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*Official* England in South Africa Thread
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superkingdave
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Not far offcricinfo said:
The Baconator
International Vice-Captain
agreed, they could surely have made in a space in this line upBoyBrumby said:Why the bloomin' flip don't Sky show warm-up games? They have 4 dedicated sports channels (5 if you count Sky Sports News), surely space could be found?!
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
judging by his dismissal, yes, only on completely the wrong linesteds said:can he swing it, though?
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Well Sky keeps getting worse as far as I'm concerned, my sister got a threatening letter from them about how Sky wasn't connected to the phone line (it is connected and has been throughout) - this is after one of their engineers installed it AND one of their engineers was round the next day to sort out why Gamestar would disconnect repeatedly (it also crashed whenever I got over 100,000 on the Scrabble) and confirmed the connection was fine.BoyBrumby said:Why the bloomin' flip don't Sky show warm-up games? They have 4 dedicated sports channels (5 if you count Sky Sports News), surely space could be found?!
Anyway I'm glad Bell has gotten a half-century.
Edit: cricinfo has him back down to 46 now, but I hope he goes on anyway
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superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
Right Warm up over, bowling, not so great, batting better. My pick for the first ODI
Tresco
Bell
Vaughan
Strauss
Peitersen
Collie
Jones
Gilo
Ali/Hoggie
Harmi
Gough
Bell over Solanki, for me and for most other people i know its a no brainer, even though Bell aint really an opener, i'd rather him than Vikram. Thats the only one in the batting that looks a debate.
In the bowling, ill go for Kabir Ali to start, he bowled ok today after a poor start, i might pick Hoggie if the conditions were severe but atm i wouldnt let Anderson near the pitch. TBH i'd send him home now, we have enough cover with Hoggie, Harmi, Gough, Ali, Wharf and Jones for 3 positions. Used to be one of Anderson's biggest fans and i still think he has the talent but he is out of his depth atm and needs to go back to Lancs.
Tresco
Bell
Vaughan
Strauss
Peitersen
Collie
Jones
Gilo
Ali/Hoggie
Harmi
Gough
Bell over Solanki, for me and for most other people i know its a no brainer, even though Bell aint really an opener, i'd rather him than Vikram. Thats the only one in the batting that looks a debate.
In the bowling, ill go for Kabir Ali to start, he bowled ok today after a poor start, i might pick Hoggie if the conditions were severe but atm i wouldnt let Anderson near the pitch. TBH i'd send him home now, we have enough cover with Hoggie, Harmi, Gough, Ali, Wharf and Jones for 3 positions. Used to be one of Anderson's biggest fans and i still think he has the talent but he is out of his depth atm and needs to go back to Lancs.
Scaly piscine
Cricket Web: All-Time Legend
Let's be fair tho, SA are pretty poor in ODIs and England *should* win. I expect England will do an Australia and change the bowlers in the team frequently, I couldn't hazard much of a guess at what bowlers they'll pick, but I hope Simon Jones & Hoggard get a few games, England need more players who can genuinely bowl people out anyway but this is even more the case without Flintoff and Harmison (for the first few games).
superkingdave
Hall of Fame Member
SA are never be a poor side at home, when did they last lose a home ODI series?