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Blooming Marvellous
Yes you wouldn't want to be batting forth on this wicket
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England vs South Africa 4th Test Old Trafford 4th-8th August 2017
- Thread starter jakarta
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Horton's halftime iceberg
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Root bowled for 49
BensGrandad
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s..t is that the record gone?
No it's fifties in successive matches rather than innings.
BensGrandad
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Oh I see thanks
BensGrandad
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Must be difficult batting as Bairstow has faced 23 balls and not yet scored a run.
Papa Lazarou
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It's not an easy batting wicket.. massive rough at one end outside the LH off stump and plenty for the pace bowlers off the pitch including some uneven bounce. Hard wicket to play on.
BensGrandad
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It looks as if we will struggle to set a target of 330
afters
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another 23 only needed to get there!
afters
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and like magic up comes the 330 lead. i know nothing about cricket but it was inevitable as soon as you posted!
BensGrandad
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Moeen Ali has put us in a position from which we should win and most defiantly not lose. Well done to him.
BensGrandad
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What will be the plan tomorrow? I would think to bat for an hour or if still there until lunch to get some more runs then get set into bowling them out having set them a virtually impossible target.
Publius Ovidius
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Carry on batting until we are all out...we don't have to win....it's up to the saffies to chase!
Pavilionaire
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It was Bairstow that did that.
BensGrandad
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Not really because we batted first so it was our bowlers who did the damage after he had helped us to 362. Bairstow only got 10 runs 2nd innings so it was Ali who put it beyond them with his quick fire 67
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Just bat until we are all out, and go for boundaries. SA would have to bat unbelievably to get a result on this wicket.
Ali will have a field day the foot holes are sending the ball all over the shop.
Ali will have a field day the foot holes are sending the ball all over the shop.
All set for a prompt start at OT this morning... a few more runs on the board would be nice 