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*Official* South Africa in England Thread
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Rik
Cricketer Of The Year
No of course he's not Great, he's not Australian is he... :rolleyes:Mr. Ponting said:
Anyway that out of the way...he's not a pretty player and you can't tell what will happen in the future but he's sure as hell started well! Probably not one of the best innings either, but he stuck at it. A totally dead pitch helped but still, 277 is a phenominal effort. Typical, when SA bowl the pitch starts to spice up...2 1/2 days too late!!!:!( :!( :!(
Rik
Cricketer Of The Year
And you have seen him play how many times? What we all saw over here was very good young player with something about him taking full advantage of a dead pitch and rubbish bowling. But he didn't let it get to him, he just kept going and going and I can't really remember too many chances he gave...Mr. Ponting said:
You don't luck 277, give him the credit he deserves.
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Tim
Cricketer Of The Year
Its likely Marc that when a player goes on to make 250 or whatever hes going to ride some luck.
Graeme Smith has not been the only player to do that.
I recall Justin Langer went onto score 120 odd after being plumb first over to Cairns in the 1st test match at the Gabba against NZ a couple of years ago...and im sure Tendulkar & Lara have had questionable decisions go against them in the past.
Smith has now scored 2 double centuries, so that to me suggests hes got ability regardless of how much of a tosser I think he is.
Graeme Smith has not been the only player to do that.
I recall Justin Langer went onto score 120 odd after being plumb first over to Cairns in the 1st test match at the Gabba against NZ a couple of years ago...and im sure Tendulkar & Lara have had questionable decisions go against them in the past.
Smith has now scored 2 double centuries, so that to me suggests hes got ability regardless of how much of a tosser I think he is.
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Lara was caught behind first ball (I believe) against Sri Lanka in the 2nd ODI of the recent series, but was given not out. He proceeded to play a brilliant century after that. WI lost the game regardless...
full_length
U19 Vice-Captain
Tosser?
Looks like the only guy in SA team with some guts.
Boucher said he'd have turned down his country's captaincy :rolleyes: Smith took it on. I have no idea why SA'ans diss him like anyone else. You've got to give him credit for standing up to be counted when the team was in a low phase. I don't think he's cowed under the presssure of captaincy either.
And he seems to be a pretty good bat! He's one of my favourite international players now.
Looks like the only guy in SA team with some guts.
Boucher said he'd have turned down his country's captaincy :rolleyes: Smith took it on. I have no idea why SA'ans diss him like anyone else. You've got to give him credit for standing up to be counted when the team was in a low phase. I don't think he's cowed under the presssure of captaincy either.
And he seems to be a pretty good bat! He's one of my favourite international players now.
luckyeddie
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Lara's 501 even came after being bowled off a no-ball on 12 and dropped off a sitter on 16.
There's no way I would begrudge Lara his record - and there's certainly no way I would begrudge Smith's S.A record either over a bit of 'was-he-wasn't-he?'.
Mind you, I still think that Graeme Pollock's 274 against Australia in 1970 was better.
There's no way I would begrudge Lara his record - and there's certainly no way I would begrudge Smith's S.A record either over a bit of 'was-he-wasn't-he?'.
Mind you, I still think that Graeme Pollock's 274 against Australia in 1970 was better.
. He thanked Nasser for helping motivate his team 
chris.hinton
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I went yesturday and i did the Kwikcricket demo at the lunch break? and i got ribbed becasue of my dodgy wicketkeeping
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Vaughan averaging 60.14 at home coming into this match. He now averages 64.5 in 16 Tests at home. :O Wow! 6 hundreds....