***Official*** T20 Champions League in South Africa

[Jono]

Dussey out, all over.


I'm watching the game on an Indian stream as I'm too lazy to go downstairs and watch. at the ibibo ad. That was hilariously seductive.

 

[Jono]

Btw it is awesome to see Nicky Boje again

 

[popepouri]

Davey MOTM IMO. Great captaincy bringing on Kreusch to get rid of Dussey.

 

[Beamer]

To be fair, which WI side can cope with a bouncy pitch? Trinidad's a good side, but they probably only did well, because they played in the CL when it was on Indian pitches....

Until we in the West Indies go back to preparing bouncy pitches, i.e. at Bridgetown and Kingston, we're forever going to be languishing in the bottom half of the rankings.

T & T have a far superior batting lineup for T20 cricket though and I'm 100% certain they would at least go down swinging. Guyana just meekly surrendered which was terribly dissapointing.

 

[TT Boy]

Good to see Ntini bowl with some fire yesterday, might just get his 400 test wickets yet. Rusty surely to debut for RSA next month.

Also Vandiar of the Lions, great to see him do so well in the opening match but someone needs to have a word as he is turning into Yusuf Abdulla. Didn’t catch much of him in the field but he was one of the better fielders in Wayne Parnell’s RSA U19 side from a few years back, a side where Sybrand Engelbrecht played simply because he was a great athlete.

 

[Cricket_God]

Espn speed guns used in champions league are crap,bowlers who bowl at 140+ are been clocked at 130km/h and tait is clocked at 140+km/h

 

[popepouri]

Espn speed guns used in champions league are crap,bowlers who bowl at 140+ are been clocked at 130km/h and tait is clocked at 140+km/h

I saw Nannes hit 148kph and Botha's quicker ball was marked at 100kph which is accurate. There could be many factors involved regarding why it's lower than normal for some players.

 

[Jarquis]

Engelbrecht was 12th man in a Test for SA wasn't he? Did something ridiculous in the field IIRC

 

[Edged&Taken]

Mumbai win toss to bat. Bravo and Tiwary playing today

 

[shivfan]

Mumbai Indians team
S Dhawan, SR Tendulkar*, AT Rayudu†, JP Duminy, SS Tiwary, KA Pollard, DJ Bravo, Harbhajan Singh, Z Khan, SL Malinga, AG Murtaza
South Australia team
DJ Harris, M Klinger*, GA Manou†, CJ Ferguson, DT Christian, CJ Borgas, TLW Cooper, AW O'Brien, CB Bailey, GD Putland, SW Tait

 

[Arjun]

Already Redbacks miss a chance to catch Dhawan...

 

[popepouri]

Engelbrecht was 12th man in a Test for SA wasn't he? Did something ridiculous in the field IIRC

He's very much a fielding specialist only and isn't really good in other areas which is a shame. His contract wasn't renewed with the Cobras.

 

[Contra]

MI need to play out these initial overs and keep wickets in hand.

 

[Contra]

lol Tait is such a gamble... he will bowl a ripper every now and then along with the garbage he is bowling now.

 

[Jarquis]

He's very much a fielding specialist only and isn't really good in other areas which is a shame. His contract wasn't renewed with the Cobras.

OD batting looks ok-ish. Shame.

 

[Contra]

Awesome finally some shots being played..

 

[Sir Alex]

: Ian Chappeli was mentioning how Sachin has curbed his pull andhook

Pat comes a six pulled off next over

 

[vcs]

Sachin is ***y.

Please play forever.

 

[Sir Alex]

and when Sachin plays good shots... It's a great wicket to bat on for Ian...

 

[Manee]

Queue a five wicket haul or fifty from him in the near future, but from what I have seen, Christian is bloody useless. He has just one T20 fifty and looks a pretty rubbish bowler.