Lions coach Geoff Toyana will have the hardest job in cricket at the Wanderers on Wednesday: find a way to beat the Titans. Halfway through the league stage of the T20 competition the closest the Titans have come to losing was in Benoni on Friday‚ when their game against the Dolphins was washed out. So‚ is Toyana praying for rain? Not a bit of it. "We’re playing at home and we always play good cricket at the Wanderers‚" he said on Monday. But the Lions have lost three of their five games — one of which was an eight-wicket thumping by the Titans at Centurion on November 12. "At crucial times we’ve made dumb decisions‚" Toyana said. Theoretically, the Titans can still be caught at the top of the log‚ but the 21 points they have is more than double that earned by the second-placed Dolphins. And one has to wonder whether the Durbanites’ three washouts is a factor in their success. That and keeping the opposition guessing. "We sometimes win the ones we shouldn’t win and then lose the one...
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