OK, so we lost the semi final against Pakistan, but my biggest regret about the twenty20 world cup was simply not being able to stay up and watch what seems to have been some great cricket.
Yuvraj hitting six sixes would have been awesome to watch. I guess there is always youtube to fix that problem.
I’ve been to one twenty20 match and had a great time. It was Chris Cairns’ last match for New Zealand as the Black Caps took on the West Indies.
The game started at 7.30 pm, and after the match I realised what a great night’s entertainment twenty20 could be, and wondered aloud whether I would bother attending another one day international.
This match was notable as the first in international history to be decided by a ‘bowl off’. This, after Shane Bond calmly smoked a boundary of the last ball of the New Zealand innings to tie the scores.
No one quite knew what to do, including the officials - many specators thought the game was a tie and started leaving, before it was finally announced that the match would be decided by a bowl off - as per the rules.
The players practiced aiming at one stump for a few minutes - many of them hitting it. However during the real thing it took an age, as the first 12 attempts all missed!
Up stepped Bondy who knocked the stumps over twice, allowing Scotty Styris to finsh the job a few minutes later - an awesome finish to an awesome night.
Anyways, the played the highlights of that match last night before the Black Caps lost to Pakistan, and I was sufficiently motiviated to write a bit about it. Read the full match review.
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