The Association Football World Cup kicked off in grand styleThursday evening, and continued with some great games on Friday. In the premier game of the day, Portugal vs.Spain, the European champions, Portugal, could only battle to a draw againstpowerful but coachless Spain, all on the backs of a hat trick, three goals,scored by the top world player and Portugal standout, Cristiano Ronaldo. The Spaniards, down two to one at the half,battled back and were ahead 3-2 as the end of regulation time approached. Ronaldo carried out unbelievable feat as timeran out to escape with a draw. Saturday promises more group play. In the first game of the day France will takeon Australia, then Argentina hosts Iceland, Peru hosts Denmark, and Croatiahosts Nigeria. In international Cricket, Afghanistan travelled to India totake on the number one team in the world, and dropped early. In their test match, which unbelievablylasted fewer than two days, India manhandled the competition. India, preparing for their tour of Englandwhich will come later in the Summer, are in top form. The margin of victory – an innings and 262runs - was crushing. The manner of it, even more so. All over within two days –the first time a Test in the subcontinent had ever finished before the thirdday. Each of Afghanistan’s two innings lasted less than a session. Top ranked England was majorly embarrassed on Sunday, with ashock six-run defeat in a One DayInternational (ODI) Sunday at the handsof Scotland. They rebounded Wednesday with a three-wicket victory over Australia intheir one-day international series-opener at The Adelaide Oval. They reachedtheir goal of 215 before finishing on 218 for seven with six overs to spare. In other cricket news, Pakistan surged to a victory in theirsecond Twenty20 international against Scotland in Edinburgh on Wednesday. Theywon with an 84 run rout. In doing so,they won both games of their series. Scotland,rightfully excited at the ODI win against number one England, was hoping for a T20win over number one ranked Twenty20 champs Pakistan, but such was not tobe. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
