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South Africa's Road to ICC Twenty 20 World Cup 2009

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After being knocked out of the Super 8 stage in first Twenty 20 World Cup, South Africa are now looking forward to win the Twenty 20 World Cup 2009 but this time the journey looks even more difficult as they have some important and tough series ahead

South Africa had recent success in their previous series against West Indies and full of confidence. Also their biggest victory after losing the World Championship was winning the Test and One Day Series against New Zealand comprehensively . But after that win they face some tough challenges ahead . One of their best all rounder Shaun Pollock hung his boots after the recent West Indies Series . As a result of this there has never been consistency in the performance of all the players . South Africa have also looked upon some new young players so that they could have a strong team for the World Championship . Still a long way to go for the World Championship and England have a tough schedule ahead with India , England , ICC Champions Trophy etc .


Fixtures

March/April - 3 Test Matches in India
July/August - 2 Test matches in England and 3 ODI matches
September/October - ICC Champions Trophy in Pakistan

Some Important Links of the story

*Test Series in India Drew 1-1
*Skysports Contracted with IPL team Mumbai Indians
*Mumbai Indians Team News
*Other IPL teams squads​

 

[jarl]

Good solid start mate, I hope this is every bit as good as the NZ story...kutgw

 

[gutterman]

great start mate this should be just as good as the previous one. good luck with it

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Good solid start mate, I hope this is every bit as good as the NZ story...kutgw

great start mate this should be just as good as the previous one. good luck with it

thanks for the support guys plz keep the same support that u kept with me for the NZ story

 

[Storer11]

Nice work so far mate. Keep it up.

 

[freddiw]

good luck shan mate KUTGW

 

[shantanu_rooney]

South Africa Tour of India​

South Africa will be touring India to play a 3 match test series with India . So its just gonna be entertaining to watch the two battle out to win the Future Cup . India would be starting favorites but you never know about the strength of the Proteas .

History
* India and South Africa have played 7 test matches in India out of which India have won 3 and South Africa have won 3 and 1 drawn test match .

Current Form
*India had a brilliant CB Series in Australia by beating World Champs and in test they gave a tough fight to the Aussies .
*South Africa had some great tour of Bangladesh by winning their comprehensively .
So both the teams are coming from a win so this series is gonna be a tighter series .

Fixtures

India vs South Africa 1st Test @ Kolkata
India vs South Africa 2nd Test @ Mumbai
India vs South Africa 3rd Test @ Kanpur

Sponsors

Telecasting Rights :

Skysports have won the telecasting right to telecast the 3 test match series live in India as well as around the globe . Skysports promises to bring some great technologies in play with its best commentary panel . Skysports will also bring you its new presentation . Be ready to experience a new world with Sky Sports .

Technologies :

1) Hawkeye
Complete version of new Hawkeye will be used in this series . Its a speciallly made by Sky Sports team and will be superb and exciting .

2)Snickometer
Snickometer is a great technology which gives the confirmation of caught behind if the ball has caught the edge of the bat or not. The Snickometer will be fully animated and will be giving the accurate decision .

3)Hot Spot
Hot Spot will be first time used in the Natwest Series . Hot Spot is a really great technology to detect whether the ball has touched the bat , pad or the glove .

4)Presentation
The presentation for the Natwest Series will be simply stunning . All new layouts for the scorecards, bowling cards, player stats, bowlers pitchmaps, partnership graphs and much more . Get ready to vitness the orignal Sky Sports Scoreboards.

Cricket Extra

The SKY Sports new commentary team includes cricketing experts like Harsha Boghle , Wasim Akram , Nasir hussain , David llyod , Ravi Shashtri and Sunil Gavaskar along with Ian Bottom and last Gautam Bhimani. This commentary team will cover all the four sessions of each day along with the pitch report, weather report, toss and other few new things.

Fantasy Games

The fans have an golden opportunity to earn lot of reputation points by entering in every fantasy games in this Natwest Series . The fantasy games are easy to play and easy to earn reps . The fantasy games which will be included for the Natwest Series are :

Airtel Super Selector :

Super Selector is back in action . This is the most favorite fantasy cricket game of cricketing fans as there is nothing to lose and everything to gain . Top 3 winners will get reps .

Rules
1. Post 5 Batsman 5 Bowlers and 1 Wicket Keeper from the squads announced
2. Assign a player as captain.

Points System
1 point per run scored
30 points per wicket taken
10 points per catch held by fielder other than Wicket Keeper
5 points per Wicket Keeper dismissal (Catch or stumping)
10 points per run-out(No wicket Keeper involved)
The points of the player who is chosen as captain will be doubled

NOTE:U cannot select the same player twice in your team.
Teams won't be allowed to be edited after the match starts
No Bonus players involved
Teams Edited after the game starts will be disqualified

2) Predicta Contest
Predicta Contest is back . Just predict the answer and if right you win lots of reps .

3)Who am I ?
A blurred player will be displayed and you have to guess the player . The first one to guess will be getting loads of reps .

Thats all so just sit back and watch and of course enjoy the Series .

 

[Karachi Xpress]

Nice start to the story. Looking forward to it

 

[Kiko_97]

Great start to the story KUTGW I will be sure to follow

 

[Highlander999]

Some really nice updates there mate. This story should hopefully be better than your last one (I prefer Saffa) and that was excellent. So this one should be brilliant :happy

Looking forward to next updates

 

[shantanu_rooney]

Squads Announced​

India and South Africa has announced squads for the first test taking place at the Eden Gardens in Kolkata .​

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Indian Squad​

Anil Kumble (c)
Mahendra Singh Dhoni (wk)
Wasim Jaffer
Virender Sehwag
Rahul Darvid
Sachin Tendulkar
Sourav Ganguly
Yuvraj Singh
Harbhajan Singh
Ishant Sharma
Sreesanth
VVS Laxman
Irfan Pathan​

South Africa Squad​

Greame Smith (c)
Mark Boucher (wk)
Neil McKenzie
Hashim Amla
Jaques Kallis
Ashwell Prince
Ab de Villiers
Morne Morkel
Albie Morkel
Dale Steyn
Paul Harris
Makhaya Ntini
Jean Paul Dumminy​

Please Select your squads for Airtel Super Selector . Last date for registration is Monday . Rules posted in above post .

 

[Karachi Xpress]

My team for superselector

Virender Sehwag
Greame Smith
Rahul Darvid
Sachin Tendulkar
Sourav Ganguly(c)
Mark Boucher
Jaques Kallis
Makhaya Ntini
Anil Kumble
Harbhajan Singh
Ishant Sharma

 

[freddiw]

Sehwag
Smith
Tendulkar (C)
Ab de villiars
Ganguly
Dhoni
Kallis
Harbhajan
Kumble
Ntini
Steyn

 

[shravi]

Work on the IPL story !

Seriously, good work so far. Looking forward to this.

 

[Kiko_97]

Sehwag
Smith
Tendulkar
Dravid (C)
VVS Laxman
Boucher
Harbajan Singh
Sreesanth
Ntini
Steyn