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

[mackembhoy]

Gower,Key and Fraser have made their money today. Plenty of commentary work for them today.

Good start by south africa.

 

[Compton]

Who has the balls to get de Kock out?

 

[Compton]

Chris Jordan wiiiiiiiiiiiide.

 

[Groundking]

Jordan is such a poor bowler, why is he in the team? The only thing he offers is gun fielding.

 

[Compton]

Chat4Enjoy

 

[Compton]

Jordan is such a poor bowler, why is he in the team? The only thing he offers is gun fielding.

There's a strange train of thought where he contributes a little bit of everything. He's a classic English bits and bobs player, who's not particularly good with bat or ball.

 

[mackembhoy]

Chris Jordan is a hopeless bowler.

 

[Groundking]

There's a strange train of thought where he contributes a little bit of everything. He's a classic English bits and bobs player, who's not particularly good with bat or ball.

He contributes absolutely nothing, we'd be better off with a genuine threat quick with how deep we bat, even batting until 9 is more than enough, if you had somebody who's a genuine threat with the ball, which I don't think we have. I'd get Broad in for Jordan, Broad would probably do better with the bat, and whilst he's not as good in ODI's as compared to tests, he's still a miles better bowler than Jordan.

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah, Jordan should be out of the team next game. Broad likely next cab off the rank.

 

[Compton]

Well Topley was the top wicket taker in RLODC last year, so maybe England should pick whoever was second?

 

[Scaly piscine]

Pitch a complete road now. Should have bowled first.

 

[wpdavid]

Looking like a piece of cake, isn't it. Not only a record run chase but without losing any wickets is looking a distinct possibility.

Why Jordan at this stage?

 

[Captain_Cook]

SA batting unbelievably. I don't understand how Jordan plays in 50 over stuff...

It's a strange pitch or two fabulous knocks, did England make a hash of their 318 or has the pitch got a bit easier?

 

[wpdavid]

SA batting unbelievably. I don't understand how Jordan plays in 50 over stuff...

It's a strange pitch or two fabulous knocks, did England make a hash of their 318 or has the pitch got a bit easier?

These two batsmen are very good indeed and England's bowling isn't outstanding if conditions don't help a bit.

We probably should have made more than 318, but we probably needed 350 to be competitive, which was never quite on the cards.

 

[StephenZA]

QDK his conversion rate is ridiculously.

 

[weldone]

Haha SA kept wickets in hand only with DLS in mind. In the end, it turned out to be an awesome move in general. So, teams (specially teams with top-heavy batting lineup) can learn from DLS how to chase down big totals. Going crazy from ball 1 is not the answer, as long as you don't get badly bogged down in the middle overs).

#inb4soemonesays319isnotbig

 

[Captain_Cook]

Still need 145 off 20 overs. That isn't always a straightforward chase in T20.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

This guy is going to win us a world cup... I know i know, but he is finally one of those x factor players that could explode in a playoff game and win it singelhandedly.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Still need 145 off 20 overs. That isn't always a straightforward chase in T20.

Yep get a wicket here and ab in quick succession then you are one wicket away from the bowlers.

 

[Compton]

Still need 145 off 20 overs. That isn't always a straightforward chase in T20.

It generally is though, and in T20 you don't start with tired bowlers and set batsmen.