Day #23: Finally....

... a game that was worth all the WC hype...

The famed English bull-dog spirit was there. The Anaconda went for a power-nap after six English wickets fell. A dodgy Murali-groin and a foot-off-the-pedal Mahela almost costed the Lankans the game. Man of the match, Ravi Bopara, who idolizes Sachin Tendulkar (not sure whether he still does so after SRT's duck :-) played a beautiful innings. Paul Nixon should actually be termed as ambidextrous; so much so, he thrashed two of Murali's last over for six and four playing reverse sweeps!

Hope the next games follow the same pattern on the excitement quotient. Don't hold your breath... coming up next is Bangladesh v SA on Saturday.

Now for the Can-You-Do-It-Without-Googling Trivia...
(Just to show that there is life outside cricket, however small! No points; Pure quizzing!)

Answer to the previous question: Mickey Mouse.

Guru guessed and confirmed; Anand Re rememberd the quiz from Rec Club and Ganesh TCS posed a reverse question about Operation Overlord. Only the first two are right. Good show folks.

Today's question is from math:

• In a fit of recycling, a tramp found 786 cigarette ends. He knows that for every 11 cigarette ends he can make a new cigarette. How many cigarettes can the tramp make and then actually smoke? [Remember: Quitting is hard and Not-Quitting is harder. This is only a message and not a clue!]
  

Keep the answers rolling into the usual mailing address. Three prizes at the end of the world cup for the best performers.

Until the next one...

P.S. By the way, how many of you fell for Google's April Fool Joke on the Google Paper stuff? Of course, you would not admit it :-)