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England v South Africa, First Test at Lord's
- Thread starter jakarta
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Root dropped on 16 by Duminy at gully. Went quickly but should have been caught. A second life. Phew!
brakespear
Doctor Worm
Root gets lucky again.
Crucial overs before lunch for Root 31* and Bairstow 10*, and England 76-3
Sorry folks - Bairstow's a goner 
Trapped on the back foot by Philander - no review necessary... 76-4
Trapped on the back foot by Philander - no review necessary... 76-4
studio150
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76-4 Bairstow lbw
brakespear
Doctor Worm
Bairstow out. 76-4 
studio150
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England doing a very good impression of Sussex batting
Lunch, Day One
England 82-4 (just 25 overs)
Root 33* (and two lives) Stokes 4*
South Africa will be pretty happy with their morning's work having lost the toss... Philander starring with 8-1-26-3
Cook 3, Jennings 8, Ballance 20 and Bairstow 10 and England in general will all be disappointed with their efforts.
England 82-4 (just 25 overs)
Root 33* (and two lives) Stokes 4*
South Africa will be pretty happy with their morning's work having lost the toss... Philander starring with 8-1-26-3
Cook 3, Jennings 8, Ballance 20 and Bairstow 10 and England in general will all be disappointed with their efforts.
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
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Disappointing start to the summer proper.
Shropshire Seagull
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ManOfSussex
We wunt be druv
I remember watching it on TV on a very hot Sunday. Flintoff put up some resistance if I recall correctly, then Makhaya Ntini broke his bat.
Marshy
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I was at Lords in 94 when SA bowled us out for 99...... great day as my Uncle was over from SA..... i think i watched about 2 hours cricket... :-(
Pevenseagull
meh
- Jul 20, 2003
- 20,689
Proper batsman now
England 102-4 (30.3 overs) Root 45* Stokes 12* 
brought up with a wild slashing drive from Stokes, which flew over slip/gully for four.
brought up with a wild slashing drive from Stokes, which flew over slip/gully for four.
''What we saw when he first played Test cricket was that guys like Mitchell Johnson and New Zealand's Trent Boult would push him even further back with short stuff, then slip in the full-length delivery.
It was a sucker punch, and Ballance kept nicking off or getting bowled — 70 per cent of his Test dismissals against seamers have come from full-length deliveries.'' - Nasser Hussain pre match.
Morkel to Ballance, OUT, nibble off the seam, Ballance is right back on the stumps - as is his wont - and up goes the finger! Looked like it might be an inside edge on first viewing, but Ballance's clear indecision in reviewing rather rules that out. Sliding down leg? Potentially, but he doesn't look confident. With good reason! That is slamming into middle and leg!
It was a sucker punch, and Ballance kept nicking off or getting bowled — 70 per cent of his Test dismissals against seamers have come from full-length deliveries.'' - Nasser Hussain pre match.
Morkel to Ballance, OUT, nibble off the seam, Ballance is right back on the stumps - as is his wont - and up goes the finger! Looked like it might be an inside edge on first viewing, but Ballance's clear indecision in reviewing rather rules that out. Sliding down leg? Potentially, but he doesn't look confident. With good reason! That is slamming into middle and leg!
Joe Root (England's 80th Test Captain) 50* (89 balls, 7 fours, 2 lives)
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
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A word of caution - Root has reached 50 on 38 previous occasions but only reached his century 11 times.
100 partnership for Root 77* and Stokes 49*
England 177-4 (50.1 overs)
England 177-4 (50.1 overs)
Ben Stokes 51* (95 balls, 7 fours, 1 six, and a life when bowled off a no-ball by Morkel)
England 179-4 (51.1 overs)
England 179-4 (51.1 overs)