South Africa v Bangladesh, 1st ODI, Potchefstroom, Nov 7

Why Mr Ambassador, with this you are spoiling us....

Potchefstroom? You made that up, dello, admit it.

C&P from cricinfo.

I don't know where it is, but if they say it exists, who am I to argue? Good luck to them.

Potchefstroom is a small University town about 120kms from Johannesburg. It was Australia's base during the 2003 world cup.

FFS, Trev, a geography lesson from you is about as need as sex education from RD . . .

Collingwood FC also did their high altitude training there before the 2008 season. The fat one is out of this match as well but Steyn will be playing. They seem to have a few expensive bowlers at the moment: Kleinveldt and Louw. They must have come from their domestic competition.

Dello wrote:

Red wrote: Kleinveldt and Louw. They must have come from their domestic competition.

Johann Louw

South Africa

Player profile

Full name Johann Louw
Born April 12, 1979, Cape Town, Cape Province
Current age 29 years 209 days
Major teams South Africa, Dolphins, Eagles, Eastern Province, Griqualand West, Middlesex, Northamptonshire
Batting style Right-hand bat
Bowling style Right-arm medium-fast

Cant be more expensive than that Krejza person

Watching the match now - surely they could have come up with a home and away strips for the teams rather than the same shade of green.

taipan wrote:Johann Louw

Funny bowler.... either extremely accurate and difficult to get away or absolute gash.

And another Kolpaker too

JGK wrote:Watching the match now - surely they could have come up with a home and away strips for the teams rather than the same shade of green.

Well, they have allowed teams to wear the same shade of white in various forms of the game for hundreds of years with no complaints... it's one of the few team sports where colour clashes really don't matter.

Although you would have thought away kits would have come into existence in cricket by now just as a money-making opportunity - rather like English counties in some cases wearing different colours for Twenty20 and Pro40 this season.

Caught a bit of this - looked like the Saffers were sweating a bit during the Ashraful innings

JKLever wrote:

taipan wrote:Johann Louw

Funny bowler.... either extremely accurate and difficult to get away or absolute gash.

And another Kolpaker too

He's a weird one, I've seen him bowl some world class stuff but other times he is like you say, utter gash.

Steyn 4/16. Not bad for the 93rd ranked ODI bowler. If SA loses one of its matches against Bangladesh, it drops to fifth in the ODI rankings.

Just saw the Amla run out - disgraceful from the Bangles.

Yes was bad sportsmanship. Steyn said he's bowling well within himself because it's only Bangladesh.

"You've got to judge when you want to be at your peak," he said. "With all respect to Bangladesh you don't want to be peaking at 150 or whatever against them, you want to be using it against the top playing nations like Australia or your World Cups. You want to be like these Olympic athletes who train for four years for one race. If you can do well, hit your areas and work on all the other aspects of your game and then be physically at your peak for the bigger teams that's what you really want."

JGK wrote:Just saw the Amla run out - disgraceful from the Bangles.

tbf to the Bangers Amla would have most likely been out even if he had NOT fallen