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South Africa v Australia | 2nd Test | Port Elizabeth | Day 2 | 21/02/2014

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Having said that, this is the type of wickets where Jonno will go for runs. Just his natural pace will send a lot of balls to the boundary.
 
OZGOD said:
Mark Nicholas needs to stop whingeing about the pitch. This is the pitch we have to play on, get over it
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Yeah and it's not like this is anything different to what Snt Georges is always like. People must get out of their heads that cricket has to be "the Johnson" show. S.A have been rolling sides for low scores (three times under 50 in the past 2 years) ages before Johnson came back on the scene and the Australians announced themselves "the worlds best bowling attack". We like helpful conditions as much as anyone. Like over excitable school girls some people.

And if he's only going to bowl at 143kmph max no pitch was going to help him anyway.
 
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Mark Nicholas now doing an Energetic and whingeing about the crowd. Though he does have a point, there's hardly anyone at the ground watching SA grind it out.
 
proteyeah said:
Yeah and it's not like this is anything different to what Snt Georges is always like. People must get out of their heads that cricket has to be "the Johnson" show. S.A have been rolling sides for low scores (three times under 5 in the past 2 years) ages before Johnson came on the scene. We like helpful conditions as much as anyone. Like over excitable school girls some people.
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Well what did people expect? The pitch is always life less.
 
Ian: "In the last six tests, the Australian bowlers have never had to bowl more than 103 overs. What happens to Harris et al if they have to carry on till 140-150 overs here?"


cricinfo
 
Just going to watch the rest of the shield game for now. Tell me if something happens
 
We get bigger crowds at Headingley in Four Day cricket in April in freezing weather.
 
proteyeah said:
Yeah and it's not like this is anything different to what Snt Georges is always like. People must get out of their heads that cricket has to be "the Johnson" show. S.A have been rolling sides for low scores (three times under 50 in the past 2 years) ages before Johnson came back on the scene and the Australians announced themselves "the worlds best bowling attack". We like helpful conditions as much as anyone. Like over excitable school girls some people.
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Dude you got Johnson on the brain lol. You need to chillax a bit. He's flavour of the month because of his performances, and fair enough. He's not the first and won't be the last to do that. Just because Jonno is being praised does not diminish your team's achievements over the past number of years.
 
95.4
Johnson to Duminy, 1 run, slower ball, 133ks, clipped off the toes for a single

Oh please. He's hardly bowling in the 140's.
 
Last 10 Tests here SA's ave 1st innings total is 310 (4W-2D-4L)
 
Now the Yarpie commies are whingeing about the pitch
 
Convict said:
Sidharth Monga?

He's Indian
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Regardless he's having a proper sulk. I for one am enjoying all the grumpy Aussies. Talking about how S.A are batting for the draw. Aussie fans are beyond delusional.

Last 10 ovs 38/0 RR 3.80
 
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OZGOD said:
I think your laager mentality is coming out lol. Not everyone in CricIndia is on the side of the OZ
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Let's just say his commentary was a little bit (a lot)more colorful, jovial and adjective laden when Australia was on top.
 
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proteyeah said:
Regardless he's having a proper sulk. I for one am enjoying all the grumpy Aussies. Talking about how S.A are batting for the draw. Aussie fans are beyond delusional.

Last 10 ovs 38/0 RR 3.80
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Nah. They just saw you guys against India in the first test
 
proteyeah said:
Where we nearly chased down 450 but India ran scared and started putting everyone on the boundary and bowling bouncers ? Impressive right ?
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When you had 15 runs to get off 3 overs with 3 wickets and hand and decided to block out the match.
 
Convict said:
When you had 15 runs to get off 3 overs with 3 wickets and hand and decided to block out the match.
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And the murdering batting that happen up to that point to get us close escaped you ?

There was nothing to block at that point anyway. Everyone was on the boundary and they were bowling short and wide asking us to play stupid shots to win with Morne Morkel and Imran Tahir to come. S.A won the series in the end as we knew we would. Smart cricket.
 
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proteyeah said:
And the murdering batting that happen up to that point to get us close escaped you ?

There was nothing to block at that point anyway. Everyone was on the boundary and they were bowling short and wide asking us to play stupid shots to win with Morne Morkel and Imran Tahir to come. S.A won the series in the end as we knew we would. Smart cricket.
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India realized that SA had abandoned the chase and then they did not want to risk giving away easy runs. Here is the extract from Cricinfo proving how SA chickened out of the chase well before India's tactics to make the game safe for them. India realized that South Africa had backed out of the chase, and they wanted to make sure SA did not win by accident.

134.3
Khan to Philander, no run, full length yorker on off stump and it is pushed down the ground towards extra cover and the crowd boos as he doesn't take a single. Steyn can't believe it. He wants the strike

134.4
Khan to Philander, no run, blocks it to long on as this is on a length on middle and he refuses the single again. much to the crowd's chagrin

135.2
Mohammed Shami to Steyn, no run, back of a length, shaping in and that goes just a touch wide of off stump as Steyn leaves it.

Check out the last three overs fully and you will find that the Saffers never wanted to win. They were not even taking the singles that were there for the taking. They were swinging blindly and missing due to their choke. They left balls that were kissing the off stump. Every one who watched the match live knows that SA shut shop at the fall of Faf, they first wanted to ensure draw before going for the win.
 
shouldnt de kock be keeping instead of de villiers ? Cricinfo has de villiers listed as keeper.
 
Yep great 100 for the coward. Didn't even face the new ball. Oh wait...

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SA finally have enough runs to put pressure on Aussie batsmen. Australia to face Steyn music now.
 
South africa scoring nicely today, on a side note any one getting the Don Bradman cricket 14 in march.
 
DE VILLIERS:D

GREAT 100 , De Villiers is Arguably the GREATEST BAT in the world on current form across all formats

where is mamoon, we needs him here, the coward has played a cowardly inning so he is due criticism by maoon
 
bill_123 said:
DE VILLIERS:D

GREAT 100 , De Villiers is Arguably the GREATEST BAT in the world on current form across all formats

where is mamoon, we needs him here, the coward has played a cowardly inning so he is due criticism by maoon
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Arguably?

Who else has a claim?
 
Played ABDV - let's see if he can persuade MJ to go back into Sloop John B mode.
 
I stayed up to watch this but now I'm getting sleepy :(
 
Best batsman in the world by a country mile. SA really need to up their scoring though. Need to put AUS batting lineup under pressure.
 
S.A should try bat until an hour after tea. Get 500 on the board and take the juice out of the legs of the Aussie bowlers and the spirit out of the team.
 
Ab again just too good.

Unless we get a few soon we could be facing 500, guess it's a perfect chance for our bats to show they have improved on these sorts of slow pitches, i hope they have but i have my doubts.
 
trogger said:
Ab again just too good.

Unless we get a few soon we could be facing 500, guess it's a perfect chance for our bats to show they have improved on these sorts of slow pitches, i hope they have but i have my doubts.
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To be honest we aren't normally good on slow pitches either. I think apart from being slow this one is just damn flat and no swing or seam. I'd be surprised if Oz didn't score 400 plus themselves.
 
Singles on offer now

Last 3 Overs:

. . . 1 1 1 | . 1 1 . 1 1 | . . 1 1 1 4
 
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