***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17

[WindieWeathers]

1. SA's attack was never gonna be as poor as they were yesterday

2. Australia's middle order is pretty much like England's. Two world class batsmen in Cook and Root (Warner and Smith), One who's been in the form of his life like Bairstow (Khawaja) and the rest is a virtual lottery although Stokes is no doubt better than Marsh tbh.

The truth is the teams with the most settled batting orders are the two who are sitting in the top two places in the test rankings (India and Pakistan) . And that's why we'll probably see a lot more collapses like this from the likes of England and Aus than we do from those two. SA are missing their best batsman so I won't judge them so harshly yet.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

imagine tahir getting smith like that

he would have run out of the stadium gate and jumped from a bridge nearby in celebration

 

[vicleggie]

Maharaj's subcontinental roots coming out in his appealing.

Also coming out in the fact that he can spin a ball. Odd for south African 'spinners'.

 

[Red Wingz]

1. SA's attack was never gonna be as poor as they were yesterday

2. Australia's middle order is pretty much like England's. Two world class batsmen in Cook and Root (Warner and Smith), One who's been in the form of his life like Bairstow (Khawaja) and the rest is a virtual lottery although Stokes is no doubt better than Marsh tbh.

The truth is the teams with the most settled batting orders are the two who are sitting in the top two places in the test rankings (India and Pakistan) . And that's why we'll probably see a lot more collapses like this from the likes of England and Aus than we do from those two. SA are missing their best batsman so I won't judge them so harshly yet.

Pak batting has been not that great.........india do have some quality test players

 

[Teja.]

Man, it's so nuts that some people were suggesting that Philander a guy with a bowling average of 22 over 38 tests no less wasn't the ideal pick for the track and quotas helped him get his place over Morkel.

 

[Gnske]

1. SA's attack was never gonna be as poor as they were yesterday

2. Australia's middle order is pretty much like England's. Two world class batsmen in Cook and Root (Warner and Smith), One who's been in the form of his life like Bairstow (Khawaja) and the rest is a virtual lottery although Stokes is no doubt better than Marsh tbh.

The truth is the teams with the most settled batting orders are the two who are sitting in the top two places in the test rankings (India and Pakistan) . And that's why we'll probably see a lot more collapses like this from the likes of England and Aus than we do from those two. SA are missing their best batsman so I won't judge them so harshly yet.

And where were you last summer you light weight

 

[OverratedSanity]

imagine tahir getting smith like that

he would have run out of the stadium gate and jumped from a bridge nearby in celebration

Man I miss Tahir. His celebrations were one of the great sights in international cricket.

That one where he got Clarke out after having endured a full day's worth of punishment from him, only for it to be overruled because he'd overstepped
... ****ing gold.

 

[Jono]

Haha watch the Tendulkar in Adelaide 99 LBW dismissal be brought up here.

 

[WindieWeathers]

Pak batting has been not that great.........india do have some quality test players

I looked at their top order's averages the other day and it was daunting. It's packed with mid 40 to 50 averages and has that vital ingredient called experience too.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

Man I miss Tahir. His celebrations were one of the great sights in international cricket.

That one where he got Clarke out after having endured a full day's worth of punishment from him, only for it to be overruled because he'd overstepped
... ****ing gold.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Very good call from stphndbsn when he said Philander would be an asset because of how well he bowls to the lefties. I thought he'd do well too, but with Steyn not exactly being amazing against left handers, Philander has come up huge.

 

[straw man]

Warne strikes me as a Trump supporter.

make america bloviate again

 

[Spark]

Good review, this.

EDIT: Oh it just missed the glove

 

[OverratedSanity]

Nice review Faf

 

[Starfighter]

Still always time for a Faf.

 

[morgieb]

Two foreigners on? Wow.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

spin woes continues

 

[Jono]

Hey spikey, Nevill sucks

 

[Gnske]

WTF I thought we were **** against spinners everywhere else in the world.

Very problematic.

 

[Jono]

who was the **** in this thread that said Australia play spin well? You're worse than Nevill.