Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Australia Vs South Africa, 2nd semi-final

Australia bulldoze into the final.This time no dramatic Cricket World Cup exit for South Africa - just a big defeat by a professional Australian side that never let South Africa into the game. Australia won by 7 wickets (with 111 balls remaining) .Man-of-the-Match award went to Glenn McGrath.
South Africa 149 all out (43.5 ov)
Australia 153/3 (31.3 ov)

The simplest way to say is that South Africa tried to take the game to the Australians, lost their entire top order mostly to some ill-judged shots, and the game was basically over. Australia took 31.3 overs and lost 3 wickets to overall South Africa's score, which represents a severe thrashing in anyone's books.
In basic terms, South Africa's 2007 World Cup outcome is the same as 1992 and 1999, beaten semi-finalists. Anyway, this time they simply weren't good enough, and no-one can blame rain, bad luck, RIchie Benaud or anything outside the team.
For the Australia, I will stick to the main facts...into their 4th successive World Cup final, an opportunity to be the first side to win 3 in a row, 27th game without defeat in World Cups, 21st win in a row at World Cups. The only other fact I will add is that Sri Lanka were the last side to beat them in a knock-out match to win the 1996 Cup..... I don't have a choice to change that but still want some other team to win world cup this time in other word someone please stop them.

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