**Official** South Africa in England 2012

[Burgey]

Day one summary from the CW England crew

Wonderful from Jimmy. He's so grand. Broad has been brilliant too. I love Swanneh, a real character. Bres is amazing. How good are we that we can leave him out? Peterson is lucky. Smith is ugly to watch. Not enough cloud cover, we've been done over here by the conditions. Can't believe how unlucky we are.

Rinse and repeat for seven hours.

 

[Burgey]

Two blokes out in the third over with the ball swinging. Itstl.

 

[Heboric]

Saffies batting first, not that disappointed, cloud cover there. Four bowlers of course, not sure about this though, Scaly spewing.

Not disappointed?

 

[grecian]

EEK, should have hit you long streak of piss.

 

[Spark]

EEK, should have hit you long streak of piss.

Bit of a tough ask for a tall quick to be able to hit a target that's all but behind him running perpendicular to it tbf.

 

[grecian]

Bit of a tough ask for a tall quick to be able to hit a target that's all but behind him running perpendicular to it tbf.

Meh, if we're gonna have any chance here, need to take all opportunities.

 

[Uppercut]

That ball that went for four was 78mph from Broad. Remember when everyone thought the speedguns weren't working too well this summer? Turns out the entire England attack simultaneously lost their nip.

 

[Spark]

That ball that went for four was 78mph from Broad. Remember when everyone thought the speedguns weren't working too well this summer? Turns out the entire England attack simultaneously lost their nip.

Broad said in an interview today that those speeds are bull, basically.

 

[grecian]

That ball that went for four was 78mph from Broad. Remember when everyone thought the speedguns weren't working too well this summer? Turns out the entire England attack simultaneously lost their nip.

I think he's trying to bowl slower to get the accuracy and swing.

 

[Burgey]

That ball that went for four was 78mph from Broad. Remember when everyone thought the speedguns weren't working too well this summer? Turns out the entire England attack simultaneously lost their nip.

Not sure if youre serious but it's not unreasonable to suggest they have is it? Finn was clocked well over 90mph in the ODI series so it isn't like the speed guns have been slow for everyone. I presume they're the same devices.

Beauty by Anderson to finish the over.

He's so grand. Petersen is lucky. Etc etc

 

[Uppercut]

Broad said in an interview today that those speeds are bull, basically.

He probably genuinely believes that the speedguns mysteriously start to underestimate by 5mph every time Anderson, Broad and Bresnan come on to bowl.

But we don't need speedguns to tell us they've all been far less threatening this summer anyway.

 

[Stumpcam]

I think he's trying to bowl slower to get the accuracy and swing.

As a professional bowler, he should be able to control line and length when bowling flat out, not have to bowl gently to get his accuracy right. IMHO.

 

[grecian]

Whatever the reason it hasn't been great by Broad, not really threatening at all, needed to bowl better than this considering the hou-ha.

 

[Uppercut]

Not sure if youre serious but it's not unreasonable to suggest they have is it? Finn was clocked well over 90mph in the ODI series so it isn't like the speed guns have been slow for everyone. I presume they're the same devices.

Yeah that's my point. All of them losing a chunk of pace at the same time seemed pretty unnatural. But turns out that's exactly what's happened.

 

[Manee]

That ball that went for four was 78mph from Broad. Remember when everyone thought the speedguns weren't working too well this summer? Turns out the entire England attack simultaneously lost their nip.

Its hard to say. England don't look like they're bowling too quick. Anderson notably has dropped the pace down to concentrate on swing but unsure about the others.

Broad said in an interview today that those speeds are bull, basically.

Ooh, where was that? Got a link?

I think he's trying to bowl slower to get the accuracy and swing.

Broad is best when he pushes up into the low to mid 80s.

 

[Manee]

Yeah that's my point. All of them losing a chunk of pace at the same time seemed pretty unnatural. But turns out that's exactly what's happened.

Bresnan was the one where you could tell plainly that he wasn't running in and powering through the action like he used to.

 

[grecian]

As a professional bowler, he should be able to control line and length when bowling flat out, not have to bowl gently to get his accuracy right. IMHO.

Well, many professional bowlers don't bowl flat out, I think McGrath was quite professional, and many others have dropped pace for accuracy, Marshall and Hadlee. Anyway as I say he's not bowling well.

 

[Uppercut]

Anderson notably has dropped the pace down to concentrate on swing but unsure about the others.

Hmm I don't think so. He's bowling his fastest this summer this morning and also getting more dangerous swing than he has before.

 

[grecian]

Hmm, as Burgey says this is following a familiar script.

 

[bombay_bomber]

Anderson's wasting some jaffas atm