Story South Africa's One Day Circuit

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This is looking great so far Jazz

 

[surendar]

looking good so for mate... Good luck for the story!!!

 

[jazz]

Gower- Welcome Back Play is just about to begin

There has been some Breaking News and Drama just 10 minutes before the teams exchanged the team sheets Dale Steyn for South Africa broke down and severely injured his right ankle on the way to the outfield, there fore South Africa replace with Andre Nel. The extent of the injury is not known and dale has been taking for x ray in hospital. Well this is a big blow for South Africa Dales pace would have troubled the Bangladeshi?s. Well let?s go to pitch now for the start of play

Your commentators for the first half hour are:

Michael Holding
Ian Bothan
3rd Man = Nasser Hussain

Holding = Thank you David, well that was a shocker from Dale Steyn we will keep you updated with his injury as the day progresses

Botham = the other thing as well Mikey is that he may of fractured his ankle ligaments and could miss the whole series now that would be a big blow where the likes of Pakistan , Sri Lanka and some areas in India would have catered for his pace, swing and reverse swing

Holding- yes that is true but I think South Africa still have good Bowling package regarding with there seamers, bowlers like Ntini and Nel can bowl in the late 80mph range which should still hurry the batsman on this series. I am just worried about South Africa?s lack of spin that will be a big factor for them in this series

Botham- yes I agree Mikey the likes of India the pitches all caters for spinners. South Africa may struggle their as other international teams such as England and Australia have struggled in the past.

Hussain- One thing I would like to point out here is also in places like India South Africa will really struggle with the heat and the humidity the must not let that take over them

Start of play

Holding-ok here we are for Pollock?s first delivery. His accuracy will to be important for this tournament as bowlers usually get smacked around in the sub continent

And Javed Omar Belim pushes Pollock?s first ball on the onside for a single

Here comes the 2nd ball and its an Edge but it doesn?t carry, good accurate stuff there from Pollock

Botham- well I don?t know why the slip fielders are so far back with someone like Pollock?s pace they should be at least 2-3 foot further in

Holding- Agree with you there beefy. Here comes the 3rd ball and its cut away for 4!!!. The first boundary for Bangladesh and it goes to Shariyar Nafees. Well Pollock gave him a pit of with there and the ball was cut away for 4.

Botham= yes excellent shot for Bangladesh they need to put away the bad balls from south Africa and make a reasonable score here

Holding- here comes the 4th ball and it goes past the outside edge the South Africans are appealing not out says Simon Taufel.

Botham- well we need to take a look at Snicko here as I did here a noise that could have been bat and pad

Well Snicko has not registered any impact but revolutions of the ball did change once the ball went past the batsman. Ball could have hit the arm guard.

Holding - here comes Pollock 5th ball it goes past the outside the edge and little edge the South Africans are jumping for Joy but wait Taufel says NO. Well that sounded like an Edge to me we will need confirmation with Snicko here

NOT OUT!!!!!!!

Botham- Yes Mikey to me that ball took the under edge of the bat, and confirmed by snicko an impact as the ball goes past the under edge of the bat. Bad Decision from Taufel there. Pollock was elated he thought he had his man well he did have his man but the umpire ruled it out

Holding- yes beefy but we have to give the umpire the benefit of the doubt as there is a massive atmosphere coming from the Bangladesh supporter?s umpire may not of herd it. Pollock running up to bowl his last ball of the over and straight to Boucher?s gloves. Good leave

Botham- Exciting opening over, Bangladesh are 5/0

 

[surendar]

Neat Presentation mate!!! Good over but Pollock was unlucky though!!! :

 

[jazz]

Bangladesh begin to Frustrate South Africa

Holding- welcome back Bangladesh are starting to get on top of South Africa, catches for South Africa have gone down, edges have fallen short and Bangladesh scoring freely

Kemp puts down a sitter

Javed Belim edges but fall short of slips

Belim hits a stylish 4

Botham- yes Mikey South Africans are getting frustrated now. Bangladesh have done nothing wrong good effort by them

Bangladesh 20/0 After 4 Overs

Here?s Nasser Hussian with the 3rd Man View

I thought you would be interested in the way bowlers position the cricket ball in the bowling hand. Here an Example of Ntini

Up Right Seam

Here Ntini has got the ball in the up right position before he releases it, he is hoping that the ball will either Nip in or Jag Out after the seam hits the pitch. This is a effective delivery as batsman do not see the seam movement either late. The ball that Nips in can trap a batman lbw or take out his stumps.

In Swing

Here Ntini has the seam facing toward the batsman. This will make the ball swing into the batsman. This is also an effective delivery as it can catch batsman on their pads or bowl them

Out Swing

Here Ntini has the seam facing towards the slips. This will make the ball swing away from the batsman and if the batsman misjudges the swing he can get a fine edge to either wicket keeper or the slips

Well now you have seen how bowlers hold the cricket ball in bowling hand. Now I will explain the bounce in sub continent pitches and bounce on South African pitches

Here is hawk eyes version of Ntini?s bowling

The red ball is the ball he bowled today against Javed Omar Belim. As you can see after the ball pitches there is not much bounce the ball stays quite low and loses pace and the batsman can play it ease. This ball reached the batsman at 65mph after it left Nitni?s hand at 87mph and bounced at 77mph

The blue ball is Ntini?s ball earlier this year against New Zealand at Cape Town in South Africa. The ball pitches on near enough the same spot as it has today with Ntini?s red ball but the blue ball bounces more and is more pacy, it will surprise the batsman. This ball left Nitni?s hand at 88mph bounce at 80mph and reached the batsman at 73 mph which is quick.

In the sub continent pitches are mainly dry and dead so short bowling will just sit up and asked to be hit. where as in south Africa the pitch has moisture to it and its rock hard which will enable the ball to bounce and give the batsman a nasty surprise. The key for the South Africans is they must pitch the ball up and pitching it short in Asia will just give away runs.

 

[treva]

Wow great presentation Jazz

loving the writing very commentator esq

keep up the very detailed work

 

[jazz]

Javed Belim Out for 5

Holding- Finally the break through the south africans where looking for

Belim drives a fuller delivery straight to boje at point

Botham- that was a better length from Ntini fuller making the batsman Drive

Bangladesh 26/1 After 5 Overs

 

[jazz]

Bangladesh looking Good

Holding- Bangladesh looking good here. South Africa have been bowling too short.

Botham- Yes Mikey Ntini lenght has been very wayward even though he has a wicket to his name

Nice Shot from Nafees

Ahraful off the mark

Nafees Guides a 4

Ashraful drives Pollock

Scorecard