cricket world cup blog 28-3-14

 

England kept their world cup hopes alive yesterday as the hero of the day Alex Hayles scored the first T20 century of his career. England were chasing down a total of 190 and won by six wickets with four balls to spare. England started horribly as Nuwan Kulasekara hit a double wicket madden. England were very unlock in the catching position also as they failed to catch simple balls. Hayles and Morgan had plenty of room to man over. Sri Lanka slowly got to grips with what they had to do. Both Hayles and Morgan were impressive in getting close to the target as they hit boundary after boundary. Morgan was then bowled out and that put pressure on hayles which he liked

 

This is not the performance that South Africa would have wanted as the only defeated the Netherlands by 6 wickets. But there bowling was quite impressive as the got the dutch out for 39 which showed that there bowlers are ready for anything. Hasam Amla was one of the main stars for South Africa

 

Qualifiers Bangladesh showed why they are qualifiers yesterday as they lost comfortably to the West Indees on Tuesday. Both teas seemed to be nervous from the start and it did not seem to like there would be a game here. Bandladesh bowlers fell one after another as Samuel Badree and Kishmar Santkoeand Dwane Bravo put in a catching master class. Battling Dwane smith mound some authority as he began to bat well. Gayle became an explosive batsman also. Bangladesh were a little bit useless in the field and showed that they were not going anywhere.