Topic: South Africa vs England (Read 242827 times)

csnew · « **Reply #495 on:** December 28, 2015, 12:23:56 PM »

Poor captaincy for amla to allow steyn bowl. Good insight from smith in the comm box

Hales throws it away after a start. that blue tape on his helmet must annoy a few forum members

smilley792 · « **Reply #496 on:** December 28, 2015, 12:24:06 PM »

Dam it hales.

Only excuse is England had literally ground to a halt there.

Hopefully root can rotate and tick the score over.

Andythomo21 · « **Reply #497 on:** December 28, 2015, 12:25:00 PM »

If he keeps playing shots like that some people are going to take some convincing that he's a test opener!

jezza39 · « **Reply #498 on:** December 28, 2015, 12:26:16 PM »

Painful for me to say, but I've been really impressed with Broad's bowling, especially since 2013 when he copped a heap of abuse from local fans in Brisbane only to respond with a 6-for. Watching him early in the Saffers innings his line and length was McGrath-esque, no width, no short of overpitched balls, just frustrating stuff for batsmen. I really rate his bowling.

csnew · « **Reply #499 on:** December 28, 2015, 12:26:59 PM »

South Africans ball tampering again? Odd to change a ball so early. The ball was reversing after 18 overs, odd that! Maybe faf's been on it again

csnew · « **Reply #500 on:** December 28, 2015, 12:41:07 PM »

South Africans spilling chances, root and Compton both dropped

petehosk · « **Reply #501 on:** December 28, 2015, 12:44:37 PM »

Compton and Root too! Compton can be a pain to get out, as was proved in 1st innings.
And dropping Root can prove very expensive!!
58-2 looks very different to 58-4 when you already had a deficit from the 1st innings. This is not like the SA we are used to.

smilley792 · « **Reply #502 on:** December 28, 2015, 12:44:51 PM »

Sorry it's you csnew. But this shows the fickle ness of both cricket supporters and commentators.

Quote from: csnew on December 28, 2015, 11:38:40 AM

Shot from hales!

Quote from: csnew on December 28, 2015, 12:23:56 PM

Hales throws it away after a start.

When it goes for six, boundary etc it's great, as soon as it fails, it's so poor, what was he thinking, not a test player etc.

Compton plays a reverse sweep at 15 of 56balls had he top edged it and got caught, would anyone be questioning Compromis test ability despite scoring less and facing less balls than hales today??

Double standards?

kenbriooo · « **Reply #503 on:** December 28, 2015, 01:01:32 PM »

Key thing for England is to bat as long as possible, grind down their bowlers as much as possible as I think there's only a 2 day break between tests.

iand123 · « **Reply #504 on:** December 28, 2015, 01:11:24 PM »

Quote from: kenbriooo on December 28, 2015, 01:01:32 PM

Key thing for England is to bat as long as possible, grind down their bowlers as much as possible as I think there's only a 2 day break between tests.

Very good point. Steyn looks To be struggling by going off a lot so they need to do this even more. The ball should start to soften up from here so they can take advantage of that too and get some runs on the board.

StillNotOut · « **Reply #505 on:** December 28, 2015, 01:27:18 PM »

Longevity of international cricketers not how it used to be due to the amount of cricket they play. One Day, Tests, T20, IPL etc. In addition, the amount of travelling they do, the body just doesn't have sufficient time to recover

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smilley792 · « **Reply #506 on:** December 28, 2015, 01:33:03 PM »

Compton to 31.

Although only into his second innings off his return, has he literally ended bell's test career in this one game?

Can we see a way back for bell and if so where?

jezza39 · « **Reply #507 on:** December 28, 2015, 01:37:19 PM »

Quote from: smilley792 on December 28, 2015, 01:33:03 PM

Compton to 31.

Although only into his second innings off his return, has he literally ended bell's test career in this one game?

Can we see a way back for bell and if so where?

Seeing as he retired from ODI cricket, he'd need a big season at county level accompanied by failures by Hales or Taylor. At his age he would need a Voges 2014-15-esque FC season. But I really doubt the ECB would backflip and go to an older bloke.

smilley792 · « **Reply #508 on:** December 28, 2015, 01:39:31 PM »

That's the thing, if bell doesn't get back into the England side, I would put money on him scoring 1500 plus runs for Warwickshire next year.

And if he's scoring that many and England are struggling batting wise, be many calling for his return(probably the same People calling for him to be dropped)

Northern monkey · « **Reply #509 on:** December 28, 2015, 01:40:11 PM »

Roots bat looks soooo softly pressed!

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