[Cricket] 3rd Test South Africa v England

[The Wizard]

Wtf is Wood doing

 

[LlcoolJ]

Fancy Wood to bowl well on this wicket. His pace and slingy action should cause them some bother (provided he doesn't break).

 

[A1X]

Absolute scenes when England win this match by fewer runs than they've scored since the declaration that wasn't.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

In 13 balls Mark Wood has scored the same number of runs as Joe Denly did in 100

In large part BECAUSE of how Denly (and Sibley and Crawley) batted.

 

[Beach Hut]

Wood is playing a 20/20 game

 

[jakarta]

Do You Declare on 500 or let Wood get his 50?

EDIT: Oh Poo!!!

 

[Beach Hut]

499/9 declaration

 

[Guinness Boy]

499-9 dec

That was some tap from Wood. Could also be a very expensive no ball, though not if we run out of time by 15 mins having taken 19 SA wickets.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Do You Declare on 500 or let Wood get his 50?

EDIT: Oh Poo!!!

Well bowled

 

[A1X]

Once again England fail to reach 500

 

[pasty]

Be lovely to get to 500

Bugger

 

[bhanutz]

Well we cant lose this game now!

 

[Pavilionaire]

There's the declaration. Mark Wood - take a bough!

 

[Beach Hut]

Well we cant lose this game now!

Not necessarily, we scored 500 plus against the Aussies batting first and still lost

 

[LlcoolJ]

There's the declaration. Mark Wood - take a bough!

He didn't stick around.

 

[bhanutz]

Not necessarily, we scored 500 plus against the Aussies batting first and still lost

Fair point but I cant see SA getting anywhere near the runs they will need to beat us now!

 

[BensGrandad]

What is the magic follow on figure although Root rarely uses it? Is it 299 being 200 behind?

 

[Beach Hut]

What is the magic follow on figure although Root rarely uses it? Is it 299 being 200 behind?

Correct

 

[Pavilionaire]

What is the magic follow on figure although Root rarely uses it? Is it 299 being 200 behind?

Yes it's a 200 run lead. What do you think about binning the follow-on, opening with Wood and Buttler and getting some quick runs?

 

[Papa Lazarou]

There's the declaration. Mark Wood - take a bough!

I expect him to open the bowling - perhaps a tree for by the close?