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sam_ahmed 
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 Topic: Some predictions...Posted: 11 February 2011 at 5:29pm |
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Some simple predictions we can make for the WC 2011... Winners: Pakistan
Runners Up: India
Highest Run Getter: Hashim Amla
Highest Wicket Taker: Umer Gul
Player of the series: Shane Watson
Young Player (under 23) to watch out for: George Dockrell
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MalhotraRaj84
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Posted: 12 February 2011 at 4:34am |
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Winners: India
Runners Up: SA
Highest Run Getter: Sachin Tendulkar
Highest Wicket Taker: Zaheer Khan
Player of the series: Yuvraj Singh
Young Player (under 23) to watch out for: Southee
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Race to No 1 again ... started!
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zuhair_abbasi
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Posted: 12 February 2011 at 6:09am |
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Winner: Pakistan
Runner up: Australia Most runs: Sachin Most wickets: Lee Most sixes: Razzaq Player of the tournament: Watson Most catches: Kohli |
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zuhair_abbasi
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Posted: 12 February 2011 at 8:27am |
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Noticed that on cricinfo prediction game - in the star wars league - all teams except one or two do have one player in common and that is Watson.
What dream teams will you guys pick or have picked? I have picked the following: Amla Kamran Akmal (wk) Kohli Jayawardene Trott Ferguson Watson Razzaq Wahab Malinga Ashwin |
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sam_ahmed
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Posted: 12 February 2011 at 2:45pm |
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It won't be wise to leave out Shakib, Zuhair. For the initial stages it is better to pick some Kenya players as well because they play 2 games very quickly. Odoyo is a good pick, so is Tikolo. My team for the initial part is somewhat different but overall I'll most;y have the following players:
Tamim
Hashim
Kohli
Younus
Watson
Shakib
Kallis
Sangakkara
Gul
Malinga
Morne
I'll keep some players from minnow teams (when some of these players are not playing) at all times to be able to maintain the budget.
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spin wizard
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Posted: 12 February 2011 at 5:52pm |
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Zuhair, at the moment, Watson is one of the best openers, why is he batting so late? Ofcourse, if that's a fantasy game, that's ok but if that's a best team you'd pick, then Watson should open or don't play. |
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1Daz
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Posted: 13 February 2011 at 11:08pm |
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Winners: South Africa
Runners Up: England
Highest Run Getter: Johnathon Trott
Highest Wicket Taker: Tim Southee
Player of the series: Graeme Swann
Young Player (under 23) to watch out for: Southee
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Some people are only alive because it is illegal to kill them!
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spin wizard
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Posted: 14 February 2011 at 2:29am |
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Winners: India
Runners Up: Pakistan
Highest Run Getter: Sachin Tendulkar
Highest Wicket Taker: Murali
Player of the series: Sachin Tendulkar
Young Player (under 23) to watch out for: Darren Bravo
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abubakar52
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Posted: 14 February 2011 at 4:50am |
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Winners:Sri Lanka
Runners Up: Australia Highest run Getter: RT Ponting Highest Wicket taker: Imran Tahir Young Player to watch: Ahmed Shahzad |
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kirankri
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Posted: 14 February 2011 at 8:26am |
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I think the top 8 teams will qualify for the QFs. Every team would have seen and learnt from the previous two WCs and will take the minows seriously. Teams like SA, Srilanka who play every game seriously (even if they are qualified for QFs) has more chances of topping the groups. Keeping that in mind, my prediction (in order) would be:
Group A-
Srilanka
Australia
Pakistan
NewZealand
Group B-
South Africa
India
England
West Indies
From Qf stage, it is a matter of one game and anything can happen.
Sri - WI - Srilanka has more chances
Aus-Eng - Australia has more chances (unless England intentionally didn't take it seriously in recent series)
Pak-Ind - India has more chances
Nz-SA - SA has more chances
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zuhair_abbasi
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Posted: 14 February 2011 at 8:54am |
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Ian Chappell has picked his WC favorites - Five of them - huh.
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Ahmed
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Posted: 14 February 2011 at 5:38pm |
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Winners: Pakistan
Runners Up: South Africa
Highest Run Getter: Hashim Amla
Highest Wicket Taker: Malinga
Player of the series: Afridi
Young Player to watch out for: Junaid Khan
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Ahmed
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Posted: 14 February 2011 at 6:03pm |
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My dream team:
Shane Watson Hashim Amla Mahela Jayawardene AB de Villiers (WK) Umar Akmal David Hussey Abdul Razaq Shahid Afridi Lasith Malinga Morne Morkel Imran Tahir |
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Sledger
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Posted: 17 February 2011 at 5:25am |
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The South Africans will be there or thereabouts and I fancy Kallis to make plenty of runs. Dale Steyn will blast out plenty of top order batsmen and Morkel will do alright as well. If there are doubts about SA it's that they don't seem to know what their best XI is and it's the big debating point in the pub. I see Kallis doing so well with the bat because they have so many bowling options - he won't bowl more than a couple of overs in any one match I think. Of course on the downside , they can still play too negatively and lose matches that a more aggressive approach would win - they might yet again prove to be their own worst enemy.
India , Sri Lanka , Pakistan and England (naturally!) are my favourites and in that order - Australia won't be winning this one and won't contest the semifinals either! |
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spin wizard
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Posted: 17 February 2011 at 1:03pm |
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Yes Sledger, I don't think Australia stand a chance in this one, not reaching the finals anyway. India were hot yesterday, the batting is so powerful and dangerous. With them in their backyard and that their spinners seem to be in form, the bowling looks much better now.
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vote4peace
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Posted: 23 February 2011 at 11:06am |
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Winners : South Africa or England.
I think the burden of expectation is going to pull India out. most likely in the QFs, have an uncomfortable feeling it could be against Pakistan. |
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Cleaner
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Posted: 02 March 2011 at 3:57am |
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No mention of Australia?
Interesting?
Watch how many bad umpiring decisions the Aussies get? Very few, I bet (because umpires always seem to give Oz batsmen the benefit of the doubt?). If few decisions against them, they could do better and better as they go on!
India - will be "done" by bad umpiring decisions at critical points / critical players! Also, their bowling is not up to scratch!
South Africa - they are the form team in all departments. Amla always plays well against India, subcontinental countries.
Key factor will be umpires ie. which part of the world they are from in the critical match-ups, eg. India vs South Africa; if umpires from Oz / England / Pakistan, then India will be lucky to get 50-50 decisions or 50% of decisions!!
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spin wizard
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Posted: 02 March 2011 at 12:55pm |
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Vote4peace, the expectations won't be the reason why India would go, if anything, their bowling is what will let them down. On any decent pitch, India would be making 300+ scores. For Netherland's sake, they better hope the meet a decent bowling pitch.
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Sledger
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Posted: 02 March 2011 at 1:11pm |
I like 50% of that prediction ! |
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spin wizard
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Posted: 02 March 2011 at 6:07pm |
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Someday Sledge, those South Africans would be happy to get you out of their country.
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sundar skanda
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Posted: 07 March 2011 at 5:07am |
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WINNERS: Srilanka /Australia/India/Pakistan......watch it!
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Sledger
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Posted: 07 March 2011 at 5:26am |
4 winners sundar ? That might not be within the rules . |
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daisy77
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Posted: 12 March 2011 at 5:47pm |
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personally, I think it's very hard to predict who will win. it's turning out to be a very interesting world cup though. No doubt India will definitely be favourites. The team I like is not playing good cricket at all so.....:S
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vote4peace
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Posted: 21 March 2011 at 7:47am |
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Okay ppl knock out stage is bout to commence which means prediction time!!!
1st Quarter Final - Pakistan v West Indies - Winner : Pakistan 2nd Quarter Final - India v Australia - Winner : India 3rd Quarter Final - New Zealand v South Africa - Winner : South Africa 4th Quarter Final - Sri Lanka v England - Winner : England which could mean the SF line-up would be : South Africa vs England India vs Pakistan |
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zuhair_abbasi
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Posted: 21 March 2011 at 8:14am |
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Now this is real prediction time!!! I don't think England are beating the Lankans on thier home soil. So that is where I differ. Saf and Pak should be through. India Australia match would be a good one too - it won't be a close one - it will be a hammering - for either of the team. India need more than 10 overs of Zaheer Khan if they are to win three knock out games and I don't see that happening.
I interviewed Rashid Latif at the start of the World Cup (for the newspaper I work for), and he tipped Pakistan and South Africa for the finals. May well be right!! |
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sam_ahmed
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Posted: 21 March 2011 at 5:14pm |
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I'd go with exactly the same predictions as that of V4P... I would want
to see ENG win against lanka just because ENG have entertained us a lot
and they haven't made th SF's since 92, SLN have had a good run in last
two WC's making the Finals in 07 and SF's in 03.
Ind-Aus will be a thriller if they prepare a good batting wicket, if they prepare a "turner" it could go either way, it could even back fire on India. |
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kahmad
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Posted: 21 March 2011 at 5:27pm |
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That would be my predections:
1st Quarter Final - Pakistan v West Indies - Winner : Pakistan 2nd Quarter Final - India v Australia - Winner : Australia 3rd Quarter Final - New Zealand v South Africa - Winner : South Africa 4th Quarter Final - Sri Lanka v England - Winner : Sri Lanka I dont think Australia will repeat the mistakes which they did again Pakistan. We might see some aggression from them in the remaining matches. |
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sam_ahmed
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Posted: 21 March 2011 at 6:43pm |
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It has been the Aravinda's, the Warne's, the Wasim's, the Waugh's and the Pontings's who have made a mark at the big stage, players who rise to the occasion and have that ability to perform under pressure are the ones who become legends.
The stage has come when the not-so-good players will be separated from the legends. I'll try to predict one player from each team who can make the difference if they are to win the WC, let me see how close I get by the time we end. You all can try the same. Pakistan - Umer Gul South Africa - AB Devillers Srilanka - M Muralidaran India - Gautam Gambhir Australia - Michael Clarke England - Eoin Morgan New Zealand - Jesse Ryder West Indies - Chris Gayle Ricky Ponting, by the way, is already a legend. Edited by sam_ahmed - 21 March 2011 at 6:54pm |
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zuhair_abbasi
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Posted: 22 March 2011 at 5:50am |
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It will have to be Zaheer Khan if India do manage to win it. India's well documented problem is their bowling and Zaheer will have to stand tall and perform single handedly, which is why India has the rarest of chances to go the distance. That is my two cents.
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vote4peace
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Posted: 22 March 2011 at 9:47am |
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I think Harbhajan too will have to play a Big role along with Zaheer if India is to go far. He's such a dangerous bowler if he's in the groove. But consistency has been his problem.
And I'm not sure of Clarke being Australia's man for the occasion. My money's still on Ponting. Edited by vote4peace - 22 March 2011 at 9:49am |
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