Australia v South Africa: Twenty20 international – live!

Similar story for South Africa. Their top seven batsmen basically pick themselves, unless Behardien gets left out with Morris as an all-rounder at No7.

Markram
Hendricks
du Plessis
Miller
Klaasen
Behardien
de Kock

But then there are plenty of bowlers to round out an attack. Some decent choices from Imran Tahir, Morris, Ngidi, Phehlukwayo, Pretorius, Rabada, Shamsi, and Steyn.

The fact that we haven’t had a toss means we also don’t have teams, as yet. Australia have a squad of 13 for this match, South Africa have 15.

The top seven for Australia is probably some variation of

Finch
Short
Lynn
McDermott
Maxwell
Stoinis
Carey

Then two of the bowlers would miss out: the spinners are Agar and Zampa, the quicks are Behrendorff, Coulter-Nile, Stanlake and Tye. Any thoughts on the best combo, you can let me know along with your rationale by Twitter or email.

If you are looking for the Sri Lanka v England game, it is here:

But why would you be? When you could have raaaaain at Metricon Stadium. I have to admit that I don’t know what a Metricon is. It sounds like a Transformer who is dedicated to a simple base-10 format for measurement, and if so I look forward to the day when it declares robot war on all those countries that are still holding out… wait, let’s be honest, it’s just the United States isn’t it? Truly the only land that could have given us Trump had to be the one still clinging grimly to the fluid ounce.

The fluid on the Gold Coast is coming in far greater quantities than ounces. Fluid stone? Fluid fathoms? Fluid bushels? Effed if I know. There’s a lot of it, anyway. Solid water. Sideways water. Rain so hard that you don’t know if it’s coming from the sky down or the ground up. There is no trickle down effect here. There is nowhere for water to trickle to, because everywhere else is already full of water. We are literal saturation point. But this being Queensland, it could stop in 17 seconds and we could have play in 30 minutes. Who knows.