*Official* England in South Africa

[zaremba]

Vince van der Bijl seems to be the daddy of the vibe with 767 FC wickets at 16.54. Seems like an amazing bowler, played one season in England and did terrifically well.

There's a full list on cricinfo

And the great-granddaddy of the vibe is John Wisden - 1109 FC wickets at 6.66.

 

[Goughy]

Vince van der Bijl seems to be the daddy of the vibe with 767 FC wickets at 16.54. Seems like an amazing bowler, played one season in England and did terrifically well.

There's a full list on cricinfo

And the great-granddaddy of the vibe is John Wisden - 1109 FC wickets at 6.66.

Obviously too many incomplete statistics to take the stats seriously for many of the old, old timers but here we have William Lillywhite with over 1500 FC wickets at an average of 1.54

 

[Athlai]

I really like Strauss and Cook potentially my favourite opening partnership in Test cricket.

 

[Golaxi]

I really like Strauss and Cook potentially my favourite opening partnership in Test cricket.

they haven't exactly set the world alight.

still prefer atherton and butcher

 

[Howsie]

I really like Strauss and Cook potentially my favourite opening partnership in Test cricket.

Couldn't think of a more boring partnership tbh.

 

[Scaly piscine]

BBC Sport - Cricket - Graham Gooch remains non-committal on England coach job

So Gooch is "one of the best batting coaches in international cricket" based on two very talented but technically flawed players? ****ing bravo.

No wonder England have to rely on imports for real quality batting

 

[GIMH]

Pretty average stuff from our batsmen so far. A lot of starts and then nothing more. Cook top scorer with 81. Interesting to see they've gone for 6 batsmen + Prior, with Bell at 6.

 

[wpdavid]

Presumably they'll declare at lunch and give the bowlers a couple of sessions.

 

[GIMH]

Yep. Onions took an early pole, Broad getting a tonking

 

[Prince EWS]

Davies should have opened the bowling. Aussie to confirm.

 

[GIMH]

It would be 300/0 now if he had

.

 

[Uppercut]

Davies should have opened the bowling. Aussie to confirm.

Haha indeed.

Broad's more of a first-change man anyway.

 

[GIMH]

Davies watch:

1 over. 1 maiden. 0 runs. 0 wickets. Econ: 0.00.

 

[GIMH]

Run conceded from seventh ball, aussie vindicated

Full update to come at the end of the over. Sit tight.

 

[GIMH]

Mark Davies (rm) 2.0 1 1 0 0.50 (0nb, 0w)

 

[GIMH]

Mark Davies (rm) 4.0 2 3 0 0.75 (0nb, 0w)

Wicket for Swanneh as well, WAG

 

[GIMH]

Mark Davies (rm) 5.0 2 9 0 1.80 (0nb, 0w)

Not a good over. Get this joke out of the team, please.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Exciting times...

 

[Prince EWS]

Swannehhhhh!!!

again

 

[Scaly piscine]

Hmm Swann destroying them single-handedly virtually.