***Official*** India in South Africa 2013/14

[OverratedSanity]

Let's see how 'talented Kohli' does

Kill Kohli pls

Pujara WAG

I hope Kohli gets out soon, irritating ****

**** these haters. Kohli WAG

 

[OverratedSanity]

SA have bowled so many long hops today. Jeez

 

[OverratedSanity]

Kohli reminding me of ponting with his awesome batting. Also reminding me of ponting with that awful shuffle across the stumps to kallis.

Gotta get to the end of the day, Virat.

 

[Maximas]

India really can't afford to lose too many wickets before stumps, they have to make use of tomorrow being the best batting day - which of course would deprive SA of part of it as well. Especially given the lack of batting after Ashwin in this line-up

 

[Jono]

Yeah really waiting for Jonty Panesar to admit his "talented" jibes at Kohli re: test cricket were stupid.

 

[Cabinet96]

Tahir is like a really good club second XI bowler who always tears up, but you can never promote to the firsts because he bowls two bad balls an over.

Except, instead of playing some second XI cricket in South African club cricket, he's playing a test match.

 

[Maximas]

He's in that void between FC standard and test standard

 

[Jono]

Imran's head is gone, bowling absolute poo. Gotta capitalise here.

 

[Jono]

Rahane doing his job here wonderfully.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Kohli's expression when he couldn't put away that Tahir full toss
" Yeah no problem I'm gonna get two more chances this over anyway"

If it was anyone else bowling he'd be kicking himself

 

[Cabinet96]

Yeah really waiting for Jonty Panesar to admit his "talented" jibes at Kohli re: test cricket were stupid.

I see where he's coming form tbf. Kohli is clearly a really good batsman, and has high potential, but he'd definitely been overhyped in test cricket in terms of how people thought of him and his actual output. Mainly because he's such a good ODI player and is major eye candy with willow in hand, both of which are major pet hates for me when it comes to rating a test batsman.

Before today he was averaging in the low 40's, despite the fact he'd played most of his tests at home. Furthermore he'd never really done much at the start of a series bar his Chennai century (his Perth, Adelaide and Nagpur exploits were too little too late) and had played some really poor shots at crucial moments of the tests India lost, such as that infamous full toss as Mumbai.

He's someone who has always sort of been a lock in the side and viewed very highly based on talent, potential and the belief that he'll be a really good test batsman, rather than doing it through big test performances like someone such as Pujara has. I can see why that would gripe some people.

 

[Prince EWS]

He's in that void between FC standard and test standard

I think what's a little weird though is that instead of just being not very good in Tests, he's a complete and utter joke a lot of the time. He's not just a bit toothless or a bit loose; he shows up and bowls worse than you'd expect some specialist batsmen to send down sometimes. I get that he's really inconsistent so his good days in domestic cricket will quite possibly make up for his bad days a bit more but there's no way IMO he actually bowls so much rubbish in domestic cricket to get the figures he gets, and I say that as someone who wasn't quite as enamoured with his domestic record as most before his selection. The pressure of the occasion, the pressure better batsmen can put on him or quite probably both must really get to him.

 

[Maximas]

dear me

 

[Jono]

****kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk

 

[OverratedSanity]

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooo

 

[Prince EWS]

Kallis too good. Great delivery.

 

[Jono]

One day he'll learn how to play a big daddy hundred.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Brilliantly played, you beautiful man

Hell kick on to get a double soon. I'm sure he wants one badly

 

[Cabinet96]

I see where he's coming form tbf. Kohli is clearly a really good batsman, and has high potential, but he'd definitely been overhyped in test cricket in terms of how people thought of him and his actual output. Mainly because he's such a good ODI player and is major eye candy with willow in hand, both of which are major pet hates for me when it comes to rating a test batsman.

Before today he was averaging in the low 40's, despite the fact he'd played most of his tests at home. Furthermore he'd never really done much at the start of a series bar his Chennai century (his Perth, Adelaide and Nagpur exploits were too little too late) and had played some really poor shots at crucial moments of the tests India lost, such as that infamous full toss as Mumbai.

He's someone who has always sort of been a lock in the side and viewed very highly based on talent, potential and the belief that he'll be a really good test batsman, rather than doing it through big test performances like someone such as Pujara has. I can see why that would gripe some people.

And shots like that don't help.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Soft end to a great knock.