Group C - South Africa, India, Afghanistan

[Pothas]

Required run rate 9.9

This is still gettable

If this was a film I would be getting excited.

Still they have done pretty well here on the whole, respectable score againt India, very good in the field here.

 

[zaremba]

50 up!

 

[King Pietersen]

50 up! Greeted by huge cheers from the crowd. Loving this. Let them get to 68 or whatever they need to avoid the lowest total ever, and then bring Steyn and Morne back.

OUT OF THE GROUND. These 2 should be opening. That was a huge hit.

 

[zaremba]

Now that is an extraordinary shot - down the pitch to Albie and smacked him onto the pavilion roof. Magnificent!

 

[Furball]

Shot of the ****ing tournament that.

 

[Pothas]

wow what a shot.

 

[GraemeSmith]

Boooo. Smith giving Van Der Merwe an over. Albie Morkel or Jacques Kallis would have been better options surely. They looked ok against spin in the India game. I'm tired, I want this over soon.

That`s because Graeme Smith is a gentleman. SA are winning and going through to the next round... there is no point in rubbing it in to the Afghanistan team.

 

[King Pietersen]

Another 6. Boundary count now reads 2 fours, 4 sixes. Quality stuff. That bat sounds lovely, a real crack when he connects out of the middle.

 

[Furball]

Booooo, bulldog face ends the fun.

 

[Sir Alex]

OMFGCMJG!

Out of the stadium! **** me!

And another!

And as usual Sir Ian discounting it as 'good piece of willow he's got'

 

[King Pietersen]

Ashraf gone for 23. Afghanistan still 3 runs short of over-taking Kenya and avoiding the lowest total in the history of T20i cricket.

 

[Furball]

So, 75 run partnership needed from 6.5 overs. I believe.

 

[zaremba]

Well even if they don't get beyond 68 they've avoided real humiliation

 

[Furball]

Over the halfway mark.

 

[King Pietersen]

Another 6. Awesome stroke that, moved ahead of Kenya's 67 comfortably now

They're now level with India's lowest total in a T20i (74) which came against Australia. Quality side tbh.

 

[Sir Alex]

That`s because Graeme Smith is a gentleman. SA are winning and going through to the next round... there is no point in rubbing it in to the Afghanistan team.

True. He could have gone for gimmicks like 9 slips etc, but showed some respect for the opposition, without compromising on hard cricket.

 

[zaremba]

Only the 10th lowest score in International T20 history, beating India's 74 and Australia's 79 among others.

Well done. I'm off to bed.

 

[King Pietersen]

80 all out. Better effort than it appeared it would be early on. They've actually surpassed India and Australia's lowest ever T20i totals in this game, and those batting performances came against inferior attacks to this one. Not a bad effort at all, just couldn't handle the pace and bounce of Steyn and Morkel early on.

 

[Furball]

Albie Morkel - 2-0-20-0

Absolute joke of a player.

 

[GraemeSmith]

Albie Morkel - 2-0-20-0

Absolute joke of a player.

I'd like to hear you say that when he's smacking the ball out of the ground for huge sixes