ICC World Cup 2011: Quarter-finals
The dust has settled on the final games of the opening stage of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 - Zimbabwe defeated Kenya by 161 runs and the West Indies collapsed against India when in a commanding position.
The group tables are now complete and the line-up for the knock-out quarter-final stage is as follows.
23 March Pakistan v West Indies, first quarter-final, Mirpur (d/n)
Play starts 0830 GMT24 March India v Australia, second quarter-final, Ahmedabad (d/n)
Play starts 0900 GMT25 March South Africa v New Zealand, third quarter-final, Mirpur (d/n)
Play starts 0830 GMT26 March Sri Lanka v England, fourth quarter-final, Colombo (d/n)
Play starts 0900 GMT
Ireland’s performance during the ICC World Cup has not gone unrewarded. Ireland have gained a place in the Reliance ICC ODI Championship table and are now ranked 10th.
Ireland fast bowler, Trent Johnston, has also moved up 8 places to claim 12th position in the Reliance ICC Player Rankings for ODI bowlers.
Topic: Sport
Region: Global, Ireland, Northern Ireland
Seymour,
Did you see the cricket yesterday ? A friend if mine is an Indian taxi triver . He said any Asian working in Dublin yesterday rang in sick .
The match itself was a bit of an anti climax towards the end . I can’t see Sri Lanka folding like that even with India having home advantage . Sound be a great match though.
I gave up taking cricket seriously as a transparent sport when at the subsequent enquiry Hansie Cronje’s colleagues revealed that he had also asked them to participate in his illegal match fixing , they had refused but also declined to report him to the authorities.
For Tendulkar to be dropped four times, none of them a dolly but all very catchable, was beyond belief as were some of the get outs and not a note of controversy sounded by the commentators.
A game now seriously bereft of credibility.
That never dawned on me . So soon after Butt and co were caught and banned . Do you really think the match was thrown ? Atherton did sound dismayed at one of the dropped Tendulkar catches . Alfridi just about dodged a bullet in the last inquiry but WC semi final – India / Pakinstan , surely the players wouldn’t throw a game so big….
Lokk at Tyson though …. rumours he took a dive against Buster Douglas – America refused the fight and it took place in Japan – Douglas was 16/1 and Tyson was broke ..
I wouldn’t be surprised if aspects of the game were fixed; a billion TV watchers and listeners generates a lot of betting activity not only on outcomes but in real time betting.
As to boxing, Northern Ireland’s clean, I’m not sure about anywhere else.
Boxing in the States is corrupt in so far as you can keep the top fighters away from eachother for yrs because of the various different organisations ( WBC, WBA, IBF etc ) and the obvious bent promotors .
MMA ( mixed martial arts ) specifically The UFC ( Ultimate Fighting Championship ) has become more popular than boxing in the last 2/3 yrs because all the top fighters fight eachother all the time . They recently broke the PPV record at one of their UFC events .
Apart from the proposed Manny Pacquiao / Mayweather Junior super fight , there are no real superstars left in Boxing , there are superfights every couple of months in the UFC because managers dont keep their top guys away from your man’s top guys . The fans know this and buy tickets accordingly . It has become huge in the states . There was a UFC event in the Odyssey a while back .
Back to the Cricket – Sri Lanka to defy the odds and a partisan Indian crowd to win the World Cup .