India tour of South Africa, 2018

lilggg

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So they get all their wickets with spin...so we bowl pace until they reach our score? Makes sense
 

AirWolf

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So they get all their wickets with spin...so we bowl pace until they reach our score? Makes sense

Exactly what I was coming back to post.

We are in all likelihood going to lose, even then we can't do anything outside our predetermined script, like starting with 20 overs of spin.
 

Arthur

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A bad patch is one thing, complete and utter humiliation is quite another.. :eek:
True fact that.

But much is in the eye of the beholder. This I learned on my first extended stay in France, in the previous millennium. When the French team lost 0-1 it was universally seen as a brilliant performance missed by "un petit point". A few weeks later the same team won 1-0, "une victoire écrasante", a crushing victory. ;)
 

sand_man

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Now they bring tahir...bit late i would think

Game was over by the 15th over of the first innings. Sorry, but if the bowling team could declare, SA would have. We just going through the motions now... This is on a par to losing to the AB's 57-0...actually probably worse...
 

3WA

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Generous of us to score just enough to give both batsmen fifties.
 

AirWolf

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Really there should be some common sense in such situations. Lunch and then come back for 2 runs???
 

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Maybe something should happen for the powers that be to rethink things and take make official changes to the rules.

I was confronted with a similar situation at a sporting event where common sense should have prevailed but a stickler to the rules (and an ******* at that) challenged me regarding something that is really a non-issue.
 
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WaxLyrical

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Should have been in this team based on current form. Leading scorer in the domestic 50 overs tournament. What the hell is Zondo doing there? Also not young at basically 28, with below average stats (31/32 average). Half the amount of runs scored.
Yip.
That's a glaring oversight.

Lad might as well go kolpak.
 
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