Croatia Beat Germany !!!!!!!

Just wondering why this header ?? I just could not resist writing on the match between Croatia and Germany. Croatia played some stunning football and it was bad display by the star studded Germany. The first half was full of zest and phase with the ball in the D almost all the time, either it is the Germen's or Croatians. It was some superb passing and selfless game from the Croatians made them win the game, the first goal was a great pass in the D to make things easy for Srna to strike it past Lehmann in the 24th minute and it was missed opportunity from the Germans with Klose,Ballack missing some simple chances. Podolski finally scored for Germany to lose with score line 2-1.


Yet another absorbing 1st days play in the careebian with Australia finishing the day with 226-7. It was again Symonds who saved the day for the Aussies with a fine half century and put up a 75+ partnership with Haddin. At one stage Aussies were at 110 for 5 with the top order back in the pavilion with some good bowling and few bad shorts which cost Aussie wickets. Hussey and Jaques were out for some very ordinary shorts, pulling straight to the fielder. Bravo sent back Clark with a beauty, the ball pitched on the off stump and moved a shade to take the edge from the tentative Clark, Taylor's full length in-swinger got Ponting caught plumb in front. Ponting has been troubled by the in-coming deliveries in the recent past, Ishant Sharma also got him out with the sharp in coming ones, hope Ponting will get over that in time and practice. Now its up to the West Indies to take control of the match, they just need to bat well and post a big total to put Australia in pressure to win the match,provided play is not stopped by rain.

Yet another professional display from Team India to beat Bangladesh by 7 wickets with lots of overs left chasing a moderate total of 222. Gambhir and Sehwag should carry the good starts to the all important finals against Pakistan to take Team India to a series victory.