http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Sri-Lanka-c758 – Cricket News Update
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757’s bowling coach, Allan Donald, has revealed that he is busy in formulating a calculated strategy to empower his team to counter Sri Lanka in the upcoming bilateral home series that is set to start from December 15, 2011.
Donald now-a-days, is watching the replay videos of the Lankan players’ key international matches as he is not familiar with some of them. He wants to equip the Proteas with the techniques that can help them contain the visitors easily.
Talking to the media today, Donald said, “I'm currently busy with my own planning. I'm looking at their key players - the core of their batting line-up, but there some players here and there whom I'm not very familiar with.”
On the basis of his initial judgements, he has regarded http://www.senore.com/Cricket/AD-Mathews-c913 as the most destructive and potential Lankan batsman, for whom he is going to set a solid bowling approach. He claims that the Africans will have to bowl aggressively against Mathews.
The coach told, “Mathews can take a game out of your reach. He is one of the batsmen against whom we'll have to bowl aggressively. We can't afford any loose deliveries against him as he is someone that can get the scoreboard rolling quickly.”
Donald is a key member of Gary Kirsten’s coach team which is tasked with changing the destiny of Team South Africa. Kirsten, after taking oath as head coach of his former team a few months ago, called in Donald to improvise the team’s bowling wing which
was badly lacking in experience and training.
Donald posed to be the pace rock-star during his International career. He grabbed 330 Test and 272 ODI wickets in 72 and 164 matches respectively from 1992 to 2003.
After their recently-concluded series against http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746, the Sri Lanka tour is going to be the Proteas’ second big challenge at home. On the basis of their outstanding show against the Aussies, it is being expected that the home side will be able to outplay
the http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Lions-c808 easily.
The upcoming series includes 3 Test and 5 ODI matches. The opening game will be held at SuperSport Park, Centurion.
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