Neither Willful Nor Intentional

The morning began with New Zealand beating India by 10 runs. NZ put up a 190 runs for India to chase. India began strong with Gambhir and Sehwag scoring 91 runs together but then they fell flat and couldn’t get it together to overtake NZ. The question on Michaels mind is, "Where’s Styris???" NZ seems to be doing ok and Vettori got 4 wickets so I say, "Who cares?"

Australia beat Bangladesh by 9 wickets. Bangladesh put up 123 runs which Aus easily answered as Hayden and Gilchrist collectively got 116! Australia only needed 13.5 overs to squash Bangladesh making them wish that the West Indies had gone through instead.

The real excitement happened in the South Africa game against England. Bright and early this morning Catherine phoned us up and started waving her Union Jack around like she knew something we didn’t. That woman has some moxie I tell ya. We very politely told her that we would see her on the pitch. SA started out pretty slow and Michael was very concerned that they at least needed to hit 150. Enter Albie Morkel. His 4 6’s and 3 4’s brought SA back into the competitive range and they ended their 20 overs with 154. England came out looking much like the SA’s. They were actually tied for most of the match. Unfortunately for England they were lacking a South African as good as Morkel. The South African that they stole, Pietersen, was run out by Ntini after only 15 runs in a most exciting play. It seems that Pollock was so focused on getting to the ball being thrown in that he was unaware of the bad run line chosen by Pietersen. As Pietersen passed Pollock he stuck his bat out whacking Pollock on the back of the knees. This caused the bat to fly out of Pietersen's hands and left him diving into the wickets to late to save himself from the out. Now I know that Catherine feels that Pollock cheated, but let’s all stay calm and realize that his actions were neither "willful nor intentional". Therefore Pietersen was fairly called out by the experienced umpires. Through it all Bob just kept saying, "The real game is tomorrow, its all about tomorrow."

And so tomorrow we will see if Bobs Sri Lankans can propel him back to the top.

- Katy



Here is the worm. Man! It is going to be hard to predict a winner. Bob goes up then goes down then Sandi came way up then Henry jumped up. Its like crazy and stuff. Oh ya, and Katy is winning.

- Michael