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

[Prince EWS]

Lyon has been really quite crap this tour. Severe problem.

I've been as disappointed with the plans he's bowled to as I have the actual bowling. Not sure if that's mainly come from him or mainly come from Smith(/Paine I guess), but there's way too much leg side trash and it definitely feels at least some extent deliberate.

 

[Bolo]

Cummins further enhancing his reputation as the most decent player of the side by sacrificing his arm to get Maxwell onto the field

 

[Senile Sentry]

Loving the positivity of Markram. AbD needs to get going. He struggled in the last innings as well.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Loving the positivity of Markram. AbD needs to get going. He struggled in the last innings as well.

Nah, you've got a dispirited team at your mercy and you're 2/200+. There's no need to do anything but grind them into the dirt. Two days in the field should see two capitulations.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Lyon not getting any shape away from the batsman, whether bowling over or around the wicket. Not challenging the outside edge at all.

EDIT: watch his bowling arm, hardly gets over towards his left hip. It stays on line with his right shoulder in his follow through. Just not finishing off nearly as well as he has been in the past twelve months.

 

[Spikey]

oh ab just wanted to do us slowly

 

[Senile Sentry]

Nah, you've got a dispirited team at your mercy and you're 2/200+. There's no need to do anything but grind them into the dirt. Two days in the field should see two capitulations.

Maybe but he was playing and missing/not timing far too many.

As if he read this, starts being AbD of yore.

Damn, Markram goes against play... played champ.

 

[vcs]

Well played Markram. 150 up.

EDIT: Gone now. Cummins seems to be pretty much Australia's only threat in the middle overs.

 

[Spark]

Markram is class. SA will be absolutely fine going forward.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

played Markram

 

[Senile Sentry]

Less than 45 minutes to go for scheduled close of play and Aus have to get in another 19 plus overs in. Really poor over-rate that, although that could be least of their worries for now.

 

[AndyZaltzHair]

lol du plessis

 

[social]

Lol

 

[Senile Sentry]

Lol Duplessis

 

[vcs]

If SA go on to get 450 here as they should, Australia will be staring down the barrel facing that attack with a bunch of guys who've flown in yesterday.

EDIT: Eh, they might still collapse and get out for 300 here.

 

[Borges]

Wow! That's a lot more like it.

 

[Senile Sentry]

It's "take the third and get two wickets free" time. Hopefully Jonty Bavuma can justify his quota pick.

 

[NUFAN]

You have to wonder what goes on in Faf's head at times. Not the first time he just padded up, that was horrible.

 

[social]

Haven’t watched much but Lyon has been awful every time I’ve looked

Cummins is carrying the attack

 

[Spikey]

and so every 6 odd years Australian cricket falls apart at Newlands and Cummins puts it back together at Johannesburg