**Official** New Zealand in South Africa

[Top_Cat]

Philander miraculously returns to form back home.

 

[Jono]

Ordinary is how you would probably describe him in England before the word "ordinary" was hijacked for poor.

Philander was extremely tight during the England series when the ball was not doing much and ****ing invincible when charged on.

Bowling statistics for the series are:

Philander - 12 wickets @ 23.66
Steyn - 15 wickets @ 29.20
Morkel - 11 wickets @ 34.54
Broad - 11 wickets @ 39.7
Finn - 10 wickets @ 32.2
Anderson - wickets @ 40.66

Unless by ordinary - you mean by his usual standards.

Haha exactly.

 

[Jono]

Philander miraculously returns to form back home.

Had no idea Philander is a West Australian

 

[Spark]

Yeah really he's only had one seriously bad match recently, at Brisbane (where tbf he did look distinctly toothless with Cowan pulling him from a metre outside the crease). Apart from that he's either been tight or ridiculous.

 

[centurymaker]

Philander wasn't great here, sure (though he was good at Perth) but I don't think he was "ordinary" in England.

his final innings there saved him immensely.
the guy relies heavily on conditions to be in his favour and when he does get them he gets two times as better figures as anyone else.
however when the conditons aren;t in his favour, he appears to be more innocuous than even the likes of I sharma.

 

[centurymaker]

Yeah really he's only had one seriously bad match recently, at Brisbane (where tbf he did look distinctly toothless with Cowan pulling him from a metre outside the crease). Apart from that he's either been tight or ridiculous.

sat out the adelaide road match

 

[Manee]

Philander miraculously returns to form back home.

How can a bowler be so ridiculously good in his home country. I'm extremely curious to see how he does when he plays in the subcontinent.

 

[Prince EWS]

Pies from Boult.

 

[Flametree]

Hesson's lunchtime words of wisdom have worked wonders on Boult here...

 

[Mike5181]

Don't bowl on the legs Boulty.

 

[Spiced]

Next session is vital for NZ to take as many wickets as they can. If not SA will score big as the pitch should get easier to bat on during the day.

 

[straw man]

Boult doing what he does when he's pushing too hard for swing and a wicket, which is leg side half volleys

 

[Flem274*]

Boult doesn't look himself here. No swing, less accurate and down on pace a bit.

 

[benchmark00]

Am I correct in saying that supersport have a 'press the red button if you want the commentary in Afrikaans' option?

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Ball swinging so much but nz only bowling 1 good ball an over

 

[Zinzan]

Notice how 'late' Amla plays the swinging ball NZ ! Now take note.

 

[benchmark00]

Yuk.

 

[Mike5181]

Terrible fielding.

 

[Zinzan]

Terrible fielding, who was that?

 

[Howsie]

Chris Martin, who else.