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*Official* England in South Africa Thread
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tooextracool
International Coach
doesnt that make the inning even better? personally i wouldnt mind someone who looked completely out of sorts and managed to survive ball after ball in unfavourably batting conditions before finally getting the right conditions and having the ball go from the middle off the bat to get his runs. its somewhat of a hussain type innings or what atherton calls 'ugly runs'.Mr Casson said:
tooextracool
International Coach
no because unlike tresco, his problems are temperamental. we've all seen that he can bat in both favourable and unfavourable conditions at home.twctopcat said:
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Man that feels like a long time ago... Harmison the all-rounder...Scaly piscine said:
Mr Casson
Cricketer Of The Year
I've had it up to here with Steve Bucknor. He is an absolute travesty. Where the hell does he get off making decisions that are reserved for the players to make? Compounded with his horrible decisions so far in this series I'm joining the "Bucknor for retirement" brigade.
SpaceMonkey
International Debutant
Didnt he get a hundred in New Zealand?tooextracool said:
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
I take it you're referring to them going off for bad light, in theory they're supposed to just walk off as soon as you get those 4 distinct shadows for each player. England were kind of lucky to get an extra hour out of tonight according to what was said on the radio when technically they should have been off when they offered light to England and they stayed on.Mr Casson said:
SpaceMonkey
International Debutant
Its just a matter of time till he gets a 50 surely?Scaly piscine said:
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Hopefully only a matter of a few hours, maybe he should move ahead of Hoggard in the batting order?SpaceMonkey said:
badgerhair
U19 Vice-Captain
And one in WI. Of course, he's only had the one winter away since he was recognised to have stopped being idiotic as a batsman.SpaceMonkey said:
Cheers,
Mike
tooextracool
International Coach
yes he did, a 137. but he followed that series up with a 14 and 19 average against SL and india at home which led most people to believe that it was just another one of those out of the blue innings. its only since the series against SA in 03 that hes showed signs of maturity with the bat though, and all of it unfortunately has been at home.SpaceMonkey said:
tooextracool
International Coach
the 100 in the WI though was littered with dropped catches and the 4 innings before that were characteristic of the immature flintoff.badgerhair said:
Very good fightback from Harmison and Vaughan but these batting collapses are becoming quite concerning. It's a good job Strauss is getting some runs for us.
Flintoff only bats one way and that's aggressively, unfortunately that means sometimes he gives his wicket away.
Finally, I have to question the decision regarding the light, surely they are only supposed to ask the batting team and not the fielding team unless it is causing a real danger to fielders. Am I wrong?
Flintoff only bats one way and that's aggressively, unfortunately that means sometimes he gives his wicket away.
Finally, I have to question the decision regarding the light, surely they are only supposed to ask the batting team and not the fielding team unless it is causing a real danger to fielders. Am I wrong?