Day 15 - Boult - The Starc Contrast!

RIP, Mr Spock.

I had three titles for this post before settling on the above.

Boult Screws Ozzies (a Cricinfo writer went to twitter with that; so gave that up)
Fat Lady sings Advance Australia Fair (then KaneW nailed that beaut of a six)
Fat Lady loves Boult & not Starc (no, too fat)

Such was the intensity of the game; so many mini-battles inside the 56-over-game; it was so emotionally draining that one slept through the Indian victory - well, the first half of it that is. At the end of it all, the thriller felt contrived. Uncharitable, ain't I? Something tells me that these two will be at the G in about a month's time :-}

After the dinner break at Auckland, I was rooting for Australia and wifey not-so-politely opined that my mental make-up should be checked.  For a change, I was able to make a cogent reply to the better-half: I support the under-dogs! (and India are underdogs irrespective of whoever they play!)

So, there it goes. I have called Oz as the under-dogs; but to have reduced them to that, albeit temporarily, hats off to NZ - The bravado team of CWC15.

India mauled UAE. Karate and Swapnil did not have their Andy Warhol moments. I suppose the collective IPL-induced Indian might was more than sufficient to overcome the prayers of Kollangode and Vasai residents from where these two gentlemen originate from.

And the green-award goes to NZ (2nd time) and Ind (1st time) for saving electricity.

G-Section:

A healthy turnout. Good harvest for ManiacG in the first game while India proved to be unlucky to all the punters!

Here are the results:

You have time till Monday 2nd March 1800 SGT to send the quarter-final lineups.

Tomorrow's games are slurp slurp... mouth-watering:

England vs Sri Lanka @ Wellington by 0530 SGT

Pakistan vs Zimbabwe @ Brisbane by 1100 SGT

Q-Section:

Somebody commented: "aah, is this the way that you get back at us for doing picture-based google search?"

That 'equation' seems to have stumped every one.

So keeping it open for one more day. It is not mathematical and think countries.

Answers and guesses to the usual place.

(The usual place is my email address/FB PM/Whatsapp; details of rules/ranges etc., are at http://sribees.blogspot.sg/2015/02/gq-15-here-we-come.html)