South African Domestic Cricket

[iridescentt]

Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi has been signed by South Africa's Dolphins for the domestic Twenty20 competition for the 2009-10 season.

-- Cricinfo

Never expected this to happen.

 

[War]

Any South Africans here?. Whats the chances of De Wet being fit for the West Indies tour?.

Also is SA likely to pick Rusty Theron & Imran Tahir for test matches soon?

 

[pcfan123]

Hopefully they do pick Tahir after the way CSA embarrassed him.

Odd time to bump the thread, CSA domestic should have wrapped up by now.

Stefan, mdoggie and Val are some of the active SA members btw.

 

[stefan]

Brilliant performance from Rillee Rossouw and Dean Elgar today in the super sport series. Broke the SA partnership record. 481 is what they made together.

Unfortuantly it wasn't televised,none of the 4 day match are here. Would have loved to see it, especially rossouw innings. 319 of 291 balls. First batsman since gibbs in 1996/1997 to score hundred before lunch in SA fc cricket.

Scorecard:

Eagls 502/3 (96.0 ov, D Elgar 156*, CJD de Villiers 9*, GC Viljoen 1/85) - Stumps | Live Scorecard | Cricinfo.com

Rossouw triple century powers Eagles
25 March 2010 (19:00)
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Rilee Rossouw roared to a triple century as the Diamond Eagles ripped the Nashua Titans bowling to shreds to end the first day of their SuperSport Series match on 502 for three at Centurion on Thursday.





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Rossouw, one of the young lions of South African cricket, scored a tremendous 319 off just 291 balls, with 47 fours and eight sixes, becoming, at 20 years and 167 days, the ninth youngest triple-centurion of all time. He joins legends such as Don Bradman, Clyde Walcott, Frank Worrell and Javed Miandad on the short list of those who have scored 300 before their 21st birthday and is the only South African to do it.

He is also the first South African to score 300 runs in a day at home, joining Barry Richards and Graeme Smith, who achieved the feat in Australia and England respectively.

Rossouw's magnificent innings took his SuperSport Series season tally to 1125 runs, breaking the great Richards's record for most A Section runs - 1 089 for Natal in 1971/72.

While Rossouw admittedly prospered against some awfully lethargic bowling by the Titans, it was mightily impressive the way he was able to take such a terrible toll on anything remotely wayward, while still playing classic cricket shots and maintaining a disciplined technique and game plan.

His record-breaking innings caps another fine season and makes the national selectors' decision to continue with the terribly out-of-form JP Duminy for the tests in West Indies look quite ludicrous.

The day had started well for the Titans when wicketkeeper Mangaliso Mosehle claimed a fat edge from Reeza Hendricks off Basheer Walters in the third over.

But fellow opener Dean Elgar and Rossouw then brought the Titans attack to their knees with their partnership of 480 for the second wicket in five hours and 45 minutes, off 516 balls, the biggest partnership for any wicket in South Africa.

While Rossouw unsurprisingly had everyone at SuperSport Park in raptures, he had an inspiring partner in Elgar, who finished the day on 156 not out and also passed a thousand runs for the campaign. Richards (twice) and Zander de Bruyn are the only other batsmen to achieve this.

The left-handed Elgar was unflustered throughout and not even some extra bounce with the second new ball could ruffle him.

Rossouw, however, went into decline towards the end of the day, which was hardly surprising considering he had stroked 47 fours and lashed eight sixes to all corners of SuperSport Park.

Walters managed to get two deliveries to climb steeply, striking him painful blows on his right, top hand and the barrage eventually paid dividends when Rossouw gloved a lifter from Hardus Viljoen to wicketkeeper Mosehle.

But the wicket came at an awful cost for the Titans, with Rossouw unfurling a series of sublime drives and playing several top-class cut and leg-side strokes.

The Titans offset some of that cost when Walters had Boeta Dippenaar caught behind for a duck, but two boundaries saw CJ de Villiers go to nine not out by stumps.

Elgar's tremendous focus and well-knit defence saw him through to the close unbeaten as well.

Rossouw's onslaught saw him tear into all the Titans bowlers, although Walters finished the day with two for 76 in 16 overs.

Teams

Nashua Titans - Blake Snijman, Josh Richards, Jacques Rudolph, Farhaan Behardien, Gulam Bodi, Hardus Viljoen, Mangaliso Mosehle, Cobus Pienaar, Pierre Joubert, Shaun von Berg, Basheer Walters.

Chevrolet Diamond Eagles - Dean Elgar, Reeza Hendricks, Rilee Rossouw, Boeta Dippenaar, Ryan Bailey, Juanre van Wyk, Johan van der Wath, Con de Lange, CJ de Villiers, Gino Vries, Victor Mpitsang.

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[LongLegs?]

Great stuff from Roussow and Elgar! Read about it on Cricinfo. Those two, along with Vandiar, look like really good prospects for South Africa.

 

[stefan]

Great stuff from Roussow and Elgar! Read about it on Cricinfo. Those two, along with Vandiar, look like really good prospects for South Africa.

Batting looks really strong with david miller and colin ingram in the mix as well. Looking forward to see how these young guys do on the a tour to sri lanka.

 

[mdoggie]

brilliant batting by Rossouw, he has really put his hand up for selection. This season has being great for batsman, Cook also for a triple and now also passed 1000 runs,. Hopefully Riley will get a chance in one of the upcoming tours, I would add him to the squad to the Windies ( maybe Vandlier and Elgar as well) so that if we win the series early, they can get a chance to prove themselves at the highest level.

 

[stefan]

brilliant batting by Rossouw, he has really put his hand up for selection. This season has being great for batsman, Cook also for a triple and now also passed 1000 runs,. Hopefully Riley will get a chance in one of the upcoming tours, I would add him to the squad to the Windies ( maybe Vandlier and Elgar as well) so that if we win the series early, they can get a chance to prove themselves at the highest level.

I think its better for those 3 to play on the A tour going to sri lanka then go to west indies and not get any game time. But I would be worried if I were prince and duminy.

 

[stefan]

The eagles somehow lost the game , titans winning by two wickets. Eagles finished first innings on 570, titans responded with 546. Then eagles collapsed for 164, only rossouw getting 64. Tittans won by getting 190/8.

 

[LongLegs?]

I think its better for those 3 to play on the A tour going to sri lanka then go to west indies and not get any game time. But I would be worried if I were prince and duminy.

This.

Not to mention, Sri Lanka would be a better test for them than West Indies pitches. They'd get to face some more than decent spin in the Sri Lankan A side, on pitches that favour spinners. Would be a much better learning experience for a young promising batsman.

 

[Themer]

Bump

Good to see Bopara has started well in his stint in South Africa. I was expecting him to struggle but nothing of the sort yet. Still don't think he'll be able to step up to international level anytime soon though.

 

[Haarithan]

Is he available for the pro 20 campaign as well ??

 

[Ayub 95]

Disappointing performance by the Titans yesterday bar Faf du Plessis. Albie Morkel should be nowhere close to the SA squad for the WC. 1-28 off 2 overs and a golden duck with the bat and its a final . Morne van Wyk was awesome absolutely destroyed the Morkels and took apart Andre Nel (who is ████)

 

[Haarithan]

Nashua Titans and Highveld Lions are through to this season's CLT20.

Alfonso Thomas - what a player! 7 was required for the Titans off the last ball against the Knights, and he smacked it for a six to take the game to a one over eliminator, where the Titans eventually prevailed.

 

[Fenil]

Not sure how many would be interested in RSA domestic cricket or how many of the members are following it but here is an update.

Much talked about quick bowler, Marchant de Lange is all set to make a comeback from the injury. He suffered a stress fracture in June last year.