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All Group Matches are over and so are the so called Super 8s, which effectively turned out to be Super 6s. The stage is now set for the two Semis and the big Final on April 28th. Who can predict what will happen from here on? Any takers? My prediction relies on the theme of Sweet Revenge. Here is what I mean….
Tomorrow New Zealand takes on Muralitharan and the rest of the Sri Lankans. As we will all remember, SL defeated NZ in their Super 8 match with great amount of ease, almost lazily. So NZ would be all set to take the Revenge of that defeat. The second semi-final is between the Aussies and their so-called bunnies, the South Africans. South Africa have lost some memorable (or forgettable depending on your point of view) matches and have won a few memorable ones, including one where they chased 434. In this WC, SA lost their group match against Australia despite threatening to chase the 370+ target for a fair number of overs. Having lost that match and upon hearing all the taunts and more from ALL of the Australian team members, I believe South Africa is on the verge of upsetting the favorites and hence completing their Revenge.

So, following this theme, South Africa would meet NZ in the Finals and there too, the South African prevail by virtue of Avenging their defeat to NZ in the earlier Super 8 match.

Now the only thing that needs to happen is for the Cricketing Gods to buy into my theory of Sweet Revenges.