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8.6 to Vijay, 139.5 kph, Clatter! Vijay shoulders arms and hears the death knell. It landed outside off stump, hit the seam and cut in. Vijay lifted his bat in the air and allowed it to pass him but a nasty little surprise awaited him. The ball moved in off the seam to take out the off stump. Crash! Thanks for coming Steyen sticks out his tongue as he reaches the rest of his team-mates. Was it an intended outswinger that hit the seam and came in? Or was it cos of something else . we might never know. 40/214.1 to Tendulkar, 142.2 kph, Got him! Steyn rulez. It came in the air, landed on a length, around the middle and off stump line and curved away. Tendulkar stuttered out to drive, the length drawing him forward, and he was then done in by the away movement. He did push his bat slightly outside the line, trying to cover for the away swing but the ball moved fractionally more and kissed the outer edge. Fabulous delivery. Tendulkar’s forward movement wasn’t as smooth; he stuttered out… 56/3
58.1 to Badrinath, 135.2 kph, Steyn takes out Badrinath. South Africa climb all over India. It was a length delivery on the middle and leg,tailing in with the shiny side, flicked straight to short midwicket. Soft dismissal but that’s that. SA take great control over the game. 221/6
58.4 to Saha, 140.7 kph, Saha does a Vijay, if you can call it that. He shoulders arms and has lost his off stump on debut. It cut in from outside off stump, Saha lets it go but it isn’t going anywhere but towards the off stump. Clatter! Bye bye! 222/7
60.3 to Khan, 141.8 kph, Steyn continues to rock on in style. Five-for. It landed short of length, cut in to collide with the inside edge and fell on to the stumps. Zaheer was looking to force it away but ended up pushing an angled bat at it. Gone! 226/8
62.2 to Mishra, 143.9 kph, Cleaned up! Steyn lets out a roar of joy! Another tailing in with the shiny side, from just outside off stump, Mishra thinks he is GR Viswanath and goes for a late cut and edges it on to his stumps! What a dramatic final session this has been, Immense fun. 228/9
64.4 to Harbhajan Singh, Stand up and applaud Steyn. Seven wickets for him and he rushes to get the ball to keep as a souvenir. Full, moving in late with the shiny side, it moves past the defensive prod, to hit the back pad. Dead plumb! 233/10 |
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5.1 to Gambhir, 145.2 kph, ho ho ho what a jaffa right up, of all the deliveries at all the times Morkel bowls this one first ball of the morning! angling in, just back of a length, pitches off, holding its line enough, Gambhir is committed into the stroke but ends up playing inside the line, getting a faint edge 31/1 |
177 – GBS, I have both aircon on full and a desk fan. I get full afternoon sun in my study. VERY hot. Put the aircon in my Joburg home before I left last year for Umhlanga, was never ever going to have to sit here in Feb again in this hot study again not ever. In Umhlanga I have ducted aircon boeta, that is just BLISS 😀 Then you need it there. Here have three slpit ones. One in the bedroom, study and tv room. Were we sit the most.
173@ Tripps – I work too hard and I talk to my cyber friends too much…. which are all true.
So, I no longer work over weekends at all and I go into the house earlier in the week, if I want to blog at night, I have to do it from the house… which is fair, I was at fault.
179 Cricket and Rugby…..oh yes and I suppose soccer for the masses….. but for us it is cricket and rugby
Can you guys also have more than one wife? Seems like the place to be 😉
#182 that is big of you, the thing is you have a home and people that are there for you and one does tend to set them aside…..good on you to realise and try to make things right.
Puma – English was not my best subject in school, in fact, i could hardly talk english when i left school. Learned to talk english in the army.
bdb @ 140
môre ben
en
ben, ek wiet eksie hart ennie siel vannie blog,
maar jy hoef my rerig nie oppie naam te noem as jy groet nie! 😉
#184 and 20 kids which the taxpayers have to care for!!!!! this is ‘n lekker (nice) place to live Irish 🙂
179 – Irish a mixture 😆
TripE – just listened to the Ethnic Professor of Leeds Uni – explaining that although you can have more than one wife, doesn’t mean he can have affairs. Found that quite funny. Explain the difference. How many wives can you have?
GBS – Het jy die stoepkakkertjie geskop? 😆
Irish – Only in Africa!
184@ Oirish – No, that is reserved for the traditional African cultures… us Westeners have to be monogamous, otherwise we might just sleep in the doghouse, forever…. and believe me, my little doghouse sleeps very uncomfortably out on the verandah…..
190 I know, and this is why everyone is up in arms!!! this is also a daughter of a friend of his…..and with our Aids rpoblem being of the magnitude it is in SA everyone is throwing their toys around
191@ Stinkvis – Nie WEER nie… hehehehehe
186 – Snoek my afrikaans is really bad, but I try. Always have struggled with it, but my brother and sister speak it fluently. I do understand it well to read and listen too. but to speak it I struggle. Well I feel I struggle and think I make too much mistakes.
I can speak about 50% Dutch. Learned it while in Holland but have lost a bit of it now. My daughter to this day can still speak fluent Dutch. Never even took lessons while we lived there just learned from her Dutch mates.
LOL – this is hilarious. How can you have one law for one group and another for others. Just looked up customary law in SA and see it is now legal to marry under customary law.
GBS – change to Zuluism 😆
Puma@196 – can teach you Irish Gaelic mate!
Education is encouraging students to continue with Gaelic in schools – special benefits – hmmmm interesting.
190 – Irish, For me it is just not right. Will never agree to that sort of thing. Not for the Westerners here though 😀
Amla got more runs in his innings than the whole Indian team. Thats a good stat for you.
only 12 overs left….53/2….would love it if they can get Tendulkar before stumps
198 – Irish, Think now that would be very, very difficult. My Scots mates sometimes say a few words in Gaelic and I am totally lost. They only know a few words of it though.
197@ Oirish – At Varsity we have to study Customary Law…. all about Lobola (how to buy a wife), customs ect….
It is indeed a facinating situation….
If I convert to be a ZULU, my Handbriekie would bliksem (pummel) this very bleak Zulu…. I would have to charge her with racism….. hehehehe
Please stop with the aircon talk you are killing me, thermometer on wall outside in the shade says 37 same as yesterday, it is dreadful, Hiho tripples 🙂
Gaelic? Is that the Irish people’s home language?
202 – Tripps, If we can get another wicket that would be great. Think like the commentators said it is far better to take wickets in the morning there or just after lunch. Now very, very humid there I heard. Will be tough. So far think we will be very pleased after today. The team will feel great. Must come out and bowl well in the morning. Hope they not too tired though.
Nope , you guys cant handle one wife never mind a few, this was decided at yesterdays braai, so all were told by the wives to knock themselves out 🙂
206@ Stinkvis – Yes, the women speak Gaelic… and the men speak Gaesuck….
Eishhhhhhhhhhh, that last one sounds a bit offffffffffffff!!
Hehhehehehe
205 – Damn just starting to get so hot down there and humid just when we start the S14. Always plays a huge part in our games at the Tank the heat and humidity. Especially at night the humidity is far higher than during the day. Our game against the Chiefs is at 7pm. Going to be like playing with a oil ball….haha. Tough that.
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