• Welcome to the Cricket Web forums, one of the biggest forums in the world dedicated to cricket.

    You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community you will have access to post topics, respond to polls, upload content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please, join the Cricket Web community today!

    If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us.

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

Black_Warrior

Black_Warrior

Cricketer Of The Year
Jono said:
If I told you that AB wouldn't be playing, Steyn would get injured and barely bowl, and Amla would fail in both innings, you'd presume Saffers would lose by a gigantic margin. Instead they are bossing it.
Click to expand...
Given that AB is the most overrated batsman in the world and Steyn is a hasbeen, that totally makes sense
 
WindieWeathers

WindieWeathers

International Regular
In the annals of time when it pertains to this lovely sport the "choke" word has always haunted South Africa. But when one looks back on their dominance in test cricket over the last ten years or so I would say the opposite is true. The proteas are a fine example of a side who has loads of quality yes, but also have an incredible belief in themselves and fight to the very end. As Leicester showed last season belief can take you a long way. Belief AND talent though can take you from being 32/4 on the first day, facing 150/0 on the second day, to now leading by over 300 runs with six wickets left. Just wonderful stuff from SA this tbh.
 
SeamUp

SeamUp

International Coach
Jono said:
The only bloke in world cricket who didn't **** their pants against Mitch Johnson in full flight. Yeah he's overrated.
Click to expand...

Also loved watching Herschelle Gibbs keep running down the wicket to MJ and planting him over extra-cover for 6 in the ODI's a few times. Nuts.
 
Black_Warrior

Black_Warrior

Cricketer Of The Year
WindieWeathers said:
In the annals of time when it pertains to this lovely sport the "choke" word has always haunted South Africa. But when one looks back on their dominance in test cricket over the last ten years or so I would say the opposite is true. The proteas are a fine example of a side who has loads of quality yes, but also have an incredible belief in themselves and fight to the very end. As Leicester showed last season belief can take you a long way. Belief AND talent though can take you from being 32/4 on the first day, facing 150/0 on the second day, to now leading by over 300 runs with six wickets left. Just wonderful stuff from SA this tbh.
Click to expand...
Because it is a word that is lazily applied to pretty much every time South Africa fails in a major tournament without ever considering the cricketing factors. In tests, what makes this generation special is their ability to come back and the grit and fight they showed..in England 2012 when Cook dominated Day 1 only for SA to come back and dismantle England on Day 2, or chasing 414 in 08 or the Melbourne game of that same series or Faf batting out a draw in Adelaide. They have also became number 1 following a very different approach to the Aussies - by making sure they don't lose away series. They kept drawing series, games and just made sure they were unbeatable over the widest range of conditions and that's all you need to be number 1
 
OverratedSanity

OverratedSanity

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Jono said:
It sucks that not only do these guys not watching cricket, they can publicly say so without any problem.
Click to expand...
Goes back to that glorious Geoff Lemon article

Wriddhiman Saha would never have seen the Adelaide Oval, declared Brayshaw, when Saha’s grand total of two career Tests included an Adelaide debut. The most cursory glance at Cricinfo would have done the trick. “Gee, you’re unlucky,” was Slater’s vacant-grinning response. Or later in the series, Brayshaw again: “If you’re the Indian fast bowling coach – I don’t even know who that is, by the way...”

There’s a deliberate idiocy at work here: not just not knowing, but making a point of not knowing, and of telling us he doesn’t know.
Click to expand...
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/feb/13/channel-nine-destroying-cricket-legacy
 
Daemon

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Faf should know better than to pick the ball up and pass it to them, lest they surround him like a 'pack of dogs'
 
vcs

vcs

Request Your Custom Title Now!
They'd have gladly taken 350 at the start of the innings, but they're so well-placed now that anything less than 450+ would be seen as a touch disappointing.
 
Teja.

Teja.

Global Moderator
Bavuma career summary by c9 so far - "little fella with a big heart"

SIddle's getting insecure.
 
Daemon

Daemon

Request Your Custom Title Now!
Marsh probably has the worst haircut in the cricketing world. Looks revolting when it flops about as he runs in to bowl.
 
kykweer.proteas

kykweer.proteas

International Debutant
Black_Warrior said:
Because it is a word that is lazily applied to pretty much every time South Africa fails in a major tournament without ever considering the cricketing factors. In tests, what makes this generation special is their ability to come back and the grit and fight they showed..in England 2012 when Cook dominated Day 1 only for SA to come back and dismantle England on Day 2, or chasing 414 in 08 or the Melbourne game of that same series or Faf batting out a draw in Adelaide. They have also became number 1 following a very different approach to the Aussies - by making sure they don't lose away series. They kept drawing series, games and just made sure they were unbeatable over the widest range of conditions and that's all you need to be number 1
Click to expand...
We actually won many away series.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Top