***Official*** Australia in South Africa

[Prince EWS]

PEWS on fantastic form with his predictions lately.

To be fair, I did say it was "highly unlikely" that McDonald would play when they named the twelve. I really should have stuck with my original call.

 

[Steulen]

Yeah, in general, no mention of illegal streaming allowed.

I'm watching through Willow.tv, which i believe is totally legal as they hold the worldwide Internet broadcasting rights. Fee is USD 60 for the entire series, including T20 and ODI's.

 

[Burgey]

Burgey, you know full well that any run scored by Punter from this point on is null and void.

Of course, coz every cricketer who scored a ton before 2001 never gave a chance. And Ponting and these other fellows around now can't play good pace bowling, can't handle the ball moving, blah blah blah.

 

[Son Of Coco]

Yeah, in general, no mention of illegal streaming allowed.

Ahhh, I wondered about that...

 

[Uppercut]

Of course, coz every cricketer who scored a ton before 2001 never gave a chance. And Ponting and these other fellows around now can't play good pace bowling, can't handle the ball moving, blah blah blah.

He'd already beaten Atherton and Hussain's average when he was dropped, incidentally

 

[Burgey]

He'd already beaten Atherton and Hussain's average when he was dropped, incidentally

Yeah, but he'd have been dominated by Ealham or Caddick, assuming they got to bowl to him on or before 31 December 1999.

 

[pasag]

Off to the pub, hopefully Ponting can ton up, would be awesome.

 

[kingkallis]

Cricinfo said Smith was at second, not true?

Its CrapInfo these days, after toss they declared that Aussies has won the toss and would bowl!

 

[biased indian]

Off to the pub, hopefully Ponting can ton up, would be awesome.

hopefully he will be out before 60...will be awesome id styen can get him

 

[Langeveldt]

Can see Ponting and Clarke do a very annoying repair job here.. Clarke is one of my most disliked cricketers, but a Punter century would be a classy sight, and a big statement for sure..

 

[Burgey]

Nice start by Clarke post-lunch there.

Punter - nice half ton there. Quality from the skipper.

 

[inbox24]

Post lunch pasting, just goes to show how good a wicket this is. Deffo 450+ needed to prevent loss.

 

[JimmyGS]

Jesus, watching the cricinfo commentary of this is making me so frustrated that it's not on tv.

In other news, rain is on the way (apparently).

 

[Burgey]

Post lunch pasting, just goes to show how good a wicket this is. Deffo 450+ needed to prevent loss.

You're joking right? Ball did plenty before lunch.

 

[Langeveldt]

Johann Steyn emails some bad news: "It's bucketing down in the East-Rand. I guess we're no more than 25km away from the Wanderers. It's been raining here for 25 minutes already."

 

[Nate]

Nice cricket Australia

Nice crowd South Africa.

EDIT: A few more coming in now. Is it normally this empty?

 

[The Sean]

Ntini to Ponting, FOUR, short ball, pulled in the air past square leg, Ntini runs around and dives but makes a mess of it and cannot prevent a boundary

Ntini's covered some fair ground after delivering the ball there, not surprised he made a mess of it TBH.

 

[NUFAN]

Loving the batting after lunch.

Clarke is looking very positive which is very good to see.

 

[NUFAN]

Ntini to Ponting, FOUR, short ball, pulled in the air past square leg, Ntini runs around and dives but makes a mess of it and cannot prevent a boundary

Ntini's covered some fair ground after delivering the ball there, not surprised he made a mess of it TBH.

Anyone know much about Nkwe anyways?

I read he's from Soweto and averages 28 from 40 matches.

 

[inbox24]

Clarke averaging 50 now. Hopefully this year can be his maturation into a Ricky Ponting batsman.