***Official***Match #20- England vs S Africa - October 21st - Wankhede (D/N)

[King Kane]

This seems to be a new set play for England, Topley pretends to be injured and has a rest for half the innings, then comes back fresh towards the end.

 

[ashley bach]

Jonny shows some emotion!

 

[King Kane]

A great outfield catch from Bairstow, even the commentators couldn't believe it was him, they thought he was Livingstone.

 

[StephenZA]

Markram still finding silly ways to get out when looking good.

 

[kevinw]

I keep telling you that Butler is a poor captain and mott is a waste of space.How can you field first in this heatDumb and dumber

Buttler is a poor captain. The T20 world cup was not due to his captaincy. Unless he put a hex on Afridi

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

Hopefully, the SA wheels will come off a bit. Chipping away with the odd wicket here and there without looking anything like convincing.

 

[centurymaker]

I would have picked Livingstone, and I'm not sure I would have bowled first. We're a batsman short and surely you back a bowler-heavy lineup to defend a total.

South Africa won two games convincingly battling first. And choked the only time they chased and that too a modest total against a minnow. And when your batting is relative light today (England's), it makes no sense for them to chase and also because of what happened againsg Afghanistan..

Obsession of teams to continue to blindly choose to bowl first is getting ridiculous imo.

 

[Burgey]

Jonny shows some positive emotion!

Indeed

 

[BazBall21]

Have to get Miller now really and get into the tail. These two will take the game away from England if they bat ten overs together.

 

[Owzat]

England could easily be facing 330-350 if they don't break their habit of this tournament so far, and get wickets sooner rather than later

vs SAF : conceded 231/3 off 34.3
vs AFG : conceded 114/0 off 16.3, reined it back a bit but the 44 for the 8th wicket off 23 balls just hammered home
vs NZL : conceded 273/0 off 35.1 overs having taken an early wicket

even against Bangladesh they let them go from 49/4 to 227 all out, fair enough as indicated earlier was more containment/control than pushing hard but still

those figures are appalling, even factoring in donkeys for courses, add on 1st kiwi wicket partnership and that's 628/4 off 87.2 overs, horrifying even if they did pick up a few wickets thereafter, and might vs SAF.

 

[ashley bach]

This partnership absolutely pivotal to the outcome of the match.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

Another injury. Jesus wept.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Tockley doing a good job here.

 

[ashley bach]

Miller throws it away!

 

[social]

Saffers chucking this away

 

[ashley bach]

Advantage England

 

[StephenZA]

At least SA batting is becoming consistent again…

 

[Burgey]

There’s been a couple of real gifts from SA in the past ten minutes or so

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

Really getting the impression I'm on a real time delay on Sky Sports, unless we have some excellent clairvoyants on this board!

 

[Viscount Tom]

We would be so ****ed if Topley was injured.