The South African Proteas take on England in the 1st T20 International, to be held at Wanderers in Johannesburg. This is the match thread for discussion of the game.
Match scheduled to begin at 18:00 local time (16:00 GMT)
Greame Smith has won the toss and elected to bowl first!
South Africa:
Greame Smith
Yosuf Abdulla
Loots Bosman
Johan BothaMark Boucher
AB de Villiers
Jean-Paul Duminy
Jacques Kallis
Heino Kuhn
Charl Langeveldt
Ryan McLaren
Albie Morkel
Wayne Parnell
Dale Steyn
Roelof van der Merwe
England – 202 / 6 after their 20 overs:
Andrew Strauss
James Anderson
Tim Bresnan
Stuart Broad
Paul Collingwood
Alastair Cook
Joe Denly
Sajid Mahmood
Eoin Morgan
Graham Onions
Kevin Pietersen
Matt Prior
Adil Rashid
Graeme Swann
Jonathan Trott
Luke Wright
Steyn very expensive there. Trott the ex-saffa batting well.
31@ Puma – Yip
Morkel bowling cleverly now
Fark, as I say that Collingwood hits a huge 6
Eng 56 / 2 after 6 overs
Roelof v/d Merwe into the attack
Wickettttttt
Eng 61 / 3 after 7 overs
Trott run out… now he can trott off to the showers
Eoin Morgan at the crease
Better over by Dale Steyn
Eng 66 / 3 after 8 overs
Johan Botha into the attack
Eng 75 / 3 after 9 overs
Roelof now bowling from the opposite end
Six from Collingwood
Eng 87 / 3 after 10 overs
Eng 97 / 3 after 11 overs
Absolutely HUGEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Six from Morgan…. out the grounds…
Nelson up
Eng 111 / 3 after 12 overs
119 / 3 after 13 overs
We need wickets, these 2 are in fine form
Albie Morkel trying to stem things
Six
From being of fire the Proteas are letting this slip big time. Need to get another wicket very quick here.
Six again.. oi
48 – GBS, We need wickets big time bru. Bowling not good at the moment.
Then Wanderers is a small ground and the 4’s and 6’s come quick there especially at altitude. Not sure when we won the toss if we should have batted 2nd. Hope it was a wise choice by the captain.
Eng 140 / 3
Very damn expensive from Morkel
Back to the tv.
The long boundaries are 83m, both sides, the short one’s 60m and 66m respectively
Nee jussie nou fokkk hulle ons op!
Eng 149 / 3 after 15 overs
Both batsmen over 50 now
Six off Langeveld’s bowling
58 – GBS Evening you, are we Poms putting up a decent show at last!! 🙂
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