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*Official* England in South Africa 2019/20
- Thread starter StephenZA
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wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Broad in particular imo.
ajdude
International Coach
oh **** yeah. wouldn't mind seeing curran around the wicket to the right handers trying to hit that crack too
Still got to be very happy with that as a day. Don't want to overreact to a rare day of good batting but there are few encouraging signs this winter with Pope, Burns and now Sibley. Root was excellent today as well, sure it looks like the same old story but we have not actually seen that sort of Root recently.
wpdavid
Hall of Fame Member
Agreed. It doesn't look as if Root did a lot wrong with a ball that leapt of a length and the rest of the side should be able to set a target beyond 400 on a wicket that's starting to misbehave.
Haven't they already tried that and it didn't work out? Wicket keepers really shouldn't be batting above 6 in test matches anyway as it's just too much to do
Dendarii
International Debutant
He's played six matches in which he batted in the top 5 and averaged 28.70
Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com
At 6, 7, and 8 he averages 40.26
Batting records | Test matches | Cricinfo Statsguru | ESPNcricinfo.com
His best position has been 7, but that's not currently an option for him with South Africa playing an allrounder rather than an extra batsman.
a Top 4 batsmen getting out the way QDK does?? He might be the most talented player in the side but he shows zero responsibility.
Should be nowhere but nr 6 or 7.
theegyptian
International Vice-Captain
Overrate was terrible today and the umpires just allowed faf to get away with it.
4 overs short for the day and that was with Maharaj bowling 27 overs.
Only 1 review and 1 brief injury break too iirc so there wasn't much down time .
Faf was slowing the game down from mid afternoon and the umpires did nothing. That's 4 overs less that SA will have to bat for a draw.
Normally I'm not that concerned but today it was so blatant by South Africa, and there weren't the extenuating circumstances. It's gamesmanship and all teams do it but today was the most obvious I've seen.
4 overs short for the day and that was with Maharaj bowling 27 overs.
Only 1 review and 1 brief injury break too iirc so there wasn't much down time .
Faf was slowing the game down from mid afternoon and the umpires did nothing. That's 4 overs less that SA will have to bat for a draw.
Normally I'm not that concerned but today it was so blatant by South Africa, and there weren't the extenuating circumstances. It's gamesmanship and all teams do it but today was the most obvious I've seen.
I didn't really notice it much mid-day but it was definitely becoming excruciatingly slow towards the end. There was a time at which I assumed they were going to easily get in all the overs at about one hour from close, but it seemed to really slow down from this point