Proteas fall short

Proteas fall short

18 Jan 2009

South Africa squandered the chance to go 2-0 up in the series as Australia won the second ODI in Hobart by five runs.

Chasing 250 for victory, the Proteas would have backed themselves for the win but their inability to lift their run rate proved to be their undoing.

Mark Boucher tried in vain to see South Africa home, but needing 17 off the final over the Proteas fell just short.

Jacques Kallis played well for his 72, but both he and AB de Villiers could be criticised for failing to push on when South Africa required it, and in the end, left the likes of Boucher and Albie Morkel with too much to do.

Earlier in the day, South Africa pegged the Aussies back when youngster David Warner was caught behind off the bowling of Dale Steyn, but skipper Ricky Ponting and Shaun Marsh put on 135 for the second wicket taking Australia past the 150-mark.

Having reached this milestone with plenty of wickets in hand, 300 looked on the cards, but some disciplined bowling from the Proteas restricted the Australians to 249-9 off their 50 overs. Nevertheless, the total proved to be enough as Australia levelled the series at 1-1 with three to play.

Despite the Proteas’ disappointment, the match was once again a wonderful showcase for 50-over cricket with the game keeping fans on the edge of their seats right until the last over.

Australia 249-9 (50 overs)
Shaun Marsh 78, Ricky Ponting 64, Makhaya Ntini 3-39.
South Africa 244-6 (50 overs)
Jacques Kallis 72, AB de Villiers 44, Ben Hilfenhaus 2-60.
Australia won by five runs.

For a full scorecard click here.


369 Comments

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 » Show All

  • 1.rordogIE: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:10 am

    Dragonzzzzzzz

  • 2.Boerboel: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:34 am

    Go Proteas, surprise us again.

  • 3.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:36 am

    #2 Boerboel: Slaap ons nie ?

  • 4.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:38 am

    Hoe laat begin die game?

  • 5.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:39 am

    Nou… oor paar minute

  • 6.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:43 am

    #5 grootblousmile: Ek kom nounet van die driving range af hehehehe Wat maak jy nog wakker?

  • 7.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:46 am

    #6 K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Hel, ek is net nie moeg nie… het nog mooosa baie spoed !

  • 8.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:47 am

    #6 K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Het julle julself wangedra na die stokke swaai ?

  • 9.K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:53 am

    #8 grootblousmile: Nee…eintlik rustig gekuier. Maar ek is nou moeg. In die bed klim en begin krieket kyk…bietjie slaap en dan klaar kyk. Enige iets hier gebeur vandag wat die moeite werd is?

  • 10.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 00:57 am

    #9 K9_BaasPatrolliehond: Ja…. op die Morkel Thread……

    Flippen ET het Roy, die Webmaster, probeer teregwys en weer soos gewoonlik soos ‘n passer geargumenteer… was laaaank met Roy besig…

    Van die ander moepels het beweringe gemaak dat ons (ek en Pietman en ons sogenaamde groep) die Webmaster onbehoorlik beinvloed om ouens geban te kry… klomp speknekke !

  • 11.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:17 am

    Come on Proteas…. I’m glad we’re batting 2nd…. I prefer a run-chase !

  • 12.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:18 am

    Warner could be the key player here. If he stays in for any lenght of time it could be tickets – seems very nervous though.

  • 13.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:23 am

    Wicketttttttt !

    Warnerrrrrrrrrrr goneeeeeeee !

  • 14.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:24 am

    OOps, there we go!!

  • 15.Fern: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:24 am

    Lyk my ons het Warner vinnig uitgwerk en gesien waar sy swakpunte is.

  • 16.grootblousmile: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:25 am

    #15 Fern: Hoop so !

  • 17.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:29 am

    Bread and butter for Ponting in that area.

  • 18.ET: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:31 am

    #14 Robzim:

    Rob, as a known avid surfer, tell me did you ever see the classic sufer movies Endless Summer and Endless Summer II?

  • 19.ET: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:39 am

    #10 grootblousmile:

    Klomp kekkelbekke, maar nogtans net moffies wat net soos n wolvepak a stryd kan handhhaaf.

  • 20.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:45 am

    #18 ET:

    Hi ET,

    Yeah I saw it. Still have it on Video. Shaun Thompson and even Kelly Slater performed in Endless summer 11 as well. Great shots!!.

    You must stay on Keo. We must soon have a chat about the Stormers chances this year – I have a good feeling for 2009 for them!

  • 21.Fern: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:47 am

    #19 ET:
    jy het jou gat alleen teen roy gesien
    bwhahahahaha

  • 22.whatever: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:52 am

    #19 ET:

    Still spewing your hatred and name calling I see. You come back like a bee to honey, so this site can’t be all that bad?

  • 23.Fern: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:55 am

    #22 whatever:
    my thoughts exactly.
    have you read the sunday times site?
    anc not happy with mothlante,palace revolt still going on.
    good news for the new opposition party.

  • 24.whatever: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 01:59 am

    #23 Fern:

    Howzit Fern, yip maybe we can get a real opposition party going and create a genuine democracy, not a one party state. Might be good for all concerned.

  • 25.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:00 am

    oh come on mckenzie, dropped catches lose matches!!!

  • 26.whatever: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:01 am

    What happened to Steyn. Rotation or injury?

  • 27.Pirlet BEL: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:01 am

    I cant believe it, what rubbish catching! Shocking. It’s been awful since the tests.. Wake up SA

  • 28.Fern: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:02 am

    #24 whatever:
    COPE is going to do a lot of damage to the anc.
    good for democracy.
    Mandela has distanced himself from the current political scene saying he is old and done with politics,everyone should respect his view/request.the anc has also lost a “posterboy” this way that could cover for some of their non performance.

  • 29.ET: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:02 am

    #20 Robzim:

    Good, then you have not disappointed me and must truly be the avid surfer.. I found those movies extremely informative but also very hilarious and definitely a pick- me-up for me in this neck of the woods.
    I was going to mention Shaun Tomson’s name to you and J-bay if you did see those movies and exhort you to do so. But i see you do not mention John Whitmore(and the West Coast) who you should know is the father of surfing in S.A. And he did look strange to me with his pure white beard. I am sure you enjoyed the mvies probably more than even i did.
    I too have recorded both of them and do watch them from time to time especially for the J-bay area as my clan is in that area.

  • 30.whatever: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:04 am

    #28 Fern:

    We can only hope :)

  • 31.Fern: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:06 am

    #29 ET:
    dont talk about shaun tomson,you will upset skoppie.
    shaun lives in the usa now,and not living in sa is a big no no.

  • 32.whatever: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:10 am

    #31 Fern:

    I think what really gets skoppies goat is that he can’t travel. He’s been banned from too many countries :lol:

  • 33.Fern: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:13 am

    #32 whatever:
    he has travelled,he has been to angola.
    he may be one of those unfortuanate ones with severe post traumatic stress disorder.

  • 34.ET: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:16 am

    #20 Robzim:

    I am also aware of your discussion, mostly with cab, about S.A. cricketers and you are absolutely spot on wrt Graeme(the Master) Pollock and Barry Richards as pertained to that list of the first 55 world legends.
    Richards is one of the 2 most technically correct batsmen I have ever had the privilege of seeing bat at the highest level. Either he or Tendulkar has to be ranked no.1 as the most correct batsmen. I do highly rank Lara, who I have met in Miami, and I regard him as a batting genius of the not to distant past. Graeme is and has been just superlative, majestic and I have seen him the most( even kept there score board at the Old Grey club grounds in Mount rd.,P.E. ). Most definitely the greatest lefty for me.

  • 35.rugbygenius: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:17 am

    Gosh Australia are looking very solid . I think we are looking potentially at a 300+ score if these 2 stick around !

  • 36.rugbygenius: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:18 am

    Ricky Ponting is surely the new Bradman . Some of these shots are exquisitely crafted .

  • 37.whatever: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:24 am

    #35 rugbygenius:

    Yip, they were also looking solid when they put on a world record 430 odd a few seasons ago :)

  • 38.rugbygenius: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:25 am

    #37 whatever: Yes . Well . As they say . Lightning never strikes twice ;) !

  • 39.Robzim: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:25 am

    #29 ET:

    I am pleasantly surprised to hear you such an interest in surfing.

    Yep, oom John was also in that movie. I attended his memorial service at Glen Beach about 6 years ago. He surfed for over 50 years – a true legend if ever there was one.

    I recently read a book by Donald Paarman called ‘Lunatic Surfer or Destiny’. It is about Donald’s life covering surfing, drugs, time in an asylum, alcoholism, suburban life, divorce and trying to find the truth through alternative and New Age philosophies. It is fascinating stuff and at least he came through it all and is healthy and still surfing today.

    Speak to you some other time again, it’s getting late. Keep it up!

  • 40.ET: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:26 am

    #35 rugbygenius:

    Only if you say, after Barry Richards was the previous.

  • 41.whatever: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:27 am

    #38 rugbygenius:

    How about the first test, second innings?

  • 42.rugbygenius: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:30 am

    #41 whatever: Sigh . I forgot about that :) ! Yes fair enough mate !

  • 43.ET: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:33 am

    #39 Robzim:

    You cannot live in the Cape and love sport( and exercise physiol.) and not know it all. Paarma’n name is also known to me as a S.A.surfer. I often travel to S.Florida and often meet surfers there and shock them with my knowlegde about the S.A. boys. Even now there is a new breed of young upstart who I read win world junior champs and more. I get to see some of the champs on the box but it is a sspecial channel.

  • 44.whatever: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:34 am

    #39 Robzim:

    John Whitmore was a real legend. But we have been lucky to have had lank surfing legends/pioneers, from Errnie Thompson to Gavin Rudolf to Spider Murphy, Larry Levin and even flippin Leonard Giles.

    Wheres your home break Robzim?

    ET, do you surf?

  • 45.whatever: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:35 am

    #42 rugbygenius:

    :lol:

  • 46.Pirlet BEL: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:42 am

    Johan Botha is ****. Useless bowler, rubbish batsman.. And now he can’t even catch a sitter, yet he’s captain. Mind boggling

  • 47.Transformation: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:46 am

    the don bradman comparisons are a biy exaggerated, but he is looking solid…only just safe!!

  • 48.Pirlet BEL: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 02:54 am

    Ponting dropped for the third time today, and 5th time in 2 odis. SA’s catching standards are shocking.

  • 49.BokiNZ: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 03:01 am

    Evenin’ gents. Can it be that the test series’ already in the bag and therefore slacking off? Ala Eng earlier? They didn’t drop one catch, bar McKenzie, in the tests. I’ve already lost count on how many in the ODI’s. Be that as it may…

    I see Gibbs ending another bowler’s international career today. He is due for a big one. As in that Wanderers game. What happened to that fella? Anybody know?

  • 50.rugbygenius: Reply to this comment
    18 Jan 2009, 03:19 am

    Ponting can’t be a mere human ! No mortal has this sort of talent ! Ricky is just amazing. Ricky Ricky Ricky :D !!!!! Score revision – 330 runs ! 350 if Andrew Symonds was playing :(

Pages: [1] 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 » Show All

Keo.co.za has always promoted uncensored views, but has never tolerated racist or crass outbursts. Come on guys and girls. If you can't moderate yourselves or each other then I am going to be forced to regulate the posts and enforce a registration process for comments. The choice is yours.

Have your say

You must be logged in to post a comment.