*Official* England in South Africa Thread

[Scaly piscine]

Given the flood warnings and the way England get stuffed by conditions most of the time I reckon it'll be rained off...

 

[BoyBrumby]

Def not just a passing shower. Gower just said it looks like Pietersen now may not get a chance to bat in fron of his hometown (ish) crowd.

Arrgghh!

 

[Langeveldt]

Latest action:

1221 GMT: Kevin Pietersen sings his heart out during the English national anthem with family and friends watching at what used to be his home ground

I saw the interview on sky with his parents who seemed like thoroughly top people, and were so supportive of the SA boys and Kevin as well..

I wish I was that compassionate

Don't South Africa have a bit of a case for playing their cricket in their mild dry winters?? Im getting a bit fed up of this weather, but SA could well escape with the series win tonight

 

[andyc]

wow. only two overs lost, that seems quite small

 

[Neil Pickup]

wow. only two overs lost, that seems quite small

D/N nature of the game allows them to play an extra hour without truncation of overs. There'll be a small D/L adjustment, but really not much.

 

[andyc]

D/N nature of the game allows them to play an extra hour without truncation of overs. There'll be a small D/L adjustment, but really not much.

none at all now, says cricinfo.

EDIT: wait, now cricinfo says its back to 48 overs per side.

 

[Swervy]

D/N nature of the game allows them to play an extra hour without truncation of overs. There'll be a small D/L adjustment, but really not much.

i would take a guess that you could probably add ten to the SA score for Englands target

 

[Neil Pickup]

Kabir, go home. Now.

 

[andyc]

Kabir, go home. Now.

okay, but first you might wanna let him get gibbs out

 

[Neil Pickup]

Yay, Saffies self-destructing. Colly and Strauss doing a damn good job of boundary riding.

My understanding of the D/L method is that SA have lost 3% of their resource, so multiply their final total by 100/97 = 1.031 to get the revised par score.

 

[Neil Pickup]

okay, but first you might wanna let him get gibbs out

No way is Kabir getting any credit for that from me.

 

[andyc]

No way is Kabir getting any credit for that from me.

i cant see it.. was it like his others?

 

[Neil Pickup]

Yay, Saffies self-destructing. Colly and Strauss doing a damn good job of boundary riding.

My understanding of the D/L method is that SA have lost 3% of their resource, so multiply their final total by 100/97 = 1.031 to get the revised par score.

And then you need to multiply that by 0.981 to re-adjust for England's lost allowance... so to tie England will need 1.011 times South Africa's score!

 

[Neil Pickup]

i cant see it.. was it like his others?

Length ball, Gibbs got underneath it, caught on the boundary by Collingwood.

 

[Neil Pickup]

Maximum credit for that slower bal, though.

211 * 1.011 = 213 to tie.

 

[Scaly piscine]

How many runs have SA lost by being bowled out as opposed to having 2/3 wickets left at the end?

 

[andyc]

Maximum credit for that slower bal, though.

211 * 1.011 = 213 to tie.

cricinfo says its just going to be 48 overs per side. whatever it is, i imagine england should reach it easily. but where did you learn the d/l method?

 

[Neil Pickup]

There's plenty of stuff on the Internet about it, whack it into Google and find out the exactitudes of the methodology. It's all about innings resources remaining. You can also find the tables in their entireity and then do your calculations off that.

I could look a right tit if it's not 214 to win now, couldn't I?

 

[andyc]

There's plenty of stuff on the Internet about it, whack it into Google and find out the exactitudes of the methodology. It's all about innings resources remaining. You can also find the tables in their entireity and then do your calculations off that.

I could look a right tit if it's not 214 to win now, couldn't I?

lol yeah, you could. well, tit, smarta*se, and/or just plain idiot .

 

[Scaly piscine]

There's plenty of stuff on the Internet about it, whack it into Google and find out the exactitudes of the methodology. It's all about innings resources remaining. You can also find the tables in their entireity and then do your calculations off that.

I could look a right tit if it's not 214 to win now, couldn't I?

Wouldn't it go into extra detail (ie it would be something like 212.9999999999994 to tie so 213 to win) for calculating England's target?