WORLD CUP TOUR DIARIES :
“Yet another INDIAN opener has come and terrorized my bowlers. What is it with these guys?”, said a frustrated Ricky Ponting referring to Canadian opener, Hiral Patel, who took the much-vaunted Aussie Pace Attack to the cleaners during the initial overs of the game.
When asked about his failure with the bat yet again, Ponting said, “You could say I am due, would have been nice to be not out, but maybe I am saving it up for the big games. Just like Dhoni is saving Ashwin.”
Ricky! Don’t save too much of yourself up for too late. It could save you the blushes.
Shane Watson was in high spirits even though he missed out on a world cup hundred by one scoring shot. “Well! Since I got out in the 90’s, I will now be labeled a self-less cricketer and a team man.”
Wow! Getting out in the 90’s seems to be the IN-thing in Cricket these days.
With all the talk about win percentages when a batsman scores a century, we just discovered someone with a success rate of only 43%. And it’s ICC Elite umpire Ashoka de Silva. His decisions have been reviewed 7 times using UDRS in this World Cup and apparently it had been over-turned 4 times. So ICC has him pulled out of the England-West Indies game and asked him to officiate for the Zimbabwe-Kenya clash, where people are less likely to notice his glaring mistakes.
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