Austraia v. Sth. Africa - T20s.

[Pies4shaw]

Agar gets another with the second ball of his last over. 8/90, now.

[Pies4shaw]

And Agar gets the 9th with his next ball. He’s on a hatty..

[Pies4shaw]

Shamsi survived the hat trick ball.

[Pies4shaw]

Some spell from Agar, there. He finishes with 3/17 from his 4. Two wickets, two more dots and two singles from that one. 9/91. 103 needed from 30 balls.

[Pies4shaw]

Starc cleans up the innings. All out for 96. Australia win by 97 runs.

Brilliant performance all round by the bowlers and the best 3 batsmen. The middle order of Wade, Marsh and Carey were poor again and Carey’s keeping was sloppy. He should never have missed the stumping chance.

Still, a good series victory. Starc has to be POTS - he ruined the first and third games by dismissing QdK in his first over. I don’t expect they will see it that way, though.

[Pies4shaw]

Starc 3/23. Cummins 1/27. Richardson 0/17. Agar 3/16. Zampa 2/10. Marsh 1/3.

[Pies4shaw]

I’m sure that the SA supporters will have enjoyed Warner’s and Smith’s knocks, in particular, tonight. Starc is named POTM.

And Finch is POTS. 111 runs in 3 knocks at an average of 37. I’d have given it to Starc or Agar. Finch says he’s embarrassed to get the award because Agar was clearly the POTS.

[Pies4shaw]

The spinners came on straight after the power play, with SA 2/50. From 2/57 in the 8th over, SA contrived to lose their last 8 wickets for 39 runs. There was even a mini-collapse within that collapse, though. Their last 5 wickets gathered only 9 runs and lasted just 17 balls, which, I suppose, makes Smith’s unbeaten 20 from the last 6 balls look reasonably competent. And his unbeaten 30 from just 15 quite ok. I note that QdK says that Australia managed to get 20 above par.

[K]

[23 YIPPEE!!!]

Tim Paine is the man for the gloves then day light

[Donny]

All of Philippe, Nevill and Peirson on a par with TP, as glovemen.