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Can SA sweep Aus in the series?

Ist test for Pak in Aus will also be a Day nighter so would be important to see how this plays out.
 
Australia
1 David Warner, 2 Matt Renshaw, 3 Usman Khawaja, 4 Steven Smith (capt), 5 Peter Handscomb, 6 Nic Maddinson, 7 Matthew Wade (wk), 8 Mitchell Starc, 9 Josh Hazlewood, 10 Nathan Lyon, 11 Jackson Bird.

3 debutants in the confirmed Australian line up.

Coming on the back of 5 consecutive test losses.
 
Not anything like as green as last year.....

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Cloudy and windy too.
 

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3 debutantes, can either be make or break for them, interesting times and very important times in their career.
 
If you look carefully at the roof, are those people on top of it the Aussie selectors?

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Junaids said:
Not anything like as green as last year.....


Cloudy and windy too.
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I told you boss - last time CA curators were grilled for the WACA wicket, hence they over did at Adelaide. I expect this Test to go full distance & Shamshi to play a vital role here - he might not turn much, but I don't think that's essential against this line-up.
 
MMHS said:
I told you boss - last time CA curators were grilled for the WACA wicket, hence they over did at Adelaide. I expect this Test to go full distance & Shamshi to play a vital role here - he might not turn much, but I don't think that's essential against this line-up.
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Warner, Renshaw, Khawaja, Maddinson, Wade. Five lefties in the top seven.

At this rate, Australia is going to force us to select Hafeez if he passes the bowling test.
 
Abdullah719 said:
Warner, Renshaw, Khawaja, Maddinson, Wade. Five lefties in the top seven.

At this rate, Australia is going to force us to select Hafeez if he passes the bowling test.
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Better to select Ajmal then - much better bowler & slightly better batsman .........
 
This guy Cook is an absolute disgrace for this excellent SAF team - hanging on to his father's credit.
 
Cook did poor in the warm up too am sure. Bet he messes up this lifeline he's been given here as well
 
QalandarFan said:
Who was his father, if I may ask?
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You have to click his name & then his relatives for details. In short, Jimmy Cook was one of the best County openers of late 70s & through-out 80s, played a Test or 2 in his 40s before retirement. A brilliant right-hand opener with 50+ FC & 40+ List A average in the best era of County cricket - 70s & 80s. He would have played for almost 2 decades for that wonderful SAF side that was banned in early 70s.
 
MMHS said:
You have to click his name & then his relatives for details. In short, Jimmy Cook was one of the best County openers of late 70s & through-out 80s, played a Test or 2 in his 40s before retirement. A brilliant right-hand opener with 50+ FC & 40+ List A average in the best era of County cricket - 70s & 80s. He would have played for almost 2 decades for that wonderful SAF side that was banned in early 70s.
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Thanks for the info. :)
 
MMHS said:
This guy Cook is an absolute disgrace for this excellent SAF team - hanging on to his father's credit.
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Don't think so, he's been a consistent performer at the domestic level and it took ages for him to get picked, all while people were wondering why he wasn't being given a chance

And i do agree he looks shaky in this series,another failure might be the end
 
Finally they got a batsman who can hold a bat at the crease.

SA's openers are horrible. The middle order though is amazing.
 
Adelaide has turned into the WACA almost... bouncy, fast pitch - should be superb for batting once the ball stops moving
 
South Africa 36/2 (12.1 ov)
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South Africa won the toss and elected to bat

Amla , Elgar OUT
 
Amla gone caught at 1st slip by the 20 year old debutant Renshaw off Hazlewood. Yes 1st game and thrown straight at 1st slip and gets his 1st catch the big wicket of Amla. Was taken beautifully as well was quite low.
 
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There are 2 active threads in PP - 1st one was never conclusive, though it looks obvious now; but at this rate, the 2nd one won't be conclusive either for long.

Please tell me which 2 threads I am talking about ............
 
Amla has been utterly rubbish this series

Haze has made him his bunny this series
 
Is this Adelaide Oval now? Or Adelaide bowl? What have they done with my favorite Aussie ground!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
MMHS said:
There are 2 active threads in PP - 1st one was never conclusive, though it looks obvious now; but at this rate, the 2nd one won't be conclusive either for long.

Please tell me which 2 threads I am talking about ............
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Younis Khan vs Amla..
 
Junaids said:
Jimmy Cook - legendary Apartheid era batsman.
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Why JC didn't try for an English cap? Grieg, Smith brothers, Lamb, Jackman played for England, Wessels for AUS; but I never know why Richards, Var der Bijl, Garth Le Roux, Ken Mcwean, Fotheringham, Cook, Rice, Proctor, Peter Kristen & few others didn't try - everyone was a star in County & some played in Shields as well & they were U25 on January 1970.

I can understand that Pollock brothers, Lindsey, Barlow didn't have the age to invest 5/6 years & restart career, but these guys could have made ENG the dominant Ashes side in late 70s & early 80s.
 
No player is worth a darn against moving ball..
 
Faf must not stay at 5 - hit a boundary & get to 7.
 
Did Cook survive that LBW for Smith not going for review?
 
South Africa 58/3 (16.3 ov)
Faf du Plessis (rhb) 7*
Stephen Cook (rhb) 31*
 
Lyon on 20 odd minutes before Tea...

Single of First ball inside edge

77/3
 
South Africa 89/3 (28.0 ov)
South Africa RR 3.17
Last 10 ovs 29/0 RR 2.90
Min overs remaining 62

Stephen Cook (rhb) 40 (84)
Faf du Plessis (rhb) 26 (46)
 
MMHS said:
Is this Adelaide Oval now? Or Adelaide bowl? What have they done with my favorite Aussie ground!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Aus should have given these pitches to Ind last time. And they should provide these pitches to Pak too.
 
Wade's chirping behind the wicket is annoyingly repetitive.

'Noooiice Gaz'
'Noiiice Gary'
 
South Africa 126/5 (44.5 ov)
Faf du Plessis (rhb) 49 (88)
Quinton de Kock (lhb) 6 (10)
 
This is a near replica of the previous Adelaide pink ball Test.

They have scored a little too slowly: the hardest time to bat is right after dinner and if I was FAF I would declare now.
 
Ideally SA should give it a whack and score as much as they can without losing much time, because going at normal rate of 3 or around will do SA no good, and [MENTION=132916]Junaids[/MENTION] would be over the moon, atlast your obsession with day night test in Oz formula is proving to be right, atleast in Adelaide, so good on you.
 
ShoonyaSifar said:
Last 10 overs, 47 runs!! haha
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Very old ball and I'm not convinced that the Aussies are trying to take wickets.

They would prefer not to bat much tonight. They would prefer 260 all out in 88 overs to 220 all out in 70 overs.

Lose less wickets tonight that way!
 
FAF is a fool not to declare now.

Every over batted is an over less that Australia bats under lights.
 
I think Australia will win now.

They will only face a maximum of 15 overs tonight now, and under stable light.
 
I'm not sure I agree with this strategy. I'm new to this whole day/night test story, but declaring now seems kind of pointless.
 
Ozymandiasza said:
I'm not sure I agree with this strategy. I'm new to this whole day/night test story, but declaring now seems kind of pointless.
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Well Warner isn't allowed to open so it was a stroke of genius
 
Convict said:
Well Warner isn't allowed to open so it was a stroke of genius
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I missed that. Why isn't he allowed to open? Nevermind

EDIT: "Warner can't come in to open because he wasn't on the field towards the end of that innings, probably prompting the declaration."
 
Openers should be dropped to be honest.

This is boring. Australia were 5/5 at this stage in Hobart.
 
Strange day. I'd say Australia's overall despite Faf's attempt.
 
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I would never declare the way FAF declared SA's innings. For me it's stupid to do so. The last wicket partnership was scoring freely and adding valuable runs. It wasn't as if the last wicket had played 10 overs for 15 runs. 259 is a nothing score and this isn't a green mamba that we saw in the Aus-NZ Test Match. What was the point of declaring the innings? In the end SA couldn't manage to take any wicket either so the decision backfired big time. Also I don't think FAF would've ever declared had this not been a dead rubber.
 
Australia showed some highly unusual discipline with the bat. I'm shocked the opening partnership got to 12 overs hardly playing a shot.
 
Pantani said:
Australia showed some highly unusual discipline with the bat. I'm shocked the opening partnership got to 12 overs hardly playing a shot.
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Faf was too clever by getting a number 3 to open with the debutant
 
TestMatch said:
Can someone tell me the thinking behind SA's declaration?
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Think Faf would've preferred bowling to Warner under lights in a situation like this

Get Warner out and the day goes massively in SA's favour

I reckon warner would have been very prone to nicking off in these conditions as well

Faf has nothing to lose even if they lose its still 2-1 but it works the reward is delicious 3-0

The declaration was a worthwhile gambler imo
 
This declaration has already backfired on Du Plessis given that the Australians were unscathed at stumps. I dislike these funky, contrived declarations. Looking at the scorecard from last year's day-night test, the scores are likely to be close and 30-35 additional runs can make a huge difference. Actually feel it's a worse declaration than Michael Clarke's decision to declare in the final half-hour of Day 1 at Hyderabad in 2013.
 
FAF DU PLESSIS wrote another chapter in his Adelaide Oval romance when he struck an invaluable unbeaten century – the sixth of his career – on the opening day of the Standard Bank Proteas historic first experience of day/night Test cricket on Thursday.

This century followed his innings of 78 and 110 not out – the latter an epic match-saving effort – on his Test match debut at the Adelaide Oval in the 2012-13 season.

When he declared the Proteas had posted what looked like a competitive 259/9 after winning the toss and deciding to bat first to which Australia replied with 14 without loss in the remaining 12 overs. The latter had to revamp their opening partnership as David Warner had spent time off the field with an apparent shoulder injury during the latter part of the South African innings.

He will now have to bat at No. 3 when Australia resume their innings on the second afternoon.

Du Plessis’ unbeaten 118 came off only 164 balls with 17 fours and along the way he achieved the milestones of his highest score against Australia and 2 000 runs in his Test match career.

The only partnership of note up front for the Proteas was the 51 that he and Stephen Cook put on for the fourth wicket but at the back end he found good lower order support from Kyle Abbott (54 for the eighth wicket) and Tabraiz Shamsi (an unbroken 39 for the 10th wicket).

Shamsi replaced Keshav Maharaj in the only change to the Proteas side that clinched the series in Hobart. He became the Proteas 93rd Test cap.

Du Plessis played an innings of tremendous skill, composure and character – the latter probably being the most important ingredient after his integrity had been challenged continuously during the preceding week. His preparation for the match must have been anything but perfect.

As for skill he played some tremendous cover and straight drives and also scored runs effectively off the back foot square of the wicket.

As is the case with JP Duminy he has brought a much more attacking insight to his game and he is reaping the deserved rewards.

He also had a good day as leader encouraging his tail-end batsmen to go for their strokes and take the runs available rather than shepherding them away from the strike. It was important to have a good bowl at the Australians before the close of play even if it did not bring a wicket and it was a strategy that had been advocated on TV by two of Australia’s outstanding modern captains, Ian Chappell and Mark Taylor.

The Proteas scored 89/3 in the afternoon session, 76/4 in the twilight session and 94/2 in the evening session before the declaration which gives credence to Quinton de Kock’s pre-match comment that the easiest time to face the pink ball is under the lights.

The bounce, swing and movement when South Africa took the new ball did not produce any problems for the batsmen although they took 38 collective balls to score their first runs off the bat.

The ball swung and moved appreciably during the two earlier sessions and the Proteas will hope for more of the same when they resume their attack.

For whatever reason 8 of the 9 wickets fell from the Cathedral End and the first seven dismissals were all the result of catches either by wicketkeeper Matthew Wade or by the slip cordon.

Conditions were far from ideal for batting in the first 60 overs which gave even more substance to Du Plessis’ great innings.
 
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Retweeted Daniel Brettig (@danbrettig):

Faf confirms he deliberately declared upon overhearing that Warner had spent too long off field to open. Crafty #savaus
 
Great declaration! Cannot believe Australia starting with such Run Rate at home! Australian cricket going down can affect world cricket!
 
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