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

[StephenZA]

Glad Maharaj is getting some wickets... has bowled well overall.

 

[Spark]

Jesus, this is spineless.

 

[StephenZA]

England have played as badly or worse than SA played in the 2nd innings of the first test.

 

[wpdavid]

They're just not interested, are they.

Some sort of performance related pay might be the only thing that focuses their minds. As it is, too many of them are just way too comfortable. They know their places are safe, so there's no incentive to improve.

 

[wpdavid]

England have played as badly or worse than SA played in the 2nd innings of the first test.

Absolutely. There's no doubt about that at all.

 

[kingkallis]

Glad Maharaj is getting some wickets... has bowled well overall.

Morkel should end up with a few as well. He was excellent.

 

[Pothas]

This is right up there with the worst of England over the last few years and there is lot to choose from.

 

[Spark]

This is right up there with the worst of England over the last few years and there is lot to choose from.

Even in India you usually were in a pretty good place after Day 1 in a lot of the Tests, right? This has just gone badly basically from the moment Amla came in on the first morning.

 

[Kirkut]

That ball to Root from Morris reminded of Shoaib Akhtar's first ball in test cricket to Tendulkar. Beast of a delivery!

 

[Pothas]

Even in India you usually were in a pretty good place after Day 1 in a lot of the Tests, right? This has just gone badly basically from the moment Amla came in on the first morning.

Would say it was fairly even at lunch on day two. It has been shocking since.

 

[StephenZA]

Seriously.... terrible.

 

[Spark]

yeah...

 

[King Pietersen]

This is ****ing dire.

 

[Spark]

Would say it was fairly even at lunch on day two. It has been shocking since.

That was mostly on a good hour in the morning of Day 2 though. SA were in a decent place on Day 1.

 

[wpdavid]

Can't fault his accuracy; takes something to pick out the fielder that well.

 

[morgieb]

Are England the most spineless team in today's cricket? They're certainly up there,

 

[wpdavid]

That was mostly on a good hour in the morning of Day 2 though. SA were in a decent place on Day 1.

That was my take on it.

Anyway, anyone care to rank our rankest performances in recent time? I suppose it's possible this isn't the absolute worst, but all things considered it probably is.

And btw there's no disrespect to SA there, just an assumption that a proper test team would have made a better first of things against them than this.

 

[Spark]

Team records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPN Cricinfo

This list makes for grim reading.

 

[Spark]

"you get a wicket! and you get a wicket!"

 

[Pothas]

That was my take on it.

Anyway, anyone care to rank our rankest performances in recent time? I suppose it's possible this isn't the absolute worst, but all things considered it probably is.

And btw there's no disrespect to SA there, just an assumption that a proper test team would have made a better first of things against them than this.

The Sharma Test at Lords was slightly worse. Slightly.