Day 15: Time to look back

What promised to be a nice little contest, fizzled out under the downpour.

No issues.

Time to look back the fortnight that was in CWC 2011:

• Australia got pissed off, that their first two overs against Zimbabwe was equated to spot-fixing. What next? Will playing out a maiden be investigated?
• Ponting continues to be on a short-fuse; first the TV-breaking saga, then in today's game, he was gesticulating harshly at Dilshan when he withdrew at the last minute while facing to Tait.
• Leg-spinners are making all the headlines; Tahir, Afridi, Balaji Rao, Warne... the last one for his 'tie' prophecy ;-)
• Munaf preferred Kevin O'Brien's murder to Saat Khoon Maaf - now that is really something - pulling a heartlander out of a Bollywood flick!
• Afridi has not bitten any of the balls - yet. But he is definitely on the way to become the highest wicket taker in this WC.
• Bangladesh won the world cup, after beating Ireland; by the same token, India won the world cup after beating the Banglas :-)
• And, no, I am not going to refer to that tie!
• Funny, that even after a fortnight, we are not yet into the knock-out stage - or for that matter, don't know who would end up in the KO stage, even though there are only 14 nations in the fray!!

Q Part:

It was finally a question of whether you knew your factorials are not.

(71 + 1) (71-1) = 7! 

Raghav, Guru and SriniG got the right answer. Yuva came back with an innovative answer albeit with some re-arrangements which were not allowed. (71 + (1 - 1) . 71 = 71) 

At this stage, after 13 questions, the quiz points position is:

         

Now for the next one.

Now for some grunt work on Sunday. What is the message?

Courtesy: Maanasa 

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B Part:

Pity, eight people came forward and put their shirt on for the SL v AUS game, only to be thwarted by rain.

No change to the B status as the game was not completed normally - and the tie-breakers will not be applied for an abandoned game. (BQ rules, you see!)

But definitely the spirit is appreciated and it needs to be kept up. So, go ahead and make tomorrow's double header a memorable one.

Please note the timings for the Sunday games:

England v South Africa 11:25 hours SGT Sunday

India v Ireland 16:25 hours SGT Sunday

Answers and guesses to the usual place. (The usual place is my email address, which you can find in the this post!)

Have a great day ahead!!