South Africa's tour of Australia - November 2014

[joejoe018]

Dunk will score a hundred on his debut

Nice try Umair, 97 off.

 

[Umair7]

Nice try Umair, 97 off.

No 98 !!

 

[Spickery]

My man Faulkner bowled very well finishing with 3-25 off his four overs. I also thought Cameron Boyce bowled superbly and was rewarded by taking two wickets at 2-15. Patrick Cummins and Doug Bollinger bowled very fast and picked up a wicket each. Ben Dunk was tidy behind the stumps taking a catch and pulling off two stumpings. Hopefully Australia can close the match out well by batting well and I wouldn't complain if Dunk scored some runs as well.

 

[War]

There's some blokes being rested but leading into the World Cup I reckon our best XI would be

Warner
Finch
Watson
Clarke
Bailey
Maxwell
Dunk
Coulter-Nile
Johnson
Starc
Richardson

I'd be tempted to put M Marsh in starting line-up ahead of Richardson. Although it might waste the batting ability of Maxwell & Dunk.

Don't mind Dunk playing also, I just wonder if he really suited to batting that low. Plus the fact that AUS selectors & Clarke really value Haddin's experience across all formats still. Will be interesting to see if they would drop him from ODI squad, this late in the game.

 

[aussie1st]

Doesn't look like Dunk will make the WC given Wade has been picked and they seem to confirm Haddin as keeper.

My man Faulkner bowled very well finishing with 3-25 off his four overs. I also thought Cameron Boyce bowled superbly and was rewarded by taking two wickets at 2-15. Patrick Cummins and Doug Bollinger bowled very fast and picked up a wicket each. Ben Dunk was tidy behind the stumps taking a catch and pulling off two stumpings. Hopefully Australia can close the match out well by batting well and I wouldn't complain if Dunk scored some runs as well.

Was good seeing Faulkner going well again, has struggled a bit of late. Cummins looked great, gaining more and more confidence. Boyce should have locked up that T20 spinners spot and with that showing I would be tempted trying him in the ODIs this summer to see if he could be our spinner for the WC.

 

[cricketmad09]

I'd be tempted to put M Marsh in starting line-up ahead of Richardson. Although it might waste the batting ability of Maxwell & Dunk.

Don't mind Dunk playing also, I just wonder if he really suited to batting that low. Plus the fact that AUS selectors & Clarke really value Haddin's experience across all formats still. Will be interesting to see if they would drop him from ODI squad, this late in the game.

Mitch Marsh he's not a good enough bowler to take Richardsons place. And with coulter-Nile Johnson and starc the tail would already be pretty strong

 

[Aalay]

WOW! That was some serious death bowling by South Africa. Cameron White played very well though at the end to win it for Australia.

 

[aussie1st]

1 Aaron Finch, 2 David Warner, 3 Shane Watson, 4 Michael Clarke (capt), 5 George Bailey, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Glenn Maxwell, 8 Matthew Wade (wk), 9 Mitchell Johnson, 10 Nathan Coulter-Nile, 11 Josh Hazlewood.

As expected on leaving Smith out, feels a bowler short.

 

[Spickery]

1 Aaron Finch, 2 David Warner, 3 Shane Watson, 4 Michael Clarke (capt), 5 George Bailey, 6 Mitchell Marsh, 7 Glenn Maxwell, 8 Matthew Wade (wk), 9 Mitchell Johnson, 10 Nathan Coulter-Nile, 11 Josh Hazlewood.

As expected on leaving Smith out, feels a bowler short.

The side does look a bowler short. The extra twenty overs will have to be bowled by Marsh, Watson and Maxwell, which is a dangerous task for them to handle. I would have almost left out Maxwell to fit Richardson into the side and to tell Maxwell to pull his head in.

 

[stefan]

Nice fightback from the boys. Great to see Steyn knockover clarke. Fielding's been poor thought. Don't get the selection of behardien ahead of rilee...

 

[Spickery]

Australia managed to post 300 runs at the end of their innings after losing several wickets in a row. The only wicket we lost that I am overly concerned about is Michael Clarke's dismissal. He has been in poor form of late and he should of been able to play that pull shot a lot better. He is now injured and Steve Smith should come in and replace him for the next match. The rest of the batsman lost their wicket to either good South African bowling or by managing to pick out the fielder when playing a lofted shot.

David Warner and Aaron Finch got Australia off to a good start at the start of their innings with them making scores of 46 and 35, it is just a shame none of them managed to capitalise and make a big score. I am glad George Bailey made some runs and made the most of the three chances he was given by making 70 runs when Australia were in trouble. Matthew Wade played his part scoring 35 runs.

If the Australian bowlers don't bowl well South Africa are a big chance of chasing this total down. The pitch is still good and Australia only have three outright bowlers in their attack.

 

[Aalay]

It would be funny if the selectors pick Steven Smith for next game now and make him the captain.

 

[War]

Nice fightback from the boys. Great to see Steyn knockover clarke. Fielding's been poor thought. Don't get the selection of behardien ahead of rilee...

Mild quota selection as usual...

 

[CremerCurrans]

Mild quota selection as usual...

I'd like to think that they selected him because he can bowl some useful overs; similar to the role Duminy plays in ODIs. He did okay with the bat, so it wasn't a bad decision.

 

[SpitfiresKent]

Mild quota selection as usual...

Maybe, but he hasn't exactly set the world alight in ODI cricket.