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

[stephen]

Enjoying hearing Holding talk about how to bowl to Smith, as if he’s going through in his own mind how he would’ve bowled to him.

That would have been a wonderful battle.

 

[Gob]

What has happened to Dharmablahblah

 

[Rasimione]

Smith is ****ing annoying.

 

[TheJediBrah]

Smith is ****ing annoying.

Imagine having to watch him bat most of the time in every test match your team plays.

**** the T20s were a nice break from him

 

[Spark]

There is something stupefying about the relentlessness of watching someone who is completely impossible to get out

 

[stephen]

half ton up for the batting machine.

 

[StephenZA]

Imagine having to watch him bat most of the time in every test match your team plays.

**** the T20s were a nice break from him

At least you get the runs he scores.... we just have to watch and have that pain as well!

 

[stephen]

There is something stupefying about the relentlessness of watching someone who is completely impossible to get out

How demoralizing must Bradman have been to the English in the 30s?

 

[stephen]

At least you get the runs he scores.... we just have to watch and have that pain as well!

He hasn't even gotten to his average yet.

 

[Spark]

How demoralizing must Bradman have been to the English in the 30s?

Honestly this really is must have been a bit like what watching him was like. Just completely remorseless, utterly predictable run-scoring.

 

[stephen]

Honestly this really is must have been a bit like what watching him was like. Just completely remorseless, utterly predictable run-scoring.

This could be as close as we get to seeing someone like Bradman in our lifetime.

 

[StephenZA]

He hasn't even gotten to his average yet.

I hope that is all he gets...

 

[Spark]

geez that really did look out on replay

 

[Gnske]

Reminder they used a review on Bancroft

 

[morgieb]

Oh dear Faf.

 

[Gnske]

At least Dharmasena's eye is as good as ever

 

[Burgey]

What has happened to Dharmablahblah

Just saw the real one with that lbw.

 

[stephen]

I hope that is all he gets...

Remember his average includes all those games he wasn't any good. His average in the first innings of a match is 93.

 

[quincywagstaff]

Just experienced one of the most tedious cliches of modern cricket commentary - banter about each other’s golf games.

 

[Spark]

Remember his average includes all those games he wasn't any good. His average in the first innings of a match is 93.

To be fair, it wasn't that many matches where he was simply not ready. It was a significant proportion of his Test career when he had only played 30 Tests and was already averaging high-50s, but not so much now.