**Official** South Africa in Australia 2014

[NUFAN]

Dermo Abbott, Nic Maddinson, Ben Cutting and Nathan Reardon are the 4 from this series who I wouldn't be picking in any Australian teams for a while.

 

[uvelocity]

why is abbott battinng so low? should be three #juniorthoughts

 

[Spikey]

The annoying thing about the Maddinson thing is that he only played today because they felt he had to. They couldn't justify removing him from 2 shield games so he could be 12th man in 3 T20 games. It was a token selection. But here's the thing: it seems obvious that they always planned to add Maxwell for the 2nd game. So why pick both of Maddinson and Reardon? They should have picked one, and just have some South Australian **** hover around in case someone ****ed their back putting pants on. Instead I think both Maddinson and Reardon have been ****ed over. (or leave Maddinson behind in SA after the 1st T20)

 

[uvelocity]

they both suck so who cares

 

[Spikey]

abbott almost certainly gonna go big

 

[dermo]

everything about sean abbott annoys me

 

[grecian]

It wasn't wide though. I'm confused by this commentary, let the sheila talk.

 

[Spikey]

everything about sean abbott annoys me

but he just hit white in the head

 

[Spikey]

abbott after 3 balls: nervous
abbott after 6 balls: hitting em well

good commentary

 

[Spikey]

white's inability to keep his eye on the ball costs australia victory

 

[NUFAN]

Fmd Forkers. Why?

Cut him some slack Burgey, he played well on debut.

 

[Dan]

Fitting that Abbott was simultaneously trying his hardest to defend the indefensible while also trying his hardest to lose the unloseable, tbh.

 

[Spikey]

white "the pitch doesnt change much over 40 overs"
slater "the pitch really slowed down in the 2nd half of the innings"

 

[The_Bunny]

Best game so far, even if we only won due to Parnell bowling puss.
By the way are C9 getting worse? Been talking absolute dribble all series

 

[Spark]

Best game so far, even if we only won due to Parnell bowling puss.
By the way are C9 getting worse? Been talking absolute dribble all series

It is difficult to comprehend but to be fair their T20 coverage is the worst of the three forms (for obvious reasons). I wouldn't expect the Tests to be this bad.

 

[Jayzamann]

By the way are C9 getting worse?

Well...

Been talking absolute dribble all series

Seems about right

 

[morgieb]

Part of the reason why I don't have much interest in T20 is because the 9 commentators are such wankers. Ten did a much better job in the Big Bash IMO.

 

[Gnske]

Did no one at Channel 9 think four commentators at the same time was a terrible idea?

The average person doesn't deserve the punishment of listening to so much awful at once.

 

[Spark]

Did no one at Channel 9 think four commentators at the same time was a terrible idea?

The average person doesn't deserve the punishment of listening to so much awful at once.

It ends up drowning the half decent commentators too, or the comms you might actually want to listen to. At one point they had Slater + Lee + Warne on with Lanning, and guess who barely got a word in

 

[anil1405]

Meg Lanning is getting paid for sitting in the commentary box and listening to others.