This is South Africa’s first real test, and the opposition had just come off a shock loss to Ireland. Will the English bounce back to their brilliant best that we saw against India, or will this be a walk in the park for the Proteas?
The other game today sees India taking on Ireland, where I cannot see another upset on the cards, to be honest. My prediction is a quick game for the Indians.
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SA open with Robbie Petersen who takes three wickets in his first two overs!
15/3 are the English
21/3 after 7 overs
Great start SA….
Lets not let it go…we need to keep Eng down….
Eng 44/3 after 12 overs
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 2) : Good morning Rich, wow what a start, this wicket is gonna be a challenge for us when batting. So the less runs these English guys get the better.
Shjo but Smith is mixing up his bowlers…
Used 5 in 13 overs already…..
We just letting it go now!!!!!!!
Like we going through the motions!!!!!
The first review of the morning
Think good dec bringing on Tahir….
This time it went against us but i like the review system. Makes the game more fair.
@franshark (Comment 8) :
And missing comfortably…dec overturned…
Drinks lets get some coffee.
6th bowler….
Score?
@Hmmm (Comment 13) :
Du Plessis
7th bowler used by Smith (Duminy) and it is the 19th over…
@BoerSeun (Comment 14) :
72/3 after 18.4….
Trott 30* (64)
Bopara 23* (37)
I picked SA and India to win.
80/3 after 21 overs.
80/3 in 21 I would have been happy with that before the game… but now thing just going to much Englands way. We need a few overs off intense pressure for one off these guys to make a mistake.
Close but no run out 🙁
Jeez I hate Nasser Husain! He goes on and on and on. Like a whining female dog. I think he has something against us coz smith ended his career.
@Jarson (AddicteD) (Comment 20) : I still wanted to say congrats on passing 50000 points and getting team captain rank…….. 😉
89/3 after 24….
So we still keeping the run rate down…240 is the ave score on this ground…
My picks for today… SA by 5 wickets, and India by 7 wickets/68 runs …… So by the way my SB picks for S15 yesterday was dismal to say the least, only 3 point 😳 good golly, did i say that aloud…..
first 6 of the match….
8 from Duminy’s last over….
@franshark (Comment 26) :
My S15 SB for the 1st 3 weeks has been terrible…
But yesterday saved me as I got 4 game right and a margin point or so…taking me to 5 for the weekend…which is half my total points…. 😉
Trott 50* (87)
Trott ave 99 against SA in ODI’s
@Hmmm (Comment 29) : I keep on backing this Lions team to win, they keep on getting close but not…. and then this Bulls when i say they gonna lose they win and versa visa… 😕
ok back to cricket… this partnership is staring to work on my nerves now…… 👿
112/3 after 29…
@franshark (Comment 32) :
Me too…at least I got the Landers pic over the Bulls spot on….
@franshark (Comment 33) :
Trott out!!!!!
Drop catch from Stein, but it would have been a cracker if it stuck…
Caught and bowled Tahir (after Trott was dropped 2 balls earlier by Steyn off Tahir)…
And Tahir gets it right and save some face for Stein…
114/4 after 29.5 overs
Ok i,m out for a while, off to church, will chat lter in the run chase.
a WICKET!!!! just before i go, 134/5 first wicket to a pace man…Morkel
Waar is klempie??
Eng 162/9
44 overs
Eng 171 all out
South Africa: 20 for no loss.
Go Proteas. Hope we bat as well as we bowled. 😎
@Mocho (Comment 46) : Yeah, we going well so far.
South Africa: 27 for no loss
5overs
@Puma (Comment 48) : Me thinks The International Cricket Council should mull over the fact that minnows like ENGLAND should qualify for the world cup
@Mocho (Comment 50) : 🙂
Smith struggling with form. He needs time in the middle, to regain his confidence.
50 partnership
Smith needs to be dropped…
@Rahul (Comment 54) : Think he got a bit unlucky with the decision. It was a 50/50. Smith is actually becoming more and more like John Smit by the day. Inspirational leader.
He did some good captaining this cwc, made a 50 in the first match. Think by the round robin stages he and Kallis will hit their sweet point.
SA in a good position…but it is still touch and go…
We need AB to come through…don’t know if the other batsman are experienced enough for this situation (as talented as they are)
100 up!!!
SA 101/3 from 25.2 overs
SA 103-3 25 overs
69 more runs to win from 150 balls
SA need 65 from 136 balls
AB out…..nervous times….
AB was bowled and no one even picked that up….feint touch of the bails…
Lance Klusener starting to commentate. Sweet. What a legend the man is. My favourite all time cricketer.
Choke choke choke…
Faf run out! 124-5
Those choking genes into full effect now! Duminy bowled. SA 124-6
Duminy just survived a close call…
And then bowled…
@Hmmm (Comment 66) : only to be clean bowled the next ball.
Not looking good for us…
We have vna wyk and peterson who open for their provinces…but this aint MTN40!!!!!
@Mocho (Comment 50) : Hehehehehehehe You must be hoping that that comment doesn’t come back to bite you on the arse. 😆
@Ben (Comment 68) :
My 3g got stuck at that moment…so the initial comment took like forever to load…lol
@Hmmm (Comment 71) : Haha thought you got stuck in the past there for a second. 🙂
Someone must just go aggressive….
Just hope we hang in for the win here. We lose another wicket think we might not make it.
🙄
Wonder if our brilliant selectors are regretting leaving Boucher at home now!!
I go buy some groceries and they lose 7 wickets?!?
Van Wyk is more than capable of taking the Proteas home..
That little meltdown is worrying though..
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 78) :
Yes he is a much better batsman than Boucher…so we have the better wicket keeper…
He just needs someone to stick in the other end…
@Hmmm (Comment 79) :
Seems like Steyn looks keen for a bit of a bat..
18 needed
Andersons wides are def helping…ha-ha
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 80) :
As long as he does not try and win with 6’…we have LOADS of balls
Ireland 160/6
@Hmmm (Comment 83) :
We can win with a wide for all I care..
Win is a win at this stage..
Far too tense for my liking.
Got SA by 3 wickets on SB.
15 needed
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 85) :
Ha-ha yes…
Nice reverse sweep getting us 3….awesome batting van Wyk
Batting power play….is it by default? Did we forget to take it…there are only 5 overs left….
Dales Steyn has more runs than Van Wyk…and he just got in? LoL
@McLovin (Comment 86) :
I got it by 4 wickets….I need some SB luck… 😉
@Hmmm (Comment 92) : More like a miracle.
Van Wyk out. 👿
Van Wyk out!!!!!!!!
Morkel up next.
12 runs needed with 2 wickets and 22 balls remaining
@McLovin (Comment 93) :
Ha-Ha…..I guess you right…lol
Comeone Morkel…..think that you are Albie!!!!
9 from 19!!!!
But 9 can be soooo far after a few dot balls…
The need to make sure they pick the singles…
8 needed from 3 overs.
2 wickets in hand.
8 from last 3 overs….
Ireland 178/7
I’ve got India by 9 wickets.
Steyn LBW.
Steyn on review for LBW
All over now I reckon.
Steyn out!!!!!!
Never seen Tahier bat…hope he is better than Tsotsobe…
Two 4’s by Morkel…we can hope!!!!
Morkel going for it…but straight to fielder…
C’mon Morkel!
All over.
Eng win by 6 runs.
Spectacular choke. 👿
Morkel swings and edges to keeper…
England win by 6….
If the Proteas don’t get some character they will not win this competition…
Eng go top of the group. For a short while at least.
Great display of Choking this.
For a few hours at least…
I’m back in SuperBru contention!!
Terrible stuff from the Protea middle order..
I don’t know what we can change though, to be honest.
SA go 3rd. Soon to be 4th. 🙄
Ireland 184/8
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 118) : Told you.
@McLovin (Comment 120) : Luckily we still have to play Ireland and Bangladesh
@McLovin (Comment 122) :
Yeah, you did.. hehe
@Hmmm (Comment 117) : Still think van Wyk is better than Boucher. Boucher got us out of these squeezes all the time. We choked, AGAIN!! We were cruising this game how could we lose it?? I am off to India on Friday so I hope they put up a better performance against India, in Nagpur!!
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 119) : Albie would have come in handy for the powerplay??
@Ben (Comment 123) : And Eng have played one game more than us too.
@McLovin (Comment 127) : They drew with India which also works in our favour. Just hope we can beat India!!
Ai Proteas…
I should just leave sport…
@McLovin (Comment 127) : Correct
@Hmmm (Comment 129) : I feel the same way, I really thought this team was going to get rid of the chokers Tag. Maybe it is good it happened now and not later in the knockout stage, would have been so nice to knock England out, Oh well good luck to them.
Ireland 201/9
47 overs
@Whindy (Comment 131) :
Hopefully they they gain some character from this…
@Mocho (Comment 50) :
The Things we say that come back and bite us on the arse. 😆
India 79/2 chasing 208 against Ireland.
@Richard Ferguson (Comment 135) : Man utd? Taking a dip now?
Pathetic Proteas! 🙄
Ch-Ch-Ch-Chokers!!! 👿
@Big Fish (Comment 138) : Just looking at England after their batting performance they were a demoralised team. I go out and when I could check the score South Africa had blown it and CHOKED.
I have a bad feeling that this is not going to be a good year for SA and world cups.
Epic choke. Worse than what John Hughes did to Linda Lovelace in the 70’s. Well done Proteas.
The blame should go squarely onto Smiths’s shoulders who, when we had England totally on the racks with the spinners, decided to go for seam at both ends, ending up with Trott and Bopara’s match-winning partnership. Dumbass!
And we also need to look at how many batsmen got bowled out and how many got out playing totally KAK shots. Kallis’s feet are nowhere lately and both Amla and van Wyk gave their wickets away on a silver platter.