***Official*** South Africa in Sri Lanka 2014

[Briony]

Sri Lanka can claim the extra half an hour if they think it'll allow them to wrap up the game can't they?

No, I think that is only on day three or four. Basically they an allotted number of overs for day five and if there are interruptions they can play thirty mins. beyond stumps to make up for the time.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

what if the over rate makes up for lost time?

 

[kykweer.proteas]

I havent seen anything in cricinfo about the final hour being called. did I miss it?

Should still about 15 overs left

 

[auditor]

come on fatty

lol

 

[King Pietersen]

Just mentioned on the text commentary on Cricinfo at the end of the last over, that it was the beginning of the final hour.

 

[Stapel]

I havent seen anything in cricinfo about the final hour being called. did I miss it?

Just there. 15 overs to go now.

Hey, and a wicket! JPD gone.

 

[Briony]

Because SL has got through its overs very quickly they don't have to worry about bowling fifteen in the last hour to secure the allotted number of overs. They make a big deal of it when there has been time wasting and the over rate is slow. The fifteen in the last hour is there to stop the procrastinating but Lanka has bowled as many as is humanly possible today.

 

[Briony]

Duminy gone. Surprised they have upped the overs as they said yesterday that there was a minimum of 98 to be bowled and they were only five short of that.

 

[cnerd123]

3 wickets with atleast 14 overs it seems.

Awesome.

 

[cnerd123]

Oh and Duminy with 6 off 133 balls this match. Incredible.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

If AB is a downhill skiier then duminy is a downhill avelanche

 

[cnerd123]

Based on his career stats (SR of 44.63 and average of 38) JP Duminy faces and average 85 balls per dismissal, which should be 170 for the match.

Clearly he has underperformed.

 

[Briony]

Duminy faced a lot of balls in a difficult situation to be fair.

 

[viriya]

Mendis looked threatening the one time he bowled offspin after Sanga asked him to actually try spinning.. then reverts to bowl carrom balls constantly again..

Hugely disappointing test for him - no control, barely any spin while the other 2 spinners make merry. Should lose his Test place permanently to Dilruwan after this of course. Sad considering the potential he had.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

gosh and to make things worse the cricinfo feed keeps getting delayed... which usually means a wicket

 

[hendrix]

Give Lakmal 1 over.

 

[kykweer.proteas]

Give Lakmal 1 over.

I thought abt this earlier. when the final hour had been called lakmal would get 2-3 overs.

 

[Dan]

He's faced 2731 balls in 40 innings up until this match, which equates to 68.27 per innings played. So he's about on par.

 

[cnerd123]

Was looking at balls/dismissal and not balls/innings.

 

[Stapel]

gosh and to make things worse the cricinfo feed keeps getting delayed... which usually means a wicket

Hey, something tells me you are at an office somewhere in SA, with not TV-set around.