The South African Proteas take on England in the 1st T20 International, to be held at Wanderers in Johannesburg. This is the match thread for discussion of the game.
Match scheduled to begin at 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT)
Greame Smith has won the toss and elected to bowl first!
South Africa:
Greame Smith
Yosuf Abdulla
Loots Bosman
Johan BothaMark Boucher
AB de Villiers
Jean-Paul Duminy
Jacques Kallis
Heino Kuhn
Charl Langeveldt
Ryan McLaren
Albie Morkel
Wayne Parnell
Dale Steyn
Roelof van der Merwe
England – 202 / 6 after their 20 overs:
Andrew Strauss
James Anderson
Tim Bresnan
Stuart Broad
Paul Collingwood
Alastair Cook
Joe Denly
Sajid Mahmood
Eoin Morgan
Graham Onions
Kevin Pietersen
Matt Prior
Adil Rashid
Graeme Swann
Jonathan Trott
Luke Wright
SA cricket MUST get Victor Matfield to coach them signals, how could they go so slow in last 3 overs
204 – Carol, Jeepers look at me on the most active comments there. Only 9 short of K9 and I think I started on this blog about 6 or 8 weeks after everyone else. 😀
210@ Puma – Here in the East Rand the rain is over already…. does not look too bad… half an hour before they deduct overs
210
And we can do with thunderstorms rain hail just bring it
211 – Super, They were just damn stupid. Feel angry now. They were well in and had plenty wickets to get that score. Only to let themself down if the rain came.
Should have batted first. Hope the rain goes off and no thunderstorm then they will come back out. A thunderstorm up there will mess it up for sure. Too much rain if a thunerstorm comes.
212 Puma – Well done, you are a regular reasoned vooice here!!
213 – GBS but see it the rain there. So it will only really hit the Wanderers after the East Rand. Hope it has now only rain there and that will go away soon. A thunderstorm up in the highveld the they wont come out. Far too much rain will come down in just 20min.
The very thing I was worried about during the cricket this time of year.
8.50pm Now then, England control the game, but the weather is starting to ease, so there might be a chance of a resumption. We’ll keep you posted. There is about a half-hour window to get the match going again.
And now it really is bucketing down! The covers are coming on, and dare one say it, South Africa might just have produced another Duckworth-Lewis cock-up … plenty time for the weather to change of course, but de Villiers and Morkel only went after singles in that over. One big hit would have put them clear
12.6
Anderson to de Villiers, 1 run, swished out to midwicket, and Anderson has clawed England into the D/L ascendancy. What drama
216 – Carol, So I am 😆 Nice blog this. Just had to see what went on Voldy today to appreciate this blog. Soooooooooooo much fighting there. Here it is like we sit around a campfire and have a good banter, drinks and talk sport a bit of other things and have a good laugh.
211 – Heheheh, hello superBul……I hope if I cant get the Bok match I will get some commentary like that om post 218
The weather is not finished here… raining softly but steadily here now…. ag flok!
Ek rook sommer ‘n hele kameel… agterstevoor….
221 – GBS told you. I know that weather up in the highveld.
Just hope the thunderstorm keeps away from the wanderers. Why they never just went for it I have no idea. Only needed two more runs to be safe.
Now we are one run short of a draw. Smith and Bosman really batted so well. Bosman was superb. To mess it up after that is crazy.
Please hope the rain just moves away quick.
Back in a few min.
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Carol evening, that is the stream from Cricinfo, i am not so fast with the Engrish
Thunder in the background!
Miskien moet ek die beeste uit die tuin gaan jaag…
223 Puma
Why all the secrecy , why cant they have the true state of the game on the big screen, for both teams to see?
It was ridicules to see the England captain and AB each with a a4 page trying to figure out the state of the game.
9pm There is lightning lurking around the ground, which doesn’t bode well for a resumption. But the umpires are in the middle, having a look
221 Rain good for your lawn tho!!
Johannesburg – South Africa will have to engage “low and quickly” if they hope for success in the scrums against France in Toulouse on Friday night.
However, Pieter de Villiers, the Capetonian who spent 10 years in France’s front row, has a very encouraging answer for what the Bok scrum’s most important attribute should be.
“They should not change much. The foundation is there and they have enough players with skills and power,” he said.
De Villiers, who has been living in South Africa for the past year since retiring from rugby in 2008, assisted the Springbok coaching staff with his scrumming knowledge on Tuesday.
“You can’t change their scrumming overnight. We focused more on the psychological aspects before the Test and also looked at technical matters, like hitting in a little lower and to get out of the blocks quicker,” said the friendly Malmesbury-born man.
He and his French wife and two children now live in Cape Town and he is involved in property development with his brother in Yzerfontein on the West Coast.
De Villiers, who still travels to France occasionally to look after his wine interests, will also share his knowledge in South Africa as the new coach of Villagers in Cape Town.
He says he is not leaking French secrets to the Boks and he has simply focused on the scrumming of the South Africans.
9.05pm Well well, I think we’ve got something resembling good news. The covers are coming off and the SuperSoppers are going to work. Can they get on before the rain returns?
9.15pm No, they cannot. The rain has returned and the match has been called off.
9.15pm No, they cannot. The rain has returned and the match has been called off. And the official result is that England have won thanks to Messrs Duckworth and Lewis.
Ek sê maar liewer niks oor die krieket nie …
234: Wat kan ek sê???
235: jou ou profeet ! 😉
235@ Ed – Choke??
ek het gesê ons gaan weer verloor, bdb het gesê ons gaan choke, stupa die blouhond het gesê ons gaan verloor met DW systeem
maar ok, ek was 13 lopies uit. 😉
238: nee wat, jy kan nie ‘n protea se aard verander nie …
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