England in South Africa

[Rangeela]

Schedule

Fri 17-21 Dec 1st Test Port Elizabeth
Sat 26-30 Dec 2nd Test Durban
Sun 2-6 Jan 2005 3rd Test Cape Town
Thu 13-17 Jan 4th Test Johannesburg
Fri 21-25 Jan 5th Test Centurion

Sun 30 Jan 1st ODI Johannesburg
Wed 2 Feb D/N 2nd ODI Bloemfontein
Fri 4 Feb D/N 3rd ODI Port Elizabeth
Sun 6 Feb Day 4th ODI Cape Town
Wed 9 Feb D/N 5th ODI East London
Fri 11 Feb D/N 6th ODI Durban
Sun 13 Feb D/N 7th ODI Centurion

England Test Squad


Michael Vaughan
James Anderson
Gareth Batty
Mark Butcher
Paul Collingwood
Andrew Flintoff
Ashley Giles
Stephen Harmison
Matthew Hoggard
Geraint Jones
Simon Jones
Robert Key
Chris Read
Andrew Strauss
Graham Thorpe
Marcus Trescothick

England One-Day Squad

*Michael Vaughan
Kabir Ali
James Anderson
Gareth Batty
Ian Bell
Paul Collingwood
Andrew Flintoff
Ashley Giles
Darren Gough
Stephen Harmison
+Geraint Jones
Vikram Solanki
Andrew Strauss
Marcus Trescothick
Alex Wharf

South Africa Test Squad

Graeme Smith (capt), AB de Villiers, Andrew Hall, Jacques Rudolph, Jacques Kallis, Hashim Amla, Boeta Dippenaar, Zander de Bruyn, Shaun Pollock, Nicky Boje, Thami Tsolekile (wk), Dale Steyn, Makhaya Ntini.

 

[gold639]

This should be a good series.I would definetely want Sa to win but I feel England will win by a small margin.

 

[Stephen Bailey]

I certainly hope that South Africa are better than they have been as we need a close series before we face the Aussies. I wouldn't want us going into that series without being given a really tough time because the Ashes is going to be far from easy.

 

[vibs89]

Well i want SA to win this since i was small SA was my 2nd favourite team i liked to see Klussner in actions. I liked the way he master blast in worldcup 1999.

 

[Horo]

i went for england 3 - 2 , englands a team thats on the way up and south africa is starting to get ruined by hopeless selections such as mark boucher (possible the worlds best gloveman) dropped for tsokile or watever his name is and players like ontong getting picked that struggle in domestic cricket let alone test cricket.

 

[sohum]

I think South Africa just picked a weaker team because they wanted to give other people chances, against India. Apart from that Gibbs and Boje (?) were in trouble with the Delhi police which is why they were dropped. However, I am not sure if Boucher was dropped or just rested. If he was dropped then yeah, that is one bad selection. It was funny listening to the radio commentators in India calling Tsolekile, "Silly Killy". That's how they pronounced it, though.

 

[gold639]

Silly Killy lol.:rtfl

What is the correct pronounciation?

 

[Shevchenko]

Its Tsolekile , like Sole Kille, and mark boucher was dropped due to smith saying that he is a good wickey but he is also a bad influence on the team

 

[rahulk666]

While cricket is huge in Sub-continent and England (only during the cricket season), the fan following in countries like SA and WI is diminishing. As an effect not many youngsters want to play cricket in these countries. From what a great team SA was to what it is now proves my point.

I think England will win the series 3-0, or 3-1.

 

[Ern]

I just can't see South Africa winning even one match, against this England team.
England are on a roll at the moment, South Africa need to get organised.

 

[Stephen Bailey]

Opening tour match.

N. Oppenheimer XI 172/4 (39 ov) (Johnson 74)
(Hoggard 8-3-29-2, Harmison 7-2-8-1)

England 190/2 (35.3 ov) (Key 87, Trescothick 85*)
(Tsotsobe 7-0-27-1, Willoughby 8.3-1-32-1)

Result: England win by 8 wickets (D/L method)
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South Africa 'A' v England teams:

South Africa 'A':
A Puttick
M van Jaarsveld
A Prince (c)
JP Duminy
J Ontong
M Boucher (wk)
A Morkel
A Thomas
C Langeveldt
E Mbhalati
C Willoughby

England:
M Trescothick
A Strauss
M Butcher
M Vaughan (c)
G Thorpe
A Flintoff
G Jones (wk)
A Giles
S Jones
M Hoggard
S Harmison

 

[Stephen Bailey]

Tour match: South Africa 'A' v England.

England 1st Inns: 225 all out (58.1 overs) (Strauss 50)
(Langeveldt 5/48)

S. Africa 'A' 1st Inns: 281 all out (73 overs) (van Jaarsveld 71, Ontong 52 )
(S Jones 3/49, Flintoff 3/50)

England 2nd Inns: 190 all out (53.1 overs) (Vaughan 100)
(Willoughby 4/63)

S. Africa 'A' 2nd Inns (Target 135): 135-3 (30 Overs) (Puttick 45)
(Hoggard 1/21)

Result: South Africa 'A' won by 7 wickets.

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1st Test Match: South Africa v England at Port Elizabeth

End of day 4.

South Africa 1st Inns: 337 all out (Dippenaar 110, Rudolph 93)
(Hoggard 3/56, Flintoff 3/72)

England 1st Inns: 425 all out (Strauss 126, Butcher 79)
(Ntini 3/75)

South Africa 2nd Inns: 229 all out (Kallis 61, Smith 55)
(S Jones 4-38)

England 2nd Inns (Target 142): 93-3 (Strauss 51*, Thorpe 23*)
(Steyn 1/15)

England require 49 more runs to win.

 

[Ern]

Anyone know the real reason Graham Smith took his team off, talkSPORT said there was a pre series agreement between the two teams.

 

[Stephen Bailey]

He 'says' that his team couldn't see the ball in the light, which sounds pathetic to me when the batsman are having no problems. I think the real reason is that they were struggling, the bowlers were ineffective at the time so he thought 'lets come back tomorrow and have a go when we're fresh.'

 

[jonah]

Go boys! 8 on the trot :hpraise