Michael Vaughan Vs South Africa

[Stumpy Tim]

77-4. Vaughan 29 n/o

 

[fatbadger]

well put - nobody else seems to be playing against 'em

 

[Beeneys gloves]

And now he's gone too, this is f***ing embarassing

 

[Stumpy Tim]

Hussain goes as Captain. Welcome back the middle-order collapse

 

[fatbadger]

I actually thought that the series was going to be close, perhaps a 1-0 or 1-1. But I thought it would be South Africa who would have been glad of the rain.

 

[Reading Posh]

Just as Posh always lose at home to Albion so England always lose at Lords.

 

[Gritt23]

And now he's gone too, this is f***ing embarassing

Please don't go all "tabloid" on us, jumping on the bandwagon, and slagging the side off at the first sign of trouble. Judging by the weather round here (London Bridge) I'd guess it's swinging all over the place. Don't crucify us until we know more about the conditions and see how we bowl on it. They won the toss and put us in, so they obviously expected there to be something to bowl on in the first session.

Look at the last test. Their score looked massive. Yes we bowled poorly but it was a very flat track as we showed until the ball started to not bounce (poor Flintoff!).

Please reserve judgement for a little later than before the end of the first session.

 

[Beeneys gloves]

I'm not going 'all tabloid' Gritt23, Im stating the facts

Yes we got put into bat, but there seems to be a mindset of quick runs in the side rather than batting time at the crease.

Vaughan hooked down fine legs throat, Tresco was trying to push rather than block, Butcher, decent ball but was excited after hitting 4 4s, mcgrath terrible shot and hussain shouldnt have attempted such a big drive.

It's not swinging around that much but just a lack of application on the batsmans part

Im one of the last people to jump on the bandwagon and am still holding onto belief Freddie and Stewie with get tons, unfortunately i think if we get 200 it will be a good effort from the lower order, 2 of whom aren't renknowned for their batting prowess

 

[Beeneys gloves]

Oh well, bang goes that hope

 

[fatbadger]

Please don't go all "tabloid" on us, jumping on the bandwagon, and slagging the side off at the first sign of trouble. Judging by the weather round here (London Bridge) I'd guess it's swinging all over the place. Don't crucify us until we know more about the conditions and see how we bowl on it. They won the toss and put us in, so they obviously expected there to be something to bowl on in the first session.

Look at the last test. Their score looked massive. Yes we bowled poorly but it was a very flat track as we showed until the ball started to not bounce (poor Flintoff!).

Please reserve judgement for a little later than before the end of the first session.

Fair enough, except for one point.

Top-class batsmen come into their own when the conditions favour the bowlers. The ability to hold on, defend the wicket and score runs is what we should expect at least from numbers 3-5 in any batting order, if not the openers as well.

 

[dwayne]

Gloves knows his cricket....and he does work for a tabloid, so you're quite accurate.

 

[Gritt23]

All I'm saying is that test cricket is a 5 day game (well sometimes) so lets not write us off after one session.

There can and probably will be many twists to the story yet. I bloody hope so anyway.

 

[Juan Albion]

98-6. Hmmm.

 

[Gritt23]

Just wait until we bowl.

 

[Beeneys gloves]

I wish i had ur faith Gritt, we shouldnt be relying on our tailenders to get us past 120 though

 

[Reading Posh]

So, if I'm reading the England scorecard correctly, the biggest partnership of 55 runs was for the last wicket with numbers 9 and 11 at the crease.

WTF!

 

[Simster]

Yep, they also got the biggest and 3rd biggest scores.

 

[Robbo]

whats the score please?

 

[Reading Posh]

England 173 all out

SA 41-0 off 10 overs

http://www-usa.cricket.org/link_to_database/NEW/LIVE/frames/RSA_ENG_T2_31JUL-04AUG2003.html

 

[Robbo]

cheers