19th Match - South Africa v West Indies

[viriya]

They have to perform a human test on AB. How did India win against SA at all!

By batting first.

 

[ankitj]

Touch harsh mate. Where exactly could they have bowled to the guy?

He was picking the slower balls, lapping/reverse sweeping yorkers, smashing anything short & moving across the crease when they tried bowling full & wide outside off.

Not saying it was great from the Windies, but sometimes you need to stand up and acknowledge amazing batsmanship.

Yeah, I thought the way AB was setting himself up going across the wicket, bowling short or length will be better than yorkers. Bowler did bowl short, he smashed that too. Un-****ing-believable.

 

[Riggins]

Where's the 'omg why is he batting 5?' crowd now.

 

[SkyBlue]

Touch harsh mate. Where exactly could they have bowled to the guy?

He was picking the slower balls, lapping/reverse sweeping yorkers, smashing anything short & moving across the crease when they tried bowling full & wide outside off.

Not saying it was great from the Windies, but sometimes you need to stand up and acknowledge amazing batsmanship.

True but that doesnt change the fact this is one of the worst bowling attack of all time for a top 8 side.Absolute rubbish.There's a reason why they got bullied the way South Africa did today.

 

[RossTaylorsBox]

This is going to make being bundled out by Sri Lanka in the quarters even more amusing.

 

[Cabinet96]

How did he only hit 8 sixes? 5 in his last 9 balls btw.

 

[Antihippy]

Goddamnit, I seem to miss all the crazy innings due to one thing or another. First gayle's, now AB's.

 

[Cabinet96]

Where's the 'omg why is he batting 5?' crowd now.

Can't win games from there.

 

[Adders]

Tip of the hat to SA for honouring the prince in this fashion

W\hat happened/what did they do?

Just got home form work and checked the scorecard so saw none of the innings. Wow........just wow. Is AB going to become the Don of ODI cricket?? He seriously is head and shoulders over everyone else atm, past or present..

 

[Daemon]

So that's twice in nearly a month that he's completely wrecked WIndies. Someof these guys are going to have nightmares.

 

[ankitj]

By batting first.

That's been the trend throughout this series, isn't it (except ENG who wasted their chance against NZ)? This has made the tournament a bit boring.

 

[SkyBlue]

W\hat happened/what did they do?

Just got home form work and checked the scorecard so saw none of the innings. Wow........just wow. Is AB going to become the Don of ODI cricket?? He seriously is head and shoulders over everyone else atm, past or present..

Big AB fanboy but i'd also like to see him play some crucial knocks for his team in situations where it matters like this world cup tournament itself for example.If that happens,then he would've really cemented his status as an all time great alongside the Australian and Windies legends.
Atm he's like a Zlatan Ibrahimovic without the ****iness of the Swede.Big Ibra fanboy too btw.

 

[Zinzan]

Disagree with the commentator, Gayle's no chance of doing anything like what he did against Zim vs. this attack IMO.

 

[Antihippy]

Disagree with the commentator, Gayle's no chance of doing anything like what he did against Zim vs. this attack IMO.

Especially with parnell out of the side.

 

[Adders]

Gayle out before the end of the 3rd over.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

As much as I want NZ to beat Aus tomorrow, I don't like the thought of us bowling to AB at Eden Park in the semi.

 

[kiwiviktor81]

ok so i've not seen this innings, were the WIndies that bad or was ABdV that good?408? really?

1/3 poor bowling, 2/3 AB freakishly good

 

[Teja.]

AB against WI in the WCs -

146 (130) in 2007
107 (105) in 2011
162 (66) in 2015

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Insane stuff

 

[Zinzan]

Lovely timing from Doctor Smith there...