36th Match - South Africa v United Arab Emirates (12th March)

[halba]

uae's batting is less than club standard

 

[Antihippy]

Shaiman anwar is pretty awesome.

 

[halba]

what worries is the SAF pace attack is not firing. steyn and philander wicketless in opening spells vs UAE.

 

[ankitj]

Steyn to be very angry after this over.

 

[harsh.ag]

Steyn basically doing the long form of a switch hand lay up. Gonna destroy Sri Lanka in the QF with mad eyes.

 

[Antihippy]

I actually just don't think steyn is that amazing of a ODI bowler. He's still very good, but I think morkel is a much, much better ODI bowler than steyn.

 

[halba]

dale steyn is short a yard of pace. philander is clocking less than 135kph. this bowling attack doesnt threaten, only morne does

 

[Burgey]

So am assuming you haven't watched the Aus-SL game at SCG.

Nah the SL fans were great but it really didn't feel like anything more than an australia home game

 

[Niall]

dale steyn is short a yard of pace. philander is clocking less than 135kph. this bowling attack doesnt threaten, only morne does

Agreed, although Tahir is pretty good. Not sure dropping Abbot for Vern was the canniest move either, Abbot looked decent enough and unlike Vern can bowl at the death.

Sri Lanka have nothing to fear from this lot.

 

[Antihippy]

Also I appreciate that it's going to be hard seeing that the south african bowlers outmatches him skill-wise and experience-wise, but I really don't think Patil is doing himself much credit with the innings he has played. They were very unlikely to win anyway but he doesn't even really attempt to win it.

 

[Burgey]

dale steyn is short a yard of pace. philander is clocking less than 135kph. this bowling attack doesnt threaten, only morne does

Mad to write Steyn off. Watch him go balls to the wall in the quarter.

 

[Niall]

Also I appreciate that it's going to be hard seeing that the south african bowlers outmatches him skill-wise and experience-wise, but I really don't think Patil is doing himself much credit with the innings he has played. They were very unlikely to win anyway but he doesn't even really attempt to win it.

Especially as due to the fact they are cutting the teams in the world cup, this could be his second last world cup innings, they were never going to win, but what a dull innings to play.

 

[halba]

Mad to write Steyn off. Watch him go balls to the wall in the quarter.

steyn vs mccullum is the defining matchup of the tournament.

 

[SuperMurali]

If we get a result I'm reasonably confident that the Proteas will be the winners

w00t!!! I was right

 

[Agent Nationaux]

Sanga and Jaya are really good players of spin. Milking Tahir will be easy.

 

[Sarun]

Shaiman Anwar got 1 more match to build his lead as the highest Associate runs getter in a single WC!