Thursday, 25 October 2012

South Africans dominating CLT20

So we’ll have at least one South African team in this year’s Champions league twenty20 after the Highveld Lions thumped the Delhi Daredevils by 22 runs last night in Durban. They had a solid performance and as they have done so far in the competition their players stood up when necessary. Neil Mackenzie and Gulam Bodi with the bat scoring 46 not out and 50 respectively to bring the Lions to 139 for 5. Chris Morris stood up with the ball who took 2 wickets for 7 runs as well as Aaron Phangiso 2 wickets for 18 runs and has been the stand out bowler of the competition picking up 10 wickets and having an incredible economy rate. The lions have had a great tournament so far picking up the scalps of all 3 IPL teams, this poses the question, why are there 3 Indian teams and only 2 teams from every other country? This seems unfair and so proven to be unjust as none of their teams have mad the finals and only 1 team made the semi-final. It would seem as though they are stacking the odds so as to give the IPL teams a better chance of winning and they have done so the last two tournaments. It would safe to say since all of the sponsors and organizers are Indian that they would be able to field almost twice as many teams as any other nation. Well even so they have had a poor tournament with years final set to either be an all South African affair or an Australian South African derby. We will find out who the Lions will face on Sunday when the Titans take on the Sydney Sixers today.

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