Only Twenty20 - Asia XI vs Africa XI at Bangalore
This game promised to be a good one until we found out that only one side was taking the game seriously. Having a look at the African line-up, you could say that they may find themselves on a hiding to nothing.
The African squad has only one regular international player, that player being South African opener Loots Bosman. The Morkel brothers from South Africa are the other two names you'd recgonize on the team sheet with the rest coming from Kenya and Zimbabwe. It's a shame that we won't get to see some of the African big guns in this match, players like Graeme Smith, Herschelle Gibbs, Mark Boucher and Steve Tikolo. If you were to make a full-strength African side, most of the players would reside from South Africa, such is the strength of their line-up and their prescence in the region.
The Asian team boasts a whole range of stars including Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq and Mashrafe Mortaza. It seems they are here to play with their African counterparts taking the game as nothing more than a hit and giggle contest.
Continental pride is up for grabs, which continent will end up being superior?
Asia XI: Abdul Razzaq, TM Dilshan, Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal+, MF Maharoof, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mohammad Ashraful, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik*, S Sreesanth, Tamim Iqbal
Africa XII: GH Bodi, LL Bosman, KM Dabengwa, F Kasteni, T Mishra*, JA Morkel, M Morkel, T Mupariwa, A Obanda, N Odhiambo, MA Ouma+, T Tshabalala
Umpires: AV Jayaprakash and VN Kulkarni
3rd Umpire: SK Tarapore
Weather:
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Rain, Minimum of 18 degrees.
Game starts at 10pm AWST (7:30pm local time, 2pm GMT).
This game promised to be a good one until we found out that only one side was taking the game seriously. Having a look at the African line-up, you could say that they may find themselves on a hiding to nothing.
The African squad has only one regular international player, that player being South African opener Loots Bosman. The Morkel brothers from South Africa are the other two names you'd recgonize on the team sheet with the rest coming from Kenya and Zimbabwe. It's a shame that we won't get to see some of the African big guns in this match, players like Graeme Smith, Herschelle Gibbs, Mark Boucher and Steve Tikolo. If you were to make a full-strength African side, most of the players would reside from South Africa, such is the strength of their line-up and their prescence in the region.
The Asian team boasts a whole range of stars including Shahid Afridi, Abdul Razzaq and Mashrafe Mortaza. It seems they are here to play with their African counterparts taking the game as nothing more than a hit and giggle contest.
Continental pride is up for grabs, which continent will end up being superior?
Asia XI: Abdul Razzaq, TM Dilshan, Imran Nazir, Kamran Akmal+, MF Maharoof, Mashrafe Mortaza, Mohammad Ashraful, Shahid Afridi, Shoaib Malik*, S Sreesanth, Tamim Iqbal
Africa XII: GH Bodi, LL Bosman, KM Dabengwa, F Kasteni, T Mishra*, JA Morkel, M Morkel, T Mupariwa, A Obanda, N Odhiambo, MA Ouma+, T Tshabalala
Umpires: AV Jayaprakash and VN Kulkarni
3rd Umpire: SK Tarapore
Weather:
(All Temperatures in Degrees Celcius)
Rain, Minimum of 18 degrees.
Game starts at 10pm AWST (7:30pm local time, 2pm GMT).