***Official*** South Africa in England

[cover drive man]

Very poor England, well done South Africa Once again we get outclassed by a much better side.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Jones (S) for Sid, Foster for Ambrose & Key for Vaughan; Strauss to captain.

Jones has been belted in his last couple of trips to the bowling crease. Could just be flat pitches though. And Key hasn't had a great season either.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Key for Vaughan

Imagine Key and Cook running together.

That, and he's a proven failure. Just say no.

 

[gio]

Has to the former. Sid seems to be feeling his back, Ambrose looks short of the requisite quality in both disciplines and captaincy is the only thing keeping MPV in the team.

Jones (S) for Sid, Foster for Ambrose & Key for Vaughan; Strauss to captain.

I would agree with that for the most part, with the exception of Key/Vaughan. Not sure about Key tbh.

 

[duffer]

Woooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Imagine Key and Cook running together.

That, and he's a proven failure. Just say no.

He started the season strongly, but he's been very average of late. Much like Ramprakash.

 

[duffer]

So ridiculously deserved this win. Can't wait to see these guys come down here in the summer.

 

[steds]

A well deserved first win since readmission. Should have beaten us in 03, deservedly beat us this time. I'm off getting more drunk...

 

[BoyBrumby]

Jones has been belted in his last couple of trips to the bowling crease. Could just be flat pitches though.

Hadn't noticed that in all honesty, but he's still our best bet (IMHO) outside the current team, with apologies to Hoggy, obv.

Imagine Key and Cook running together.

That, and he's a proven failure. Just say no.

Denly can't buy a run (last innings excepted), Horton is an opener & don't see Shah as a test 3 (nor Bell if Owais moves into 5 or 6). Hobson's choice.

 

[Bees]

Smith hitting KP for 4 to win the series...




...that's poetry.

Props to Collingwood, he made this test a real contest.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Has to the former. Sid seems to be feeling his back, Ambrose looks short of the requisite quality in both disciplines and captaincy is the only thing keeping MPV in the team.

Jones (S) for Sid, Foster for Ambrose & Key for Vaughan; Strauss to captain.

Yea, lets keep the guy who went a long way to costing England this series - Monty Panesar. His ineptitude in the field costs more runs than he scores.

I mean he can't be trusted to bowl more than the odd over in the first innings, meanwhile our seamers get driven into the ground and can't perform properly later in the match. If any seam bowler was a bit part bowler like that they'd be out of the team like a shot.

Just what the hell does he have to do to get dropped?

 

[steds]

Imagine Key and Cook running together.

Having nightmares alreday

 

[steds]

Yea, lets keep the guy who went a long way to costing England this series - Monty Panesar.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Denly can't buy a run (last innings excepted), Horton is an opener & don't see Shah as a test 3 (nor Bell if Owais moves into 5 or 6). Hobson's choice.

Stick with Vaughan then. He'll average more than twenty.

 

[stumpski]

Plenty of people leaving without waiting for the presentations - can't say I blame them.

 

[gio]

Yea, lets keep the guy who went a long way to costing England this series - Monty Panesar. His ineptitude in the field costs more runs than he scores.

I mean he can't be trusted to bowl more than the odd over in the first innings, meanwhile our seamers get driven into the ground and can't perform properly later in the match. If any seam bowler was a bit part bowler like that they'd be out of the team like a shot.

Just what the hell does he have to do to get dropped?

I was disappointed with Panesar today, but he's not the only one. The whole team looks flat and out of form. Can we send them all back to county cricket

 

[Scaly piscine]

Yea, that's about the best defense the Panesar lovers can come up with.

 

[cover drive man]

My dad says Vaughans gonna say "We had a couple of questionable decisions but full credit to the south Africans" Wonder how this is gonna turn out.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

Denly can't buy a run (last innings excepted), Horton is an opener & don't see Shah as a test 3 (nor Bell if Owais moves into 5 or 6). Hobson's choice.

Murray Goodwin is England-qualified, right?

 

[BoyBrumby]

Yea, lets keep the guy who went a long way to costing England this series - Monty Panesar. His ineptitude in the field costs more runs than he scores.

I mean he can't be trusted to bowl more than the odd over in the first innings, meanwhile our seamers get driven into the ground and can't perform properly later in the match. If any seam bowler was a bit part bowler like that they'd be out of the team like a shot.

Just what the hell does he have to do to get dropped?

If the next test wasn't at The Oval I might think you have a point, but I wouldn't seriously consider going into a test there without a specialist spinner & don't see the other options banging the door down.

Stick with Vaughan then. He'll average more than twenty.

Barely.