NotMcKenzie
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Now we need to see a solid 300* from Lyon, like Doug Bollinger in those desperate ads during the 2010–11 Ashes.
That shot is a good start.
That shot is a good start.
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***Official*** Australia in South Africa + South Africa in Australia 2016/17
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morgieb
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Well thanks for making it feel worse
FTR, that was the figures for the whole morning.
OverratedSanity
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Yeah, but they also have a much better batting lineup on paper than either SA or Australia.
NotMcKenzie
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Loads of smiles in the Australian dressing-room.
Starfighter
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Hence my edit above. It's so hard to let go of the stereotype that batting's Pakistan's weakness. If there's anything that undoes them here it will be the bounce, but there hasn't been too much of that in Aus pitches over the last few summers, and our batsmen aren't too brilliant against it either.
AndyZaltzHair
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Lyon is going to stay thats for sure
Burgey
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Nah Ferguson will get another shot.
The dismissals with blokes fending short balls is instructive, though. It smacks to me of cluttered heads and blokes under pressure. Test batsmen don't get out like that if they're thinking straight. Partly it's due to excellent bowling keeping them under pressure, but mostly it's that they're having brain freezes because they're addled in the head.
The dismissals with blokes fending short balls is instructive, though. It smacks to me of cluttered heads and blokes under pressure. Test batsmen don't get out like that if they're thinking straight. Partly it's due to excellent bowling keeping them under pressure, but mostly it's that they're having brain freezes because they're addled in the head.
NotMcKenzie
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It's over, and I was facing away from the television at the time.
Starfighter
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That's it. 6/77 for Abbott. Didn't miss Steyn at all in these conditions.
Black_Warrior
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The problem for Australia was not their bowling attack. They have done their job. They bowled out SA on Day 1 for 240. The batsmen didn't show up, not their fault.
They bowled well here and restricted South Africa to 326 when they had only 85 to use as scoreboard pressure.
If Pakistan's bowling attack is as good as Australia, they will do just fine. The difference will be in the batting. The question we need to as is which is the better batting line up
Sami
Azhar
Shafiq
Younis
Misbah
Babar/Nawaz
Sarfraz
or
Warner
SMarsh/Burns
Khawaja
Smith
Voges
Ferguson/M Marsh
AndyZaltzHair
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Start the next test ASAP now
mackembhoy
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Well if South Africa could start playing more tests that would be great. Rather than 1 in a million years.
Looking forward to them coming to England next year. Has the potential to be a humdinger.
Looking forward to them coming to England next year. Has the potential to be a humdinger.
OverratedSanity
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Well done. After day 1 in the first test with them being virtually out of it, AB not playing, and Steyn injured, I figured they were cooked for the series. The way Rabada, Abbott, QdK, Bavuma have stepped up has been incredible.
One of the best series turnarounds after a poor start I've ever seen, frankly.
One of the best series turnarounds after a poor start I've ever seen, frankly.