SA all out for 341, at the close, setting India 340 to win (the series) on the final day. Great test match. If SA actually had a decent spinner then India would be in all kinds of trouble (Harbajan took 7 in the SA 2nd inns). As it is, it looks finely balanced.
England bat until lunch, then either declare or all out, for 582 (Prior 106), a lead of 302. Australia, all out tomorrow for 164, with England taking the extra half hour to knock over the last two. Swann the pick of the bowlers with 5-31.
Their lack of bowling depth is incredible. They have nothing.
Not one of Johnson, Hilfenhaus, Siddle, Bollinger or Watson would get near the England attack. Hazlewood is reckoned to be the next up-and-coming one, but in the ODI I went to in the summer he looked fairly ordinary, too.
The...
Just LOOK at Hughes reaction - he KNOWS 100% that it did NOT carry - the disappointment that it DIDN'T, is all over his face. He then joins in the 'celebrations' when someone else goes up. At THAT moment. he should wave it away, and say 'nah mate, it didn't carry', exactly as Clarke did with the...
...or who give you out LBW to a left-arm-over bowler, because they are thick, or give you out because their DAD is the bowler and they are scared not to...
Indeed. Shameful behaviour. If either of them had played for Patcham Priory Colts in the 80s, they'd have been in all kinds of trouble for such unsporting nonsense - immediate demotion to 10 and 11 in the batting order for starters...
Come on Gwylan - you are one of the people on this site who...
I didn't see the two edges, but the fact is that Prior has held EVERY regulation catch all series, and a couple of really good ones. His byes total has been miserly, despite some extravagant late swing (after the stumps). This is all down to his hugely improved footwork - note he is throwing...
I find it amusing that to be considered a 'specialist keeper' by some purists, you have to be a shit batsman! As if the two disciplines are in any way connected, and that very shitness with the bat, makes them a better keeper.
Very harsh. that.
He should have stumped Clarke yesterday (I think he thought the ball had bowled him tbh), but apart from that one single big error, his keeping has been superb all series, and has rightly been universally parised by all the pundits.