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Old 06-03-2007, 05:14 PM in reply to ray fidge's post starting "I'm going by the cricinfo scorecards,..."
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Ray - you're right: these are not official games and, as far as I know, personal records for ODIs will not be updated for these warm up events. The reason is that the games are not even played according to the Laws of Cricket. Take a look at the card for South Africa v Ireland yesterday, for example, and you will see that it was a 13-a-side event (only eleven allowed to bat, however). This is commonplace these days - intended to give the whole squad a run out in as few warm-ups as possible. I don't like it all that much, but cricket it's not - that starts when the competition opens next week.

Welcome to the board, by the way: hope you'll stick around to talk about the real action once it gets started.
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