Given Sky are only covering the Black Caps and key games at the Cricket World Cup, I was forced to follow the two games yesterday via Cricinfo's live score updates.
But that didnt make it any less exciting to follow the action as Bangladesh knocked off India (although Bangladesh have been consistently improving) and the game that has rocked the World Cup - Ireland, who are competing in their first World Cup, beat Pakistan by 3 wickets.
Pakistan had earlier lost to the tournament hosts, the West Indies, meaning they are goneburgers - knocked out in the first round. On paper the Pakistanis had a very strong side - Mohammed Yousuf has been averaging nearly 90 in the last three years (since he converted to Islam from Christianity - read into that what you will!). So this is definitely a shock.
India are also under pressure with their loss to Bangladesh, if they lose to Sri Lanka in their next game (and the Sri Lankans would be favourites) theyre also gone.
Todays Herald listed all the great Cricket World Cup upsets this morning - luckily none of them involve NZ - here they are..
1979 - Sri Lanka 283/5 (not a test playing nation at this stage) beat India 191.
1983 - Zimbabwe 239/6 beat Australia 226/7
1996 - Kenya 166 beat the West Indies 93
1999 - Bangladesh 223/9 beat Pakistan 161
2003 - Canada 180 beat Bangladesh 120
2003 - Kenya 210/9 beat Sri Lanka 157
2007 - Bangladesh 192/5 beat India 191
2007 - Ireland 133/7 beat Pakistan 132
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