September 24, 2011 / Posted in  CLT20

Live Match CLT20 2011 Warriors Vs South Australia

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South Australia v Warriors, CLT20, Hyderabad  Smuts leads Warriors to second win

JJ Smuts made an aggressive 88 to lay the foundation for the Warriors’ total

After their winning start to the tournament, Warriors will not want to lose momentum in a fairly short group stage. Their victory, although thrilling, was not comprehensive and there is plenty for them to work on. With just a day to travel from the hard track in Bangalore to the slower pitch in Hyderabad, they don’t have much time to strategise either….

JJ Smuts’ smashing 88 propelled the Warriors to an imposing total in Hyderabad. Smuts batted for all but seven balls of the innings and shared in two meaty partnerships, with Colin Ingram and Mark Boucher, that formed the foundations of the Warriors effort. South Australia’s bowlers were tested on a dry, fairly slow pitch and only succeeded when their medium-pacers, particularly Daniel Harris, made use of variations and changes of pace.

Ashwell Prince was unable to continue from where he left off on Friday against the Royal Challengers Bangalore and was bowled by the pacy Shaun Tait in the second over. Tait’s speed was too much for Prince, who tried to play a full ball on the leg side but missed and had his middle stump uprooted. Prince’s dismissal was the only success South Australia had in the Powerplay, as Smuts and Colin Ingram hit top gear.

Smuts dispatched Adil Rashid, who opened the bowling, and showed no fear in taking on Tait, regardless of whether he bowled full or short. Ingram swept impressively, particularly against Nathan Lyon, and the pair raced to 59 in six overs. Lyon and Aaron O’Brien gave away only one boundary from the next two overs, but it was when Harris came on, the runs dried up.

He bowled a good wicket-to-wicket line and frustrated Ingram, who tried to take him on at the start of the 11th over. The South African latched onto a short ball but didn’t have enough on it to carry cow corner and was caught. With Smuts tiring and Boucher battling to find his feet upfront, Christian and O’Brien pulled the run-rate down to under eight an over. Smuts continued to punish the short balls and Boucher finally got going with a lofted shot over O’Brien’s head that went for four.

Tait’s inconsistency allowed both Smuts and Boucher to prepare for an innings-ending burst. Smuts dealt with his full deliveries in smashing style and Tait bowled a no-ball, sprayed five wides down the leg-side and battled to get the yorker right consistently. It was into Tait’s hands that Smuts eventually fell though. He looked well placed to get a century, but was dismissed trying to play an innovative scoop over short fine leg off Harris. Christian took two wickets in the final over to stop the Warriors from exploding at the end.

Full Score Card

	Warriors innings (20 overs maximum)		R	M	B	4s	6s	SR
	JT Smuts	c Tait b Harris	88	75	65	10	2	135.38
	AG Prince	b Tait	3	5	2	0	0	150.00
	CA Ingram	c Borgas b Harris	30	33	24	3	1	125.00
	MV Boucher†	c Klinger b Christian	34	40	26	3	1	130.76
	CA Thyssen	c O’Brien b Christian	3	6	4	0	0	75.00
	KR Smuts	not out	0	1	0	0	0	-
	Extras	(lb 2, w 10, nb 1)	13
	Total	(5 wickets; 20 overs; 82 mins)	171	(8.55 runs per over)

	Bowling	O	M	R	W	Econ
	AU Rashid	2	0	18	0	9.00
	SW Tait	4	0	53	1	13.25	(1nb, 3w)
	NM Lyon	2	0	16	0	8.00	(1w)
	AW O’Brien	4	0	35	0	8.75

September 23, 2011 / Posted in  CLT20

Ashwell Prince's 74 off 55 balls set up Warriors' last-ball win over RCB in Bangalore

Warriors 173 for 7 (Prince 74, Botha 42, Vettori 2-26) beat Royal Challengers Bangalore 172 for 8 (Kohli 34, de Villiers 31, Theron 4-29) by three wickets

The Warriors lower-order batsmen kept swinging their first balls for boundaries to make sure the comeback from Ashwell Prince and Johan Botha was not wasted. Royal Challengers Bangalore had the game won, then lost, then won, then lost, then won, until they finally lost it last ball. Prince and Botha came together with 91 required off 8.1 overs, but by the time Prince fell for 74 off 55 they were left needing 18 off 10. Craig Thyssen then squeezed a yorker out for four before edging the next, Nicky Boje came out to pull the first he faced for a six only to watch Botha play two dots before getting out in the final over. With six required off two, it was Wayne Parnell’s turn to pull a slower bouncer away for four before hitting the final ball to the left of long-on for the match-winning couple.

Like the famous World Cup tie between India and England at the same venue, this match kept turning this way and that so frequently it left you dizzy. Trusting a flat track and short boundaries, the batsmen remained brave, even when it was tense. Especially when it was tense. All five of Bangalore’s set batsmen, whose attractive efforts ranged between 34 and 23, were caught at the boundary, leaving them an in-between total by Chinnaswamy standards. The main beneficiary of that hitting was Rusty Theron who ended up with four wickets….

Warriors came out swinging too: JJ Smuts lofted Sreesanth Aravind, the near last-over hero, for a six off the first ball he bowled, Prince swung Chris Gayle for two sixes in his second. Led by Daniel Vettori, the man with the best T20I economy rate among bowlers with at least 50 overs to their name, Bangalore inched back into the match. Vettori accounted for Colin Ingram and Justin Kreusch, but his side’s fielding was to soon let him down.

Prince should have been out for 28 off 28 when Viratn Kohli dropped a sitter at midwicket. Botha should have been out for 14 for 9 when his top edge lobbed Mayank Agarwal, who was a couple of yards inside the boundary, at fine leg. That shouldn’t take the shine off the efforts of the two...