England tour to SA: 2015

[DanDango]

Heh, reminds me of Zuma maths

lol ok Ab hit a four and went to 52 and 8002 career test runs, radio only said 50 and 8000 career runs.

 

[Neoprod]

HD Ackerman is kinda annoying sometimes...there's something slightly obsequious in his delivery that comes across greasily over the air.

Atherton is excellent, Holding and Botham just a little behind. Our own Kepler is not too shabby either.

 

[Wall]

Steyn and Vern injured and they wanted extra batting. Viljoen & Patterson are much better bowlers then Morris.

Nice to see England drop hash twice and amla once.

I realise all of this. Its just incredibly frustrating because Morris is not Test Material IMO. Viljoen or Patterson should have got the nod...

 

[OMB]

Nice to see England drop hash twice and amla once.

:erm:

 

[Cray]

HD Ackerman is kinda annoying sometimes...there's something slightly obsequious in his delivery that comes across greasily over the air.

Atherton is excellent, Holding and Botham just a little behind. Our own Kepler is not too shabby either.

Got a lot more time for Atherton since he become a commentator and Botham is always great fun.

 

[Garson007]

:erm:

Some toking.

 

[pinball wizard]

:erm:

I thought it was just me...

It's the second time today in this thread someone has referred to hash and amla as two different people.

 

[Wall]

199/2 at lunch

 

[Garson007]

Bat once. Bat big. I have no problems with the scoring rate at present. We want to be able to declare at tea tomorrow.

 

[pinball wizard]

HD Ackerman is kinda annoying sometimes...there's something slightly obsequious in his delivery that comes across greasily over the air.

Atherton is excellent, Holding and Botham just a little behind. Our own Kepler is not too shabby either.

I must say I have really enjoyed Smith's commentary.

 

[pinball wizard]

Bat once. Bat big. I have no problems with the scoring rate at present. We want to be able to declare at tea tomorrow.

It does look likely that a draw is fast becoming inevitable.

 

[Wall]

Bat once. Bat big. I have no problems with the scoring rate at present. We want to be able to declare at tea tomorrow.

unlikely to have a lead by that point. Very unlikely we will score 430 ( the deficit) and then some to give us a sizeable lead to enable us to declare by tea tomorrow - that's only four sessions away.

 

[Cray]

Haven't watched much live, is the pitch as flat as the scores suggest?

 

[Wall]

Haven't watched much live, is the pitch as flat as the scores suggest?

yep, its a road.

 

[Neoprod]

I realise all of this. Its just incredibly frustrating because Morris is not Test Material IMO. Viljoen or Patterson should have got the nod...

Morris is not good enough, agreed. The selectors seem afraid to blood another out-and-out seamer while Morkel, Steyn, Philander are in the picture (apart from Rabada). We've had Abbott and now Morris...we should be working on having 4-5 seamers ready to go at the highest level instead of trying all-rounders who can't get into the side on the strength of their performance in one discipline.

Compare this to the Australian side who have 3 or 4 fast bowlers injured at the moment but can still field a decent attack ready to do the job.

 

[Garson007]

unlikely to have a lead by that point. Very unlikely we will score 430 ( the deficit) and then some to give us a sizeable lead to enable us to declare by tea tomorrow - that's only four sessions away.

We're one game behind. Irrespective of the score, we'll want to declare at tea time tomorrow.

 

[Wall]

Morris is not good enough, agreed. The selectors seem afraid to blood another out-and-out seamer while Morkel, Steyn, Philander are in the picture (apart from Rabada). We've had Abbott and now Morris...we should be working on having 4-5 seamers ready to go at the highest level instead of trying all-rounders who can't get into the side on the strength of their performance in one discipline.

Compare this to the Australian side who have 3 or 4 fast bowlers injured at the moment but can still field a decent attack ready to do the job.

Ya, our selectors are not making clever decisions atm.

 

[Wall]

We're one game behind. Irrespective of the score, we'll want to declare at tea time tomorrow.

Sure, I can agree with that but your initial statement of "bat once, bat big" is completely unrealistic...

 

[Cray]

Sure, I can agree with that but your initial statement of "bat once, bat big" is completely unrealistic...

Agree, I cannot see any scenario where SA win this test, there are plenty where we could lose it though.. Still two tests after this, at venues where we tend to do well with some time to get Steyn back in the mix.

 

[WaxLyrical]

Morris is not good enough, agreed. The selectors seem afraid to blood another out-and-out seamer while Morkel, Steyn, Philander are in the picture (apart from Rabada). We've had Abbott and now Morris...we should be working on having 4-5 seamers ready to go at the highest level instead of trying all-rounders who can't get into the side on the strength of their performance in one discipline.

Compare this to the Australian side who have 3 or 4 fast bowlers injured at the moment but can still field a decent attack ready to do the job.

Maybe selectors looking for an allrounder because we already have Morkel and Rabada as strikers with very little batting prowess. If Morris comes in and smashes a 100 then his selection is justified.
Can't say Morris is not good enough as all the bowlers got plastered on a flat track.