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South Africa's tour of the West Indies starts early on Thursday morning on Fox with the 1st T20 game at 3:30am, the 2nd T20 is on Friday morning at 3:30am and the 1st ODI is on Saturday night at 11pm.

South African Squads for the West Indies tour

ODI squad for West Indies Tour: Graeme Smith (capt), Jacques Kallis (vice-capt), Hashim Amla, Loots Bosman, Johan Botha, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Charl Langeveldt, Ryan McLaren, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Alviro Petersen, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe, Roelof van der Merwe

Test squad for West Indies Tour: Graeme Smith (capt), Jacques Kallis (vice-capt), Hashim Amla, Johan Botha, Mark Boucher, AB de Villiers, JP Duminy, Paul Harris, Ryan McLaren, Morne Morkel, Wayne Parnell, Alviro Petersen, Ashwell Prince, Dale Steyn, Lonwabo Tsotsobe

Dolphins batsman David Miller has been included in South Africa's limited-overs squads for the tour of West Indies following the World Twenty20. Miller replaces Wayne Parnell, who has failed to recover from the groin injury he sustained during the IPL and will target the Test series starting next month.

West Indies have left out batsman Wavell Hinds for the upcoming Twenty20 internationals and the first two games of the five-match ODI series against South Africa. The rest of the 14-man squad is the same as the one picked for the ICC World Twenty20, where hosts West Indies exited the competition in the Super Eights round.

West Indies squad: Chris Gayle (capt), Dwayne Bravo (vice-captain), Sulieman Benn, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Narsingh Deonarine, Andre Fletcher, Nikita Miller, Kieron Pollard, Denesh Ramdin (wk), Ravi Rampaul, Kemar Roach, Darren Sammy, Ramnaresh Sarwan, Jerome Taylor.

AB de Villiers will keep wicket for South Africa during the limited-overs leg of their tour of West Indies instead of Mark Boucher, whose place in the team is now uncertain. Graeme Smith, the South Africa captain, said the new selection panel led by Andrew Hudson was trying out new ideas ahead of the 2011 World Cup, and having de Villiers keep gave him more options.

1st Twenty20

South Africa 7/136

Kallis 53 (45)
Smith 37 (31)

Pollard 2/22 (4)
Roach 2/23 (4)

West Indies 123

Pollard 27 (17)
Bravo 20 (22)

McLaren 5/19 (3.5)
Botha 2/19 (4)

MOTM: Ryan McLaren

South Africa won by 13 runs

2nd Twenty20

South Africa 7/120

Miller 33 (26)
Botha 23 (22)

Taylor 3/14 (4)
Sammy 2/16 (4)

West Indies 7/119

Bravo 40 (42)
Chanderpaul 29 (37)

Botha 3/22 (4)
M. Morkel 2/15 (4)

MOTM: Johan Botha

South Africa won by 1 run and win the series 2-0

Rain delays start of play in the 1st ODI

1st ODI

South Africa 7/280

Amla 102 (109)
de Villiers 102 (101)

Bravo 3/40 (10)

West Indies 215

Gayle 45 (39)
Pollard 44 (37)

M. Morkel 3/40 (8)

MOTM: Hashim Amla

South Africa won by 66 runs (D/L method)

2nd ODI

South Africa 5/300

Amla 92 (95)
Kallis 85 (89)

Pollard 2/39 (8)
Taylor 2/50 (9)

West Indies 283

Bravo 74 (70)
Sammy 58* (24)
Richards 51 (85)

M. Morkel 3/58 (9.1)

MOTM: Hashim Amla

South Africa won by 13 runs and lead the series 2-0

DARREN SAMMY

Didn't know you had it in ya!

3rd ODI

South Africa 224

de Villiers 70 (80)
Amla 34 (28)

Pollard 3/27 (6)
Bravo 2/40 (8.2)
Benn 2/43 (10)

West Indies 157

Richards 28 (30)
Chanderpaul 24 (49)

M. Morkel 4/21 (7)
Langeveldt 3/30 (7)

MOTM: AB de Villiers

South Africa won by 67 runs and lead the series 3-0

4th ODI

West Indies 6/303

Chanderpaul 66 (89)
Richards 59 (73)
DJ Bravo 46 (51)
DM Bravo 45* (31)

Tsotsobe 2/48 (8)
Langeveldt 2/59 (8)

South Africa 3/304

Amla 129 (115)
de Villiers 57* (64)
Kallis 51 (54)

DJ Bravo 1/41 (7)
Pollard 1/58 (9)
Gayle 1/60 (10)

MOTM: Hashim Amla

South Africa won by 7 wickets and lead the series 4-0

Hashim Amla is having a pretty good series by the looks.

Not beating much of an attack though. With Pollard, Bravo and Gayle bowling 26 overs in the last game. Won't win too many internationals with those 3 bowling more than half the overs.

wycbloods wrote:Hashim Amla is having a pretty good series by the looks.

Not beating much of an attack though. With Pollard, Bravo and Gayle bowling 26 overs in the last game. Won't win too many internationals with those 3 bowling more than half the overs.

Bravo is fair quality.

I think their attack is reasonable.

Edwards, Taylor and Roach (when all fit). 4th and 5th seamers in Bravo and Pollard are good enough. Spinners in Benn/Gayle/Deonarine will do a job behind the three leading seemers.

Its their batting that lets them down!

wycbloods wrote:Hashim Amla is having a pretty good series by the looks.

Not beating much of an attack though. With Pollard, Bravo and Gayle bowling 26 overs in the last game. Won't win too many internationals with those 3 bowling more than half the overs.

Bravo nearly pulled off a miraculous victory with a brilliant last over, should've been a tie at least, deVilliers needed one off 4 balls and had to run a suicide single off of the final ball to win. Gayle 10 overs for 60, Benn 4 overs for 22 WTF?

Gayle sends Benn from the field

Sulieman Benn has riled opponents and match referees in the past, but he has hit a new low after being ordered off the field by his captain Chris Gayle. During West Indies' seven-wicket loss to South Africa in Dominica, Benn upset Gayle so much by failing to follow instructions that he was told he was no longer required.

"I actually asked him to leave the field,' Gayle told reporters after the game. "As a captain, it was a situation like you ask a particular bowler to do it and he said he had never done certain things before. That's why you have practice sessions, to practise. I asked him to simply bowl over the wicket. I don't see why it should be a problem

Superb, I wish I woke up earlier.

Benn cannot bowl over the wicket?

I was/am a wicket keeper when I play, because I'm a shocking bowler, but my (limited) knowledge is that "over" the wicket is the considered (standard) for bowlers...

How can a player reach International level and not be able to do that???

5th ODI

West Indies 6/252

Chanderpaul 67 (104)
Deonarine 53* (53)

Tsotsobe 2/31 (7)

South Africa 9/255

Kallis 57 (55)
Duminy 51 (75)
Amla 45 (50)

Gayle 2/38 (10)
Pollard 2/42 (9.4)
DJ Bravo 2/73 (10)

MOTM: Jacques Kallis

South Africa won by 1 wicket and win the series 5-0