South Africa have been the most controversial cricketing nation by a long-shot Match-Fixing allegations on field spats nealry every over players turning their backs on their country to play for other countries, but promising times lay ahead they have claimed the number 1 spot in ODI cricket going in to the world cup with up and coming youngsters can this blend of proven experience, natural flair and desire to become the best be able to raise their game so they can succeed. their world cup squad will follow.
Batsmen; G Smith (c) H Gibbs A Prince N McKenzie H Dippenaar A De Villiers (wk)
All Rounders; J Kallis S Pollock A Hall J Kemp J Morkell
Bowlers; A Nel M Ntini D Steyn C Langeveldt
Some Surprise decisions in the squad is that "keeper" Mark Boucher Misses out and no recognised spinner selected. South Africa start their campaign against Holland then Scotland after that the big clash Australia.
Join us For the pre match report later followed by innings highlights
Welcome everyone for the World cup group match between South Africa and Holland, no debate who will win this game as South Africa Ranked No.1 are facing a team which just qualified for the world cup, each sides team are as follows.
South Africa
Openers; G Smith (c) AB De villiers(wk)
Middle Order; J Kallis H Gibbs A Prince
Lower Order; J Kemp S Pollock A Hall
Tail End; M Ntini A Nel D Steyn
Holland
Openers; B Zuiderent E S'czynski
Middle Order; R T'eschate (c) M Van nierop T De Grooth J Smitts (wk)
Lower Order; W Stelling D Reekers
Tail End; E Schiferli L Van troost M Jonkman
The key players on each side, for South Africa Jaques Kallis superb abilty with bat and ball matchwinner, for Holland its Captain Ryan Ten Deschate an all rounder who plays club cricket for Essex
The Pitch is in a dreadful state, seamers can bowl all day on this which is good news for South Africa As they have no spinner, the pitch offers nothing to spinners the outfield is very slow but its very bright so not alot of swing around for the bowlers so they'll have to bang the ball in hard to get seam movement and pace, Whoever wins the toss should Bowl first
The Toss
"It's South Africa and Graeme Smith To Call" "Heads"
"The call from Smith and its tails, so Ryan what are you going to do" "Were Going to have a bat first the pitch looks good no swing which is good for us so were going to try get some runs on the board then try bowl South Africa Out"
"Good look today then" "thanks"
"Graeme Is it a bad toss to lose" "no not really I was going to field first anyway so im really Chuffed"
"Good look to you aswell" "Have a nice day"
So if you've just joined us Holland have won the toss and elected to bat join us in a couple of hours as we look back on Holland's innings.
Nice work mate. Holland are going to have to bat well, to make give the bowlers something to work with. Hopefully Hall can make Kent proud and get some wickets and runs.
KUTGW
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Holland amassed a total of 253-8 as the South African Bowlers looked all at sea with only Kallis looking dangerous, Holland got a dream start with an opening partnership of 79 before Ntini and Hall wrapped up both openers in two overs, Zuiderent scored 40 of 59 before Hall sent his stumps cartwheeling then Ntini removed S'czynski for 34 caught by kemp in the slips
Dutch captain Ten Deschate came and went scoring a quick 22 of 24 before being bowled by Steyn next to go was De grooth 21 LBW bowled by Kallis, Smits and Stelling were both removed for 6 both LBW by Kallis,Van Nierop scored a brilliant 43 before Steyn removed him Reekers and Schiferli put a 50 partnership near the end before Hall had the last laugh removing Reekers for 23 no more wickets fell for the rest of the innings as Schiferli finished on 40* and Van Troost on 7*
Zuiderent on his way to 40 facing Pollock and Nel
Here is Hollands Batting card
Meanwhile the bowling from South Africa was poor only Kallis deserving any credit the wicket takers were Kallis(3-41) Hall(2-32) Steyn(2-53) and Ntini (1-55)
Here is South Africa's Bowling card
South Africa face a tough chase ahead but should have the strength in depth to win this game but all the batsmen must chip in if they are to win the game
South Africa found victory simple today with 6.1 overs to spare, they started slowly after 4 overs they only had 3 on the board but Smith and De Villiers Accelerated in the powerplay over before Smith was caught behind by smits of the bowling of Schiferli for 28 of 39 ball this brought Kallis to the crease who put on a 100 partnership with De Villiers at more than 6 an over,then Kallis ran De Villiers out by calling for a ridiculous run De Villiers speed almost got him home but the third umpire Replay showed him to be 8inches short of his ground so he went back to pavillion scoring a superb 63 off 51 balls the young keeper is turning out to be a real prospect for South Africa it then brought Gibbs to the crease he stayed with Kallis who was ever increasing before yet again Kallis called a silly run, Gibbs gave up halfway down the pitch he just missed out on 50 departing on 48 from 56 deliveries
Prince then joined Kallis, Prince was going very slowly but it didnt matter as they were well on their way to winning, Kallis was the last man to go he hit 81 off 74 balls bowled by Schferli, Prince 16* off 32 and Kemp 13* off 16 ran down the last runs as South Africa recorded the first win of their campaign
De Villiers and Kallis Got the Run rate down by running singles which eventually cost De Villiers his Wicket
Here is South Africa's Batting Card
Hollands fielding was dire but Schiferli bowled well to pick up 2-39 but they seem to give up during De Villiers and Kallis' Partnership
Here is Hollands Bowling Card
The man of the match award was awarded to Jaques Kallis for his 81 runs and 3-41
Welcome everyone for the world cup group match between South Africa vs Scotland it should be a walkover for South Africa today but they were suprised whem Holland Scored 250 against them, todays teams are as follows
South Africa
Openers; G Smith (c) AB De Villiers (wk)
Middle Order; J Kallis H Gibbs A Prince
Lower Order; J Kemp S Pollock A Hall
Tail End; M Ntini A Nel C Langeveldt
Scotland
Openers; D Watts D Lockhart (wk)
Middle Order; R Watson N McCallum N Mcrae C Wright(c)
Lower Order; D Brown N Poonia G Hamilton
Tail End J Blain P Hoffman
The Key players on each side are, for South Africa powerhouse batsmen Herschelle Gibbs and for Scotland Its their captain Craig Wright who is their most capped player
Their is only one word for this pitch perfect you've just got to bat
The Toss
"Im Here with both Captains and its South Africa to call" "Tails"
"And its ..... Heads"
"Craig you've won the toss what are you gonna do?" "We're Going to bat as its a perfect pitch so we want to get off to a good start"
"Good luck today" "You too"
"Graeme you've lost the toss again today are you disapointted lossing this time" "Yeah its looks a belta of a pitch but its going to stay like that so im looking froward to chasing on this pitch"
"Thanks" "Thank you"
So Scotland have won the toss and will bat first see you later for scotlands innings highlights
Scotland found it hard today as they reached 176-7 from their 50 overs The first three batsmen did superbly doing what they were supposed to do first wicket to go was Lockhart gone for 16 off 16 Pollock clipping the top of off stump, next to go was Watson who scored quickly before Ntini removing him with the last ball of his over He scored 17 off 27 balls before Ntini dived full length to catch Watson for his first wicket off the day, soon after that Watts was strolling bak to the Pavillion after Ntini removed two off his stumps he scored 34 off 47 Two Balls later McCallum was heading in the same direction Ntini removing the same two stumps he did earlier Macrae was gone for 7 off 23 as Langveldt bowled him, Brown then went for 2 off 17 runout thanks to some brilliant fielding by Herschelle Gibbs, The last wicket to fall was Poonia 17 off 28 caught in the slips by Smith from the bowling of Hall. Wright and Hamilton both 35* didnt try to add runs as they were just trying to surivie
Here is Scotlands Batting Card
South Africa's Bowling was superbly econmical but lacked penetration Ntini taking 3-36 by far the best bowling Langveldt only bowled 7 overs but took 1-7 Hall 1-37 Pollock 1-35
Ntini bowled at his best to damage early on
Here is South Africa's Bowling card
South Africa Require 177 runs at 3.54 runs per over to win
South Africa Captain Graeme Smith faced the first and last ball of the innings as South Africa won by 8 wickets, The contest was never in doubt as Smith reached 93* off 97 balls with support from a Kallis 49 reached the target with 14.5 overs to spare the two wickets to fall were De Villiers Looking to play the holding role in the innings departed for 13 off 27 balls, Kallis fell 1 short of his fifty falling on 49 off 58 balls, Smith 93* and Gibbs 11* of 30 saw the Proteas home.
Smith Was Due A Good Innings
Here is South Africa's Batting Card
Scotlands fielding was Average quite a few good stops in the field but 1 pathetic attempt got Smith a four there bowling was poor Hamilton 1-30and Wright 1-36
Man of the Match went Graeme Smith for his matchwinning 93*
Next up for South Africa is Australia a crucial game to decide who takes 2 points forward to the Super 8 stage
Me too if they get past the first 4 batsmen and i can imagine a low score as most of them haven't had match practise at batting so im bassically Bug**d
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