Group 1 Second Round - Sri Lanka, England, South Africa, New Zealand, Netherlands

[kykweer.proteas]

dont understand what miller was doing throwing his arms up like that

 

[Maximas]

Well thank **** for that

 

[kykweer.proteas]

fantastic bowling by malinga

 

[flibbertyjibber]

fantastic bowling by malinga

and kulasekera in the 19th

 

[Maximas]

haha shot!

Great win, was a dangerous game with a grassy pitch negating the spinners and helping the SA pacers, really glad to have gotten through that one

 

[kykweer.proteas]

congrats sri lankans was a pretty tidy bowling display.

amla needs to maybe bat at 4. with abdv opening if we wamt to progress. neeeeed to target the powerplay

 

[Spikey]

goddamn it where is ajdude tahir did a steyn

 

[kykweer.proteas]

do you sincerely believe our pacers are better than the lankans in limitwd overs cricket?

 

[Maximas]

do you sincerely believe our pacers are better than the lankans in limitwd overs cricket?

The saffer quicks would have got more out of a bouncier deck though, cos they rely more on bounce and pace while the Lankan quicks are generally more about yorkers.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

The saffer quicks would have got more out of a bouncier deck though, cos they rely more on bounce and pace while the Lankan quicks are generally more about yorkers.

Well that has not helped our pacers for a very long time. it means very little int20 cricket IMHO.

malinga also bowled some top bouncers today as usual

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Tahir was also our best bowler on this "grassy" pitch

 

[TT Boy]

Really good game. I didn’t think Sri Lanka won because of Malinga, think the key was their three trundlers not going for many. Key wicket was Albie, if that went for six, he would have had two more balls against Mendis and you fancy the game would be pretty much won in that over.

 

[TT Boy]

dont understand what miller was doing throwing his arms up like that

Surely last tournament for Miller to make an impression. Has he actually won a game for South Africa chasing? Robbie P as a specialist batsman makes more sense than Miller.

 

[Maximas]

Tahir was also our best bowler on this "grassy" pitch

Yes but especially at the death the Sri Lankans were struggling to cope with the bounce and pace. The point was that this pitch played to the saffers strengths more than ours, we wanted turn and low bounce to make our trundlers and spinners hard to get away, but they weren't assisted by the hardness of the pitch, Steyn, Morkel and Tsosobe were helped, particularly because the Sri Lankans don't play pace and bounce all that well. Tahir bowled well by varying his pace and length, like Sachi did for us, those kinds of tactics work on any pitch but someone like Mendis doesn't do that kind of thing as well as those two

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Really good game. I didn’t think Sri Lanka won because of Malinga, think the key was their three trundlers not going for many. Key wicket was Albie, if that went for six, he would have had two more balls against Mendis and you fancy the game would be pretty much won in that over.

yeah senanay bowled quite while. but kulesekaras innings was top. deserves motm

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Yes but especially at the death the Sri Lankans were struggling to cope with the bounce and pace. The point was that this pitch played to the saffers strengths more than ours, we wanted turn and low bounce to make our trundlers and spinners hard to get away, but they weren't assisted by the hardness of the pitch, Steyn, Morkel and Tsosobe were helped, particularly because the Sri Lankans don't play pace and bounce all that well. Tahir bowled well by varying his pace and length, like Sachi did for us, those kinds of tactics work on any pitch but someone like Mendis doesn't do that kind of thing as well as those two

recently when our bowlers have had bounce to work with they bowl ****ty lengths. Sri lanka bowled well I think. we were always in trouble when we were more than ten runs behind after 6 overs. Without sri lanka even using much of their "best" bowlers.

 

[Maximas]

recently when our bowlers have had bounce to work with they bowl ****ty lengths. Sri lanka bowled well I think. we were always in trouble when we were more than ten runs behind after 6 overs. Without sri lanka even using much of their "best" bowlers.

Yeah that was your main problem, you needed to get ahead of the game while we tried to get overs out of Kula, Matthews and Thisara, getting a big hitter up the order would have helped as you said

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Here we go for another humiliation.

 

[KiWiNiNjA]

Catch!!!!

England trying to get an edge by blinding their opposition.

 

[King Pietersen]

If Danny Morrison's commentary wasn't bad enough. WTF was that music while Moeen was walking out? This is hurting my ears already. Might go back to Michael Owen on BT Sport.