***Official*** South Africa in New Zealand 2012

[SilentOne]

**** up Macca.

 

[straw man]

Stating the obvious but if we follow on we lose.

For some reason I'm finding this collapse funny - I don't know why

 

[Flem274*]

Ross Taylor will not bat this innings, say the TV commentators

Well ****.

 

[Flem274*]

Boult would have slogged us past the follow on by now.

 

[_Ed_]

Philander to Martin, no run, defended solidly

Showing the others a thing or two.

 

[straw man]

Oh ffs, you see, this is why we shouldn't bother stacking the team with "batsmen." We've provided the batting every opportunity of passing the follow on on a flat pitch and the ****s are still going to bottle it at the final hurdle.

Have been biting my tongue on this for the last hour

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Gillespie's golf swings and tennis shots are a bit off target today it seems.

EDIT: Needs to go back to his banker - the french cut - I reckon.

 

[Flem274*]

Gillespie trusting Marto.

 

[Spikey]

Gillespie trusting Marto.

seems like like Marto trusting DIzzy, wrongly

 

[Flem274*]

Gillespie to open the batting.

 

[Meridio]

Gillespie wafg.

 

[Spikey]

Dizzy and Martin WAG's.

Martin's pretty much in the form of his life with the bat over the last year or so imo

 

[_Ed_]

Follow-on avoided!

And promptly gets out. Poo.

 

[Flem274*]

Is there nothing he cannot do?

Well...survive that ball it seems.

 

[Spikey]

martin robbed of double figures

 

[Meridio]

And gone, but he's possibly saved us the game there. Can't really see SA declaring to give us a sniff, but if they want to win they can't bat too deep into tomorrow.

 

[HeathDavisSpeed]

Inside edge the money shot for Gillespie. As soon as he reverted to using the edge rather than the face of the bat, the runs flowed.

 

[straw man]

Inside edge the money shot for Gillespie. As soon as he reverted to using the edge rather than the face of the bat, the runs flowed.

True and verified fact: Gillespie needs a new bat after every single innings

 

[Flem274*]

South Africa would have loved to have bowled out New Zealand under 275, and they had an excellent chance of doing so when they got rid of van Wyk but the final pair showed some spunk.

vitstl

 

[Howsie]

So as expected the extra batsmen gets us about another 30 odd extra runs, worth it?