Ducking the World Cup

Years of dreaming.. Months of practice.. Weeks of planning.. and it doesn’t even last a few minutes!

A look at two of today’s World Cup debuts that ended within the first two balls..

0.1	Stelling to de Villiers, no run, Billy Stelling switches on the right channel. Just outside off, short of driveable length, hint of away movement and left alone

0.2	Stelling to de Villiers, OUT, Gotcha! Stelling nails de Villiers. Short in length, well outside off and de Villiers couldn’t resist a flash. All he got was a under edge which was safely pouched by the ‘keeper.

AB de Villiers c Smits b Stelling 0 (2b 0×4 0×6) SR: 0.00

0.1	Franklin to Joyce, 1 no ball, a no-ball to start with, fullish and dug out into the covers

0.1	Franklin to Joyce, OUT, (almost) perfect start for new Zealand. A soft dismissal, short outside off stump, almost a long hop, which Joyce swishes at and gets a thin but audible top edge to and McCullum flings the ball high. An easy catch and a real sucker punch

EC Joyce c McCullum b Franklin 0 (1m 2b 0×4 0×6) SR: 0.00