http://www.senore.com/Cricket/South-Africa-c757 A v Australians: Tour First-Class match – First session report
Winning the toss and electing to bat first, South Africa A scored 79 for the loss of 3 wickets in 29 overs against Australians at Day 1 of the tour's first-class match on November 1, 2011. The game was played at the Senwes Park, Potchefstroom.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Stiaan-van-Zyl-c91407, seemed to be in good form as he hit a boundary soon
after arriving on the crease. Elgar was also playing very well. It seemed that the opener would lash a big innings.
Much to the bad luck of the Africans, Zyl could not stay in action for long and lost his wicket after adding 12 runs off 38 balls to the innings. He was bowled LBW by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/SR-Watson-c2558 who had made comeback in the team after recovering from back spasms. Zyl’s
wicket was indeed a great achievement for the visitors.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625 Cricket World Cup 2011 stunned all, was also out-of-form as he could not defend the furious Australian bowlers. Duminy scored just 10 runs from 35 deliveries with the
help of one boundary. He was caught by http://www.senore.com/Cricket/PM-Siddle-c2197.
http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Farhaan-Behardien-c56785 was the 5th batter who came to play with Elgar on the other end. Despite the fall of wickets with regular intervals, the dashing opener did not get in pressure and kept playing confidently. Before the end of the first session,
he had amassed 42 runs off 85 balls with the help of 4 sterling boundaries. He did not have a single ball from hitting. Behardien was not out on 8 runs which included one four. The team’s run rate was 2.72 per over.
The batsmen including TL Tsolekile†, http://www.senore.com/Cricket/WD-Parnell-c2787, VD Philander, M de Lange were still to bat.
In the bowling department of Australians, Siddle had bagged two scalps while http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Watson-c96326 bowled one player for 14 and 13 runs respectively. They had conceded 7 extra runs.
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