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Australia’s 2 test tour of South Africa 2011

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Was originally going to be a 3 match test series but the ****ing Champions League has meant the series will be curtailed. Though Aus will probably still play 3+ ODIs and possibly 2 20/20 games in the Republic later this year. Sri Lanka get 3 test matches but they are touring over Christmas.

Would be better to just move the series until 2012 and play Aus in March or something. The wickets and weather is going to be iffy in October as well.
 

TT Boy

Hall of Fame Member
Official confirmation from CSA will come later this week but this is what South African media are reporting.
 

robelinda

International Vice-Captain
Well thats just insane. All the fuss over the moving of the series from christmas period, and they go and stuff it even further by only having 2 tests. Crazy.
 

vcs

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Hate two match series, this is really annoying.

Good to hear that SL are playing 3 matches though, that is the least they should get when they tour outside the subcontinent.
 

Noble One

International Vice-Captain
However many Tests are played it should make for a good series. The return of Johnson to South Africa is an exciting prospect. South Africa to win with ease though. If Australia couldn't handle Anderson and Tremmers, how would they last against Steyn and Morkel on home soil?
 

Debris

International 12th Man
They went pretty well last time actually. Steyn and Morkel might have improved a bit though, particularly Morkel
 

vcs

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Yeah, matchups work in funny ways. I've had the feeling that Australia have had a bit of a psychological edge over SA since readmission, even when SA finally won in Australia, they immediately lost at home a couple of months later.
 

robelinda

International Vice-Captain
That was mainly just because Johnson went nuts.
Dont forget Hughes and North defying all reasonable logic by scoring big important runs against the best pace attack in home conditions. Dont know how we managed to pull off that series win! Playing no spinner helped.
 

flibbertyjibber

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Bloody stupid pointless Champions League getting in the way of proper stuff again. getting fed up the way 20/20 ****e is taking over the calendar.
 

Spark

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Dont forget Hughes and North defying all reasonable logic by scoring big important runs against the best pace attack in home conditions. Dont know how we managed to pull off that series win! Playing no spinner helped.
Yeah indeed.
 

Mister Wright

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If he a series is less than 3 matches the results shouldn't count towards the new Test Championship. Series should be a minimum of 3 matches.
 

flibbertyjibber

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Totally agree there, i hate 2 test series, just as you get into it it is over. What is worse is playing 2 tests then 5 one dayers, with the time taken you could play 3 and 3.
 

TumTum

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Dont forget Hughes and North defying all reasonable logic by scoring big important runs against the best pace attack in home conditions. Dont know how we managed to pull off that series win! Playing no spinner helped.
What do you mean by that? They both made their debut that series so there was no way of knowing how they would perform or what their weaknesses were.

Don't forget McD in the Sydney Test and also his performance following on into the next series (with the ball). He was the one that turned our luck around from a bowling point of view imo, kept things tight and got important wickets. In many ways the Sydney win helped us to win in SA as well.

Back to topic, yeah this sucks.
 

Howe_zat

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Dont forget Hughes and North defying all reasonable logic by scoring big important runs against the best pace attack in home conditions. Dont know how we managed to pull off that series win! Playing no spinner helped.
Whole thing was centred around Andrew McDonald IIRC
 

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