India vs Hong Kong | Asia Cup | Karachi | 25/06/2008|

[161]

These flat tracks are only gonna suit the FTBs .... PCB pursuing a suicidal policy here !

 

[jusarrived]

din watch gony bowl .....but chawla bowled beautifully .....all 3 stumpings wer off a big leg breaks .....!

good practice game for us , but tomorrows game is the big one ......hope they don take it easy this time !

 

[Mohsin]

These flat tracks are only gonna suit the FTBs .... PCB pursuing a suicidal policy here !

YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Leave some bloody grass on the pitch, get some lovely juice in there! But no, dead as a dodo tracks are always the order of the day unfortunately! Looking at their batting, the only way we can have a REAL chance of blowing them away is with some grass on the pitch, otherwise it'll have to be a case of bat first and do what we did at Dhaka, just like the 90s!

 

[jusarrived]

These flat tracks are only gonna suit the FTBs .... PCB pursuing a suicidal policy here !

pcb knows how good their own batsmen are !

 

[Mohsin]

din watch gony bowl .....but chawla bowled beautifully .....all 3 stumpings wer off a big leg breaks .....!

good practice game for us , but tomorrows game is the big one ......hope they don take it easy!

Corrected

 

[siddharth]

very poor commentary thread .All u guys are mocking each other,thats all .What was India's score .

 

[Mohsin]

very poor commentary thread .All u guys are mocking each other,thats all .What was India's score .

Hey i just posted twice and that right at the end!

India 374/4 (50 ov)
Hong Kong 118 (36.5 ov)

Gambhir 51
Sehwag 78
Dhoni 109
Raina 101

 

[Mohsin]

Edit double post

 

[siddharth]

Thanks Mohsin ,i won't go to Cricinfo for scores update ,PP is the place ,so that i can read other topics too.

 

[McBoom]

Are there any Chinese players in the Hong Kong squad btw?

Yup, the last descendant of Genghis Khan, Roy 'Genghis' Lamsam !

 

[switchblade]

din watch gony bowl .....but chawla bowled beautifully .....all 3 stumpings wer off a big leg breaks .....!

good practice game for us , but tomorrows game is the big one ......hope they don take it easy this time !

Man.. any1 got info on Gony's performance ? in IPL he was consistently at 140K.. how did he do in his first ODI ?

Good to see Chawla back on track !!

 

[maamrut]

Well regarding Gony...yep i watched him bowl.He has good control and bowled a very good length.But any hopes we might have had for a bit more pace than what he showed at IPL,i'm afraid will have to be reconsidered.His fastest was 139 kph...i'm afraid thats all he can get upto.Anyway good backup bowler.

Piyush will be quite handful on this surface.The thing with him is he mainly bowls his googly and only rarely bowls leg-breaks..haven't seen anybody doing that.Has a nice flipper too.But playing against HK,one can't judge..lets see how he goes tomorrow.

I heard that whoever loses tomorrow will have to win all their matches(3) in the second round,to qualify for final.So everything to play for

 

[Mohsin]

Well regarding Gony...yep i watched him bowl.He has good control and bowled a very good length.But any hopes we might have had for a bit more pace than what he showed at IPL,i'm afraid will have to be reconsidered.His fastest was 139 kph...i'm afraid thats all he can get upto.Anyway good backup bowler.

Piyush will be quite handful on this surface.The thing with him is he mainly bowls his googly and only rarely bowls leg-breaks..haven't seen anybody doing that.Has a nice flipper too.But playing against HK,one can't judge..lets see how he goes tomorrow.

I heard that whoever loses tomorrow will have to win all their matches(3) in the second round,to qualify for final.So everything to play for

Are you sure?
I thought the team only plays 2 games in the next round (the teams in the other group)...

 

[McBoom]

Man.. any1 got info on Gony's performance ? in IPL he was consistently at 140K.. how did he do in his first ODI ?

Good to see Chawla back on track !!

I saw something like 3 overs from him, he was mostly around 130-133 kph and a couple of his deliveries were around 138-139 but then some of his deliveries were around 125 mark too. I don't think he is a fast bowler, fast medium would be the right category. RP was consistently faster than him all through.

He did have good seam position and got some outswing going.

 

[maamrut]

Are you sure?
I thought the team only plays 2 games in the next round (the teams in the other group)...

No..suppose A1,A2,B1,B2 are the four teams from 2 groups qualifying we have in the 2nd round:

A1 vs B1

A2 vs B2

A1 vs B2

A2 vs B1

A1 vs A2

B1 vs B2

basically all permutations...and yep one more Ind vs Pak in the 2nd round..Since the other group is slightly easier in terms of competetion SL will dominate and they get to face Ban again in the next round.So they pretty much walk through to the final..you see they are carrying over the points from first round.And whoever wins tomorrow will have also earned the same status as Lanka.So the losing team has to wi all 3 matches in 2nd round.Even if one of the matches is a tie SL will go through(well unless net run rate comes into effect,but i suspect SL are smart enough to have that covered).

 

[jusarrived]

so its not the semis after the first phase ?

 

[Sheikh]

No..suppose A1,A2,B1,B2 are the four teams from 2 groups qualifying we have in the 2nd round:

A1 vs B1

A2 vs B2

A1 vs B2

A2 vs B1

A1 vs A2

B1 vs B2

basically all permutations...and yep one more Ind vs Pak in the 2nd round..Since the other group is slightly easier in terms of competetion SL will dominate and they get to face Ban again in the next round.So they pretty much walk through to the final..you see they are carrying over the points from first round.And whoever wins tomorrow will have also earned the same status as Lanka.So the losing team has to wi all 3 matches in 2nd round.Even if one of the matches is a tie SL will go through(well unless net run rate comes into effect,but i suspect SL are smart enough to have that covered).

Woah, didn't know about the carrying over of the points bit. Suppose it's good as it ensures that all games matter. You're right about Sri Lanka; they have a much easier route to the final.

 

[maamrut]

I saw something like 3 overs from him, he was mostly around 130-133 kph and a couple of his deliveries were around 138-139 but then some of his deliveries were around 125 mark too. I don't think he is a fast bowler, fast medium would be the right category. RP was consistently faster than him all through.

He did have good seam position and got some outswing going.

Yep Imran..he can't be classified as fast bowler.I reckon he will be a good bowler in limited format of the game only.Very tough to get away.But doesn't have the aggression to get wickets when batsman will be careful(Test).

 

[maamrut]

so its not the semis after the first phase ?

No..round-robin.

 

[india_fan]

This tournament is a DRAG ON. Ind play Pak tomorrow, and then we will face each other in 'super 4' )

 

[lollol]

To much IND v PAK these days, its already the most played ODI match

 

[Romali_rotti]

Reminiscent of a certain Indian batsman (actually batsmen come to think of it!), isn't it.

Umm we never hyped up Sharma like someone did with Riaz airways