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***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

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91Jmay

International Coach
This looks very comfortable. Just need one chance to get into that fragile middle order. Root's drop looking terrible right about now.
 
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91Jmay

International Coach
Yeah dropping Amla/AB is the game. Can't get both of them out 3 times on this pitch. Was a harder chance than Root's but still have to grab that. What a bowling change that would have been.
 
MW1304

MW1304

Cricketer Of The Year
That's bad. But this has been a good morning, pretty much all we can do is keep them tied down and hope for a mistake like that one. Maybe take the next one though hey.

On the other hand South Africa will be pleased if they can get to the second new ball 2 wickets down. Could really start to make hay.
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
Maybe it's time to forget a bit about yesterday's spectacular onslaught, and get things into perspective. We are 40% into this test, and we've seen just 6 proper wickets (+ 2 run outs). Two guys with each having 1000 test runs @28 managed to add 400 in a record tempo. Now we see two guys sharing 15000 test runs @50 wearing out the bowlers. Do we really expect De Kock, Du Plessis & Bavuma to fall like ripe apples, once a breakthrough is there?

Maybe this match has draw written all over it?
 
flibbertyjibber

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Well this has been a frustrating morning. SA battling hard though and fair play to them. Can't keep shelling chances though.
 
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91Jmay

International Coach
Stapel said:
Maybe it's time to forget a bit about yesterday's spectacular onslaught, and get things into perspective. We are 40% into this test, and we've seen just 6 proper wickets (+ 2 run outs). Two guys with each having 1000 test runs @28 managed to add 400 in a record tempo. Now we see two guys sharing 15000 test runs @50 wearing out the bowlers. Do we really expect De Kock, Du Plessis & Bavuma to fall like ripe apples, once a breakthrough is there?

Maybe this match has draw written all over it?
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Nah Stokes innings was still ATG, you should struggle to strike the ball that well against a county attack let alone a Test match one. But yeah it is clearly a road, just have to hope scoreboard pressure tells (if we'd have taken our chances also looks a totally different game).
 
Pratters

Pratters

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91Jmay said:
Nah Stokes innings was still ATG, you should struggle to strike the ball that well against a county attack let alone a Test match one. But yeah it is clearly a road, just have to hope scoreboard pressure tells (if we'd have taken our chances also looks a totally different game).
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It always amazes me how talented Stokes is. Even in bowling he can produce special stuff. Comparisons with Botham are apt in this regard. He seems far more serious now about his game compared to a loose cannon that he was before too.
 
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