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

[91Jmay]

Yeah Ward is there, no doubt chirping 'shot boy' after every boundary.

 

[Flem274*]

that crowd and absolutely gorgeous ground clearly signal the end of test cricket as two terrible sides flail at each other

 

[MrPrez]

It scares me that Dane Piedt might be the best bowler in our XI.

 

[91Jmay]

Good first over from the spinner.

 

[cnerd123]

After two hours of toil with my offbreaks at the nets I'm slightly annoyed at hiw easy Piedt makes it looks.

Gets a lot of work on the ball with a very orthodox action. Does all the basics very well. I want to be able to bowl like him.

 

[testcricketer]

Iirc he normally comes when the windies tour south africa

 

[LegionOfBrad]

Iirc he normally comes when the windies tour south africa

Makes sense. It's usually him or Ian Bishop.

 

[testcricketer]

I love the drift that piedt gets

 

[Flem274*]

ian bishop is awesome. so underrated while a lemon sucker like holding gets plaudits because he has a nice voice.

 

[MrPrez]

He's just such a nice old-fashioned off-spinner. Gives you the feeling that he'll be incredibly consistent in the years to come, which is brilliant for a nation that is spin bowling's barren wasteland.

 

[91Jmay]

Hales getting out to spin after getting bogged down is a story I've read before. Hope I'm wrong.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

ian bishop is awesome. so underrated while a lemon sucker like holding gets plaudits because he has a nice voice.

Holding used to be great until you realised he hasn't said anything fresh or new for over 10 years.

 

[Cabinet96]

Oh wow, I completely forgot about Luke Wright almost playing the boxing day test last time we toured SA.

 

[TheJediBrah]

You guys might be interested to know that Luke Wright just hit 109* in the Big Bash in front of 80,000 crowd

 

[Flem274*]

who the **** is this who is somehow bored enough already to cry about over rates? they sound familliar but like they have a cold or something

 

[OverratedSanity]

ian bishop is awesome. so underrated while a lemon sucker like holding gets plaudits because he has a nice voice.

Bishop is awesome. His inflections are weirdly fun.

 

[91Jmay]

His normal two shots to every ball hacking no doubt. I watched 5 minutes of it and he kept trying some god awful ramp stuff. I'd still have him in the T20 squad.

 

[MrPrez]

Ha, Alviro Peterson just straight up said that as a Lions player, he thinks they picked the wrong Lion. Reckons Hardus Viljoen is simply a better option right now as opposed to Rabada.

Personally I'd like to know what has happened to Hendricks.

 

[Flem274*]

You guys might be interested to know that Luke Wright just hit 109* in the Big Bash in front of 80,000 crowd

bigger news than the windies series i'll grant you but this series here is kind of a big deal so nah

you knew that though

 

[91Jmay]

Compton illustrating why he was dropped. 3* off 24, really building dots here.