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***Official*** Australia in South Africa
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Spark
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There is literally no one I would rather doing this than Mussey though.
Spikey
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what and move a guy who averages 89 there?!
Def think Ponting and Hussey should swap but alas.
I miss Hauritz in the lower order
Howe_zat
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Spikey
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oh well this plan to let him take as many wickets as possible to get him in the test team - same with SA A and Siddle - is a bit silly thenNo
On the left. Other guy is Petersen.
NUFAN
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LOL. Pretty hard to get Hughes, Watson or Ponting out from your bowling before you've had a bowl!
Briony
International Debutant
Yes, definitely below their records against other nations though Smith was Man of the Series in Australia and was sawn off by a umpires at least three times in the corresponding series in 2005/6.
Looks like de Villiers may not be a factor until the second test so they might have to go with the underperforming Duminy. With Smith and Boucher out of form they have their problems too.
Ruckus
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What the **** that does that have to do with anything?
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Where does the tail start?
Spark
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Rough to criticise him about not getting enough top-order wickets when half of them got out before he could actually do anything. Besides which, he got Marsh... although the description sounds like Marsh had a lot to do with his dismissal.
NUFAN
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Well it's ****ing obvious that he's mainly gotten lower order wickets because he didn't bowl to half the top order.
Howe_zat
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Because criticising a 5-for by saying it's "mostly tail" is only a criticism if it shows he couldn't get top order batsmen out. The top three were already out by the time de Lange came on to bowl, so you can't knock him for not getting them out.
Ruckus
International Captain
Except I never said that...you can only do what's presented to you in the situation, but at the end of the day 4 out of his 5 wickets in his impressive figures are tail...
Briony
International Debutant
I noticed he hit Hussey on the helmet just before lunch. He's only 21 so you can understand why he wouldn't be opening the bowling.
BTW if de Lange can take a five-fer against Australia but Copeland can't even take one first innings wicket against a randomly selected SA team why are people so confident that he'll be successful against Kallis and the boys?
Spark
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Brad Haddin averages close to 40 in Tests... yes, he's in a horror run with the bat but let's be fair here.