*Official* South African tour of England and Ireland 2022

[Shady Slim]

haha how the frick did they pick crawley again what in the jeez

 

[Shady Slim]

Markram's 6-for in the warm up clearly established him as the 2nd spinner.

Some long tails on show with Jansen at 7 for SA and Broad at 8 for England.

fortunately for you in their second dig england never have to bat below seven so you're fine tbf

 

[Heboric]

1 down business as usual

 

[Bahseph]

That was a bad shot. I heard all the noise around Crawley but that did not look like an opener's shot.

 

[Socerer 01]

Why England will smash South Africa

1) South Africa have only 3 players who would be close to England's team

I would take all of South Africa’s top three over England’s top three and we haven’t even begun to explore the rest of the XI

 

[Marius]

3) They have been obssesed with Bazball by pretending not to be worried about it but talking about it non-stop

Press played you like a fiddle. Elgar got asked one question about Bazball, said he hasn't thought about it, impression is created that Elgar is constantly talking about it.

 

[BazBall21]

I expected Lees to struggle in this series. Think he moves his feet too early. Even at sluggish Lords that wasn't there to drive. Rabada has started very well.

 

[BazBall21]

That was a bad shot. I heard all the noise around Crawley but that did not look like an opener's shot.

Don't rate either of them. Crawley is even luckier to be in though considering everything.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

hinton's low-grade trolling getting bites again so presumably this means Bazball will somehow wor

 

[BazBall21]

A batsman nicking it in the midst of a leave is one of the funnier mode of dismissals

 

[Zinzan]

I expected Lees to struggle in this series. Think he moves his feet too early. Even at sluggish Lords that wasn't there to drive.

The definition of an ungainly bat innit he?

If England could just find a couple of decent openers along with the courage to drop Broad, so both Robinson and Potts could play.

 

[wpdavid]

The definition of an ungainly bat innit he?

If England could just find a couple of decent openers .........

Believe me, we've tried.

 

[BazBall21]

Burns didn't quite work out (too many low scores) but he was better than Lees.

 

[BazBall21]

The definition of an ungainly bat innit he?

If England could just find a couple of decent openers along with the courage to drop Broad, so both Robinson and Potts could play.

Yeah don't understand Broad being dubbed pretty much undroppable. Lees is very ungainly.

 

[Heboric]

hinton's low-grade trolling getting bites again so presumably this means Bazball will somehow wor

Well I did say I would normally laugh at it, but past experiences and whence it comes from maybe not

 

[BazBall21]

Crawley dismissing the bat well there

 

[Uppercut]

Fielder slides and pops up an enormous divot, commentator comments on how great the outfield is. Weird.

 

[BazBall21]

That's twice Pope has found a glancing edge trying to leave.

 

[chris.hinton]

We need to get a grip. South Africa could run us close

But we may have Johnny Bairstow batting for a long time haha

 

[mackembhoy]

haha how the frick did they pick crawley again what in the jeez

Stokes/McCullum seem like there gonna be loyal to players regardless of there form. Which seems a bit of a risky tactic.

Not been many red balls games in the past 7 weeks mind