**Official** South Africa in England 2012

[ganeshran]

tbf Bopara bowled pretty well too.

 

[benchmark00]

lol Morgan.

 

[benchmark00]

Doesn't matter.

Lol Knight 'one of the best catches I've ever seen'. Get your hand off it Saucey.

 

[benchmark00]

I said mediocre players not mediocre Test players. There's rarely a contest between bat and ball. You can play out a bowler if you can't read him or whatever and he'll barely be a factor. Pick you moments to attack and milk the ball when it's not doing anything (most of the innings). It's a rubbish form of cricket where guy who don't have the technique for Test cricket can hang around no problem. The guys that don't have the raw talent to play T20 can make it. Part-time bowling becomes valuable. ODIs champion mediocrity and they heavily level the playing field.

'You can play out a bowler if you can't pick him'

****, this game is easy. Spinners should never ever get a wicket in test cricket then eh Scales?

 

[stumpski]

Amla seems to have top-scored for SA in every match this summer, and he's doing it again - 32 out of 47-4.

 

[MW1304]

This has now convinced me that Amla is in fact a wizard, and has cursed the England team.

In fact, if you look closely, every time he hits the ball in the air you can see him mutter a curse under his breath. Some serious magic **** right there.

 

[Prince EWS]

Wright bowls very hittable pies. Might squeeze one or two out of him per game.

Yeah, especially since the World Cup is Sri Lanka. Batsmen would probably rather face him than a rank pie chucker a lot of the time because he'll come right onto the bat and is still straight-up-and-down. He's a bit like early-career Shane Watson with the ball; he's quick enough to generate some reasonable pace but that makes him obsessed with bunging it down the other end, and mid 130s isn't quick enough to beat international batsmen for pace alone so he gets belted.

I do wish Sussex would give him more opportunity on his bowling (especially in limited overs cricket) because there's clearly a lot there to work with but if he's gonna play T20 cricket for England in Sri Lanka, he should not be one of the best five bowlers in the side.

 

[benchmark00]

This is how to play Amlaball.

 

[BoyBrumby]

Love the Saffers thinking: "Hey, Jacques scores too slowly for a 9 over game so we'll save him until we have 3 left"

Scores his runs more quickly than Amla & de Villiers, ftr.

 

[Scaly piscine]

'You can play out a bowler if you can't pick him'

****, this game is easy. Spinners should never ever get a wicket in test cricket then eh Scales?

In Test cricket the bowler isn't on your typical fairly dead ODI pitch where the emphasis is on containment and a bowler is limited to 1/5 of the overs. There is rarely enough in the pitch for the bowlers to still knock people over if the batsmen play conservatively.

****ing nilwit Broad the one blip on an otherwise very good bowling performance.

 

[benchmark00]

Yes and t20 pitches are minefields. Don't know how you get more enjoyment out of spinners getting wickets only because the batsmen are trying to smash them.

 

[BoyBrumby]

That's a quality slower bouncer, that. Made Kallis look a hack.

Great reply from the big fella tho.

 

[stumpski]

We were doing fine until Broad went for 18 off that over. No-ball was costly, perhaps the wet surface was responsible but why not just bowl from a foot behind the line?

Raining again, we may not get a second innings.

 

[benchmark00]

Overs reduced down to 1.

DL tells me that the total is reduced down to 26.

Leaving the RR 26 if my maths is correct.

 

[Prince EWS]

I'm still having trouble reconciling the fact the nine overs a side is a match.

 

[benchmark00]

I'm still having trouble reconciling the fact the nine overs a side is a match.

Can be 5 overs ffs.

 

[Prince EWS]

Can be 5 overs ffs.

Imagine if you got bowled out. How embarrassing.

 

[GIMH]

When the T20 WC was here in 09 I think NZ-Scotland was 7 each.

Made worse by the fact that another match followed on the same ground that was 20 each. Aus-Windies possibly.

Obviously there were reasons why it was that way but jeez. Pretty funny.

Enjoyed the 09 T20. Quality tournament.

 

[stumpski]

I'm still having trouble reconciling the fact the nine overs a side is a match.

Four umpires and a referee seems a trifle excessive. Then again, I didn't know you could have two home umpires in these matches.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Yes and t20 pitches are minefields.

But the batsmen have to take chances so that creates the contest between and bat and ball. The bowler is always in the game, if they bowl a really good spell they're going to take 2-20, 3-15 or whatever. That's a huge difference to someone having an average performance taking 1-30. Bowl a load of crap and you'll get slaughtered. Those differentials are huge in a 20 over game, so the performance of the bowler has a big impact. In ODI cricket part-timers get through plenty of overs and their economy rate will be a fraction of a run off front line bowlers. There are large phases of an ODI game where good bowling and mediocre bowling will lead to very little difference in the score. That's why part-timers are used so much.