Shebeen Posted March 4, 2015 Share http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/72200/72222.jpgoh crap http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/11800/11826.jpgoh crap crap crap 40th Match: South Africa v Sri Lanka at Durban - Mar 3, 2003Sri Lanka 268/9 (50/50 ov); South Africa 229/6 (45/45 ov, target: 230)Match tied (D/L method)Scorecard | Commentary | Article index (4) | Photo index (27)Second world cup in a row where team PROTEAS get sent home in a tie. Except this was probably a bit more embarrassing than shocking – they were already home. Suppose we’ll never quite see cricket being a summer sport not being affected by rain in some point here.They did the previously unthinkable – and dropped AD. He’d been going for 5.35 an over, had only taken a single wicket for a silly average of 133. And just like Jonty, his final of 164 ODIs ended in a whimper the previous game. Sri Lanka won the toss and we’d have been happy with them at 90/3 after 22 overs. A 4th wicket stand of 150 came at 7rpo. A double strike got rid of both MotM Attapatu and De Silva round ther 45 over mark. But the damage was done even though only 24 came of the final 5 overs.http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/DB/032003/042906.jpgattapatu on his way to 133. pollie bowling i think, bouch standing up We started pretty well, going at a run a ball until Smith first fell at 65. We were still ahead of the required run rate when Herschelle went out at 150/4. With hindsight we can ask again WTF Pollie and coach Eric Simons were thinking with the batting order. Boeta Dippenaar was never going to set any stage alight, 8 off 15 kind of his usual return. Pollie came in before Klusener, the career records will probably show that Klusener’s ODI average of 41 comfortably ahead of Pollies 24. That’s just in case you’d been lost in a forest and missed the 1999 world cup. Andrew Hall didn’t even bat. http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/177600/177613.jpgwe need how many? This was the one time Zulu failed, his 1 off 8 probably what didn’t get us over the line. But it’s all remembered for what ended up being the final ball. Moment Lance Klusener's arrival at the crease coincided with a deterioration in the weather. As he patted just one run from his first eight balls it became increasingly clear that the match was going to end early. At the end of the 44th over the South African dressing room sent a message to Boucher that the score needed to be 229 by the end of the 45th, assuming no further wickets fell.The contest was on a knife edge but Sri Lanka's spinners were struggling to grip the slippery ball. Boucher pounced on the penultimate ball of the over, swinging a six over wide mid-on, and, the score now 229, he punched the air in jubilation and safely defended the last ball of the over. As he'd anticipated, the umpires pulled the players off.However, Boucher's elation was soon replaced by confusion and then despair: the instructions had been wrong. Two hundred and twenty nine were needed for a tie. South Africa needed a win to go through. As the rain drenched the ground and play was called off, the South Africa dressing room plunged into depression. Oh well, and that was that. We were out of our own tournament before the super sixes even started. Even worse, the other two co-hosts Zim and Kenya both got through (Kenya even made it to the semis). It was the second of three times super 6/8s were used in the tournament and they all ended with controversy.Can we really feel hard done by? If you play the what-if game and reverse the 3 run opening loss to WIndies (where remember we were docked an over for bowling slowly – but quicker than the windies) then we finish top of the log in group A, and carry full points through.BUT in hindsight it was clearly not a happy dressing room, the Hansie issue never quite pushed into the past. We beat two teams, Kenya and Canada who haven’t even qualified for the current 2015 tournament – and lost to windies and NZ, with a tie to SLanka. Just not good enough. more here - http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/story/130177.htmlhttp://www.espncricinfo.com/wisdenalmanack/content/story/155875.html http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/DB/032003/042896.jpgstuff this, you can be captain rather Edited March 4, 2015 by Shebeen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted March 4, 2015 Share https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gmgmq_NunKY for the masochists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted March 5, 2015 Share The cricket world cup finally came to the Caribbean, about 20years after the WIndies had finished dominating it. The clever fellows at the ICC tweaked the tournament again in a bid to get something that works.This time they did away with the super sixes and instead created super eights. Then they loaded 4 pools of 4 teams and seeded it so the 8 main test playing nations would walk through to a nice round robin and we could then just have a semis and finals.That’s why it wasn’t so bad that we drew Australia in our pool, we were surely going to get the better of the dutchies and the scots and move on? Like most good ideas the ICC comes up with, it backfired spectacularly. India slipped against Bangladesh and Pakistan fell to Ireland – they were gone home quickly and robbed the tournament of massive revenue mainly with India becoming a key tv market. The other feature was bizarrely high pricing forcing a vote with your wallet approach from the locals and most games were played to almost empty stadiums – with the odd touring group of supporters getting hammered on rum featuring heavily in between overs. 7th Match, Group A: Netherlands v South Africa at Basseterre - Mar 16, 2007South Africa 353/3 (40/40 ov); Netherlands 132/9 (40/40 ov)South Africa won by 221 runsScorecard | Commentary | Report | Article index (10) | Photo index (21)The sort of thing the ICC loves to show that the associates must go somewhere else – a mismatch. 353 looks pretty decent, but a wet field meant it was 40 overs each. 500 was probably on. AB will probably still have nightmares missing out here going for a duck as an openerhttp://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/72900/72914.jpghow do you get AB out?– JK scored an unbeaten hundred at more than a run a ball. But he was overshadowed a bit in the end by bouch who got a quickfire 75* off 31 balls. Even he was denied the MotM award which went to hersh in the end, he scored less runs, used up more balls and got out. But he did get 6 sixes in an over and that’s basically all this game is remembered for. Daan van Bunge was the unlucky bowler.Youtube preserves this world first for ushttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRPy9-7mRCshttp://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/72900/72937.jpggibbs didn't hold back http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/72900/72930.jpgthis will help my average. PE local Ryan ten Doeschate, arguably the best ever associate player, was the only one to offer resistance of any form. Biff used 7 bowlers, but only himself for the full quota of 8. His steak and pie mystery spin even got a wicket. We couldn’t get them all out, not even with the help of three runouts. Pitch was clearly a belter. http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/72900/72959.jpghow was ZAT??!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted March 6, 2015 Share Hope the Windies can give powerhouse India a snotklap today. Unlikely Gandalf and Oxter 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dev null Posted March 6, 2015 Share WI committing Hara Kiri. Time for them to take the tough decision to drop Gayle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted March 6, 2015 Share WI committing Hara Kiri. Time for them to take the tough decision to drop Gayle.For who? WIndies are most likely going to be playing NZ/Aus if they make it through to 1/4. on paper they will get steamrolled, on current form they will get a snotklap. The only chance they've got is for one of their gamebreakers to have a massively good day.Gayle is one of those, the other one is that spinner guy who has been chilling on the beach working on his action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted March 6, 2015 Share 15th Match, Group A: Scotland v South Africa at Basseterre - Mar 20, 2007Scotland 186/8 (50/50 ov); South Africa 188/3 (23.2/50 ov)South Africa won by 7 wickets (with 160 balls remaining)Scorecard | Commentary | Report | Article index (5) | Photo index (25)Just incase you needed confirmation that Warner Park was a flat pitch this was it. We couldn’t get Scotland out, in fact only took 6 wickets with the ball – Biff bowled himself before actual allrounder Justin Kemp (our attempt to replace klusener –, the only spinner in the squad was Robin Petersen – both still playing for the cobras with careers outlasting even the younger smith). http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/73200/73285.jpga young AB jumping all over the placehttp://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/73200/73267.gifAndrew hall pick of the bowlers AB and Biff got us three quarters of the way there with a century plus stand at 9 an over.Another match good for our run rate. http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/73200/73294.jpg http://www.espncricinfo.com/db/PICTURES/CMS/73200/73252.gifrespects are paid to former coach Bob Woolmer's shock passing during the tournament Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted March 6, 2015 Share ok, some long distance predictions here: *SA to play Sri Lanka in the 1/4 finals.*SA to bowl really slowly against pakistan, AB to get fined and banned for UAE game.ok getting closer now. Still think AB is going to try and get a one match ban. imagine him missing out on a knockout game for this dumb rule. reckon the 1/4 matchups will be Sri Lanka South AfricaEngland IndiaAustralia West IndiesNew Zealand Pakistan have assumed SA beat pakistan, and Aus beat sri lanka.... Edited March 6, 2015 by Shebeen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hboli4 Posted March 6, 2015 Share For who? WIndies are most likely going to be playing NZ/Aus if they make it through to 1/4. on paper they will get steamrolled, on current form they will get a snotklap. The only chance they've got is for one of their gamebreakers to have a massively good day.Gayle is one of those, the other one is that spinner guy who has been chilling on the beach working on his action. Apparently Narine did not go to the WC for personal reasons, did not make himself available. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxter Posted March 6, 2015 Share Apparently Narine did not go to the WC for personal reasons, did not make himself available. He was not confident in his bowling action and made himself unavailable, or that was what was said in a press release. It is shocking that they left out two of their senior players though, lots of politics in the background? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shebeen Posted March 6, 2015 Share He was not confident in his bowling action and made himself unavailable, or that was what was said in a press release. It is shocking that they left out two of their senior players though, lots of politics in the background?um ja. in the windies...always, but narine is back playing locally so it was quite a spicey reason.With the big three bullies, there's always politics we have the world's #1 and #2 bowlers watching from home. almost like the clampdown on dodgy actions was delayed to keep them out the tournament. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanbean Posted March 6, 2015 Share He was not confident in his bowling action and made himself unavailable, or that was what was said in a press release. It is shocking that they left out two of their senior players though, lots of politics in the background? um ja. in the windies...always, but narine is back playing locally so it was quite a spicey reason.With the big three bullies, there's always politics we have the world's #1 and #2 bowlers watching from home. almost like the clampdown on dodgy actions was delayed to keep them out the tournament.Wasn't there a problem with his bowling action? So he decided to sit it out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxter Posted March 6, 2015 Share COME ON WEST INDIA!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
'Dale Posted March 6, 2015 Share No upper cut available from the Windies though to drop the wobbly India to the canvass. Will the NRR scenario favour SA down the line?Time will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wil6 Posted March 7, 2015 Share What a perfect day to watch cricket. Its raining in Bloem, much needed rain, so that means no riding and luckily the cricket is good. Go Proteas! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wil6 Posted March 7, 2015 Share O no De Kok. Maybe time to replace him. But with whom? RFC311 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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