Momentum One Day Cup 2014/15

[MickeyD]

Poor stuff. Well, what do you expect from Kimberly? Have been decent scores though.

Definitely 70/80 runs short.

 

[MickeyD]

Knights v Cape Cobras

Knights 162 all out (41 overs)

Cape Cobras 163/3 (33.4 overs)

Puttick 89*
Ontong 47*

Cape Cobras win by 7 wickets.

 

[MickeyD]

Highveld Lions v Warriors

10h00 start from Potchefstroom

Warriors won the toss and will bowl first.

Lions:
SC Cook*, Q de Kock†, T Bavuma, ND McKenzie, AM Phangiso, D Pretorius, K Rabada, J Symes, TL Tsolekile, LL Tsotsobe, GC Viljoen

Warriors:
ML Price, JT Smuts, CA Ingram*†, RT Bailey, S Seyibokwe, C Jonker, SR Harmer, ACR Birch, SSB Magala, BD Walters, L Mbane

 

[MickeyD]

Lions 6/0 (1 overs)

 

[ZCFOutkast]

Lions:
SC Cook*, Q de Kock†, T Bavuma, ND McKenzie, AM Phangiso, D Pretorius, K Rabada, J Symes, TL Tsolekile, LL Tsotsobe, GC Viljoen

Toyana doing with the Lions what PdV should've done with the Springboks. I know who my next preferred coach for the Proteas will be! Not afriad to use youth. Blood them in and improve them.

Cook is proving to be a disappointment. This is unacceptable from him in this format of the game. Then again Faf was this frustrating for the Proteas in Zimbabwe but in the end got big runs. Hope he manages to get a big score and ups his run rate from here.

 

[SlowInternet]

Lions 138/3 after 25.2 overs

 

[SlowInternet]

Lions 291/5 (50 overs)

 

[MickeyD]

Lions 291/5 (50 overs)

Should be enough...

 

[ZCFOutkast]

Should be enough...

Great start from QdK. Neil McKenzie kept it going very well, but Tsolekile may just have taken the total beyond the Warriors' reach with his excellent knock. Lions do have a strong bowling line-up(how much better it'll be once Morris comes back).

But after the last game when Morne van Wyk inspired the Knights' chase, I won't be quick to say a Lions victory is a forgone conclusion again.

What on earth is Ingram doing keeping wicket? Warriors run out of keepers? Doubt it will help him get back in the Proteas with his international batting an embarrassment. If anything it might affect his batting when he desperately needs runs to get back to the team. He certainly has the ability. More than Miller in my view.

 

[MickeyD]

What on earth is Ingram doing keeping wicket? Warriors run out of keepers? Doubt it will help him get back in the Proteas with his international batting an embarrassment. If anything it might affect his batting when he desperately needs runs to get back to the team. He certainly has the ability. More than Miller in my view.

Very good question! I cannot recall him keeping wicket. As a youngster I played in his father's league team and his dad was a brilliant keeper. He could have played at provincial level if he was not so dedicated to his farming. He still plays in the local corporate T20 league!!

I still chat to his dad...

I'll have to ask the local newspaper's sport editor to find out for us as I cannot believe that there is no (fit) specialist keeper in the EP/Border/SWD area of the Warriors' franchise.

 

[MickeyD]

Lions 291/5 (50 overs)

Warriors 151-1 (30 overs)

 

[SlowInternet]

Lions 291/5 (50 overs)

Warriors 167/2 (32 overs)

Lions battling to take wickets. Potch is usually a high scoring ground.

 

[MickeyD]

Lions 291/5 (50 overs)

Warriors 195/3 (37 overs)

 

[SlowInternet]

Going to be close.

 

[MickeyD]

Lions 291/5 (50 overs)

Warriors 271 all out (49.3 overs)

Lions win by 20 runs.

 

[SlowInternet]

At one stage I thought the Warriors will win it when they were like 200/3

 

[sox63]

Great win for the Lions. Their team has a good blend of experience and talent that's knocking on the Proteas door

 

[ZCFOutkast]

Fifer for Lonwabo Tsotsobe! If we're going to bring the World Cup home, it's very clear that he must open the bowling in NZ&AUS.

I can't say this enough, it was very stupid from CSA to leave him out. Barely recovered Steyn or Morkel would never have been left out. As our highest wicket-taking seam bowler and easily the most effective new ball bowler for us - all over the last 5 years in ODIs, his name should be among the first 5 on the list. It's true what Ntini said he was always treated as a second class citizen in the team despite being a star - "As a Black in the team I felt I was never respected or treated as a senior player, and that despite my wealth of experience and successful years in the team, I always felt that when a new bowler came into the team, the impression was he was here to replace me.”

Abbott, Marchant, Parnell, McLaren etc cannot at this point be rated ahead of Tsotsobe. The fact that from the selectors' perspective, they are proves Ntini's words. If Tsotsobe was Australian he would've been rated as highly as Bracken&MacKay, a mainstay of the team. That he is not says a lot about the social dynamics of some of our sports.

 

[ZCFOutkast]

I'll have to ask the local newspaper's sport editor to find out for us as I cannot believe that there is no (fit) specialist keeper in the EP/Border/SWD area of the Warriors' franchise.

Shocking is all I have to say. We must check with their coach that Pik Botha character.

 

[WaxLyrical]

And Van Wyk just soldiers on. Best ever batsmen never to have gotten a decent run imo.