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General Cricket => Latest Matches => Topic started by: AverageCricketer on August 27, 2014, 11:25:43 AM
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Thought I would start this topic as there is one going on! Meanwhile, Aus have piled on 300, with Tahir getting better figures than Steyn.
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Johnson smashing 20 off the last over.. Nice 100 by Finch too
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Is this on TV in the UK?
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Excellent run chase by South Africa yesterday. AB really showed his class and affirmed that he is one of the best in the world. Well supported by Faf who got his maiden ODI century.
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Really happy for Faf, as he is a high class player and it was just odd that his ODI hadn't taken off. Faf must love playing Australia!
Go to see AB get some runs as he had been a tad dry in recent times.
Nice to see Phillip Hughes get a game and some runs after his stunning run of form for the A team.
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Really happy for Faf, as he is a high class player and it was just odd that his ODI hadn't taken off. Faf must love playing Australia!
High class? The blokes a clubbie. One ton in 50+ games? Awful record.
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High class? The blokes a clubbie. One ton in 50+ games? Awful record.
Little chap from India, Sachin Tendulkar, averaged mid 20s in his first 70 odd games. And he didn't score an ODI hundred until his 79th game.
Guess he's not much better than Faf...
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Little chap from India, Sachin Tendulkar, averaged mid 20s in his first 70 odd games. And he didn't score an ODI hundred until his 79th game.
Guess he's not much better than Faf...
I'll eat my words when clubbie Faf scores his 50th ODI ton then.
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Little chap from India, Sachin Tendulkar, averaged mid 20s in his first 70 odd games. And he didn't score an ODI hundred until his 79th game.
Guess he's not much better than Faf...
Totally untrue
His average never dropped below 30 after his 27th ODI match
(https://ckrao.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/tendulkar-odi-career.jpg)
http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;spanmax1=10+jan+1997;spanval1=span;template=results;type=batting;view=cumulative (http://stats.espncricinfo.com/ci/engine/player/35320.html?class=2;spanmax1=10+jan+1997;spanval1=span;template=results;type=batting;view=cumulative)
Plus averaging 30 in ODI cricket 20 years ago is more valuable than averaging 30 current day, 200 was a par score 20 years ago compared to 275/300 current day so averaging 30 back in the day is lot more tougher than these days.
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As usual, it is Clarke and Haddin saving the day for Australia. Would be really embarrassing if they lose, but the conditions definitely suit Zimbabwe.
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Smoked with a six from Prosper Utseya and Michael Clarke on his way home to regain fitness. Tough times for Australia.
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A well deserved victory for Zimbabwe. Their spin bowling was fantastic. Nyumbu, Utseya, Williams and Waller bowled with great pressure and spun the ball.
Australia got their team selection wrong, the Harare pitches are pretty worn, yet the only selected Lyon and Maxwell as spinning options. Finch bowled two overs of pies aged Pup bowled one over but wasn't fit to bowl. In hindsight Steven Smith should've played instead of Ben Cutting.
But that's Australia fault. Zimbabwe throughly deserved to win. And this wasn't a fluke result. Zimbabwe should've beaten South Africa in the previous game but Chigumbura made a few errors. This time he got the job done.
Turns out South Africa and Australia are not better against spin than England...
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well done zimbabwe :) :)
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We just can't adapt to slow turners, well done Zimbabwe to hold their nerve.
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Australia qualified for the final today with a 62 run victory over South Africa.
Phillip Hughes scored 85, he really loves playing the Proteas - whether it be Tests or ODIs. But with Australia endanger of wasting the solid platform Hughes laid down, Mitchell Marsh played a sensational innings. 86* off 51 balls with 7 sixes, including 3 in a row of Steyn!
South Africa crumbled and only Faf du Plessis showed any fight scoring 126 out off 220. Faf's second ODI hundred. Faf loves playing these Aussies!
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Faf also seems to have found his place in the batting line up at #3. He averages 46 there and he got both his hundreds from there.
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Mitchell Johnson strikes again!
He's taken care of poor old Ryan McLaren again. Johnson pinned McLaren in yesterday's ODI and has broken McLaren's arm.
It's the second time Johnson has taken McLaren out. He also pinned McLaren in the head in the Test series in SA earlier this year...
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Another ton for Faf du Plessis in the current series. He is really holding the SA batting line-up together. Making that number 3 spot his own currently.
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Faf might never want to leave Zimbabwe with the runs he's bagged on this tour!
Test: 98 & 5*
ODI series vs Zimbabwe:
59
55
40
ODI Tri Series:
106 vs AUS
15 vs ZIM
126 vs AUS
123 vs ZIM
He's also got the chance to score a third consecutive hundred against Australia.
Seems to be in good form...
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South Africa claimed a rather easy victory today to win the tri-series title.
Australia struggled to 219 out all. Dale Steyn ripped through them and finished with 4/35. James Faulkner and Mitchell Starc added 60+ for the ninth wicket to give Australia something to bowl at.
But Amla, AB and Faf made light work of the target with all three notching up 50s.
Faf ended up getting out on 96, had he reached 100, he would've been first man in ODI history to score 4 hundreds in one series. But I guess 400 odd runs isn't to bad.
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Seems to be in good form...
Understatement of the century!
Faf has been seeing the ball like a watermelon. Extraordinary form.
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Was awesome to have cricket that high standard in zimbabwe :)