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Baking Until I Drop

Sri Lanka just hit a six and I see Chennette on tv!
Real close to the ball in the stands.

*sob*

Wooohooo.
I hope she carries flags and supports the appropriate team.

Maybe she will report for us.
We’ll be watching it at home, live, on tv.

They haven’t lost a match.
I do think that a team that has gone through the whole world cup without a lost deserves to win!

But, that doesn’t mean I don’t have underdog leanings.
So, I’m supporting Sri Lanka in the finals.

And since it’s not West Indies playing (yes, you may laugh), I won’t mind so much if Australia wins.

I just hope Sri Lanka manages to fight…and do extremely well, unlike their performance against Australia in Super Eights.

Dad has already told mom he will be doing nothing on Saturday until after the finals.
I have told her the same (she suggested shopping!!!)

Sri Lanka just bowled out New Zealand in the first semi finals.
They’ll most likely be playing Australia in the finals.

I hope they win.
Okay, so I’m supporting Sri Lanka. If Australia wins, they clearly deserve it. They’ve been annihilating the competition.

And I did go to cricket on Saturday. More on that when I dig myself out from under grading.

Brian Lara has announced that not only is he retiring from one day cricket (which is what Cricket World Cup is) but also from all international cricket. Is this first class too?

So, this match on Saturday will be his last playing for West Indies.

It’s sad.
But I can pretend I’m going to see a historic match.
Unless things change and someone convinces him to come back for Test Cricket.

Well, maybe they’ll win because of it. They beat Bangladesh yesterday.

We shall see.

Cricket World Cup
Cricinfo

I’m going to a match on Saturday, the outcome of which doesn’t matter to anyone…except maybe some West Indian pride (Same for tomorrow).

I’m not worrying any more.
We just don’t want to play, it seems.

And people complaining about how you were promised a match between Pakistan and India on whatever day that Ireland vs Bangladesh match was…get a grip. I don’t care that you spent thousands of dollars. What are you implying? That you paid off ICC to make sure Pakistan and India qualified? They had to qualify past the first round for crying out loud.

All you could have been promised was that *if* Pakistan made it through, they would be playing then and *if* India made it through they would have been playing then and *if* they both made it through to the Super Eights, they would have been playing against each other. It would always have been taking a chance on that match being them. They didn’t do what they had to do. Not anybody else. But that doesn’t mean they deserve violent treatment either.

So, if Pakistan and India lost all three of their matches, you would still want them to play in the Super Eights? Of course you would but shouldn’t some sense kick in? That they had to earn the right to get there. I want us to be in the semi finals…but we didn’t earn it.