***Official*** England in South Africa 2015/16

[flibbertyjibber]

Duminy out to the off spinner. never could have called that.

 

[Niall]

When are South Africa finally going to give up on JP the test batsman? He just isn't good enough for the format whatsoever.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Moeen bowled a load of tripe today really, but always nice to be a spinner when Duminy's about.

 

[StephenZA]

Duminy!!!!! Stupid

 

[91Jmay]

Duminy is so village against spin. 2 more before close please.

 

[LegionOfBrad]

That's just **** batting.

 

[Garson007]

Duminy, please retire for your country.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Made sense to review it with the reset in 2 and a bit overs mind. Even if you're 99.9% certain it's out.

 

[91Jmay]

237-1 to 274-5

Still got batsmen to push the total past the 350 region which could easily be a match winning total but should have batted us out of the game.

 

[harsh.ag]

Think it's fair to say he is Broad's bunny now.

The list of bunnies for modern greats:

Broad - Ross Taylor and Azhar Ali (ABdV averages 48 despite getting out 10 times in 14 innings)
Jimmy - Thirimanne, Shoaib Malik and Farhat (Tendulkar averages 30)
Steyn - Hafeez, Sehwag, Tamim, and Guptill
Johnson - Duminy
Zaheer - Strauss (marginally)

 

[StephenZA]

Only reason Rilee is not playing is he would be on debut as well.... conservative SA selection. I would have liked to see van Zyl down the order but his confidence is shot.

 

[StephenZA]

The list of bunnies for modern greats:

Broad - Ross Taylor and Azhar Ali (ABdV averages 48 despite getting out 10 times in 14 innings)
Jimmy - Thirimanne, Shoaib Malik and Farhat (Tendulkar averages 30)
Steyn - Hafeez, Sehwag, Tamim, and Guptill
Johnson - Duminy
Zaheer - Strauss (marginally)

Left arm bowling- Duminy

 

[Niall]

Duminy, please retire for your country.

Quality t20 player though, will be crucial in the world cup in a few months, but just stop picking him in test cricket. However as South Africa don't play tests for ages, you'd be crazy to bet against him playing their next test.

 

[Garson007]

Only reason Rilee is not playing is he would be on debut as well.... conservative SA selection. I would have liked to see van Zyl down the order but his confidence is shot.

Recall Virus and McKenzie.

 

[Marius]

I think Duminy is the bunny of anyone who can bowl a cricket ball fairly straight.

 

[Captain_Cook]

(ABdV averages 48 despite getting out 10 times in 14 innings)

That's wrong. ABDV averages less than 20 against Broad. That figure you picked up is average from matches in which Broad dismissed him which isn't the same thing.

 

[91Jmay]

Moeen bowled a few filthy deliveries but on the whole a really good spell there to keep the runs down and pick up a wicket.

 

[wpdavid]

New ball taken, which wouldn't have been my call. Happy for Jimmy and Broad to prove me wrong though.

 

[Marius]

Recall Virus and McKenzie.

And Zombie Hansie to captain.

 

[91Jmay]

Yeah can see the new ball coming on nicely here and getting them past the 320 mark. Need 2 wickets, minimum one.

If Jimmy keeps bowling poorly though through the UK summer a conversation has to be had at some point. Mark Wood will be back fit and has bowled some really impressive spells.