It’s Friday and it’s game day. Yes I know the heading is saying round one while one game has already been played. We will do a thread on each of the rounds as they are set out on SB. Here is the first rounds fixtures:
4 Chevrolet Warriors v Chevrolet Knights, East London 15:00
4 Sunfoil Dolphins v Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras, Durban 15:00
6 Sunfoil Dolphins v Chevrolet Warriors Pietermartizburg 10:00
6 bizhub Highveld Lions v Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras, Johannesburg 10:00
6 Nashua Titans v Chevrolet Knights, Benoni 10:00
The first game was played @ centurion where the Titans kicked off their campaign with a win over the Lions, Lions scoring 257/7 The Titans scored the runs within 34 overs 3 wickets down earning themself a bonus point with the effort.
Today sees the Warriors taking on the Knight’s and the Dolphins facing the Cobras. The Dolphins have the servises of some of their Protea players in this game. Amla, Miller and Tahir is available to play.
is smith playing? I cant wait to see him and gibbs together after the gibbs’s book
@cody007 (Comment 1) :
Good morning, the venue at Pietermaritzburg…is it The Oval?
Lovely town!
@Anneleen (Comment 3) : yes it is the Oval..
Dolphins squad
KJ Abbott, AM Amla, HM Amla, LE Bosman, CS Delport, F de Wet, R Frylinck, MM Hulett, Imran Tahir, I Khan*, KA Maharaj, DA Miller, D Paterson, D Smit†
Cape Cobras squad
MV Boucher†, HH Gibbs, JM Kemp*, RK Kleinveldt, RE Levi, J Louw, JL Ontong, RJ Peterson, DL Piedt, FC Plaatjies, AG Puttick, OA Shah, GC Smith, DW Steyn, MY Vallie, DJ Vilas
How did the Cobras let Henry Davids go to the Titans?Oh wait, we have Graeme Smith and Robin Piterson
@Franshark (Comment 5) : H Gibbs that could not even score runs at the Hong Kong sixes
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 7) : we had a bad HK6′s loosing all 3 games
@Franshark (Comment 8) : YOH!
Warriors squad
ACR Birch, N Boje, J Botha, AZM Dyili, CA Ingram*, A Jacobs†, JP Kreusch, M Ntini, AG Prince, JT Smuts, J Theron, CA Thyssen, LL Tsotsobe
Knights squad
RT Bailey, WL Coetsee, HH Dippenaar, D du Preez, MN Erlank, RR Hendricks, AJ Pienaar, C Pietersen, RR Rossouw, JJ van der Wath, SC van Schalkwyk, MN van Wyk*†
@Clayton(PJLD) (Comment 9) :
Henry Davids was very good while he played for us.
I would think we have too many journeymen in the middle order of late:
Ontong, Kemp, Petersen, Louw
@wpw (Comment 11) : Is Henry Davids the Guy that looks like an alien when he wears his helmet?
Warriors 46/1 (9.5 ov)
Dolphins 41/0 (10 ov)
Durban + cricket = RAIN
warriors 133/3 (28.4 overs)
Warriors 143/3 (31.2 ov)
Any of the games on TV?
@Ben (Comment 18) : only the dolphins game but it is raining
The Warriors ended on 265 for 7 after 50 overs. Smuts 98, Kreusch 42.
dolphins game abandoned
Warriors 265/7 (50 ov); Knights 234/9 (50 ov)
Warriors won by 31 runs
MOTM: JT Smuts (Warriors) scoring 98runs, taking 3 for 48 runs in 9 overs
It was obviously his day today,
Lions vs Cobras at Wanderers.
Cobras batting 1st.
Cob 379/7 after their 50 overs.
Lions need 380 to win from 50 overs!
Richard Levi hit 110 runs off 57 balls!
Dolphins v Warriors at Pietermaritzburg
Warriors 290/8 (50 ov)
@Ben (Comment 25) : Great batting…..
Titans v Knights at Benoni
Titans 157 (38.4 ov)
Titans 157 (38.4 ov); Knights 161/1 (30.4 ov)
Knights won by 9 wickets
That also means that the Knights gets a bonus point..
And if you geust it, its raining in PMB, no cricket for the Dolphins again…
And if you guest it, its raining in PMB, no cricket for the Dolphins again…
Jip,nice soft rain in pmb
Lions 157/3 (29.1 ov)
AB de Villiers was given out for obstructing the field… One of the new rules in OD cricket
The game @ PMB has been declared a no result….
Lions was 190 after 35 overs, they have to score the next 190 runs in 15 overs….
Lions score 307 (48.5 ov) and stil loose the game by 90 runs
@Franshark (Comment 37) : Didn’t they lose by 72 Runs?
I’m glad they changed the format back to 50 overs from 45 overs.
@Ben (Comment 38) :
ja, Sunday.. Not good with maths on the rest day 
Shame the game in pmb rained out.but the rain was nice.
Sa vs aus this coming wednesday.be interesting to see the team they select.
@bergshark (Comment 42) : same thoughts here, wanne see if they pick Rudolf
@bergshark (Comment 42) : they talked about using 2 spinners but with all the rain the pitch not drying out enough
Two spinners? Well I was hoping to see tahir there.any idea why he didn’t feature in the odi’s
Smith, Rudolph, Amla, Kallis, de Viliers, Duminy, Boucher, Tahir, Morkel, Steyn, Tsotsobe…..
Would be my pick
@bergshark (Comment 45) : my thoughts is with AB not playing they wanted to help the batting and by that they picked Botha
@Franshark (Comment 46) : that means Philander, Harris and Prince missing out.
@Franshark: dale steyn needs to produce.
Hope to see tahir in the starting xi.
@Franshark (Comment 46) : Is AB ready to play the tests?
@Ben (Comment 50) : Yes
@Franshark (Comment 51) : Very good news.