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    Choking Boks battle past Slinger Malinga

    By Will last year, at the end of March Leave a comment on this post

    Oh the Boks have done it again! 206 for 5 chasing 210…they’re currently 208 for 9! Malinga took four in four balls (spread over two overs) oh, bugger, South Africa have edged it. Robin Peterson has whalloped Malinga for four to win by a single wicket. What remarkable bottling boks they are. Battling boks, I suppose I should say…

    Can’t remember who was on comms at the time, but they did a fine job at CI

    48.2 Malinga to Peterson, FOUR, Peterson does it for SA with a edge past the slip. Fullish, outside off stump, Peterson drives, gets a outside edge and it runs down to third man boundary. SA have won. They choked at the end but have pulled it off. Peterson jumps in the air, pumps his fist and then smashes the stumps down at the other end. Immediately apologises!

    Worth reading the commentary for the last five wickets. What a match.

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    11 Responses to “Choking Boks battle past Slinger Malinga”

  • Tom wrote:
    March 28th, 2007 at 10.14 pm

    And with that South Africa win… damn.

    Double-hattrick - wonder when the last time that was acheived in world cricket?

  • Michael wrote:
    March 28th, 2007 at 10.50 pm

    Never been done.

    It’s been done in first class cricket. Link in next message so this makes it through now. :D

  • Michael wrote:
    March 28th, 2007 at 10.51 pm

    Link: http://cricinfo.com/db/STATS/FC/BOWLING/BOWL_4WKTS_IN_4BALLS.html

  • Zainub wrote:
    March 28th, 2007 at 11.48 pm

    I reckon if the lad Malinga had slightly more scarier hair, SA would have lost that last wicket in time.

  • David wrote:
    March 29th, 2007 at 7.04 am

    Yeah man, what happened to the dreadlocks? Mind you he’s twice the bowler without them.

  • Irim wrote:
    March 29th, 2007 at 10.36 am

    Hey, Will,

    It’s a bit unfair to say that the Proteas choked: that takes everything away from Malinga, who bowled BRILLIANTLY. Actually, RSA held their nerve well after that: it would have been so easy to pop one up and have it caught.

    Having been unable to watch the cricket for the last 10 days or so, I brought up cricinfo whilst blogging
    last night, since I have a somewhat secret soft spot for the South Africans (I STILL haven’t forgiven Klusener for attempting that run vs Aus in the 1999 semi). 206/5, 4 runs to get, 6 overs or so left. Easy peasy.

    Or…was it? Malinga doesn’t malinga, does he?

    As a practising Catholic, I have to tell you, I’d have skipped Easter Sunday mass to watch that. Miss mass or miss Malinga? The choice is clear. Mortal sin, here I come.

    I tore downstairs to the television after Malinga’s hat-trick to find my housemate Mark cheering for Sri Lanka and Malinga looking for 5 in 5, missing by centimetres.

    I held my breath till Peterson got the ball to the
    third man boundary and the Proteas were safe home.

    I’m beginning to remember why I love this game. For the first time in what felt like ages, I sat spell-bound in front of a game of cricket. It felt good. Thank you, Malinga. (But feel free to lose the blond highlights…)

    Ixx

  • Freddie Botham wrote:
    March 29th, 2007 at 12.16 pm

    Two fingers up at the ICC:

    See Malinga in all his glory:

    http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1kj7w_malingahattrickiccrecordsrilanka

    Good article in the Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1582360.ece

    “Reassuringly, as quickly as the clips are being taken down, fans are putting them back up again. The revolution will not be televised, but it may be won in cyberspace.”

  • Theena wrote:
    March 29th, 2007 at 2.43 pm

    How I love this bloke.

    And to think he didn’t start playing cricket until 17.

  • Michael wrote:
    March 29th, 2007 at 6.47 pm

    WI v NZ

    Got im! 2nd ball, what a beauty!

  • Wraye wrote:
    March 29th, 2007 at 9.46 pm

    Wheee! Kiwis home by 7 wickets and 10 overs to spare. Not a good day for the WIndies. Mind you, NZ did take their time about it and I was nearly nodding off at one point. Styris had a great game though, didn’t he? Next game v Bangladesh. Any bets anyone?

  • Jess wrote:
    March 29th, 2007 at 10.02 pm

    So New Zealand are through. This means

    Kiwi!

    (yeah, I know it’s old. But it’s my favourite youtube video ever!)

  • Irim wrote:
    March 29th, 2007 at 10.16 pm

    Well done, Kiwis, but I have to tell you, if I were Stephen Fleming, I’d thump Styris good and proper for wasting my wicket.

    Ixx

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