Potchefstroom pitch dangerous and disappointing says Shane Watson – Cricket News Update
Australian all-round star, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 A squad, at the one-off 4-day tour match on November 3, 2011.
Watson, who top scored the Australian line-up during the 2nd innings play (compared to his disappointing 6 runs dismissal on the first innings), said that it became difficult to judge the short pitched deliveries, and came as one of the most disappointing
pitches he has ever played on.
“It was one of the more dangerous wickets that I’ve played on,” Watson said. “When the ball is swinging and seaming, that’s a big challenge, but when some balls are sort of rolling on the ground and other balls are taking off a length as well, it makes it
pretty dangerous, especially when you’ve got high quality fast bowlers as well, to take advantage of that”.
Despite the fact that Watson billed the surface to be disappointing, but at the same time admitted that it surely was a challenge for the Aussie tourists, which aided them to produce much out of the practice game, and that all such preparation would gear
the side up for their upcoming 2-match Test series against the South African hosts.
“It’s disappointing, no doubt. But it is a challenge. In the end we were here to get as much as we can out of this game as a tour match, to have as good a preparation as we can for the first Test,” Watson added.
With a full day still left to play, the Kangaroos managed to wrap-up their victory within the 3rd Day’s play, on Thursday; complements to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 and one down batsman, Shaun Marsh’s imposing partnership which produced 84 runs for the visitors against
an accessible chase posted by the South African A team worth 212 runs.
Both, Watson and http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Simon-James-Marshall-c90362, managed to bag half century apiece, with the former top scoring the line-up with 77 runs off 73 balls while the later retained an undefeated score of 73 from 87 deliveries.
Having already earned the just-concluded 3-match One Day International (ODI) series win, the Australian visitors will now be facing the Proteas in the upcoming Test outing, scheduled to be played on November 9, 2011, at Cape Town.
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