Reporting from Newlands today where Australia won the toss and elected to put South Africa in to bat on their home pitch.
The pitch is looking rather cracked and on this hot sunny day it would be a field day for the seamers.
Sticks and Mouse opened the batting for us today and started the first over with a bang. Sticks looked as he was going for a great innings but lost his wicket early.
Karpov joined Mouse at the crease, coming in lower down on in the order. These two put up a great 64 run partnership when a dterrible umpiring decision sent Karpov back into the stands.
With the loss of the wicket Australia had us on the back foot and the runrate started to drop. Their bowlers were bowling great and the batsman did their best to keep the scoreboard ticking.
Mouse got his fifty and was trying his best to improve on his 83 vs England. Anthony lost his wicket as the 2 made their 100 run partnership, that kept our boat steady.
Disney in and want show that he is not a few run wonder and put bat to ball to assist Mouse in his first century. Disney started to show why he was picked and hit 5 fours and 3 sixes to take his score to 63 off 44 balls. Mouse lost his wicket and Farmer came in, hitting 2 great fours in the last over, to steer SA to a mighty 276-4 in the alotted overs.
The Antichrist opened the bowling and early gave away 6 runs. Could this show what is waiting in the next 49 overs?
The Animal bowlign from the duck pond end showed great line and length to keep Australia at bay.
Australia kept a good runrate and it was high priority to get it lower. Screech and Blade came in and really tightened the ropes on Australia with great bowling to put huge pressure on the batsman.
With the runrate dropping drastically and the RRR growing, it started swinging the game back into SA’s favour.
Still with no wickets taken, we were happy with the runrate dropping.
Jimmy came on for his session, taking over the great spell from Blade to keep the runs low. By the time The Animal came back for his second session the batsman was so frustrated that 2 wickets fell insuccession.
The last 10 overs remaining and at this stage SA and Aus were on the same score.
The required runrate creeping up high for the Aus, it was all or nothing. Our bowlers kept their cool and alowed the singles to go.
These last 20-30 min the threads were full of supporters that watched the game. F5 buttons were pressed millions of times, stress increased and all to see our boys beat Australia in the greatest game played in BT.
Congrats to the lads!
South Africa U19 won by 9 runs.
South Africa U19 276-4
Australia U19 267-2
The ratings say it all!
____________ _South Africa U19__Australia U19_
_Top Order:_____masterful________phenomenal__
_Middle Order:___exquisite_______ _masterful_____
_Lower Order:__ _abysmal_________abysmal______
_Seam Bowling:__masterful________masterful_____
_Spin Bowling:___sensational_____ _masterful_____
_Fielding:______ _proficient_______ _strong________
Matt Giteau, Wallabies flyhalf was yellow carded in the 35th minute after taking out the Bok scrumhalf in the air. New Zealand citing officer David Gray took no further action, which surprised SA Rugby’s manager of referees Andre Watson.
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