Match update –Australia A vs. South Africa A
After winning the toss and electing to bat first, Australia set South Africa a target of 215.
For South Africa, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jacques-Rudolph-c1619 opened the innings. However they could not provide South Africa the start they needed as Rudolph went in the second over after making just 4. He was caught by keeper, Tim Paine off the bowling of
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Luke-Butterworth-c1850.
The next man to come in was RE http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Graham-Robert-Cowdrey-c60631 der Merwe who shared a thirty run partnership with Bosman after falling to Butterworth. He made quick fire 20 of just 11 balls that included 4 boundaries.
Bosman was joined by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Jonathan-Vandiar-c1730. Bosman, known for his explosive hitting was not able to rotate the strike.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/TD-Paine-c2652.
This left South Africa reeling at 46 for 3 at the end of the 9th over.
The next man to come in for South Africa was Justin Ontong. He along with Vandiar accumulated steady runs but failed to hit boundaries.
Mean while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Harold-William-Stephenson-c61707 O’ Keefe who provided the breakthrough for the Australian after coming into the attack.
He firstly removed Vandiar (10) to give Tim Paine his third catch of the innings. This left http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 well on the back foot.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/David-Lawson-Miller-c53037 came and failed to trouble the scorer as he became Keefe second wicket. At the time of his wicket South Africa were 5-66.
The situation worsened when http://www.senore.com/Cricket/DA-Warner-c1301.
Australia than brought the first match hero http://www.senore.com/Cricket/JL-Ontong-c1704 who had made 23. The spinner who took 4 wickets in his previous match is surely proving his worth and is certainly one
for the future.
It’s was surely an uphill task for South Africa who have lost all their regular batsmen. Certainly Australia has the upper hand and would look to wrap up the tail as soon as possible.
At the end of the 25th over the South African side had slumped to 86-7.
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