ICC Champions Trophy
The ICC Champion's trophy kicked off overnight from jolly old England.As usual for the home of the Poms, the greatest feature of the day was the rain. Luckily the powers that be had the foresight to realise that the weather in wet old England was likely to interfere with the games and arranged a reserve day for each match.
In the matches that started, England was drawn to play the severely out-of-form Zimbabweans. The rain delayed play by several hours before England managed to make the field and stumbled to 198 runs with 5 wickets down before play was stopped after 38 overs. While the run-rate of 5.2 is reasonable, when the quality of the opposition is taken into account, England should clearly have done much better. If not for opening batsman, Vikram Solanki, who held the English innings together with a solid 62, the story for England could have been highly embarrassing.
In the other match played, New Zealand showed that the United States still has a long way to go before becoming competitive in international cricket. A 210 run slaughter by the New Zealand team exposed the deficiencies in the bowling attack and the fragility of the batting.
Tonight, we see the conclusion of the England v Zimbabwe match as well as India taking on the surprise packet from the last world cup, Kenya. England should manage to keep Zimbabwe at bay with a bowling attack that should be too classy for the inexperienced batting line-up. India are unlikely to be troubled and could hand the Kenyans a crushing defeat.
While the ICC Champions Trophy is on, this blog will keep bringing you cricket, cricket and even more cricket. Club Kev, where too much sport is barely enough*.
*Original slogan stolen from Roy & HG.
posted by Kevin Paine @ 4:15 pm
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