The match was supposed to be an ordinary match of this world cup. England won the toss and decided to bat first. The English batting was immaculate in the beginning. Strauss and Peterson gave good acceleration to English batting innings. However both of them got out playing unorthodox shots, which they might not have attempted since they were going very well. After Peterson got out Trott and Bell took over and the also handled the situation very well but just like their match with India English team did not do justice with last 10 overs of their innings. In our opinion England should have scored over 350 to get their net run rate better. Irish bowling was average in the initial 40 and they were just ok with their fielding but in the end they managed to restrict English team to a total of 327 runs.
When Irish team came to bat English dominated the field. A wicket on the first ball is always good. Irish tried to fight back but were not able to deliver very well as the English bowlers got 5 wickets out very quickly and soon enough Irish team was in deep trouble. Though English bowlers till here had performed well but I don’t know what is with the short balls. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD ENGLISH BOWLERS STOP BOWLING TOO MUCH SHORT DELIVERIES. Anyway at this point we thought that Irish need to play sensibly and achieve a respectable defeat. However the Irish team had something else in mind. When Kevin O’Brian cam and started to go off against English bowlers we thought that he wants to give a good show before going down, but English bowling and fielding gave him a huge boost and soon enough Irish team was in a position to win the match, which they utilized very well and made the biggest upset in world cup history. It was the highest score ever chased successfully in any of the world cup matches, with O’Brian scoring fastest century in the history of world cup. English bowling and especially fielding was absolutely rubbish drop catches at critical points cost them the match. We mentioned in our review of their match with India they were reluctant to try yorkers. I don’t know what with that but the seriously need to look into the option of bowling yorkers, we saw Malinga doing a hatrik with that, I don’t know what else does English team needs to start bowling yorkers. Furthermore the way English team is handling pressure I don’t think they will be able to perform in knock out rounds and we might see them not even reaching semi finals. Anyway good batting performance by Irish team and what a great upset of the world cup 2011.
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