I agree with you but what's happened here and in the West Indies is nothing to do with cricket per se. It's incompetent administration and groundskeeping.
Difference is that football game was a preseason friendly, while these 2 matches are part of the top tier matches for cricket.
Not when the sun is out on the day of the match though. Most football grounds in the top tiers will have proper drainage to deal with it.
English grounds would have had proper drainage as well.
Forecast is fine for the rest of the week.
65 mm of overnight rain...or about as much rain as hits Durban in the average August month.
I am pretty frustrated and wanted to take some pot shots at anybody vaguely responsible whether guilty or not, then I decided what the heck this suits us anyway. We weren't going to win this test match. Not from 25 for 2 and with Philander bowling grenades. Lets flush and move on and hope the next pitch is less Vernon friendly. I found that spell he bowled to our openers to be simply irresistible. I didn't see in the end how Martin got out, but he didn't look he was doing much wrong while I was watching yet and Tom were being completely outclassed.
