Old guy Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Stupid to open a thread after 1 day of the series. Today has been really good so far. like i said in myl ast comment in this thread maybe we hsould wait for one innings to finish thts the only mistake op made ..but yesterday it was missing intensity today was awesome :D Link to comment
Vilander Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 even this guy is better than Bopara that was hilarious ROFL. Link to comment
maverick451 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Sometimes like today Bopara just looks so dozy and half asleep, he really needs to wake up because this will be his last chance. Link to comment
daryl1985 Posted July 20, 2012 Share Posted July 20, 2012 Doesn't look like its meant to be for him in tests. Useful ODI player though. Link to comment
1983-2011 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 he is rohit sharma of england Link to comment
1983-2011 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 the should give Nick Compton a chance, dont be ageist by saying his 29 Link to comment
vamos_rafa Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 SA right back into it now. The morning session would be extremely crucial though. If Poms can make inroads then it's gonna be very tough. Also, SA have very dicey players in Rudolph and duminy. You can never be really sure about them hitting form. So, if England can ge past this pir, Kallis and DeVilleiers cheaply, then England have a real chance. Also, lloking at that MS's getting bowled by Pattinson video made m go :(( Link to comment
Trichromatic Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 SA right back into it now. The morning session would be extremely crucial though. If Poms can make inroads then it's gonna be very tough. Also, SA have very dicey players in Rudolph and duminy. You can never be really sure about them hitting form. So, if England can ge past this pir, Kallis and DeVilleiers cheaply, then England have a real chance. Also, lloking at that MS's getting bowled by Pattinson video made m go :(( SA has to bat last in this test, even a small lead would be good enough for England. I doubt that anything above 250 would be easy to chase here in 4th inning. Link to comment
Guest Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 SA has to bat last in this test' date=' even a small lead would be good enough for England. I doubt that anything above 250 would be easy to chase here in 4th inning.[/quote'] i dont think match will go to 4th innings Link to comment
vamos_rafa Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 SA has to bat last in this test' date=' even a small lead would be good enough for England. I doubt that anything above 250 would be easy to chase here in 4th inning.[/quote'] Yes more so because of Swann being there and this pitch seems to be dry. Swann's ability combined with SA's inability against quality spin bowling and high quality choking may prove detrimental here. Also, SA have a long tail. I know Steyn can swing around a bit bu there's no one can who can stay there in the company of a proper batsman. Link to comment
daryl1985 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 SA right back into it now. The morning session would be extremely crucial though. If Poms can make inroads then it's gonna be very tough. Also' date=' SA have very dicey players in Rudolph and [b']duminy. You can never be really sure about them hitting form. So, if England can ge past this pir, Kallis and DeVilleiers cheaply, then England have a real chance. Also, lloking at that MS's getting bowled by Pattinson video made m go :(( I think he has been Swann's bunny in the past. Swann is brilliant against left handers. Link to comment
vamos_rafa Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I think he has been Swann's bunny in the past. Swann is brilliant against left handers. Yes exactly. Duminy is a very strange kind of a player. when he gets going, he can murder any attack, but when he's low on confidence, he can go through a string of low scores. I am not sure how much Rudolph has improved. Swann would really be licking his lips at the prospect of bowling to these two. Also, Anderson v/s Kallis would be another great one to watch out. Kallis, like Sachin can be troubled with an odd one coming in, similar to the way Alviro Peterson got out. And Anderson is pretty good at that. Link to comment
Crookbond Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 I said this on the toss of the game. This game will ultimately be a shoot out between Tahir and Swann. Link to comment
Feed Posted July 22, 2012 Share Posted July 22, 2012 Amla and Smith dominate England Hashim Amla and Graeme Smith hit centuries as South Africa take complete control of the first Test at The Oval. More... Link to comment
Crookbond Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 The joy of Test-match batting - Mark Nicholas Hashim Amla spent more than 13 hours at the crease and was content to give periods to the bowlers ŽÂ© Getty Images For the first hour of both the third and fourth morning at The Oval, the cricket belonged exclusively to the purist. If a visitor who knew only Twenty20 had walked in and paid attention, he would have marvelled at the inertia and the interest given to it by a full house. Probably, he would have decided that it was not for him. This is Test match cricket's great dichotomy. A brilliantly conceived game for another, more patient, age. Leonard Hutton batted 13 hours and 17 minutes when he broke Don Bradman's world record score here at The Oval in 1938. Hutton was on the front page, back page and newsreel of every medium in the land. There is something quite sadistic about such play, something cold that tells one about the mind of the practioner. Hashim Amla was at the wicket for 13 hours and 10 minutes while making 311. He showed not a hint of emotion during this time, batting without any evident joy or display of flourish. And yet his innings will long be remembered as an epic, one to cherish for its excellence and effect of course, but also for the pleasure brought by wristy brush strokes that add variety and style to the white and green canvas of a cricket field. For Amla, there will be reflected glory. In the first hour today Jacques Kallis made just 12 runs; Amla 24; South Africa only 36. England's bowling was straight and mainly full, as it had to be. The ball would not deviate a millimetre for the much celebrated home seam attack. When it did spin for Graeme Swann the batsmen reacted with a technical mastery rarely seen in the age of crash, bang, wallop. On a pitch so true as this, 36 in the first 15 minutes of a T20 game would be the starting point for a violent assault. There are some miles in this pair and, sensing England's last hurrah, they stayed on the ropes, sucked up the punches and waited their moment. In the next hour, they scored 75. Enough said. Unlike one-day cricket, where the limitation of overs dictates to players, Test cricket allows choices. There is Virender Sehwag's way and Rahul Dravid's way; Alastair Cook's and Kevin Pietersen's. The team needs both, much as it needs steady Vernon Philander and magic Morne Morkel. Amla, like Kallis as it happens - this may not be a coincidence - prefers to stay within himself. This is smart for it gives the bowlers no expression of character with which to work. Think Bjorn Borg against John McEnroe. Some players you can tease or taunt. Others you can seduce. But not this pair. God knows England tried everything. New ball, old ball, orthodox swing and reverse. Over the wicket and around, close to the wicket and wide. Slips and gullies. No slips or gully. Doubtless they said some stuff, little jibes to disturb concentration but the scoreboard rendered the side-of-the-mouth stuff useless. Off-side biased fields, leg-side fields (though not enough of those). Some cutters here and there, the odd bouncer (wasted). Lots of off-spin but no doosra - and thereby hangs a tale about a changed game in the modern era. On slow pitches the doosra is the trump card simply because the batsmen cannot play back so safely. The doosra is the unknown: it is the fear of the unknown. With Swann covered, the threat of England's attack halved. Memo to the world - get Swann, diminish England. Watching the South Africans warm up before play, one sensed seniority and authority. These were men with pedigree, men sure of themselves and comfortable with their game. It was not a surprise that Amla and Kallis played their first hour every bit as intelligently as Amla had played the first hour on Saturday with Graeme Smith. For once, England could not bully and it showed. Some of us could not get enough of it, slaves to our fascination with the game that strips a man to the bone. It is not called Test cricket for nothing; 36 in the first hour on Sunday; for the record a mere 40 in the first hour on Saturday - 11 of which came in the last over of that hour. So two hours cricket, 76 runs, no wickets, barely an appeal. Loved it. We would take that, us fanatics, every day of the week. See, you just can't explain the thrill in the sheer tension of a Test match. If you transcend it when a player, as Amla and Kallis did, you often go on to win. Those of us who are watching think we have always won. http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/current/story/573541.html This is to all Test cricket lovers out there. Clarke, U_G, The Outsider, Lurker, Sabby, Vamos_Rafa, Bossbhai, Mariyam, Dravid_TheWall, Sarkar & many others whom I've missed. I'm sure you will love perusing this article. Link to comment
vamos_rafa Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Hum bhi to hai team me :nervous: Link to comment
Crookbond Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Clarke, U_G, The Outsiderm Lurker & many others whom I've missed. Link to comment
Old guy Posted July 23, 2012 Share Posted July 23, 2012 Clarke' date=' U_G, The Outsiderm Lurker [b']& many others whom I've missed. im bigger fan them i deserve to be named ! :protest: edit the post ! :mad: Link to comment
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