***Official*** South Africa in England

[Scaly piscine]

There's Monty's century. One of the most non-threatening half century of overs ever I'd have thought.

Get him back playing at Northants, see if he can add to his haul of 4 wickets in 108 overs of FC cricket this season.

No doubt when I come back from my walk he'll have nicked a couple of pointless average boosting wickets.

 

[Richard]

And no doubt we'll have to endure more utterly pointless waste-of-time posts which add nothing to anything like the above at that point too.

 

[Pup Clarke]

There's Monty's century. One of the most non-threatening half century of overs ever I'd have thought.

Get him back playing at Northants, see if he can add to his haul of 4 wickets in 108 overs of FC cricket this season.

No doubt when I come back from my walk he'll have nicked a couple of pointless average boosting wickets.

 

[Dasa]

Sarcasm surely. Because a lot has happened since then.

Indeed.

 

[pasag]

Gone!

 

[Jono]

NUT!!!!

Takes a lot to clean bowl Jacques Kallis. Great ball.

 

[Richard]

WoW, that's an unbelievable delivery.

That's the sort of thing you dream of - getting Jacques Kallis out with an absolute beauty like that.

 

[pasag]

I must say though, besides that delivery and a few others, this attack has looked pretty toothless over the past couple of days. Very fine batting from SA though, McKenzie was superb and played almost perfectly for the large part of his innings given the circumstances.

 

[Richard]

All bowling has mostly looked toothless on this pitch for all the game bar the third day. I doubt many if any would have got much out of it.

 

[Richard]

For the first time in the match, SA would probably do well to look a bit harder for some scoring strokes. They're unlikely to lose 7 wickets in 37 overs, but if 1 or 2 more fall in the next 10, then you'd start to worry.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I sense there's a bigger story here...

 

[Athlai]

I sense there's a bigger story here...

My suspicions were first aroused by him having a massive beard...

 

[Richard]

I sense there's a bigger story here...

And BTW, Prince living dangerously here.

 

[Mr Mxyzptlk]

I certainly think England are better off playing 5 bowlers. Wtether that means Freddy batting 6 or 7 I dunno, but IMO Collingwood is a fairly average batsman and I'm not sure England will be worse off to do a direct swap off Freddy for Collingwood.

Needless to say, Ambrose has not proven himself good enough to afford Flintoff at 6. Flintoff is not good enough to bat in the top six for any team competing for the top spot in world cricket. And why should Broad be retained ahead of Flintoff? Flintoff offers infinitely more.

 

[Manee]

Sidebottom's delivery was amazing and a partial reason it may have done him so comprehensively was that Sidebottom got a reverse swinging ball to conventionally swing.

 

[wpdavid]

I reckon Kallis missed it one purpose to keep Sidebottom & then Anderson running themselves into the ground befdore Friday's game. They'll bat this out OK, but England don't feel able to let Colly & KP bowl out time yet.

 

[Richard]

I reckon Kallis missed it one purpose to keep Sidebottom & then Anderson running themselves into the ground befdore Friday's game. They'll bat this out OK, but England don't feel able to let Colly & KP bowl out time yet.

Haha you know that was my exact thought when that wicket fell - that it'd mean the "resting" of the bowlers was delayed.

If it wasn't for the fact I know Kallis has the sensible mindset of never wanting to give his wicket away under any circumstances I might even believe it.

Looks like it's going to be Broad not Anderson first however.

 

[duffer]

Why hasn't Bell had a trundle this match? Perfect time for it I would've thought.

 

[Richard]

Baffled that Prince didn't bowl in England's innings too, especially given he took 2-11 in his only bowl of the tour so far.

 

[wpdavid]

TMS reckon that Vaughan dropped Prince before he'd scored. Cricinfo say it was wide of Vaughan. Who's right?