ODI World Cup Lead up

[brod]

Ireland v Kenya
World Cup Warm Up
Dubai

KENYA WON BY 3 WICKETS (with 26 balls remaining)

Ireland 176
EC Joyce 56 (89 balls)
NM Odhambo 4/28 (10 overs)
Kenya 7/178
MA Ouma 56 (93 balls)

[brod]

Netherlands v Zimbabwe
World Cup Warm Up
Dubai

ZIMBABWE WON BY 115 RUNS

Zimbabwe 8/249
BRM Taylor 56 (79 balls)
AG Cremer 42* (42 balls)
Mudassar Buhkhari 3/42 (10 overs)
BP Loots 3/50 (10 overs)
Netherlands 134
CB Mpofu 3/31 (8 overs)
E Chigumbura 3/32 (7 overs)

[whufc]

Ireland v Kenya
World Cup Warm Up
Dubai

KENYA WON BY 3 WICKETS (with 26 balls remaining)

Ireland 176
EC Joyce 56 (89 balls)
NM Odhambo 4/28 (10 overs)
Kenya 7/178
MA Ouma 56 (93 balls)

So his decided his playing for Ireland now, how many times can a player change the country he plays for.

[Pag]

Thought Id start a thread for goings on over the next couple of weeks before the competition starts

Hot Spot will not be part of the Umpire Decision Review System (UDRS) that will be used during the 2011 ICC World Cup, reducing the system to its basic requirements: a ball-tracker (in this case Hawk-Eye), a super slow-mo camera and a 'clear' stump microphone.

So clearly there's no real point in challenging coaught behind decisions anymore, and if they're not using HotSpot, how are they going to determine any inside egdes for LBW shouts? They may as well be scrapped too.

Use all of it or none of it, don't do it half-assed ICC.

[brod]

Ireland v Kenya
World Cup Warm Up
Dubai

KENYA WON BY 3 WICKETS (with 26 balls remaining)

Ireland 176
EC Joyce 56 (89 balls)
NM Odhambo 4/28 (10 overs)
Kenya 7/178
MA Ouma 56 (93 balls)

So his decided his playing for Ireland now, how many times can a player change the country he plays for.

Has only ever played ODI cricket for England, Irelands first game in the World Cup will be his ODI debut for Ireland
(He has played in the ICC Trophy for Ireland - games not considered ODIm simply ListA)

[Jim05]

Some big scores in warm up matches tonight.
Currently, Ireland 4/225 chasing Zimbabwes 8/244
netherlands 8/212 v kenya 5/263
Pakistan 4/225 off 43 v Bangas
Windies 4/181 off 30 v lankans

[brod]

England have been given an unexpected boost to their World Cup preparations with Paul Collingwood able to travel with the squad to Bangladesh after his wife gave birth earlier than expected. He and Graeme Swann, who has remained at home for the birth of his child, were given paternity leave during the warm-up period but Collingwood arrived in Dhaka on Sunday.

He is also improving steadily from the back injury that forced him to fly home a few days early from Australia after suffering a back spasm in Sydney and could be available for the warm-up matches against Canada and Pakistan. The general health of England's squad is improving although Tim Bresnan (calf) and Ajmal Shahzad (hamstring) are still nursing their injuries.

[brod]

Netherlands v Kanya
World Cup Warm Up Match
Colombo

NETHERLANDS WON BY 2 WICKETS (with 5 balls remaining)

Kenya 5/263
SR Waters 126* (150 balls)
RR Patel 64 (59 balls)
Netherlands 8/264
RN ten Doeshate 98* (92 balls)
AN Kervezee 49 (33 balls)
TLW Cooper 22 (43 balls)..so hes not just slow for SA
SO Tikolo 4/39 (9 overs)

[brod]

Ireland v Zimbabwe
World Cup Warm Up Match
Nagpur

IRELAND WON BY 4 WICKETS (with 3 balls remaining)

Zimbabwe 8/244
E Chigumbura 103* (81 balls)
T Taibu 45 (78 balls)
DT Johnston 2/9 (5 overs)
Ireland 6/245 (49.3 overs)
AC Botha 79 (101 balls)
KJ O'Brien 62 (61 balls)
RW Price 2/37 (10 overs)

[Interceptor]

Rizwan Cheema batting at number 7 for Canada against England has 93 from 68 deliveries (10x4, 5x6)

Canada 6/154 chasing 244.

[Dogmatic]

The Canucks are having a crack 8/205 off 41.

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

Rizwan Cheema batting at number 7 for Canada against England has 93 from 68 deliveries (10x4, 5x6)

Canada 6/154 chasing 244.

Canada now 205/8 after 41 overs

[Sam_goUUUdogs]

Canada all out for 227, England win by 16 runs

[Media Park]

Looks close, but neither Anderson nor Swann bowled.

[brod]

England v Canada
World Cup Warm Up
Fatullah

ENGLAND WON BY 16 RUNS

England 243 (49.4 overs)
MJ Prior 78 (80 balls)
IJL Trott 57 (81 balls)
HS Baidwan 3/50 (9.4 overs)
Canada 227 (46.1 overs) (were 6/96)
Rizwan Cheema 93 (71 balls)
Khurram Chohan 44 (74 balls)
SCJ Broad 5/37 (8.1 overs)

[brod]

Bangladesh v Pakistan
World Cup Warm Up
Mirpur

PAKISTAN WON BY 89 RUNS

Pakistan 9/285
Ahmed Shehzad 103 (122 balls)
Misbah-ul-Haq 100 (100 balls)
Shakib Al Hasan 3/49 (10 overs)
Rubel Hossain 3/74 (10 overs)
Bangladesh 196 (41.4 overs)
Imrul Kayes 39 (61 balls)
Adbul Razzaq 3/31 (6 overs)

[brod]

Sri Lanka v West Indies
World Cup Warm Up Match
Colombo

SRI LANKA WON BY 4 WICKETS (with 15 balls remaining)

West Indies 281
CH Gayle 58 (38 balls)
DM Bravo 53 (78 balls)
SL Malinga 3/33 (8 overs)
HMRKB Herath 3/39 (10 overs)
Sri Lanka 6/282 (47.3 overs)
KC Snagakkara 71 (89 balls)
TM Dilshan 62 (50 balls)
TT Samaraweera 55 (56 balls)
SJ Benn 3/40 (10 overs)

[Grahaml]

India v NZ on a road it seems. Dhoni and Raina put on 130 in about 9 overs, India scored 150 of the last 11 or so overs in all. In reply McCullum has gone berserk. 35 off 22 at the moment.

[Jim05]

India 5/360
NZ 243
India win by 117

[Brucetiki]

Bit of a World Cup trivia question here.

Obviously Steve Bucknor has long retired and won't be umpiring the final in this World Cup. When was the last time Steve Bucknor didn't umpire a World Cup final?