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

[Stefan9]

You make your own luck. England haven't deserved any luck in these odi series.

Will be interesting to see what SA does when qdk is fit.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

I may have been a bit unfair on stokes. He has been the best bowler today going at only 10rpo

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Geez faf and duminy... Try losing the game from here.

 

[StephenZA]

pretty plumb that...

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Another howler

 

[Scaly piscine]

I may have been a bit unfair on stokes. He has been the best bowler today going at only 10rpo

I reckon almost anyone else bar Moeen would have caught the one in his first over. But he always seems to get that 'support'. I also think having Jordan and Stokes bowl at the same time is a bad idea. Apart from both potentially being expensive they're quite similar. I think a bowling attack with Finn, Topley, Willey, Stokes, Rashid and Moeen has a lot of variety, which hopefully makes it less like the batsmen are just having a net against a bowling machine.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Did he get a slight inside edge on that though?

 

[testcricketer]

What a f*ckin exhibition by these two and the best part is thier different players, so with ab you marvel at the power game, the innovativeness, the fleetfootedness, etc whereas with #, you have the wrists of steel, impecable placement, and great timing

 

[Stefan9]

Englands fielding is really dreadfull. another missed chance.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

What a f*ckin exhibition by these two and the best part is thier different players, so with ab you marvel at the power game, the innovativeness, the fleetfootedness, etc whereas with #, you have the wrists of steel, impecable placement, and great timing

Amla not shy to use brute strength as well

 

[Stace]

Yep, should have had Billings there as I said earlier, it wouldn't have made a difference to the result but he would have got some good practice keeping to Rashid.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Letting the test captaincy go is the second best thing Amla ever did other becoming a cricketer.

 

[StephenZA]

Pretty comprehensive in the end... Well done boys.

 

[Stefan9]

Great performance from SA. England never got enough but SA early assault made it easy.

 

[Compton]

For all the talk when Morgan replaced Cook as L/O captain - which I believe went as far as Vaughan calling for Morgan to be selected as a specialist captain in the test side - does Morgan actually captain any differently than Cook? In this series he's been very 'captain by numbers' which is exactly what Cook was slated for.

I'm not saying that Cook should be recalled to L/O because that's a dreadful idea, but is Morgan the right man to lead the side? All a moot point for a few months anyway, don't want replacing your captain to become a pre-tournament tradition.

 

[WalkingWicket]

For all the talk when Morgan replaced Cook as L/O captain - which I believe went as far as Vaughan calling for Morgan to be selected as a specialist captain in the test side - does Morgan actually captain any differently than Cook? In this series he's been very 'captain by numbers' which is exactly what Cook was slated for.

I'm not saying that Cook should be recalled to L/O because that's a dreadful idea, but is Morgan the right man to lead the side? All a moot point for a few months anyway, don't want replacing your captain to become a pre-tournament tradition.

Anyone better in the LO set up to catain? Just give up and give it to Root, as we're going to do in three years any way?

 

[YorksLanka]

fantastic batting by AB, Amla and also Buttler and Morgan..Wasnt England's day today but they were batted out of the park by AB & Amla..on a side note, is it me or does SA have the highest proportion of really beautiful women watching cricket? great effort !!

 

[slippy888]

Man of the match was a joke Kyle Abott clearly deserve it, without his wickets this match could have been different and south africa would chase 200 plus total.

 

[slippy888]

That is a batters pitch every time the ball fly's 4 overs 26 runs and 3 wickets plus a run out is match turning display.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Man of the match was a joke Kyle Abott clearly deserve it, without his wickets this match could have been different and south africa would chase 200 plus total.

what would have been enough? 200? 210? 220?