Thursday, March 24, 2011

Day 31: QF1 - Pak Waste Indies :-{}

Today's Title courtesy: Muthiah. Thanks, mate!

Pakistan really frightened the West Indies today and before you could spell Mirpur, six wickets were down. The uncharitable wag in the family mentioned that Saeed Ajmal was chucking doosras as if they were going out of style; but to me the only chucking that was visible was what the West Indies did with their wickets.

Side note: Tony Greig was gushing that it is good for the game - I have to be charitable to him - he must have meant the doosras!

Afridi is having a field tournament and somehow one gets a feeling that the inconsistency that one associates with Pakistan is slowly fading like the distant thunder! (no, I am not waxing lyrical...yuck!)

West Indies proved that they are just that one step ahead of Bangladesh by getting thulped by all the top-ranked nations - even though they had good chance to topple India and more than an excellent chance to make Paul Collingwood's daughters happy! Next time, perhaps!

Q Part:

Raghav and Guru got Ashwin (top part) and Taibu (bottom part) of the picture correctly.
AdarshB got Taibu right to score half-a-point.
The picture is courtesy Times of India.

And here is today's question...

What is the connection between the two?



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B Part:

QF B portion started off sedately.

Here is the consolidated status & the daily details:




Please note the timings for the next game on Thursday - Quarterfinal #2:

India v Australia 16:25 hours SGT Thursday
(Remember: QF guesses cost 3 bucks)

Now that the real games are beginning, I hope that more people get into the B Part!!


Answers and guesses to the usual place. 

(The usual place is my email address, which you can find along with the ranges etc., at http://sribees.blogspot.com/2011/02/world-cup-here-we-come.html)

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