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

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91Jmay

International Coach
Perhaps it is a tall fast bowler thing (Morkel seems to do it as well) but Finn never quite takes the amount of wickets his spell suggests he should. Great stuff though.

Saffers have started rebuilding quite nicely though
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
Could go either way, couldn't it. If we do shift one of these two quite quickly, I'm still not convinced by Bavuma when there's less than 400 on the board and I've never heard of Vilas.

otoh AB could rack up a ton in no time and we're in trouble.
 
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91Jmay

International Coach
Yeah, I'd marginally rather be SA because this is a result pitch for certain and runs on the board will be vital but as you say a quick couple and we are right amongst them. Great test match pitch, I was far to quick to call it flat earlier. Feel like it has started swinging a bit more when lacquer has come off ball.
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
wpdavid said:
Could go either way, couldn't it. If we do shift one of these two quite quickly, I'm still not convinced by Bavuma when there's less than 400 on the board and I've never heard of Vilas.

otoh AB could rack up a ton in no time and we're in trouble.
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For my own convenience, I've made a par wicket list for batting first. Sure enough, it's a bit random, as it doesn't hold any sort of indepth analysis of type of pitch, conditions, or abilities of batsmen or bowlers. Let alone the difference between the 7th wicket being the in form #3 having faced 200 deliveries, or the fresh #8. But here you go:

50/1, 100/2, 150/3, 200/4, 250/5, 300/6, 340/7, 370/8, 390/9, 400ao.

Simple conclusion: this match is in the ballance!
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
91Jmay said:
Perhaps it is a tall fast bowler thing (Morkel seems to do it as well) but Finn never quite takes the amount of wickets his spell suggests he should. Great stuff though.

Saffers have started rebuilding quite nicely though
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Lord's a couple years back against the Saffers. Probably easily forgotten, as England lost. But he did get Kallis (twice, though one was dodgy), Amla (twice) & ABdV. In my memory, those were some very decent spells!

And then there is Birmingham last summer. I hold Steven Finn, the arsehole, personally responsible for making my Edgbaston Day 4 tickets completely useless.
 
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Pratters

Pratters

Cricket, Lovely Cricket
Meh at AB. Has been too aggressive all series. Even with the test at line earlier in the series, he was playing poorly.
 
wpdavid

wpdavid

Hall of Fame Member
Nicely done Faf. I'm tempted to say there was no need for Finn to bowl all those jaffas at him earlier, but perhaps they played a role in the eventual dismissal.
 
Daemon

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I think the whole 'England wasted the new ball' sentiment is correct to an extent, but it's being overplayed imo. Broad wasn't up to it but it's not like he sent down pies, there were a couple of seriously good balls in there. Anderson was pretty good I though although he didn't attack the stumps as much as he should've. Finn was a bit too short but that's how he typically rolls iirc. All in all though, it wasn't that easy batting first up and there were still a fair amount of deliveries that might've gotten less cautious batsmen out.
 
Stapel

Stapel

International Regular
Another not very sensible way to get out.....

Daemon said:
I think the whole 'England wasted the new ball' sentiment is correct to an extent, but it's being overplayed imo. Broad wasn't up to it but it's not like he sent down pies, there were a couple of seriously good balls in there. Anderson was pretty good I though although he didn't attack the stumps as much as he should've. Finn was a bit too short but that's how he typically rolls iirc. All in all though, it wasn't that easy batting first up and there were still a fair amount of deliveries that might've gotten less cautious batsmen out.
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Broad had one ball of the edge missing the slips, and one decent LBW shout. Not that Broad can ever have a decent LBW shout, but you get what I mean :) .
 
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