Sri Lanka v South Africa | 1st ODI | July 6, 2014 | Colombo

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Sri Lanka Squad
AD Mathews*, HDRL Thirimanne, TM Dilshan, HMRKB Herath, DPMD Jayawardene, KMDN Kulasekara, RAS Lakmal, SL Malinga, BAW Mendis, MDKJ Perera, NLTC Perera, SMA Priyanjan, KC Sangakkara†, SMSM Senanayake, WU Tharanga, KDK Vithanage



South Africa Squad
AB de Villiers*, HM Amla, Q de Kock†, JP Duminy, F du Plessis, BE Hendricks, Imran Tahir, JH Kallis, R McLaren, DA Miller, M Morkel, WD Parnell, AM Phangiso, VD Philander, DW Steyn

 

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South Africa have won the toss and will bat

 

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Will be a treat to watch De Villiers bat as always.

 

[desi_launda]

Will be a treat to watch De Villiers bat as always.

You find de Villiers a treat to watch?

 

[eradicator]

You find de Villiers a treat to watch?

Yes much better than that boring run machine Kohli.

 

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Sri Lanka Team
TM Dilshan, MDKJ Perera, KC Sangakkara†, DPMD Jayawardene, HDRL Thirimanne, AD Mathews*, SMA Priyanjan, KMDN Kulasekara, SMSM Senanayake, BAW Mendis, SL Malinga

South Africa Team
HM Amla, Q de Kock†, JH Kallis, AB de Villiers*, JP Duminy, DA Miller, R McLaren, VD Philander, DW Steyn, M Morkel, Imran Tahir

 

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Hash and De Kock come out to bat , Malinga to open the innings with the ball.

 

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SA : 28/0 in 6.2 overs

 

[Justcrazy]

1st ODI: Sri Lanka v South Africa at Colombo

South Africa won the toss and elected to bat

 

[Justcrazy]

31 / 0 after 6 overs

 

[Justcrazy]

Saffers have got slow start but they have wickets in hand. These two need to build a base.

 

[Justcrazy]

Brayden: "Quinton De Kock's last 3 ODI innings were all scores of 100+. If he goes on to make a century in this innings he'll be the first batsmen in ODI history to hit 4 consecutive centuries. "

 

[Justcrazy]

45 / 0 after 9 overs.

 

[Jabo]

Oh what.... not being shown in the UK on any tv channels

 

[Jabo]

Not live in the UK... pretty poor to be honest

at least Eurosport could have shown it

 

[Justcrazy]

Fifty up for Saffers

 

[Justcrazy]

Oh what.... not being shown in the UK on any tv channels

Try and google for live streaming maybe.

 

[Justcrazy]

Mendis on now , this will be interesting.

 

[Justcrazy]

58 / 0

12 overs gone.

 

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Knock gone

 

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60 / 1 after 13 overs

Steady start by SA so far.

 

[Justcrazy]

Kallis gone , plumb

 

[Justcrazy]

Lanka on top , 2 quick wickets , SA need to develop partnership here.

 

[Justcrazy]

69 /2 after 15 overs

 

[eradicator]

Kallis should quit Odi Cricket, most useless player to have gone on to play so many Odis.

 

[tempus123]

You find de Villiers a treat to watch?

What's wrong with ABDV ?

 

[tempus123]

Kallis should quit Odi Cricket, most useless player to have gone on to play so many Odis.

He was an allrounder.. and one of the legends of the game ?

 

[Justcrazy]

:4

77 / 2

Drinks

 

[Justcrazy]

He was an allrounder.. and one of the legends of the game ?

He is past his prime , even Kolkata were forced to drop him in most matches.

 

[Justcrazy]

86 / 2 after

18 overs

 

[Justcrazy]

Amla looking good , he is the key here , needs to bat long and anchor the innings.

 

[Justcrazy]

Malinga brought back here.

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Amla is struggling for timing here.

 

[Justcrazy]

AB dropped !!!

 

[Justcrazy]

100 up for Saffers here

 

[eradicator]

Amla has been very slow so far.

 

[eradicator]

Amla might have got a fifty but he still lacks the fluency.

De Villers meanwhile looking good for end of the overs blast.

 

[Justcrazy]

AB looking good , dropped catch will hurt Lanka here

 

[Justcrazy]

:4

gets malinga away

 

[Justcrazy]

127 / 2 after 25 overs

 

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AB is unstoppable , run guaranteed at every ball.

 

[Justcrazy]

:4 more

 

[Justcrazy]

SA making use of the power play here.

 

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Amla is opening up

 

[Justcrazy]

140 / 2

27 overs

 

[Justcrazy]

This can be a solid total , close to 300 , if AB stays on , even bigger

 

[Justcrazy]

AB looking dangerous , lanka would be rueing the missed opportunity

 

[Justcrazy]

163 / 2 after 30 overs

 

[Smbhayi]

:6 on free hit

 

[Nikhil_cric]

Smoked for by AB.

 

[JustAnotherFan]

Amla is such a great anchor

 

[Smbhayi]

Drink time.. SA 191/2 after 33 overs..

 

[Smbhayi]

Look like ABCD will get hundred first..

 

[Smbhayi]

ABD gone.. He chipped straight to long-off

 

[cricket geek]

ABDV gone

 

[Smbhayi]

Lucky wicket there for Mendis and lanka.....

 

[cricket geek]

Amla near his century

 

[Smbhayi]

Amla on 99

 

[Smbhayi]

for

 

[cricket geek]

century by amla

 

[Smbhayi]

Sa 226/3 after 39 overs....!!

 

[cricket geek]

no one interested in the match.

 

[JustAnotherFan]

Miller will get a duck

 

[cricket geek]

Amla .

 

[cricket geek]

run rate is going down.

 

[cricket geek]

RSA in tuk tuk mode

 

[cricket geek]

Duminy .

 

[JustAnotherFan]

Someone needs to send Miller and McClaren a memo to start hitting the ball. 3 overs to go and they are tuk-tuk. We wanna see some boundaries.

 

[JustAnotherFan]

Some Saffers have a problem with spin.

 

[desi_launda]

Massive choke from saffers

 

[JustAnotherFan]

That was a mis-hit .... we finally saw a 4.

 

[JustAnotherFan]

Another mis-hit .... another 4.

 

[JustAnotherFan]

Eish, u can see I am not used to seeing cricket in the middle of July (when there is rugby, Wimbledon, F1, soccer)

 

[JustAnotherFan]

Miller finally wakes up and hits a 6

 

[cricket geek]

:6.

 

[JustAnotherFan]

Wonder if we can get to 300?

 

[JustAnotherFan]

OK, nice 4

 

[JustAnotherFan]

15 off the over.

 

[JustAnotherFan]

So why did they wait so late.

 

[cricket geek]

can RSA Reach 300