***Official***Match #20- England vs S Africa - October 21st - Wankhede (D/N)

[StephenZA]

Nice Reeza.

 

[Aidan11]

Agnew suggesting our players may be suffering from some sort of bug.

Well when we bat we're certainly gonna need to get the runs.

 

[Starfighter]

69.8 km/h

 

[ashley bach]

Very good batting decks has been the order of the day but this one looks as good as any.

 

[Aidan11]

SA might break the record score they set earlier in the tournament at this rate.

 

[King Kane]

That was pretty bad. Paine at the Oval. Taylor at Old Trafford etc (despite the result).

From memory Ponting himself stuffed up by sending England in to bat in the 2nd Test of the 2005 Ashes, the Aussies nearly got away with it though

 

[BazBall21]

I said before the tournament began we didn't have the bowling to win it and still didn't think it would be so toothless.

 

[Pothas]

Root being then most effective bowler is somewhat depressing.

 

[BazBall21]

From memory Ponting himself stuffed up by sending England in to bat in the 2nd Test of the 2005 Ashes series. the Aussies nearly got away with it though.

Edgbaston is a batting track and they were without McGrath. Sheer arrogance to bowl first.

 

[White Ball]

What’s a good score on this deck?

 

[Aidan11]

I have a horrible feeling the County Championship is gonna suffer for our performances in this tournament.

 

[The Brian Hardie Stance]

This World Cup campaign from England has a whiff of 1999 about it.

 

[mackembhoy]

Agnew suggesting our players may be suffering from some sort of bug.

Well when we bat we're certainly gonna need to get the runs.

A parasite that infected Jos Buttler brain is the only excuse he can have for choosing to field yet again on a flat deck.

A better side than Afghanistan made 300+ at Delhi. To think you can chase 300+ out of choice is moronic let alone in a world cup.

I'm supporting New Zealand now as we're out.

 

[GIMH]

Root being then most effective bowler is somewhat depressing.

The most effective bowler is off the field tbf

 

[Owzat]

got to wonder where Buttler's head is, up his own Rs perhaps, I mean bringing on a spinner early isn't a bad tactic but Root instead of Rashid and waits until saffers are well set before bringing on his best spinner - having left options B (Ali) and C (Livingstone) out

Willey and Topley did ok, but will be interesting to see if collectively Willey, Wood and Atkinson fare any better than Wood, Woakes and Curran as per stats I posted earlier - 10-1-68-0 not exactly looking good, similar ER, no wicket and thus no SR and no average but would be average 68.00 and SR 61.00 if they took one next ball

 

[Fuller Pilch]

I'm supporting New Zealand now as we're out.

Thanks. In less than 12 hours you might be able to say that in the rugby too.

 

[Aidan11]

We needed that.

 

[King Kane]

Rashid strikes.

To say England needed that wicket is an understatement.

 

[Starfighter]

Well that was a really crap shot. I think Rashid's loopier deliveries might be the ticket on this surface.

 

[Fuller Pilch]

The most effective bowler is off the field tbf

Yeah and @Red_Ink_Squid is heartbroken that he was dropped.