***Official*** Pakistan in South Africa

[SquidAU]

Ntini with his 300th wicket!

Sami gorn!

 

[Fiery]

300 wickets for Ntini. Great effort. Class act and great celebration

 

[oz_fan]

Sami out caught behind off Ntini. Ntini get his 5-fer and 300 test wickets. Congrats to him. Pakistan 166/7

 

[Fusion]

Shoaib gone! Pak 8 down. Lead is at 60 right now. A bit disapointed in Inzi. He didn't do enough to keep the strike IMO. Exposed Akhter way too many times.

 

[PY]

Sounds like Kallis is getting up a head of steam, he was military medium last time he was in England IIRC!

I don't think SA will be too fussed with being behind anything less that 80.

 

[Fusion]

Kaneria gone. Pak lose their 9th wicket. At one point with Inzi and Sami looking good out there, a lead of 100 looked possible. Not likely to even reach 80 now...

 

[Fusion]

Inzi took a single off the 2nd ball in the over to expose Kaneria. For a man who's guided Pak to victory many a times with only tail-enders to support him, Inzi's done a terrible job of it this game.

 

[PY]

I'm not watching it or even listening but based on Cricinfo live scoring, he seems to be struggling for form/fluency. Maybe that's a reason why? It doesn't explain the taking a single on the 2nd ball but it might explain why he's not doing such a great job at the moment?

 

[Fusion]

Well with the last remaining wicket, the sense of responsibility has returned. Inzi is doing a nice job of protecting Asif.

 

[Slow Love™]

Say what you like about Inzy (and everybody does) but there aren't many better in this type of situation. If I had to pick any batsman in international cricket to defiantly carry a tail when needed, he'd be the man. Been doing the job perfectly the last five or six overs.

 

[Fusion]

Say what you like about Inzy (and everybody does) but there aren't many better in this type of situation. If I had to pick any batsman in international cricket to defiantly carry a tail when needed, he'd be the man. Been doing the job perfectly the last five or six overs.

Yup, couldn't do it better. He's made up for exposing Kaneria and Shoaib earlier in the innings.

 

[Fusion]

Inzi gets his 50! One of the most vital half-centuries he's ever played.

 

[nightprowler10]

Great 50. He really should've done this with Kaneria though.

 

[SquidAU]

Saffers with problems getting Asif out.

Another over gone and Inzi on strike for the next.

 

[SquidAU]

Lunch.

Inzi with an edged 4 off the last ball before lunch. Asif on strike after the break.

99 run lead!

 

[nightprowler10]

Inning could be over first ball of the next session. Inzamam looked very disappointed at the boundary on the last ball.

 

[Fusion]

Inning could be over first ball of the next session. Inzamam looked very disappointed at the boundary on the last ball.

True. Asking a lot of Asif to survive the whole over. Can we get that one additional run to have the psychologically important 100 run lead?

 

[Fiery]

Here's a list of the batsmen rated Number 1 by the ICC Ratings as at the 1st January of each year: (Thought I would make myself useful while I watched the game)

1878-80 Bannerman, C Aus
1881-82 Grace, W.G Eng
1883-84 Ulyett, G Eng
1885-86 Steel, A.G Eng
1887-90 Shrewsbury, A Eng
1891-92 Grace, W.G Eng
1893-94 Lyons, J.J Aus
1895 ....Stoddart, A.E Eng
1896 ....Grace, W.G Eng
1897 ....Lyons, J.J Aus
1898 ....Iredale, F.A Aus
1899 ....Darling, J Aus
1900-01 Hayward, T.W Eng
1902-05 Hill,C Aus
1906 ....Jackson, Hon.F,S Eng
1907 ....Hill,C Aus
1908 ....Trumper, V.T Aus
1909-10 Hill,C Aus
1911 ....Hobbs, Sir J.B Eng
1912 ....Faulkner, G.A SA
1913-23 Hobbs, Sir J.B Eng
1924 ....Taylor, H.W SA
1925-28 Hobbs, Sir J.B Eng
1929-31 Sutcliffe, H Eng
1932 ....Bradman, D.G Aus
1933 ....Sutcliffe, H Eng
1934-48 Bradman, D.G Aus
1949 ....Compton, D.C.S Eng
1950 ....Nourse, A.D SA
1951-54 Hutton, L Eng
1955 ....Harvey, R.N Aus
1956 ....Walcott, C.L WI
1957-60 May, P.B.H Eng
1961-65 Sobers, G.S WI
1966 ....Barrington, K.F Eng
1967-69 Sobers, G.S WI
1970-71 Walters, K.D Aus
1972-74 Sobers, G.S WI
1975 ....Turner, G.M NZ
1976 ....Kallicharran WI
1977-78 Richards, I.V.A WI
1979-80 Gavaskar, S.M I
1981-83 Richards, I.V.A WI
1984 ....Lloyd, C.H WI
1985-86 Border, A.R Aus
1987 ....Richards, I.V.A WI
1988 ....Vengsarkar, D.B I
1989 ....Miandad, Javed Pak
1990-91 Richardson, R.B WI
1992-94 Gooch, G.A Eng
1995 ....Tendulkar, S I
1996 ....Lara, B.C WI
1997-98 Waugh, S.R Aus
1999 ....Tendulkar, S I
2000 ....Lara, B.C WI
2001 ....Tendulkar, S I
2002 ....Lara, B.C WI
2003 ....Hayden, M.L Aus
2004 ....Ponting, R.T Aus
2005 ....Dravid, R I
2006-07 Ponting, R.T Aus

 

[Jono]

Look at Bradman's reign. What a freak (To state the obvious).

 

[Fiery]

Look at Bradman's reign. What a freak (To state the obvious).

Yep, 11 year reign by Sir Jack Hobbs as well (although it spanned the 1st WW) . Also nice battle between Lara and Tendulkar