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Standard Bank Pro20 Fixtures

February 2010
3	Nashua Dolphins	v	Nashua Titans	Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban	18:00
5	Nashua Cape Cobras	v	bizhub Highveld Lions	Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town	18:00
5	Chevrolet Warriors	v	Diamond Eagles	Buffalo Park, East London	18:00
7	Nashua Dolphins	v	Chevrolet Warriors	Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban	14:30
7	Nashua Titans	v	Nashua Cape Cobras	SuperSport Park, Centurion	14:30
10	Nashua Dolphins	v	Diamond Eagles	Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, Durban	18:00
10	Nashua Titans	v	bizhub Highveld Lions	Willowmoore Park, Benoni	18:00
12	bizhub Highveld Lions	v	Chevrolet Warriors	Liberty Life Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	18:00
13	Nashua Cape Cobras	v	Nashua Dolphins	Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town	18:00
14	Diamond Eagles	v	Nashua Titans	De Beers Diamond Oval, Kimberley	14:30
17	Nashua Cape Cobras	v	Diamond Eagles	Boland Park, Paarl	18:00
19	Chevrolet Warriors	v	Nashua Cape Cobras	St George`s Park, Port Elizabeth	18:00
19	bizhub Highveld Lions	v	Nashua Dolphins	Senwes Park, Potchefstroom	18:00
21	Diamond Eagles	v	bizhub Highveld Lions	OUTsurance Oval, Bloemfontein	14:30
21	Nashua Titans	v	Chevrolet Warriors	SuperSport Park, Centurion	14:30
24	bizhub Highveld Lions	v	Nashua Titans	SF1: Wanderers Stadium, Johannesburg	18:00
26	Chevrolet Warriors	v	Nashua Cape Cobras	SF2: St George`s Park, Port Elizabeth	18:00
March 2010
3	Nashua Cape Cobras	v	Chevrolet Warriors	SF3: Sahara Park Newlands, Cape Town	18:00
5	Nashua Titans	v	bizhub Highveld Lions	SF4: SuperSport Park, Centurion	18:00
8	TBA	v	TBA	Semi-final 5/6 (round 3 / if needed)	18:00
12	TBA	v	TBA	Final	18:00

Catch of the Pro20 by Reeza Hendricks

The Standard Bank Pro20 game between the Cape Cobras and Eagles last Wednesday evening produced the catch of the series. Reeza Hendricks took this amazing catch to dismiss Andrew Puttick.

The Eagles went on to win the game by 8 wickets, thanks to an unbeaten 85 runs from their captain Morne van Wyk.

This video was sent in by: @Boundary_Rider via Twitter

Standard Bank Pro20 log

2010 Standard Bank Pro20 Log was last updated:22th February 2010

	P	W	L	Tied	NR	Bonus	Penalty	Pts	Net RR
Chevrolet Warriors	5	4	0	-	-	-	-	16	-0.077
Nashua Titans	5	3	1	-	1	1	-	15	1.117
Highveld Lions	5	3	2	-	-	-	-	12	-0.179
Cape Cobras	5	2	3	-	-	1	-	9	0.152
Chevrolet Diamond Eagles	5	2	3	-	-	-	-	8	-0.059
Nashua Dolphins	5	0	4	-	1	-	1	1	-0.740

Pro20 News

In this weeks Pro20 update, we have a captain falling, opening batsmen scoring runs and the IPL muscling in on domestic cricket in South Africa.

This last weekends Pro20 results:

Friday 5th, Cape Cobras beat the Highveld Lions by 42 runs

Sunday 7th, Titans beat the Cape Cobras by 17 runs (D/L shortened game)

Sunday 7th, Warriors beat the Dolphins by 23 runs

note: So far in the Standard Bank Pro20 the team batting first has won every game

Neil McKenzie gets the sack

News of the day is that Highveld Lions captain Neil McKenzie has been relieved of his duties as captain, but will stay on as a senior player in the team. McKenzie has been the captain of the Lions since 2004, and truth be told the Lions have not done well for a long time now. The Lions have announced that Alviro Petersen will captain the team upon his return from India, in the mean time wicket keeper Thami Tsolekile will lead the team. I would suggest that the newly appoint coach of The Lions, Dave Nosworthy, is building a new team and new leadership from within.

IPL Muscles in on domestic cricket

Earlier in the year Shane Warne mentioned that this was going to be a massive year for him, and he now seems to have shown his hand, it was announced that the IPL team The Rajasthan Royals that Warne captained, had struck a deal where the following teams; Hampshire, Cape Cobras and Trinidad and Tobago along with a yet-to-be-confirmed Australia state team, would form an international Twenty20 (Pro20) brand. Each team will now play under the Royals name.

I’m not too keen on this idea, why does one of South Africa’s leading domestic teams need to be influenced by and IPL team? This move seems to cement the notion of big money taking over cricket, it’s now on our door step, the IPL is having a direct influence on our domestic game. More to follow on this story….

Gulam Bodi gets player of the week

Titans opening batsman is my choice for Pro20 player of the week. Bodi hit an impressive 88* runs of just 44 balls in his innings against The Cobras at SuperSport park. His innings included six 6’s and seven 4’s. Bodi would have had the chance to have made is maiden Pro20 century had it not been for a reduced innings due to rain.

Change of Venue:

Cricket South Africa has announced that the Standard Bank Pro20 match between the Nashua Titans and the bizhub Highveld Lions, due to be played on Wednesday, 10 February 2010, has been moved from Willowmoore Park in Benoni, to SuperSport Park in Centurion, because of a waterlogged field. This is great news for the Titans, Willowmore Park is a grave yard for Titans cricket.

Pro20 : Titans rock defending champions

The Titans hosted the defending Standard Bank Pro20 champions The Cobras on Sunday afternoon at SuperSport Park. Before the game started there were rain clouds all around the stadium, having shared the points with the Dolphins the week before due to rain, the Titans could not afford another non-result due to the weather.

The Cobras won the toss and elected to bowl, which I found strange due to the chance the game could be affected due to rain, I’d always choose to bat under those circumstances. The Cobras premier bowler Charl Langeveldt opened the bowling, and was immediately hit for consecutive boundaries. This set the tone, the Titans batsmen put on 53 runs from 5 overs before lightening and then rain stopped play.

After the rain interval the game was reduced to 12 overs, which only gave the batsmen license to go for the big shots, and it was Bodi that came off. In his innings Gulam Bodi scored 88 runs from just 44 balls which included six 6’s and seven 4’s. The Titans ended their shortened inning on 136/1.

Needing 11.3 runs per over, The Cobras were under pressure from the first over. Andrew Puttick got them off to a flyer, before he was out caught and bowled by Basheeru-Deen Walters for just 9 runs. The ever powerful Herschelle Gibbs came in at three, and rocked the party. Gibbs hit 6’s all over the park before he got bogged down by the bowling of Titans captain Pierre Jouburt and Roelof van der Merwe. The two bowlers stopped the flow of runs and the pressure told. Gibbs was out caught by a brilliant Albie Morkel catch two short of his half century. The fall of his wicket was the beginning of the end, the game was already in the bag by the time Morkel bowled the penultimate over, taking two wickets.

In the end the Titans won comfortably ensuring that their Standard Bank Pro20 hopes stayed alive. The Cobras on the other hand have some thinking to do, their bowling was poor which resulted in massive pressure on their batsmen.

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