*** Official*** South Africa in England 2017

[harsh.ag]

Damn that's a bad drop. Morris needs to deliver.

 

[Bahseph]

Weird selection to me. I've read that Faf is concerned about losing the amount of overs that Rabada puts in, but it just feels like we strengthened the wrong discipline. Morris and Philander are no.8s. Hope de Kock bats at 4/5 for this game.

 

[Adders]

Damn that's a bad drop. Morris needs to deliver.

Please Harsh.......gave me a heart attack, thought I'd missed the start and we'd spilled one!!!

 

[Bijed]

Please Harsh.......gave me a heart attack, thought I'd missed the start and we'd spilled one!!!

I thought the same for a brief second but actually got excited, as I thought he meant Morris had dropped one, meaning we must have already bowled them out

 

[Black_Warrior]

The Donald-Athers saga..can never tire of it

 

[StephenZA]

Weird selection to me. I've read that Faf is concerned about losing the amount of overs that Rabada puts in, but it just feels like we strengthened the wrong discipline. Morris and Philander are no.8s. Hope de Kock bats at 4/5 for this game.

I think the concern might be Philander, we need him to function but he is apparently not 100%... but I still don`t like the decision.

 

[harsh.ag]

Have a feeling Olivier is gonna do great.

 

[ImpatientLime]

The Donald-Athers saga..can never tire of it

donald probably the only great of that time that when you think of him bowling to athers, you think of the batsman getting the better of it.

even though he probably also dismissed him a bazillion times.

 

[91Jmay]

Need to take wickets this morning, pitch should be good for batting next few sessions but this morning will be tough session.

 

[Rasimione]

That batting line up doesn't fill me with any confidence whatsoever.

 

[ImpatientLime]

jimmy a tad short so far?

 

[SeamUp]

Risky team but understandable.

Probably felt they needed the pace and batting of Morris plus Olivier is known to run in all day.

This start has been proper test cricket at a proper cricket ground. Lovely stuff.

 

[SeamUp]

Its time a bit of responsibility is given to our top 6.

Typical Kuhn that. That is his signature shot.

 

[harsh.ag]

Plus now SA's best batsman is no longer at number 7.

 

[Prince EWS]

Risky team but understandable.

Probably felt they needed the pace and batting of Morris plus Olivier is known to run in all day.

This start has been proper test cricket at a proper cricket ground. Lovely stuff.

Yeah Morris is insurance now that you have a weaker frontline attack. I also think that part of the reason de Bruyn was selected over Morris in the first Test was the fact that his part time meds had been reaping a bit more success than usual in the A series and the tour game leading up to the Test - the figures suggested he'd been working on his bowling a bit - so when he bowled such crap in the first Test that Bavuma ended up preferred as the fourth seamer, he was always going to be vulnerable.

 

[91Jmay]

Ordinary start with the ball, too short for me.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Good, cautious start by South Africa. This was a good opening spell. Australia would have been 4 down by now

 

[ImpatientLime]

yeah very underwhelming start from these two.

too interested in maintaining a decent economy rate.

 

[SeamUp]

Poor shot from Elgar.

 

[StephenZA]

I wonder what Philander would have done bowling on this.... Must have been a tough choice for Faf.

Dammitt Elgar thats a loose shot...