Friday 5 November 2021

S12D13&14: NRR Jamboree!

 "Mummy! They are too bright! I am blind!" 
(c) Charlie Goodwin "Bunny In The Headlights"

Windies, Bangladesh, Namibia, Scotland - all of them behaved exactly like the rabbit facing the headlights. Freeze! Of varying degrees, of course.
 
WI are the worst of the lot. Still stuck in their six-or-sick mode. It takes an MSD to marshall a dad's army. Mind it!
Bangladesh has been the perennial underachivers - more bluster than luster. 
Watt notwithstanding, Scotland did the biggest service by downing Bangladesh on day 1. Then, end.
Namibia is the best of the lot. Right set of imports from SA. Loads of left-arm bowlers. Impressive.

And Sri Lanka is shaping up well. They will be a force to reckon with in white ball cricket soon. Watch out for Asalanka (bold), Theekshana (mystery), Hasaranga (good despite playing for RCB), Nissanka (composed), Chameera (fast)... Good core.
As far India? Elephant has woken up. But it is too late. The Kiwis are in no mood to give this up despite the twitter chatter!😆

Guess Section

A healthy run on both days.

We even tried to guess the number of balls that India would take to win against Scotland. (Well, SRT tweeted about it after we started it! #uselessboast

Details of 4/11/2021 games

Details of 5/11/2021 games


Summary after 5/11/21 games


Today's games are quite interesting. AUS and SA would live to take that available slot. Will WI fire at least now? Will ENG decide to take the foot of the pedal?

AUS vs WI @ Abu Dhabi
ENG vs SA @ Sharjah

Promise to be good ones! 

Quiz Section

Today's question is contributed by Raghav.
Listen to the video. What? Where? When? Who? It is not the obvious one.
3 points.



Hope you all had a great Deepavali/Diwali. I had a good one. Except for the Annathe effect of course, documented in the Tamil review.

Be good. Enjoy.

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