Fuller Pilch
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He'd need to improve his play against spin to bat that low though.
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*Official* England in South Africa 2019/20
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marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
Seeing as last year they got more calls overturned than the next 2 best teams at at getting decisions overturned did put together, they must be doing something right.
Dendarii
International Debutant
The problem is that the only way he fits into the team is as a number 7/fourth seamer, and that's one position too high in the batting order for him.
Really? Interesting - is there a breakdown on this? Eg. How many when batting/in the field and how many caught/LBW. And the overall percentages. Eg. Are England supposedly “good” or other teams even worse?
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flibbertyjibber
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Well that is a decent little spell to make sure we have a delayed lunch.
Bat for a day then go and win it.
Bat for a day then go and win it.
mackembhoy
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Absolutely delighted for Woody. What a bloke
flibbertyjibber
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Nice one Wood, now hopefully he can remain fit and be of use in the future instead of missing another couple of series. When he bowls at this pace he is an asset, when he is half fit and bowling slower than Broad he is pointless.
Bijed
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Yeah, pleased to see him do well two tests in a row with not much of a break, previously he's struggled with back-to-back fixtures
Starfighter
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They had a lot of chances due to poor umpiring in the Ashes. No idea how good the percentage is, but far better than Tim Paine's that's for sure.
marc71178
Eyes not spreadsheets
Someone did a thread on it on here the other week. They did make more referrals than any other team but overall percentage wise it was there or thereabouts.
IMO it’s not a problem wasting a review so long as a team don’t run out and then miss out because they couldn’t review something they’ll at was a wrong call.
Heboric
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Relax guy, you are sounding like a stuck record. I just hope your team you support has never been in a slump
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Yeah it is difficult to be too hard on South Africa given they have lost a bunch of great players to retirement and the replacement bowling attack to Kolpak deals in recent years. No side could cope with that without a drop off in results. The key thing is how quickly they can rebuild.
Dendarii
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That'll be be news to him.
Howe_zat
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It doesn't help that they are having a series where the team is just shattered. Players like Rabada, de Kock, Elgar and Maharaj would walk into most sides. And they have promising finds too like Nortje and to a lesser extent Pretorius.
Kolpaks jumping ship doesn't help, but it has only really affected their bowling depth rather than the strength of their first XI. With everyone fit I don't think Olivier for example gets a game. They're only missing him now because they've got Rabada banned, Philander creaking and Maharaj dumped brainlessly.
Yeah they have a fragile batting lineup right now but so do England and they've found a way to make it work in this series. I'm sure SA will be back.
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You think its funny for a international standard batsman to be hopping while getting out lbw every 2 innings