South Africa win the GREATEST match ever!

David - congratulations to the Proteas, amazing effort! I thought they were no chance. Still can’t believe it!

…. pulls foot out of own mouth, wipes egg off face….

Looks like all SA-blogs will be ranting on this one.
WHAT A GAME!!!
Well done to both sides for one of the best sporting events of all time!

No words to explain, which is why I havn’t blogged it yet. Just utterly insane.

If you loved the cricket and hate Shane Warne, read this post, hahaha, Who’s the fool now

Awesome game….I’m still speechless.

amazing

hey - amazing amazing amazing!!! What a way to end the weekend!!

hey Davie.. Hope you are well all is good on my side - hey when am I going to cccccccccccccccc YOU!!???

xx

Loved the Dean Jones comment, the game was insane, i heard a couple of commentators laughing at some poor bugger who thought SA could take it after the break in innings. There are still allot of disbelieving people in the Antipodes im sure.

South Africian’s and their band wagons. You guys are the worst supporters in the world. Lets not forget that SA are still a very average team that couldn’t even beat Sri Lanka only a few months ago here in Australia. Bring on the 2007 World Cup.

Hey come now Truman, surely England are the worst supporters in the world? Or is that the worst winners? Or both?

438, yeah Truman real average.

Exactly Billy, quite a few disbelieving antipodeans …ahem Truman.

Its not like we won an average game, this was the greatest game of all time and I’m sure if we had lost narrowly we’d still be saying that. In Englands case if they had lost the particulalry boring ashes no-one would have even seen or heard about cricket!

I suppose to you it was the greatest game of cricket ever. Well done, I’d be happy too if I was such a crap cricket nation. I suppose Bangladesh think beating us in a one-dayer was their best game ever too. And then England reckon beating us in the Ashes by a bee’s-dick was their best series ever. Anyone see a pattern here?
Us Aussies only have *one* collective opinion at the moment on best series in living memory. Ashes 2005.
Can’t wait for the return series.
By the way, coming from Melbourne I hate Rugby. What’s the point of getting 3 guys to shove 2 guys heads up 1 guys arse?

Oh, and just one more thing.
I admire Murily for being such a great bowler, but I can’t believe that we (Aus) seem to be the only nation that protests his action. The uni of WA has already stated that he doesn’t bowl the same as he did when they test and then cleared his action (after a quick rule change to the bending arm rules).
Do South Africans believe he chucks?

Alfie, I don’t think Murali’s a chucker, and if you honestly believe that wasn’t the best game ever then you probably shouldn’t be allowed out the mental institution again!

OK, I’ll qualify it as saying it was the best (unimportant one-day international) ever. I thought the semi you lost at the World Cup to Australia was better due to it’s importance, but OK, I can see where you’re coming from.

I find it interesting that more people don’t question Murily’s action. They changed the rule to allow him to bowl with an arm bend of 15 degrees and now they’re saying his doosra (spellcheck) goes way more than that.

One massive correction to your last response, we DREW the semi with you. You went through based on a tournament run rate!!

Murily’s action doesn’t really bother me, if he was fast bowler then I would be concerned that by him throwing the ball he gets a greater advantage than the rest. But he is a spinner, not the end of the world.

Apologies then, TIED the semi.