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Heros and Villains...12
GC Smith is the Interim Man of World Cup 2007 at the Group Stage
Day 13 of the world cup saw the concluding game of the group stage played out between Bangladesh and Bermuda. In a rain affected match reduced to 21 overs, Bangladesh won as expected and confirmed its movement to the super eight stage. In the process they eliminated the Indian team from the world cup.
In the NCR table, as expected , Gream Smith of South Africa remained the leader. To some extent both could be considered as surprise leaders since other all rounders such as Shaun Pollock, Flintoff, etc have been left behind.
The top 10 in the table are as follows:
Rank Points Name
Country
Remarks
1 199 Gream Smith South Africa 2 197 Scott Styris New Zealand 3 190 Brad Hogg Australia 4 186 Steve Tikolo Kenya 186 Mathew Hayden Australia 5 185 JM Davison Canada 6 182 S. Dhaniram Canada 7 177 Dwayne Bravo West Indies 8 171 AB Devilliers South Africa 9 168 Chigumbara Zimbabwe There were four players from the teams that have been eliminated at this stage. But none of the Indian players are in the first 10. The best Indian player was Sehwag who was placed at the 15th place.
The overall rankings of Indian players amongst all the world cup participants are given in the following table.
Rank Points Name
Remarks
15 147 Virender Sehwag 31 111 Munaf Patel 36 104 Zaheer Khan 80 Ajit Agarkar 50 79 Yuvraj Singh 53 76 MS Dhoni 70 points from fielding 58 71 Rahul Dravid 64 60 Sachin Tendulkar 58 Saurav Ganguly 43 Anil Kumble Played only one match 87 32 Robin Uthappa 95 21 Harbhajan Singh Played 2 matches, took 0 wickets 104 10 Dinesh Karthik Substitute in one match The 10 laggards at the bottom of the table were as follows:
Rank Points Name
Country
Remarks
114 -1 Shaheed Nafees Bangladesh 115 -4 Navdeep Poornia Scotland 116 -7 Rana Naved Pakistan 117 -8 EC Rainsford Zimbabwe -8 Gavin Hamilton Scotland 118 -11 AN Kerveezee Netherlands 119 -12 Dewald Nel Scotland 120 -15 David Obuya Kenya 121 -16 H Osinde Canada 122 -21 F Katseni Zimbabwe 123 -22 Azar Mohammed Pakistan 124 -47 Nehemiah Odhiyambo Kenya Observers may analyse the rating table to check the performance of different players.
Naavi
March 24, 2007
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