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Twenty20 Cricket World Cup wall chart
The Twenty20 World Cup in South Africa will be upon us in a couple of weeks. Get your wall chart (excel spreadsheet), check the fixtures and support your team!
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Rugby World Cup wallchart
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The Cricket World Cup is over, but there's another one on the horizon - Rugby World Cup 2007. Get your wallchart (excel spreadsheet), check the fixtures and clear your diaries!
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By the way, the creator of this spreadsheet, Aaron Heath, has a whole selection of other wallcharts which can be found on his site.
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Thrilla in Antigua
England lost another game in the Cricket World Cup yesterday but at least they did it in style. I was following the match on the Duckworth Lewis calculator and we were cruising till the three quick wickets went down... then I must admit they really pulled it out of the bag to come so close to winning! Come on England.
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Four wickets in four balls
Lasith Malinga almost got Sri Lanka out of jail yesterday in their World Cup match vs South Africa. If you missed it, watch it here.
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Super 8s explained
Cricket World Cup 2007 now enters into the second stage called the Super 8s. How does this work? It's explained very well here. In related news, Kevin Pietersen is now top of the batting rankings! Well done Kevin.
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Smug
Could Ricky Ponting be any more smug? Somebody, anybody, please please wipe that expression off his face and win the World Cup. South Africa? Sri Lanka? Dare I say England?
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Who will win Cricket World Cup 2007?
Check out who's looking hard to beat in this form guide.
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Where to watch cricket world cup online?
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Update: CricketNext reportedly has rights to stream live coverage so keep checking their site. Also, please check out my Duckworth Lewis calculator which can help you work out who's winning during the games.
Scanning through the list of CWC 2007 licensed broadcasters, it looks as though it's going to be tough to watch live coverage of the teams battling it out if you don't have SkyTV or satellite equipment. The BBC, who were streaming live action during the football world cup last year only have rights to show highlights... I see a couple of broadcasters have internet rights, but you can be pretty sure that they'll be charging for any service or software. Please add a comment if you know any different!
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DL Method explained with worked examples
With the cricket World Cup only a couple of weeks away, I thought I would go through a few Duckworth Lewis scenarios for people wanting to use my calculator to follow the matches.
This page has the text for the worked examples but below are illustrations of what the calculator should look like for each one.
Example 1:
Note that to get the wickets to appear, you need to left click.
Example 2:
To create yet-to-be-played and restricted overs, right click to the earliest ball in the innings that is yet to be bowled (black will then show from that point to the end of the innings), right click again on the ball representing the start of the restricted overs for yellow to appear.
Example 3:
And just because it was so enjoyable, below is what you should have had if you followed the second match of the recent CBS series (described here) just as they'd come back from the second rain break.
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Cricket World Cup Wallchart
Only a few weeks left now until the Cricket World Cup schedule begins! West Indies 2007 promises to be as exciting as ever and to help you follow it, here's a wallchart for you to print out and fill in as the tournament progresses. (Actually, an Excel spreadsheet version would be better I think... Maybe I'll whip up something over the next few days...)
By the way, my Duckworth Lewis calculator is freely available for use during the forthcoming matches to help discern how each game is going and who's winning. It's not only useful for rain-affected matches!
Update: Here's a link to a site that has all sorts of sporting spreadsheets, including one for CWC 2007 (mirror).
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Goal line technology... coming soon?
Over 80% of football fans are in favour of it and it's going to be trialed at the 2007 FIFA World Club Championship - so will goal line technology be here to stay? I thought I'd do a bit of research on this and share that here.
Naturally, as most games of football only see an average of 2 or 3 goals, one more or one less makes all the difference. There are times when it's too close to call and, whatever the decision, it leaves one team and their fans enraged. On the odd occasion, a clear goal is missed by only one person - the referee. Let's be honest, refs need all the help they can get.
How it works:
Sensors are placed inside the goal posts (or at least inline with the posts) and they determine where the ball is. They look for a chip inside the special "smartball", which is a football, except that its total weight, properties in the air, rate of spin, etc are no different to an ordinary football. The chip must also remain in the centre of the ball despite all the knocks it receives. The sensors look for the chip about once every millisecond and when a ball has crossed the line, the referee's specially made watch vibrates and/or makes a buzzing sound (or if I was to design it, dispenses a reasonably high voltage electric shock).
So let's bring it on! We've all had enough of the type of bitterness exemplified by the German football fans over World Cup '66.
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Watch World Cup highlights
The BBC have a free video archive of previous World Cup football matches. Re-live 30 40 years of hurt and watch past greats like Pele, Maradona and Mark Lawrenson.
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World Cup Wallchart
Follow FIFA World Cup 2006 with this electronic wallchart (in Microsoft Excel format).
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FIRA The Federation of International Robot-soccer Association is where all the best fooball playing robots can be found. Yes, robots play football too. They even have a World Cup!
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Football World Cup 2006 Draw
The groups have been decided!
Which group is the "Group of Death"? I think it's Group C...
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Rugby Sevens World Cup
The Rugby Sevens World Cup in Hong Kong this weekend was awesome. It was nice to see here who Melrose Cup winners the Fijian team credited with their win.
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What a result! We gave them a stuffing! It was a Turkey shoot! Okay, okay... no more Turkey jokes. Let's joke about Aussies. I watched the football in an Aussie pub called the Walkabout in Wimbledon and I've never seen so many TVs in one place before. Definitely planning to go back there often, and most definitely when we whip them during the rugby world cup in their own backyard!
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English Pride
Even though we're out of the World Cup, we can still restore some English pride because Wimbledon starts today. There's a useful real-time scoreboard on the website if you can't get to a TV. Go Tim!
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Down and Out
Have been too disappointed with England being out of the World Cup to write much. Plus I'm actually quite ill... I should be better soon though.
I'm moving down to London on Tues so this website will disappear for a couple of weeks, then hopefully will reappear at www.nimisis.com once a phoneline and ADSL is up and running in my new place (and I've sorted out a webserver). See you then.
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It was great to watch Denmark play like they had a plane to catch. Got quite abusive during the match... I called them citizens of a stub of a country, full of Vikings and only worthy of acid rain... Sorry, very embarassed and ashamed now. World Cup fever is taking over!
Bring on Brazil or Belgium.
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Don't Cry For Me Batistuta
Not the best England performance I've ever seen but still, we're through, and the icing on the cake is the fact that both France and now Argentina are out. Woo hoo! Coming second in the group may not be all that bad. At least the next match against Denmark won't be in the sweltering heat of the afternoon (as it will be for Sweden against Senegal) but the more comfortable cool of the evening.
Check our statistical chances of winning according to 'Gari' (Glover Automated Results Indicator).
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