Kenneth Viljoen
International Regular
I'd say that's a fairly even day , we had some good partnerships but Sri Lanka bowled a few jaffas and controlled the run rate well.
Generally better to judge a pitch/score after both teams have had a go but both teams landed a few blows today!I've learned my lesson ! How we bat in our first innings will determine how good a day this was
Kunara was excellent, I believe he is now our third highest wicket taking seamer
Details please?I cant recall ever seeing the same DRS situation that happened today - granted I dont follow every single test ever match played
It's a really nice change from having a bunch of blokes who could/would never get those scores.4th time we've had 8 different centurions in a calendar year.
2004
Rudolph
Boucher
Gibbs
Kallis
Smith
G Kirsten
Hall
Dippenaar
2008
Smith
Prince
De Villiers
McKenzie
Amla
Kallis
Boucher
Duminy
2012
Petersen
Kallis
De Villiers
Smith
Rudolph
Duminy
Amla
Du Plessis
2024
Markram
Bedingham
Verreynne
De Zorzi
Stubbs
Mulder
Bavuma
Rickelton
Ryan Rickelton was on 98, hoping to get to his first test 100. Looking a bit nervous the poor guy was hit on the pads and given out LBW. Unfortunately in real-time it looked like a decent decision. Not immediately the batter decided to review, more in hope than anything. Lo and beold he had got the tiniest edge on the bat and the decision was overturned. He then went on to get the 100.Details please?
Very trueMaharaj had this short period of being okay with the bat and has now just fallen off completely.
Yup. They could all still kick on more but at least a lot of the new guys have now got the 100 behind their name. We building something potentially good and maybe even getting competition for places again.It's a really nice change from having a bunch of blokes who could/would never get those scores.
I don't know if you posted this in the wrong thread... but this is contradicted by the last Test played at this venue by these two very teams.Comms box saying 312 is the lowest first innings score to win a test at this venue. That said, it looks a slightly spicy deck.
Defo.This has been a good innings from Verreynne as well. Its nice to see the 'youngsters' consistently contributing....