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***Official*** South Africa in Australia 2012
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Looks a mother****ing road.
I agree, there doesn't seem to be much life in it.
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Can't you see the solid double lines up the middle?
As I say that, one stays low from Steyn.
hendrix
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this is setting myself up to look stupid, but...
I don't think Morkel will pick up wickets right arm round on a good length. Sure, he's made Warner uncomfortable, but he won't be able to pitch it up enough and he's completely taken LBW out of play. If he was coming over he could pitch it full without fear of missing the line and giving leg stump half volleys. He's fast enough to try and beat the batsman for pace and get LBW and bowled, as well as perhaps get the edge with the natural angle across the left hander.
The only thing he can hope for going round the wicket is to angle it in and hope it straightens and takes the edge, but I think that's asking a bit much of this pitch and he's going to bowl too many loose deliveries searching for that movement.
I don't think Morkel will pick up wickets right arm round on a good length. Sure, he's made Warner uncomfortable, but he won't be able to pitch it up enough and he's completely taken LBW out of play. If he was coming over he could pitch it full without fear of missing the line and giving leg stump half volleys. He's fast enough to try and beat the batsman for pace and get LBW and bowled, as well as perhaps get the edge with the natural angle across the left hander.
The only thing he can hope for going round the wicket is to angle it in and hope it straightens and takes the edge, but I think that's asking a bit much of this pitch and he's going to bowl too many loose deliveries searching for that movement.
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Spark
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Yet to see one move off the straight tbh...
Still could easily see us 3/80 at lunch, mind.
uvelocity
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history tells us that's how he gets out a lot though
Spark
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Half-volley/yorker, surely
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robelinda
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he'd have to put on a Trevor Chappell mask.
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That's the way he plays!
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Spark
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he'd have to put on a Trevor Chappell mask.
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Nah she be roadin'.
hendrix
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On pitches where there's consistently enough movement to angle it in and confidently expect it to straighten half the time.
I'm sure Allan Donald knows what he's doing, it's just this feeling that I have. This pitch requires a bit more thought IMO.