***Official*** South Africa in India

[duffer]

Laxman and these early singles. Wtf!?

 

[biased indian]

unlike dravid he is taking single rite

india 41/4 in 15 overs after dravid got dimissed.....

 

[duffer]

Hopefully that means it's getting tough to bat on. Need a big performance with the ball now.

 

[Protean]

ooh, Sreesanth got hit on the wrist, looks really swollen.

 

[biased indian]

ha ha ha laxman takes a single of the first ball
aganist a bowler who have just dismissed last 4 batsmen bowled by his pace and swing


and sreesanth got hit...

 

[Raghav]

Steyn is a hero if he could make India bowler short for 2nd inngs

Edit: Everything settles now.. Sreesanth to face another ball from Steyn

 

[duffer]

Ah crap, Ganguly with the new ball now?

 

[duffer]

Steyn is a hero if he could make India bowler short for 2nd inngs

Seriously, go top yourself.

 

[DaRick]

I wonder why our blokes (Lee, Clark, Johnson, Hogg, Tait, Symonds/Clarke) couldn't rip through the tail with this much precision?

 

[biased indian]

Steyn is a hero if he could make India bowler short for 2nd inngs

u serious

 

[Raghav]

Seriously, go top yourself.

ridiculous....wash it

 

[DaRick]

u serious

A hero to him.

 

[biased indian]

second double century of the match

 

[DaRick]

second double century of the match

This one's a tad more ignominous, though.

 

[duffer]

Good comeback from South Africa today. 87 lead is better than nothing but well short of what we thought we'd end up with this morning.

 

[Raghav]

second double century of the match

?

 

[Raghav]

Good comeback from South Africa today. 87 lead is better than nothing but well short of what we thought we'd end up with this morning.

I expected SA to restrict IND to less than 650 today morning before play started...

 

[biased indian]

?

Harris

 

[Craig]

Superb comeback by South Africa to pick up 9/169 (roughly as I just quickly worked it out) and it has thrown this match on its head. This is the great thing about cricket, when it seems one team has it won, a loss of a wicket and then a quick second and a team is right back in with a chance.

I'm going to say draw, unless India's spinners work their magic.

 

[masterblaster]

People who are doubting Dravid's knock or his strategy are misinformed. If he had played aggressively along with Sehwag who was playing super aggressively, then Dravid would never have given Sehwag so much support. He tied up one end, basically guaranteed he wouldn't get out so Sehwag could just unleash.

Dravid is almost impossible to dislodge when he's batting like this and quite frankly if he had been dismissed cheaply by playing a rash shot, India wouldn't have gotten this far ahead. Dravid also knows the useless nature of the Indian tail and the inconsistency in test matches of Dhoni, Kumble and Harbhajan.

The combination of Sehwag's ultra aggressive batting and Dravid's determination not to get out has gotten us an extremely good total.