Warning: If you are not happy with my support for the New Zealand cricket team, STAY AWAY!!!

I bunked my lab for this match. I was up one hour before the match started (ok, I accept it wasn't intentional, I got the wrong time). I was watching every single ball, every single step the Kiwis were taking backwards, into the jinx.

First it was an obvious struggling Shane Bond, the one man who was billed to be the destroyer-in-chief. I hate MEDIA. And I will express it in every way possible. They hyped it. And it's effect was clearly shown on the day. Am not playing the blame game, but I hate when they do that "hype and kill". They did that to the Indian team and now to everybody in their crosshairs. Poor Shane!

Anyway, next was the obvious failure of Vettori, followed by the "missing the stumps" while throwing. It showed, if anything, that it wasn't New Zealand's day. I still hoped and prayed that they get back on track. Even when Franklin and Patel were fiddling around, I was hopeful of some miracle. Alas! It wasn't so.

Styris with a heavily strapped right (his bowling hand) fingers was ominous from the very beginning. McMillan pulling a stomach muscle proved beyond doubt that it was going to be the JINX again. Poor Fleming! With all that they put into for so many days giving in on the one day it mattered, couldn't do anything better, getting out for a paltry one.

Lasith Malinga, I hope you tele-kinetically read this, if you don't bowl well on Saturday and scare the Aussies' I am gonna come down to Sri Lanka, hunt you down and do nothing.

Enough people are going ga-ga over Jayawardene's century, so I won't make it boring, except that I haven't seen a much better Captain's knock (well, if you don't consider Fleming's century against the SA's in 2003 world cup). :D Die hard fan that I am.

Sri Lanka deserved to go through, and I CAN PROCLAIM New Zealand is the 3rd best, since they beat South Africa too. Hmm fair enough.

Now, let's see if all this promise of Sri Lanka can beat the mighty Aussies. Either way, this is good for cricket. The two teams that rightly deserved to be in the finals for this showpiece event. One by the virtue of their sheer class and other, symbolizing the rise of a rightful contender to the throne.

GO LANKA!!!!!!!!!!!

P.S. Beat the shit out of Aussies.. pls..