Group 2 (Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Netherlands)

[Burgey]

Yeah, glove first

 

[Burgey]

Good first over Shariz. If he had some fielders who attacked the ball he could have had Rohit there.

 

[Athlai]

Not many things would be as good as the Dutch getting the upset today

 

[Burgey]

Now as good an evening as you could wish for here in the most beautiful city in the world.

 

[Everton Seymour]

I did not read it that way... it read more as his selfishness meant he did not get picked by the selectors... rather than he made a personal decision and made himself unavailable.

It most definitely was his selfishness , cast your mind back to the time ..
It's late 2016 , Rilee Rossouw wins Man of the Series vs Australia in a 5-0 rout during the ODI series played in SA . Rossouw was named in the Test Squad that toured Australia the following month unfortunately he picks up an injury and doesn't play in that series or the test series against Sri Lanka that follows after . So definitely he is in South Africa's Test plans , then he drops a bombshell on South Africa together with Kyle Abbott that he going Kolpak with Hampshire , not only ruling himself out from future test selection but the 2017 Champions Trophy which he was definitely going to be in the line up for . It wasn't hard to get into the Test side either , AB De Villiers missed a couple of series and flirted with retirement and the guy who got an opportunity Thenuis De Bruyn didn't exactly pull out any trees...

It wasn't patriotism that has Rilee Rossouw back , Kolpak is over and a T20 World Cup is the perfect platform to boost your IPL , Dubai T20 league etc. stocks up .

 

[Athlai]

I always forget van Beek plays for the Dutch.

 

[Athlai]

The placement from Surya there was very satisfying

 

[Burgey]

Everton Seymour with an impressive dayboo. Dropping some truth bombs all over the Saffa mercenaries and their apologists here.

 

[mr_mister]

Hoping for some Ackermann magic

 

[Athlai]

Fmd this crowd for Kohli is immense. They're in Australia playing the Dutch ffs

 

[Burgey]

A lot of Dutch and Indian ex pats here tbf. Understandably, people want to move to Australia in general, and Sydney in particular. There'd be three men and a stray cat at a game between Aus and Netherlands in India tbf.

 

[Burgey]

Oooh that's a cracking shot

 

[Athlai]

Kohli batting like a god again, makes me even sadder that it seems like Kane will never come close to that again with the wrist issues.

 

[StephenZA]

It most definitely was his selfishness , cast your mind back to the time ..
It's late 2016 , Rilee Rossouw wins Man of the Series vs Australia in a 5-0 rout during the ODI series played in SA . Rossouw was named in the Test Squad that toured Australia the following month unfortunately he picks up an injury and doesn't play in that series or the test series against Sri Lanka that follows after . So definitely he is in South Africa's Test plans , then he drops a bombshell on South Africa together with Kyle Abbott that he going Kolpak with Hampshire , not only ruling himself out from future test selection but the 2017 Champions Trophy which he was definitely going to be in the line up for . It wasn't hard to get into the Test side either , AB De Villiers missed a couple of series and flirted with retirement and the guy who got an opportunity Thenuis De Bruyn didn't exactly pull out any trees...

It wasn't patriotism that has Rilee Rossouw back , Kolpak is over and a T20 World Cup is the perfect platform to boost your IPL , Dubai T20 league etc. stocks up .

You keep using this world of 'selfishness' and the implication is you are rendering a morale judgement on his choices... he acted for his own self-interest, for reasons we can all understand, but acting for you own self-interest does not make you selfish. SA lost out on a fine cricketer, but he did nothing to any of us in making that decision.

 

[mr_mister]

You keep using this world of 'selfishness' and the implication is you are rendering a morale judgement on his choices... he acted for his own self-interest, for reasons we can all understand, but acting for you own self-interest does not make you selfish. SA lost out on a fine cricketer, but he did nothing to any of us in making that decision.

I feel the same way about Cronje

 

[StephenZA]

I feel the same way about Cronje

Maybe... but his decisions and coercion, from a position of power, directly impacted other players careers and lives. And also lost SA cricket lots of goodwill both with the local community and internationally. If it was just him making a bad decision, then maybe, but it was far worse than that.

 

[Burgey]

I feel the same way about Cronje

not sure if srs

 

[Athlai]

Look I'm excited for you saffa fans finally having enough members to actually talk about stuff. But there's a match going on right now ffs

 

[StephenZA]

Anyway go team!... (who's playing, what now?)

 

[Athlai]

147 is pretty fricken rapid