CRICKET

[honeybee]

Let this be a place to discuss all teams/games of cricket.
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[Minstrels]

No? Why put it all in one thread when we can use the whole of the sports section?

/thread

[Andeeh]

Erm no? for one there are many different forms of cricket so it wouldnt be compatible.

[Smiddy]

My love for cricket cannot be bound to a single thread

[honeybee]

I really so love my cricket as well. SA and Australia start - the ODI's
1st ODI 3rd April Kingsmead Durban
2nd ODI 5th April Centurian Pretoria
3rd ODI 9th April Sahara Park Newlands Cape Town
4th ODI 13th April Sahara Oval St. George`s, Port Elizabeth
5th ODI 17th April Liberty Life Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg


My love for cricket cannot be bound to a single thread
That is true smiddy , Friday 3rd is 5th ODI England versus West Indies. :eusa_whis. and SA playing Australia 1st ODI in SA

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[Smiddy]

Nah I'm more excited about the domestic season :D:D Get this tour of Windies over and done with. Bring on MCC v Durham!

[Andeeh]

Nah I'm more excited about the domestic season :D:D Get this tour of Windies over and done with. Bring on MCC v Durham!
naa its all about the sharks.

did you see pro 40 final last year? astounding performance from goodwin :)

[Smiddy]

naa its all about the sharks.

did you see pro 40 final last year? astounding performance from goodwin :)
:S They aren't in the first match.
Plus Pro40 is the worst form and has the worst name in cricket!
Although I wouldn't mind if they got rid of the 50 over format and cut it to the 40over, just none of this "PRO40 WOOO" rubbish.
Plus, Somerset is where it's at :8

[Havoline]

I got hit in the leg today and have a maaaaaaaaaasive bruise.

[honeybee]

Sa had there worse loss against Australia last night in their 1st one day international, played at Sahara park Durban SA.
SA lost by 141runs.

[honeybee]

Australia won toss and opted to bat first
their innings 131 all out 40.2 overs

SA batting 10-1 3.2 overs
Lunch
:eusa_clap

[honeybee]

Match summary... source supersport

South Africa reached 132 for three to crush Australia by seven wickets in the second one-day international at SuperSport Park in Centurion on Sunday.

27th over: De Villiers ends the match in some style as he lifts a Laughlin delivery over the covers for four. De Villiers ends unbeaten on 36 off 42 balls while Duminy is not out on 10.
25th over: De Villiers and Duminy milk three runs off a Ben Laughlin over to leave SA needing 10 runs to win. De Villiers is on 30 while Duminy has seven.
24th over: Nathan Hauritz is back on to bowl and De Villiers skips down the wicket to belt the first ball of the over high over long-on for six.
22nd over: Mitchell Johnson is on to bowl his last over of the innings. Johnson offers De Villiers a touch of width and the batsman is happy to drive through the covers for four to raise the 100 for SA. Duminy ends the over by pulling Johnson through midwicket for four.
20th over: Johnson has his man as Kallis unleashes a booming drive only for the full delivery to find a faint outside edge which keeper Brad Haddin is only too happy to accept. Kallis is out for 31 off 42 balls as JP Duminy comes to the crease. AB de Villiers is not out on 10 and SA need 39 runs to win the match.
15th over: Ben Laughlin replaces Johnson in the attack and he outfoxes Smith with a slower ball as South Africa’s captain tries to work a delivery on the on side but he mistimes his shot to pop the ball up to Michael Clarke at mid-on. Smith is out for 40 off 48 balls while the second-wicket stand of 69 between Smith and Kallis is at an end. AB de Villiers arrives at the crease with Kallis unbeaten on 27.
South Africa need 56 runs to win the match.
13th over: Johnson serves up a full toss that Kallis dismissively drives past mid-off for four.
12th over: Australia need to try something different to try and win the game and to that end off spinner Nathan Hauritz is on to bowl relatively early in the innings. Hauritz allows five runs from his first over.
11th over: Johnson endures an expensive over as he concedes 11 runs. South Africa raise their 50 during the over while the Kallis/Smith second-wicket partnership also reaches 50 off 49 balls.
10th over: Australia make their first bowling change as Ben Laughlin comes on to bowl. Kallis welcomes him by cutting a short ball in front of square on the off side for four. Kallis then whips the next ball behind square on the on side for his second consecutive boundary. Kallis is on 19, Smith has 27 and South Africa need 83 runs to win.
9th over: Mitchell Johnson will take up the attack to Graeme Smith. Smith gets a delivery that thuds into his ribs. At least it wasn’t his fingers. Smith then works a single behind square on the on side.
8th over: Lunch is a thing of the past and Nathan Bracken will be bowling to Jacques Kallis. Kallis scores his first runs after the break as he leans back and cuts Bracken behind point to pick up two runs. Kallis then shuffles across his crease and whips a delivery through midwicket for four. Good shot from Kallis.
7th over: Johnson will bowl the last over before lunch. Smith ends the over in some style as he punches a delivery through the covers for four to move to 25 off 22 balls while Kallis is on five.
In a scene which does not usually happen in ODI cricket the players will take lunch with the second innings already well underway. SA need 99 runs to win off 43 overs at 2.3 runs to the over.
6th over: Smith takes a liking to Nathan Bracken as he first flicks a delivery through midwicket for four before working a ball off his hips for four behind square-leg. It is a good over for SA as 11 runs are picked up.
5th over: Kallis rocks back and pulls a Johnson delivery wide of mid-on for four. Kallis really laid into that one. Kallis ends the over on five while Smith is on eight.
4th over: Jacques Kallis has his first run as he slashes a delivery from Bracken down to third man for a single.
3rd over: Johnson makes a vital breakthrough for Australia as Gibbs drives loosely and finds Nathan Hauritz in the covers. Gibbs is out for two and South Africa are seven for one.
2nd over: Nathan Bracken will share new ball duties with Herschelle Gibbs to face. Gibbs gets off the mark with two runs through midwicket.
1st over: Due to Australia being bowled out so quickly South Africa will begin their innings before the lunch break. Mitchell Johnson will bowl the first over of the innings with Graeme Smith on strike. Smith is quickly into his stride as he pulls a short ball through midwicket for four.

Australia innings
South Africa’s new ball pair of Dale Steyn and Wayne Parnell ripped through the Australian batting line-up to bowl the visitors out for 131.
Fast bowler Steyn returned figures of four for 27 in 9.2 overs while left-arm swing bowler Parnell, in only his second one-day international (ODI), captured four for 25 in eight overs as Australia were dismissed in the 41st over.
Australia’s captain Ricky Ponting won the toss and elected to bat but he was left rueing his decision as Parnell and Steyn reduced Australia to 19 for five in the eighth over.
Steyn began the carnage in the first over when Brad Haddin (1) played away from his body to drag a delivery onto this stumps before Parnell snared the important wicket of Ponting (8) in the fourth over of the innings when Ponting drove at a delivery slanted across him to offer a catch to keeper Mark Boucher.
Parnell justified the recent decision by Cricket South Africa to offer him a national contract at the tender age of 19 by serving up an opening spell of 5-3-12-3. At one stage he had figures of three for three off four overs after he trapped Michael Clarke (5) leg-before before Mike Hussey (3) was dismissed in the same manner.
In between Clarke and Hussey’s wickets Steyn picked up the wicket of David Hussey (1) when the batsman tried to force a delivery through the off-side only to get an outside edge which Boucher took well moving to his right.
Australia were on 19 for five before a sixth-wicket stand of 21 between Callum Ferguson (50) and James Hopes (eight) steadied the Australian innings a touch before seamer Jacques Kallis had Hopes caught at first slip by Johan Botha.
Australia’s best moment at the crease came courtesy of a seventh-wicket stand of 63-runs between Ferguson and Mitchell Johnson (30).
The pair’s half-century partnership came up off 75 balls before Johnson was deceived by a delivery from off spinner Botha to be trapped leg-before.
Ferguson brought up his second ODI fifty off 82 balls but, one run after reaching the landmark, he became Steyn’s third wicket when a short ball found his gloves to loop out to AB de Villiers at point who ran in and dived to take the ball inches off the ground. Ferguson departed with the score on 124 for eight and fittingly it was Parnell and Steyn who shared the last two wickets to fall when Parnell had Nathan Bracken caught in the covers by Herschelle Gibbs before Steyn ended Australia’s misery as he found the outside edge of Nathan Hauritz’s (10) bat to allow Boucher to complete a simple catch.

[Smiddy]

That's not a summary that's the whole thing!

Back to English cricket, Key for T20 captaincy please.

[Blinger1]

That's not a summary that's the whole thing!

Back to English cricket, Key for T20 captaincy please.

english suck at cricket tbh. wasnt the ashes a whitewash?

[Smiddy]

The last one in Australia was, yes.

[Grainger@CUFC]

I agree with Rob Key being captain for the T20
Glad Andrew Strauss saw sense and didn't put himself forward for the squad, lets him concentrate on the forms of the game he's acually good at.

[Smiddy]

That and the fact it will give him a nice little break ;) it's clever play on his part.

[Andeeh]

they have to put graham napier in the main side i know he is in the squad but wow last year he absouloutely slaughtered sussex with a century and some wickets.
3 weeks to go to county season gets underway i think