Way of the Rodent

Here's another phenomenal statistic about Tendulkar; had he played for England, he would be fourth on the all-time wickets taken list - behind only Flintoff, Anderson and Gough.

Astonishing to think this is a player who debuted at the same time as Waqar Younis and played against Hughes and Border and the like, and he looks like he could still go on for another year or two now.

Got a vid stream running in the lab. This is shaping up to be a great match.

They do enjoy a crumble.

Bloody hell though, the weather forecast for Colombo tomorrow is thunderstorms.

Looking another close one!

/What happened there? Last time I check SA looked like they were fairly cruising, couple of timely wickets from NZ.

Anyone else got the text commentary on the BBC website - loving the 'worm' graph - shows you pretty much exactly who's in the lead at a glance.

Amazing... NZ managed to pull that off. And yeah, bit worrying about the weather tomorrow.

That's what Swann thought as well

No chance, I reckon. I didn't see us bat, but no sixes tells a familiar England story.

Oh dear :(

Indiw vs Sri Lanka for the final I reckon. :-)

Yup.

Was saying to my sis the other day that in the last few years the likes of the MCC have been whinging that Twenty20 would kill off the ODI/limited overs game, but this World Cup has proved that these games can be just as exciting as T20s.


My corner shop owners are Tamils from Sri Lanka, so I've had fun today, popping down to get stuff and saying, even before today's semi, that I think the final will be India vs Sri Lanka.

They had a TV in the shop watching the game and have just told me that one of their family will be at the final, having bought his flight tickets weeks ago. I said he's gonna be well chuffed that they actually made it to the final. :-D

Having a rest from forums the last time I spoke to him.

He's probably heard about it, so I'll leave him alone. :-]

The cab drivers at my local subway stop were horsing around with a bat and a tennis ball when I came home today. They were arguing a no-ball when I went past.

It's the way they hand off the aggression that makes me love Indian batting. Sehwag goes after 6 overs with him on 38 and Tendulkar on 8 - two overs later, Tendulkar is on 27. I would love to see him make his 100th 100 today, 300-ish total and then see a tight finish.

260 for the 50 overs... will that be enough? I reckon this might be fairly tight...

I think the captaincy is the least of the problems, at least at Test level.

Yep, this might be coming down to an exciting finish.

Hah! She's sitting in the drinks buggy now. :-)

It's all over in a couple of balls. :-D

Fucksticks.

He'd already hit his half century before the first wicket, Haddin, who made just eight runs.

Hmm:

While Ireland are made to do without, Zimbabwe are guaranteed a 2015 World Cup spot despite not having played Test cricket since September 2006 and sitting one place below Ireland in ICC's own one-day rankings at 11th.

A Sri Lankan batsman has just taken a blow in the gentleman's area, to the usual sniggers:

Agnew: "Physio's coming out."
Boycott: "That's no good, you don't want 'im rubbing 'em do you?"

What the fuck are England playing at here?

:-)

Oh my, this has come apart/together depending on your perspective.
Fantastic stuff.