***Official*** South Africa in Australia

[James90]

Brilliant! Incredible bowling from Lee!

 

[Jono]

My God Brett Lee that was brilliant. Awesome set-up. To clean bowl Kallis it takes something special.

 

[chalky]

Brute of a bouncer from Lee.

Brilliant Yorker Kallis bowled Wonderful bowling from Lee absolutely superb

 

[BoyBrumby]

Beauty from Lee. Perfect yorker to follow up the bouncer. Kallis goes.

 

[aussie]

2 card trick working perfectly for Lee, superb

 

[chalky]

Fisrt time I've seen Kallis unsettled like that for while. To hit a player of Kallis' ability on head and then clean bowl him was a top effort from Lee.

 

[parttimer]

150k inswinging yorker. Akram type stuff

 

[aussie]

Fisrt time I've seen Kallis unsettled like that for while. To hit a player of Kallis' ability on head and then clean bowl him was a top effort from Lee.

one feels Bing has come of age now, bowling superbly this summer watch out England . BTW surprised Prince has come out thought it would be Rudolph.

 

[chalky]

one feels Bing has come of age now, bowling superbly this summer watch out England . BTW surprised Prince has come out thought it would be Rudolph.

On lee I'm not totally convinced he is ready to lead the attack yet but definately improving.

Yeah I think Rudolph should have came out at 5 especially after the way he handled the Aussie bowling in Perth..

 

[aussie]

to me i think Lee has improved a lot since the 2nd innings at the Gabba test last month he seems to be more patient has shown this morning, when he gets hit around now or deosn't get wickets he's not bowling bouncers or overpitching like in the past he keeping to a lenght & is reeping rewards this summer. The only time i saw him drift pack too that old habit was on the afternoon on the 1st day in adelaide when he was trying to bounce out Lara with the new ball.

If he's not ready to lead the attack yet, he's got to be awfully close.

 

[FaaipDeOiad]

Lee - brilliant.

I'm almost prepared to be smug now about the fact that I said for six months that he had made key improvements to his bowling and should be back in the test side.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Prince not looking v convincing here at all. Playing back & not covering his stumps properly.

It hadn't occured to me, but it is odd about him coming out & not Rudolph. Rudolph was up @ 3 against us last year.

 

[BoyBrumby]

& Prince makes a liar of me by coming forward & prodding catch to short-leg!

 

[a massive zebra]

Prince gone.

He really is turning into Warne's bunny.

 

[aussie]

inevitable that Prince wasn't looking comfortable at all.

 

[a massive zebra]

Just to build upon my previous post, take a look at the breakdown of Ashwell Prince's dismissals in Tests:

SK Warne (LBG) 7 times
CH Gayle (OB) 2 times
Talha Jubair (RM) 2 times
WPUJC Vaas (LFM) 2 times
DJJ Bravo (RMF) 1 time
CRD Fernando (RFM) 1 time
JN Gillespie (RF) 1 time
GD McGrath (RFM) 1 time

Total 16

 

[aussie]

It hadn't occured to me, but it is odd about him coming out & not Rudolph. Rudolph was up @ 3 against us last year.

but when SA were here in 2003 he was at @ 6, so it may not be that odd to him i guess.

 

[a massive zebra]

So who do you think are favourites for a first innings lead?

 

[James90]

Just to build upon my previous post, take a look at the breakdown of Ashwell Prince's dismissals in Tests:

SK Warne (LBG) 7 times
CH Gayle (OB) 2 times
Talha Jubair (RM) 2 times
WPUJC Vaas (LFM) 2 times
DJJ Bravo (RMF) 1 time
CRD Fernando (RFM) 1 time
JN Gillespie (RF) 1 time
GD McGrath (RFM) 1 time

Total 16

Anyone who gets dismissed by Jubair should be suspended from test cricket indefinitely.

 

[BoyBrumby]

The bowling has been first rate, but are yer Saffies being too passive just now? Time's not of the essence but they're allowing themselves to be totally dominated here. Crease occupation is all well and good if no wickets are going down, but when they are...?