We may know him as a take-no-prisoners loose forward with silky skills and a surprising turn of pace, but along with many others in the Sharks rugby squad, Tera Mtembu is also a fine cricketer. So good was he at the 11-man game, in fact, that rugby only narrowly won the race to secure his professional services after school. All-rounder Mtembu will bat at number 4 and captain the Sharks cricket team as they take on the Dolphins at Kingsmead in this evening’s Holywood Bets Showdown at the Coast festival cricket match.
Two newcomers will open the batting for the Sharks; Garth April and Rhyno Smith both have the build of classic batsmen and one thing you can say for sure is that any running between the wickets is likely to be done at blistering pace. Jean Deysel, the veteran, will provide stability at 3, with Paul Jorddan, Cobus Reinach and Kyle Cooper all looking to add runs a little lower down the order.
I’m not sure whether the Dolphins batsmen would ever have faced a 1.98m and 130kg+ fast bowler, but with Giant Mtayanda spearheading the attack, along with another huge man in centre Andre Esterhuizen, there should be no shortage of fireworks. S’bura Sithole will presumably also bowl a few overs, while Stefan Ungerer is the man entrusted with the gloves this evening.
Best of luck, Sharks! Let’s see how this one turns out.
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must be a strong side if Lambie can’t even make the bench!!!!!!!! 😈
@Seth101 (Comment 1) : no
@robdylan (Comment 3) : Thanks, not unexpected, but a pity non the less.
@JD (Comment 2) : Yeh interesting that Lambie isnt playing having been the best player in these games in previous years. Perhaps he has a little niggle? or just an extended time off.
@SheldonK (Comment 5) : ja maybe just extra time to rest and focus on next year.
@JD (Comment 2) : Better that way, at least we don’t have to hear everyone moaning about his 5 minute cameo on the field 👿 😆
@Uli Boelie (Comment 7) : hahaha ja that was what I was going for!!!!!!!!! 😈 😆
@JD (Comment 8) : His 5 minute cameo would have been world’s better than a 70 minute Pollard exhibition on any game level ????????????
@Henkb (Comment 9) : hahaha 😈
Anyone going to the game?
@JD (Comment 11) : I would, but, you know….
Hopefully Etienne Oosthuizen has a blinder and the Dolphins offer him a contract. 😈
@Ben (Comment 13) : Not the Dolphins please, they are just starting to go in the right direction now
@robdylan (Comment 12) : jajaja boet suppose I’ll have to believe you.
@Ben (Comment 13) : @Henkb (Comment 14) : hey Ben what did the Dolphins do to you? ;-P
@JD – that is my whole thing, I’m a KZN boy through and through so I support everything KZN, the Dolphins is part of my pride an joy, just don’t want him to play for them as they are on an upward curve and that is the way I like it
@ Rob, just a question… can’t we get points allocated when logging in on the app or posting from the app, as I use this a lot more than the pc?
@Henkb (Comment 18) : I thought you did?
@robdylan (Comment 19) : I guess not. Hmmm…. will need to look into that
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@Henkb (Comment 18) : ok dude…. you now get points for posting comments via the app.
Still need to look at logins
@Henkb (Comment 17) : lots of pride but much like the beloved Sharks a little light on the joy part!!!!
@robdylan (Comment 24) : you also get points for app login.
@robdylan (Comment 26) : Rob, you are the head coach for a reason, thank you so much
@Henkb (Comment 27) : brownnose!!!!! Hahahaha ;-P
@JD (Comment 28) : Brown nose….. More like brown nek I think?
@Henkb (Comment 29) : ja boet. ;-p
Hi guys, I’m fairly new to Sharksworld, and WordPress, so please can I ask someone to explain the points story to me? Or show me where I can find out more about it. Can I redeem the points in exchange for a NZ jersey?
@the ko (Comment 31) : hi…. “fairly new” and you already have 4 stars? Interesting 😉
basically, you get points every time you log in, leave a comment or post an article. The points are really just used in determining the star rankings (loyalty bonus type of thing) but are occasionally used as a tie-break criterion when we run competitions.
@robdylan (Comment 32) : ok, my bad. Seems I was being a little “generous” with points for logging in via the app and you managed to accumulate 12000 points in the space of a few minutes. Sneaky 😉
@robdylan (Comment 33) : Hi Rob, I see now what you mean, with our lovely MTN network here I’m struggling to log in or post sometimes when I’m at home, but I know it is the network and not the app and not the site also, went in on the site now to see how the points is allocating and saw that I actually logged in a couple of times on the app this morning, whilst the network told me log in failed, sorry about that was not intentional done to accumulate points
@Henkb (Comment 34) : No probs dude. I fixed it.
Seems that the Dolphins won this one.
Gongrats to the Dolphins and nice try for the Sharks.
Wonder what the result will be if they played touch rugby?!
I see Jaco van Tonder played for the Sharks?? Thought he was told thanks but no thanks in terms of his services??
@SheldonK (Comment 37) : it was a cricket game.
anyone found a scorecard yet?
@50shadesofshark (Comment 38) : Yeh i know…just strange they would use a guy for an event like that who has been told he is no longer required.
@SheldonK (Comment 40) : maybe ask @robdylan if he has spotted him in any sharks pre-season training pics?
@SheldonK (Comment 37) : I also found that very strange.
@robdylan (Comment 42) : Perhaps there was a lastminute.com withdrawl and he is good mates with Reinach.
@SheldonK (Comment 37) : @50shadesofshark (Comment 39) : @SheldonK (Comment 40) : @robdylan (Comment 42) : reading the article on Dolphins website it seemed as he did the best of the Sharks bowlers!?!?!
@JD (Comment 44) : prob pushing for a Dolphins contract then 😉
@SheldonK (Comment 45) : maybe?!?!?! 😈
Well done on the great win yesterday, Dolphins!
@pastorshark (Comment 47) : ja glad to see them win!!! Pitch must have gotten very bad as both teams had very low second innings scores.
Of the 20 Knights wickets to fall, 19 were to spin – thats just crazy.
@Salmonoid the Subtle (Comment 49) : Super crazy…the first Knights wicket fell to a seamer and from there on in all 19 fell to spinners! Bizarre! Even more weird is that the Knights spinners hardly did any damage at all and almost all our wickets fell to seamers…
@JD (Comment 48) : Yup…
@Salmonoid the Subtle (Comment 49) : @pastorshark (Comment 50) : that is strange indeed. What do you think of the Protea performance?
@JD (Comment 52) : I’ll let you know when I get over my disappointment!!! Our batsmen are so poor at the moment!!
@pastorshark (Comment 53) : I personally blame the selectors for not selecting at least one specialist opening batsmen (to open with Elgar) as well as not having the guts to drop one or two of the out of form batsmen and also rushing Steyn back did not help!
@JD (Comment 54) : Fair enough…Stephen Cook knocked seriously hard on the door this week – and in the last season or so…same for Quinton de Kock! So I think a few changes will come…
@pastorshark (Comment 55) : really hope they change a bit before the second test but don’t think they have the balls to do it!!!!
@JD (Comment 56) : You’re probably right…we’ll do well not to lose again…
@pastorshark (Comment 57) : sad to say but the only way I can see England not winning is if it rains for three days! Can’t see the batsmen regaining confidence in the next two days so either the Protea bowlers must perform a miracle or the English bowlers must fall apart……. so rain it is!!!!
@JD (Comment 58) : Or a big dollop of luck! Come on, men!!
@pastorshark (Comment 59) : ja let’s hope they can give a better performance in Cape town!!!
@pastorshark (Comment 59) : and so they had the guts to make the changes!!!!! Hope it works!!!!
@JD (Comment 61) : Well, sort of…two of the three changes were injury enforced…and de Kock had to come in. Anyway, we’re on the back foot after day 1…
@pastorshark (Comment 62) : back foot is putting it mildly!!! Rain brother rain is all that will save them!!!!
@JD (Comment 63) : How was that batting by England this morning? Wow…
@pastorshark (Comment 64) : those two ginger ninjas was really good but not to takeaway any of their performance some of the bowling was really bad. The Protea bowlers could not bowl on one side of the wicket and were all over the place!!!!
@JD (Comment 65) : Yup…