it for us, it was a very good, strategic game. Unlucky for Pakistan that they couldn't get Tendulkar out. Riaz bowled very well for Pakistan, too. On to the finals!!!

Stupid appeal against Tendulkar. If they hadn't appealed it, Pakistan could have won.

Probably could have, yes. To be honest, Pakistan shot themselves in the foot, I really thought the game was theirs to lose after India's innings. Especially when players like Yuvraj went out on 0, Kohli went for 9 and Dhoni went for just 25. You could say we were lucky, but our bowlers bowled very tactically and very well.

The odds are always against Pakistan when they're chasing those kinds of totals. We were lucky Wahab Riaz had the best bowling game of his career today; Umar Gul sucked. It could easily have been 300 if the first few overs were anything to go by for India.

Yeah, Sehwag was thrashing Gul. Something like 8 overs for 69 runs? Ouch. If Riaz didn't play a blinder, then we'd probably reach 300 something. Better luck next time, my friend.

ADesh1892 wrote:Yeah, Sehwag was thrashing Gul. Something like 8 overs for 69 runs? Ouch. If Riaz didn't play a blinder, then we'd probably reach 300 something. Better luck next time, my friend.

edit: dont know what I'm saying

Now I need to decide who to support in the final. Most of my extended family is Indian, so I don't know if I want to side with them or mess with them.

Well, if you support India, losing to us would look better, and you would come in 3rd place, right? I completely understand if you want to mess with the family, though, it's probably something I'd do

Actually, I win either way. If India win, I can celebrate because I'm part Indian. But if Sri Lanka win, I can mess with them more.

True. Hmm if I were you, I'd support India because it was a great game. Being on the losing side must have been so tough, but it was a great effort from both teams.

And also because India are awesome

It was annoying when Misbah decided to start hitting boundaries right at the end. Gave me a false sense of hope for the last three overs.

I almost spat over my mates phone (we were at school, so we were checking on his phone) when he hit the six.

That's exactly what I said, too! Where was that the last 10+ overs?!?! It would have surely been a much tighter game. But hey, I can't complain

Exactly.

I had class at 9, when Pakistan was batting, and during that class, both Razzaq and (I think) Akmal got out and I was trying so hard not to make a sound, I was just having this silent fit of happiness. It sucks living in the US, nobody cares about cricket and not many people care about football, either

I haven't gotten around to watching a match. Hopefully I'll catch the final.

ADesh1892 wrote:I had class at 9, when Pakistan was batting, and during that class, both Razzaq and (I think) Akmal got out and I was trying so hard not to make a sound, I was just having this silent fit of happiness. It sucks living in the US, nobody cares about cricket and not many people care about football, either

I was sitting in my driver's ed class texting my friend who has a 3G phone. We only do bookwork in DE, so we texted back and forth quite a lot. It's not normally something I'd do TBF.

After that class, we had advisory together, so we sat there checking Cricinfo.

I want Sri Lanka to win just so that I can laugh at half the people on my Facebook >_>

I can put up with losing. What I can't put up with is people celebrating when they haven't a bloody clue.

SBSP wrote:

ADesh1892 wrote:I had class at 9, when Pakistan was batting, and during that class, both Razzaq and (I think) Akmal got out and I was trying so hard not to make a sound, I was just having this silent fit of happiness. It sucks living in the US, nobody cares about cricket and not many people care about football, either

I was sitting in my driver's ed class texting my friend who has a 3G phone. We only do bookwork in DE, so we texted back and forth quite a lot. It's not normally something I'd do TBF.

After that class, we had advisory together, so we sat there checking Cricinfo.

it's okay, I remember driver's ed being really boring. I know driving is serious and all but I feel like they make it sound so hard. It's easy as hell to drive.

SBSP wrote:

I can put up with losing. What I can't put up with is people celebrating when they haven't a bloody clue.

I absolutely hate those kinds of "fans".

We're going to lose in the final anyway. Luckily there aren't too many Indian fans to wind me up when that does happen.

Final Tomorrow

Sri Lanka vs India. Bit nervous since we're the underdogs.

The underdogs are the ones who shouldn't be nervous. The favorites are the ones with all the pressure on them.

menalawyerguy wrote:The underdogs are the ones who shouldn't be nervous. The favorites are the ones with all the pressure on them.

I suppose your right, just not used to supporting a team who are underdogs

Zaheer Fucking Khan

damn Kumar got out...he's the fucking man

menalawyerguy wrote:Zaheer Fucking Khan

you don't strike me as a guy who would watch Cricket. Are you Caucasian?

El_indian wrote:

menalawyerguy wrote:Zaheer Fucking Khan

you don't strike me as a guy who would watch Cricket. Are you Caucasian?

Whiter than sun screen

wow