Group E (Super 8) - Pakistan, South Africa, New Zealand, England

[GGG]

I know Steyn can give it a tonk, but quite a long tail for South Africa, no?

 

[Blakey]

What's Jesse done to his elblow?

 

[Zinzan]

Streaky 6 by Kallis, followed by a gorgeous cut-stroke. Bond proving expensive once again.

 

[Prince EWS]

I know Steyn can give it a tonk, but quite a long tail for South Africa, no?

Nah it's not too bad. Botha's listed at 9 but he'll bat 8 and he's more than capable of doing so. Hasn't done a lot in T20 yet but he averages 35 in First Class cricket.

 

[Bobisback]

Kallis's SR is broken.

 

[Blakey]

Southee - takes some balls to bowl to a trap on the midwicket boundary.

 

[Blakey]

Gibbs must have known well in advance he was playing - that shirt he's had painted on would take a good hour or two to dry.

 

[Blakey]

Southee takes an excellent catch. Kallis gorn.

 

[Blakey]

Brother McCullum taking tips from the Pakistani's on how to drop a sitter.

 

[Kyle]

Albie you star!

 

[chalky]

Some awesome hitting by Albie

 

[Blakey]

Wow it's vomiting 6's here.

BC's ever so slightly missing their length.

 

[GGG]

Mills for Southee plox

 

[Blakey]

Mills for Southee plox

Nah I think Southee was really close to nailing the yorkers today.

 

[Uppercut]

To be fair Albie can hit a straight six off the back foot so even if you get the yorker spot on there's no guarantee it's not going all the way. Great last over from Bond though.

 

[Kyle]

What a catch. Love Gibbs.

 

[zaremba]

Botha's bowling action is just vile.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Botha's bowling action is just vile.

Yup. Hideous. Ajmal's worse tho for my money. It's the modern way...

Re Botha tho, as the testing bods have decided his throwsra exceeds the allotted tolerance limit, theoretically an ump could call him if he attempted one, couldn't he? Be a brave official to do it, but I'd applaud him.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Rather quiet in this thread.

 

[marc71178]

Taking away boundaries, Lumb scored 7 from 9, Kieswetter scored 7 from 23. Pietersen currently 22 from 23.

Not that surprising that KP has that sort of record, only 2 batsmen in T20 internationals average under 30% of their balls being dots - him and Colly.

And on Kieswetter, still feel he's not as good an option as Davies but for some reason Davies has never got the chances Kieswetter has...