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

[fredfertang]

Been a streaky innings this by Balance........long may it continue

Indeed, less than convincing, but at least he's still there

 

[Adders]

What a ****ing gun!! Roooooooooooooooott

 

[mackembhoy]

Root as always looking he's playing another game to everyone else.

Nailed on to get between 60-99

 

[flibbertyjibber]

What a brilliant session that was.

I don't mind if Root gets 99 as long as Ballance does too. Be in a good position then.

 

[Adders]

I reckon that was a great session for us. Batting is gonna get a hell of a lot easier as the day goes on, and 2 wickets down in that first session......I'm taking that.

 

[Jarquis]

That's one of the quicker examples of being proven overwhelmingly wrong I've seen on this forum.

But it was bizarre in the first place - the doubts were borne of no reasonable evidence

 

[Adders]

Nailed on to get between 60-99

Or maybe 160-199............perhaps he's moved his conversion criteria.

 

[Stefan9]

Very poor bowling since root came in

 

[Bijed]

Apparently this was the lowest combined contribution from our openers since 2005. I'm genuinely surprised by that.

 

[Adders]

But it was bizarre in the first place - the doubts were borne of no reasonable evidence

1 poor day at the office. Even the Great Glenn Mcgrath copped this crap once he hit that "age".........stupid that people forget 2 or 3 years of top performance, just for a few sessions where things don;t go so well.

 

[Prince EWS]

But it was bizarre in the first place - the doubts were borne of no reasonable evidence

Haha it was interesting to contrast your post with the one that immediately followed it and set the whole discussion off.

> "Wood hasn't been very effective, he's in danger of dropping down the pecking order and not being first reserve seamer anymore"
> "Wood should move up the pecking order ahead of Anderson"

 

[Bijed]

Tbf I don't think anyone actually outright said that Jimmy should definitely be dropped for the next test

 

[harsh.ag]

Root looks so, so good.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Pretty brutal from Root

 

[Adders]

Gotta work at 6am tomorrow, it's 10.20pm here in Aus, but I just made a pledge with myself I'm not going to bed while Roots at the crease..........could end up with 2 hours sleep here if he bats through. Lucky there's only 2 more beers in the fridge.

 

[harsh.ag]

Gotta work at 6am tomorrow, it's 10.20pm here in Aus, but I just made a pledge with myself I'm not going to bed while Roots at the crease..........could end up with 2 hours sleep here if he bats through. Lucky there's only 2 more beers in the fridge.

Shame to have to work on a Sunday.

 

[Adders]

Shame to have to work on a Sunday.

Yeah it's a one off not a regular thing.........should only be for 2 or 3 hours so I'm banking on toughing it out and sleeping when I'm done with it.

 

[StephenZA]

Root looking a different class. But poor bowling from the 3/4 bowler. Missing Rabada. Still prefer Olivier for the 4th seamer more than Morris. Morris feels like a really good LO 5/4th bowling allrounder. I don't see him as a consistent Test bowling/batting allrounder he is not quite good enough in either discipline.

 

[MW1304]

But it was bizarre in the first place - the doubts were borne of no reasonable evidence

Of course but there's nothing like taking a 5-fer within an hour of those posts to demonstrate why.

 

[fredfertang]

Ballance looked poor there