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The end of the road for SA and my last thread on proteas.

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TT Boy

TT Boy

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shivfan said:
The cry went up for 'justice' and demands were made that deWet be brought back into the team for the third test asap, and funny enough, he hasn't turned out to be the great messiah some said he was....
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Bowled with a stress fracture of the back and still had a better economy rate than Ntini managed and de Wet took a wicket. :laugh:

Though, I shouldn't laugh Ntini took five wickets yesterday. :-O Some indictment on domestic standards.
 
grecian

grecian

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TT Boy said:
Bowled with a stress fracture of the back and still had a better economy rate than Ntini managed and de Wet took a wicket. :laugh:

Though, I shouldn't laugh Ntini took five wickets yesterday. :-O Some indictment on domestic standards.
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Surely Tony Palladino is the biggest indictment of domestic standards. 8 wickets:wacko:
 
Richard

Richard

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morgieb said:
Palladino played 2nd, rather than 1st, class cricket in SA though.
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There is (unfortunately) not actually any such thing as Second-Class cricket - what you mean is he played in the second-tier First-Class competition rather than the first-tier one.
 
Briony

Briony

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Ntini had rubbish figures in the game before though. He was bowling first with cloud around. He's always done all right when the pitch and conditions offer up a bit but has becoming increasingly friendly on flat tracks with his one-dimensional style now that his pace has dropped.
 
Richard

Richard

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All career Ntini has offered precious little on a flat deck, except (sometimes) the ability to tie-up an end.
 
Pratters

Pratters

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South Africa lost the last series at home v England with extreme bad luck. They can't win this one unluckily as well. Both times, they were the superior team easily IMO.
 
stephen

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Ntini is a bowler who is very ordinary on a flat track, but is utterly lethal when there's some grass on the pitch or there's a bit of cloud cover. On South African greentops he's a monster.
 
GIMH

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Pratters said:
South Africa lost the last series at home v England with extreme bad luck. They can't win this one unluckily as well. Both times, they were the superior team easily IMO.
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This must be trolling because I can't see how anyone could actually believe that bollocks! How the hell were they unlucky to lose that series? We weren't at our best but were clearly the better side, and of the two draws, only one of them came close to being won, and hey, it wasn't by South Africa.

And to be honest, if we go on to win this series then it won't be through luck either. Taking nineteen wickets twice isn't unlucky, it wasn't rain or the weather that cost them, it was the fact that they never bowled us out in time. Australia could cite bad luck at Cardiff as heaps of time was lost to rain, but here the Saffas never took twenty wickets in the allocated time, guess what, that's what you have to do to win.

8-)
 
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