Cricket season

High praise for Amla...........


Kings XI were without Hashim Amla, who hit two hundreds in the tournament - neither of them resulted in wins, though. Sehwag was effusive in his praise for the South African opener who had left on national duty.

"We missed Hashim Amla, for sure," Sehwag said. "The kind of consistency he showed, none of the other players could do that, an individual couldn't take responsibility. Saha played one [good] innings, Manan Vohra played one innings but apart from that none of the others played responsibly.

"He [Amla] is an experienced player and has played more than 100 Test matches and averages close to 50 in Test cricket and also one-day cricket. He knows how to score runs immaterial of the format. And he takes very few risks. Whatever risks he takes, it is always after 12 or 15 overs, when he knows that he has completed his role and there's a need to score quick runs. Otherwise, for the first 10 overs he takes less risks and remains on 30-40 and converts them into big scores. The two hundreds that he scored were brilliant. The other players in the team have a lot to learn from Hashim Amla, be it international players or Indian."

Parnell has just scored 61 opening the batting against Sussex in a warm up match

ODI.............England v South Africa, 1st ODI, Headingley

South Africa: (probable) 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Faf du Plessis, 4 AB de Villiers (capt), 5 JP Duminy, 6 David Miller, 7 Andile Phehlukwayo/Wayne Parnell, 8 Chris Morris, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Imran Tahir


•Amla is 120 runs shy of 7000 in ODIs. He has 13 innings in which to get there ahead of Virat Kohli and continue his record of being fastest to 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000. ... :woohoo:

Countrymember wrote: ODI.............England v South Africa, 1st ODI, Headingley

South Africa: (probable) 1 Quinton de Kock (wk), 2 Hashim Amla, 3 Faf du Plessis, 4 AB de Villiers (capt), 5 JP Duminy, 6 David Miller, 7 Andile Phehlukwayo/Wayne Parnell, 8 Chris Morris, 9 Kagiso Rabada, 10 Morne Morkel, 11 Imran Tahir


•Amla is 120 runs shy of 7000 in ODIs. He has 13 innings in which to get there ahead of Virat Kohli and continue his record of being fastest to 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000 and 6000. ... :woohoo:

And to think for how long the haters were saying he is a test bastman and a test batsman only :lol:

Looks like a hard road ahead in this game for the Proteas unless quick wickets happen soon.

naresh wrote: Looks like a hard road ahead in this game for the Proteas unless quick wickets happen soon.

Ha. As I typed a wicket fell

jp is. a frustrating batsmen but who to replace him with

I think Miller must also go......but who do you replace him with?... :lol:

de bruyn will be a good start

England have a formidable batting line up which over the past year or so have never failed. They will win most of their matches with their batting

As for the Proteas Duminey, Miller and Morris poor dismissals and AB win the toss you bat bat bat without hesitation especially in English conditions unless there is low cloud cover then you bowl. Saw no clouds today

chicken n chips wrote: England have a formidable batting line up which over the past year or so have never failed. They will win most of their matches with their batting

As for the Proteas Duminey, Miller and Morris poor dismissals and AB win the toss you bat bat bat without hesitation especially in English conditions unless there is low cloud cover then you bowl. Saw no clouds today

missing in action welcome back....they way sa play if amla de kock and ab dont perform the rest are nowhere probably best to give new players a run before the champions trophy

I dont think it is as bad as what it looked like imho. We havent played for a good few months. I know its international cricket, but it will take a game or 2 to get back to top gear.. lets remember, more than half of our team have not been on the field for a while. Only AB, Amla, Morris, Rabada and Tahir really got games in the IPL, Miller and Du Plessis played 2 and 3 games early in the tournament and have been sitting on the bench.. England have had a couple warm up games, so should rightly have been the "more ready" team.. Give the boys a match or 2 and they will be firing again...