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*Official* England in South Africa
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Stapel
International Regular
I guess we will never ever stop complaining about Pietersen throwing his wicket away. He might very well be the most talented batsman in the world, only his 'flamboyancy'in the way of actually being the best test batsman. Otoh, we should not forget that the same characteristic that makes him throw away his wicket, might cause the runs he collects.
IMHO, it just great to see that some batsman are like Dravid and others are like Pietersen.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
If this gets given out I am gonna put my foot through my telly..not out, not even close IMOLooks like we all brought that about. Should've known better.
flibbertyjibber
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Looked a correct decision in the end but it is infuriating that all the technology isn't available.Why bring in a new system if it is different in various parts of the world.The same for all or not at all.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Good news for your telly. Also good news for the referral system that piss poor decisions like that get overturned.
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Yep, exactly. Completely ridiculous.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Nah - better getting it right some of the time than none of the time.
How come it's not available everywhere btw?
GIMH
Norwood's on Fire
Yes, definitely. I wonder if on-field umpires are more inclined to give those decisions out when they aren't sure, hence allowing the batsman to effectively tell them if they hit it or not.
chalky
International Debutant
Financial hot spot, snicko & hawk eye cost the host broadcaster money.
shivfan
Banned
"55.1
Duminy to Cook, no run, REVIEW Cook given out caught at short leg from a ball that spun into the pad, did it catch an inside edge? Cook doesn't think so. Replays suggest it came straight off the pad, but it's close to the inside edge. Is there enough evidence to overturn the decision? No Snicko and no HotSpot, the third-umpire is really considering this.... but given NOT OUT "
No Hotspot used here, unlike in Australia....
Maybe that's a good thing, since the umpires don't seem to want to pay attention to Hotspot when it suits them. After all, they ignored Hotspot in upholding Roach's dismissal in the Perth Test. Maybe they should just follow the example here in South Africa, and ignore Hotspot completely.
Duminy to Cook, no run, REVIEW Cook given out caught at short leg from a ball that spun into the pad, did it catch an inside edge? Cook doesn't think so. Replays suggest it came straight off the pad, but it's close to the inside edge. Is there enough evidence to overturn the decision? No Snicko and no HotSpot, the third-umpire is really considering this.... but given NOT OUT "
No Hotspot used here, unlike in Australia....
Maybe that's a good thing, since the umpires don't seem to want to pay attention to Hotspot when it suits them. After all, they ignored Hotspot in upholding Roach's dismissal in the Perth Test. Maybe they should just follow the example here in South Africa, and ignore Hotspot completely.
flibbertyjibber
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Slow session but very interesting and it belongs to England.To only lose 2 wickets was vital and being close to 200 gives us the platform to set up the game tomorrow.We just need to bat properly for another day and get a nice lead and then see if S.A. choke under pressure in the 2nd innings.
tooextracool
International Coach
Plenty of inaccurate statements going around IMHO. Cook was not 'out of form', nor does he have problems converting 50s to 100s. He was technically exposed for a consistent period of time following the Ashes in 2006/07- summer 2009 and scored runs on a dearth of extremely flat pitches during that time while failing to score when England needed him to score most.
However, as I stated last test match, it took me as much as 3 overs to tell that Cook's technique is much improved from the period mentioned above and I really hope that given his talent and the runs that might follow as a result of the effort put in by Gooch and Cook himself over the winter will not continue to be confused with the notion of him recovering form or starting to convert his scores (which is a ludicrous statement in the first place given the number of 100s he has at his age). I don't think that he has overcome all of his technical weaknesses but he certainly does look to be playing with a much straighter bat, closer to his body and also his body position is far more front on than it used to be in defense. This quite obviously increases his chances of scoring runs at the test match level.
tooextracool
International Coach
We have seen some pretty ordinary bowling from South Africa this morning if you ask me. I did a count of the number of balls that Morne Morkel bowled on the stumps in his spell just before lunch and I counted about 3. I understand that he has a lot of attributes in his favor, but by bowling the lines and lengths he does he ends up taking bowled and lbw out of the equation and it hurts his statistics at the end of the day.
Harris consistently failed to bowl in the danger area to Cook, which involves making him drive on the off side, instead bowling either too short or allowing him to play on the leg side. Fair enough that Cook was playing anything on or around off stump on the leg side but it was still poor bowling.
Harris consistently failed to bowl in the danger area to Cook, which involves making him drive on the off side, instead bowling either too short or allowing him to play on the leg side. Fair enough that Cook was playing anything on or around off stump on the leg side but it was still poor bowling.
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