Saffers heading to Australia

[Lindommer]

The ranking and scoreboard don't agree with your statement.

Yer right right now but the last 130 years would seem to show Australia as the best test-playing nation. AND I'd be prepared to wager we'll be number 1 some time in the next three years.

 

[PaarlBok]

Yer right right now but the last 130 years would seem to show Australia as the best test-playing nation. AND I'd be prepared to wager we'll be number 1 some time in the next three years.

Happy New Year to you my mate, Hope you and your family have an excellent 2013. Aus have only be great in that 130 years because SA were isolated. Three years is a very long time in cricket. You first have to go without your new Saffer coach. He wont take you to the nr1 spot.

 

[It is what it is]

Happy New Year to you my mate, Hope you and your family have an excellent 2013. Aus have only be great in that 130 years because SA were isolated. Three years is a very long time in cricket. You first have to go without your new Saffer coach. He wont take you to the nr1 spot.

Silly comment PB and reminds me of the Saffers attitude towards Australia when we won the 1991 RWC.
"Australia aren't the real world champions", the Saffers bellowed because South Africa couldn't participate.
Well, in 1992 the Wallabies went to South Africa and belted the Saffers all over the park in a humbling display for the hosts.
Meanwhile, South Africa are currently the deserving No 1 ranked test nation in the world....that's a fact and they're a bloody good team.
Please don't however rewrite history via coulda/gunna/woulda/mighta bs.

 

[Lindommer]

Aus have only be great in that 130 years because SA were isolated.

Happy New Year to you, too, PB. Hope the weather's kind to those vineyards around you, the vines in southern New South Wales are taking a pounding at the moment.

South Africa's isolation? Mmm. Wouldn't that be only from 1969 to about 2000? And during that time there were, what, at least four rebel tours from the West Indies and Australia to RSA. Mike Haysman was paid so much he decided to stay. The Bokke cricketers kept their hands in playing in England and Australia, I well remember John Benaud dropping Barry Richards at the SCG in a Shield match; Barry belted the bejesus out of our bowlers on his way to a double century. Clive Rice, Garth le Roux, Mike Proctor et al did very well playing county cricket in England, they set the standard for Saffer cricketers when the bans were lifted in 2000. To be brutally honest South Africa may've beaten us once or twice (ONLY once or twice, but there again, we'll never know) during that period as we had a handy side under Ian Chappell at the start of this time. Even the Windies didn't beat him.

 

[PaarlBok]

Happy New Year to you, too, PB. Hope the weather's kind to those vineyards around you, the vines in southern New South Wales are taking a pounding at the moment.

South Africa's isolation? Mmm. Wouldn't that be only from 1969 to about 2000? And during that time there were, what, at least four rebel tours from the West Indies and Australia to RSA. Mike Haysman was paid so much he decided to stay. The Bokke cricketers kept their hands in playing in England and Australia, I well remember John Benaud dropping Barry Richards at the SCG in a Shield match; Richards belted the bejesus out of our bowlers on his way to a double century. Clive Rice, Garth le Roux, Mike Proctor et al did very well playing county cricket in England, they set the standard for Saffer cricketers when the bans were lifted in 2000. To be brutally honest South Africa may've beaten us once or twice (ONLY once or twice, but there again, we'll never know) during that period as we had a handy side under Ian Chappell at the start of this time. Even the Windies didn't beat him.

I did put up a piccie? We'll never know , so we really cant tell, however I think we had one of our best cricket teams when isolation strucked. Anyway myself think SA cricket structure start now to produce some goodies, hopefull the admins will get their act together and surely we have some golden years ahead.

For an example: we just discover this raw diamond from our 4 days local competition

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Gqamane stars in Warriors win

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by Jason Pearce 05 January 2013, 17:10

Ayabulela Gqamane claimed a match-winning six for 40 off 13.2 overs after lunch on day three to bowl the Nashua Titans out for just 204 and set up a 10-wicket victory for the Chevrolet Warriors in their Sunfoil Series match at Supersport Park in Centurion on Saturday.

In a dramatic afternoon session, the home side collapsed from 123 for 1 at lunch to 204 all out on the stroke of tea, leaving a victory target of just 13 runs for Warriors openers Davy and Arno Jacobs to knock off for victory, which they did in 14 balls.

The win moves the Warriors to within five points of series leaders the Nashua Mobile Cape Cobras, as the visitors claimed 18.76 points from the match to move them up to 74.38 points on the Sunfoil Series log.

Under an overcast Pretoria sky, the rot started in the sixth over after lunch, when Pieter Malan added just two to his lunchtime score before being bowled by Chris Jonker for a well-played 55, with eight boundaries.

Gurshwin Rabie had Henry Davids caught in the 43rd over by Davy Jacobs for 36, which included five boundaries, before Jonker struck again in the 48th over, Heino Kuhn caught by first innings batting hero, Gqamane for just five.

"Aya", as he is known to his teammates, wasted no time getting in on the act, dismissing Roelof van der Merwe for two in the 51st over, caught by Simon Harmer.

The 53rd over however, was disastrous for the Titans, with Gqamane bowling Farhaan Behardien for 13, and dismissing Liebisch for a first-ball duck, caught by Rabie.

David Wiese swung three balls to the boundary, but it was too little, too late, as Gqamane's destructive spell took care of him for 16, caught by Harmer.

Then Gqamane bowled Mbhalati for a duck, and finally bowled Paul Harris (3) to bring an end to the Titans' innings.

After bowling the visitors out for 413 at the close of play on day two, a lead of 191, the Titans had moved relatively painlessly to 123 for 1 at lunch - still 68 runs adrift with nine second-innings wickets remaining.

An steady opening 76-run partnership between Mangaliso Mosehle and Pieter Malan was broken in the 21st over when Rabie had Mosehle caught behind by keeper Adrian McLaren for 47, which included six fours and a six.

Henry Davids joined Malan in the 21st over and together the pair put on a lively 47-run partnership off ten overs before lunch.

Gqamane added a brilliant, late-innings 86-run blitz on day two and together with Simon Harmer, the pair put on a 129-run partnership for the 9th wicket, which saw the visitors power to 413 all out at the close of play on day two.

Gqamane was the brilliant aggressor - facing 89 balls and striking 11 fours and two sixes in his 109-minute stay at the crease.

The foundation was laid earlier in the day after a superb, fighting knock of 105 from Arno Jacobs in blisteringly hot conditions saw the visitors go to tea at 247 for 7, a lead of just 25 runs with three wickets remaining.

The home side won the toss on Thursday and decided to bat first, and were dismissed for 222 in their first innings. Roelof van der Merwe top scored with 51, with contributions from Behardien who made 39 and David Wiese's 35 proving invaluable.

 

[Sidbarret]

First post on G&GR, so please be gentle.

I think there are some parallels between South African cricket and Aussie rugby in the sense that both are relatively new Superpowers in the sport.

Prior to the mid-1960's South Africa were the whipping boys of world cricket. The 1969/70 series between australia and South Africa is turning point South African cricket history, much as the 1984? grand-slammers were turning point for Australian rugby.

Even today, the South African national cricket team is very very good, but the cannot lay claim to the sheer depth of talent and supporting structures that Aussie cricket can lay claim to. Pretty much a mirror image from what is found in rugby.

 

[Sidbarret]

Silly comment PB and reminds me of the Saffers attitude towards Australia when we won the 1991 RWC.
"Australia aren't the real world champions", the Saffers bellowed because South Africa couldn't participate.
Well, in 1992 the Wallabies went to South Africa and belted the Saffers all over the park in a humbling display for the hosts.
Meanwhile, South Africa are currently the deserving No 1 ranked test nation in the world..that's a fact and they're a bloody good team.
Please don't however rewrite history via coulda/gunna/woulda/mighta bs.

You'll find far more South Africans referring to 1987 as lost opportunity than 1991.

This partly due to beating the cavaliers in 1986 and the belief that the team of mid 1980's could have been something pretty special had it not been for sporting isolation.

By the early 1990's a golden generation was on the wane and the effects of international isolation had started to take its toll on what would now be professional level rugby in South Africa.

 

[Lindommer]

Welcome Sb (BTW,who's Sidbarret?), we'll take anyone here, even Saffers. Take your cue from PaarlBok, he's such a good bloke he wins the Best Foreigner Award most years.


Pity the poor bugger barracks for the Stormers, but we can't have everything.

 

[teach]

Welcome Sb (BTW,who's Sidbarret?)

Shine on you crazy diamond...

 

[Braveheart81]

I assumed it was a bad mispelling of Syd Barrett too.

 

[PaarlBok]

Welcome Siddie. Havent talk for a very long time, we need a lot of catch up Boet! Still in Stellenbosch?

 

[PaarlBok]

he's such a good bloke he wins the Best Foreigner Award most years.

Is 2012 done?