***Official*** Bangladesh Tour of South Africa 2017

[Tom Flint]

In professional sportsman terms i'd say g.smith kallis elgar philander were overweight.
Not that it matters too much in cricket anyway

 

[StephenZA]

In professional sportsman terms i'd say g.smith kallis elgar philander were overweight.
Not that it matters too much in cricket anyway

Being built big does not make you overweight.... Kallis later years may have put on a few pounds, but otherwise... Philander is just tubby... love him for all his squishyness.

 

[SeamUp]

In professional sportsman terms i'd say g.smith kallis elgar philander were overweight.
Not that it matters too much in cricket anyway

Elgar ? Does he even have a little bit of goblin fat on him ?

 

[SeamUp]

Great day for Matt Breetzke and Wiaan Mulder. 19 years-old and playing with AB and JP in SA representative colours.

 

[StephenZA]

Great day for Matt Breetzke and Wiaan Mulder. 19 years-old and playing with AB and JP in SA representative colours.

Correction

 

[SeamUp]

 

[StephenZA]

He will always have a place in my heart for that Aussie win.... but the rest of his career, sigh!

 

[SeamUp]

He will always have a place in my heart for that Aussie win.... but the rest of his career, sigh!

Him and Rudolph are my biggest disappointments since re-admission. Dippenaar a little bit. Was glad Neil Mac resurrected things in his 2nd stint.

 

[Dendarii]

He will always have a place in my heart for that Aussie win.... but the rest of his career, sigh!

Don't forget that hat trick against Sri Lanka in the World Cup.

 

[StephenZA]

Shakib gets a run a ball 68, highest score, to resurect the Bang innings and post a half-decent total against the SA Inv XI... appalling he did not play the test series. (beating the old drum, but still.)

 

[StephenZA]

Don't forget that hat trick against Sri Lanka in the World Cup.

We would have had to win the WC for me to forgive the rest...

 

[SeamUp]

Markram & Breetzke

Not every day you break every single Grey PE batting record which includes Graeme Pollock's records.

 

[StephenZA]

Breetzke is not 19 yet.....

 

[SeamUp]

Breetzke is not 19 yet.....

Whizz-kid

 

[GRAB]

In Rory Kleinveldt's case, the chronic is probably not helping either... (How did they decide it was a performance->enhancing< drug again?)

 

[StephenZA]

Would have been nice if Breetzke or Markram converted but nice form the youngsters.....

.....I note that Duminy got is 30 odd runs again.

 

[SeamUp]

Yeah baby.

Those who were there were purring.

I know domestic systems will battle harden and produce players but when you have talent as most of the big boys have you fast track them and South Africa has always loved a teenage prodigy ! G.Pollock, P.Kirsten, Cullinan, Gibbs, Kallis etc were stuff of folklore as teenagers.

QdK, Markram, Breetzke top 3 in limited overs cricket in the future. Geez that is nice.

Citizen

After an initially slow start in a chase of 256, the 23-year-old Proteas Test opener raced to an excellent 68-ball 82.

He hit eight fours and a six, building on the fine impression he made in the recent Test series, where he scored 97 and 143.

The really exciting thing about his innings though was that it formed part of a first wicket partnership of 147 with the 18-year-old Matthew Breetzke.

Like Markram, the teenager from Port Elizabeth is a star in the making and was by far the national Under-19 side’s best player in a series against the West Indies in July.

Breetzke scored two centuries and a fifty in that series.

It’s perfectly conceivable that these two men could be South Africa’s openers in future.

Breetzke dealt in boundaries at the start before he was content to let Markram take over the attacking role.

He eventually ended with a classy 71 off 100 deliveries.

Sowetan

If you were keen on seeing how AB de Villiers and JP Duminy got on for the SA Invitation XI in their one-day tour match against the Bangladeshis in Bloemfontein on Thursday‚ you should stop living in the past.
Instead invest yourself in the future in the shape of Aiden Markram and Matthew Breetzke — combined age 41 — who between them scored 153 of the 256 runs the home side needed to win by six wickets with 3.3 overs to spare.

Markram‚ who turned 23 last Wednesday‚ clipped 82 off 68 balls with eight fours and a six. Breetzke‚ who won’t be 19 until November 3‚ hit nine fours in his 71‚ which came off 100 deliveries. Together they put on 147 for the first wicket.

Neither Markram nor Breetzke are in the squad that will play the first of three one-day internationals against Bangladesh in Kimberley on Sunday. But they should have plenty of opportunities in future.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Saifuddin should play the odis. Our answer to Stokes.

similarities to Stokes:

> angry bird
> bowls medium fast rh
> bats lh
> great fielder
> name starts with 's'

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Tamim and fizz both injured. Just what we needed

 

[SeamUp]

Gibson back in Kimberley. Nice insert on it now.

Pulled off a big shock winning the domestic one-day comp end of last century. That team had ancient Wessels, Symcox, Mickey Arthur and a few others.

Think that was Kimberley's first domestic win since the 1890s