larus
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Played that man - let's hope this series proves a turning point for him. He has the talent.
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South Africa v England, 3rd Test, Cape Town
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Cecil
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26 to go
Hungry Joe
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From the live bbc.co.uk test match text thingy...
"My wife (who is not Danish) recently had our first child. It is ginger and it took an age to get out. Could be a good omen..."
"My wife (who is not Danish) recently had our first child. It is ginger and it took an age to get out. Could be a good omen..."
Now then. Has The Wizard cost England the match with this effort?
Almost certainly. Bell will undoubtably give it all away, and the rest will fall like the preverbial house of cards...
Mendoza
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I am loving the festival of dot balls being played out infront of the billboards saying "inspired by the fans"
Beach Hut
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22 overs to go
Pavilionaire
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Human nature dictates that at least one of these two will ease off shortly, maybe it will be reaching the point of less than 20 overs to go, maybe the thought of a cheeky century. I'm half-expecting a wicket in the next 3 or 4 overs.
Cecil
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We have no chance.
Bell 58 from 148 balls
Colly 34 from 164 balls
Is there a better anchor dropper in world cricket than Paul Collingwood? I can only think of Jacques Kallis as a rival really. The two England batsmen have really played to their strengths. Many times they have has scampered three from Bell's shots, when two would have been normal - presumably with the idea that Collingwood has such powers of concentration that he can block more effectively than Bell.
Colly 34 from 164 balls
Is there a better anchor dropper in world cricket than Paul Collingwood? I can only think of Jacques Kallis as a rival really. The two England batsmen have really played to their strengths. Many times they have has scampered three from Bell's shots, when two would have been normal - presumably with the idea that Collingwood has such powers of concentration that he can block more effectively than Bell.
Hungry Joe
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We'll be fine, the South African attack is toothless. If it wasn't we'd never have drawn the first test.
pasty
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The body language of the Saffa's is looking good from an England perspective. Reckon they've all but given up.
Edit - Ha Ha, just as I post that the commentary team say the same thing.
Edit - Ha Ha, just as I post that the commentary team say the same thing.
Pavilionaire
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Just going back to earlier discussion re Pietersen, I think declaring against England must be pretty tricky because if you set the target too high you use up too much time piling on unnecessary runs, but if you set it too low Pietersen can win it for England.
Take Pietersen out of our side and I dare say Smith would have been tempted to declare with a lead of 400 and have an extra hour or so at our batsmen.
There's no one in our side who could mastermind mastermind knocking off, say, 400 rather than the massive 465 here. A reason for keeping Pietersen in the line-up, perhaps?
Take Pietersen out of our side and I dare say Smith would have been tempted to declare with a lead of 400 and have an extra hour or so at our batsmen.
There's no one in our side who could mastermind mastermind knocking off, say, 400 rather than the massive 465 here. A reason for keeping Pietersen in the line-up, perhaps?
seagullwedgee
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There's 2 in the comm box, hussain has 2 of the top 10 slowest 50s for england, and athers stone walled many a day in the past...
Pavilionaire
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Colly's in a different league to Bell, although the king was Chris Tavare.
seagullwedgee
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I think bell at 3 and wright at 6 for the last test, drop KP. Need an extra bowler cos the pitch will be a seamer's paradise.
Ridiculous.
I wasn't going to say anything, just in case!
Hungry Joe
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Ridiculous.
Why is that ridiculous?
Atherton's effort in 1998 was legendary but can you honestly say you'd rather have anyone else other than Collingwood in this situation? Collingwood has literally saved a draw for England TWICE in a year, and now he could well do it again. That is consistency.
And Tavere was just tedious to watch. He stayed at the crease a good few times but was nowhere near one of our best opening batsmen IMO.