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Pity Mac is out of the next test.
Is he confirmed out? cricinfo said this morning that a decision would be made tomorrow morning.
mickey said:
Not yet, but probably not.
Flintoff confirmed and batting at 7.
Think it may be a mistake, would've put him at 6 for Collingwood.
Flintoff will be replacing Collingwood (provided Sidebottom is fit). They're just moving Broad up in the order - not a bad idea given that he scored 76 against us last week and Flintoff hasn't batted in a test for 18 months.
If Sidebottom can't play, I think they'll keep Collingwood in the side.
Having trouble getting past the homepage on cricinfo, but there is a pic of Flintoff , with this comment "He's back: Andrew Flintoff has been named in England's starting XI for the second Test at Headingley and will bat at No.7 © Getty Images"
Who bats at 6?
They hadn't decided at that stage - were still waiting for fitness tests. All they knew was, Flintoff in at seven.
But cricinfo are now saying:
(Or they did say that a second ago - but in the 2 sec between copying that quote and copying the page url, that has disappeared - so who knows?)
No word on McKenzie/Duminy yet.
Edit: Wait, it's all back - and McKenzie is fit and will be playing.
They hadn't decided at that stage - were still waiting for fitness tests. All they knew was, Flintoff in at seven.
But cricinfo are now saying:
http://content-rsa.cricinfo.com/engvrsa/engine/current/match/296910.html
(Or they did say that a second ago - but in the 2 sec between copying that quote and copying the page url, that has disappeared - so who knows?)
No word on McKenzie/Duminy yet.
Edit: Wait, it's all back - and McKenzie is fit and will be playing.
Thank you gods of fitness
Duminy = epic fail.
Hope our bowlers get their line and length right from the start this time.
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Ready to go
England team
AJ Strauss, AN Cook, MP Vaughan, KP Pietersen, IR Bell, TR Ambrose, A Flintoff, SCJ Broad, JM Anderson, MS Panesar, DJ Pattinson
South Africa team
ND McKenzie, GC Smith, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AG Prince, AB de Villiers, MV Boucher, M Morkel, PL Harris, M Ntini, DW Steyn
Ok then...
South Africa won the toss and elected to field first
England team
AJ Strauss, AN Cook, MP Vaughan, KP Pietersen, IR Bell, TR Ambrose, A Flintoff, SCJ Broad, JM Anderson, MS Panesar, DJ Pattinson
South Africa team
ND McKenzie, GC Smith, HM Amla, JH Kallis, AG Prince, AB de Villiers, MV Boucher, M Morkel, PL Harris, M Ntini, DW Steyn
Ok then...
South Africa won the toss and elected to field first
Meanwhile, there's a touch of drizzle in the air, unfortunately. The met office is confident that the weather will improve later this afternoon, but we could be in for a bit of disruption during the first hour of play.
http://content-rsa.cricinfo.com/engvrsa/engine/current/match/296910.html
http://content-rsa.cricinfo.com/engvrsa/engine/current/match/296910.html
baffling indeed.
Hope this works out well for them.
They must think it'll swing a lot.
I presume Kallis will be aiming for the stumps today, and not 2nd slip as per usual.
LancelotSA
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That was a deliberate tactic...
You talking about his batting, or his bowling?
Given his recent form, I can see how my post would be confusing.
You talking about his batting, or his bowling?
ROFL
Hope steyn bowles fuller so he can get some swing with the new ball
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ROFL
Hope steyn bowles fuller so he can get some swing with the new ball
Yes let's hope he can swing his balls around today