***Official*** India in South Africa 2017/18

[Shri]

Nah c'mon, that's weak. Dropped catches doesn't excuse his inability to bowl dot balls. He's never been able to do it, and he still hasn't figured it out.

I think I've gone off the hype train for him. He's a beast when the conditions are spinning and he has all the tools in his arsenal, but he just can not string together dots and build pressure. He's completely incapable of it when he doesn't have a pitch that suits him. He's a great strike bowler but a liability otherwise.

We're better off picking Jadeja in conditions like these tbh.

Didn't Pandya drop Elgar early in this innings off Ash?

 

[cnerd123]

omg Shami

why does bowling short always work for these ****s

 

[Shri]

**** yeah, Shami!

 

[OverratedSanity]

Thanks Faf. Come on, let's do this

edit: Oh wait it's Elgar. Whatever. Even better since agent Faf has a runout coming up.

 

[StephenZA]

Dammit Elgar, don`t give wickets away, .... a fast 50+ from QDK here would be really nice.

 

[TT Boy]

Game on again. de Kock needs some runs. Average is in free fall.

 

[OverratedSanity]

QdK's average has plummetted since that first test against England.

Ashwin's one job here is to get QdK. Do it, you fat ****.

 

[StephenZA]

Game on again. de Kock needs some runs. Average is in free fall.

Not had a good 2nd half of 2017....

 

[vcs]

Nah c'mon, that's weak. Dropped catches doesn't excuse his inability to bowl dot balls. He's never been able to do it, and he still hasn't figured it out.

I think I've gone off the hype train for him. He's a beast when the conditions are spinning and he has all the tools in his arsenal, but he just can not string together dots and build pressure. He's completely incapable of it when he doesn't have a pitch that suits him. He's a great strike bowler but a liability otherwise.

We're better off picking Jadeja in conditions like these tbh.

Yup. His stock has dropped big time in the past year. Can't use the injury or poor form excuse any more. Jaddu should definitely be considered above him in overseas Test matches since his batting form has also dipped.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Shami's been good so far today and one of his few bad balls gets a wicket. Weird how that works.

Bit of a shami he can't bowl tightly on a consistent basis though.

 

[Shri]

Another drop. ****s.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Yup. His stock has dropped big time in the past year. Can't use the injury or poor form excuse any more. Jaddu should definitely be considered above him in overseas Test matches since his batting form has also dipped.

Tbf he's been one of our more impressive batsmen this series.

 

[StephenZA]

Game over lol

All the wickets and excitement has started since this great bit of gambhiring.....

 

[Prince EWS]

I mean how telling is it that Ashwin has bowled just 11 maidens in 62 overs. He's bowled no maidens in both 3rd innings spells so far.

He's just incapable of building pressure. It's really his biggest flaw as a bowler.

He would have if the ****s held onto some ****ing catches.

Nah c'mon, that's weak. Dropped catches doesn't excuse his inability to bowl dot balls. He's never been able to do it, and he still hasn't figured it out.

I think I've gone off the hype train for him. He's a beast when the conditions are spinning and he has all the tools in his arsenal, but he just can not string together dots and build pressure. He's completely incapable of it when he doesn't have a pitch that suits him. He's a great strike bowler but a liability otherwise.

We're better off picking Jadeja in conditions like these tbh.

Didn't Pandya drop Elgar early in this innings off Ash?

*****: Ashwin can't build pressure with dot balls and maidens
Shri: dropped catches tho
*****: irrelevant, dropped catches aren't stopping him from bowling dot balls or maidens
Shr: weren't there dropped catches tho?

Ah Shri, never change.

 

[kingkallis]

250 is the minimum SA will need on this track. Virat Kohli has shown what he can do and I have this feeling that Rohit Sharma will go big in this inning.

 

[OverratedSanity]

Oh ffs

 

[OverratedSanity]

*****: Ashwin can't build pressure with dot balls and maidens
Shri: dropped catches tho
*****: irrelevant, dropped catches aren't stopping him from bowling dot balls or maidens
Shr: weren't there dropped catches tho?

Ah Shri, never change.

Aren't they a bit related since a wicket would get a new batsman in instead of a set one who can pick off singles?

 

[Shri]

*****: Ashwin can't build pressure with dot balls and maidens
Shri: dropped catches tho
*****: irrelevant, dropped catches aren't stopping him from bowling dot balls or maidens
Shr: weren't there dropped catches tho?

Ah Shri, never change.

Look, if you drop catches off a bowler, you can't slag him off because he 'failed to build pressure'. Blame the ****ing fielders imo. Pak fans do it right. They used to blame Kakmal for Amir's 'failures'.

 

[vcs]

Tbf he's been one of our more impressive batsmen this series.

Wasn't talking about this series, but in general recently. Looks so casual as well.. I mean he played well yesterday, and then he gets out playing such a lazy shot off Philander's first over with the new ball..

 

[StephenZA]

Lol... I don't mind how you get the 50+ runs QDK...