England won by 7 wickets (18 balls remaining)
Australia 147/6(20 overs)
England 148/3 (17/20 overs)
Australia
1 Shane Watson, 2 David Warner, 3 Brad Haddin (wk), 4 Michael Clarke (capt), 5 David Hussey, 6 Cameron White, 7 Michael Hussey, 8 Steven Smith, 9 Mitchell Johnson, 10 Dirk Nannes, 11 Shaun Tait.
England
1 Michael Lumb, 2 Craig Kieswetter (wk), 3 Kevin Pietersen, 4 Paul Collingwood (capt), 5 Eoin Morgan, 6 Luke Wright, 7 Tim Bresnan, 8 Graeme Swann, 9 Michael Yardy, 10 Stuart Broad, 11 Ryan Sidebottom.
Regardless of whether England emerges triumphant against Australia, the form team of the tournament, they have turned a corner in terms of public perception. In many ways, the tale of their shortcomings in ICC global events is less a matter of their failure to take home any trophies, but their failure to give themselves a chance to compete. On two occasions in the modern era of one-day cricket, they’ve found a formula that came close to ending the drought – namely, at the 1992 World Cup, when their greatest player, the ageing Ian Botham, was arguably their weakest link, and in the 2004 Champions Trophy, when Michael Vaughan’s men were already building towards the following summer’s Ashes.
In almost every other tournament of note they have been little short of a rabble, and that includes their previous forays in the World Twenty20, in South Africa in 2007, when they opened the batting with the bits-and-pieces Darren Maddy, and in 2009, when the Netherlands (including a certain Dirk Nannes) stunned them in the tournament curtain-raiser. At the third time of asking, however, England have hit upon a formula that deserves to succeed precisely because it doesn’t see success as a birthright. Every player from 1 to 11 is up for a scrap, and against an Australian side that doesn’t know when it’s beaten, a scrap is precisely what they can expect.
It has taken the Australians five years to shed the view that Twenty20 is a format for fun. However, Michael Clarke’s team is playing the game in the same serious, clinical and tunnel-visioned manner that has been so successful for them in Tests and ODIs over the past decade. Under Clarke’s captaincy the side’s worst result in 14 matches is the tie against New Zealand in February, which turned into a Super Over defeat.
Since then they have won six matches in a row, including the breath-taking semi-final triumph over Pakistan, in a record that is more suited to Ricky Ponting’s all-conquering outfits in 50-over World Cups. Not only are they well balanced, with frightening bowlers and muscular batsmen, but they now expect to win everything. And the only thing that can motivate them more than capturing a trophy they have never held is to beat England in doing it.
Form guide (Most recent first)
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Australia squad
MJ Clarke*, DT Christian, BJ Haddin†, RJ Harris, NM Hauritz, DJ Hussey, MEK Hussey, MG Johnson, DP Nannes, TD Paine†, SPD Smith, SW Tait, DA Warner, SR Watson, CL White
England squad
PD Collingwood*, JM Anderson, RS Bopara, TT Bresnan, SCJ Broad, C Kieswetter†, MJ Lumb, EJG Morgan, KP Pietersen, A Shahzad, RJ Sidebottom, GP Swann, JC Tredwell, LJ Wright, MH Yardy
MJ Lumb c DJ Hussey b Tait 2 (4b 0x4 0x6) SR: 50.00
And out comes Kevin Pietersen..
SB ek stem eks baie excited hoop net ek kan bo bly op die rugby talk pool… ek is n groot game mens en is baie n game reserves…..gaan gewoonlik na ihfholozi toe hier in noord natal. Sal julle ook daar wees op tshukudu?
Jammer om te hoor van die ontydige dood
superBul
Ek sien jy se jy gaan ‘n sokker thread begin, daai een sal ek maar ‘n mis moet gee want ek gaan dit heel mis…
Daai ouens wat kom vir die wereldbeker wou my vir ‘n game vat toe se ek nee dankie, sal eerder werk !!!
Sauk is bleddie skelm hulle saai die game uit seker 3 overs laat, my wyfie kyk Dstv en ek moet maar krieket loer op SABC 3
DB was jy al in daai geweste? Seker van die mooiste bosveld in ons land…
Ek gaan speel maar sommer vooruit al my picks maak en sien hoe goed ek die game ken. 😆
@GBS – nie eintlik nie….kyk maar na die game maar een ding wat ek die jaar gedoen het wat was dat ek nie groot point diffrence gedoen het nie…..gewoonlik met 5. Dan is jy gecover vir n 0.5 punt as die span wen met enige iets van 1 na 10 punte…jy kry n 0.5 as jy binne 5 punte is as ek dink die span gaan bietjie beter wees dan sal ek se met 10 want dan is jy gecover vir n wen tussed 5 na 15 toe….behalwe met die lions daar moet jy maar groot kies…lol
ek maak ook eers my picks as ek klaar re-union gekyk het… net na boots and all…dan kry ek n SA en NZ oogpunt en dit het my nogal baie gehelp
Jis die Lions het nou vir hulle rekords geoes wat nooit gebeat sal word nie. Ek se hulle moet Dick Muir dwing om dit in sy CV te sit.
@ Blouste ek was maar baie lank terug ek was amper elke dec vakansie in Kruger gewees maar nie onlangs nie…baie van my familie kom van Baberton af…
A break in play as they attempt to fix a glitch in the screen behind the bowler’s arm. Frustrating really, not sure what the hold-up is but Kieswetter is going to have to get his mind right and keep the momentum going after this lengthy break. Gosh, apparently it’ll take 3 to 5 minutes to rectify the technical issue with the screen. Nobody’s happy here. Except, perhaps, Dirk Nannes, who has taken a wicket on his birthday!
158 & 159 @ Deben – Dit maak sin.
My probleem is, hierdie jaar moes ek nog bontstaan Donderdagaande om Preview Threads te doen… en game threads vir die Vrydae ook, so Donderdagaande was taamlik goed geflok gewees….
DB het jy al die fotos gekyk wat ek in my Web albums sit?
Aaagh ek doen my picks net op my bree kennis en blindelingse Bul liefde. 😀
@ Superbul… Ja dit lyk amazing…is daai cheetah mak? Ek sien ook daar is n hond wat met n leeu speel? of sien ek verkeerd??
England need 124 off 16 overs. They should do it. Then again Oz bowl some out and the pressure could be on. For now it looks like England will win it.
Hulle gebruik orphaned wilde diere op hul morning walks, die jong leeus speel met daai hond en dan loop hulle saam op die walks. Daar is tans 4 cheetahs wat rondloop saam die mense op die oggend walk.
165 – Super, just clicked on your name to check any new photos. See some at the Kruger Park. Makes one want to go to the bush again. Some good pics there.
Australia 147/6 (20/20 ov)
England 31/1 (4.4/20 ov)
England require another 117 runs with 9 wickets and 15.2 overs remaining
England RR 6.64
Required RR 7.63
Australia RR 7.35
End of over 4 (9 runs) England 24/1 (124 runs required from 16 overs, RR: 6.00, RRR: 7.75)
170 – Super, It should be easy for England. Don’t think much pressure on them. Not yet anyway. Oz need to take some wickets.
Puma i must still put up the ones at that private camp, called Sesete. We had great fun there a Cheetah and her 3 cubs were “playing” , “practicing” with a herd of blue wildebeest. They chased each other around, must say the wildebeest was bloody brave.
superBul
Sorry, nou eers jou post gesien van gisteraand.
Ek gaan sowat ‘n week daar by Kapama bly, by Christiaan se huis. Maar die res van die tyd by ons huis daar by Kampersrus-Escarpia alhoewel ek basies heeldag by Kapama gaan wees.
So julle sal daar kom kuier.
Daai week, gaan ander pelle van my daar bly en ek vermy maar eerder die “temptations” want die manne gaan weer groot kuier en ek is vir daai periode op ‘n 24 uur bystand.
Hi all. This has been a good game so far,think England are the favourites at the moment. But Pietersen is the key.
End of over 5 (12 runs) England 36/1 (112 runs required from 15 overs, RR: 7.20, RRR: 7.46)
@ Superbul….did klink amazing…..beter baie mooi speel will nie daai prys verloor nie!!!
Hi mr Puma !!!
Hallo Winston.
Been meaning to ask you about the job.
Any news?
Hi Blouste,I.ve been for final interviews at 2 companys but am still waiting for a final answer from both.. But I think what will happen then I.ll get 2 offers at once 🙂
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