South Africa v Zimbabwe, 2nd Test, Centurion [10/03/05]

[Amjid Javed]

game starts 11th march (my bday :-D )

predicted sides

South Africa 1 Graeme Smith (capt), 2 AB de Villiers, 3 Jacques Rudolph, 4 Jacques Kallis, 5 Herschelle Gibbs, 6 Ashwell Prince, 7 Mark Boucher (wk), 8 Nicky Boje, 9 Monde Zondeki, 10 Charl Langeveldt, 11 Andre Nel.

Zimbabwe (from) Stuart Matsikenyeri, Barney Rogers, Hamilton Masakadza, Dion Ebrahim, Sean Williams, Tatenda Taibu (capt and wk), Alester Maregwede, Heath Streak, Andy Blignaut, Elton Chigumbura, Graeme Cremer, Prosper Utseya, Twanda Mupariwa, Christopher Mpofu, Douglas Hondo

 

[Amjid Javed]

game starts in 30 mins time...

 

[Raz]

Another slaughter i guess!

 

[Khalil]

Amla

I feel that Amla should have been given another chance. He is currently their best batsman in the domestic league

 

[Raz]

I feel so sorry for this guy. Hashim did very little wrong and was the victim of poor umpiring in a number of his innings!

 

[Khalil]

I feel so sorry for this guy. Hashim did very little wrong a

I feel so sorry for this guy. Hashim did very little wrong and was the victim of poor umpiring in a number of his innings!

The guy got 4 bad decisions in his 4 innings. All of them by Bucknor. Andrew Hudsons words "It seems like Bucknor has something against the size of Amla's beard" may be very true

 

[Raz]

Disgraceful!

 

[Khalil]

Zim batting

4 for no loss

Matsikenyeri scores a superb 4 of 'mad Nel'

 

[Khalil]

Brutal Beast

41.3 Smith to Blignaut, FOUR, on one knee, worked around to a vacant
deep mid wicket rope
41.2 Smith to Blignaut, FOUR, sweeps to a vacant fine leg boundary, well
placed
41.1 Smith to Streak, one run, nicely flicked around the legs to deep
bwd sq for the single

End of over 41 (8 runs) Zimbabwe 132/7
N Boje 1-0-8-0 - Pavilion End
HH Streak 4* (20b) AM Blignaut 13* (14b 1x6)

40.6 Boje to Blignaut, SIX, advanced, picked up well over long on for
the max, well played

 

[Amjid Javed]

Zimbabwe 269

South Africa 13/0

close day 1

streak 85 and bliganut 50 have given zimbabwe a reasonable total... hopefully they will battle for longer that 2 days this time!

 

[Rob H]

Hope Zimbo put up a fight.

 

[Amjid Javed]

S.africa 67/0

 

[Rob H]

Smith better get 100

 

[Amjid Javed]

South Africa 126/2

@ lunch

 

[Amjid Javed]

latest --> South Africa 243/5

 

[Officer Barbrady]

Zimbos got to 250 odd thanks to two SA bowlers getting injured.

 

[Amjid Javed]

latest - South Africa 285/5

 

[Amjid Javed]

latest --> s.africa 431/6

 

[Rob H]

Zim 13/2 at lunch

 

[Amjid Javed]

Zimbabwe 269 & 26/3 (10.4 ov)
South Africa 480/7d