MrP
Senior Member
Great win for Australia, well done for nutting it out. Kudos too to the Windies for taking it so close.
Dammit MrP, you've been down there too long now. You're giving the crims praise?Great win for Australia, well done for nutting it out. Kudos too to the Windies for taking it so close.
Given the shite served up by the NZ cricket menagerie (I won't call it a team), it's hard not to appreciate cricket played hard, with guts and fervour and at a reasonable skill level.Dammit MrP, you've been down there too long now. You're giving the crims praise?
The way they played the spinners was less about crafting an innings for me, as the entire batting plan seemed to be , oh my god the ball is spinning (even if only a little bit) I must sweep. Very much Cullinan esque in the abject nature of the shot selection. A mentally defective sea-monkey could have made better shot selections and implementation. I mean if you are going to sweep, you do so on length and you do so with the bat coming to the ball from above and down (cf MCC coaching manual), not as if you are scooping dog turds from the lawn.The England bowling attack is still first class and quite deep. The batting looks shakey at the moment. It's not the fact the spinners bowled them but they seemed to have lost the ability to craft an innings.
I think we've lost him...Dammit MrP, you've been down there too long now. You're giving the crims praise?
I think we've lost him...
I absoloutely couldn't agree more that it is a scandal that we're not having five tests. I only learned the other day that the one day series with what used to be Australia was a price the ECB paid to get a series in against them just before the ODI world cup. I do not accept however that Test Cricket should ever suborned to the needs of the ODI game.Looks like being a cracker of a series, this. Really saddened by the fact that it isn't a five Test series. Also, a terrible way for Bouch to go out - sport is a leveller, isn't it?
Nope.Barring something dramatic, I reckon we're looking at a draw here. England's batting line-up is too strong, I think, to expect it to fold in the tinme left. I'll be watching Philander closely - our "wunderkind" is likely to face a tougher test against seam/swing canny batters like those in the England side.
Good to see Hash turn on the taps again - as much as Kallis is the best player SA has ever produced, this fella still gets the nod from me as our best batsman of the last few years.
In typical SA style, though, we're starting strong and will probably end up drawing the series....
I can see no other result here.I've been pleasently surprised, sipping my Guinness and watching the day's play. Six wickets still to get, as I type this, so still a lot of cricket left to play for us. I always worry about our all-too-familiar last day complacency, so I hope Steyn and co can wrap it up quickly. Memories of Atherton and Jack Russell back in '95 are still strong out here...
Ernie winning the Open was a nice touch too. Poor fella has been in the wilderness for long enough.
Enjoy your Guinness. You're going to win this one. Proteas outclassed England everywhere.I've been pleasently surprised, sipping my Guinness and watching the day's play. Six wickets still to get, as I type this, so still a lot of cricket left to play for us. I always worry about our all-too-familiar last day complacency, so I hope Steyn and co can wrap it up quickly. Memories of Atherton and Jack Russell back in '95 are still strong out here...
Ernie winning the Open was a nice touch too. Poor fella has been in the wilderness for long enough.