Steyn stars in Kiwi clobbering
11 Nov 2007
Dale Steyn claimed 5-59 to power South Africa a 358-run win and a one nil series lead against New Zealand.
The Black Caps simply had no answer to the pace of Steyn, who finished with his best Test figures of 10-93.
Steyn picked up two of the three wickets to fall last night and continued the carnage on a pitch that held together beautifully, claiming the wicket of Scott Styris early in the day.
He peppered Brendon McCullum with short pitched deliveries before the plucky right hander eventually succumbed, guiding a half tracker to gully.
Steyn was ably supported by Andre Nel, Jacques Kallis and Paul Harris, the spinner dismissing a determined Jacob Oram.
Oram and skipper Daniel Vettori showed some resolve with a 45-run partnership, the latter showing scant regard for the match situation in smashing anything up to the bat to finish unbeaten on 46 off 58 balls.
But New Zealand’s resistance crumbled with Oram’s demise , Steyn striking the decisive blow in shattering Chris Martin’s stumps. The victory places the Proteas in a good position going into the second Test which starts in Centurion on Friday.
South Africa 1st innings: 226 all out in 74.3 overs
Herschelle Gibbs 63, Mark Boucher 43, Shane Bond 4-73, Chris Martin 3-67.
New Zealand 1st innings: 118 all out in 41.3 overs
Stephen Fleming 40, Dale Steyn 5-34, Makhaya Ntini 3-46, Jaqcues Kallis 2-11
South Africa 2nd innings: 422-3 declared in 126 overs
Jacques Kallis 186, Hashim Amla 176*
New Zealand 2nd innings: 172 all out in 51 overs
Daniel Vettori 46*, Jacob Oram 40, Dale Steyn 5-59
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South Africa win by 358 runs and lead the two-Test series one nil
93 Comments
11 Nov 2007, 09:38 am
Sad news about Shane Bond going home with his stomach strain. I truly love watching him bowl.
He’s the Johnny Wilko of international cricket – injuries always pissing on the parade of a prodigous talent…..
You buggers slamming cricket on the other thread….Skopskiet and Co. Go and slap the mackerel if you’re bored….I love rugby and cricket, equally. The 5 day test is a chess game, something idiots with ADD or ADHD could not possibly appreciate, without copius amounts of Ritalin……
Its a festival of intelligent plotting and planning, and it keeps me riveted……LONG LIVE TEST CRICKET…
20/20 was devised with ADD sufferers in mind…..
Even though I enjoy watching the shorter versions of the game – test cricket is still the ultimate.
Going to be in Jhb next weekend – and will get to Supersport Park (the dark side Centurion)for one days play.
So detractors of the game – piddle off now.
11 Nov 2007, 09:50 am
Well said Ruck. Not much strategy left in this game because of the SA dominance but a test is what the name suggests, an examination of technique, temperament, tenacity and talent. Not to mention character. NZ has failed this but SA hung in there after the first day’s sub par effort and turned the screws on day two.
Their fielding needs to be commended too. Kiwis dropped crucial chances while SA held all theirs. Even the much maligned captain is a very good slipper.
11 Nov 2007, 10:00 am
Hello Saturday. Yes, the Proteas have been good in all facets. Smith is often the target here in the good ol RS of A, but I for one find him to be of solid character and devious mind….qualities needed on the world stage. Jonty has really added something to the Proteas fielding since helping out.
I feel for the Black Caps though – I mean sheez, they had 4 substitutes on at one stage yesterday. Oram – fitness test on Monday, Bond – home, Papps – on a drip for stomach bug, Fleming – finger still faarrrhkkked. Not ideal at all.
Watched the “rained out” Oz, Sri Lanka test – I really like Mitchell Johnson – I think he’s going to play a huge role in Oz cricket….Just my gut feel.
11 Nov 2007, 10:42 am
Not sure about Johnson, when he doesn’t get swing he can be reasonably easy to combat. The second wicket he got was more due to the poor shot execution than anything he did. At least he’s pleasant though, unlike McGrath.
Jonty was a legend in the field; loved watching him. He does have your unit working well. Interestingly when he took up the job with Pakistan for a short stint he complained about their lack of work ethic, unlike the South Africans who’ll do anything he asks.
11 Nov 2007, 10:48 am
Saturday – I think its because the players respect him for what he is, a South African icon.
Jonty has not been the ONLY one to mention Pakistans lack of work ethic – seems to be a problem…
11 Nov 2007, 11:21 am
JC- an idea
could you make the click HERE application in capitals/bold print/a different colour etc 2 make it more noticeable for ppl wanting the score??
11 Nov 2007, 11:25 am
Test cricket IS cricket! I’ts irreplaceble!
11 Nov 2007, 11:26 am
Test cricket IS cricket! I’ts irreplaceble! Kiwi’s 90/5.
11 Nov 2007, 11:56 am
First ball from king kallis and papps is gone!
11 Nov 2007, 12:17 pm
Papps has been ill – very ill, on a drip the lot. I thought he did admirably just walking to the crease…..That said – this game is done and dusted……
11 Nov 2007, 12:57 pm
I don’t feel sorry for the kiwi’s. I can’t forget Vettori saying that they deserved to be in the t20 semi-final ahead of us.
11 Nov 2007, 13:02 pm
Did Papps perhaps **** in his pant’s when he saw Steyn trying to kill McCullum?
They’re really bowling well and from the 2 overs Harris bowled before lunch I wouldn’t be surprised if he continued after lunch.
I really feel for Shane Bond. Injuries have really screwed his career!
The Aussies should finish off Sri Lanka before lunch tomorrow.
11 Nov 2007, 13:13 pm
#Hooker
The Brisbane forecast is for showers, mainly in the morning, so weather could stretch it out.
But the Aussies should only need 30 overs or so.
11 Nov 2007, 13:20 pm
#13 – If that…….30 overs.
11 Nov 2007, 13:29 pm
Yip Harris into the wickets!
I hope Steyn gets 10 for the match!
11 Nov 2007, 13:36 pm
Cricketlover
I just popped in to see if you are still at the only one at the cricket?
11 Nov 2007, 13:40 pm
15# Hooker
I don’t think so.
I think Francois will be our# 12 for a while.
He has found a new niche there.
Come WC 2011, he might be our new Percy.
But for now, keep him at #12, not #10.
11 Nov 2007, 13:41 pm
#15 – Dale Steyn is really bowling beautifully.
Harris deserved that wicket. Ooops, great ctach Amla…170/8. Game over long before tea.
11 Nov 2007, 13:42 pm
Oooops, ball hit Amla’s helmet – maybe not out.
11 Nov 2007, 14:03 pm
And that is the ball game! Well done boytjies!
The Black Caps really are in trouble with all this injuries, cause they don’t have much depth. If Fleming doesn’t come off then they struggle. With Shane and possibly Oram out they will be a bit thin in the bowling department.
11 Nov 2007, 14:05 pm
In the words of the geriatric and seemingly permanently inebriated Hugh Bladen: OVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER….
11 Nov 2007, 14:06 pm
I played cricket yesterday in Fishhoek. It was one of that most wonderful rare days of barely any wind and lovely blue sky. It was truely a lovely day for cricket in a beautiful setting. Winning our match was off course the icing on the cake. I am a true Bull supporter but love living in the Cape of Good Hope.
11 Nov 2007, 14:09 pm
Nope there are others Pietman! What a beautiful game! The perfect test-match! Brilliant batting, superb bowling, tremendous fielding! I’m so proud to be a saffa, this country rocks! Graeme Smith may have been a dissapointment with the bat, but showed brilliant captaincy. Brilliant choice to bat, great field-setting and changing bowlers. Steyn you are also excellent! Brilliant 5 Wickets in the match! Kallis well, all-round greatness! Amla, great catch great batting. Saffas highest win by 358 runs. Well done manne! So glad to see we get rid of the tail quick. Boucher takes 400 dismissals!
11 Nov 2007, 14:11 pm
You’ve unearthed someone in Steyn. I love watching bowlers who scare the opposition. He had a few backing away. I don’t think O’Brien and Martin were that disappointed to depart. Biggest win ever for the Proteas in terms of runs and NZ’s heaviest ever defeat.
11 Nov 2007, 14:12 pm
Aaah. A demon from the dark side…..So the fact that Cape Town is “***” according to your brethren up north, doesn’t bother you, as a Bulls supporter?? Hehehehe. Congrats on the win, I follow the Boland League (mostly) Maties, Brackenfell, Easterns etc. I support the Maties, of course. But we ain’t been too flash….
11 Nov 2007, 14:13 pm
Yeh! The great Steyns! Francois Steyn in rugby and Dale Steyn in Cricket. Good talent for the future for the Steyn denasty. Hehehe
11 Nov 2007, 14:17 pm
Steyns, Morkels, du Plessis’s etc etc etc
11 Nov 2007, 14:20 pm
The griquas are gonna wint the currie cup one day.
11 Nov 2007, 14:22 pm
#17. Er….OK Pietman no more beer for you! HA HA!
Amla’s catch looked a bit suspect but Dale Steyn deserved the wicket!
Great play guys,albeit against an injured team!
11 Nov 2007, 14:23 pm
Thanks Ruck, but I must confess that I started my school career in Gauteng. Only moved to Bellville in standard 8. Been here since then. Born in Stellenbosh, so maybe thats why I love the Cape so much. Actually I am not one for the hectic rush of Gauteng, but like the more easy atmosphere of the Cape. But I truely love the Bushveld as well. I am more a lover of Gods creation than man’s creation. Funny thing is that I am the only Bull supporter in my house, the rest support WP. WP is my second team, but somehow I got stuck on the Bulls. But I enjoy sport and can appreciate a good sporting performance, doesn’t matter who it is.
11 Nov 2007, 14:28 pm
29# Hooker
Howzit!
Heheheheh!
11 Nov 2007, 14:30 pm
Cricketlover
Yes,I have been watching you and the Proteas.
Good on you, for sticking with the boys!
11 Nov 2007, 14:32 pm
Silence
You still in CY?
I lived in Kenridge all my life.
Good part of the world, CY.
Hope to return there some day.
Most of my old school friends still around CY, CFR, CK and CL.
Place to be bro’!
11 Nov 2007, 14:33 pm
#30 – Sheez, you must really get it from the family during Super 14/Currie Cup. I s’pose you watch elsewhere. If you play cricket for Bellville, my family were friends with The Ackerman family. I think James Ackerman used to coach Bellville. His son Shaun actually played top level cricket here, and overseas.
11 Nov 2007, 14:37 pm
Ja Pietman, dis ‘n lekker plek hierdie. Ek hou van die ligging v CY, so lekker in die middel van alles. 20km na CA, 20km na CL. Net ‘n entjie se ry dan is jy uit die stad. Lekker sentrums naby geleë, goeie skole en redelike rustige woonbuurte. Het by DF Malan gematrikuleer. Nou wil ek net my verloofde hier kry van daar uit die blikpens se wêreld uit, dan is die Kaap werklik weer Hollands. Hehe
11 Nov 2007, 14:38 pm
35# Blikpens = Blikoor ek bedoel.
11 Nov 2007, 14:38 pm
Man of the match to Steyn – well deserved!
11 Nov 2007, 14:42 pm
#34 – Pietman, I grew up in Kenridge. Kenridge Ave to be exact. Beautiful tree lined avenues..still the same. I used to walk to high school, Fairmont.
Sheez man, the world is one **** small place.
11 Nov 2007, 14:42 pm
Ja pietman dis moeilik om hulle te back, maar ek doen dit maar. Die bokke wen darm die wêreldbeker.
11 Nov 2007, 14:46 pm
We do niggle each other now and again(read me and my brother), I think my dad was a NT supporter but he died 20 years ago so I am not sure(I was still a kid), but we are a very mild manner family. I was the joke when the Bulls were so poor in the late 90′s and early 2000′s. A province friend of mine used to tell me that every one is allowed one bit of poor taste
Yes Sean is still playing for the club but the new coach is Alistair(West Indian – he played some games for WP or WP B). Bellville is a very good and healty club with great facilities. The politics ain’t so good though most of the time. I am actually playing with a bunch of friends in a closed team for Bellville CC. Much better that way and no politics.
11 Nov 2007, 14:53 pm
#40 – Better to steer clear of the politics. At least you still get to enjoy the game for what it is. Durbanville CC is where I spent most of my high school years, Dad played as an oldy and was Chairman/Club Captain or something to that effect. Always a blast…Used to be fun though (stealing booze from behind the bar and the sort)
As a really young tot, Dad played for WPCC, so I sort of grew up on cricket fields. (And rugby fields in winter – False Bay mostly…)
11 Nov 2007, 14:58 pm
Scenic wise the Cape is the best place to play a cricket match at. Just wonderful to play cricket with either Table Mountain as back drop or looking over the sea from Camps Bay.
11 Nov 2007, 15:05 pm
#42 – You’re so right. There isn’t an “ugly” ground to be had for miles. They’re all great.
11 Nov 2007, 15:12 pm
ok guys I am out now. Have a good weekend further everybody. Silence return to silence….
11 Nov 2007, 15:13 pm
ruck
Yes, Fairmont is ok.
They did have some average students though, like keo here!
But then there was Mark, from my old school, and he managed to ‘shuttle’ on and keep Durbanville’s averages up!!!
11 Nov 2007, 15:17 pm
#45 – LOL. And make Durbanville the highest income per capita suburb in SA for a while – until the Somerset West lot usurped the ‘D’villers.
11 Nov 2007, 15:27 pm
Hi all
Just got back from Wanderers! Again a wonderfull day with proper cricket being played! The gentlemans game will always surpass the other variants if only for class and atmosphere! The crowds are not huge but 90% knows the game well and thats what its all about! Not this instant coffee stuff that everybody gulps away!
11 Nov 2007, 15:31 pm
#47 – I waved to you on the telly….A great days play, and a super result. As I said earlier, Test cricket is not for ADD sufferers – but for conoisseurs…..
11 Nov 2007, 15:33 pm
Ruck
Some people just do not have enough of an IQ to realise that! See you at Centurion next weekend?
11 Nov 2007, 15:44 pm
Yip, am going to try and get there Saturday – in Jhb from Friday for business. I am a touch fearful of visiting the dark side though – but for the love of the game, I shall persevere.
11 Nov 2007, 15:52 pm
keep it up Boys, looking forward, to comming home tomorrow, and watching a ODI at newlands
11 Nov 2007, 15:54 pm
Ja cricket is excellent! skopskiet kinda pissed me off last night that’s why kept having a go at him.
11 Nov 2007, 19:22 pm
Steyn’s 5-59 kind of reminds me of a Springbok vs England rugby game.LOL!
Test cricket has always and will always be my favourite form of the game followed by ODI’s.
No time for sissies in a test,just ask Brendan McCullum!
NZ are in serious trouble if Oram isn’t fit for the 2nd test. Kyle Mills replacing Bond won’t help the Kiwi’s much either. I’m sure he chucks it now and again!
11 Nov 2007, 19:36 pm
Anyone read in today’s paper(Rapport) about Justin Kemp not wanting to play for SA anymore?
11 Nov 2007, 19:52 pm
Greame Smith comments regarding the pitch:
“It was never going to be easy on a wicket like that,” he told a news conference. “You had to get the basics in place, and I think we did that.
“Wickets around the country are becoming poorer. In the last two years it’s become more difficult to find decent test wickets in South Africa.
“If we’re going to take our game forward we need to take note of those things.”
For fark sakes stop F@%$&^^& moaning you twit. You scored 1 and 9.Even Amla scored a ton on it so it coldn’t have been that bad.Maybe you should ask the groundsmen in SA to use drop-in pitches.They can take a strip off the N1 and then maybe you’ll be happy!
Ask Kallis for some tips on how to bat you fool!
Jeez you really know how to piss me off!!
11 Nov 2007, 20:11 pm
I read abou kemp leaving us, another one gone. Altouph kemp was out of form quite a while he still had a bat from hell on a good day! What do you think hook?
11 Nov 2007, 20:18 pm
André Nel ticks me off. He can’t bowl- took 2 wickets, but polly can do that too- polly can bat and polly isn’t a freakshow. Why do these unmentionables keep selecting him ahead of polly? How stupid can you be? And sure we won without polly, but you can’t expect to win against oz with such a looong tail! I don’t know if I’m the only one but I want polly in nel’s place.
11 Nov 2007, 20:23 pm
Nel is a dork !
11 Nov 2007, 20:24 pm
Nel is one of Smiths pals
11 Nov 2007, 20:29 pm
#57 – Am also really pissed that Polly wasn’t selected, and the cheek of only informing him that he wasn’t going to be playing THE DAY BEFORE THE TEST….(Apparently if there had been more grass on the wicket, he would have played…..Farrking hell) These clowns are treating one of our icons like ****….Polly would have been a far better selction than Nel – end of. Yip, Kemp has had enough.
11 Nov 2007, 20:35 pm
Apparently he has retired because he is tired of being critizied and feels there’s sword over his head every time he walks onto the field.
Shame he’s obviously a delicate little flower!
He’s apparently been offered a big Kolpak contract at Kent.
I don’t think it’s such a big loss. Albie Morkel looks set to take over Lance Klusener’s old role and he bowls a lot better than Kemp. Not really a trainsmash imo!!
11 Nov 2007, 20:50 pm
#61 – Probably not a train wreck – but once more, an unhappy player – thats the worrying thing…
11 Nov 2007, 20:51 pm
Hooker,
So what was that about Amla and quota’s …
“12 Agreed. AMLA HAS TO BE DROPPED! McKenzie got 182 against NZ in the SA A game.
As far as I’m concerned he should have been dropped for this game. Kallis could have batted 3 and Polly could have been put in the side.
Quota’s however stopped this!!
Comment by Hooker : November 8, 2007 @ 11:49 am”
11 Nov 2007, 20:56 pm
#57 CL
A question to you. who will you select, a bowler with a strike rate of 90 or a bowler with a strike rate of 60?
11 Nov 2007, 21:01 pm
Hooker I was thinking exactly what you said! I like it when you say it like it is. Polly should give them the finger and go play rebel. They’ll never give him a job as a coach- look at donald. He’ll make more money and he’ll not be humiliated by these clowns.
11 Nov 2007, 21:15 pm
#63
As the saying goes: One swallow doesn’t make a summer!
If he can continue, great and I’ll be the first to admit I was wrong but I really don’t think he is up to it. You’re quick to use my post against me but remember he should have been out when he had 2. Then what would you have said.
Quota’s have kept him in the side,IMO,because he hasn’t performed consistently. In Pakistan he made one score and then failed every other innings.
As for McKenzie,I’m a huge fan even though he got a duck today!
11 Nov 2007, 21:35 pm
Maybe we should buy the clowns a book that explains the rules of cricket. Goodnight guys!
11 Nov 2007, 21:56 pm
What is it with these hectic tummy bugs? The English rugby team knocked out cold on tour here, and now the kiwis suffering? Are they just not used to the particular bugs around this part of the world, is it something to do with hygiene standards, or are they just not washing their hands? We will start getting a reputation like Delhi if we are not careful… (e.g. “Delhi Belly”).
11 Nov 2007, 21:58 pm
SjamBok – I think when they saw Steyn charging in their stomach’s couldn’t handle it!
11 Nov 2007, 22:03 pm
Put it simple. Pollock is a has been and is currently neither a good bowler nor a top class batsman
11 Nov 2007, 22:11 pm
If you say so!
11 Nov 2007, 22:26 pm
Wp, whatever man! Pollock is the man! The so-called hasbeen scored 90 the other day, can’t remember when the others scored that many. Nel is a neverwas.
11 Nov 2007, 22:50 pm
Post 66
My issue is how quick the word “quota” is used against non-white players. Its pretty convenient to term a debateable non-white selection as “quota” rather than management selection.
11 Nov 2007, 23:16 pm
That 90 was scored against a bowling attack consisting of two spinners and two medium pacers. In that type of scenarios he will score runs. Pollock cannot play really fast bowlers like Brett Lee etc.
11 Nov 2007, 23:39 pm
Batting avg’s for tests this year are:
Smith 39.61 (713 runs in 18 innings)
Gibbs 27.64(387 runs in 15 innings)
Amla 31.3(538 runs in 18 innings)
(Would be 20.22 if he was caught on 2)
Kallis 79.50 (1033 runs in 16 innings)
AB 21(314 runs in 17 innings)
Boucher 32.4 (389 runs in 13 innings)
Polly 29.56(266 runs in 9 innings)
Except for Kallis, and maybe Boucher and Polly, these stats are shocking!!
Gibbs and Smith in 33 innings have scored 67 more runs than Kallis has in 16 innings.
11 Nov 2007, 23:47 pm
farjan would Amla be batting at No 3 for any other test country(excl. Bangladesh and Zim) with the above mentioned stats?
I’ve also mentioned on previous threads that AB deserves to be dropped.
I’m sorry if it came across that I’m having a go at him just because he is non-white,I promise you I’m not,but I do feel that he would have been dropped had it have been a white player.Just look at Jacques Rudolph as an example.
The only reason ,IMO, why AB hasn’t been dropped yet is because he is the yo-yo guy in the side.Then he opens then he bats 5,then 6 then he opens agin etc.
12 Nov 2007, 07:18 am
Pollock was selected as a bowler in the first place. In the last 4-5 years he required about 90 balls to take a wicket. Dale Steyn is currently on 42. Ntini, for the same period as Pollock, required about 39 deliveries.
One thing for sure, Ntini is NO quota, he compares well with top bowlers in the world. Pollock is what you expects from a quota.
12 Nov 2007, 07:48 am
Agreed that over the last few years Polly’s bowling has been sub-standard (in test cricket) but in the last 2 series at home(India & Pak)he really bowled well. I still feel he should have played against NZ in Nel’s place.
Regarding Ntini,nobody ever said he was a quota player. I think with him,Steyn and Morkel we’re going to have a serious bowling attack in a couple of years time.
12 Nov 2007, 08:16 am
Smith has to get back his balance at the crease and still has a tendency to fall over on the crease and get bowled off the inside edge or LBW.
12 Nov 2007, 09:04 am
Polly is still beter than andré nel. Nobody regards ntini as a qp, we never said that. Hooker while the where playing the nz test the showed a list of top run scorers of all nations in ’07. Kallis was nr1 and graeme smith no.5 nobody really performed in tests this year except kallis. The guy just tends to keep his bat a little straight, that can be sorted with practice and concentration. Kallis didn’t have great shape in mid last year.
12 Nov 2007, 09:50 am
I notice the racists are still around
Hooker
What is that point about if Amla was caught on 2?
Dropped catches is part of the game.
How many times was Kallis dropped in both innings?
Amla’s record is not much worse then that of AB De Villiers (a white boy).
AB’s played 31 tests and still average in the 30′s.
12 Nov 2007, 09:51 am
Just on Nel, I’m not a huge fan but I honestly thought he helped support Steyn well and set up some wickets by bowling with good pace and bounce. His big frame allows this. I think if anything Ntini looked a bit below par for him.
I’m an Aussie so I can say it – maybe a heresy but I thought the attack looked the most venomous it has for a while without Pollock who’s only ‘weapon’ if we can call it a weapon is line and length. But the good players are now taking a risk even with that because he’s lost pace and penetration. I think his batting adds a lot because of your current tail but the usual rule is that when you examine specialist positions such as bowling, you have to go with the best fit. When Morne Morkel returns you can add batting depth without compromising the bowling.
Just on those batting numbers, they don’t look pretty Kallis apart. Nonethless most of your tests during that time were played in SA which is the only place left where the pitches really assist the bowler so even us Aussies admit your averages will be lower for your batsmen. And while Kallis’s stats are great, he does bat at #4. He’s clearly better equipped than any of Smith, Gibbs or Amla to handle the new ball in a technical sense, yet they have to face the music on fiery decks. Kallis steadfastly refuses to bat at #3, much like Steve Waugh refused to move up the order because of his addiction to his average. So bear this in mind when making judgements. Kallis’s technique is close to perfect though.
12 Nov 2007, 09:53 am
Oh and while Kemp might be lost to the Kolpak system I read elsewhere that Vaughn van Jaarsveld may be having second thoughts and may return to the SA system.
And the other reason of course that Nel has to be retained is Smith’s ‘***’ love of him!!!!
12 Nov 2007, 09:54 am
CL – Kallis had a “bad year” last year. He only avg 48. Including 2 100′s and a 50 not out against Aus.
I agree with Staalburger, Smith’s balance is his problem at the moment. Watch how he was bowled in the 2nd innings to see how he is falling over.
He should rather sort that out than ***** about the state of the pitches in SA!
12 Nov 2007, 09:54 am
BTW Steyn’s exploits have attracted the attention of scribes here. What is impressive about him apart from his pace and swing, is that he seems to like the hostility business and has pride in his performance. He’s become more frugal too.
12 Nov 2007, 11:47 am
Just on the MOTM award, I think they got it right. Had NZ made runs in the first dig the match could have been shaped differently. But Steyn blew them away. And then after the batsmen started to prosper, he cleaned them up again!
12 Nov 2007, 15:27 pm
#81 If your referring to me you can go and F### yourself!!
If you had read further than you nose you would have seen that I said AB and Andre Nel deserve to be dropped too.(both white boys as you put it)
Amla didn’t deserve his spot in the side either and if you go look at his stats you’ll see that in just about every test series he makes one score and then fails in all the others.
You obviously haven’t done so because then you would have seen what I was talking about twit!
Ntini hasn’t been bowling well of late but have I said anything about him?
No cause we all know how good he is.
If you can accept that our test number 3 averages in the 20′s then your head needs to be read!
If I’m a racist because I want our NATIONAL side to have the best players in it then I’m guilty.
As soon as a non-white is criticized you decide to use the R word, How mature of you,you idiot!
As soon as you’re prepared to take off your blinkers and see that us “white boys” don’t care who plays for SA as long as they’re the best in their position.
12 Nov 2007, 15:30 pm
Saturday your side,esp Brett “the jet” Lee blew the Sri Lankans away this morning. I was a little worried when I saw the cloud cover but thankfully the rain didn’t spoil the game. I’m still trying to get over McGill’s delivery that bowled Vandort! Absolutely awesome delivery! Warnie would have been proud of it! Well done!!
13 Nov 2007, 01:08 am
So you beat NZ.Hooray! Smith and Arthurs are still ****.South African cricket is still **** as was conclusively proven in the WI. Thje day you beat Australia- even in South Africa – that’s the day I will recognize SA as a cricketing power.Start selecting teams on merit and you might get there!
13 Nov 2007, 06:32 am
An extract from an interview with Mickey Mouse:
Proteas coach Mickey Arthur believes South African cricket is in good hands, with younger players standing up to be counted and the team as a whole showing maturity and a sense of responsibility.
We’re in GREAT shape Mickey. We have one batsman who is consistent. We must really be giving the Aussies sleepless nights!!
13 Nov 2007, 12:19 pm
Agree Hooker, the batting is a worry though the bowling has possibly more promising young quicks than us.
Amla is no #3 and our batting is much stronger. In fairness to your batsmen though, most of them have higher averages outside of SA and look at how well the other countries perform when they visit you. The Pakistani and Indian so-called greats looked quite ordinary on your strips last year and NZ looks downright club standard batting on them, even against your ‘A’ side.
MacGill’s delivery was very special and unlucky for the plucky Vandort.
13 Nov 2007, 20:59 pm
What is wrong with you???You can’t read the half of someone’s comment and then take out what you want and accuse someone of racism!!! This is a democratic country, hooker never used offensive or obscene language towards Amla. You can’t accuse people of something because you feel like it.
I think Amla earned another chance with his performance last week. If he can find some shape, Gibbs also should become consitent, and Smith should go work on some technical difficulties. Ashwell has the talent it just needs to be enforced and AB weeellll…
We really need concistency otherwise we’re not going to even give oz a go.
OZ played real good, you must be proud saturday!
That ball sure was a beauty! It seems Murali isn’t going to break that record afterall…
14 Nov 2007, 09:35 am
I guess I’m proud Cricketlover but it becomes a tad boring winning so easily. I love watching competitive cricket and I’d love us to be tested. It’s one of the reasons I enjoy cricket between other nations though you pulverised the Kiwis.
I think your mate Smith needs to go back to Western Province to sort out his technique.
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