**Official** South Africa in England 2012

[grecian]

Silly, have they not realised Finns quite tall, still two decent deliveries.

 

[bombay_bomber]

Just reinforces that the enforcer needs to be ****ed off...waste of a new cherry

 

[Stumpcam]

FFS, what a waste of a review! Finn is the most culpable, he must have seen the ball hit well above the knee roll and should have said so. Arrogant arse.

 

[MW1304]

Yeah he pitched that one quite a bit fuller, but it still bounced a fair bit. Could see why they gambled though, was clearly in line.

 

[Andre]

Well, for a long time we were doing alright without him, with his injury record he was always going to be a short-term thing, great whilst it lasted though.

Not really, you got smashed against Pakistan, struggled in SL, didn't do all that well with the ball vs the West Indies and have barely got a wicket this series. Goes to show how little he gets spoken about rather than how well England have been doing for mine.

 

[Spark]

Not really, you got smashed against Pakistan, struggled in SL, didn't do all that well with the ball vs the West Indies and have barely got a wicket this series. Goes to show how little he gets spoken about rather than how well England have been doing for mine.

The former two weren't down to the bowling, and besides - he's been injured.

 

[Prince EWS]

I wonder when captains will realise they aren't going to get marginal lbw calls off the quicks on review. They'll be umpire's call the vast majority of the time and, as we saw with that one, sometimes they'll be missing entirely. I honestly don't think they're worth gambling on.

 

[bombay_bomber]

Bolt's probably busy "raufing" atm

 

[Scaly piscine]

England have picked the right team here IMO. I'm definitely not as big a fan of Finn as most here but I do think he's a better bowler than Onions, particularly within the balance of this lineup. I've always been a Bresnan fan but he's noticeably been well below his standards since his injury and he's had a while to get together now too so I think a change did have to be made there. There's no point having the fast bowling depth England do if you aren't prepared to use it when you have someone under-performing over a semi-extended period and I'm sure Bresnan will be back down the line.

Bollocks. What has he done to show he's a better bowler than Onions this season? Did some damage in the ODIs, a completely different situation and that's it. Everything else Onions has comprehensively outperformed him. Far better in the Test where they both played. Far better record this season. Far better in English conditions. Far better fit for the side. Far better fit for the situation of having to win a Test match. The only situation it would even be close is in Australia where you get rewarded with wickets simply for bowling quick and being tall, whilst the pitches are otherwise pretty flat. If you can just turn up and bowl quick with bounce and not have to do anything else then Finn is a good option, the rest of the time he doesn't have the nous, he doesn't understand his game well enough to know how to use what he has, how to work batsmen over. He also doesn't seem to have the stamina to maintain pace for long. Until he learns his game he needs to stick with county cricket - that's what it is there for.

Another absolute ****ing prank selection which flies in the face of fairness. Been absolutely lethal in county cricket? Done all the hard work? We'll just pick someone who keeps performing worse than you, again, ahead of you. Onions has more than earned his selection for this Test. Finn has not.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

SAf hardly rotating strikes, dealing with only boundaries at the moment

 

[MW1304]

Well, not really a problem as it is.

Showed the hawkeye from those two lbw shouts and they were indeed pitched on completely different lengths.

 

[uvelocity]

blake needs to cut his fingernails. wierd.

that lbw review was terrible. i think maybe the someone was telling strauss it was going over or something, you could see strauss say nah **** that, nah **** that and then review it. never a chance.

 

[grecian]

Not really, you got smashed against Pakistan, struggled in SL, didn't do all that well with the ball vs the West Indies and have barely got a wicket this series. Goes to show how little he gets spoken about rather than how well England have been doing for mine.

We bowled well in Pakistan and Sri Lanka, beat Windies too.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Wow Finn has bowled 3 deliveries that would have hit the stumps today. Amazing. Although two were leg-stump help yourself stuff.

 

[Uppercut]

Jimmeh looks uncharacteristically impatient. Maybe Finn's having the effect Johnson had on the rest of the Aussie attack.

 

[uvelocity]

Wow Finn has bowled 3 deliveries that would have hit the stumps today. Amazing. Although two were leg-stump help yourself stuff.

never cheated at scrabble tbf

 

[Valer]

Wow Finn has bowled 3 deliveries that would have hit the stumps today. Amazing. Although two were leg-stump help yourself stuff.

Tbf its not like broad has got any more on the stumps (well 1 but he's bowled more overs).

 

[Burgey]

Unlucky for Petersen, having a Kaspa moment it seems.

 

[Spark]

Hahaha @ Petersen trying to review after he's seen the replay

 

[Daemon]

YYEE$$$$

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