[nukkad] [Fwd: Rain's damp blanket hits Super Six]

[Ninad Chhaya <ninad@bom4.vsnl.net.in>]

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Kulkarni Abhay wrote:
> 
> Rain's damp blanket hits Super Six
> Trevor Chesterfield - 7 June 1999
> 
> (London) - New Zealand were delivered the nastiest yorker of the World Cup
> yesterday with the untimely intervention of the British summer at Headingley
> in Leeds, and with the long-range forecast equally unsettled rain may yet
> cause further havoc in the Super six stage.
> 
> Any casual glance at the forecast yesterday showed that low temperatures,
> rain and the promise of more to come with equal dampening affect, is spread
> across the British Isles with sparse sunny patches about the only glimmer
> that games over the next three days are going to get the same treatment as
> did the Kiwis and Zimbabwe.
> 
> The match was abandoned, giving the sides a point apiece and threw up any
> number of interesting semi-finals qualifying permutations.
> 
> At least both sides were yesterday spared the indignities of what the
> Duckworth/Lewis system had to offer: unfathomable eqations which make
> nonsense of the restricting capabilities of the New Zealand bowlers.
> 
> But if the weather forecast is as reliable as Inzamam-ul-Haq's call for a
> single, the murky gloom and damp conditions which have hovered over England
> since the warm up matches started a month ago will remain.
> 
> A far from pleasant thought for those who anticipated some sunshine, and
> temperatures in keeping with what is known as summer at some stage of the
> tournament.
> 
> What it all means is that Zimbabwe, now heading the table, are almost
> certain of a semi-final place thanks to the vagaries of the unsettled summer
> conditions while New Zealand, Australia and India puddle around in the mud
> patches left by the bowlers in their run ups and trying to scrape their way
> into one of the two remaining places.
> 
> And you thought it was going to be a doddle?
> 
> That is, of course, assuming South Africa beat New Zealand on Thursday which
> will ensure Hansie Cronje's team of qualifying for the semi-finals on June
> 16 and 17.
> 
> India, almost out of the race on Friday, were thrown a damp life-line by the
> abandoned game at Headingley. Wins over Pakistan at Old Trafford today and
> New Zealand at Trent Bridge on Saturday might allow them through, even if
> their run rate is a bit shaky.
> 
> Australia have to win one of their two remaining Super six games to give
> them an outside chance.
> 
> Winning both will get them through. They play Zimbabwe at Lord's tomorrow
> and South Africa in Headingley on Sunday; defeat in either game could drown
> their hopes if their run rate is lagging. A tricky one indeed.
> 
> Of course Messrs Duckworth and Lewis may yet come along with their rain
> calculations and if the Zimbabwe-New Zealand equation was an example of this
> make nonsense of all the hopes of the favourites and we may end up with a
> final between India and Zimbabwe. Now, how is that for a giggle?
> Regards

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