England tour to SA: 2015

[Neoprod]

Couple of lucky breaks for us with those dropped catches - the heat doing the job!

Sweat!

I blame you for them not dropping another!



Well-played, AB...kind of a giveaway but occupying the crease and the runs were welcome.

 

[Neoprod]

Hope Faf doesn't go into blockathon mode. We need to keep playing the way we have...

Looks like your wish has been granted.

 

[Nerfherder]

Nope, England will leave us in a position where a loss or draw is the only possible outcomes. I say bat till all is out, even if it is day 5. Demoralize their bowlers for the next match.

Yes, I think the longer things go on the more they will struggle with the conditions.

There is the remote chance we put up a decent score and then make short work of them for 100 runs tomorrow... but more realistic is a draw.

 

[pinball wizard]

Looks like your wish has been granted.

Yeah.Looks set for a quick 25 and out.

 

[Wall]

Courtesy of Miller: This is already du Plessis's second-highest score since July. South Africa's run-machines are flooding back to form

Kinda tells you how Piss Poor Faf has been over the last few months...


PS - he's on 13...

 

[Mike Hoxbig]

Yeah.Looks set for a quick 25 and out.

He is not keeping his eye on the ball. That's schoolboy basics. Just check the slowmo replay of that top edge...

 

[Dan C]

That was a good partnership at least. Hope we can string together a few more.

 

[Dan C]

Stumps day 3

South Africa 353/3 (130.0 ov)

South Africa trail by 276 runs with 7 wickets remaining in the 1st innings

... A bit slow, but we should save this match I hope :twisted:.

 

[AirWolf]

England need 17 wickets, we only need 10 .

.

 

[CHURCHILL]

Geeeeeezzzzuz, well done to you lads today, honestly the two man army showed a lot of grit, especially ol' Amla, hats off.
It's funny how the two teams have seemed to switched roles, England are normally the ones fighting all day for a draw and SA show an attacking game plan.

 

[CHURCHILL]

England need 17 wickets, we only need 10 .

.

Lol

 

[Stefanmuller]

England's batting score kind of dictated this play from SA. Batting aggressively and going for a lead was never going to happen. I think we should bat untill we are all out, and have the England bowlers out in the field for 2.5 days.

 

[CAPS LOCK]

First objective: avoid the follow on, which does not mean a blockathon. Bat positively without being reckless...

Second objective: Tight bowling - disciplined, line and length to make it difficult for them to score quick runs, which will make a declaration tricky. Being 1-0 up they will not give us even a sniff at a chance of a decent target.

Third objective: Bat out one session on day four and the whole of day five.

Draw.

Get to the Wanderers and come out firing - it's time to go to WAR!

First objective, well executed and within grasp. #MCDforcoach

 

[Dan C]

England need 17 wickets, we only need 10 .

.

Pity we need 276 runs still to be even

 

[AfricanTech]

Good day today. Well done to team. Rode our luck at times but you need that too.

Onward

 

[MickeyD]

First objective, well executed and within grasp. #MCDforcoach

LOL

I was about to go back and look for that post.

First objective is within our grasp. Run rate could have been better but I can sympathise with Hashim and AB... the hole was deep from the last few Tests and they went about their work in a determined manner.

 

[OMB]

Once we avoid the follow on we can bat in a more carefree manner.

Amla and de Kock can score at the same rate as Stokes.

the follow on has pretty much become irrelevant after today

 

[AirWolf]

We need to keep them in the field for as long as possible and grind their confidence into the sweltering dirt.

 

[AfricanTech]

We need to keep them in the field for as long as possible and grind their confidence into the sweltering dirt.

Da

 

[Badprop_za]

It would be ideal if we can bat until lunch on day 5. Maybe have a 120-150 lead.
Go all out attack. We might get very very very lucky and the Poms lose 3 / 4 wicketa for 50.