11th June - Group B - India v South Africa

[spit]

SA in tatters

 

[Prince EWS]

Man, there is rubbish commentary all around.

No, it's not a defensive move to play Ashwin for Umesh.
No, India shouldn't have batted first. This team, esp Kohli, seems more comfortable chasing a given target. Plus, rain and all that.
You don't "have to have" 3 frontline pacers in England. These aren't tests. Spinners have been doing a fab job this CT, as has been true for LO cricket for a while now.

Yeah AWTA. I think you need to have at least three seamers in your attack, but it's definitely okay for one of them to be your fifth bowler if you've got two good spinners.

 

[DriveClub]

I dont want to say the c word but what else is the reason they're struggling so hard in icc tourneys

 

[Adders]

Amla has barely timed anything.

Hahaha. Amazing, banned inside 6 mins........mods on multi watch tonight.

 

[Burner]

Someone fresh coming in could be the best thing for SA here. These guys are struggling

 

[Burner]

Or that

 

[Howe_zat]

What an old-fashioned score. 50/0 after 13.

I wouldn't turn my nose up at a 50 opening stand though. Not a bad knock by either of these two so long as they aren't out now. A few premature panics in this thread

 

[fredfertang]

Shot Hamish - hope you Indians enjoyed it while you could

 

[hazsa19]

What an old-fashioned score. 50/0 after 13.

I wouldn't turn my nose up at a 50 opening stand though. Not a bad knock by either of these two so long as they aren't out now. A few premature panics in this thread

Yeh it's no longer enough to just restrict in Odis. If Amla and De Kock fight through this they're more than capable of getting their SRs up towards 90/100 in fairly short order.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

India will be worried de Kock has got a start, usually punishes them when they meet.

 

[fredfertang]

He's a real spoiler that Ashwin - noticed that last winter

 

[DriveClub]

Pitch actually looks pretty slow, will be hard to hit the spinners off

 

[Daemon]

Omg Dhoni caught it

 

[OverratedSanity]

Excellent catch... was a pretty big deflection

 

[hazsa19]

Watching Ashwin and Jadega bowl in tandem it's amazing they preferred Jadega.

 

[weldone]

Watching Ashwin and Jadega bowl in tandem it's amazing they preferred Jadega.

Any ODI team should prefer Jadeja because of his batting and fielding.

 

[weldone]

Ashwin may come in for Umesh. SA should replace Parnell by Phehlukwayo.

Ya I was right.

 

[Burner]

Any ODI team should prefer Jadeja because of his batting and fielding.

No they shouldn't. They both are picked as a bowler and the disparity as bowlers is pretty significant. Just watch how Jadeja is struggling to string together a few dots here. Ashwin is a better ODI bowler by a pretty good margin

 

[cnerd123]

Ashwin bowls a lot of wides for a finger spinner.

This is ominous, they're basically going at 5 RPO with only 1 down and AB to come. I'm scared.

 

[hazsa19]

Any ODI team should prefer Jadeja because of his batting and fielding.

Disagree. Ashwin is more than adequate as a lower order batsman but significantly better bowler.