The curator at the Captain Roop Singh Stadium in Gwalior has promised another track full of runs.
Match coverage by Supersport 2 starts at 10:30
The series opener in Jaipur shouldn’t have got so close. Ashish Nehra should have been bowled off the penultimate ball of the innings. India’s total, as a result of that freakish incident – when the ball deflected off the stumps – should have been four runs less. India’s bowlers shouldn’t have allowed the South African tail to put their specialist batsmen to shame. A more conclusive camera angle/replay would have determined whether Sachin Tendulkar legitimately saved the boundary in the final over. All these significant incidents proved the difference between an Indian win and any other result.
The South Africans would no doubt have debated these ifs and buts after that game. Dale Steyn and Wayne Parnell scripted a near-Houdini act but it couldn’t hide what was otherwise an unflattering batting performance, Jacques Kallis excepted. It was puzzling why they omitted their in-form player Hashim Amla – not the most well-known limited-overs player around but one who adds glue to the top order. South Africa missed him and could sacrifice one of the openers for him. They have to get their combination right because another defeat will render the series lost and the final ODI a dead rubber.
India won the first game by one run. The game was in the balance until the last ball. Heroic batting by Dale Steyn and Wayne Parnell brought South Africa back into the game after they looked well and truly beaten. One can only wish for another humdinger, and hopefully South Africa can win this game to keep the 3 match series alive.
Match played at Gwalior
Teams
India squad
MS Dhoni*†, R Ashwin, RA Jadeja, KD Karthik, V Kohli, P Kumar, A Mishra, AM Nayar, A Nehra, YK Pathan, SK Raina, V Sehwag, S Sreesanth, SR Tendulkar, S Tyagi
South Africa squad
JH Kallis*, HM Amla, LL Bosman, J Botha, MV Boucher†, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, HH Gibbs, CK Langeveldt, JA Morkel, M Morkel, WD Parnell, AN Petersen, DW Steyn, LL Tsotsobe, RE van der Merwe
149: eish, nou self lekker gelag en amper ‘n blouste gelos ! Dink ons moet jou naam verander na GBD: Groot Blou Digter !
gbs @ 149
lol
149….hier hangit teen die muur….
152: hoe lykkit, is die rekord nog moontlik ?
Vinkel en koljander…
die een kolf soos die ander…
Tendulkar was bak…
Proteas is innie k@k…
O, Tendulkar laat my staan
want ek wil huistoe gaan …
Rom pom pom
Dis Blouste se maag wat grom
Daar’sit weer, daar’sit weer
Blouste se maag is seer
Ag nee jinne, daar van nog ‘n WP Blommetjie!
Nog net 5 paaltjies, dan skryf ons nog ‘n rekord agter ons naam.
Go you bad thing !
Vingertjie innie lug
6 maatjies plat
kwaak, kwaak, daar loop Dumini
Nightmare on Samoosastreet.
Die paaltjies val nou vinnig na mekaar, blouste kry nie tyd om uit die levvie te kom om iets te sê nie.
162@ Jy bedoel Blouste het vasgeval op Witbank…. hehehehe
Op 20 Overs moes ons by 150 gewees het met kloooomp paaltjies staande…. flok, ons gaan kort wees by verre!
Wag, daar is nog ‘n rekord op die tafel: ons gaan uitgeboul word met nog 20 beurte oor, indien nie vroeër nie.
Drie rekords in een dag, dit wil gedoen wees !
Ag VLOK!!!
Wat maak Duminey nog in die span! Rekord verloor op hande hier!
165@ BiDiBiDi – Dis lekker om ‘n Bul te wees….
Volgende ouens het teleurgestel op toer: Smith, Prince, AB, Duminy
Flok, Bouch en AB druk nou net vir enetjies… dit sallie helpie…
Go for broke, and if you break, you’ve tried.
200+ loss
o dear!!
Flok, moer daai bal man!
stadig gbs … jou bloubul hart!! 😆
Oooo Weeeeee as ek ook nie hier is nie skyt die Proteas soos reiers
Gelukig het ek vandag iets veel beter gehad om te doen, werk.
Boucher gone!
Flok, gaan ons 170 sien??
Glo nie!
ok manne
sien dalk later
175@ Asbak – Flokking mooiweersondersteuner…
Well pleased I had to be out the whole day. What a huge hiding we getting there. See Tendulkar got 200!!!!!!!!! In a odi that is just unreal. We must have bowled terrible or his batting must have been superb.
Think if we ever win a toss in India we need to bat first it seems.
173 – Super…….hahaha. I feel the same. The one day I had to go to two meetings and it took up my whole day. Now pleased I missed this game. Phew!! we must have bowled really bad or Tendulkar was on fire.
Well just pleased I missed this.
177@ Puma – Tendulkar made it look easy… so did Pathan, so did Dhoni…
Pitch looked tame as can be. We on the other hand cannot seem to buy a bloody boundary!
Think we have to think long and hard about our team for the world cup, as it is in India. We just not playing well in the odi’s.
Not sure if it is the bowlers or batsmen or both or the captain. Something is missing here. We should never be doing this bad.
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