CRICKET SA vs England

Pity about Biff at the end there, but that was 2 very good balls from a fired up Flintoff.

Hope Harris can frustrate them a bit in the morning, maybe get a 50 partnership going with McKenzie. England does not look like a happy team at the moment and we have to take them on tomorrow. One good day and the series should be ours.

I reckon Kallis will come good with the bat in this game.
 
WonderBob said:
Pity about Biff at the end there, but that was 2 very good balls from a fired up Flintoff.

Hope Harris can frustrate them a bit in the morning, maybe get a 50 partnership going with McKenzie. England does not look like a happy team at the moment and we have to take them on tomorrow. One good day and the series should be ours.

I reckon Kallis will come good with the bat in this game.
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Well said, and well summed up.

Tomorrows monring sessions is goign to be vital, the england team are clearly goign to get a talking too tonight and so will come out firing, if we can survivie the new ball, i think the pitch will allow us to get the desired lead.
 
So far it's looking like the second test all over again.

I can live with that.

ROFL @ Panesar's runout -> Run Monty, Ruuunnnn.
 
chiskop said:
So far it's looking like the second test all over again.

I can live with that.

ROFL @ Panesar's runout -> Run Monty, Ruuunnnn.
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I would prefer a 5day'er to be honest.

Did you see how pissed off Flintstone was with Monty being run out - he watched it from the other end, he even had time to turn around and become a spectator - ROFL...
 
A really good performance from us today. I hope we can kick on tomorrow and get a big one. :)

Pity about Smith at the end there...
 
chiskop said:
Yes, that's true. Specially seeing as the fifth day is a Sunday.

I think that the Proteas should hold themselves back a little and win sometime after tea on Sunday. :D
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Dont worry about that. As I said Kallis will come good with the bat. In other words I see a 350 ball 150 coming up and a veeerryy slow looong partnership with either Amla or Prince.
 
WonderBob said:
Dont worry about that. As I said Kallis will come good with the bat. In other words I see a 350 ball 150 coming up and a veeerryy slow looong partnership with either Amla or Prince.
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For a change, I'm hoping for a looong boringgg innings.

1 century every 5 matches is a good ratio for a batsmen, hope all those centuries in the last 2 matches don't count against us in this match.:eek:
 
Well, they've got to take their chances in the first session - before Mendis and Murali get warmed up. :D

151/0 at lunch.
 
chiskop said:
151/0 at lunch.
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gees IPL20/20 gone to their heads... seems the way cricket is being played is constantly changing which is refreshing as it's a sport bogged down by conservative and counter progressive thinking...
 
Yeah, but that was mostly Sehwag being Sehwag - 91 off 82 balls - just like he did to us before the IPL. Gambir got a more test-like 50 off 92 balls.

Anyway it's raining, or they're mopping up the field, now.
 
sandmanm34 said:
gees IPL20/20 gone to their heads... seems the way cricket is being played is constantly changing which is refreshing as it's a sport bogged down by conservative and counter progressive thinking...
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are you talking on the field thinking? coz even there there are signs of cricket continously being a progressive sport in terms of tactics. you only have to look at average run rates for tests in the last 3 decades to see that.

and then off the field you have the introduction of ODI and 20/20. As well video technology.
 
Indeed, I mean in the last 30 years or so. About the time Benson & Hedges world series was introduced around 1980 the game has been evolving and muting into something very different to what the inventors of the timeless tests envisaged...
 
Rain at Edgbaston :(

ESPN sometimes replays games from the 1992 World Cup - cricket from then is a world away from the cricket that is played today. Looks much more leisurely. :)
 
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