Something interesting! Three teams out of the four semi finalists are from Asia viz. Sri Lanka, Pakistan and India. The fourth one hardly has a population of one third when compared to Mumbai. Yes that is New Zealand. Interesting to see that all the big names like Australia, South Africa, England, etc are eliminated.
Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand (first semi final) is played in Colombo on the same venue where Sri Lanka convincingly defeated England by 10 wickets. So New Zealand is wary of the Lankans. And surely New Zealand has to produce something more special than what they did against South Africa, if they have to beat the Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka won all the four world cup matches that it has played against New Zealand. Even the last match they played was in this world cup itself where Sri Lanka defeated New Zealand by 112 runs. Muralitharan is not sure to play as he is injured. Malinga is totally unplayable with his yorkers. Sri Lanka has as good batting line up too.
Sri Lanka Vs New Zealand (first semi final) is played in Colombo on the same venue where Sri Lanka convincingly defeated England by 10 wickets. So New Zealand is wary of the Lankans. And surely New Zealand has to produce something more special than what they did against South Africa, if they have to beat the Sri Lankans in Sri Lanka.
Sri Lanka won all the four world cup matches that it has played against New Zealand. Even the last match they played was in this world cup itself where Sri Lanka defeated New Zealand by 112 runs. Muralitharan is not sure to play as he is injured. Malinga is totally unplayable with his yorkers. Sri Lanka has as good batting line up too.
Talking about New Zealand, they have decide whether to go with 3 spinners of just 2 spinners and more quick bowlers. Just like the last match Ryder would like to click this time too and would expect equal feat from Taylor, McCullum and company.
The winner of this match will meet the winner of India Vs Pakistan's semi final at Mumbai for the final of this world cup. So keep watching every ball of this match with ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 live streaming online.
