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| View Poll Results: Who will win the 2003 CWC? | |||
| Australia |
  
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5 | 31.25% |
| England |
  
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0 | 0% |
| India |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Pakistan |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Namibia |
  
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0 | 0% |
| Holland |
  
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1 | 6.25% |
| Zimbabwe |
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0 | 0% |
| Bangladesh |
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0 | 0% |
| Canada |
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0 | 0% |
| Kenya |
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0 | 0% |
| New Zealand |
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0 | 0% |
| South Africa |
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7 | 43.75% |
| Sri Lanka |
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0 | 0% |
| West Indies |
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1 | 6.25% |
| What the hell is Cricket? |
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2 | 12.50% |
| Voters: 16. This poll is closed | |||
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25-02.-2003, 10:49 PM
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25-02.-2003, 11:39 PM
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Yep, the back door is still wide open for group B teams, and then some unlucky team will have to go and face the Ausies, who as you rightly say are in awsome form and remains the team to beat.
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26-02.-2003, 04:55 PM
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Just get us through to the Super Sixes ... Then we will see who is on form
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27-02.-2003, 12:43 AM
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Looky here:
Kenya’s stunning Cricket World Cup win over Sri Lanka in Nairobi on Monday is reportedly being investigated by the International Cricket Council's anti-corruption unit (ACU), who have asked to be supplied with video tapes of the game.
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27-02.-2003, 02:21 AM
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Yep, unfortunately, thanks to dear old Hansie, any game considered to be an "UPSET" will now be viewed as "FIXXED"
I suppose we will just have to get used to it!
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27-02.-2003, 07:55 PM
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Right at this moment, SA are doing pretty well to get themselves knocked out of the Super 6's by no-one else than Canada!
 Chokers...here we go again?
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28-02.-2003, 01:06 AM
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Have you seen the lates score?
How did you like it when Ntini of all people knocked the ball OUT of the stadium and they actualy had to get the new...old balls out to replace it!!! 
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04-03.-2003, 08:07 AM
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04-03.-2003, 10:05 AM
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04-03.-2003, 11:11 AM
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CAPE TOWN, Saturday: Disgraced ex-South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje was killed today when flying through a storm in a plane that he maintains “was not fixed.”
“I swear the outcome of that tour wasn’t meddled with,” Cronje has insisted repeatedly from beyond the grave. “When I found out the plane’s performance was unpredictable I was tempted briefly to tamper with it but I wasn’t going to make that mistake again.” Nevertheless authorities’ suspicions were aroused after the plane, which had previously recorded sixty consecutive successful outings, went down. Even more suspect the crash is said to have offered Cronje, who gambled on the flight, a good spread. Indian flight controllers have already released secret tapes of private calls made to Cronje by a mystery man, thought to be the owner of the cargo plane, imploring him to have it fixed. It has been said that sums of money in the order of US$1000, almost enough for the servicing of a plane, were offered to Cronje for the job. Several shady figures from the world of aeronautical mechanics have also come forward, admitting to dealings with Cronje in which they discussed the underperformance of planes. But Cronje’s crash has still come as a great shock to the South African cricket fraternity. South African Chief Executive Ali Bacher told reporters, “For someone who made a career out of giving weather reports, he really got this one wrong.” Nevertheless, Bacher remained hopeful he would yet be re-united with Cronje. “Being such a devout Christian, there’s every chance he may be born again again,” he said. The news fell heaviest upon Justice Edwin King, the man who oversaw the enquiry that ended Cronje’s career. “I feel a certain degree of responsibility for Hansie’s death,” he confessed. “I only wish I’d made it clear to Hansie that his life ban extended solely to playing cricket.” |
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04-03.-2003, 11:23 AM
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I wonder how much money changed hands for that one run!
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04-03.-2003, 05:36 PM
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Well thanks to a vital miscalculation from our captain and Kie we lost out on the super sixes, he admitted to miscalculating the required score and sending the wrong message out to Bouch in the middle.
This is the second time in the tournament that he was totaly unprepared for the rain, and I feel he's totaly out of his depth as captain and doesn't deserve the captancy! He buggered it up against New Zealand by not bowling Ntini out before the rain started, it was clear to all of us at the grounds that it was going to rain and he just caried on and we ended up with bowlers who couldn't get anything right in the end having to bowl the last overs - no Ntini! Last night he couldn't work out the correct target with all the help available in the dressing room! In the meantime Jayasuriya had a piece of paper in his pocket with all the correct info on. Why could he get it right and we could not??? If Bouch knew we needed 1 more run the last ball would have been dispatched the same way as the previous ball, but he thought they had the game wrapped up- His captain told him so, why should he doubt it???  See the report below. We blundered over victory target - Pollock Reuters - 3 March 2003 South African captain Shaun Pollock conceded that a miscalculation in the dressing room cost his team the chance of victory over Sri Lanka after Monday's rain-affected tie sent the hosts tumbling out of the World Cup. With rain falling and the game set to be cut short, Pollock said 12th man Nicky Boje had got a message to Mark Boucher in the middle that, in the case of a revised target, 229 runs would be needed for South Africa to win. In reality, 230 were required. Boucher hit what proved to be the penultimate ball of the match from spinner Muttiah Muralitharan for six to take the score to 229, then defended the final delivery of the over. "Boje wasn't able to get out there and give them the piece of paper to keep, but the message that was portrayed was 229," a clearly emotional Pollock said afterwards. "But you can't look at that and worry about that. He (Boucher) didn't know the game was going to finish after that ball. "There was a lot that went on after that ball before we came off. If we'd faced one more ball of the next over and got one off that, we could have been through. There are lots of ifs and buts." However, Sri Lankan captain Sanath Jayasuriya said he was fully aware that 229 was enough for the tie. "We knew that it (229) was for the tie - I had the sheet in my hand," he said with a grin. "I had the sheet when it started to rain." Pollock, who could be seen with his head in his hands as the rain continued to fall, said his squad felt the downpours had abated enough for the teams to return to the field and complete the match. "We just felt that it had got to the stage where it was raining the same. There's no rule that says you can't go out if it's spitting. But they (umpires Steve Bucknor and Srinivas Venkatraghavan) decided it was unfit for play and you have to by the umps' decisions. "You can look at all the ifs and buts but in the end it doesn't help much." Sri Lanka had posted a total of 268 for nine after winning the toss. Under the Duckworth-Lewis scoring system, victory targets can be revised up or down, depending how much time is left and how well the chasing team has been batting, if matches are curtailed by rain. Monday's extraordinary finale was an eerie repeat of the 1999 World Cup in England, when South Africa were eliminated in the semi-finals after a tie with Australia. The Australians went through because of their better record in previous games. Pollock, who was in that 1999 side which lost to the Australians at Edgbaston, added of Monday outcome: "It's got to rank up there as possibly the most disappointing thing. "Two ties in the last two World Cups and out of both of them. The guys are gutted. I felt we deserved better on the day." © Reuters
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04-03.-2003, 05:42 PM
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I don't think it was Polly that did the calculations. But whoever the bozo is that did the sums, should be put out in the middle of Kingsmead pitch and stoned!
Actually I'm kinda glad it's over. Now I can concentrate on the F1 channel on DSTV.
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04-03.-2003, 10:33 PM
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The captain, coach, team manager & selectors should be on the red carpet. (the physio as well - just for in case...) AND LETS NOT FORGET HANSIE AND THE BOOKIES! 
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