Western Province skipper Deon Fourie has been passed fit and will lead an unchanged side in the Currie Cup Final at Newlands on Saturday.
Fourie has been battling with a neck injury this week and did not train on Wednesday, but was named to lead the defending champions against the Sharks this weekend.
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Coach Allister Coetzee has named an unchanged team from the one that saw them to a home semifinal victory over the Golden Lions last week as they look to retain their title on home soil.
National skipper Jean De Villiers will start in the No.13 jersey in what will also be his 50th match for Western Province. Juan de Jongh has been named on the bench, as he was the win over the Lions.
“Being at Newlands is fantastic and great, but there are no guarantees,” said Coetzee.
“We have to be even better than last Saturday (in the semifinal) against the Lions. We have to start better and we have to stay in it for 80 minutes. We don’t want to be in a situation in a Final where you take so long to work yourself back and get your dominance back.”
Western Province: 15 Gio Aplon, 14 Gerhard van den Heever, 13 Jean de Villiers, 12 Damian de Allende, 11 Cheslin Kolbe, 10 Demetri Catrakilis, 9 Louis Schreuder, 8 Duane Vermeulen, 7 Siya Kolisi, 6 Deon Fourie (Captain), 5 De Kock Steenkamp, 4 Eben Etzebeth, 3 Pat Cilliers, 2 Scarra Ntubeni, 1 Steven Kitshoff.
Replacements: 16 Frans Malherbe, 17 Brok Harris, 18 Michael Rhodes, 19 Schalk Burger, 20 Nic Groom, 21 Kurt Coleman, 22 Juan de Jongh.
Date: Saturday 26 October 2013
Venue: Newlands, Cape Town
Kick-off: 17:30 SA Time (15:30 GMT)
Referee: Jonathan Kaplan
Assistant Referees: Christie du Preez, Stefan Breytenbach
TMO: Deon van Blommestein
Double TON up for Biff!
Whoooohaaaaaa
Bit difficult seeing through the roadmap veins in my eyes…
@ grootblousmile:
Yes man!!!!! fantastic!
Fark, Biff made more than double what the whole Pakistan side managed in total…
Congrats, Biff, link gone down here, so missed it, but what a great score!!!
Next, Ab for his 150. Good stuff.
Smith gets the double ton.
SA 415 / 4
AB on 140, Biff on 202
26 @ Pietman:
Flip ek het een Desember dag daar n dop gaan drink. Toe raak ek betrokke met n klomp jonges wat wou pool speel en die “ou toppie” leer om te suip.
Ek drink mos dubbel kaptein uit n ou whisky tumbler en n bietjie coke light, so reken ek kan s n bietjie suip, maar die dag haal hulle uit n grenadilla liquer vol pitte.
Was FLIPPIN lekker, maar in die einde, dit, die kaptein, en so af en toe n swart sambuka het my KLAAR gemaak.
Het darem die laatjies n ding of twee geleer oor pool speel, suip, en kak praat.
Lekker kroeg daai.
32 @ grootblousmile:
Too much pan in the Brak?
40 @ Scrumdown:
My eyes are getting old… the rest of the body still keeps up nicely.
The thing is, to concentrate on 3 different PC Monitors for hours continiously is bound to pound the eyes a bit…
Proteas must not declare too early, there is still 3 full days left and I cannot see the Pakistanis standing for 3 full days.
AB must try and get his 150 and then the double ton too… Biff must try to get to 250.
41 @ grootblousmile:
Vaaark. My eyes get worse by the day. Then it doesn’t help when yo go on the golf tour and all of your flipping Glycouma eye drops leak out in the toiletries bag.
Guess I wont go blind over a weekend, but they do help for the stress as well.
The lead is now 329… must try and get it to 450…
43 @ Scrumdown:
I just use some Teargel from time to time.. not often.
Dry eyes is a bliksem, and when you work on a PC you tend to blink less than you should.
AB de Villiers is on 148
AB de Villiers goes to 150!
Whooop!
@ grootblousmile:
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Daai hang is ook maar OK, doen dit nou maar op die Jakkals manier
Le voor die gat en tjank.
Maar watch it Pietman het n punt beet daar, ….wel at least gaan ons try en try en try.
@ Pietman:
26
jy is mos naby die krieket , gaan waai jou vlag daar dat ons jou kan cheer van die kant af.
SA 451 / 4, a lead of 352
Pakistan het nie n clue wat om te review nie.
Al 4 gemors
Nothing going right for our Paki friends.
Bwahahaha. Got to love it.
But with all this great play I feel aggrieved at this slow batting.
Ook maar met niks tevrede nie ne.
Dink die Pakis is al spyt hulle het AB wakker gemaak met daai eerste ‘dismissal’ in die vorige toets
Stumps Day 2: SA 460 / 4, a lead of 361
The overall scoring rate for the Day for SA has not been slow…maybe the last 10 overs it was a bit slow… but that’s about it.
Current partnership 326 runs, 78.2 overs, RR: 4.16 (Smith 158, de Villiers 157)
Die wiel het woes gedraai.
AB de Villiers 157* (262b 16×4 1×6) Saeed Ajmal
GC Smith 227* (367b 16×4)
Well done SA. Come out in the morning, and lets see some quick runs to see AB to 200 and Biff to 250 before declaring.
Cheers all, catch up tomorrow
59 @ Just For Kicks:
Tjorts Kickers…
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