*** Official*** South Africa in England 2017

[StephenZA]

If you look at some of the spots Eng have been in... that long batting order is allowing them to get away with bloody murder sometimes.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Really arrogant batting there.

It was, terrible shot. The sort KP would do and it was how he played.

 

[Groundking]

If you look at some of the spots Eng have been in... that long batting order is allowing them to get away with bloody murder sometimes.

Yeah and it makes us look embarassing when none of Stokes/Bairstow/Ali fire and drag us to a decent total.

 

[Scaly piscine]

Can't afford for your best two batsmen to get in and get out for about 50 in such limp ways. Setting England up for sub-mediocrity once again, left for the middle/lower order to drag it up to par.

Been pretty tame considering South Africa have two goodish bowlers a near debutant and a plodding finger spinner, good pitch to bat first on. As always each opportunity to bat a side out of the match seems to be met with this sort of cod ordinary performance.

 

[Burner]

Is there another way to view the cricinfo full commentary than to scroll from the beginning of the match to the present? The whole of it doesn't even load up and you have to scroll-load the rest of it. I remember the old version having the option to view it either recent-earliest or earliest-recent.

 

[Howe_zat]

This picture on the BBC website

D'oh!

 

[wpdavid]

He's gone, isn't he.

EDIT - Nope, it's been adjudged not to carry.

 

[Spark]

Well this is odd

 

[vogue]

Not out then..

 

[OverratedSanity]

Wtf was dharmasena playing at

 

[Howe_zat]

That's hit the ground.

 

[Spark]

He's caught that imo

edit: ugh whatever

 

[Burner]

Root's conversion isn't getting any better is it.

 

[Moonsorrow999]

Just under 29%, that really was a shocking dismissal.

 

[91Jmay]

Is there another way to view the cricinfo full commentary than to scroll from the beginning of the match to the present? The whole of it doesn't even load up and you have to scroll-load the rest of it. I remember the old version having the option to view it either recent-earliest or earliest-recent.

Press live button on far left, took me a while to realise it

 

[Burner]

Press live button on far left, took me a while to realise it

I see it but there's only 3 overs in there. Anymore and you have to click on full commentary and load it all the way to the bottom.

 

[Groundking]

Can't afford for your best two batsmen to get in and get out for about 50 in such limp ways. Setting England up for sub-mediocrity once again, left for the middle/lower order to drag it up to par.

Been pretty tame considering South Africa have two goodish bowlers a near debutant and a plodding finger spinner, good pitch to bat first on. As always each opportunity to bat a side out of the match seems to be met with this sort of cod ordinary performance.

This, we would be a much better team if they both had some killer instinct about them. Conversion rate for all our batsmen is dreadful tbh

 

[Spark]

Morkel has bowled ridiculously well this series for so little return.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Just seen the Bairstows incident and they never go the way of the fielder even if he has taken it cleanly. Looked very close to me.

 

[OverratedSanity]

They've bowled pretty well here with the new ball but unless they get one here it's England's day.

Edit: There you go. What a ball.