Group A Advantage?

[Prakat]

What's your point? India lost to SA. ENG was nearly thrashing you out. If Windies didn't generously hand over the match to you, you would be in the QF without beating any of the better teams. And what else could Ponting's pace attack could do in that flat batting pitch? Now you've a match against Pakistan on Wednesday and it's not over yet.

Just one question. Why purple?

[panesarv]

New Zealand beat South Africa

[girishk14]

What's your point? India lost to SA. ENG was nearly thrashing you out. If Windies didn't generously hand over the match to you, you would be in the QF without beating any of the better teams. And what else could Ponting's pace attack could do in that flat batting pitch? Now you've a match against Pakistan on Wednesday and it's not over yet.

Some short sighted people can NEVER accept that other teams are good, and always prefer to critisize others and refuse to accept their teams flaws. And they enjoy accusing the sensible ones as trolls. U cant change them. And the same short sighted people will start bashing their team if they get knocked out.

[SriLankanLion]

SL beat the english on a green top I guess... :giggle:

After watching England bat, I don't think you assumed that Sri Lanka would have got to their target with such ease.... Suddenly pitch turned into a flat track I guess...

Just one question. Why purple?

I can find my posts easily by scrolling down...:giggle:

Some short sighted people can NEVER accept that other teams are good' date=' and always prefer to critisize others and refuse to accept their teams flaws. And they enjoy accusing the sensible ones as trolls. U cant change them. And the same short sighted people will start bashing their team if they get knocked out.[/quote'] You said it all... I wonder where are the die hard fans who questioned Dhoni's captaincy when he gave the last over to Nehra in SA match. Can't imagine what to come if India lose to Pakistan in the semis...:omg:

[chicu1981]

Worst part is Srilanka will be in final without beating any of the strongest ODI teams i.e India' date='Pak,Australia or SA.[/quote'] So now indian fanc think Pak is a strong odi team??? Finally some sanity

[IndianRenegade]

After watching England bat, I don't think you assumed that Sri Lanka would have got to their target with such ease.... Suddenly pitch turned into a flat track I guess...

Sorry? Can you show me where I had said anything about the pitch for SL and Eng being a flat track? All I did say was SL didn't win the match against England on a Green Top, to take potshots on India not giving ricky pointing's pacers something to work with. Yes, the SL and Eng match wasn't played on a flat track. Eng just didn't have Enough quality spin bowling to trouble SL. Now coming to the issue of us giving Aus a flat track I don't know how you came to that conclusion? this is what pointing said at the toss abt the pitch:

This pitch will slow up as the game goes on. 250 looks like a reasonable score....

His team got more than a reasonable score. And this is what CricInfo said on the pitch at the end of the Aus innings:

A masterclass from Ricky Ponting, his 30th one-day hundred, allowed Australia to recover from a wobbly 150 for 4 to post 260 on a pitch where the ball is taking sharp turn and stopping on the batsmen.

Aus just didn't have enough quality spinners to really trouble India. To call the pitch a Flat track just to belittle India's victory requires some imagination.