***Official*** South Africa in Australia

[aussie]

wait a minute now i'm recognising it surprisingly Langeveldt is playing it could have swared Boje was in the line-up.

 

[social]

Taken Pollock at no. 8 to take some initiative.

Thank god for poor umpiring or we'd still be waiting for a declaration on Thursday

Someone remind the SA that they need to win this test

 

[Pratters]

Someone remind the SA that they need to win this test

And apart from certain commentators saying so, why do you believe South Africa is not going forward with that purpose?

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Taken Pollock at no. 8 to take some initiative.

Thank god for poor umpiring or we'd still be waiting for a declaration on Thursday

Someone remind the SA that they need to win this test

I didn't know you were Ian Chappell!

 

[Pratters]

Botha average of 31.8 in FC cricket. Not bad.

 

[Pratters]

Super effort by Pollock. Well bowled by Lee to fox Pollock and take his wicket.

lol @ Chappell thinking RSA should declare now. Well he thinks it is too late already. Also that RSA should have aimed for 420 by tea and declared right then.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Yeah but Ian Chappell is insane.

What is with this perception that you have to score at 4+ runs per over to win a Test match?

 

[Jono]

The commentary was God awful today, even from my man Chappelli. They may as well bring out the pyjamas and start imposing fielding restrictions considering the scoring rate they want. There is a reason Australia score so fast compared to other teams when they play Australia. 1) They have champion batsmen 2) They don't have to face McGrath and Warne.

They make it sound like its quite easy to go out there facing two of the greatest bowlers of all time and smack boundaries once an over going at a run rate of 4-4.5. I know Australia have been belting attacks around here in Australia for years, but its a lot easier to belt around attacks involving Fidel Edwards and Jermaine Lawson or Zaheer Kahn and Ashish Nehra compared to McGrath and Warne. Ridiculous.

I want Bill Lawry back. Get well soon buddy

That being said, how bloody good was Prince today? Kallis played a very patient knock, but it wasn't one of his best in his career, despite being his highest score against Australia (I remind everyone he's got an elbow injury) but Prince was simply magnificent. Warne may have actually got him in the end (wrong decisionIMO anyway) but the guts and determination he has shown all series has been great to see. When you're publically called a bunny and possibly the next Darryl Cullinan its easy to lose confidence in your game, but he didn't. Really good to see.

 

[aussie]

well its simple Australia need to bat well for the remainder of the day & the rest of the innings so as to not give SA more strenght to the advantage they already have, unfortunately my eyes are giving out & i wont see Australia bat but hopefully when my alarm goes of at 10am UK time, i wont be in a shock. Good night everyone & come on Australia...

 

[Gideon]

Prince was great. He's like a brick wall against the pacemen. I can't remember any opportunities off the pacemen.

 

[Jono]

South Africa dropping catches again, but Langeveld still getting wickets. Aus 2/35, Langeveldt has both Hayden and Langer playing on to their stumps.

 

[social]

Well, SA's batting performance suddenly looks decidedly better!

But what was with the Aus batting?

All 3 played shots they'd rather forget.

 

[Jono]

South Africa well on top in this game. They really need to take advantage tomorrow.

 

[Jono]

So Lee has been reported for level 1 offence by Dar? About time.

About time indeed.

 

[GotSpin]

I told you pratyush they wouldnt get 500

 

[greg]

The commentary was God awful today, even from my man Chappelli. They may as well bring out the pyjamas and start imposing fielding restrictions considering the scoring rate they want. There is a reason Australia score so fast compared to other teams when they play Australia. 1) They have champion batsmen 2) They don't have to face McGrath and Warne.

They make it sound like its quite easy to go out there facing two of the greatest bowlers of all time and smack boundaries once an over going at a run rate of 4-4.5. I know Australia have been belting attacks around here in Australia for years, but its a lot easier to belt around attacks involving Fidel Edwards and Jermaine Lawson or Zaheer Kahn and Ashish Nehra compared to McGrath and Warne. Ridiculous.

I want Bill Lawry back. Get well soon buddy

That being said, how bloody good was Prince today? Kallis played a very patient knock, but it wasn't one of his best in his career, despite being his highest score against Australia (I remind everyone he's got an elbow injury) but Prince was simply magnificent. Warne may have actually got him in the end (wrong decisionIMO anyway) but the guts and determination he has shown all series has been great to see. When you're publically called a bunny and possibly the next Darryl Cullinan its easy to lose confidence in your game, but he didn't. Really good to see.

Quite right. Difference between scoring at 3 an over and 4 an over is 1 bad ball every four overs. Explains it when you look at some of the test attacks in recent years.

 

[Blaze]

Haven't read this thread yet but from what I heard today, the commentary was abysmal.

Ian Healy OUT

Michael Slater IN.

Healy is just a cheerleader for Australia.

 

[mikeW]

Poor shot by Hodge.

 

[vic_orthdox]

Hodge - that was disappointing. He was thinking about the shot before he even played it though, I reckon.

Parttimer, enough with the personal abuse.

 

[marc71178]

There was a shedload of that already. This is a new match..

Yes it is a new match, but how come you weren't complaining about the decisions throughout that series?