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***Official*** Australia in South Africa 2018
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Black_Warrior
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Dale Steyn in the house
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In this innings Deano went past two golden oldies in Herbie Taylor and Dudley Nourse in leading run scorers for SA in test cricket. Next up is Faf, McKenzie and Mitchell.
Coming down the wicket to the spinner now and hitting him for 4. Edging closer and closer to what we expect from him when playing well. The straight drives for 4 have been the sign for me just like for Gary Kirsten it was.
Herbie was a cool cat
Coming down the wicket to the spinner now and hitting him for 4. Edging closer and closer to what we expect from him when playing well. The straight drives for 4 have been the sign for me just like for Gary Kirsten it was.
Herbie was a cool cat
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Ssshhh... no jinxing.
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Guess in those times and the fact we only played 3 other teams meant we weren't going to get massive games into the pre-isolation players. Plus the Wars and then players when we started to be world number 1 didn't finish their careers.
I think if you got to 20+ you played a decent amount of games.
Interesting to see the spaces between those who did.
Jimmy Sinclair 25 (debut 1896)
Dave Nourse 45 (1902)
Aubrey Faulkner 25 (1906)
Reggie Schwarz 20 (1906)
Tip Snooke 26 (1906)
Herbie Taylor 42 (1912)
Tommy Ward 23 (1912)
Bob Catterall 24 (1922)
Jock Cameron 26 (1927)
Cyril Vincent 25 (1927)
Bruce Mitchell 42 (1929)
Ken Viljoen 27 (1930)
Dudley Nourse 34 (1935)
Eric Rowan 26 (1935)
Jack Cheetham 24 (1949)
Hugh Tayfield 37 (1949)
Jackie McGlew 34 (1951)
John Waite 50 (1951)
Roy McLean 40 (1951)
Russell Endean 28 (1951)
Neil Adcock 26 (1953)
Trevor Goddard 41 (1955)
Eddie Barlow 30 (1961)
Colin Bland 21 (1961)
Peter Pollock 28 (1961)
Graeme Pollock 23 (1963)
I mean you have Vogler, Melville, Heine, Lindsay not getting to 20 but getting close - obviously Richards, Irvine and Procter too counting out the 23 years in isolation when more games started to happen possibly with quicker travel ?
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Elgar is a glorious recent addition to the "crabby left hander looks rubbish at the crease but gets runs purely because he has balls of steel" club. Graeme Smith obviously the president.
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He was kinda elegant in his own way but I'm not sure many would agree with me.
Graeme's mum wouldn't want to watch him bat.
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Yeah it seems like we've had 3 since re-admission with G.Kirsten, Smith, Elgar. Others Mark Richardson, Alastair Cook & Justin Langer ?
Gambhir and Taylor other decent lefty openers but not really crabby (definitely more classical). You can definitely stress that for Anwar , Jayasuriya (although fidgety
) and Gayle who stroked away in their own way.
Gambhir and Taylor other decent lefty openers but not really crabby (definitely more classical). You can definitely stress that for Anwar , Jayasuriya (although fidgety
) and Gayle who stroked away in their own way.
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Smith's shots were aesthetically ugly but he was a more expansive stroke-player than some of the other names (Cook, Elgar etc.). Could score pretty fast and all around the wicket when he was batting well.
SR of nearly 60 as an opener, that is excellent.
SR of nearly 60 as an opener, that is excellent.
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