Well if one could go through yesterday's post where I had written about the high possibility of the West Indies' batting collapsing owing to depth in the South African bowling that involves Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel, that was what exactly happened when the entire West Indian batting was shattered by the same two for a score just above hundred. One has to notice the coincidence when the South African batsmen fell for the West Indies for a score of just two runs above 350 and the very next day the West Indies team fell for the Proteas' bowling for just two runs more than 100.
Anyways, such coincidences appear in large in the game of cricket and this is nothing special whatsoever. However, coming back to the third day's lay between West Indies and South Africa, it is fascinating to see the home team crashing towards the touring country and that too by a margin of more than 200 runs. The margin happened to be a mammoth 240 runs with the West Indies being able to put up just 102 runs on the board despite having the like of Chris Gayle, Shivnarine Chanderapaul and Dwayne Bravo. The Proteas would have enforced a follow on had there been a little bit of courage from the South African captain.
May be the fact that they were the touring nation made the South African captain - Graeme Smith to decide against enforcing follow on the West Indies. The entire West Indies innings saw just three batsmen crossing double digit mark with Chandrapaul, Deonarine and Ramdin scoring 26, 29 and 25 respectively. The trio contributed a total of 80 runs out of the 102 put up on the board by the entire team. Including the extras bowled by the South African bowlers, the contribution from the rest of the West Indian batsmen come up to be 88. Meaning the trio put up 80% of the total score.
This should have been anticipated before hand itself when a bowler - less West Indian squad could contain the entire South African squad in a single day when they saw the Proteas end their first innings scoring just 352 on board. Then, one can imagine the case when a full fledged South African team with bowlers of the ranks of Dale Steyn and Morkel would bowl and that too on a pitch that would have got a bit slower compared to what it was a day ago. Not only did the West Inidies innings end at 102 but, they could not play for more than 47 overs meaning, the innings lasted just 2 sessions. Anyways, that was far more than expected.
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Sunday, May 23, 2010
Continuation in West Indies' misery...
Well if at all anyone wants to see the West Indies winning a match be it either the test or the one dayer or the T20, the only option would be to see them play non test playing nations for, even Bangladesh and Zimbabwe are comparatively better than the West Indies. Of course, West Indies winning a test series match can be dreamt of I suppose. Even in today's cricket, if at all there is a team that fails to chase down a total of 250 or 300, that can be West Indies alone. Of course, England and New Zealand join the list occasionally.
Even today, there can be seen an innings in a one dayer wherein a team follows the same old slow and steady approach to the game, first by not losing wickets at regular intervals and then by settling and start whacking the bat hard in the last ten overs. That was what was evident from the South African innings when they put up a decent total of 280 on the board from the 48 overs that were allotted for reasons that is not so important here. With already two gone in the first 8 overs when the scoring rate was over 6.0 an over, the pressure was started to be felt by the incoming batsmen Hashim Amla and Devilliers.
As expected, the duo put up a partnership in excess of 100 and then a decent total was on the cards for the Proteas. And why shouldn't the Proteas do that when they are facing a team that has absolutely any bowlers in it? The West Indies team is found to miserably lack bowlers irrespective of disciplined ones and non disciplined. The West Indian captain Chris Gayle bought in 8 out of ten players to bowl at the South African batsmen. With the wicket keeper Denesh Ramdin not set to bowl usually, the number can be counted as 9 out of 11 or 8 out of 10.
A debutant in David Miller was found scoring at the strike rate of 143 which speaks of the caliber of the West Indies' bowling. Finally, like it has happened, once again, Hashim Amla was awarded the man of the match award for scoring a 109 ball 102. But, with a batsman in A B Devilliers who scored 102 from 101 balls was sidelined. Why? Some reasons that are though not satisfactory include that Hashim Amla was the opener who was facing the new ball and was in place when two quick wickets fell. And some things that should not be spoken about include Hashim Amla taking the due advantage of the power plays and support from Devilliers.
Even today, there can be seen an innings in a one dayer wherein a team follows the same old slow and steady approach to the game, first by not losing wickets at regular intervals and then by settling and start whacking the bat hard in the last ten overs. That was what was evident from the South African innings when they put up a decent total of 280 on the board from the 48 overs that were allotted for reasons that is not so important here. With already two gone in the first 8 overs when the scoring rate was over 6.0 an over, the pressure was started to be felt by the incoming batsmen Hashim Amla and Devilliers.
As expected, the duo put up a partnership in excess of 100 and then a decent total was on the cards for the Proteas. And why shouldn't the Proteas do that when they are facing a team that has absolutely any bowlers in it? The West Indies team is found to miserably lack bowlers irrespective of disciplined ones and non disciplined. The West Indian captain Chris Gayle bought in 8 out of ten players to bowl at the South African batsmen. With the wicket keeper Denesh Ramdin not set to bowl usually, the number can be counted as 9 out of 11 or 8 out of 10.
A debutant in David Miller was found scoring at the strike rate of 143 which speaks of the caliber of the West Indies' bowling. Finally, like it has happened, once again, Hashim Amla was awarded the man of the match award for scoring a 109 ball 102. But, with a batsman in A B Devilliers who scored 102 from 101 balls was sidelined. Why? Some reasons that are though not satisfactory include that Hashim Amla was the opener who was facing the new ball and was in place when two quick wickets fell. And some things that should not be spoken about include Hashim Amla taking the due advantage of the power plays and support from Devilliers.
Monday, March 1, 2010
6 Ducks from the winning side
Well West Indies' loss in the recently concluded ODI series and the T20 series against Australia can well be justified for, West Indies is a far worse outfit compared to Australia who are not at their one time best. Moreover, West Indies were facing Australia in Australia where forget about winning, even a matured loss would be a great feeling for the West Indies team. But, now in the first T20 game against Zimbabwe at Port of Spain, where West Indies were expected to win for one last time, it was fascinating to see West Indies playing the T20 game as though it was a test match.
All that the West Indies team can feel comfortable about is the fact that there was a West Indian bowler in Darren Sammy who bagged 5 Zimbabwean wickets, returning with figures of 5/26 from the 4 overs allotted to him. Can anyone of us imagine even in our dreams a team ending its innings of a T20 game with not only putting up a partly score of 79 but also at a strike rate of just above 3.0 runs an over? In the recently concluded India-South Africa 2 match test series, both the teams out there had atleast one innings wherein the team had scored at a rate of above 4.0 runs an over.
It was Dwayne Smith placed at number 7 in the batting order who recorded the highest strike rate in the match at 80 runs for every 100 deliveries he faced. And the highest run getter in the match for the West Indies team happened to be Denesh Ramdin who scored 23 runs no matter how many deliveries he faced. There were only 3 batsmen from the West Indies' side who could put up individual scores above 10, with extras taking its share of 10 runs. One thing that can be noticed for the West Indies' bowling chart is that the WI captain bought in just 5 of his bowlers who bowled their quota of 4 over each.
And on the other side, the Zimbabwean side bought in 8 of their bowlers, may be which is not of much importance when it comes to winning matches. But, the idea to experiment when things are not going in favor is always a welcome move from the captain. At the end, one thing that is worth to be noted is that there were 7 batsmen from the Zimbabwean side who returned back to the pavilion the way they entered into the crease. Out of these 7 batsmen who couldn't score a run, 6 of them were out. Another interesting fact is that Benn had 4 wickets, all of whom returned without scoring. I guess that this is the 1st such instance where ducks have made headlines.
All that the West Indies team can feel comfortable about is the fact that there was a West Indian bowler in Darren Sammy who bagged 5 Zimbabwean wickets, returning with figures of 5/26 from the 4 overs allotted to him. Can anyone of us imagine even in our dreams a team ending its innings of a T20 game with not only putting up a partly score of 79 but also at a strike rate of just above 3.0 runs an over? In the recently concluded India-South Africa 2 match test series, both the teams out there had atleast one innings wherein the team had scored at a rate of above 4.0 runs an over.
It was Dwayne Smith placed at number 7 in the batting order who recorded the highest strike rate in the match at 80 runs for every 100 deliveries he faced. And the highest run getter in the match for the West Indies team happened to be Denesh Ramdin who scored 23 runs no matter how many deliveries he faced. There were only 3 batsmen from the West Indies' side who could put up individual scores above 10, with extras taking its share of 10 runs. One thing that can be noticed for the West Indies' bowling chart is that the WI captain bought in just 5 of his bowlers who bowled their quota of 4 over each.
And on the other side, the Zimbabwean side bought in 8 of their bowlers, may be which is not of much importance when it comes to winning matches. But, the idea to experiment when things are not going in favor is always a welcome move from the captain. At the end, one thing that is worth to be noted is that there were 7 batsmen from the Zimbabwean side who returned back to the pavilion the way they entered into the crease. Out of these 7 batsmen who couldn't score a run, 6 of them were out. Another interesting fact is that Benn had 4 wickets, all of whom returned without scoring. I guess that this is the 1st such instance where ducks have made headlines.
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