*Official* England in South Africa Thread

[wpdavid]

I suggest you refrain from calling Harmison a complete disgrace and questioning his attitude when you have absolutely no idea what he's been doing over the past few months. It's obvious he's worked on his batting and maybe he's worked too hard on that compared to the bowling and lost his rhythm bowling-wise - he's still trying as hard, maybe harder than ever.

Feel free to suggest whatever you want, but I'll stick to my guns, as one of my pet hates is massive underachievement, and that's what we're seeing. He isn't a teenager and, by now, if he can't get his basic action sorted so that most of his deleiveries land roughly where they're supposed to, then it simply isn't good enough for someone who does this for a living

 

[Scaly piscine]

Feel free to suggest whatever you want, but I'll stick to my guns, as one of my pet hates is massive underachievement, and that's what we're seeing. He isn't a teenager and, by now, if he can't get his basic action sorted so that most of his deleiveries land roughly where they're supposed to, then it simply isn't good enough for someone who does this for a living

A bad series (so far) doesn't make his career overall a massive underachievement. Rambling on about how his basic action needs sorting when it's likely the same as when he bowled brilliantly over the last year is ridiculous, you'd never let any player in the World keep the same action or technique for longer than a series.

 

[Craig]

It was prime bowling conditions in the morning (overcast, muggy, damp etc.) - the start was delayed for 20 minutes and the clouds disappeared shortly after the declaration came.

PS is it me is the server on here rubbish today?

It has happened to me a few times lately.

But I must admit when James banned having pictures in our signatures was one of the best things he's done in the 12 months for this site. Improved the speed of the site two-fold.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Flintoff gets one now.

 

[S & G Jones Fan]

freddie freddie!!

 

[Tom Halsey]

That catch looked slightly dodgy, I have to say.

However, as Casson said on MSN, Dippenaar seemed happy.

 

[Mr Casson]

That catch looked slightly dodgy, I have to say.

However, as Casson said on MSN, Dippenaar seemed happy.

I'll also add that I mentioned that it looked dodgy quite early on... But Tres got his fingers to it first and that's always a good sign.

 

[twctopcat]

Thought if i left cricinfo for half an hour something might happen, and it did!!!. The old legendary hoggmeister general, and kallis of all people, well i never......

 

[Barney Rubble]

Heard Harmy got injured, anyone know how bad it is? Not that it'll make much difference, the way he's bowling.....

 

[Scaly piscine]

He was back on the pitch just before tea, couldn't imagine him coming back on if it was a muscle tear could have just been cramp - but he won't be able to bowl for half an hour or so after tea anyway because of him being off for 45 minutes.

 

[twctopcat]

Sounds as if De Villiers is surviving by the skin of his teeth, hopefully we should pluck him out soon... *touches wood*.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Harmison off for a scan on the calf now apparently, SA being as jammy as hell after tea so far.

 

[twctopcat]

De villiers straight out of the freddy book of batting apparently, excellent.

 

[Neil Pickup]

One of the more brain-dead dismissals I've seen from Abraham. Still, will Pollock and Bojé to come, we need more wickets and all our bowlers are broken.

Mr Lewis, on the plane please.

 

[BoyBrumby]

One of the more brain-dead dismissals I've seen from Abraham. Still, will Pollock and Bojé to come, we need more wickets and all our bowlers are broken.

Mr Lewis, on the plane please.

All except one, & to use Nasser's polite euphemism, Anderson is "short of form"....

 

[Mr Casson]

Please Vaughan, don't kill Hoggard!!

 

[Scaly piscine]

All those edges for 4 must do the bowlers' heads in, certainly P***ed me off enough times - absolutely beyond me why anyone would even consider NOT having a 3rd man as a fielder.

 

[SJS]

All those edges for 4 must do the bowlers' heads in, certainly P***ed me off enough times - absolutely beyond me why anyone would even consider NOT having a 3rd man as a fielder.

Its one of the wonders of modern captaincy. Third man seems to have gone out of fashion. Most modern captains avoid it. The number of edges thatgo for boundaries is not funny.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Its one of the wonders of modern captaincy. Third man seems to have gone out of fashion. Most modern captains avoid it. The number of edges thatgo for boundaries is not funny.

Yea and with limited overs cricket most batsmen are adept at steering the ball to third man anyway.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Boucher showing everyone just how good the decision to drop him was.