South Australia ease into semis with three in three
Delightful fast bowling from Shaun Tait, solid back-up medium-pace from Daniel Christian, and a near-perfect chase from Daniel Harris and Michael Klinger took South Australia to the semi-finals
17/09Result
11th Match, Group B (D/N), Champions League Twenty20 at Durban, Sep 17 2010
Player of the Match
17/09Result
11th Match, Group B (D/N), Champions League Twenty20 at Durban, Sep 17 2010
Player of the Match
Match Centre
Statistics
Best performances - Batsmen
M Klinger
69(57) 9x4 - 1x6
Control %57%
- Productive Shot
- off side drive on front foot
- 23 runs
- 4x4 - 0x6
Best performances - Bowlers
DT Christian
- O3.5
- M0
- R23
- W4
- Eco6.00
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
SW Tait
- O4
- M0
- R23
- W2
- Eco5.75
- FTFULL TOSS
- YYORKER
- FFULL LENGTH
- GGOOD LENGTH
- SGSHORT OF GOOD LENGTH
- SSHORT LENGTH
Match Details
Toss
Royal Challengers Bangalore , elected to bat first
Player Of The Match
Season
Hours of play (local time)
17.30 start, First Session 17.30-18.50, Interval 18.50-19.10, Second Session 19.10-20.30
Match days
17 September 2010 - day/night match (20-over match)
Umpires
TV Umpires
Reserve Umpire
Match Referee
Points
South Australia 2, Royal Challengers Bangalore 0
Scorecard Summary
ROYAL CHALLENGERS BANGALORE 154 (19.5 OVERS)
- Ross Taylor46 (28)
- Dillon du Preez46 (25)
- Dan Christian4/23 (3.5)
- Shaun Tait2/23 (4)
SOUTH AUSTRALIA 155/2 (18.3 OVERS)
- Daniel Harris57 (38)
- Michael Klinger*69 (57)
- Anil Kumble1/25 (4)
- Praveen Kumar0/28 (4)
"Dr. Harris seals clinical win"; "Tait tightens noose around Bangalore"; "Klinger's Redbacks cling on to Bangalore offerings" - There, the headlines you are unlikely to read tomorrow. Well played South Australia. On behalf of my colleagues Sid Talya and Abhishek Purohit, and scorer Binoy George, this is Nitin Sundar signing off. Sid Monga's bulletin is here. Do join us for the double header tomorrow. Cheers!
Klinger, the Redbacks captain, is MoM. What a run he is having! "Really good all-round performance this. We have got the talent to beat anyone, and the boys are believing in it, at the moment. Great atmosphere in the dressing room, this is fantastic. Tait is a fantastic weapon for us. Daniel Christian is one of the best in the death."
Kumble: "Too many wickets at regular intervals, especially losing Taylor at that stage. Dillon got us to 150, we could have out pressure if we got early wickets. We could have bowled better, but should have had 15 runs more. The next game is a must-win for us."
Hang on for the presentations.
South Australia, take a bow! Not many gave this side a chance at the start of the tournament, but with three wins in three games, they become the first side to reach the last four. Klinger, in the process, has surged to the top of the tournament run-table. Daniel Harris gave him exemplary support to follow that fielding effort earlier in the day. For me, that ball summed up the difference between the two teams. Bangalore, like Mumbai earlier in the tournament, were average in the field. Even the youngsters - Manish Pandey and Virat Kohli - made basic errors. Like Harsha Bhogle, all of us are left wondering, what ails India's fielding. Bangalore have some serious concerns and will hope Kallis recovers fast.
Venkat has an eye on the points table. "This match gives, Lions a good chance for semis. They can easily win against Guyana. Then that makes the match between Bangalore and Lions as unofficial quarter-final."
18.3
1
Vinay Kumar to Ferguson, 1 run, That's it. Easy as they come. Back of a length outside off, Ferguson stays back, taps it softly into the covers and they take a single to finish a comprehensive win
Harik: "Looking at this performance, I think RCB will retain Kallis and he should ask for couple of million $ raise."
18.2
1
Vinay Kumar to Klinger, 1 run, faster outside off, Klinger stays in the crease and runs it down to third man for a single. One to win.
18.1
2
Vinay Kumar to Klinger, 2 runs, another really slow slower ball outside off, Klinger was in danger of doing a muscle the way he wound up to hit that! All is well though, carves it off the outside edge over point for a couple
END OF OVER:18 | 7 Runs | SOA: 151/2 (4 runs required from 12 balls, RR: 8.38, RRR: 2.00)
- Callum Ferguson20 (13b)
- Michael Klinger66 (55b)
- Dillon du Preez3-0-26-0
- Vinay Kumar3-0-29-0
4 to win off 2 overs.
17.6
4
du Preez to Ferguson, FOUR, and that, Ferguson says, is how you deal with a du Preez slow nothing bouncer. Slow and outside off, he waited and waited for it, and when it came, he whacked it with a horizontal bat through the covers. Creamed.
17.5
1lb
du Preez to Klinger, 1 leg bye, hits him on the pads, but it was sliding down the leg. Runs into the off side
17.4
1
du Preez to Ferguson, 1 run, not so short this time, he chooses to pull and again bottom edges it away towards midwicket
Match Coverage
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South Australia ease into semis with three in three
Delightful fast bowling from Shaun Tait, solid back-up medium-pace from Daniel Christian, and a near-perfect chase from Daniel Harris and Michael Klinger took South Australia to the semi-finals
Unity shines through in South Australia's success
Togetherness, a happy team culture and some fun have helped mould the Redbacks into a strong outfit
