Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:03 pm  

Very worrying position this for England because the pitch is fine and outside of the first hour the ball hasn't swung beyond belief(edited that bit). It looks a 350 pitch minimum to me and i'm pretty sure they'll get at least that so we've got a very long way to go.

Englands batting keeps letting the side down.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:06 pm  

That 350 just got a long way further away with Bell being totally outfoxed by Steyn.

133/6.

A horror show by Englands batsmen again.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 12:42 pm  

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 1:22 pm  

180 all out.

Huge final session of the day coming up, England need to make some early inroads but I'm not confident.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:22 pm  

Rain, another 4 days worth please

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:33 pm  

flipper wrote:

I am not suggesting Darren Gough is the gospel, but on talksport last night he was insistent that if you won the toss it was a pitch to bowl on.

Apparently its quite green so why we batted god alone knows.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:45 pm  

Chris28 wrote:

Apparently its quite green so why we batted god alone knows.

They said this morning that the team thats won the toss has batted on the last 9 occasions and have won 8 of the games so you can see why they choose to bat on the back of that.

They've again just not batted well enough. It's not a pitch your going to romp to 600-5 on but then it isn't a pitch you should be 180 all out on.

It was a very poor effort.

[John_D]

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 3:55 pm  

Chris28 wrote:

Apparently its quite green so why we batted god alone knows.

I'll volunteer a suggestion. To avoid batting last on it.

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:39 pm  

John_D wrote:

I'll volunteer a suggestion. To avoid batting last on it.

If SA get a big score we might still end up batting last on it.

[John_D]

Re: Super Cricket- England in SA : Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:53 pm  

DAR130 wrote:

If SA get a big score we might still end up batting last on it.

This is the slight flaw in the plan... It only works if your key players don't chuck their wickets away by smearing a dolly straight to mid on and yes I am talking to you Kevin Bloody Pietersen