Group D: Today Pakistan at Bottom End

With a thrilling tie between Zimbabwe and debutant Ireland Pakistan's tally of points till now is ZERO in group D while West Indies is leading the points card with 2 points and Zimbabwe and Ireland are sharing 1 point each.

Ireland gave target of 222 which includes Jeremy Bray's unbeaten 115 while from Zimbabwe's side Matsikenyeri scored 73 of 76 deliveries but they stuck at 221. Bray declared Man of the Match.

Ireland skipper Johnston's quote after the match: "Who knows, we may even qualify for the next stage".

Anyway this tie will not be beneficial for Zimbabwe as they need to try hard in remaining matches if they want to play with Big Guns in Next round of matches.

Trivia: This is the third time that a World Cup match ended in a tie.

In an another match between Sri Lanka and Bermuda. Bermuda started very well by taking two big wickets of Sri Lanka with in 12 overs only but still Sri Lanka gave a huge target of 322 and simply knocked out all the batsman of Ireland for cost of 78 runs only. Sri Lanka won this match by 243 runs. Sri Lankan skipper Jayawardene declared Man of the Match for his 85 runs in 90 balls.

Today don't forget to watch interesting match between England and New Zealand. In another match South Africa will take on Holland.

World Cup and Cyber Crimes

I was just browsing through different websites for some cool stuff related with World Cup 2007 and got stuck on this news. As describe in this news, during big events like World Cup, phishers also get active as this is a good time to create a some phishing attacks to acquire personal and financial information.

Phishing — an attempt to fraudulently acquire sensitive information, such as usernames, passwords and credit card details, by masquerading as a trustworthy entity in an electronic communication.

Just to prevent yourself from phishing attack follow this guidelines:

• Do not open any mails or links from unknown sources.
• Use regularly updated anti-phishing tools, anti-virus, firewalls, spam filters and anti-spywares of reliable companies.
• Do not share your personal or financial information with any unknown sites just to watch final or to meet Dhoni.

Also if you have any more preventive information against phishing attack, please do share with us.

So enjoy this World Cup with some precautions.

Can You See Some Logic ?

Trivia - 1

Year 1981
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes
4. Pope Died
2 years later India won the world Cup!!!

Year 2005
1. Prince Charles got married
2. Liverpool crowned Champions of Europe
3. Australia lost the Ashes
4. Pope Died
2 years later will India win the world Cup ?????


Trivia -2

1982 Football World Cup won by Italy
1983 Cricket World Cup won by India


2006 Football World Cup won by Italy
2007 Cricket World Cup: INDIA ???

Hosts Got a Good Start

After losing badly form India in there last warm up match West Indies got a very good start in first match of World Cup 2007 against Pakistan. West Indies secured precious 2 points by defeating Pakistan by 54 runs in a group D match. West Indies scored 241 for nine and then bowled Pakistan out for 187.

Dwayne Smith was declared man of the match. He scored 32 runs from 15 balls and also claimed three wickets which includes wickets of Mohammad Yousuf and Inzammam-ul-Haq. I am sure Caribbean girls must be impressed by his performance as we can see some dancing happy girls in stadium from our television set. ;-)

Other major contributions from hosts side include Marlon Samuels's 63, Sarwan's 49 and Lara's 37 while from Pakistani side Shoaib Malik scored 62 which includes two sixes but no help.

Today there is Australia Vs Scotland and Canada Vs Kenya and I will watch Canada's efforts to win over Kenya or vice-versa.

India - Pakistan

Its world cup time, and cricket fever has griped the entire nation. So, why should be remain behind. People say, Australia and England, share the greatest rivalry, but I have some doubts. I feel there is no rivalry on the field like India and Pakistan. Well, you want a proof for that, then just have a look at this video. You will have to agree with me!!!

Welcome one and all ..

Hey Friends,

Welcome one and all.

This brand new blog was started by us, just hours before the most awaited moment for 4 loong yrs on the planet C.

Just like you, we are excited about the very event ...with all memories of hundreds of matches to the missed catches , the spirit shown by gifted players to the fortunes ruined by devine showers... and have already begun to eat, sleep and drink cricket. Literally! Yeah literally - am writing straight from my office!!

Fans all over the place are heard making some predictions about the games and their outcomes ... with each adding a unique flavor! The conversations are so catchy, and with each dying to add their own point, we just tend to drown deep into the oceans of cricket. Out here involved into the deep discussions , we remember the endless discussions we had about any damn topic, in our own college, vjti

To carry the discussions further, we felt that we should create a blog specially dedicated to the World Cup 2007 (there are many but .. we would like to add our own flavor! as always! ;-) )

Here we intend to bring you all the action packed in a set of some words.. some eye-catching pics related to the cup, some videos, ..

All the suggestions are always welcome.
So here we go...


Cheers!

Raj and Deepesh