231.57

That was Gilly's strike rate. One word. Wow.
He made 44 off 19 balls against the Chennai Super Kings. And as I said in my last post - 37-years-old and he's still got it. He gave the Deccan Chargers the start they needed. Bravo Mr Gilly.

But it wasn't just Gilchrist who made DC win. It was Herschelle Gibbs - 69 off 56 balls. He was right there 'til the very end. Bravo Mr Gibbs.

And let's not forget the bowlers. Ojha, 2 overs, 2 wickets, 11 runs. Enough said. Bravo Mr Ojha. I don't know what Gilly was thinking when he didn't make Ojha bowl a few more. Oh well, it doesn't matter now since they won, lol.

Now, I don't know about you guys but apart from a weird commentator making sheep noises while saying DLF Maximum (yes, I remember this clearly), this was a great game for the Chargers.

DC are still leading the standings with 4/4 next to their names. They really have improved from last year.

Here's what it looks like at the moment.



Bravo Deccan Chargers.

They reckon Gilly retired too early

YA THINK?!

That's what I've been thinking for the past year or so! I can't believe they've just noticed.

I mean, come on. Gilly blasted three fours in the first over while playing for his team Deccan Chargers against the Royal Challengers. And that's from my memory. I never forget anything that Gilly does. He made 71 off 45 balls. Now, you gotta admit, even at the age of 37, he's still got it. WHOO HOO!

At the moment, DC are at the top of the leader board.
Change of captain, uniform and attitude. They can do it this year, I'm sure of it.

Ok, now back to the match, 22 April 2009. That was two days ago. Sorry about the late post, I've been busy. So yeah, I stayed up for the entire thing watching Gilly's team strive for victory. I always wake up at 12:00pm nowadays so that I have the energy to stay up and watch these matches. I'm devoted and proud of it and here's proof.



Wow, my voice sounds weird...

ANYWAY, yeah, see that? I took that with my mobile phone. I'm devoted.

Moving on. Gilly and Rohit were awesome. They were the stand out batsmen in that match. Actually, well done to the entire team! They're way different from last year, thank God.

If you're a fan of DC, good on you. :)
They're next match is on 25 April, Saturday. Thankfully, it's 8:00pm AEST.
I'll be watching.

Go Deccan Chargers.

The Aussies have fallen

badly.

They are now 3rd in the ODI rankings.

They haven't been this low since October 2002.

True story.

FAIL

Ok, sorry about my long absence...it's just that, you know, school holidays...Easter...oh...

HAPPY EASTER! (I know it's late but yeah).

Anyway, I'm feeling happy, right?
Mmm, chocolate...holidays...

and then suddenly, I see the news -

Gibbs sets up series win

Really? I completely forgot that the cricket was still on. (I don't have Foxtel!!)

Apparently, Australia lost. Herschy got a friggen fine century. Well, that's what Cricket Australia's site says.

Mehh, SA won by 61 runs.

We failed.

The Young Cricketer

IMPORTANT:

Yes, I have decided to change the name of my blog.

It shall now be called

THE YOUNG CRICKETER

Ohh snappp.

My reason for this is because I have just recently found out that there are other cricket blogs out there called Cricket Etc. So yeah, to make it easier for you, I will change my URL.

www.theyoungcricketer.blogspot.com it shall be.

So please, if you have me on your blogroll, please change it.

Thanks!

It's a lazy Saturday...well, for me anyway

Yeah, I'm feeling lazy. I should be outside playing, shouldn't I? Or I should be doing my homework, shouldn't I?

Look, look, look, this is my homework!

Science - read pages 161-167 and fill out classifying animals worksheet
TECH - finish game flow chart
Maths - complete integers code worksheet
Italian - pages 44 and 45 plus about me assignment which has to be written in Italian
Art - complete three sheets about Brett Whiteley and Donald Friend

Most of that is due on Monday or Tuesday next week.

Now can you see why I'm complaining? See, see, see? Is this the right amount of homework to be given to a 12-year-old? *Sigh.

They say it's good for me, so why am I complaining? I reckon it's something natural that just comes to kids.

Who knows?


So yeah, I'm just surfing the net, at the moment. Er, I typed in the word cricket into google and looky here, this is what came up -

Obviously, the second and third ones I have already clicked because they're in purple, LOL.

Don't you think it's kind of funny how Cricket Australia are the first one to come up. I mean, there are heaps of other countries out there that play cricket but Australia's site happens to be the one that comes up first. Meh. Ok, I know this post is quite very random but bear with me.

Now, I am going to type cricket into Youtube. And looky here again! Another funny thing comes up.

Did you notice that most of them were from England?

Well then!

Long time no blog. Yeah, you already know why if you've read my past posts. I don't want to annoy you with my endless mentions of homew...

ANYWAY

I don't really know what's happening between Australia and South Africa because I don't have Foxtel (gee, thanks mum), so I have to rely on cricket sites.

Let's see, cricket.com.au say -

"An unbroken 83-run partnership between Ashwell Prince and Hashim Amla helped South Africa take charge on day two of the third Test against Australia with the hosts reaching lunch in Cape Town at 1-148."

Now, that's not very good. Australia aren't going so well.

Well, this sucks.

SA vs AUS, 1st Test, Jo'burg, 5th Day

Australia take series lead.

OWNAGE!

HOLY CRACKA! SRI LANKANS WERE FRIGGEN ATTACKED?!

WHOA. OMG. YIKES. WHOA AGAIN.

Yeah, you read the title right.

SRI LANKAN CRICKETERS WERE ATTACKED BY TERRORISTS!

I remember myself sitting infront of the TV, staring with my eyes and mouth wide open. Can I just rephrase myself? THEY WERE ATTACKED. ATTACKED. KABLOOMSKIES.

Holy cracka. Some of the players got injuries but thankfully none of them died.


Why do people do this? What IS the world coming to? There's definitely some crazy and scary people out there...

I'm tired and feel like complaining

It's been almost 2 weeks since my last post. 13 days to be exact.

I swear, it's the homework's fault. It's true. I still have to do 3 assignments over the weekend.

It's they're fault. It's homework, homework, homework, never-ending homework. One day, you're feeling happy - YES!! I FINISHED EVERYTHING! WHOOOO! TIME TO PLAY THE PS2!! - and then the next day - HOMEWORK?! HOMEWORK?! AGAIN?! FOR GOODNESS SAKE!! - yeah, it's like that.

But stuff that because I don't want to talk about homework anymore, so let's talk about cricket.

South Africa vs Australia

*thinks* Please don't lose. Please don't lose. Please don't lose.

Oh wait. It says Australia are in control. Now, that's pure awesomeness.

Marcus North made a century on debut. Good on him. He's heading up north from now on. AHAHAHA, get it? Get it? He's heading north? He's moving forward, up...
Ahhh, never mind. That was a terrible joke.

See, it's the homework that's getting to me. SAY NO TO HOMEWORK! It kills trees. (And sense of humour.)



*But I suppose I should do it since if I didn't I'd get after school detention...hmm...GAAHH, this is so retarded*

Yeah, yeah...

(Just a short one before I go to sleep).

I know it's a few days late but anyways...

5th ODI against NZ. Yeah, yeah. Washed-out. Fully raining. Australia was automatically given the trophy.

That match wasted eight (or something) hours of my life. It was completely pointless.

Whatever.

Sunday tomorrow. Yeah, yeah. Twenty20.

Oh wait. TWENTY20?!?! BOOOYAAAHH. LOL.

Hopefully this one will lift up my spirits. Well, it should because BRAD HADDIN is leading the side. GO HADDS!! :D

That's pure awesomeness, bro.

I'm excited.

Sooo yeaaaah, G'NIGHT. :)

Just a recap of recent happenings...

Mmm, yeah. School started, don't have that much time to blog anymore. (Too much homework, I feel like it's going to kill me!! Ok, not really but you get where I'm coming from.)

Anyway, let's start from the Allan Border Medal. Um, Simon Katich was voted the sexiest man of Aussie cricket. Uhh...

YES, moving on. The AB Medal voting or whatever they did was rigged. IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MITCHELL JOHNSON. But noooooooooo, they had to give it to TWO PEOPLE, didn't they? Ponting and Clarke; captain and vice-captain. That's not very fair.

...

Ok, now we skip a few dates here...

10/02/09 - Australia vs New Zealand at Adelaide

Australia won. Good stuff.

I watched this one.

Yeah, David Hussey ran out Hadds. Nice work Huss. Not. Thank God David made 79 to shut people up. He's back in form!! I think. Hopefully. Yeah...

His bro, Mike Hussey made 75. It was the Husseys day 'twas.


Next match is at the Gabba on 13 Feb. Whooooo! Lol. :)