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1/17/2015

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Wounded Windies Pose Danger

The touring West Indies are buoyant as they hope to reverse the 61-run Duckworth-Lewis method loss against the Proteas in the first Momentum ODI match at Kingsmead in Durban on Friday. Fresh from a 2-1 T20 series win, in which South Africa avoided a whitewash, the Windies believe they can take a few positives to the Wanderers on Sunday, from the rain-affected Durban day-night match.

West Indies captain Jason Holder said after the loss that they got off to a good start and batted and bowled well, and therefore hope to continue on Sunday where they left off.

For the visitors to level the series, their bowlers will have to be economic and not put themselves under pressure by avoiding giving away too many boundaries.

SA's ODI captain and wicket-keeper AB de Villiers though will not lead his boys to slaughter. He, Hashim Amla and Miller scored with half centuries apiece, setting the tone for a triumph.

Dunkoe Mtshazo
(Contributing author)

1 Comment

Tebogo Mtshazo

1/19/2015 06:50:37 am

The West Indies must be dejected after the Proteas performance at the Wanderers, when the top 2 batmen get a ton each in an ODI. Then the man at number 3 comes in and sees that little white ball like a beach ball and probably sees it travelling at beach ball speed as well. Amla and Rossouw opened well for the Proteas, but when AB de Villiers came on, in the 38th over, nobody thought they will witness an innings that would be like watching a highlights package - 104 runs in 31 balls. He was run out at 149 in 44 balls. AB scored at 3.4 run per ball. For the West Indies, when Chris Gayle went out, they never looked threatning, they never got a decent partnership going to chase the score. My question is; are the Proteas peaking too early for the World Cup next month?

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