South Africa v England, 3rd Test, Cape Town

[Titanic]

England lead in the series 1-0 with two to play.

Delayed start at Newlands because of cloud cover and light rain.

England are unchanged, for South Africa Makhaya Ntini has been dropped and replaced by Friedel de Wet.

Strauss won the toss, and South Africa will bat.

 

[Titanic]

First over...

Prince c Prior b Anderson 0

SA 1-1

 

[The Wizard]

Bye Bye Prince.

 

[fleet]

Great start by Anderson

 

[fleet]

Dropped first ball from Onions - simply catch

 

[Titanic]

Swann drops Smith in the slips off Onions first ball

Collingwood should have been there.

 

[fleet]

DOn't think I have ever seen such an easy slip catch go down in a test match

 

[The Wizard]

Not many times I've said this but, DEAR OH DEAR Graeme Swann.

 

[fleet]

Now smacked for 4 - hope this is not going to be a costly mistake

 

[fleet]

and again

 

[The Wizard]

Why is he bowling short?

 

[Titanic]

Pitch it up man!

 

[fleet]

every replay of the catch makes it worse and worse

 

[fleet]

That pitch looks like it will cause problems - cracks and green grass. Hope we get good advantage from the cloud cover this morning otherwise we may have a problem batting 4th on this.

 

[fleet]

Much better ball from Onions there

 

[Billy the Fish]

I can't believe he dropped that. Even I feel deflated and I'm 10,000 miles away in my living room, god knows what swann and onions must feel like.

 

[fleet]

Great delivery by Broad

 

[fleet]

Onions taken off - may have been so different if that catch had been held. Broad and Anderson seem to be bowling well and need some luck now

 

[fleet]

review of appeal from Broad .......... not out - wasted appeal

 

[Billy the Fish]

I thought that looked like a blatant edge on the replay