Tuesday 20th March In St Kitts....

It is raining!! Well what a day Tuesday was! An early start saw us at the Breakafast bar at around 7am. Our most popular taxi driver namely Sackville Grey arrived on schedule at 8am to whisk us off on our short journey to Warner Park.


Once we were dropped off we had to go through some pretty rigourous security to gain entrance into the ground.They even asked some guys to put their suntan lotion on them to prove it wasn't something else!


Most bought match programmes and some guys bought Official Merchandice from the ICC stand.We then headed to our vantage point which was the same place as we were for the Australia match nearly a week before.We dumped our rucksacks and watched both teams do their warm up routines.The bar opened at 9am so we felt it was only right to get into the party spirit and taste some of the local lager which is called Carib.



South Africa won the toss and much to the disappointment of the boys they decided to bowl.......We had visions that we would be back in the hotel by 11.30 am if Scotland batted the way they did against the Ozzies.How wrong we were.The team batted exceptionaly well against a fearsome South African bowling attack with Pollock and Ntini bowling very quick delivery's which were shown on the screen in excess of 80mph.



Scotland managed a very respectable 186 runs for the loss of 8 wickets and batted out their 50 overs.All the boys had a marvellous time singing and dancing and every time a four was hit they all did the darts tune which sounded briliant....Hopefully many of you will know the tune I am on about!


Unfortunately Scotland's bowlers did not play well and South Africa's batsmen hammered them all over the ground!They reached their total in only 23.2 overs.....Our best laugh of the day was when we had a short stop due to rain and the South Africans and our fans all joined together in a massive conga.Ravi even managed to lose his flipflops and could not find them so he had to get back to the hotel in his bare feet. (see Picture) He then went to the wee shop next to our hotel and proceeded to buy a pair of size 6 flipflops to fit his size 11 feet!!! As he came round to the pool he was asked as to why he had purchased them his reply was "they were the only pair left"........ The boys laughed out loud for ages after that!



We met for dinner at 7.30pm and yet again our resident Gordon Ramsey done us proud.We then headed down to the beach where we ended up into Ziggy's, the only really busy bar.The boys had a marvellous time mixing with everyone especially the South African Fans who looked as they had went to Ziggy's from the match,an early night for them!We all had an excellent night and we will hopefully look forward to one more good night out after we beat Holland!!

A final footnote...........Jacko our resident Paparazzi photographer unearthed his small camera in Ziggy's last night.He had a puzzled expression on his face and when asked what was wrong he admits that his camera did not have a battery in it!!!!!!!! As you can imagine he got ripped apart for that!!


To be continued..........



Scotland Innings
Runs Balls 4s 6s
D F Watts c G C Smith b C K Langeveldt 24 44 2 1
R M Haq c M V Boucher b A J Hall 13 33 2 0
R R Watson run out 31 50 4 0
G M Hamilton c A B de Villiers b A J Hall 4 13 0 0
N F I McCallum b C K Langeveldt 1 21 0 0
D R Brown not out 45 64 3 0
C J O Smith b S M Pollock 15 30 2 0
J A R Blain c J M Kemp b A J Hall 23 35 1 1
P J C Hoffmann run out 18 11 3 1
Extras 1nb 5w 2b 4lb 12
Total for 8 186 (50.0 ovs)

Bowler O M R W
S M Pollock 10.0 1 25 1
M Ntini 9.0 0 25 0
A J Hall 10.0 2 48 3
C K Langeveldt 10.0 1 48 2
J H Kallis 8.0 0 21 0
G C Smith 3.0 0 13 0
Fall of wicket
35 R M Haq
43 D F Watts
63 G M Hamilton
71 N F I McCallum
84 R R Watson
113 C J O Smith
163 J A R Blain
186 P J C Hoffmann



South Africa Innings

Runs Balls 4s 6s

G C Smith c G A Rogers b R M Haq 91 65 13 1
A B de Villiers c D R Brown b G A Rogers 62 45 9 2
A G Prince c N F I McCallum b R M Haq 21 23 3 0
J M Kemp not out 12 7 1 1
S M Pollock not out 0 0 0 0
Extras 1w 1b 2
Total for 3 188 (23.2 ovs)

Bowler O M R W
P J C Hoffmann 3.0 0 21 0
J A R Blain 4.0 0 32 0
J D Nel 3.0 0 24 0
D R Brown 2.0 0 20 0
R M Haq 6.0 0 43 2
G A Rogers 5.2 0 47 1

Fall of wicket
134 A B de Villiers
162 A G Prince
178 G C Smith

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