1st Test: West Indies v South Africa

[badpepper]

CH Gayle*, TM Dowlin, S Chanderpaul, N Deonarine, BP Nash, DJ Bravo, D Ramdin†, S Shillingford, SJ Benn, NT Pascal, R Rampaul

12.30 pm Drizzle stopped. Overcast conditions.

[BallOil]

Play will start at 12:40. Toss is at 12:10

Barath is not in the squad due to injury...

No Roach, no Sammy, no LittleB, according to cricinfo.

interesting...we had to get couple spinners in so no room for Sammy

[mapoui]

ha ha ha ha haha! di'ze the westindies side now?

Lawd ah mercy. westindies gettin' worse all the time. we have not been able to field a fully fit best side for what 2 years now.

not to mention we dropinng other players we need on the side to prove peevish points!

I love it! it proves me right all along. let the westindie sufer in a hell of its own making! eff dem!

I juss wish I had some resources! if I did I would start builidng a club in canada to win everything and help in the development of canadian cricket.

as westindies sink irretrievably into the shit it would be nice if Canada grew in replacement...although Canada is suffused with the same crap that goes on in the colonies as the colonials run canadian cricket.

I have no tears for westindies cricket! I have no tears for the westindies period. tears are a waste of water. deh doh make no flowers grow according to Bill Withers

[badpepper]

Test cricket! Finally!

[BallOil]

Game on.....South Africa 11/0 (5.0 ov)

[BallOil]

South Africa 40/0 (18.4 ov)

[BallOil]

GC Smith c Bravo b Shillingford 23

Shilling strikes.....SA 59/1

[mikesiva]

70-3 at the close, two wickets for Shilly and one for Benn, the new Ram and Val....

Good to see Petersen out. Justice has been done!

[badpepper]

What time we start today?

[BallOil]

What time we start today?

should be 10 but might get an early start to make for yesterday..