The fourth Cricket ODI between South Africa and Sri Lanka (4 of 5) at Kimberley. The game started at 14:30 SA Time on 20 January 2012.
This was the Live Discussion Article where we chatted about the match in progress and where the scores were updated regularly.
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South Africa: 299/7 (50 overs)
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Sri Lanka: 304 / 5 (48.4 overs)
South Africa won the toss and elected to bat.
Sri Lanka won by 5 wickets (with 8 balls remaining).
| South Africa innings (50 overs maximum) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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AN Petersen | c Tharanga b Herath | 37 | 55 | 39 | 4 | 1 | 94.87 |
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GC Smith | c Dilshan b Malinga | 68 | 106 | 69 | 7 | 1 | 98.55 |
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AB de Villiers*† | b Perera | 96 | 116 | 76 | 8 | 3 | 126.31 |
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CA Ingram | lbw b Kulasekara | 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 25.00 |
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JP Duminy | c †Sangakkara b Perera | 36 | 50 | 47 | 2 | 0 | 76.59 |
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F du Plessis | c †Sangakkara b Herath | 5 | 13 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 41.66 |
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WD Parnell | run out (Tharanga) | 21 | 28 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 123.52 |
| RJ Peterson | not out | 23 | 37 | 31 | 2 | 0 | 74.19 | |
| VD Philander | not out | 2 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 40.00 | |
| Extras | (b 4, w 6) | 10 | ||||||
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| Total | (7 wickets; 50 overs; 214 mins) | 299 | (5.98 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat M Morkel, LL Tsotsobe |
| Fall of wickets 1-84 (Petersen, 13.1 ov), 2-171 (Smith, 23.5 ov), 3-172 (Ingram, 24.3 ov), 4-242 (Duminy, 38.4 ov), 5-250 (de Villiers, 40.5 ov), 6-252 (du Plessis, 41.3 ov), 7-289 (Parnell, 47.5 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
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SL Malinga | 10 | 0 | 57 | 1 | 5.70 | (4w) | |
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KMDN Kulasekara | 8 | 0 | 40 | 1 | 5.00 | ||
| SMSM Senanayake | 10 | 1 | 53 | 0 | 5.30 | |||
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NLTC Perera | 4 | 0 | 34 | 2 | 8.50 | (1w) | |
| AD Mathews | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6.00 | |||
| TM Dilshan | 8 | 0 | 60 | 0 | 7.50 | |||
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HMRKB Herath | 9 | 0 | 45 | 2 | 5.00 |
| Sri Lanka innings (target: 300 runs from 50 overs) | R | M | B | 4s | 6s | SR | ||
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WU Tharanga | c †de Villiers b Tsotsobe | 6 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 60.00 |
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TM Dilshan* | c Duminy b Tsotsobe | 87 | 122 | 87 | 9 | 2 | 100.00 |
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KC Sangakkara† | c Petersen b Peterson | 32 | 56 | 31 | 2 | 1 | 103.22 |
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LD Chandimal | b Tsotsobe | 59 | 81 | 1 | 1 | 72.83 | |
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HDRL Thirimanne | c Duminy b Philander | 13 | 15 | 0 | 0 | 86.66 | |
| NLTC Perera | not out | 65 | 44 | 2 | 5 | 147.72 | ||
| AD Mathews | not out | 21 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 84.00 | ||
| Extras | (b 8, lb 5, w 6, nb 2) | 21 | ||||||
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| Total | (5 wickets; 48.4 overs) | 304 | (6.24 runs per over) | |||||
| Did not bat KMDN Kulasekara, SL Malinga, HMRKB Herath, SMSM Senanayake |
| Fall of wickets 1-17 (Tharanga, 3.1 ov), 2-100 (Sangakkara, 16.2 ov), 3-168 (Dilshan, 28.5 ov), 4-194 (Thirimanne, 34.4 ov), 5-246 (Chandimal, 40.6 ov) |
| Bowling | O | M | R | W | Econ | |||
| M Morkel | 8 | 0 | 43 | 0 | 5.37 | (2w) | ||
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LL Tsotsobe | 10 | 0 | 51 | 3 | 5.10 | (1w) | |
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VD Philander | 6 | 0 | 39 | 1 | 6.50 | (2w) | |
| WD Parnell | 9 | 0 | 48 | 0 | 5.33 | (1nb) | ||
| JP Duminy | 4.4 | 0 | 37 | 0 | 7.92 | |||
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RJ Peterson | 6 | 0 | 47 | 1 | 7.83 | ||
| F du Plessis | 5 | 0 | 26 | 0 | 5.20 | (1w) |
| Match details |
| Toss South Africa, who chose to bat Series South Africa led the 5-match series 3-1 |
| ODI debut SMSM Senanayake (Sri Lanka) Player of the match tba |
| Umpires JD Cloete and BR Doctrove (West Indies) TV umpire NJ Llong (England) Match referee JJ Crowe (New Zealand) Reserve umpire S George |
| Match notes |
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Another 6 for AB over mid off
AB 50 off 31 balls with another 6 over mid off. brilliant, followed by a 4
Smith gone, caught Dilshan, bowled Malinga for 68 off 69 balls. Good score, but a semi-decent ball, and a crap shot. I hope he is coming back into form, but this innings with such poor bowling, just doesn’t prove it, I am afraid.
Thats another quick wicket down Ingram gone LBW Kulasekera for 1 off 4 balls . SA 172/3 off 24.3 overs
Duminy continuing where Smith left off
At this rate the Ama-Blomme could rack up 350 or more.
I usually take the runs at 30 overs and then double it… gives me a pretty good indication what a side should get.
In this case where the run-rate is high, double it at 28 overs in stead of at 30 overs.
SA 193/3. SL pulled back the RR a bit, around 6.6 at the moment. The slow bowlers doing the work after the batting power play
@ grootblousmile:Yup, as long as wickets don’t fall and rain holds off, could be in for a very big one
200 up for SA now, 201/3 after 31
Received an offer today for my one property in Pretoria… wanted R 2.9 mil out, the offer in at the moment is for R 2.565 mil out.
Also want to get involved in another business, provide the money and be a silent partner but handling all the finances of a Mortuary and Funeral Parlour… there’s some very good money in it. The figures are staggering.
My question is this.. do I push the buyers for about R 2.8 mil out in stead of the R 2.9 mil I wanted and only start the Funeral Business quite a few months later, or do I bite the bullet and just go ahead.
Think I must push them to offer more, after all, this was their first offer…
Maybe the right thing is to meet up with the folks and sit around a table and negotiate right there and then, push them as hard as I can!
40@ grootblousmile:The wine industry is akin to a funeral parlour and mortuary, you’re welcome to bury your money here – at least you’ll go out on a high!
Wind getting up in Kimberly, when is that rain coming?
AB moves to 80 off 61
41 @ Just For Kicks:
There’s good money in helping the dead to their final resting spots….
A very simple funeral costs between R 15 000.00 and R 24 000.00.
The Gross profit on something like that runs to about 60% of that amount. That equates to a gross profit of about R 360 000.00 per month, before salaries and other expenses.
The guy who will run things works for a current Funeral Provider and they do about 35 PLUS funerals per month, most of which he sources. He’s also a pastor and does the Services himself.
Trustworthy fella, but being me, I’ll run the finances, he’ll run the operations.
We’ve got the perfect spot in mind, already with the mortuary and fridges sorted.
Nett Profit could be about R 250 000.00 per month on those figures.. but let’s take a worst case scenario and say we do half of the amount of funerals….
For a R 350 000.00 investment by me, I could get an easy return of at least R 60 000.00 a month… for not doing much apart from handling the finances… and giving clear direction about what I want to see happening.
Fark, just don’t ask my to cart dead farkers around, myself….
Just been offered an awesome deal for all the plums that I normally chuck out because too small. Good Friday!
@ grootblousmile:One things for sure, you’ll never have a shortage of stock!!!
HaHaHa, I can just imagine you doing 180kph down the N1 in a Beemer Hearst conversion, body in the back and the Metro Police with Sirens and lights going muggy. All because you’re late for a meeting at the graveyard!
AB just going about his business has quietly moved on to 94…. as I say the Duminy goes, caught Sangakarra off Perera for 36 off 47 balls. SA 242/4 off 38.4 overs
Wicket. AB gone, bowled Perera slower ball for 96 off 76 balls. SA 250/5
Fark, there goes AB de Villiers for 96…. eishhhh
SA 250 / 5 after 40.5 overs
Parnell in ahead of Peterson and Philander, interesting call
Another wicket, Faf gone edged to Sangakarra off Herath for 5 off 12 balls SA 252/6 after 41.3
46 @ Just For Kicks:
Hehehehe
Look, I’ve seen and identified enough corpses in my life and assisted next of kin when identifying corpses….
Never a nice thing, they look waxy and yellowish…
… but like I say, I will handle the moolah, my friend can handle the operations and the families and so on.
We’ve even got a mortitian, who’ll double as Car Driver and Grave Assistant as well as a secretary lined up.
45 @ Just For Kicks:
Hey, I’m glad for you and your plums
Now looks like SA will be lucky to get 320.
53@ grootblousmile:Thanks, but I wish my wife would say that!
GBS, you’ll have to take over now during this hiatus, I’m off to wreck some dough. See you later. have logged out of edit
55 @ Just For Kicks:
Your wife is more concerned with your little prumes, than your plums… hehehe
56 @ Just For Kicks:
I’ll take over, no problem!
Just before I go, just read this – Headline – England accuse Pakistan of match fixing – again. Bloody Brilliant, well done followthebounce.co.za!
Dubai – in the wake of getting their asses handed to them by Pakistan to the tune of 10 wickets, the world’s no.1 Test team England have hit back with fresh accusations of match fixing against their opponents.
Closing the game out within three days with a commanding performance with both bat and ball, the English team have forthrightly said that the Pakistanis had blatant intentions on winning this game from the start and they are appalled with the result.
No strangers to controversy in the game, Pakistan have of course denied this claim right off the bat saying that sometimes things go your way in sport and it’s as simple as that. England coach Andy Flower was having none of this however as he retold the shocking events which defined the start of the match during the post match press conference, “We knew right from the start that something was not quite right about this match. They maliciously took the pace off the ball early on in the opening session after we chose to bat, with Saeed Ajmal repetitively bowling wicket taking balls that our batsmen simply couldn’t handle. Before we knew it poor Sally was striding to the crease in the 21st over with the score on 43/5!”
Already slightly apprehensive of being in public as a woman in a Muslim state, Broad didn’t even have time to put a face on before heading out to the middle. This early insertion further lowered the morale in the change room as James Andersen was finally making inroads into getting her to agree to a devil’s three way with Monty Pansar who is with the team as social interpreter for this series. Menacing against the top order, the relentless Ajmal was nothing short of savage against the lower order with Broad herself bewildered with the umpires lack of action against his bowling. “It was like he had a predetermined plan as to how he was going to bowl to us, somehow he must have practiced what he was doing to us, or even worse, had watched video footage and pin pointed our strengths and weaknesses!”
It wasn’t just the batsmen who felt the injustice of this suspiciously clinical performance by Pakistan. With figures of 0/53 Chris Tremlett thought the opening stand of 114 between Mohammed Hafeez and Taufeeq Umar was nothing short of shameful. “As an Englishman you just don’t expect such a blatant display of balanced batting from a Pakistan outfit. They showed absolutely no remorse towards the bad ball, a selfish single-minded focus towards building a strong foundation and had the uncanny ability of rotating the strike and keeping the scoreboard ticking over without doing anything unnecessary.”
With a first innings deficit of 146 to overhaul, England knew that day 3 was going to be a crucial stage in the match where they would have to, despite the shock tactics of their opponents, get themselves back into the match. But still certain things were just not adding up; why were they playing cricket in the desert, why was a wicketkeeper called Akmal not throwing the game and why, for the third day in a row, were all the spectators in the stadium dressed like seats !?!
These questions were however quickly brushed aside as Umar Gul decided to produce a deadly spell with the new ball quite out of the blue reducing the Poms to 35/4 before Matt Prior even had time to organise a Ferrari rental from the ground at the close of play. Kevin Pietersen, after being dismissed for 0 to add to his 2 from the first innings, this time noticing something was rather a miss with proceedings, “It is almost like they had a point to prove and realized that attacking our top order was the route to victory. As a born and bred South African who wasn’t good enough to cut it in my home country so then decided to bad mouth them, flee to England, change my identity by getting a clichéd tattoo and marrying a C grade pop star, I am a man of deep set integrity and was disappointed by this display of gamesmanship especially when you consider their track record.”
Luckily for England’s sake, the rest of the batsmen were a damn sight more effective than the self obsessed Pietersen, but this still only amounted to them amassing the feeble total of 160 all out meaning Pakistan needed just 15 to win. The star of their first innings, Mohammed Hafeez, duly obliged by flicking them all off by himself and Pakistan succeeded in recording a famous, albeit unlikely, 10 wicket victory.
A deserved win for the embattled Pakistan team who have three players in jail, have to play all their home games at neutral venues because their fellow countrymen tend to shoot at the opposition, and having come off a recent poor run of form that would suggest they weren’t running too hot in the eyes of their fans.
From jubilation to grave disappointment, English captain Andrew Strauss had this to say in closing, “The result will go down as a crushing loss for us today but we will certainly not be taking this likely. Sally has already been on the phone to her dad to dig up whatever he can find within the ICC and players will be investigated for this sublime performance. This isn’t what we came here for and if it persists in the second Test then we may well think about finishing the tour early.”
SA end on 299 / 7
Sri Lanka need exactly 300 for a win at 6 runs an over.
South Africa was in such a good position after 30 overs… 200 on the board… expected us to get well over 340.
Well, now we need to bowl well!
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