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Jon Taylor
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| furiousmilksheikali wrote: |
Wow! That's excellent!
Cheers Jon! |
Every game will be shown with that same link |
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furiousmilksheikali
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| Posted: Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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| My God! Just as I start watching... we start falling apart. Pietersen's out now! |
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canuck
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Cricket...interesting sport.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070318/wl_sthasia_afp/cricketwc2007indbanprotests
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Wicketkeeper Dhoni's home attacked after Indian loss
RANCHI, India (AFP) - Furious Indian cricket fans stormed the home of national wicketkeeper Mahendra Singh Dhoni to protest a five-wicket rout by Bangladesh in their opening World Cup match, police said.
Some 200 fans Sunday brought down walls and pillars of Dhoni's house, which is under construction, in the eastern city of Ranchi to protest the 26-year-old player's performance in India's shocking defeat in Port of Spain, Trinidad.
India were all out for 191, with Dhoni returning to the pavilion without scoring in India's match Saturday, a shock to the cricket-mad country of 1.1 billion people.
"Dhoni die, die," protesters chanted, burning effigies of the long-maned player, who has scored 1,958 runs in 68 one-day international matches and is counted among India's most aggressive batsmen, an AFP reporter at the site reported.
Dhoni's hometown, Ranchi, is the capital of Jharkhand state, which last year gave Dhoni a 360 square metre (4,000 square feet) plot of land to build a house on.
The protesters screamed anti-Dhoni slogans and demanded the withdrawal of the prime residential plot worth five million rupees (110,000 dollars).
"It seems Dhoni is banking more on modelling than wicketkeeping and batting," said Sohan Mahto, one of the protesters.
State authorities, meanwhile, deployed paramilitary units at the nearby home of the under-fire player's family to prevent possible attacks, a police spokesman said.
Similar protests were reported from the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, where irate fans were out on the streets after India's humiliating defeat, the Press Trust of India said.
They burned effigies of Indian captain Rahul Dravid and screamed slogans against out-of-form batsman Virender Sehwag, who scored just two runs before being bowled out.
"They have betrayed the faith of the entire nation," the fans chanted.
"Players like Sehwag should not be taken into the team," the news agency quoted one fan as saying.
Protests were also reported in the eastern city of Kolkata.
The dream victory was Bangladesh's biggest in the tournament since making their debut in 1999. They beat Pakistan in England in that tournament, but there were later suspicions of match-fixing.
Dravid's India will now have to comprehensively beat debutants Bermuda and seasoned Sri Lanka to stay in the World Cup trophy chase. |
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Eva Pilot
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 3:00 am Post subject: |
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That's Indian cricket fans for you.
It's a religion there.
I couldn't seem to get that live feed to work, it played fine for about 30 seconds then just kept skipping and freezing all the time. |
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furiousmilksheikali
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 5:26 am Post subject: |
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| People in Pakistan were burning effigies of their national team in the streets. They didn't take the loss to Ireland well. It was also sad to see the coach of the Pakistan team died the day after the loss. |
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Eva Pilot
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2007 8:15 am Post subject: |
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I am sure the stress of the last 6 months would have played a significant part in Bob Woolmer's death, if the rumour of a heart attack is proven to be correct.
Australia are left with a selection dilemma now. Andrew Symonds (arguably the world's foremost ODI player) is almost back to full fitness.
But who would you drop? His fill-in Brad Hodge just scored a 90 ball century, and is looking very good. |
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Jon Taylor
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Eva Pilot
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New World Cup record score as India flayed Bermuda.
West Indies also comfortably went over Zimbabwe, they have now qualified for the Super 8. |
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womblingfree
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| Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2007 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| You can download all the matches at http://www.uknova.com I think. |
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Apsara
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| People in Pakistan were burning effigies of their national team in the streets. They didn't take the loss to Ireland well. It was also sad to see the coach of the Pakistan team died the day after the loss. |
My Pakistani friend is devastated. Absolutely inconsolable. I feel for him but it's funny to see how seriously cricket is taken in the sub-continent. I was in India during the build-up and there was hardly anything else in the newspapers or on the news. Long involved deconstructions and commentary on matches, catches, batters, bowlers, captains... |
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