South Africa v Sri Lanka, ICCCT, Centurion, 22 Sept

17 - 30° C

Will the yarps only do a mini choke cos it's a mini World Cup?

Doesn't anyone care?

Kinenda Zim. Look at you all giggly-schoolgirl about some JAMODIT... still it is better for either of us than watching a bunch of gaylords roast another bunch of gaylords.

Don't mind the ICCCTC thingumy. Get so see all the teams and it's over in a week or so.

True. It's the next best thing to a WC, but it's as f*cking meaningless as any of these pissy ODI two-team series

Brass Monkey wrote:True. It's the next best thing to a WC, but it's as f*cking meaningless as any of these pissy ODI two-team series

Aye, but they serve as a reminder that England are just plain gash at pyjama cricket by losing to 3 teams in a week, and they don't just get unlucky by running into great sides in tip-top form whenever they play these 'two-team series'.

Invader Zim wrote:17 - 30° C

Will the yarps only do a mini choke cos it's a mini World Cup?

BTW - the forecasters there aren't giving themselves much of a margin for error are they?

Setting themselves up for a fall with a precise forecast like that if you ask me . . . !

At least it's minnow free.

Oops, forgot the Windies.

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Aye, but they serve as a reminder that England are just plain gash at pyjama cricket by losing to 3 teams in a week, and they don't just get unlucky by running into great sides in tip-top form whenever they play these 'two-team series'.

Oh Bob.... We both know that England are going to romp this f*cker and that everything will then be rosy.

Brass Monkey wrote:

Big_Bad_Bob wrote:Aye, but they serve as a reminder that England are just plain gash at pyjama cricket by losing to 3 teams in a week, and they don't just get unlucky by running into great sides in tip-top form whenever they play these 'two-team series'.

Oh Bob.... We both know that England are going to romp this f*cker and that everything will then be rosy.

By 'romp' I assume you mean sneak a rain-affected DL win against the Kiwis having been trounced in the previous two games by the Lankans and Saffers?!

Red wrote:At least it's minnow free.

Oops, forgot the Windies.

How dare you say such things about the great Floyd 'pretty boy' Reifer, Devon 'twinkletoes' Smith, Gavin's 'battylicking' Tonge and Tino 'mind the windows' Best.....................

We're going to lose all 3 games howwibly aren't we?

JKLever wrote:We're going to lose all 3 games howwibly aren't we?

Probably.... But don't worry, we will make sure you aren't the worst team in the tournament, I have no doubts.

South Africa likely to be-

Smith(c)
Amla
Kallis
De Villiers
Duminy
Boucher+
A.Morkel
an Der Merwe
Botha
Steyn
Ntini

Sri Lanka-

Jayasuriya
Dilshan
Jayawardene
Sangakkara(c+)
Kandamby
Kapugedara
Mathews
Kulasekara
Thushara
Malinga
Muralitharan

Wouldn't Parnell be preferred to Ntini?

Maybe, but Ntini remains a big threat in South African conditions.

OMG. But is another edition of the ICC Chumps Trophy already upon us? It's been 2 years already?

Red wrote:At least it's minnow free.

Oops, forgot the Windies.

And England.

Should be a walk in the park for SA especially considering SL's piss poor record in such conditions.

However Dilshan and Sanga would be the key players for SL. I think Kandamby too didn't do too badly in their last series but these pitches are world apart from the ones used in that series. If at all played, IMO Mendis won't pose much of a threat in these conditions.

SA got to be guarded against the rustiness though. I think they've not played any int'l cricket since T20 WC in June.

Yes SA's biggest handicap could be their lack of cricket having had a five month layoff from this form of the game. The early season conditions might be a bit atypical too. I saw where some of the SA players said that they don't really know what to expect from the pitches and are as much in the dark as the other teams in this regard.

Sangakkara has upped the ante by raising the 'C' word and suggesting that SA is under more pressure. Gayeme has countered by saying that they don't fear the SL spinners.

The Lankan team was a semi-finalist in SA conditions in WC 2003 & made the finals in the last edition in England. I wouldn't write them off yet.

What are the crowds expected to be like for this sh!tfest?

Drunk?

Smith wins toss and elects to chase.

SA playing 2 spinners in this game which is not a very common sight.