[Result] South Africa v Australia | 1st T20I | Durban | Mar 4, 2016 | Match thread

[#GreenRoars]

South Africa Squad
F du Plessis*, KJ Abbott, HM Amla, F Behardien, Q de Kock†, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Imran Tahir, DA Miller, CH Morris, AM Phangiso, K Rabada, RR Rossouw, DW Steyn, D Wiese

Australia Squad
SPD Smith*, DA Warner, AC Agar, NM Coulter-Nile, JP Faulkner, AJ Finch, JW Hastings, JR Hazlewood, UT Khawaja, MR Marsh, GJ Maxwell, PM Nevill†, AJ Tye, SR Watson, A Zampa

 

[MenInG]

Australia have won the toss and will bat

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Huh? What series is this?

 

[carrom_ball]

South africa will win this easily

 

[#GreenRoars]

Finch 40+ avg and 151 SR.

 

[carrom_ball]

Finch 40+ avg and 151 SR.

Giving tough competition to kohli for the top spot

 

[Ab Fan]

Giving tough competition to kohli for the top spot

Naah..!!!

 

[#GreenRoars]

by Finchi

 

[JaDed]

Flat as they get proper preparation for T20 Wc.

 

[JaDed]

Bhai Gone

 

[#GreenRoars]

Boyce isn't playing

 

[Ab Fan]

Looks like a batting shootout..

 

[Ozymandiasza]

Tahir showing his class in limited over cricket.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Australia with Finch and Warner are just dangerous I'm this format. They can destroy anyone.

 

[JaDed]

Smith )

 

[#GreenRoars]

And Maxi

 

[JaDed]

Maxii

 

[JaDed]

Asian teams are way behind Saffers and Aussies in fielding for sure how quick they are is just mind blowing.

 

[ChachaCricket]

Asian teams are way behind Saffers and Aussies in fielding for sure how quick they are is just mind blowing.

Aussies are not quick. They have Warner, that's it.

 

[ChachaCricket]

SA should chase this down easy.

 

[JaDed]

Aussies are not quick. They have Warner, that's it.

When they play Asian teams you will see the difference,they are obviously not as quick as Saffers.

 

[JaDed]

Saffers peaking at right time to crash in the T20 WC.

 

[Ab Fan]

Saffers peaking at right time to crash in the T20 WC.

Yeah! They will most likely lose to Ind/ Aus/ NZ in semis..

 

[ChachaCricket]

When they play Asian teams you will see the difference,they are obviously not as quick as Saffers.

India have just as quick if not faster ground fielders so does Pakistan. It's SA's overall technical application as a team that makes them superior. Though there isn't much difference between India and SA's ground fielding now, SA are better catching the ball.

 

[JaDed]

Benefit should go to the batsman.

 

[carrom_ball]

I have said it many times, australia are minnows in t20 cricket, and some people believe they will reach the semis

 

[Ozymandiasza]

I have said it many times, australia are minnows in t20 cricket, and some people believe they will reach the semis

I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end when their batting clicks though. Would be devastating.

 

[JaDed]

India have just as quick if not faster ground fielders so does Pakistan. It's SA's overall technical application as a team that makes them superior. Though there isn't much difference between India and SA's ground fielding now, SA are better catching the ball.

Even jadeja isn't quicker than Faf and you are right about technical application.
Aussies overall are obviously going to catch better than Indians reason being except Pandya and Jadeja -Indians dive at the boundary line with elbows hitting the ground and the ball just bounces off the hand unlike Aus,Nz,Saffers-Kohli is a classic example of such a fielder.

 

[Ozymandiasza]

Lol, Hastings lucky to escape there. Tough decision though.

 

[JaDed]

Rabada bowling amazingly!Although his run-up looks so lethargic!

 

[ChachaCricket]

Even jadeja isn't quicker than Faf and you are right about technical application.
Aussies overall are obviously going to catch better than Indians reason being except Pandya and Jadeja -Indians dive at the boundary line with elbows hitting the ground and the ball just bounces off the hand unlike Aus,Nz,Saffers-Kohli is a classic example of such a fielder.

Jadeja is comfortably faster.

 

[carrom_ball]

I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end when their batting clicks though. Would be devastating.

Their batting clicked 3 times against us in their homeground, they lost all three

 

[Ozymandiasza]

I still don't know what to think of Warner. Sometimes he seems unbeatable, other times I could have sworn he's actually a useless hack.

 

[Ozymandiasza]

Their batting clicked 3 times against us in their homeground, they lost all three

 

[ChachaCricket]

Abraham Lincoln is a gun bowler in LOIs. Can't believe we let this guy go.

 

[ChachaCricket]

I wouldn't want to be on the receiving end when their batting clicks though. Would be devastating.

True that.

 

[Ozymandiasza]

15 runs off that morris over

 

[Ozymandiasza]

158 target for SA. Decentish target by Australia.

 

[Ozymandiasza]

Unbelievable

 

[Ozymandiasza]

Pathetic! Hopefully Morris can rescue us AGAIN.

 

[carrom_ball]

Devilliers got out on zero again he is a bad t20I batsman

 

[Ozymandiasza]

Devilliers got out on zero again he is a bad t20I batsman

No he's not. He's just nowhere near his ODI standard

 

[Indiafan]

Its scary how deep both of these teams bat. Even after 7-8 down they still have hitters

 

[Speedster1]

Miller playing a blinder here

 

[JustAnotherFan]

And Abbott puts a 4 away and Proteas have a win by 3 wickets. Whoop Whoop.

 

[JustAnotherFan]

Wonder why the Aussies look so disappointed? Did they expect to just arrive and beat the #2 ranked team in the world. lol.

 

[Ab Fan]

Always believed Miller is a quality batsmen in limited overs...Brilliant knock from him.

 

[Ozymandiasza]

Got me worried there at one stage. Well played Miller!

 

[Convict]

We're not a pleb team that is satisfied by losing

 

[dauntless]

Australia's bowling is deeply mediocre apart from Coulter Nile who is pretty decent.They are not going to play semi final in world t20