Cricket Time Again

[~*Ashiee*~]

andro

most teams have more losses than wins
in cricket

except for Australia

even SA have more losses

go to windiescricket.com and check the stats                    

[Dat-Guy]

yea andro hol yuh mc ....go and play golf or sumtin                    

[Dat-Guy]

ne way doh worry we not goin down like how we get it 5yrs ago we commin hard is just dat we doh have d full side with all dem injuries..gayle, collemore, banks....etc                    

[~*Ashiee*~]

lol Dat guy
u make real sense
i see you ae a west indian to the bone like me
i love SA to eh so losses to them doh hurt me too much

but still west indian first and foremost!                    

[Dat-Guy]

since i could remember i watchin cricket and we will pull we self out ah dis slump. No white wash again                    

[Nebuchadnezzar]

tha first test was a warmup we goin and win all the rest doh study it                    

[Exar_Kun]

At least we not as bad as India on foreign soil yes.
It's a crying shame that India are so high placed when dey cyah win a blasted series outside home.MATCH FIXING!                    

[~*Ashiee*~]

ent
india is very bad on forigen soil

they does lose real mcting bad

and yet no one does wanna sh!t them up
so why we must get sh!t up?
we souldn't all ah allyuh who bad talking go and hit some ball
u can't!                    

[Dat-Guy]

done know                    

[~*Ashiee*~]

DURBAN, South Africa -  West Indies, sent in to bat, were 232 for eight in their first innings when rain ended cricket 25 overs early on the opening day in the second Test against South Africa today.
When the showers arrived just over half-hour after tea, Vasbert Drakes was unbeaten on 40 and Adam Sanford was not out on 13. The two have so far shared 41, unbroken, for the ninth wicket after they had carried West Indies to 205 for eight at tea.
 
Earlier, West Indies captain Brian Lara hit the top score of 72 and Ridley Jacobs scored 58 to stage recovery after the visitors had plummetted to 50 for five. The two shared in a 98 run, sixth-wicket stand either side of lunch, at which time West Indies had reached 57 for five.
 
Makhaya Ntini has been the most successful South African bowler with four wickets for 56 runs from 20 overs. Andre Nel and Shaun Pollock have taken two wickets apiece.
 
Play on the second day commences half-hour earlier at 3:30 a.m. (East Caribbean Time).                    

[~*Ashiee*~]

West Indies 1st Innings
W. Hinds c Boucher b Pollock 0    
D. Ganga c Pollock b Ntini 6    
R. Sarwan c Kallis b Pollock 4    
*B. Lara c Pollock b Ntini 72    
S. Chanderpaul c Hall b Ntini 0    
C. Baugh c Kalis b Nel 21    
+R. Jacobs lbw b Nel 58    
V. Drakes not out  40    
M. Dillon  b Ntini 6    
A. Sanford not out  13    
Extras (lb 5, nb 6)   12    
Total (8 wickets, 65 overs)   232    
Wkts Fell At: 1-0 (Hinds), 2-4 (Sarwan), 3-15 (Ganga), 4-17 (Chanderpaul), 5-50 (Baugh), 6-148 (Jacobs), 7-172 (Lara), 8-191 (Dillon)
Did not bat: F. Edwards                    

[~*Ashiee*~]

ok today we were all out for 264, or around there

at close or play SA were 210/2                    

[Exar_Kun]

SA done pass we total already
Licks again iwmc                    

[Dat-Guy]

splits girl tings not lookin so good 4 we. keep d faith.                    

[Exar_Kun]

faith?
Is blind hope we lookin' for now!                    

[~*Ashiee*~]

28 December 2003 09:00  
 
Jacques Kallis topscores with 177  
WINDIES DISMISS CENTURY MAKERS BEFORE TEA
by CMC


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DURBAN, South Africa - South Africa, replying to West Indies' first innings total of 264, were 569 for five at the tea break on the third day in the second cricket Test at Kingsmead Stadium today.
At the break, Neil McKenzie was unbeaten on 30 and South Africa vice-captain Mark Boucher was not out on zero. West Indies removed both century-makers Jacques Kallis and Gary Kirsten in the afternoon period after South Africa continued from their lunchtime position of 461 for three.
 
The breakthrough for the West Indies came from an unexpected source when vice-captain Ramnaresh Sarwan, bowling his unheralded leg-spin, had Gary Kirsten caught inside the deep mid-wicket boundary for 137.
 
Close to an hour later, Sarwan got into the act again when he caught Kallis at backward point off Mervyn Dillon for 177 as the batsman essayed a fierce cut that the West Indies vice-captain plucked out of the air.
 
Up to then, the situation had appeared almost hopeless for West Indies as Kallis and Kirsten used the ideal conditions - searing heat and a lifeless pitch - to plunder a South African record 249 for the fourth wicket to put their side in an impregnable position in the match and, indeed, the series.
 
Kirsten, who missed the first Test because his wife was giving birth to their first child, hit 20 fours from 218 balls in just over 4-1/2 hours to complete a South African record 20th Test hundred, and Kallis also smote 20 fours from 344 balls in eight hours for his 13th Test century and second of the series following his 158 in the opening Test.
 
Adam Sanford has been the most successful West Indies bowler with two wickets for 132 runs from 31 overs, while there has been one wicket apiece for Sarwan, Dillon and Fidel Edwards.                    

[~*Ashiee*~]

South Africa v West Indies
At Durban,  
26 December 2003
Toss: South Africa
Umpires: D. Hair, S. Taufel
 

 
West Indies 1st Innings
W. Hinds c Boucher b Pollock 0    
D. Ganga c Pollock b Ntini 6    
R. Sarwan c Kallis b Pollock 4    
*B. Lara c Pollock b Ntini 72    
S. Chanderpaul c Hall b Ntini 0    
C. Baugh c Kalis b Nel 21    
+R. Jacobs lbw b Nel 58    
V. Drakes lbw b Nel 67    
M. Dillon  b Ntini 6    
A. Sanford c Hall b Ntini 15    
F. Edwards not out  1    
Extras (lb 6, nb   14    
Total (all out, 77.5 overs)   264    
Wkts Fell At: 1-0 (Hinds), 2-4 (Sarwan), 3-15 (Ganga), 4-17 (Chanderpaul), 5-50 (Baugh), 6-148 (Jacobs), 7-172 (Lara), 8-191 (Dillon), 9-261, 10-264
Bowling Overs Maidens Runs Wkts  
Polloock 23 3 59 2 (nb 3)
Ntini 25.5 8 66 5  
Hall 10 2 51 0 (nb 2)
Nel 13 4 43 3 (nb 1)
Kallis 4 0 30 0  
Rudolph 2 0 9 0  

 
South Africa 1st Innings
*G. Smith c Sarwan b Edwards 14    
H. Gibbs  b Sanford 142    
J. Rudolph c Ganga b Sanford 36    
J. Kallis not out  74    
G. Kirsten not out  16    
Extras (lb 5, w 3, nb 13)   21    
Total (3 wickets, 74 overs)   303    
Wkts Fell At: 1-38 (Smith), 2-99 (Rudolph), 3-267 (Gibbs)
Bowling Overs Maidens Runs Wkts  
Dillon 16 4 66 0 (nb 3)
Edwards 13 1 61 1 (nb 2, w 1)
Sanford 19 3 74 2 (nb 4, w 1)
Sarwan 2 0 5 0  
Drakes 16 1 62 0 (nb 4, w 1)
Hinds 8 1 30 0                    

[~*Ashiee*~]

29 December 2003 15:53  
 
Ramnaresh Sarwan - topscores with 114 for West Indies  
SARWAN, CHANDERPAUL CENTURIES EASE PAIN OF WI LOSS
by Fazeer Mohammed


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DURBAN, South Africa - Courageous centuries by Ramnaresh Sarwan and Shivnarine Chanderpaul gave West Indies something about which to smile, but they could not prevent South Africa from completing victory by an innings and 65 runs late on the fourth day of the second cricket Test at Kingsmead Stadium on Monday.
The result, the Caribbean side's 27th loss in 36 Tests away from home in the last six years, ensures the hosts retain the Vivian Richards Trophy with a 2-0 lead and only two matches to play.

Brian Lara, however, has made a bold prediction in giving the assurance that his side will not be "white-washed" as they were five years. He will have to lift his side immediately if that forecast is to be fulfilled as the third Test begins on Friday at Newlands in Cape Town.

Sarwan's 114, his third Test hundred, and Chanderpaul's 109, his ninth Test hundred, lifted the visitors to 329 before the end came in the second over of the additional half-hour that the umpires allowed when the ninth wicket fell almost on the stroke of the scheduled close.

Makhaya Ntini, who had earlier ended Sarwan's resistance in bowling him off the bottom-edge after tea, returned to have Chanderpaul dismissed to a stunning catch by Neil McKenzie at cover as he attempted to crash yet another boundary in a delightful innings.

Granted the gift of an additional eight overs courtesy of that wicket, Ntini then had Fidel Edwards caught behind by Mark Boucher, who led the South Africans throughout the West Indies second innings with regular captain Graeme Smith receiving treatment for a thigh injury.

Ntini finished with three wickets for 72 runs from 26 overs, lifting his match tally to eight and series haul to 17. He, however, shared the bowling honours on the day with Andre Nel, who ended with three for 68 from 18.

Nel started the visitors' woes having Wavell Hinds bowled between bat and pad after 25 minutes, and after the record sixth-wicket partnership between Sarwan and Chanderpaul, Nel claimed the wickets of Vasbert Drakes and Mervyn Dillon within the space of three deliveries to set up the final rites.

Coming to the crease after Hinds' demise, Sarwan lost Daren Ganga to a lbw decision in favour of Shaun Pollock from umpire Simon Taufel, although examination of the television replays showed the right-hander had gotten a faint inside-edge to the delivery.

As Lara played with exaggerated care hoping to save his team in his 100th Test, Sarwan chanced his arm frequently, driving extravagantly to the delight of the few die-hard Caribbean fans among a crowd enjoying another day of unrelenting sunshine.

Their mood changed to one of concern, however, when the vice-captain, on 29, ducked into a short ball from Ntini and a sickening blow under the lip of the helmet and behind the left ear left him prone on the pitch for a few minutes.

Unlike in the World Cup match in Cape Town 10 months earlier when Sri Lankan fast bowler Dilhara Fernando similarly floored him, Sarwan chose to bat on rather than leave the field for treatment.

It seemed foolhardy in the circumstances, but his bravery was rewarded with rousing cheers when he reached the landmark with a straight drive off part-time leg-spinner Jacques Rudolph.

His 17th boundary was the fitting seal to more than four hours at the crease when he always looked in control, only to be eventually undone by Ntini's delivery with the second new ball that skidded through to breach his defence.

His effort was even more noteworthy after he lost Lara, who after 98 minutes and 71 deliveries of ultra-caution, turned an innocuous Andrew Hall delivery into the grateful hands of McKenzie at forward square-leg.

His dismissal for 11 seemed the death-knell for West Indies - an opinion reinforced when Carlton Baugh and Ridley Jacobs gave catches to mid-off either side of the lunch interval.

But Chanderpaul, batting with Ganga as a runner, ensured there was to be no meek surrender, lifting the West Indies from 130 for five in a partnership with Sarwan that underlined just what was possible if the top order had been able to better negotiate the tricky first morning in helpful bowling conditions.

Though hampered by a left thigh strain, Chanderpaul drove and pulled imperiously to his seventh Test century in two years, his 18th boundary off Nel - a top-edged hook over the 'keeper - taking him to the coveted milestone.

The partnership had reached 113 and the South Africans seemed resigned to being taken into the fifth day when Ntini made the breakthrough in removing Sarwan.

Thereafter, the only question was whether the lower order would have been able to hang around long enough for Chanderpaul to reach three figures. He got solid support from Adam Sanford, who achieved a Test-best score for the second time in the match in finishing unbeaten on 18.

But at the end of it all, it was the South Africans who wore the broader smiles, particularly Man of the Match Jacques Kallis, and despite Lara's bravado, they will be brimming with confidence at the prospect of making it three wins in a row in Cape Town.
 
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[~*Ashiee*~]

West Indies 2nd Innings  
W. Hinds  b Nel 11    
D. Ganga lbw b Pollock 12    
R. Sarwan  b Ntini 114    
*B. Lara c McKenzie b Hall 11    
C. Baugh c Ntini b Kallis 2    
+R. Jacobs c Kirsten b Rudolph 15    
S. Chanderpaul c McKenzie b Ntini 109    
V. Drakes c Rudolph b Nel 4    
M. Dillon c Gibbs b Nel 0    
A. Sanford not out  18    
F. Edwards c Boucher b Ntini 5    
Extras (lb 16, w 1, nb 11)   28    
Total (all out, 113 overs)   329    
Wkts Fell At: 1-31 (Hinds), 2-32 (Ganga), 3-78 (Lara), 4-95 (Baugh), 5-130 (Jacobs), 6-243 (Sarwan), 7-271 (Drakes), 8-271 (Dillon), 9-317 (Chanderpaul)
Bowling Overs Maidens Runs Wkts  
Pollock 22 9 42 1 (nb 9)
Ntini 26 8 72 3  
Nel 18 3 68 3 (nb 1)
Hall 13 3 20 1 (w 1)
Kallis 11 3 20 1  
Rudolph 23 3 91 1 (nb 1)
 
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[~*Ashiee*~]

WE'VE GOT TO PULL IT TOGETHER - LARA
by CMC

DURBAN, South Africa - West Indies captain Brian Lara believes his side has got to get its act together in the last two Tests against South Africa, after losing the second cricket Test at Kingsmead Stadium by an innings and 65 runs on Monday.
 
West Indies trailed South Africa 0-2 in the best-of-four series after they also lost the opening Test at Johannesburg by 189 runs. The third Test opens  at Cape Town's Newlands Stadium on Friday.
"We have got to start 2004 thinking about 2004 and put the past behind us," Lara told reporters at the post-match news conference.

"By this time on our last tour of South Africa, we had just lost in two days at Port Elizabeth and we did not have any Test hundreds. This time we have three hundreds, although we have lost two Tests.

"We have plenty for which to look forward in Cape Town. Our fielding and bowling will definitely have to improve and our batting has to be more consistent.

"I am, however, looking forward to 2004 and it starts on January 2 in Cape Town and we will be looking to put together some plans that will ensure that we have a good start to the New Year."

IMPROVEMENT

Lara acknowledged that the bowling and fielding had let the side down badly in this Test, but believes with hard work over the next few days they can be a definite improvement.
 
"Our fielding has been quite good in recent international matches and our fielding in this match has to be considered a 'one-off' bad performance," he said.

"We are definitely have to do something about it in our practice sessions in Cape Town to reassure ourselves. I do not think there will be another fielding performance like that any time soon."
 
Lara identified the inability of the bowlers to prevent the South Africans from scoring at a rapid rate as a possible reason for his side losing the Test.

"It's tough when your back is up against the wall and the team batting against you is scoring at more than four runs an over, so we've got to be able to pull things back," Lara said.

He added: "We not only have to get 20 wickets to win the Test match, but our bowling has to be consistent in line and length to ensure that their scoring rate is what we want it to be.
 
"Our fielders have to support the bowlers and take our chances and half-chances as well, so there is no excuse on both sides. It's just a matter of raising our entire game to the level that is required to be competitive in Test cricket."