Round two wrap:
This round started for the Dolphins again not getting a game finished and for the 3rd time in a row sat and watched as the cricket field gets naturally watered and receiving 2 points for the effort of being there and ready to play. The Titans and Warriors played 2 games in this round and got 0 points from losing both games, other than the Cobras and Knights as they won both their respective games.
That all leaves the log looking like this.
1 Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras 14
2 Chevrolet Knights 13
3 Sunfoil Dolphins 10
4 Chevrolet Warriors 6
5 Nashua Titans 5
6 bizhub Highveld Lions 2
Let’s take a look at the outstanding players for this week:
Batsmen: Morne van Wyk 136(144), F du Plessis 120(115), L Bosman 112(102), D Smith 95(111), AG Puttick 96(117).
Bowlers C Langeveldt game close to a fiver with 4 for 46(10), M de Lange from the Titans got 5 but conceded 67 run in his 10 overs,
And so far this season:
Top 3 Batsman:
MN van Wyk 267
(Knights)
F du Plessis 4 232
(Titans)
ND McKenzie 202
(Lions)
Top 3 Bowlers:
CK Langeveldt 8
(Cape Cobras)
SC van Schalkwyk 7
(Knights)
RJ Peterson 6
(Cape Cobras)
The SW SB top 5 after round 2:
1 franshark
2 LouisV
3 maritzburgshark
4 BLOU BLOU BUL
5 conan
May I say at this stage our leader is also 23rd out of 11398 players contending in this competition on SB
Now for this coming weeks games:
16 Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras v Chevrolet Knights, Boland Park, Paarl
16 Chevrolet Warriors v Sunfoil Dolphins Buffalo Park, East London
18 Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras v Nashua Titans Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town
18 Chevrolet Knights v Sunfoil Dolphins Chevrolet Park, Bloemfontein
18 bizhub Highveld Lions v Chevrolet Warriors Senwes Park, Potchefstroom
20 Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras v bizhub Highveld Lions Boland Park, Paarl
20 Chevrolet Warriors v Nashua Titans Axxess DSL St George`s, Port Elizabeth
There is also another Test match going on over this weekend. We wane say congratulations to the Protea’s who came out on top of a very strange but exiting game. Congratulations to Philander on a good debut and Smith and Amla for their respective 100’s. All the best for the second test and final game of the Ausie tour.
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Day 2 was MAYHEM!
The test is starting @ 10:30 (weather permitting) @ the Wanderers, JHB. On Thursday the 17th.
The 1day cup: Each team playes 10 games, 5 home and 5 away, the top team goes thru to the final and nr 2 host nr 3 for a semi-final.
This rounds games will be the last games without the protea’s, after that the comp will be finished before the next internatinal games for the protea’s
Thanks for the update! Well done for your good results! And keep on with the good work…cheers! Lastly…Proteas, show them Aussies what you have in store…SA cricket rocks!
Sa vs sri lanka from 26 dec in dbn( boxing day test).
@bergshark (Comment 6) : so what that means is that there is rain predicted for the week between Christmas and new year.. 😉
@bergshark (Comment 6) : that tour start on the 15th of Des.
@Franshark: comment7:lol, hope not,but seems like that’s what happens when there is cricket in kzn of late.
Wonder if the test at the wanderers will see 3 full days of play..?proteas vs aus
is the dolphins game going to be broadcasted ?
@bergshark (Comment 10) : what a bizarre test match last week,pity won’t be watching much cricket though over December,probably the last test match I’ll watch this year,hope it goes on for 5 days atleast. Was I the only 1 who was ecstatic for our captain last week when he scored that century. Huge fan of Graeme Smith
@Ludz (Comment 12) : have always been a smith fan, but I can’t argue that his form in the shorter version of the game(even though I am a fan I have no more excuses for this) has not been up to par, but has always given his best for sa and is one of the best test players in the world.
@BR (Comment 11) : not tomorrow night’s, the showing the Cobras game 🙁
@Franshark (Comment 14) : even though I would like to watch the dolphins play, the fact that their game is not broadcasted mean that they will play a whole game, ss had bad luck with the games they chose to broadcast, how many games that they did broadcast it didn’t rain? If I am correct it is only 2 .
@BR (Comment 15) : if it wasn’t for the no-result after 5 day’s of cricket and the rain/bad light, cricket would have been even more popular. I personally think it is a very exiting game but get so frustrated when I’ve got it all together to watch a game and then it rains… They should somehow come up with a way that there is more results in test matches and put roofs on all cricket stadiums.
Good morning. Read in “Die Burger” during one match the Cape Cobras appeared in (the team they played against was then known as the Eagles), when it rained at Boland Park…what was the solution to dry out the field? It was set alight with paraffin…enjoy your day and happy cricket watching to you all. Lastly, go Proteas!!!
Knights 14/0 (4.0 ov)
Cape Cobras
Knights won the toss and elected to bat
Knights 14/0 (4.0 ov) vs Cobras
Knights won the toss and elected to bat
Warriors 45/0 (4.5 ov) vs
Dolphins
Dolphins won the toss and elected to field
warriors 74/0 (9.4)
knights 39/2 (11.5)
Knights 55/2 (15.4 ov)
Warriors 98/0 (15.2 ov)
Warriors are killing us 👿
Go Dolphins…don’t let those Warriors slay you…good luck!!! 😉
Knights 88/2 (22.1 ov)
Warriors 147/0 (23.2 ov)
Knights 222/3 (44.1 ov)
Warriors 326/3 (47.2 ov)
Knights 274/4 (50 ov)
Warriors 356/5 (50 ov)
Cape Cobras 141/4 (21.4 ov)
Dolphins 106/3 (24 ov).. Way behind the required run rate..
Warriors 356/5 (50 ov); Dolphins 266 (49.3 ov)
Warriors win by 90 runs
Knights 274/4 (50 ov); Cape Cobras 276/5 (48 ov)
Cape Cobras won by 5 wickets (with 12 balls remaining)
Aus: Clarke (c), Watson (vc), Hughes, Khawaja, Ponting, Hussey, Haddin, Johnson, Siddle, Cummins, Lyon
SA won the toss and will bat first….
From: @BigSports1
Sent: Nov 17, 2011 10:11a
SA: (unchanged) Smith, Rudolph, Amla, Kallis, De Villiers, Prince, Boucher, Philander, Steyn, Morkel and Tahir
WICKET – GC Smith c Clarke b Johnson 11; SA 24/1.
WICKET – JA Rudolph c Haddin b Watson 30; SA 43/2.
Lunch Day1: SA 107/2 – Smith 11, Rudolph 30. Kallis 43* & Amla 11*
WICKET – JH Kallis c Khawaja b Siddle 54; SA 123/3.
WICKET – HM Amla c Ponting b Cummins 19; SA 129/4.
Kallis – What a legend!
Half way thru the day, midday drinks:SA 168/4 after 39.AB 21 and Prince 23
@Ben (Comment 43) : yes Kallis past 12000 runs in test cricket, passing Lara’s total, 4th most runs of all time.
SA 209/4
AB 51*
Prince 30*
TEA 😯 in this heat 😉 : SA 213/4 (53.0 ov) De Villiers 51*, Prince 34*
@Franshark (Comment 47) : How did Prince go from 31 to 54 when AB was on 51 when Prince had 30?
@Franshark (Comment 47) : And just 4 more runs on the scoreboard? Doesn’t Prince have 34?
SA 243/7
Boucher and Steyn batting.
SA 266 all out.
@Ben (Comment 48) : again that edit thing 😉
@Ben (Comment 51) : from 241/4 to 266 all out, eish….
@Franshark (Comment 53) : We seriously need a new wicket keeper batsman.
What a flop when we were looking so strong there.. 🙁
Our bowling and fielding will have to be top tomorrow.we gave some wickets away there 🙁
@bergshark (Comment 56) : disappointed the way we ended, the batsmen threw away wickets just when they started too look good(kallis,ab,prince), think we are in big trouble, this pitch have loads of runs in it.
@BR: and the outfield looks really fast .
@bergshark (Comment 58) : in tru wanderers style, wish they would prepair the ”groen mamba” for just one more time.
So what do you guys think about letting AB keep and bringing an extra batsman into the team in Boucher’s place. That would strengthen the team considerably.
JP Duminy would be a good option as he can bowl spinners as well.
@Ben: eish,it would be really difficult for me to say: drop boucher.he is a sentimental favourite.
@bergshark (Comment 62) : I think its time we move on from him. Nothing against him. Really like him.
@bergshark (Comment 62) : I also would keep boucher in the team(purely sentimental), my favourite players were brian mcmillan then jonty after jonty, boucher&gibbs and after those two there weren’t a player who really stood out.
@BR. : jonty as my fav player – maritzburg ..!
@BR (Comment 64) : @bergshark (Comment 65) : My fav all time player was Lance Klusener. Shaun Pollock comes in close 2nd.
@Ben: klusener and pollock – keeping it kzn,I like 🙂
2nd fav I’d also say shaun pollock
@Ben (Comment 66) : completly forgot about zulu a legend in his own right.
Think they must give van wyk another shot or even darren smit who has been in great form of late.
When I saw klusener on tv I nearly fell of my chair, I almost thought he had some kind of disease
@[email protected]: I also liked wasim akram because I also was a left arm ( unfortunately not so fast or skillfful ) bowler.
@BR (Comment 68) : If I have too chose a favourite it would have too be mcmillan with jonty and klusener definitely close
@bergshark (Comment 69) : If we are going International, my fav of all time has to be Adam Gilchrest. What a great guy.
@BR (Comment 68) : Unfortunately I don’t think Darren Smit will see the Proteas jersey in his lifetime.
think the main reason I like boucher so much is because I were also a batting keeper for my school.
@Ben: adam gilchrist was phenomenal- and had a good attitude,ie walking when he was out.plus left handed batsmen _ see the bias 😀
@bergshark (Comment 74) : Enjoyed it when he played IPL. He opened the batting and just came out swinging from the very 1st ball.
I remember when the ipl were in sa gibbs and gilchrist opened,that must be the ultimate opening pair in pro20
@BR (Comment 76) : Oh yes it was. Still kicking myself for not going to go and watch a single IPL game live!
@Ben (Comment 77) : was lucky enough too go and watch the final, luckily for me the decan chargers won as well
@BR. That is a potentially nasty combo for the bowlers to deal with .sad gibbs stats don’t reflect his talent.
@BR (Comment 78) : I was stoked after that game! Man you’re lucky!
@bergshark (Comment 79) : did he retire or why aren’t he playing for the cobras
@BR is still playing domestic cricket for the cobras.don’t think he will play for proteas again though..
@BR (Comment 81) : Still playing.
Have a good night Gents.
I’m gonna call it a night @[email protected]
@Ben: good night.write an article for tomorrow 😀
@bergshark (Comment 86) : Haha about what?
Talking about favourite cricketers…a big thumbs up for Jonty – …always enjoyed watching Adrian Kuiper hit massive sixes.
Not going so great for SA at the moment….Aus. 100/0 after 21 overs. Trail by 166 only.
@Anneleen (Comment 88) : haven’t seen your name in the “getting to know you” post, come now don’t be shy 😉
Aus 152/0 after 30 overs. Watson 65 and Hughes 79. Trail by ONLY 114, and Tahir is officially warned for running on the pitch…
@Franshark (Comment 90) : he-he…will be posting the details shortly…i’m hoping the Proteas will stand strong!
Aus 186/1 trail by 80
Ponting out lbw to steyn for 0
Aus 193/3 trail by 73
Both aus openers out for 88 runs each.
Steyn strays on the legside,too full and clarke hits a boundary.aus 199/3 trail by 67 runs.
Clarke bottom edges a cross batted shot off steyn’s bowling into the nether regions.. Bit of an ouch moment for aus capt.
@Franshark: just heard commentator mention both aus and sa have a pakistan born player in their team facing off against each other.
Aus 200/3 trail by 66 runs
201/3 tahir bowling at fellow pakistani born player .drops one too short and it gets pulled over midwicket area fo 4 runs.
Clarke caught ab de villiers at first slip off morkel. Ab’s second catch at first slip
Current score aus 219/4.
220/ aus trial by 46.
Hussey edges morkel but the ball drops short of second slip
Good session for sa as tea approaches
25 overs 51 runs 4 wickets great session for proteas
Aus score at tea 220/4 trial by 46 runs
Tahir has been warned for running on the pitch.. Next one and he won’t be allowed to ball again in the 1st innings
Aus 233/5 trial by 33runs
Khawaja lbw b steyn
Hussey b steyn 20 what a beautiful delivery..!!
Off stump bails knocked off
Morkel bowling in tandem with steyn.
Keep it on target,keep it tight.
Morkel at 138.4km/h last ball of the over
Philander has replaced morkel.
Johnson has a lazy dab at a philander delivery ,no edge.no run.
Philander over the wicket to left handed johnson.
Commentators speculating that there might ve a problem with philander’s hamstring.hope not.tahir is on a warning for running on the wicket.
Aus 234/6 trail by 32 runs.
Haddin has a wild slash at a wide delivery from steyn and edges the ball through a 4th slip area,high and four runs.
Haddin plays a good shot in front off point for a boundary.
Aus now trail by 24 runs
Philander starts the 67th over. Aus 242/6.
Over the head of mid on by johnson.not a very convincing shot but he gets 3 runs.
Haddin drives the ball just wide off amla through the covers,boundary.
End of the 67th over aus 251/6 trail by 15 runs
Kallis has replaced steyn to bowl the 68th over
Sorry guys I’m on the road so therefore the scores are limited, Aus 242/6 after 66 overs. Trail by 24. Johnson 0 and Haddin 10
@Franshark: wondering where you at?
Has tahir picked up his 1st test wicket?on review….
Haddin lbw b tahir
Well done to imran tahir for his first test wicket.
Siddle bowled tahir..!!!
New batsmen for aus is pat cummins,only 18 years old and only 4 first class matches before making his test debut .. ( Guess plum and co not involved in the selection there..).
Aus 261/8 trail by 5
Johnson plays and misses kallis’ last delivery.
Aus 262/8 trail by 4 runs
Why doesn’t smith protect the point boundary with the left handed batsmen in??
Aus lead by 1 run
Focus the bowling,proteas.
Aus lead by 2 runs
Johnson four runs,off drive.aus lead by 6 runs.
Johnson successive fours off kallis.lead by ten.
Morkel getting some attention to his hamstring it would seem after stopping another johnson off drive at mid off.
Aus now lead by 16 runs.unlucky 4 byes as tahir almost bowls johnson but the delivery beats johnson’s bat,the stumps and boucher.
Cummins c boucher b steyn 2
Aus 285/9 lead by 19runs.
End of the 79th over.aus leads by 19runs.
@bergshark (Comment 142) : How is Philander? I saw him also getting attention. I hope it’s just cramp.
Aus 291/9 leads by 25 runs as johnson gets a boundary
Aus 292/9 leads by 26 runs.
@war1:Haven’t seen him ball for awhile.will see if his on the field for you.
Dropped??!!!! No!!!! Steyn sees the sub fielder drop lyon on 2..
Okay,the substitute fielder is lions spin bowler(couldn’t quite get his name..dale deed(sic)).wouldve been dale steyn’s 250th test wicket-fastest to hit in test history.
Now paul harris is on the field.
So dale deed(?) Came on,dropped a catch,and then disappears into the change room..what was that all about??
Lyon lbw b tahir 2
Aus 296 lead by 30runs.
Steyn 18 overs 64 runs 4 wickets – 1 wicket short of reaching 250the test wicket in fastest time yet ( matches played)
Tahir 3 for 55.
@war1: there was a substitute fielder on the field,for morkel- hamstring.philander running around on the boundary.
Smith and rudolph to open the sa 2nd innings.
Commentators saying the light isn’t good- appraoching thumder storm.
New ball hasn’t been taken in the series yet.
Umpires looking at the light meter..consulting…
Well the umpires say it is play on.. Commentators questioning the wisdom of that… And now they are off the field.. Crazy..!! Bowls one more ball after saying the light is fine,and then they say: okay chaps,close of play.
Umpires still out there in the middle..player off..
Bails are off,close of play it seems is now official..
Umpires stull out there on the field having an animated chat..
Well not official because they might still come back on..
Australia 296 (D Steyn 4/64, Imran Tahir 3/55) – Aus lead by 30 runs.
@bergshark (Comment 160) : hey, thanks for doing the updates, I should refresh before posting a comment…
@bergshark (Comment 99) : I read his pedigree this morning, the aus-paki that is, his 3rd test, 37 his highest score so far…
dolphins looking good, very good in fact
khan & maharaj making them mal
Knights 145/7 (32.2) needing 106 from 105
knights 173/8 (39) 78 of 66
Titans 190/4(34.3) 57 from 93
Lions all bowled out
Dolphins beat the Knights by 1 run.
Warriors 307/9 (50 ov); Lions 155 (37.3 ov)
Warriors won by 152 runs
Cape Cobras 247/8 (50 ov); Titans 248/4 (42.3 ov)
Titans won by 6 wickets (with 45 balls remaining)
And for the BIG one:
Dolphins 250 (49.1 ov); Knights 249 (49.5 ov)
Dolphins won by 1 run
what a hectic end to the dolphins game, what was khan thinking bowling delport and not maharaj
That’s what u get for bragging, I fallen far and fast on the SB log 😳
The Lions not to good this year.
Wicket! 👿 Rudolph gets a top edge for 24 SA 40-1
Wicket! Smith is out caught and bowled by Lyon for 36. SA 75-2. They lead by 45.
WICKET!Kallis is gone. Caught by Clarke and another wicket for Cummins. SA are 90-3.
Say what you whant, but Amla always performs when he must
SA v Aus – STUMPS D3 – South Africa 2nd 229/3 (HM Amla 89* AB de Villiers 70*) – SA lead by 199 runs.
@Mutley (Comment 176) : SA, alla Amla and AB did good today…
Rudolph again disappointed me today
@Mutley (Comment 179) : I so hoped he’d do well, have to see if they will persist with him against Sri-lanka…
Early wicket- AB de Villiers c Clarke b Cummins 73; SA 237/4 – SA lead by 207 runs.
WICKET – AG Prince run out (Ponting) 2; SA 249/5 – SA lead by 219 runs. Highest successful run-chase at Wanderers = 294.
Wicket! Amla edges to Haddin. Johnson gets the wicket and he’s out for a well-played 105. SA 260-6 lead by 230
Come on Steyn, its time to get another 50 against the Sheep shaggers
314/7 105 overs
Steyn 20(47)
Philander 23(71)
Partnership 48
Lunch
@Mutley (Comment 185) : lead is almost 300, not bad by the 2 tailenders….
2 quick wickets and SA is 314/9
All out 339
Australia need 310 to win
SA v Aus – STUMPS D4 – Australia 2nd 142/3 – RT Ponting 54* MJ Clarke 1*; Aus need another 168 runs.
Only 7 wickets for SA, 168 runs for the Ausies…. Gonna be hectic GO PRO’s
Its raining in Jozi….
apparently the cover are coming of
game on
No result for sure. Wasting their time playing now.
WICKET! Clarke clean bowled by Philander. He’s gone for two. Australia 145-4.
WICKET ! – RT Ponting c Rudolph b Morkel 62; Aus 165/5 – Aus need another 145 runs.
Or maybe not! 😳
@Ben (Comment 197) : now they stuck again, less than a 100 to win, 5 wickets to go
WICKET! – MEK Hussey lbw b Philander 39; Aus 215/6 ; need another 95 runs.
Looks like we’re loosing this one, only 42 runs for the Ausie and Johnson going like a boing..
What’s the new ball gonna produce? Runs or wickets… Hoping for the later….
WICKET! Haddin is gone, edged through to Boucher, Philander gets another stick. Aus needs 23 runs we need 3 Wicketssssssss
If Aus or SA win I win 900 big ones. If it’s a draw or tie, I lose 400. 😯
WICKET! – PM Siddle c Imran Tahir b Steyn 4; Aus 292/8 – need another 18 runs. Aaaahhhaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
14 and 2
Oh well. At least I get 900 bucks. 😛
RESULT – Australia win by 2 wickets -Bawhaaaaaaaa Bawhaaaaaaa Aus 310/8 (MG Johnson 40*, PJ Cummins 13*; VD Philander 5/70),…
Ch-ch-ch-CHOKERS!!!
@Big Fish (Comment 208) : How so? They didn’t lose. 😐
So Pro 20’s and Tests were drawn, one each. Australia won the ODI series. So I guess that means the Aussies beat us in our own back yard.
@klempie (Comment 209) :
Well, they had the game and a historic series win in the palm of their collective hand, and threw it away. That’s epic choking that is.
@Ben (Comment 210) : don’t geuss, know it happend 👿
But the images of nathan lyon ..priceless 😀 he mustve been the most tense person in both countries..! 😀
And the most relieved when the winning runs were score..! 😀
Scored.. 😐