“My pardner Gregors pointed out the West Indies strategy for dealing with Monty Panesar: Make sure the whole side is out before the ball is old enough to take spin. These aren’t Tests; they are Trials & Tribulations. West Indies suffered their worst defeat ever – until the third Test starts next Thursday, that is. West Indies players clearly have no sense of history, even as they make it.”
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“At the very end, a man who throughout his career had done so much to mask the deficiencies of his team had been undone by the foible of a team-mate. It was sad, but it was apt.”
The Observer’s Will Buckley on Brian Lara’s final innings in Barbados
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“Sri Lanka’s Lasith Malinga became the first bowler to take four wickets in four balls in international cricket but it was all in vain as South Africa won.
Jacques Kallis’s 86 saw South Africa to a last-gasp one-wicket win in the Super 8 match at the Cricket World Cup.”
Lara lookin good
match report here
Ireland beat Pakistan! unthinkable. This cricket world cup is really going good, what with the West Indies winning their opener, England going down, Gibbs hitting six sixes of one over and now the minnows taking down the big guns. Who needs 20/20?
“There is the run and the scores are now level. Trent Johnston has hit a SIX! He has actually hit the ball out of the ground. Remember this: it is cricket history. Ireland have won.”
match report here
West Indies win!
“The West Indies shrugged off any early-tournament nerves with a convincing 54-run win over Pakistan in the opening match of the World Cup at Kingston in Jamaica, with a notable allround performance from Dwayne Smith.
It was an impressive win, not least for their ability to absorb the expectation of hosting their first World Cup. Furthermore, the total they were defending was by no means out of Pakistan’s reach. Yet their bowlers – who admittedly are all much of a muchness – hunted in a pack and, unlike Pakistan’s, never let the batsmen dismantle their confidence, or their lines.”
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