*Official* Australia vs South Africa -2022/3

[Spark]

Really good hundred

Well and truly earned it by getting through Nortje

 

[halba]

Match winning knock. Warner retains his place for future series.

 

[ashley bach]

This could be very entertaining now, fireworks coming out you'd have to think.

 

[morgieb]

Genuinely excellent knock given the circumstances. Probably the best I’ve seen him bat since that 2019/20 summer where he broke Bradman’s highest score.

 

[Shady Slim]

tom is an idiot, warner has had rory burns esque output for the past three years of course it's justified to talk about him getting dropped lmao

 

[honestbharani]

I don't think much of him but for some reason actually happy for Warner here.

 

[GoodAreasShane]

Wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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[Shady Slim]

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literally not my fault cricinfo user tom decided to be an idiot at this exact time

 

[Line and Length]

Who's responsible for operating the camera which hit Nortje? Potentially a nasty incident.

 

[Shady Slim]

Who's responsible for operating the camera which hit Nortje? Potentially a nasty incident.

looking for the sandpaper up close and personal eh!

 

[Burgey]

He must have been gassed but surely you give him one more when Warner is four away and on strike

152kph at your dial is Dante’s seventh circle of hell. Imagine it

 

[Spikey]

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tom is an idiot, warner has had rory burns esque output for the past three years of course it's justified to talk about him getting dropped lmao

i mean, that's a year he played one test (ton), a year he played 5 (and had two 90's) and then this year which has been below par, but when the names of alternate options include marcus harris and henry hunt, then yeah it's silly lmao

 

[GoodAreasShane]

literally not my fault cricinfo user tom decided to be an idiot at this exact time

The fact you felt the need to get so pissy about it says far more about you than it does about anything else

I think most people realise one innings does not completely erase the questions that have surrounded Warner's future. But the fact you still feel the need to remind people you dislike him at a time like this is incredibly petty and childish

 

[Shady Slim]

i mean, that's a year he played one test (ton), a year he played 5 (and had two 90's) and then this year which has been below par, but when the names of alternate options include marcus harris and henry hunt, then yeah it's silly lmao

yeah i shouldve said two rather than three mb, but, when you've got an opener with this output:

even if you don't think he should be dropped it's hardly tipping the baby out with the bathwater to discuss how solid the spot ought to be

 

[TT Boy]

This is where Markram would have been useful. JP, albeit a better bowler, use to trouble Warner. Though seeing how Maharaj has fared, Harmer may need to play at Sydney. Maharaj has only taken 4 wickets in Australia, 3 of them were in the same game and in their first innings in Australia.

 

[Shady Slim]

The fact you felt the need to get so pissy about it says far more about you than it does about anything else

I think most people realise one innings does not completely erase the questions that have surrounded Warner's future. But the fact you still feel the need to remind people you dislike him at a time like this is incredibly petty and childish

developing story: a man on a cricket forum has shared a cricinfo comment he disagrees with. more on this at 5!

 

[Starfighter]

Up yours Rabada

 

[Spikey]

i meant to ask this last game coz I think there was a review when it hit near the sweat band. I swear growing up Richie Benaud used to say that if the sweat band was directly connected to the glove, and it hit the sweat band, you would be out (which makes sense considering you're only out if the ball hits the glove when the glove is on the bat), but is this actually true

 

[Briony]

This is where Markram would have been useful. JP, albeit a better bowler, use to trouble Warner. Though seeing how Maharaj has fared, Harmer may need to play at Sydney. Maharaj has only taken 4 wickets in Australia, 3 of them were in the same game and in their first innings in Australia.

Quotas? This has been disappointing from the Proteas attack, not one wicket with the ball and playing against a guy who was under so much pressure to hold his spot. Rabada seems to have declined since the last time he came out to these shores. Nortje for all his pace can't break through. I would love a much better contest but this SA team is not those in recent memory. What has happened to their talent production line?

 

[GoodAreasShane]

developing story: a man on a cricket forum has shared a cricinfo comment he disagrees with. more on this at 5!

I would argue even reading cricinfo comments in the first place is a sign of highly questionable judgement, let alone getting all bent out of shape about one