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

Maximas

Maximas

Cricketer Of The Year
Shri said:
Yeah for now but they need his bowling more. Aggravating his injury and not bowling in the second innings would be disastrous.
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Not actually sure about this. They need some runs now to have any chance of winning the game, and the more time they bat the easier it will be to draw the game later on, whereas there isn't too much he can realistically do with the ball to influence the match at this stage I'd say
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
I've missed play after tea. Is Philander surviving more balls than any other batsman a display of proper batsmanship? Or is it his lucky day?
 
G

Garson007

State Vice-Captain
Morkel's batting brain has been dead this entire series.

Edit: Scrap that. He never had a brain.
 
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Tangles

Tangles

International Vice-Captain
Don't get the handling the ball thing at all. If I'm batting I'm not expending effort to pick up the ball. **** that. That's what fielders are for.
 
Shri

Shri

Mr. Glass
Maximas said:
Not actually sure about this. They need some runs now to have any chance of winning the game, and the more time they bat the easier it will be to draw the game later on, whereas there isn't too much he can realistically do with the ball to influence the match at this stage I'd say
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lol47allout
 
Top_Cat

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Burgey said:
There's got to be something about Johnson's pace, action or angle of release or something which seems to compel even top players to play really wide balls from over the wicket. It's always happened, whether he's bowled well or bowled crap.
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Yeah theory goes that where he lets go of the ball, right in front of the umpire's body with his low sling means you don't get as good a look at it on the way down.
 
Bahnz

Bahnz

Hall of Fame Member
Maximas said:
Great day for the Aussies, exactly what Clarke would've been hoping for this morning
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Yeah, but also certainly not what Clarke was hoping for after SA were 140/6. Australia now doesn't have a huge amount of time to win the game. He might well have to #riskalosstowin.
 
Burgey

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Yeah they'll be rueing the missed stumping off Faf, that's for sure. Philander batted very well though.
 
Spikey

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GSmith worked out the numbers, realised SSmith was likely to over-take him in the batting rankings and decided to retire
 
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SteveNZ

Cricketer Of The Year
Top_Cat said:
Yeah theory goes that where he lets go of the ball, right in front of the umpire's body with his low sling means you don't get as good a look at it on the way down.
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Definitely the angle, his action and also the lack of conscious decision-making time you have with a guy bowling 150 clicks. Even a guy with the tightest technique will sometimes have a nibble at that pace and think 'why the hell did I do that'.
 
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