Cricket: Test Cricket

sandmanm34 said:
Yeah it was pretty disappointing watching the batsmen capitulate like that. We've seen it more than once the last couple of seasons, horrid!!! They sometimes perform like a bunch of part timers and that can only be cause they train like a bunch of part timers. I really wonder about the work ethic of the likes of Graeme, Jacque and Mark under the guidance of Mickey"mouse"Arthur...
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I know that the guys up front need to score more runs, but look at the difference between their tail and ours:

A Symonds c McKenzie b Harris 57 92 68 6 0 83.82
BJ Haddin c Duminy b Ntini 46 130 68 4 2 67.64
B Lee c Duminy b Steyn 29 52 46 4 0 63.04
JJ Krejza not out 30 80 45 3 0 66.66
MG Johnson lbw b Morkel 18 36 24 1 0 75.00
PM Siddle c Boucher b Ntini 23 40 34 3 0 67.64
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JP Duminy c Haddin b Johnson 1 20 11 0 0 9.09
MV Boucher not out 2 15 0 0 13.33
M Morkel c Krejza b Johnson 1 11 10 0 0 10.00
PL Harris c Krejza b Johnson 0 3 3 0 0 0.00
DW Steyn not out 1 2 0 0 50.00
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:(
 
Pretty the whole team should be able to score a decent amount of runs - if your a bowler and cant hit the ball, to bad mate, those days have passed.

But sometimes when bowlers pull shyte of there arrse, and bowl everyone out - well, such is cricket.
 
well the boys are fighting back nicely.

97/4

We need to get them out for less than 250 to stand even the smallest chance.

But everyone is right, our tail is just too long. I expect us to battle through this whole series.

With there extra batsmen, they should always score atleast 80 runs more than us. We're going to have to bowl 80 runs better than them everytime just to stay in the game.

It can be done, but still not the best position to be in.
 
Those 5 wickets for 5 runs killed us yesterday.
The only way to come back from that is to do something similar to them.

It's a rare thing.... :(
 
alf101 said:
Those 5 wickets for 5 runs killed us yesterday.
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and we need to take 4 more wickets to stop their advance.
i mean it was at this stage in the 1st innings that their tail did us in. that tail must not be allowed more than 20 runs this time!
 
larrychang said:
and we need to take 4 more wickets to stop their advance.
i mean it was at this stage in the 1st innings that their tail did us in. that tail must not be allowed more than 20 runs this time!
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Their last 5 are capable of an easy 100 runs... coupled with the Proteas poor bowling to tail enders.
 
JK8 said:
Their last 5 are capable of an easy 100 runs... coupled with the Proteas poor bowling to tail enders.
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I know, it's not looking good.

I wonder why we can't bowl to tail enders, this has been an issue for what feels like years now.

Leaking 50 runs at the end of every innings can't be helping things.
 
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