Sri Lanka v South Africa | 5th ODI | Colombo l 31/7/2013 | Commentary & Discussion

[Shayan]

Match begins in around 45 minutes.

 

[Gotham Cronie]

Sri Lanka won the toss and elected to bat

 

[Justcrazy]

14 / 1

 

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SA bowling well here.

 

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Lahiru has big opportunity here , he is coming at number 3 , lots of overs.

 

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:4 :4

26 / 1 after 7 overs

 

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29 / 1 after 8

 

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:4

37 / 1

 

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SA need wickets here , or this will be dangerous.

 

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41 / 1 after 11 overs

 

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49 / 1 | 12 overs

 

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51 / 1 after 13 overs

 

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55 / 1

14 overs

 

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Farhaan is not International standard.

 

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Partnership 43 runs.

 

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SA bowling tight here . but they need wickets.

 

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63 / 1 after 17 overs

 

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These two doing a good job after early loss, 56 runs partnership already.

 

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Duminy on now

 

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77 . 1 after 19 overs

 

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80 / 1 after 20 overs

 

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88 / 1 after 21

 

[Ims1]

What would be a winning total ?

 

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:4 :4

 

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210 / 2

12 overs left

 

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This will be another carnage here.

 

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[Amjid Javed]

Dilshan out for 99! how gutted must he be!

S.A 212/3 AFTER 39 OVERS.... so they could get 300 here

 

[Nuekboi]

Another Huge Loss is anticipated for SA, unless DeVilliers doesnt throw his wicket for once

 

[Varun]

Quinton de Kock sort of resembles Alastair Cook:

 

[mosh101]

De Kock bowled !

 

[mosh101]

Duminy in

 

[mosh101]

Cut away for four by JP

 

[mosh101]

Amla should get a big one here

 

[mosh101]

Mathew is turning out to be a good bowler

 

[Nuekboi]

Saffers be collapsin again.

Terrible ball from Perera and gets the edge of Du Plessis

 

[Varun]

We know why his name is "Faf" du Plessis then.

 

[mosh101]

Another hideous performance from saffers under AB

 

[Nuekboi]

Misbah-ul-Behardien is 1(21)

 

[Nuekboi]

Saffers looking like Pakistan right now.

And more approriately AB looking like Misbah right now

 

[Nuekboi]

Talk about IMPLODING under pressure

 

[mithun_minhas]

SA getting badly owned by Lankans so far.

 

[Nuekboi]

AB cheetur!

 

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124 / 6 after 29 overs

 

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SA would be disappointed by this effort.

 

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134 / 6 after 30

 

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South Africa require another 171 runs with 4 wickets and 18.0 overs remaining

 

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Sad to see SA playing so badly, expected them to put better fight here.

 

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137 / 7

 

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Morkel gone

SA loose 8th wicket

 

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Drinks

The game is almost over .

 

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Oh, for those who are complaining about Farhaan Behardien's 1 off 22 balls, two other batsmen have made the exact same score: Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid. Brian Lara 1 off 22.

cricinfo

 

[Justcrazy]

South Africa require another 170 runs with 2 wickets and 16.0 overs remaining

 

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138 / 8 after 35 overs

 

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It will be disappointing end for SA here.

 

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South Africa require another 165 runs with 2 wickets and 13.0 overs remaining

 

[ads101]

AB's gotta go in LOI. Their results in LOI have plummeted with an individually very good team playing much below their potential.

AB's also a terrible captain tactically, no clue and doesn't hold together well under pressure.

Make Botha captain or even Amla.

Well done Sri Lanka. They keep getting underrated and proving others wrong. A strong ODI side.

 

[Sherlock]

So they perform like champions against us with Steyn present. But play absolutely garbage against SL without Steyn.

Moral of the story, without Steyn their bowling is vastly average. Their batting isn't as good as I made out either.

 

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Partnership 20 runs

 

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:4

 

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These two need to bat out full 50 overs.

 

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:4 MaClaren batting has improved.

 

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Partnership 34 runs now.

 

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171 / 9

Last wicket now.

 

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South Africa require another 131 runs with 1 wicket and 42 balls remaining

 

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Its over for SA

 

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South Africa require another 131 runs with 1 wicket and 42 balls remaining