Absolutely. There's no doubt about that at all.England have played as badly or worse than SA played in the 2nd innings of the first test.
Morkel should end up with a few as well. He was excellent.Glad Maharaj is getting some wickets... has bowled well overall.
Even in India you usually were in a pretty good place after Day 1 in a lot of the Tests, right? This has just gone badly basically from the moment Amla came in on the first morning.This is right up there with the worst of England over the last few years and there is lot to choose from.
Would say it was fairly even at lunch on day two. It has been shocking since.Even in India you usually were in a pretty good place after Day 1 in a lot of the Tests, right? This has just gone badly basically from the moment Amla came in on the first morning.
That was mostly on a good hour in the morning of Day 2 though. SA were in a decent place on Day 1.Would say it was fairly even at lunch on day two. It has been shocking since.
That was my take on it.That was mostly on a good hour in the morning of Day 2 though. SA were in a decent place on Day 1.
The Sharma Test at Lords was slightly worse. Slightly.That was my take on it.
Anyway, anyone care to rank our rankest performances in recent time? I suppose it's possible this isn't the absolute worst, but all things considered it probably is.
And btw there's no disrespect to SA there, just an assumption that a proper test team would have made a better first of things against them than this.