**Official** South Africa in England 2012

[Ruckus]

Philander over Broad any day of the week

 

[Spark]

Spot on is Nas' assessment that you have to pit batters in the same position

Batsman, maybe, bowlers it just becomes a mess

 

[Spikey]

Can any of the English batsmen bowl looping leggies?

Cook the only one who might.

 

[Spark]

Philander over Broad any day of the week

We've gone over this before, but in that lineup, no.

 

[Prince EWS]

Cook the only one who might.

I've seen Cook bowl one; pretty sure it was a Test actually. Lucky to get the ball down the other end in general.

 

[Agent Nationaux]

What did bumble say?

 

[Burgey]

Just the mental toughness of Kallis

Averaging 57

300 poles

15 years at the top

Going to work every day for 15 years, against 11 other competitive animals trying to knock your block off, trying to end your career, trying to wreck your professional life

It's not easy mate. Few of us can handle it. Just got to work hard with the gifts you're given.

All the best in your endeavours,

Burgey.

 

[benchmark00]

Just the mental toughness of Kallis

Averaging 57

300 poles

15 years at the top

Going to work every day for 15 years, against 11 other competitive animals trying to knock your block off, trying to end your career, trying to wreck your professional life

Yeah people who don't play the game wouldn't know how many extra hours he would need to put into his game.

Elite batsmen who also has about 300 wickets. Every day having to warm up as a batsman and a bowler. Having to work on both aspects at training. And a slipper which requires specialty training as well. It's amazing.

 

[bombay_bomber]

What does Sherman bowl?

 

[Ruckus]

We've gone over this before, but in that lineup, no.

I don't care about the lineup, I choose Philander cause he is a better bowler.

 

[Spark]

If Kallis starts placing these then this could be crazy fun, he's just trying to murder every single ball he faces from Bopara

 

[Prince EWS]

What did bumble say?

They were talking about a combined England/SA team and he came up with:

Cook
Smith
Amla
Kallis
Pietersen
de Villiers
Prior
Broad
Swann
Anderson
Steyn

The way he went about putting forward his opinion was very.. himself, though.

 

[Stumpcam]

I think in this game South Africa has had the rub of the green and by far the better batting conditions.

It's a shame so many of the England batsmen gave their wickets away so easily. I hope they don't do it again in the second innings. Perhaps a repeat of the last Ashes Test at the Gabba - that'll do it!

 

[Spikey]

I've seen Cook bowl one; pretty sure it was a Test actually. Lucky to get the ball down the other end in general.

Sounds like a leg spinner to me!

 

[Spikey]

swann stop being a whip and go back over

 

[Spark]

I don't care about the lineup, I choose Philander cause he is a better bowler.

This logic is why NSW picks seven bowlers in a match.

 

[Prince EWS]

What does Sherman bowl?

Medium pace; used to swing it both ways a fair bit actually, even if at a meagre pace. Officially gave it away a few years back though.

 

[Spark]

Sounds like a leg spinner to me!

Has figures of like 0/111 off 5 overs against Bangladesh A IIRC

 

[Spark]

Should England be taking the... ahem... third new ball now?

 

[GIMH]

Ugh.