SA Cricket Blog
Jacques Kallis
Latest Test cricket rankings
South Africa will soon head to the West Indies for a tour that will include three test matches. This will give Hashim Amla the opportunity to polish off an impressive season with his chance of over taking India’s Virender Sehwag to hopefully move to number 1 in the Reliance Mobile ICC test rankings. Hashim Amla [...]
ICC World Twenty20: Cricket rants
I’ve watched almost every game that has been played in the ICC World Twenty20 and have noticed a few things. Don’t break the flow of the game The IPL can learn from this competition, the introduction of the ‘strategic break’ in IPL 2 was absolutely ridiculous. The break did exactly that “break” the flow of [...]
ODI Cricket: From destructive bowling to explosive batting
In the previous MTN ODI at SuperSport Park the bowling from Dale Steyn and Wayne Parnell lead to the demise of the Australians. At Sahara Park Newlands in Cape Town it was the batting of Jacques Kallis and AB de Villiers that put the game beyond the reach of Ricky Ponting’s men. After finally winning [...]
ODI Cricket: Confusion in the covers
Well Ricky Pointing said it, I didn’t agree but after watching those last few over in the field on Friday night, I have to agree now, the South African team have a very different dynamic under the leadership of Graeme Smith. The different dynamic is confusion. Smith had the field placements changing every ball towards [...]
Castle Test Cricket: Brutal batting
The South African batsmen have shown what they can do when they decide to come out and play cricket. In the South African innings of 651 there were three centurions in one innings, Ashwell Prince 150, Jacques Kallis 102 and AB de Villiers 163. Ashwell Prince was promoted to opening batsman; He came out to [...]
SA Cricket Blog by Shaun Custers is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.5 South Africa License.
Based on a work at sacricketblog.com.
Powered by Wordpress. Designed by 