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England v South Africa | 1st Test | The Oval | Jul 19-23, 2012 | Day 4

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Amla gets to the triple ton. What an amazing knock by an amazing cricketer. He hardly looks tired, a beautiful knock and its the first ever triple ton by a South African batsman. Its a truly magnificent knock and he's pushed his career average past 50. Such an elegant batsman, congratulations. Now your next job is to step on the gas and go mad! AB is next to come in.
 
There it is - boundary to reach 300 - tremendous innings from Hashim Amla. Outstanding - the first South African to get 300 in a Test match.
 
2 more to Hashim. For a moment I thought he hit it right into the gloves of Prior. 305*
 
Cricinfo says another 47 overs left in the day, is it correct? If so then SA can bat for another 15 overs. Look for 300 lead.

They have the bowling attack to bowl out England in 120-130 overs.
 
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Cricinfo says another 47 overs left in the day, is it correct? If so then SA can bat for another 15 overs. Look for 300 lead.

They have the bowling attack to bowl out England in 120-130 overs.
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This is correct.. 47 overs left officially.
 
Trott onto bowl now.. Good idea in my view. Come on! Most economical English(?) bowler.
 
trott congratulating his countryman Vaughan will be pissed lol

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England are just bowling and going through the motions until South Africa eventually show mercy and declare.
 
Would be remarkable if Kallis gets a double hundred.

Has there been occasions where a team have had batsmen who've got a triple hundred, double hundred and a hundred in the same innings ?
 
I hope this goes on for a while yet. Let all the batting records fall then at least we can say we were involved :)) If SA really want to win they will declare either nowish or now. England want to be batting for as little time as possible.
 
Phillander and Steyn's spell will decide fate of this match. And of course Tahir against Tail enders.
 
Edgebaston will be even more advantage for SA. England can forget about top ranking in few days.
 
Disappointed with Swan's effort .... actually scratch that not disappointed but enjoying it ... :))
 
Here it comes. The declaration. My prediction: England will be 3 down. And England will send night watch man. Poor Jimmy. :D
 
South Africa with 123 runs in 25 overs at a run rate of 4.92 - just what they will have wanted. They've accelerated and got a big lead of 252. Should declare now and have a whole session to bowl at England.
 
Interesting declaration, still expected them to bat on for another 8-10 overs

Gives them plenty of overs to attack England
 
I wish Tahir bowls much fuller ... he is not going to get wicket with the length he bowled in first inning. (actually he did Bressy's but still)
 
Yeah declaration confirmed. Great move, 40 overs at them today. And there won't be any overs lost to change of innings.
 
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133 overs left in the game.

2 results possible. SA win or Draw. Draw looks likely but with Steyn we never know.
 
Ohhh, I thought they could afford to let Kallis have a quick go for the double.

Now then... unleash the Steyn :akhtar
 
Did Kallis complete his CV?

The bowlers should really be aggressive and try to make Cook and then Trott, their main targets. Strauss and KP will eventually gift you their wickets, Bell will choke, Bopara sucks, Prior can't bat all alone and England's tail.... Well you gotta feel sorry for them, 180+ overs of bowling and then they are asked to bat out 100 more overs.

Is Amla the only batsmen averaging more than 50 in both tests and ODI's now?
 
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The first innings dismissal was the seventh time in Test cricket Morkel has taken Strauss's wicket. Only Shane Warne (eight) has dismissed Strauss more often in Tests.
 
An epic email from a South African fan :))

Here's Gary W. Reilly: "This is no blip for England. Sadly, the English’s usual arrogance and HOPE prevail prior to seeing the actual mark of their opponents. England are always good to potent at home because of the conditions. If conditions are right then you can compete. In South Africa, our varying climates make ALL conditions available, so we play the game not the pitch or the conditions.

If it was cloudy overhead with a tinge of green, then England might have a chance with Bresnan’s late-nippers or Anderson getting some swing with the new ball or reverse with the old. But in these conditions, the ball is just easing through very predictably and with guys like WE know we got, this is the fruit of that. Smith, Amla, Kallis, de Villiers are real class and their class has not been overly tested in this test.

Lastly, remember that whatever you can do we can do better. Give us a green mamba and Steyn, Morkel and Kallis will extract all that available, give us a turning wicket and Tahir will extract too. So England’s big-boys are going to have to step-up and play out of their socks to rescue this extremely embarrassing situation.

All our love from Cape Town."
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Oh yeah I forgot about Philander :)))

Nightmare stuff for England. They couldn't take a wicket for 2 days and Philander took out their golden boy in the second over.
 
If S.A can nip out 3/4 by close of play then england are in trouble
 
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