Test South Africa vs WI - 2 Tests plus sundry white ball matches

[NYRB]

This is just f**ken orgasmic

As a neutral I am loving this.

 

[Visions]

Totally deserves that 100.
First 50 in 23 balls, second 50 in 16.

 

[PhatBoy]

What a superb knock

 

[NYRB]

Fastest 100 for West Indies ever in T20, surpassing Chris Gayle.

Johnson Charles is the name!

 

[NYRB]

Johnson Charles 100 off 39 balls

 

[PhatBoy]

90 runs in boundaries

 

[PhatBoy]

I’m actually amazed that with his build and his labouring to the crease that Magala can bowl mid 130s. He’s actually got a really good record domestically

 

[Stig O'Hara]

Insane stuff.

 

[PhatBoy]

Bahahahaha

 

[PhatBoy]

There’s only so much attribution you can give to the altitude. If that was the case this sort of thing would be regular at Centirion and Wanderers. It’s not.

 

[Stig O'Hara]

11 6’s, 10 4’s out of 118.

 

[Visions]

There’s still a powerplay to go yes?

 

[NYRB]

WI 243/5 surpasses highest ever score batting 1st at T20 on Centurion.

 

[NYRB]

West Indies post 258 in the 2nd T20I

 

[PhatBoy]

22 sixes. Ridiculous

 

[NYRB]

258 would have been a competitive 50 over score, about 30 years ago. But T20 has changed the dynamics of how teams should play 50 over cricket.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

With the rate South Africa is scoring at 400 is on here, although the target is only 259

 

[NYRB]

Seriously things like this happen on a cricket field? In a nutschell, there was a ball in tonights game heading to the boundary, and a ballboy kid picked up the ball (before it was about to land on the rope) . Powell would have probably saved the boundary as well.

 

[PhatBoy]

Well f**k

 

[corbies]

258 would have been a competitive 50 over score, about 30 years ago. But T20 has changed the dynamics of how teams should play 50 over cricket.

What do you mean about 30 years ago? The average ODI score in the last 2 years is 254. It would be competitive now.

 

[IKnowtheDog]

 

[ioppolo]

Yeah someone needs to pull that kid in line. Even at that age I knew basic things like stay well away from the field.

 

[NYRB]

Yeah someone needs to pull that kid in line. Even at that age I knew basic things like stay well away from the field.

it reminds me a bit of when the security guard in an AFL game attempted to break up a brawl between a couple of players on an AFL field.

Some just havent been trained about the dynamics of the game.

 

[Sammo360]

Yeah someone needs to pull that kid in line. Even at that age I knew basic things like stay well away from the field.

Isn’t that kid meant to there as a ball boy? Looks like he didn’t interfere but probably should have been a few metres either side of the fielder.

 

[NYRB]

The commentators mentioned last night that Centurion is played at above elevation (higher altitude).

Are there any grounds outside South Africa that are also played at elevation?

My guess is that by playing on higher elevation , balls tend to go higher in the air off the bat.