***Official*** Australia in South Africa 2018

[flibbertyjibber]

Well he is round.

 

[Gnske]

What a fat innings

 

[Top_Cat]

Sweet shot to get the 50, has to be said.

 

[Bijed]

Realistically it's too far off, but Morkel reaching 1000 runs by the end of the series would be lovely

 

[SeamUp]

Morne wants a 1000 test runs.

After that shot he needs 56 more

 

[SeamUp]

Realistically it's too far off, but Morkel reaching 1000 runs by the end of the series would be lovely

Snap

 

[Black_Warrior]

Starc misses his hundred by a whisker

 

[vcs]

Australia need Bancroft and Warner to scratch around and scrape together some runs.

 

[Prince EWS]

Australia need Bancroft and Warner to scratch around and scrape together some runs.

This was horrible. Please stick to Silicon Valley references.

 

[weldone]

Aussie win with 200 from Warner and 150+ from Smith may save them in the long run tbh. That's exactly how public perception works.

 

[Black_Warrior]

They wouldn't go for someone like Rixon anyway. This whole thing is essentially driven by public mob outrage; they'll go for someone from the "good old days" to restore the status of Australian cricket or w/e. It'll be Waugh or Ponting or someone else from the late 90s or early 00s when the team won everything and no one cared about anything else.

Yeah but the outrage has been towards Smith who emphasised that coaching staff were not involved. Lehmann might keep his job

 

[Spark]

Yeah but the outrage has been towards Smith who emphasised that coaching staff were not involved. Lehmann might keep his job

Sure but the undercurrent is a lot of "but we're not supposed to be like this, it wasn't like this back in the good old days!". That reactionary nostalgia is the first impulse of the mob ought not to be too surprising.

Listening to Whateley's radio program today is pretty instructive on that front.

 

[Black_Warrior]

Aussie win with 200 from Warner and 150+ from Smith may save them in the long run tbh. That's exactly how public perception works.

Except that's not how cricket works. You don't just get a 200 and a 150 in the 4th innings like in a video game

 

[weldone]

Yeah but the outrage has been towards Smith who emphasised that coaching staff were not involved. Lehmann might keep his job

What did Lehmann say to Handscomb on walkie talkie? "Go tell Cameron he needs to improve his fielding" ???

 

[weldone]

Except that's not how cricket works. You don't just get a 200 and a 150 in the 4th innings like in a video game

Haha ya that's how massive their task is.

 

[StephenZA]

What did Lehmann say to Handscomb on walkie talkie? "Go tell Cameron he needs to improve his fielding" ???

Bancroft has the after party duties as well... they were worried he had not got enough beer for later.

 

[Gnske]

https://twitter.com/TheCricketerMag/status/977853720103915520

He's right you know

 

[GRAB]

"Ball picker". Heh.

 

[vcs]

No 5-run penalty?

 

[Spikey]

he stood true to his word, he was so appalled he stood down