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[feverpitch]

OK. So Smith has flopped after blustering once again. Mc Grath has kept to his word, once again.

Now, let's look forward to the final. What do you guys

A. Hope for as a result?
B. Expect the final to turn out to be?
C. What are you looking forward with expectation from the final?

My answers are:

A. SL win
B. Oz win in a canter.
C. Malinga york Hayden the Brute and Ponting.

[poondu]

SL will win... It will be a repeat of 1996.   


Australia innings (50 overs maximum)                            R   M   B  4 6
*MA Taylor            c Jayasuriya       b de Silva            74 109  83  8 1
ME Waugh              c Jayasuriya       b Vaas                12  29  15  1 0
RT Ponting                               b de Silva            45  90  73  2 0
SR Waugh              c de Silva         b Dharmasena          13  32  25  0 0
SK Warne              st Kaluwitharana   b Muralitharan         2   4   5  0 0
SG Law                c de Silva         b Jayasuriya          22  43  30  0 1
MG Bevan              not out                                  36  58  49  2 0
+IA Healy                                b de Silva             2   2   3  0 0
PR Reiffel            not out                                  13  21  18  0 0
Extras                (lb 10, w 11, nb 1)                      22
Total                 (7 wickets, 50 overs)                   241

DNB: DW Fleming, GD McGrath.

FoW: 1-36 (ME Waugh), 2-137 (Taylor), 3-152 (Ponting),
     4-156 (Warne), 5-170 (SR Waugh), 6-202 (Law),
     7-205 (Healy).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
Wickramasinghe               7      0     38      0 (2w)
Vaas                         6      1     30      1
Muralitharan                10      0     31      1 (1w)
Dharmasena                  10      0     47      1 (1nb)
Jayasuriya                   8      0     43      1 (5w)
de Silva                     9      0     42      3 (3w)

Sri Lanka innings (target: 242 runs from 50 overs)              R   M   B  4 6
ST Jayasuriya         run out                                   9   9   7  1 0
+RS Kaluwitharana     c Bevan            b Fleming              6  27  13  0 0
AP Gurusinha                             b Reiffel             65 119  99  6 1
PA de Silva           not out                                 107 176 124 13 0
*A Ranatunga          not out                                  47  72  37  4 1
Extras                (b 1, lb 4, w 5, nb 1)                   11
Total                 (3 wickets, 46.2 overs)                 245

DNB: HP Tillakaratne, RS Mahanama, HDPK Dharmasena, WPUJC Vaas,
     GP Wickramasinghe, M Muralitharan.

FoW: 1-12 (Jayasuriya), 2-23 (Kaluwitharana), 3-148 (Gurusinha).

Bowling                      O      M      R      W
McGrath                      8.2    1     28      0
Fleming                      6      0     43      1 (4w)
Warne                       10      0     58      0 (1nb, 1w)
Reiffel                     10      0     49      1
ME Waugh                     6      0     35      0
SR Waugh                     3      0     15      0 (1nb)
Bevan                        3      0     12      0

[sudzz]

OK. So Smith has flopped after blustering once again. Mc Grath has kept to his word, once again.

Now, let's look forward to the final. What do you guys

A. Hope for as a result?
B. Expect the final to turn out to be?
C. What are you looking forward with expectation from the final?

My answers are:

A. SL win
B. Oz win in a canter.
C. Malinga york Hayden the Brute and Ponting.

I want A to happen but B will happen even if C happens

[pipsqueak]

OK. So Smith has flopped after blustering once again. Mc Grath has kept to his word, once again.

Now, let's look forward to the final. What do you guys

A. Hope for as a result?
B. Expect the final to turn out to be?
C. What are you looking forward with expectation from the final?

A. Aussies LOSE
B. Another damp squib
C. Ponting getting a first ball duck, McGrath getting hit for 6 sixers(ok, 6 4's at least) in an over and a Jayasurya 100.

[fineleg]

A. Aussies LOSE
B. Another damp squib
C. Ponting getting a first ball duck, McGrath getting hit for 6 sixers(ok, 6 4's at least) in an over and a Jayasurya 100.

MT,
How abt u give us:

D. None of the above

Then we can pick a choice   

[pipsqueak]

A. Aussies LOSE
B. Another damp squib
C. Ponting getting a first ball duck, McGrath getting hit for 6 sixers(ok, 6 4's at least) in an over and a Jayasurya 100.

MT,
How abt u give us:

D. None of the above

Then we can pick a choice   

eh? i was answering FP's queries.

[fineleg]

A. Aussies LOSE
B. Another damp squib
C. Ponting getting a first ball duck, McGrath getting hit for 6 sixers(ok, 6 4's at least) in an over and a Jayasurya 100.

MT,
How abt u give us:

D. None of the above

Then we can pick a choice   

eh? i was answering FP's queries.

oops. my bad...I was imagining you singing for us and did not read this properly (ref other thread).

[keep-it-cool]

A) SL win
B) Too close to call ... am tilting towards SL by a very thin margin
C) A 5-fer for Murali .... nothing better than watching the BEST in full flow