Kallis boosts Chappell
It's Ian Chappell entrenched at No. 1 more strongly than ever
Cricinfo staff
19-Jun-2009
Kallis may not have won his team the semi-final, but he fetched Ian Chappell plenty of fantasy points • Getty Images
Pakistan may have beaten South Africa in the first semi-final, but it was Jacques Kallis who helped Ian Chappell consolidate his position as No. 1.
Ian had picked Kallis as trump, who did not disappoint, yielding 172. But the rest of his picks had an ordinary day - Herschelle Gibbs (5), Younis Khan (24), Wayne Parnell (35), Kamran Akmal (45), and Umar Gul (10). Sambit Bal had a low-key day apart from Akmal, who he had picked as his trump. He had Gibbs, Saeed Ajmal (35), Johan Botha (-5), Shoaib Malik (49), and Misbah ul-Haq (0). But what could work in Sambit's favour are the number of transfers left. He has seven left, compared to Ian's three.
However, none of our league members had Shahid Afridi, who was the star with both bat and ball for Pakistan on Thursday, though he had figured in both Sambit's and David Lloyd's teams in the early stages of the tournament.
Meanwhile Sanjay Manjrekar is at No. 3, 35 points adrift of Sambit, and David Lloyd is at No. 4 with 3228.