3am Brisbane time:

Pakistan 103/7 (30.2 ov) (against Ireland)
India 174/9 (47.3 ov) (against Bangladesh)

An Irish win may be enough for them to go through to the next round depending on what the Zims do, and would also mean Pakistan would be out. And a Bangladesh win would make the India v Sri Lanka game huge.

Also Scotland may have just robbed France of the 6 Nations crown.

Holy s***! India all out 191 and Pakistan 8/124. Bangladesh and Ireland are a previously unlikely chance here.

yeah I am sitting here watching them, 6pm Irish time....

Pakis all out 132 HAHAHA
banga just lost their first wicket... 1/24

Update:

India 191 (49.3 ov)
Bangladesh 146/3 (35.0 ov)

Pakistan 132 (45.4 ov)
Ireland 47/2 (16.4 ov)

India's attack is pretty impotent. They really need to be attacking as much as possible as their only way of winning will be to bowl the Bangas out.

It's been a while since they have shown anything on the tele from the other game, but from the looks of it the Pakis aren't completely out of it. Still, they are another team struggling with an under strength bowling attack, so I still reckon the Irish will get that one.

Wins for Ireland + Bangladesh are both good for Aus. It will get rid of Pakistan at least and puts one nail in the coffin of India.

If both the Paki's and Indians lose i may go to cricket training tomorrow just to give crap to all the sub-continent players in our team. Worth a few hours break from work :)

Haha :)

I work with 2 Bangladeshis, an Indian, a Pakistani and a Sri Lankan. It makes for a lot of cricket chat. But yes, tomorrow I think the Bangladeshis are going to be having a field day with the Indian guy :)

mate it's brilliant, love these upsets :D


so long as Australia aren't loosing :p

Ireland just copped the WORST decision you will ever see. Botha given out caught at short square leg off a ball that flew off the outside of his front leg. His bat was on the inside, but a good half a foot away from the ball. If they lose because of that they can feel extremely hard done by.

Bangas about to win!

bangas won!!!!

Rain in the Ireland v Pakistan game, but Ireland are ahead on D/L.

Some very funny commentary on the game at:

http://content-aus.cricinfo.com/wc2007/engine/current/match/247465.html

Ireland copped a very poor decision from the Umpire...after being handed a gift Not-Out earlier for an LBW appeal.

It all evens out.

The important thing is that Ireland will likely win this game, and Pakis will almost certainly be going home early. This ultimately removes a threat to the Australian campaign. :D

(of course, NZ will be one of the finalists :/ )

Man I hate being in the wrong timezone and not having it on free to air. I didn't even know it had STARTED until after it had happened.

15 runs to go - GO f***ING IRELAND!!!

EDIT: Oh sod it! They're losing wickets for no runs..

Piss of Pakis - you don't deserve this game! >:(

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Ireland require another 5 runs with 3 wickets and 48 balls remaining

Woot! Awesome win coming up.

4 to go.

I am seeing a similar look on Inzy's face to that of Saddam as he was being lead to the gallows - kinda scary really...

Go Ireland!

*sniff*


That's the smell of some burning effigies...

f***ING YES!!!! A SIX TO WIN!!

Holy crap, what a way to win. 6 from the biggest batting bunny you have ever seen.

Sucks to be Pakistan - some teams have only just played their first game and already they are out of the tournament!

Are Ireland the Senegal from the football world cup of 2002?

Holy s***, thats f***ing amazing.. if my body wasn't so full of Guinness from yesterday I'd have another to celebrate!

Crazy.

Best world cup ever.

the banga win isn't that surprising.

They are getting better and better, have a fantastic attack and have now knocked over both the Kiwis and Indians inside a week.

The Irish team is full of Sydney first grade players, so they're not newbies either. Couple of them have played for NSW

This is hella amusing.

Anyway, Aus vs Netherlands starts at 11:30pm tonight.

cool, ponting vs the pie merchants

Haha great. Paki coach will be owned. And Ireland through to last 8 maybe?

Provided that Zimbabwe don't win another match (with a better NRR), yes.

reminds me of the wc in 2003, kenya made it all the way to the semi's to lose to India, bangladesh did beat australia in one of the warm up games aswell didnt they? Either way go them. (Ireland won cause they still were pissed from St Patricks day, drunk =awesome cricket skills)

Roy backs up that theory

this reminds me Ricky Ponting International Cricket 2007 comes out on xbox360 soon.

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Uzu - Bangladesh beat us during the Ashes tour in 2005 when Roy got on the sauce the night before. Dark dark day...

this reminds me Ricky Ponting International Cricket 2007 comes out on xbox360 soon.

I challenge you to a test match (I am australia)

So was that the game that pushed the pakistani coach over the edge, and caused him to off himself?

Yes.

Awesome.

It's kind of like kicking someone's ass so hard in an online FPS, that they /quit. Except this guy /quit life.

I just wanted to reiterate how awesome this guy is...

http://content-uk.cricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/73100/73152.jpg

Even more awesome since he had to put down a ham sandwich before catching it.

Haha great. Paki coach will be owned.

Sure was

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdA0UPhrfBk

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