{"id":222,"date":"2007-09-12T07:34:20","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T05:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2007-09-12T07:38:03","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T05:38:03","slug":"rugby-world-cup-and-twenty20-cricket-schalks-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/rugby-world-cup-and-twenty20-cricket-schalks-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby World Cup and Twenty20 Cricket &#8211; Schalk&#8217;s ban??"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flicked between 2 channels yesterday evening watching some Rugby and Cricket.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that strikes me from this year&#8217;s World Cup is how well the lesser teams play.&nbsp; Last night it was the turn of Georgia.&nbsp; I just hope that they do not give their all for the first game and then there is nothing left for the rest of the tournament.&nbsp; Poor Schalk, did he deserve a 4 match ban? &#8212;&nbsp; if I count correctly that will include the first quarter final match.<\/p>\n<p>Onto the cricket.&nbsp; After Gayle&#8217;s whirlwind 117 who would have thought that South Africa would have won the game with 14 balls to spare.&nbsp; Well done to the boys.&nbsp; Pity on Graham&#8217;s hand though &#8212; will have to see what affect this will have on the rest of the tournament.&nbsp; Also looks like Gibbs is not at his best with the fact that he had to use a runner.<\/p>\n<p>Expanding Bubble in Space:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/multimedia\/imagegallery\/image_feature_909.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/images\/content\/188808main_image_feature_909_516-387.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/><small><i>Image Credit: NASA, Donald Walter (South Carolina State University), Paul Scowen and Brian Moore (Arizona State University)<\/i><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rugby%20world%20cup\" rel=\"tag\">rugby world cup<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/twenty20\" rel=\"tag\">twenty20<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/cricket\" rel=\"tag\">cricket<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/rwc\" rel=\"tag\">rwc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flicked between 2 channels yesterday evening watching some Rugby and Cricket. One thing that strikes me from this year&#8217;s World Cup is how well the lesser teams play.&nbsp; Last night it was the turn of Georgia.&nbsp; I just hope that <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/rugby-world-cup-and-twenty20-cricket-schalks-ban\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Rugby World Cup and Twenty20 Cricket &#8211; Schalk&#8217;s ban??<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-south-africa","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}