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Heros and Villains...17
Andrew Flintoff Fires at last
The 17th day of the Cricket World Cup 2007 sported one of the less consequential matches between England and Ireland. As expeced, England won the match to retain their chances for entering the semi finals.
After a long time, Andrew Flintoff put up a good performance to emerge as the NCR hero of the match. He notched up 64 points as against his nearest rival N Obrien who collected 61 points. Flintoffs points were collected from 4 wickets, 43 runs and a catch. On the other hand Obrien scored 63 runs and took two catches.
But Obrien's performance was good enough to nudge into the top 10 players edging Ponting out of the top 10 table.
Rank Points Name Country 1
344 Mathew Hayden Australia 2 337 Scott Styris New Zealand 3 275 Gream Smith South Africa 4 269 Brad Hogg Australia 5 238 Dwayne Bravo West Indies 6 225 Jacques Kallis South Africa 7 207 Jacob Oram New Zealand 8 197 Geln McGrath Australia 9 191 Neil O Brien Ireland 10 188 Michel Clarke Australia I R Bell of England had the dubious distinction of being the NCR Villain of the day with -5 points.
At this stage of the tournament, there are 12 players with negative scores holding the ranks 124 to 134 of all the players who have participated. This list contains only Nafees of Bangladesh at -1 as a player from the team which is in super eight. The list of these players is as follows.
Rank Points Name Country 124 -1 Shaheed Nafees Bangladesh 125 -4 Navdeep Poornia Scotland 126 -7 Rana Naved Pakistan 127 -8 EC Rainsford Zimbabwe -8 Gavin Hamilton Scotland 128 -11 AN Kerveezee Netherlands 129 -12 Dewald Nel Scotland 130 -15 David Obuya Kenya 131 -16 H Osinde Canada 132 -21 F Katseni Zimbabwe 133 -22 Azar Mohammed Pakistan 134 -47 Nehemiah Odhiyambo Kenya Indians can take solace from the fact that they donot figure in this super villains of cup since the lowest ranked Indian player (Ignoring those who did not play) was Harbhajan Singh with an NCR score of 21.
Naavi
March 30, 2007
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