Think he would have been considered an almost all rounder
http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafr...yer/47267.html
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Think he would have been considered an almost all rounder
http://www.espncricinfo.com/southafr...yer/47267.html
@Simon did we get a wicket?
They are one wicket down, 47/1 after 13 overs. Morkel got Tharanga.
103/2 we need to start getting a lot more.
120/4 30th over, starting to look good for SA
Well Robbie P did 10 overs 1/39, I don't know if he is maintaining his position in the team as a frontline spin bowler since Duminy is starting to bowl a lot better. Wonder how long it will be before something breaks
ooh 143/5 McLaren's turn
Six down now and bowlers have been economical... for a change. :p
Wow it's not going good at all for us...76/5...:wtf:
wow that is pretty badQuote:
11.10pm It's over. Called off. Sri Lanka win by 17 runs. It would have been a tough chase for South Africa even if it was a full 50-over chase. With Amla unavailable due to injury, it became even tougher.
Man of the Match today should be the groundstaff who have put in some serious hard work today.
Post-match presentation:
The Man of the Match is Dinesh Chandimal, for his battling 43.
AB de Villiers: "Much better game from us, the bowling did okay, the batsmen let us down, very disappointing. It's not over yet, three big games coming up for us now. Amla is injured, not too serious, hopefully we'll get him ready for the next match. He was scheduled to come out to bat after the next wicket fell. I think we have the potential and the talent in the batting unit." He says the much-improved fielding was one of the positives today.
Dinesh Chandimal: "When I went to bat, we were four down, I just assessed the pitch and then played my normal game. We played on the same pitch before, that's why I opted to bat first. Angelo will come in for the next game, we have our fingers crossed for winning the game."
http://www.espncricinfo.com/sri-lank...ch/635654.html
Another choke maybe? Technically not, as there were no trophies up for grabs. It still hurts.
:(
Man did you guys see the catches we missed and poor batting? :(
Can't believe D/L beat us again. Can't they just call it the Anti SA method :( lol
India tour of Zimbabwe, 1st ODI: Zimbabwe v India at Harare, Jul 24, 2013
http://www.espncricinfo.com/zimbabwe...ch/643665.html
India won the toss and elected to bowl
Zimbabwe 228/7 (50 ov)
Sikandar Raza 82 (112)
Mishra 3/43
India 230/4 (44.5 ov)
Kohli 115 (108)
Rayudu 63* (84)
Utseya 2/34
India won by 6 wickets (with 31 balls remaining)
A simple chase for India, as was widely expected. Virat Kohli displayed his class once more, guiding the chase responsibly. Zimbabwe's bowlers struggled to trouble India, erring on the pads quite often. Ambati Rayudu looked solid at the crease on his first appearance on the international stage, staying till the very end and scoring the winning runs.
Its Presentation time. Brendan Taylor: First hour was vital, We didn't lose any wickets but we could have been a bit more proactive. Against a quality side like India we needed 270 on the board. Sikandar Raza played very well, showing good composure despite having hardly played any games. Prosper Utseya was good with the ball and hopefully next time we can come out and express ourselves a little better.
Virat Kohli is the Man-of-the-Match. Happy with the win. Always good to kick off a tour with a win and personally I was happy with the way I played. The ball was moving around a bit early on and it was all about percentage cricket, rotating the strike and then playing your shots at the end. Our bowlers did a very good job up front. The new ball was doing quite a bit in the morning and with two new balls you can't count any team out. Congratulations to Ambati Rayudu, he's got an India call-up after a long time and he's grabbed his opportunity very well.
In the current team, I would rather have Faf as the captain. AB has got too much to do as keeper and batsmen. Great player and he'd always be No. 4 or 5 in my team list, but I do not think he is the person to captain the side.
Ha! Another! My wonderful missus was also born there. I haven't had the pleasure of travelling the country yet.
I am also hoping they play well. Even if they do not beat India, I really want to see them grow in strength. Just too many mediocre scores and not enough knuckling down.
Yeah SA is full of ex Zimbo's, they used to be pretty good before the massive exodus of players, just nice to know that a Zimbo coaches the English :)
Well playing against a team of India or SA calibre gives a lot of experience so it shouldn't be too long before they start playing better and getting more game time with top teams
Anybody keeping tabs on the SA A vs Aus A game. David Warner batted extremely well yesterday nearly making a double hundred.
I don't know why he isn't playing in the Ashes games.
Flower is probably the only thing I like about the English team ;)
After Warner belted Joe Root at 2am in a pub after the Aussies got klapped in an ODI by the Poms, he was temporarily banned.
I cannot remember how long the ban was, but all was forgiven.
The new coach felt that Warner needed some match practice before he could return to the team and was flown to play in this series.
His first game against Zim was terrible and got to pathetic scores (for a player of his calibre - although there weren't many decent scores in that game by anyone else). He has definitely put his hand up with the near double ton. Good strike rate too.
After this performance I doubt there will be any reason why he won't be drafted back into the starting eleven straight away. Also, I recall that there was talk that he would be coming into bat at 5 or 6 to take the place of Michael Hussey. Given opportunity and no more throwing handbags in late night brawls, he should make the place his own.
I needed to be dropped - Warner
Quote:
David Warner has admitted he needed the "kick up the bum" of being suspended and ultimately dropped from Australia's Test side after his punch at Joe Root in a Birmingham pub. Warner's ban over the incident cost him his place in the first two Investec Tests at Trent Bridge and Lord's but he is firmly back in contention for a recall in the third Test at Old Trafford after his 193 during the ongoing match against South Africa A in Pretoria.
Warner was sent on the Australia A tour of Zimbabwe and South Africa after being left out of the Trent Bridge Test as the Australian camp sought a way to get him some game time following his suspension. His punch at Root on a night out during the Champions Trophy ultimately led to the sacking of coach Mickey Arthur, but for Warner personally, losing his place in the national side after playing 19 consecutive Tests was a wake-up call.
"Sitting on the sidelines and copping that punishment and not being selected it was a thing that I needed," Warner said from South Africa. "I definitely needed a kick up the bum. It was my own fault the incident that happened. My job was then to support our players, support the rest of the group and do everything I could to help them prepare for the games. I did that and I know the other guys on the tour did the same thing. We've all been working very hard."
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South Africa doing shockingly bad, 99/4 27.4 overs
Finding new ways to capitulate :(
SA 223/7 with a nice knock on the end from Miller.
SL 39/3 in the 15th over. There is hope.
The Proteas has just one an ODI for the first time in 19 years against Sri Lanka in Sri Lanka. The last time we beat them in their own country was in 1993...
Could their win have anything to do with AB being in the field and not behind the stumps. He is able to captain better from there. Also the off side cordon of JP, AB and Faf is superb.
Not looking too bad at the moment. 54/1 after 10 overs. I suspect the news of Dale Steyn playing a small role in the new Adam Sandler movie might have inspired the team :D
Photo in the newspaper of Sandler wearing a Proteas shirt made me lol more than his last 3 movies.
They are at the moment 149/3...they had a bit of a slow patch after Amla and AB's wickets, but seems a bit better. But looking at the wicket I think the they have to at least look at getting around 250
Oh my...not good. Proteas lost 3 very quick wickets. We're now 175/6. Not looking too good now
Another humiliating loss. Not just the game but the series too. :(
Yeah I am still sticking to my 4 - 1 to SL, hope not but SA really needs to pull their socks up in the ODI format if they want to be a well rounded side. A bit humiliating saying number one in the world when its only in tests. I actually wonder if this is a new record, for a team to be number one in tests but number 5 in ODI
World Cup draw
Pool A England, Australia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, New Zealand, two qualifiers
Pool B South Africa, India, Pakistan, West Indies, Zimbabwe, Ireland, qualifier
Just read that AB is taking the blame but I mean I don't think he should of been captain anyway. Too much responsibility already as it is.
So last game is today, any predictions of the outcome?