Collingwood all class
Obviously, this post is not about the AFL, where Collingwood football club had another disappointing year. This is Paul Collingwood the English cricket player. Yesterday, I mentioned that England showed poor progress against an under-strength Zimbabwe, but overnight, Collingwood lead the way with a sparkling 80 runs in good time to boost the England total to a much more respectable score of 299.As suspected the England bowling attack cut was too strong for the Zimbabwe batsmen and the poms cruised to an easy victory by 152 runs. Gough took care of the openers, with Flintoff and Harmison cleaning up most of the other wickets.
While India despatched the Kenyans with ease, Kenya stood up and showed some grit to hold out against the Indians, when a crushing defeat looked likely. Ganguly and Laxman lead the Indians to a 290 run total with a 161 run partnership for the second wicket. Kaif and Dravid then chipped in at the end of the innings to add a further 77 runs at almost 10 runs per over.
The Kenyans were never likely to come close to India's total, and it looked like the match would have an early finish with Kenya losing early wickets. At 6 for 74 before the half way point of the innings, few would have expected the Kenyans to hold out for the full 50 overs. Ouma and Patel both scored over 40 runs apiece coming in well down the batting order.
The other big scorer for Kenya was the extras gifted by India. An astonishing 42 runs were added to the Kenyan's score due to 19 wides, 4 no-balls and 10 byes and 9 leg byes. The leg-byes are expected, but the other 33 runs are a luxury that India cannot afford to give away, particularly when they play some of the stronger teams.
Tonight, South Africa take on Bangladesh. Although out of form, South Africa should still win convincingly.
posted by Kevin Paine @ 10:57 pm
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