Roll on tomorrow...

20/20 World Cup - South Africa

England's first game is tomorrow at 12:30 (GMT) against Zimbabwe. Because some of us have prior arrangements and can't up and fly to South Africa for the game, Sky Sports is being lovely and showing it live. Broad's in the squad and will almost definately start, so here's looking forward to a great game.



Couple things from the last week that I've not updated with yet:

We won the series! Haha. 4-3, heroics from England to finish off an awesome ODI series against India. It was the perfect preparation for this coming 20/20 world cup, well done boys. Celebration photos in the album below.


TimesOnline article with some good quotes:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/cricket/article2368728.ece

Interview with Broady about choosing to tour Sri Lanka with the England first team
http://www.sportinglife.com/cricket/news/story_get.cgi?STORY_NAME=cricket/07/09/01/CRICKET_England_Broad.html



Any match photos or such will be in the usual place (includes official 20/20 headshots):
http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/SB39Album/










Enjoy.

Interviews

Couple post-match interviews

Praise for England's young'uns from the one&only Sir Ian Botham:
http://www.skysports.com/cricket/match_reaction/0,19822,11066_13957,00.html

Mr. Broad (senior) talks about expectations and such:
http://content-usa.cricinfo.com/engvind/content/story/309128.html



Training images for 01/9/07 available here:
http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/cc103/SB39Album/



Instead of boring you with facts and figures, I'll give you these two simple options.
First, go here: http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/64/64168/64168.html for stats galore that'll keep you entertained if that's what you're into.
Second, watch the lad play. Me personally, I always hated numbers, so I'll stick with playing it by ear (or eye, rather) and go with the latter - statistics just don't do what a live match does for your judgement.


Next game will be tomorrow's (Sunday) 5th ODI at Headingley (booo), live on Sky Sports 1 from 10am for those of you that can't drag yourselves to Yorkshire for the game.