South Africa and the West Indies battled each other in the 1st 5-Day Cricket Test at SuperSport Park, Centurion. The Test was supposed to run from 17 to 21 December 2014, but ended a day and a half early. Play was weather delayed on Day 1 due to a wet outfield, with the Test due to start at 10:30 SA Time (08:30 GMT). The delay was only 30 minutes and play started at 11:00 SA Time on Day 1. The weather was quite overcast in Centurion on Day 1.
The score cards were updated at regular intervals here on Rugby-Talk.com.
The West Indies won the toss and elected to bowl, to exploit the weather conditions.
The South Africans started fast and the first wicket only fell on 57 runs… but then 2 more wickets fell on the same score. At 57 / 3 Hashim Amla and AB de Villiers steadied the ship and batted the whole day, stringing up the runs till close of play on Day 1.
On Day 2 both AB de Villiers and Hashim Amla quickly went over 150 runs each, before AB de Villiers perished on 152. Hashim Amla reached a landmark 208 before being caught in the deep, right near the boundary markers. Stiaan van Zyl started nervously on debut… but then reached his 101 not out, when Captain Amla declared with the Proteas on 552 / 5, after 140.3 Overs. Quinton de Kock ended on 18 not out in the process.
During the Innings Break, Tea was also called… and then rain delayed play from resuming… and further play on Day 2 was eventually abandoned and Stumps was called very early after heavy rains had fallen in Centurion.
On Day 3 the Proteas dismissed the West Indies with ease in their First Innings, still 351 runs behind. The follow-on was enforced. At Stumps on Day 3 the West Indies were already reeling at 76 / 2.
On Day 4, the Proteas did not fool around, dismissing the rest of the West Indies batting lineup, only 3 balls into the 2nd Session of the day, for a measly 131. Dale Steyn took 6 wickets on Day 4 and South Africa easily wins with an Innings and 220 runs.
Seriously back to the drawing board for the West Indies, I suggest!
South Africa:
First Innings – 552 / 5 declared (140.3 Overs)
West Indies:
First Innings – 201 All Out (60.2 Overs)
Second Innings – 131 All Out (42.3 Overs)
Day 4 – Session 1
| South Africa 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AN Petersen | c Smith b Roach | 27 | 59 | 44 | 6 | 0 | 61.36 | |
| D Elgar | c Samuels b Cottrell | 28 | 66 | 42 | 3 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| F du Plessis | c †Ramdin b Roach | 0 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 | |
| HM Amla* | c Taylor b Benn | 208 | 475 | 371 | 22 | 0 | 56.06 | |
| AB de Villiers | c Blackwood b Benn | 152 | 318 | 235 | 16 | 2 | 64.68 | |
| S van Zyl | not out | 101 | 171 | 130 | 15 | 0 | 77.69 | |
| Q de Kock† | not out | 18 | 20 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 120.00 | |
| Extras | (b 8, lb 6, w 2, nb 2) | 18 | ||||||
| Total | (5 wickets dec; 140.3 overs; 563 mins) | 552 | (3.92 runs per over) | |||||
Did not bat: VD Philander, DW Steyn, M Morkel, KJ Abbott
Fall of wickets: 1-57 (Petersen, 13.3 ov), 2-57 (Elgar, 14.4 ov), 3-57 (du Plessis, 15.5 ov), 4-365 (de Villiers, 99.1 ov), 5-520 (Amla, 135.6 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE Taylor | 26.1 | 5 | 108 | 0 | 4.12 | 112 | 19 | 0 | ||
| SS Cottrell | 28 | 1 | 124 | 1 | 4.42 | 106 | 15 | 0 | (2nb, 1w) | |
| KAJ Roach | 15.5 | 4 | 52 | 2 | 3.28 | 75 | 8 | 0 | (1w) | |
| SJ Benn | 46 | 7 | 148 | 2 | 3.21 | 186 | 13 | 3 | ||
| MN Samuels | 20 | 0 | 89 | 0 | 4.45 | 61 | 6 | 1 | ||
| KC Brathwaite | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2.00 | 4 | 0 | 0 | ||
| J Blackwood | 3.3 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 4.28 | 9 | 1 | 0 |
| West Indies 1st innings | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KC Brathwaite | c Amla b Philander | 34 | 109 | 61 | 5 | 0 | 55.73 | |
| DS Smith | c de Villiers b Philander | 35 | 98 | 74 | 6 | 0 | 47.29 | |
| LR Johnson | c sub (RJ Peterson) b Abbott | 31 | 61 | 42 | 4 | 0 | 73.80 | |
| MN Samuels | b Morkel | 33 | 120 | 66 | 5 | 0 | 50.00 | |
| S Chanderpaul | c Petersen b Philander | 21 | 88 | 56 | 2 | 0 | 37.50 | |
| J Blackwood | c Petersen b Philander | 12 | 42 | 21 | 2 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| D Ramdin*† | c van Zyl b Elgar | 14 | 32 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 63.63 | |
| JE Taylor | c & b Morkel | 4 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 57.14 | |
| SJ Benn | not out | 6 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 100.00 | |
| SS Cottrell | b Morkel | 2 | 8 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 28.57 | |
| KAJ Roach | absent hurt | – | ||||||
| Extras | (lb 6, w 3) | 9 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 60.2 overs; 293 mins) | 201 | (3.33 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets: 1-72 (Smith, 21.4 ov), 2-73 (Brathwaite, 23.5 ov), 3-117 (Johnson, 34.1 ov), 4-162 (Samuels, 47.6 ov), 5-169 (Chanderpaul, 51.4 ov), 6-184 (Blackwood, 55.2 ov), 7-193 (Ramdin, 57.6 ov), 8-193 (Taylor, 58.1 ov), 9-201 (Cottrell, 60.2 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DW Steyn | 14 | 3 | 53 | 0 | 3.78 | 60 | 6 | 0 | ||
| VD Philander | 15 | 6 | 29 | 4 | 1.93 | 77 | 3 | 0 | (1w) | |
| KJ Abbott | 14 | 3 | 50 | 1 | 3.57 | 66 | 8 | 0 | (1w) | |
| M Morkel | 15.2 | 4 | 55 | 3 | 3.58 | 69 | 8 | 0 | (1w) | |
| D Elgar | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 4.00 | 10 | 0 | 1 |
| West Indies 2nd innings (following on) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KC Brathwaite | c Petersen b Morkel | 20 | 87 | 54 | 3 | 0 | 37.03 | |
| DS Smith | c sub (T Bavuma) b Philander | 5 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 55.55 | |
| LR Johnson | c de Villiers b Steyn | 39 | 117 | 88 | 7 | 0 | 44.31 | |
| MN Samuels | c Elgar b Steyn | 17 | 70 | 52 | 3 | 0 | 32.69 | |
| S Chanderpaul | c de Villiers b Steyn | 4 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 44.44 | |
| J Blackwood | c sub (T Bavuma) b Morkel | 15 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 0 | 88.23 | |
| D Ramdin*† | c de Villiers b Steyn | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 200.00 | |
| JE Taylor | c Amla b Steyn | 9 | 21 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 90.00 | |
| SJ Benn | not out | 6 | 18 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| SS Cottrell | c Abbott b Steyn | 4 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 66.66 | |
| KAJ Roach | absent hurt | – | ||||||
| Extras | (lb 3, w 4, nb 1) | 8 | ||||||
| Total | (all out; 42.3 overs; 194 mins) | 131 | (3.08 runs per over) | |||||
Fall of wickets: 1-8 (Smith, 3.2 ov), 2-52 (Brathwaite, 19.3 ov), 3-87 (Johnson, 32.1 ov), 4-91 (Chanderpaul, 34.4 ov), 5-101 (Samuels, 36.2 ov), 6-105 (Ramdin, 36.4 ov), 7-117 (Blackwood, 39.3 ov), 8-121 (Taylor, 40.3 ov), 9-131 (Cottrell, 42.3 ov)
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | 0s | 4s | 6s | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DW Steyn | 8.2 | 2 | 34 | 6 | 4.08 | 39 | 6 | 0 | ||
| M Morkel | 11.1 | 1 | 43 | 2 | 3.85 | 49 | 7 | 0 | (1w) | |
| VD Philander | 7 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 0.85 | 40 | 1 | 0 | (1nb) | |
| KJ Abbott | 3 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 3.66 | 15 | 2 | 0 | (1w) | |
| S van Zyl | 10 | 2 | 22 | 0 | 2.20 | 53 | 4 | 0 | (2w) | |
| D Elgar | 3 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 4.00 | 13 | 2 | 0 |
Match details
Player of the match – tba
TV umpire – PR Reiffel (Australia)
Match referee – RS Madugalle (Sri Lanka)
Reserve umpire – AT Holdstock
Close of play
- – day 1 – South Africa 1st innings 340/3 (HM Amla 133*, AB de Villiers 141*, 91 ov)
- – day 2 – South Africa 1st innings 552/5d (S van Zyl 101*, Q de Kock 18*, 140.3 ov)
- – day 3 – West Indies 2nd innings 76/2 (LR Johnson 33*, MN Samuels 13*, 27 ov)
Match Notes
- West Indies: 100 runs in 35.6 overs (217 balls), Extras 8
- Drinks: West Indies – 131/8 in 42.0 overs (SJ Benn 6, SS Cottrell 4)
One feels that the only thing here which could prevent a result, is if the weather does not play it’s part later today and on Day 4 and / or Day 5.
@ grootblousmile:
When the Proteas reached 500 odd the only result on the cards was an innings victory.
Windies are a second rate team, only the weather can save them, as you mentioned
Oops Stiaan that was a WIDE, WIDE… WIDE…
… and then another one…
BUT, well done on your TON in the 1st Innings, Stiaan!
Stiaan did well with his medium pacers in the afternoon. Much more better than ABCD’s.
Stumps Day 3
Windies already reeling at 76 / 2, with 27 Overs bowled in the Windies 2nd Innings, still 275 runs behind.
Would somebody please explain to me the
Sony cyberhack by the Brother Leader gang
and its implications.
Thank you
ryecatcher wrote:
Firstly the gutless wonders at Sony are as smooth as a Ken doll
Attachment:
186 @ ryecatcher:
There’s lots of speculation that we are looking at the new face of MODERN WARFARE, where a country’s top companies, communications infrastructure, banking sectors will in future be targeted by armies of Cyberhackers.
Sony Pictures was the company / group attacked but it is speculated that it was a trial run for much bigger things.
It is also suggested by the CIA that the attack was directed and performed by the North Korean government.
Sony Pictures’ servers were attacked and a lot of personal and confidentail material and E-Mails were leaked. Sony, amongst others, cancelled the start of the movie, The Interview.
The world over, we’re seeing a lot more cyber DoS (Denial of Service) and DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attacks… and if you ask me, it’s growing into a form of terrorism, and as soon as political motive is added to these attacks, it is nothing else but terrorism indeed.
172 @ nortie:
Ja boet, and Brangelina were brought together by Cu-pit.
ryecatcher wrote:
Secondly O-Useless stood idly by and allowed a hostile foreign power to engage in cyber warfare and intimidate a company on US soil.
They also threatened theatres showing the film with acts of violence, that’s terrorism
Again the Great Golfer kept mum
We hope and pray Kim Jong-un threatens a black popcorn seller at the theatre, will surely spur O-Race-chip-on-his-shoulder into action.
@ Victoriabok:
191 Thank you and GBS
Sleep well Rye
grootblousmile wrote:
Is jy gereeld daarvoor?
Jy weet die Stormer ondersteuners gaan een op jou site doen as hulle uit die bus val?
Ek wens jy kan ‘n Denial of Entry op Ludeke se Access card by Loftus doen 😛
Hou hom weg van die span af ten alle koste, laat Victor hulle afrig
@ grootblousmile:Hello Victoria Bok.
Thanks GBS.So were Sony intimidated into cancellation of “The Interview” or were
they being patriotic.
Forgive my stupidity,but should there not be a
“SUPER” firewall to prevent the hacking.?
Does this have any relevance to the
US intimidation of one of its citizens leaking
secrets(Stone somebody) who
the US is trying to extradite from Switzerland?
And what is so menacing about “The Interview”
I am a self acknowledged Cyber Doos;
Is it ultimately economic terrorism?
Thanks
ryecatcher wrote:
They were intimidated not to release it
ryecatcher wrote:
Real hackers always gets in especially a unit set up to do it
ryecatcher wrote:
Edward Snowdon from Russia?
No I don’t think so
193 @ Victoriabok:
Victor is een van die grootste voorstanders en napraters van Frans Ludeke se game plans, ongelukkig.
Doen jouself ‘n guns en gaan lees bietjie op oor DoS en DDoS attacks.
Dit target gewoonlik ‘n website of ‘n ISP of groot Web Hosts en in baie gevalle van die tipe ding is om daai server se DNS te target met ‘n vloed van verkeer, sodat die server nie meer kan cope nie, en dan basies heeltemal omval.
So week of 14 dae terug was een van die grootste USA web hosting companies, 1and1.com, getarget en klompie van hulle Name Servers is aangeval, wat veroorsaak het dat daai servers vir meer as 12 ure van lyn af was. So was 16 van die websites wat ek vir kliente gedoen het van lyn af gewees vir daai tydperk.
Rugby-Talk.com is nie by hulle nie, so ons het normaal aangegaan… en ek sal ook nie weer sommer vir 1and1.com gebruik nie, hulle terugvoeringsmeganismes is uiters swak en hulle redundancy- en backupmeganismes skiet vêr tekort… en hulle mirroring opsies is ontoereikend.
Afrihost se strukture en die ANC se website is ook al getarget so ook CNN, meeste groot USA banke… ensovoorts ensovoorts.
ryecatcher wrote:
It’s a comedy about two guys sent to kill the leader of North Korea
He’s like god in North Korea, they (have to?) worship him
No-one is allowed to say anything negative about him in North Korea
And now they’ve pussy whipped the Hollywood liberals to do the same outside as well
If Sony had some balls they would have banded together with all the movie studio and theatre companies and released it everywhere on one day, or asked a hacker group like Anonymous to “hack” Sony again and to release it on Youtube for everyone to see
I think North Korea’s afraid their own people might get to see it and realize the Emperor has no clothes
grootblousmile wrote:
Ja en ons het gesien hoe werk skop en jaag as jy nie die bal in die lug mag speel nie
As jy so wil speel moet jy nie meer vleuels en agterspelers kies nie, verander jou span om jou gameplan te pas
Kies groot senters en losvoorspelers om agter te staan en net heeldag te tackle as jy nie met die bal wil hardloop nie
Moenie die ouens se tyd mors nie
Ek wonder wanneer die Bulle se bestuur tot hulle sinne gaan kom?
Victor en Fourie is nie die antwoord nie, ek hoop hulle adverteer vir ‘n afrigter in 2016
Miskien doen ‘n regte afrigter ook aansoek vir die werk
@ Victoriabok:
@ Victoriabok:
197 Victoriabok.
Thanks pal.Snowdon indeed and he has asylum
in Russia.
Thanks to both you and GBS for your
patience.
Regards
Rye
grootblousmile wrote:
Denial of Service?
Hoekom, daar is geen service by hulle nie, wat kan deny word?
Was seker nie effektief nie
194 @ ryecatcher:
Hackers are a breed on their own, barely half human!
A typical hacker profile is usually male, between 14 and 30… most often highly, highly intelligent, sometimes genius level… and often of the common geek variety, who wants to prove a point to the world.
Sure, there are all sorts of security measures and “Firewalls”, but the more computers advance, the more hackers also advance.
Typically a hacker targets a vulnerability in a system, as an entry point, which then allows them to slip in at the back door, so to speak…. hacking sequences of code (serious programming code or “Hacking “Software”) is then installed / executed (and frankly there are too many ways and far too little time to discuss them here)… which start doing the damage in the form of loops and generating an inordinate amount of traffic… which then basically makes the computer hardware inable to handle it. It causes bottlenecks, high CPU usage, memory failure and all sorts of kak, which then cause systems to fail.
Getting Systems to fail, is a very regular means of attack OR hacking and stealing of information, also very popular.
202 @ Victoriabok:
Dit was op 28 Augustus 2013, as ek reg onthou…. of was DIT nou die datum van die Afrihost en MTN aanval… nie seker nie.
@ ryecatcher@186:
Well, it will teach CIO’s not to challenge hackers.
Nobody know who and how this hack was done, so blaming North Korea is pure speculation. There are hunderds of these kind of hack each year, the only reason that this one get so much attention is because they got the salaries of famous people.
To secure such a big network as Sony Entertainment is impossible, but they could have done more. Sony has been hacked many times before.
@ grootblousmile:
The biggest question I ask is how much bandwidth has Sony got. I mean, 12TB of data going out unnoticed on you network in 2 or 3 weeks, jeez.
206 @ leon:
12TB of Data, these days is not much at all… it is tiny in the larger scheme of things.
One can now buy a 6TB or 8TB Hard drive for your personal PC.
My personal NAS Bay (Network Assisted Storage) has double that capacity!
@ grootblousmile:
Yea, but to get it out of a network, over internet, in one week, unnoticed. On any network in SA, it will get noticed.
208 @ leon:
Bandwidth in 1st World Countries and in Large Corporations in the States, is out of this world…. your mouth will hang open when you hear the figures that large corporations talk about!
grootblousmile wrote:
Wat se bandwydte het julle daar GBS?
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