CWC Match 8 | South Africa vs India | Southampton | June 5, 2019 | Match thread

[sandeep]

tinfoil hat theory - this track was set up for SA to ambush us with pace - Steyn and Ngidi got injured, an embattled SA team chose to bat first even after winning the toss.  

 

England have played their ODIs on roads.  Nothing remotely as seam friendly as this.

[Franco Vazquez]

Boring match tbh. All balls going straight to the fielders.

[Sgattick10]

Lmao. Dhoni sneakers ad 

[maniac]

6 minutes ago, zen said:

Umpires call .... how lucky fatso is

Fortune favors the brave and he is the only guy fighting like a warrior

 

[maniac]

2 minutes ago, sandeep said:

tinfoil hat theory - this track was set up for SA to ambush us with pace - Steyn and Ngidi got injured, an embattled SA team chose to bat first even after winning the toss.  

 

England have played their ODIs on roads.  Nothing remotely as seam friendly as this.

Playing on flat tracks backfired massively on England too  

[Forward Defence]

Umpire Michael Gough (39 yo) is younger than bowler Tahir(40 yo). Nice observation from Mark Nicholas

[Yoda-esque]

This Indian team is terrible.Only the bowling gives it some semblance  of respect.

[maniac]

Usually pheleeklawahaywjeo kind of bowlers consist of most of Rohit and Thala’s runs but looks like a good bowling pitch

[maniac]

1 minute ago, Forward Defence said:

Umpire Michael Gough (39 yo) is younger than bowler Tahir(40 yo). Nice observation from Mark Nicholas

That’s how meandering the game is right now

[JourneyMan]

Good practice for the test series

[Forward Defence]

50 up

[Franco Vazquez]

What is the point of playing Shamsi if they aren't going to bowl him? Pretorius should have been played then at least he could have improved the batting

[SK_IH]

Virat looks absolutely out of touch, he has hit so many shots to mid on

[SK_IH]

On cue that lol

[Switchblade]

out

[Forward Defence]

Kohli gone

[maniac]

Whatta catch

[Ankit_sharma03]

BC kya catch hai

[aditya19]

phelu picks kohli

[sandeep]

4 minutes ago, maniac said:

Playing on flat tracks backfired massively on England too  

Of course.  But seriously, if you could special order a track best designed to reduce Indian odds of winning, you'd get something like this.  Unfortunately, these days the Indian pace attack is strong enough to neutralize such moves.  All that remains to be done is to 'see off' the new ball.  And credit to Rohit today, luck and all, he's gritted it out.  

 

And with Virat gawn, he's going to need to stick around.