***Official*** Australia in South Africa 2018

[Top_Cat]

Usually the shot offered or not debate with LBWs only happens as a reason to save the tail...

 

[quincywagstaff]

I’ve always wondered about the ‘no shot’ rule on DRS; so I’m presuming the 3rd ump can’t rule differently to the on-field one?

 

[StephenZA]

Come on lets bring Markram on... get them all out by end of day!

 

[StephenZA]

I’ve always wondered about the ‘no shot’ rule on DRS; so I’m presuming the 3rd ump can’t rule differently to the on-field one?

Umpire indicated that it was his decision to Khawaja... not 3rd umpires decision.

 

[GRAB]

So what was Khawaja reviewing then? Can you review "I played the ball"? Do you think he deserves his review back?

 

[SeamUp]

Seamers to Handscombe please.

 

[Slifer]

They're on the cusp of winning against Australia at home for the first time since readmission.

Why not stick the boot in and completely smash their bowlers all over the place while setting an utterly insane target that Australia know they'll never chase?

Damn right!! After all the suffering RSA has received at the hands of Oz grind them into the ground!!

 

[SeamUp]

8th over while warm for Morne and he gets a wicket. What a soldier.

 

[Maximas]

A classic contribution from Morkel here, always had the ability to get the ball rolling/pick up the slack when his more fancied bowling partners were found wanting or unable to get into gear, rarely ran through sides

 

[Bolo]

I heard a commentator say he thought Morkel was instructed to bowl back of a length a lot. We all know there is some value in pushing batsmen back, but we also know he's so much more dangerous bowling fuller, so this seems like crazy talk. Anyone know if the statement is accurate?

 

[quincywagstaff]

This seems to happen a lot with Australian teams of the past few years, but when Australia do badly in a Test series the batsmen usually get the blame (often deservedly) while all the bowlers get a pass mark.

The TV commentators were doing the same last night and apart from Cummins, I think all of the Australian bowlers haven't had particularly good series.

Starc had an outstanding opening Test followed by arguably the two worst Test matches of his career; conceded a lot of runs at a high economy rate and didn't even get the wickets he usually has during his Test career.

Notwithstanding that he was a bit unlucky in this final innings, Hazlewood has been disappointing again on an overseas tour. On pitches that offered him a fair bit of assistance, he just didn't take the amount of wickets he should've and wasn't even that accurate for the most part; the opening ball of this Test being an easy leg-glance for four runs illustrative of this.

And after an outstanding 2017, and taking two key batsmen in his opening over of the series, it was pretty much all downhill for Nathan Lyon. Still can trouble left-handed bats like De Kock & Elgar but toothless against right-handed bats and particularly disappointing this final Test where he bowled too short on a wicket that offered him plenty.

It seems the commentators avoided criticising the established bowlers and saved their venom for debutant Sayers who barely a kind word was said; admittedly though Sayers was poor in the 2nd innings especially and his Test future looks bleak.

 

[morgieb]

I definitely think our bowlers haven't been good enough, but apart from this Test they've generally managed to keep South Africa to middling scores, our batsmen were a bigger reason as to why Tests 2 and 3 were lost. And there was no real equivalent for Cummins with our batting (Paine the closest but you can't really expect him to consistently bail us out).

 

[social]

Aside from Paine & Cummins, the series stats make for some awful reading

Haze and Lyon would obviously have some credit in the bank but a lot of other places should be up for discussion

As it stands, our next test lineup is looking like this atm

Renshaw - give him some time
Burns - see Renshaw
NFI
NFI
NFI
NFI
Paine
Cummins
NFI
Haze
Lyon

 

[Daemon]

Isn't Starc supposed to be ready before the next test series?

 

[social]

Isn't Starc supposed to be ready before the next test series?

Awaiting further diagnosis but a stress fracture in the leg wont heal overnight

 

[Victor Ian]

It's a pity other things will overshadow this series result. This time Australia couldn't pull a rabbit out of the hat. Well done SA.

 

[cnerd123]

Morne is such a beast.

 

[Daemon]

So sad that a true legend of the game like Morne who's given it all for his country toiled his way to 300 wickets has to watch while a finger spinner just put in no effort and took 300 wickets of tailenders and bored batsmen caught at the boundary. What Ashwin and Jadeja are doing in India is no better and a blight on the sport we all love.

 

[cnerd123]

So sad that a true legend of the game like Morne who's given it all for his country toiled his way to 300 wickets has to watch while a finger spinner just put in no effort and took 300 wickets of tailenders and bored batsmen caught at the boundary. What Ashwin and Jadeja are doing in India is no better and a blight on the sport we all love.

Do you use public transport or do you just walk all over Singapore out of principle?

 

[Prince EWS]

Do you use public transport or do you just walk all over Singapore out of principle?

Surely he walks, it'd only take him ten minutes to get from one side to the other.