There were days when the rival captains would respect each other and have gone to the extent of re-calling the batsmen after a wrong decision. I can recall the G.R.Vishwanath episode of recalling the England batsmen in the centenary test match and the batsmen scored a hundred, how can one forget Walsh gesture in stopping at the bowling crease with an opportunity to run out the batsmen but decided against in the spirit of the game. Its shame on England and Collingwood to have gone with the appeal against the batsmen when the players got collided. England is suppose to be the custodian of the game and the place where the game is said to have taken its roots has to resort to such unsportive methods to win matches.
NewZeland won the 4th ODI and setup a decisive 5th ODI in Lords for England to level the series. Vettori must be a very happy man to see his team win games in this disappointing tour, its one game away for them to win the series. NewZeland once again was successful in restricting the England to 240+ and won the match in the last ball on a overthrow. NZ had to score just 3 runs in the last over but dragged to score 2 of the last ball, an overthrow ensured that NZ won the match and lead the series 2-1.
AsiaCup Day-2 was again as expected with India and Srilanka winning by a huge margin. Not sure why Dhoni had to come in early in this game, i feel they have lost a good opportunity to provide a chance to Yousuf Pathan to bat freely in the early overs and get ready for the tough games. Dhoni at 4 or 5 is not going to help the team batting order he should be batting at 6 which will add lot of options in the end overs. R.Sharma needs get some runs today and make sure he is in the playing XI, i hope the message would have already gone to him that his place is not guaranteed.
Euro-2008 :- Mighty Germans makes it to the finals with score of 3-2 win over the fighting Turkey. It was the extra injury time goal which sealed the match for the Germans.
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The result of the match provided justice to the kiwis. They really deserved this victory. Previously in the same series they were denied a victory only because of the rain which prevented the last over being bowled. And this happened because of the slow over rate by England. Hope they wrap up the series in style.
Yes vasu... The english played the game against the spirit of it. Its good that atleast Collingwood accepted his mistake and apologized rather than justifying himself. This reminds me of one incident between India and SouthAfrica, where Ganguly while about to run a quick single collided against Fanie De Villears (the bowler), fell down, got up.. then while reaching the crease, collided against McMillian and fell down. By this time, the stumps were broken and the umpire raised his finger. Still, Hansie Cronje, recalled Ganguly to play, even when the match was well poised and Ganguly was playing really well. Its fitting that southafrica won the match, for the manner in which they played.
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